SMC Networks SMC7401BRA Network Router User Manual


 
Table of Contents
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Getting Started with the Configuration Manager . . . .29
Accessing the Configuration Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Functional Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Commonly used buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The Home Page and System View Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Modifying Basic System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Committing Changes and Rebooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Committing your changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Rebooting the device using Configuration Manager . . . . . . . . 40
Configuring the LAN Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Connecting via Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring the LAN Port IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Viewing System IP Addresses
and IP Performance Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Viewing the ADSL Barricade's IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Viewing IP Performance Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Configuring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol . .53
Overview of DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
What is DHCP? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Why use DHCP? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
ADSL Barricade DHCP modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Configuring DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Guidelines for creating DHCP server address pools . . . . . . . . 55
Adding DHCP Server Address Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Viewing, modifying, and deleting address pools . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Excluding IP addresses from a pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Viewing current DHCP address assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Configuring DHCP Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Setting the DHCP Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64