User's Manual

MG7310 Cable Modem User Manual
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Figure 10 Setup configuration
Enter the information from the Required Information section as indicated:
At this point, the CM/RG is configured for basic use. To connect to the Internet, you
must do the following:
1. Power up the CM/RG and wait for it to register with the CMTS and obtain an
Internet-routable IP address
2. Get an IP lease from the internal DHCP server for each PC attached to the
CM/RG.
Note that communication on the LAN will work regardless of whether the WAN
connection provided by the cable modem is up. However, you will not be able to
access the Internet until the WAN connection is enabled and has an IP address.
Some configurations settings are retrieved only once from non-volatile storage
when the CM/RG first powers up. One such setting is changing the IPv4 Address
parameters. Any changes to these settings will force the CM/RG to reset so that
the new configuration can be read from non-volatile storage.
When this mandatory reset is required, the web interface will notify as follows: