NETGEAR DGN3500 - Running Diagnostic Utilities and Rebooting the N300 Wireless Modem Router62

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N300 Wireless Gigabit ADSL2+ Modem Router DGN3500 User Manual
Running Diagnostic Utilities and Rebooting the N300
Wireless Modem Router
The wireless modem router has a diagnostics feature. In the main menu, under Maintenance,
select Diagnostics to display the following screen.
Figure 34.
You can use the Diagnostics screen to perform the following functions from the wireless
modem router:
• Pin
g an IP address to test connectivity to see if you can reach a remote host.
• Perfo
rm a DNS lookup to test if an Internet name resolves to an IP address to verify that
the DNS server configuration is working.
• Displa
y the Routing table to identify what other wireless modem routers the wireless
modem router is communicating with.
• Rebo
ot the wireless modem router to enable new network configurations to take effect or
to clear problems with the wireless modem router’s network connection.