User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- About This Guide
- Introduction
- ISDN LAN Modem Functionality Description
- Hardware Description and Installation
- Setting Up TCP/IP for Windows and Macintosh
- Configuring the ISDN LAN Modem
- Advanced Configuration
- Before you Begin
- Setting Up Additional Service Providers
- Editing Service Provider Profiles
- Restricting Workstations from Accessing Service Provider(s)
- Configuring Your LAN Parameters
- Changing Data Call Parameters
- Changing Voice Call Routing
- Reserving DHCP Addresses
- Selective Password Protection
- Changing Your Password
- Setting Up Your ISDN Line Manually
- Locking and Unlocking the Configuration
- Configuring the ISDN LAN Modem from a Remote Location
- Supplementary Voice Call Services
- Placing, Receiving and Disconnecting Calls
- Troubleshooting and Maintenance
- Networking Primer
- What is a network?
- What is a LAN?
- What is a WAN?
- How does a LAN connect to a WAN?
- What is a LAN modem?
- What is ISDN?
- How do different devices communicate with each other?
- What is TCP/IP?
- What is an IP Address?
- What is a Subnet Mask?
- Dynamic and Static IP Addresses
- What is DHCP?
- What is DNS?
- What is NAT?
- What are numbered and unnumbered links?
- How is overall throughput determined?
- What is a network?
- Using the Custom Web Browser
- ISDN LAN Modem Factory Defaults
- ISDN LAN Modem Specifications
- Ordering ISDN Service
- If You Place Your ISDN Order Through 3Com
- If You Place Your ISDN Order Through the Telephone Company
- Supplementary Voice Features Included with U, EZ-ISDN-1, V and EZ-ISDN 1A
- Limitations of ISDN Ordering Codes U, EZ-ISDN 1, V and EZ-ISDN 1A
- What If I Already Have ISDN Service?
- Table of ISDN Ordering Code Capabilities
- Glossary
- Index
- 3Com Corporation Limited Warranty

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1: I
NTRODUCTION
Local Networking with
Access to a Remote
Office
Users can share access to a remote office LAN while continuing to network locally.
Figure 2
Local Networking with Access to a Remote Office
Local Networking with
Access to the Internet
and a Remote Office
Users can share access to a remote office and the Internet while continuing to
network locally.
Figure 3
Local Networking with Access to a Remote Office and the Internet
OfficeConnect
®
ISDN LAN Modem
Public telephone
network
Remote office
LAN
ISDN BRI line
PWR
ISDN
B1
B2
3 Com
Alert
Tx
Coll
1
2 3 4
LAN STATUS
OfficeConnect™
ISDN LAN Modem
OfficeConnect
®
ISDN LAN Modem
Public telephone
network
Remote office
LAN
ISDN BRI line
Internet/Intranet or
online service
PWR
ISDN
B1
B2
3 Com
Alert
Tx
Coll
1
2 3 4
LAN STATUS
OfficeConnect™
ISDN LAN Modem