Chapter 8 Broadband
AX/DX/EX/PX Series User’s Guide
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 34 Network Setting > Broadband > Add or Edit New WAN Interface (Routing Mode)
LABEL DESCRIPTION
General Click this switch to enable or disable the interface. When the switch goes to the right , the
function is enabled. Otherwise, it is not.
Name Specify a descriptive name for this connection.
This field is read-only if you are editing the WAN interface.
Type This field shows the types of available connections.
This field is read-only if you are editing the WAN interface.
Mode Select Routing if your ISP give you one IP address only and you want multiple computers to share
an Internet account.
Encapsulation Select the method of encapsulation used by your ISP from the drop-down list box. This option is
available only when you select Routing in the Mode field.
When you select ADSL/VDSL over ATM or Ethernet, the choices are PPPoE and IPoE.
When you select ADSL over ATM, the choices are PPPoE, IPoE, PPPoA and IPoA.
IPv4/IPv6 Mode Select IPv4 Only if you want the Zyxel Device to run IPv4 only.
Select IPv4 IPv6 DualStack to allow the Zyxel Device to run IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time.
Select IPv6 Only if you want the Zyxel Device to run IPv6 only.
PPP Information (This is available only when you select Routing in the Mode field and PPPoE or PPPoA in the
Encapsulation field.)
PPP User Name Enter the user name exactly as your ISP assigned. If assigned a name in the form user@domain
where domain identifies a service name, then enter both components exactly as given.
PPP Password Enter the password associated with the user name above. Select password unmask to show your
entered password in plain text.
PPP Connection
Trigger
Select when to have the Zyxel Device establish the PPP connection.
Auto Connect – select this to not let the connection time out.
On Demand – select this to automatically bring up the connection when the Zyxel Device
receives packets destined for the Internet.
Idle Timeout This value specifies the time in minutes that elapses before the router automatically disconnects
from the PPPoE server.
This field is not available if you select Auto Connect in the PPP Connection Trigger field.
PPPoE
Passthrough
This field is available when you select PPPoE encapsulation.
In addition to the Zyxel Device’s built-in PPPoE client, you can enable PPPoE pass through to
allow up to ten hosts on the LAN to use PPPoE client software on their computers to connect to
the ISP through the Zyxel Device. Each host can have a separate account and a public WAN IP
address.
PPPoE pass through is an alternative to NAT for application where NAT is not appropriate.
Disable PPPoE pass through if you do not need to allow hosts on the LAN to use PPPoE client
software on their computers to connect to the ISP.
VLAN Click this switch to enable or disable VLAN on this WAN interface. When the switch goes to the
right , the function is enabled. Otherwise, it is not.
This field is not available if you select ADSL over ATM in the Type field and PPPoA or IPoA in the
Encapsulation field.
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