User’s Manual
Arctic EDGE Router
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Network Menu
Through the Network-menu you can access sub items to control the various network interface
properties. The menu contains items for Ethernet, VPN and GPRS interfaces. Also Email, Proxy and
firewall settings are located in this submenu. Summary page shows which interfaces are up and also
routing information:
Ethernet
Configuration for the Arctic Ethernet Interface:
Override Ethernet configuration by DHCP
– If this parameter is Enabled Arctic gets the IP
address and other related information from a local DHCP server. When enabled, all other
settings are disabled on this page.
Host name
– Sets the Arctic device hostname. This is important to set up correctly when
using a Viola M2M Router and VPN.
Domain name
– Domain name for name resolution.
Ethernet IP address
– IP address used by
eth0
interface.
Network mask
– Network mask used by
eth0
interface
Use Ethernet as default route (usually No) –
Defines is next parameter (Default router)
used or not. Usually set to “No”, because either GPRS or VPN is used as default router.
