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MultiCom Firewall User’s Manual 59
WAN PPTP Easy Setup
2. Enter in the username that your Internet Service Provider gave to you.
3. Enter in the password that your Internet Service Provider gave to you.
4. Optionally enter in your local domain name. (This will become the default
suffix used for networking activity.)
5. Select the PPP connection mode that you wish to use: Permanent is an always
on connection, Dial on Demand only connects to the Internet when there is
network traffic, and Manual requires manually opening or closing the
Internet connection from the web interface.
6. Select the PPP connection idle time out if you are using Dial on Demand.
When there is no network activity this is the number of seconds before the
PPP connection is closed.
7. Optionally enable the TCP Frame Size Adaption as a troubleshooting step if
you are having problems connecting to your Internet Service Provider or
certain web pages.
8. Click the
Next
button and goto the Section “LAN Easy Setup” on page 63.
Diagnostics and status information on this connection is available from the
MultiCom web server at http://10.0.0.1/status/wan/ or from the PPP tab of the
Configurator software’s Monitor window. PPPoE activity can also be logged by
activating Syslog using the Advanced Config option. See the User’s Manual for
more instructions.
WAN PPTP Easy Setup
If your Internet Service Provider connects you using a PPTP server you need to
click the PPTP option in the Easy Setup window (see the main window above).
This window requires a username and password to access your Internet Service