Operation Manual

AIRIS POWER SERVER
User Manual Rev 1.0
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“172.16.1.249”)
4. Enter the number in Hop count column. The number means how
many gateways you have to pass through.
5. Click the apply button.
In the figures, the destination network is “192.168.6.x”. And the packets
will be route in or out of the destination network through the gateway
“172.16.1.249”.
DDNS
Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides you at least one IP address
to use when connecting to the Internet. The address you as assigned may
be static, meaning it never changes, or more than likely dynamic,
meaning it’s likely to change periodically. How often it changes depends
on your ISP. A dynamic IP address complicates remote access since you
may not know your current WAN IP address when you want to access
your network over the Internet. DDNS provides a simple, and in most
cases free, solution.
The Internet uses DNS servers to lookup domain names and translates
then into IP addresses. Domain names, such as www.yahoo.com
, are just
easy to remember aliases for IP addresses. A dynamic DNS service
provides a means of updating your IP address so that you listing will be
current when your IP address changes. There are several services on the
Internet that are available for free. We will only cover one,
www.dyndns.org. You will need to register with the service and setup a