BW2251 User Guide v1.0
Nov. 2013
Page 87 of 187
Network
Network | Interface
The AP-Router contains two kinds of network interfaces: eth1 is worked as wide area network (WAN)
interface for Access Points; each BSS interface is worked as local area network (LAN) interface which
bridge into the br0 interface. The WAN port connects to the Internet or the service provider’s
backbone network. Each BSS can be looked as a virtual AP, wlan1_0 is the virtual AP for wireless
network.
All these interfaces are listed in the
Network Interfaces
page. All network interfaces available in the
AP-Router are shown in the following table:
Figure 140 – Network Interface Table
To change network interface configuration properties click the
Edit
button in the
Action
column. The
status
can be changed now:
Figure 141 – Edit Network Interfaces Settings - 1
Interface
– standard interface name. This name cannot be edited
Status
– select the status of interface [enabled/disabled]
Do not disable the interface through which you are connected to the AP Router.
Disabling such interface will lose your connection to the device.
The interface eth1 can not be disabled.
Type
– network type cannot be changed. There are two possible networking types:
LAN
– interface is used as local area network (LAN) gateway, and is connected to a LAN
WAN
– interface is used to access the ISP network
NAT
– select enable/disable the NAT service of current interface. If enabled, users can access the
Internet under its network gateway address [enabled/disabled]
Web Auth
– select enable/disable the Web Login Authentication of current interface. With disabled
authentication, the user from his LAN gets access to the Internet without any authentication. If
enabled, authentication for Internet access is required for all users [enabled/disabled]
