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4. Advanced Port Setup
Overview
y
Port Options contains some options for the WAN port. For most situations, the default
values are satisfactory.
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Advanced PPPoE setup is required if you wish to use multiple sessions on one or both
of the WAN ports. It can also be used to manually connect or disconnect a PPPoE
session. Otherwise, this screen can be ignored.
y
Advanced PPTP setup is required if using the PPTP connection method.
4.1 Port
Options
Figure: Port Options
Settings – Port Options
Interface
•
WAN Ports
– To select the WAN port for option settings
•
MTU
– The largest amount of data that can be transferred
across a given physical network. Ethernet limits transfers to
1500
octets of data. Normally, you should leave this value at
its default value. Change it only if the ISP is providing a MTU.
Connection
Health Check
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Method
–
ICMP:
The health checkup is performed by sending an
ICMP echo request
packet to the specific destination.
The specific destination ("Alive Indicator") could be either:
1. If the input box is filled (NAME or IP address): the host
is used.
2. If the input box is left blank: gateway of WAN interface
will be used. Then if one ICMP echo reply packet from
