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the most update information.
Cable/DSL
This field indicates the Internet connection status. Its value is
Connected , Disconnected or Connecting.
WAN IP
Connected to the Internet through Cable or ADSL modem, the ISP will
offer the home gateway a WAN IP address to communicate with other
hosts in the Internet.
Subnet Mask
This field indicates a
83H83Hmask used to determine what 84H84Hsubnet the WAN 85H85HIP
address belongs to. An 86H86HIP address has two components, the network
address and the 87H87Hhost address. For example, consider the IP address
192.168.168.182 with subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, the first three
numbers (192.168.168) represent the Class C network address, and the
forth number (182) identifies a particular 88H88Hhost on this network.
Gateway
“Gateway” is a 89H89Hnode on a 90H90Hnetwork that serves as an entrance to another
91H91Hnetwork. For the home gateway, The “Gateway” is the next device,
which routes the traffic to the Internet.
DNS
Domain Name System (or Service or Server) is an Internet service that
translates domain names into IP addresses. Because the domain names
are alphabetic, they are easier to remember. However, the Internet is
based on
92H92HIP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, a 93H93HDNS
service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For
example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to
198.105.232.4. The DNS system has its own
94H94Hnetwork. If one 95H95HDNS
server doesn't know how to translate a particular domain name, it will ask
its upper stream server, and so on, until the correct IP address is returned
or timed-out.
Secondary DNS
This is the secondary DNS to use when the primary DNS does not work.
Domain Name