SMC Networks ADSL Barricade SMC7204BRA - Manual (Page 4)

Table of Contents
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Getting Started with the Configuration Manager 23
Accessing the Configuration Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Functional Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Commonly used buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Home Page and System View Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Modifying Basic System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Committing Changes and Rebooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Committing your changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Rebooting the device using Configuration Manager . . . 31
Configuring the LAN Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Connecting via Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuring the LAN Port IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Viewing System IP Addresses
and IP Performance Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Viewing the ADSL Barricade's IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Viewing IP Performance Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Overview of DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
What is DHCP? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Why use DHCP? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
ADSL Barricade DHCP modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Configuring DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Guidelines for creating DHCP server address pools . . . 45
Adding DHCP Server Address Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Viewing, modifying, and deleting address pools . . . . . . 50
Excluding IP addresses from a pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Viewing current DHCP address assignments . . . . . . . . 51
Configuring DHCP Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Setting the DHCP Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Configuring Network Address Translation . . . . .57
Overview of NAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57