LevelOne VOI-8003 Manual - Page 77
Cable/DSL, WAN IP, Subnet Mask, Gateway, Secondary DNS, Domain Name, Connected
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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 mask used to determine what subnet the WAN IP 83H83H 84H84H 85H85H address belongs to. An IP address has two components, the network 86H86H address and the host address. For example, consider the IP address 87H87H 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 host on this network. 88H88H Gateway "Gateway" is a node on a network that serves as an entrance to another 89H89H 90H90H network. For the home gateway, The "Gateway" is the next device, 91H91H 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 IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, a DNS 92H92H 93H93H 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 network. If one DNS 94H94H 95H95H 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 77