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8-6 User’s Reference Guide
If you want to view the Connection Profiles in your router, return to the WAN Configuration screen, and
select Display/Change Connection Profile. The list of Connection Profiles is displayed in a scrolling pop-up
screen.
It is possible to configure the router for any available circuit type: ISDN, Switched, ISDN, Leased,
IDSL, Ascend, or IDSL, CMN, depending on the switch gear you are connected to. See the table of configuration
options on page 7-4.
If you create a Connection Profile using a particular datalink encapsulation method, that profile will take
precedence whenever you connect to a line that uses that datalink encapsulation. If there is no Connection
Profile with the datalink encapsulation method that the line uses, the router will default to using the Default
Profile. See “The Default Profile,” for more information.
The Default Profile
How the default profile works
The default profile works like a guard booth at the gate to your network: it scrutinizes WAN connections. Like the
guard booth, the default profile allows connections based on a set of criteria that you define.
The main criterion used to check connections is whether they match one of the connection profiles already
defined. A connection is matched to a connection profile using the remote network’s IP address (that is, the
caller is defined as the destination of a particular connection profile).
If a connection matches an existing profile, all of the connection profile parameters are adopted for the call.
When using PPP or Cisco-HDLC datalink encapsulation on a permanent circuit, you must configure a connection
profile. Note, that you may have already configured this connection profile in Easy Setup.
See “Easy Setup” on page 7-1 for information on configuring an Easy Setup connection profile.
WAN Configuration
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| Profile 02 0.0.0.0 |
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Up/Down Arrow Keys to select, ESC to dismiss, Return/Enter to Edit.