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NBG-417N User’s Guide
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CHAPTER 8
WAN
8.1 Overview
This chapter discusses the NBG-417N’s WAN screens. Use these screens to
configure your NBG-417N for Internet access.
A WAN (Wide Area Network) connection is an outside connection to another
network or the Internet. It connects your private networks (such as a LAN (Local
Area Network) and other networks, so that a computer in one location can
communicate with computers in other locations.
Figure 53 LAN and WAN
See the chapter about the connection wizard for more information on the fields in
the WAN screens.
8.2 What You Can Do In the WAN Screens
•Use the Internet Connection (Section 8.4 on page 99) screen to enter your
ISP information and set how the computer acquires its IP, DNS and WAN MAC
addresses.
•Use the Advanced (Section 8.5 on page 105) screen to enable multicasting,
configure Windows networking and bridge.
WAN
LAN