ZyXEL Communications Prestige 128Plus, User Manual

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Prestige 128+ ISDN Router
Internet Access 3-3
3.2.2 RIP Setup
RIP (Routing Information Protocol) allows a router to exchange routing
information with other routers. The
RIP Direction field controls the sending and
receiving of RIP packets. When set to both, the Prestige will broadcast its
routing table periodically and incorporate the RIP information that it receives;
when set to none, it will not send any RIP packets and will ignore any RIP
packets received.
The Version field controls the format and the broadcasting method of the RIP
packets that the Prestige sends (it recognizes both formats when receiving). RIP-
1 is universally supported; but RIP-2 carries more information. RIP-1 is
probably adequate for most networks, unless you have a unusual network
topology.
Both RIP-2B and RIP-2M sends the routing data in RIP-2 format; the difference
being that
RIP-2B
uses subnet broadcasting while
RIP-2M
uses multicasting.
Multicasting can reduce the load on non-router machines since they generally do
not listen to the RIP multicast address and so will not receive the RIP packets.
However, if one router uses multicasting, then all routers on your network must
use multicasting, also.
By default, RIP direction is set to
Both
and the Version set to
RIP-1
.
3.2.3 DHCP Configuration
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) allows the individual clients
(workstations) to obtain the TCP/IP configuration at start-up from a centralized
DHCP server. The Prestige has built-in DHCP server capability, enabled by
default, which means it can assign IP addresses, an IP default gateway and DNS
servers to Windows 95, Windows NT and other systems that support the DHCP
client.