Chapter 5 WAN Setup
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IP Address
You can use these options when you set the
Mode
field to
Router
and the
IPv6/IPv4
Dual Stack
field to
IPv4
or
IPv4/IPv6
.
Select
Obtain an IP Address Automatically
if the ISP assigns you a dynamic IP address;
otherwise select
Static IP Address
and type your ISP assigned IP address in the
IP
Address
field below.
Static IP
Address
Select this option If the ISP assigned a fixed IP address.
IP Address
Enter the static IP address provided by your ISP.
Subnet
Mask
Enter a subnet mask in dotted decimal notation.
Gateway IP
Address
Specify a gateway IP address (supplied by your ISP).
Primary /
Secondary
DNS
Set how the Device gets the IP addresses of the DNS servers it uses.
UserDefined
- enter a static IP address.
Obtained From ISP
- when the Device gets its IP address automatically, you can select
this to have it also get the DNS server address.
None
- the Device does not use the DNS server entry.
IPv6 Address
Obtain an IP
Address
Automatically
Select this option if you want to have the Device use the IPv6 prefix from the connected
router’s Router Advertisement (RA) to generate an IPv6 address.
Static IP
Address
Select this option if you have a fixed IPv6 address assigned by your ISP.
DHCP IPv6
Select
DHCP
if you want to obtain an IPv6 address from a DHCPv6 server.
The IP address assigned by a DHCPv6 server has priority over the IP address automatically
generated by the Device using the IPv6 prefix from an RA.
Select
SLAAC
(Stateless address autoconfiguration) to have the Device use the prefix to
automatically generate a unique IP address that does not need to be maintained by a
DHCP server.
DHCP PD
Select
Enable
to use
DHCP PD
(Prefix Delegation) to allow the Device to pass the IPv6
prefix information to its LAN hosts. The hosts can then use the prefix to generate their
IPv6 addresses.
IPv6 Address
With
Static IP Address
enabled, enter the IPv6 address of the Device in the WAN.
Prefix Length
With
Static IP Address
enabled, enter the IPv6 prefix length in the WAN.
IPv6 Default
Gateway
With
Static IP Address
enabled, enter the IPv6 address of the default gateway
IPv6 DNS
Server1
With
Static IP Address
enabled, enter the primary DNS server IPv6 address for the
Device.
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