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more than one ser vice provider or remote site.
■ The System Configuration menus display and permit changing:
■ Network protocols setup. See Chapter 9, “IP Setup and Network Address Translation.”
■ Filter sets (firewalls). See “About filters and filter sets” on page 13-126.
■ IP address ser ving. See “IP address ser ving” on page 9-66 .
■ Date and time. See “Date and time” on page 8-47 .
■ Console configuration. See “Connecting a console cable to your router” on page 6-33 .
■ SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). See “SNMP” on page 12-118 .
■ Security. See Chapter 13, “Security.”
■ Upgrade feature set. See “Upgrade feature set” on page 8-48 .
■ The Utilities & Diagnostics menus provide a selection of seven tools for monitoring and diagnosing the
router's behavior, as well as for updating the firmware and rebooting the system. See
Chapter 14, “Utilities
and Diagnostics,” for detailed information.
■ The Statistics & Logs menus display a selection of tables and device logs that show information about
your router, your network and their histor y. See
Chapter 12, “Monitoring Tools,” for detailed information.
■ The Quick Menus screen is a shor tcut entr y point to a wide variety of the most commonly used
configuration menus that are accessed through the other menu entr y points.
■ The Quick View menu displays at a glance current real-time operating information about your router. See
“Quick View status over view” on page 12-109 for detailed information.
Connecting through a Telnet session
Features of the Netopia R910 can be configured through the console screens.
Before you can access the console screens through Telnet, you must have:
■ A network connection locally to the router or IP access to the router.
Note: Alternatively, you can have a direct serial console cable connection using the provided console cable
for your platform (PC or Macintosh) and the Console por t on the back of the router. For more information on
attaching the console cable, see
“Connecting a console cable to your router” on page 6-33 .
■ Telnet software installed on the computer you will use to configure the router