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Chapter 6 Broadband
PMG5317-T20A User’s Guide
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 8 Network Setting > Broadband > Add New WAN Interface/Edit (Routing Mode)
LABEL DESCRIPTION
General
Name Specify a descriptive name for this connection.
Type This shows it is a GPON connection.
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.
IPv4/IPv6 Mode Select IPv4 Only if you want the GPON Device to run IPv4 only.
Select IPv4 IPv6 DualStack to allow the GPON Device to run IPv4 and IPv6 at the same
time.
Select IPv6 Only if you want the GPON Device to run IPv6 only.
PPP Information (This is available only when you select PPPoE in the Mode 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 GPON Device establish the PPP connection.
Auto Connect - select this to not let the connection time out.
Connect on Demand - select this to automatically bring up the connection when the GPON
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 GPON 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 via the GPON 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.
IP Address (This is available only when you select IPv4 Only or IPv4 IPv6 DualStack in the IPv4/IPv6
Mode field.)
Obtain an IP
Address
Automatically
A static IP address is a fixed IP that your ISP gives you. A dynamic IP address is not fixed;
the ISP assigns you a different one each time you connect to the Internet. Select this if you
have a dynamic IP address.
Static IP
Address
Select this option If the ISP assigned a fixed IP address.
IP Address Enter the static IP address provided by your ISP.
VLAN
Active Select this to enable VLAN on this WAN interface.