User’s Manual of WGR-500-4P and WGR-500-4PV
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4.2.5 Operation Mode
The industrial wall-mount Gigabit router supports two modes for your application, select the
Router
mode to act as
a Gateway which provides the firewall function to protect your private network. To select the
Switch
mode,
industrial wall-mount Gigabit router will act as a pure 5-Port Ethernet Switch. The setup is shown
in
Figure 4-19
and
default mode
is
Router
mode.
Figure 4-19:
Operation Mode
Object
Description
Router
In this mode, the device is supposed to connect to internet via
xDSL/Cable/xPON/Fiber modem. The NAT is enabled and PCs in LAN ports
share the same IP with ISP through WAN port. The connection type can be
set up in WAN page by using PPPOE, DHCP client, PPTP client , L2TP
client or static IP.
Switch
In this mode, all Ethernet ports are bridged together and NAT function is
disabled. All the WAN related function and firewall are not supported.
Save
Press this button to save changes.
Save & Apply
Press this button to save and apply changes.
Reset
Press this button to undo any changes made locally and revert to previously
saved values.
For the WGR-500-4P model, if you want to set a different mode between router and switch, it
can only be configured by
DIP switch,
instead of web GUI, on the bottom case shown in the
table below.