Chapter 4: Managing Your Network | 57
Mobile Broadband 11n Wireless Router MBR1000 User Manual
Running Diagnostic Utilities and Rebooting the Router
The router has a diagnostics feature. You can use the Diagnostics screen to perform the
following functions from the router:
• Ping an IP address to test connectivity to see if you can reach a remote host. If Ping VPN
is enabled, the ping packet always goes through the VPN if the VPN tunnel is enabled
and working.
• Perform a DNS lookup to test if an Internet name resolves to an IP address to verify that
the DNS server configuration is working.
• Display the routing table to identify what other routers the router is communicating with.
• Reboot the router to enable new network configurations to take effect or to clear problems
with the router’s network connection.
From the main menu, under Maintenance, select Diagnostics.
• Ping. Ping an IP address.
• Lookup. A Domain Name Server (DNS) converts the Internet name such as
www.netgear.com to an IP address. If you need the IP address of a server on the Internet,
you can do a DNS lookup to find the IP address.
• Display. View the internal routing table. Typically, this information is used only by
Technical Support.
• Reboot. Shut down and restart the router.
Note: If you reboot the router you will lose your connection. To access the
router you will need to log in again after it has finished rebooting.
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