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Prestige 128IMH ISDN Modem/ Router/Hub Field Table 2-4 General Setup Menu Fields Description Example System Name Choose a descriptive name for identification purposes. This name can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters long. Spaces are not allowed, but dashes "-" and underscores "_" are accepted. This name can be retrieved remotely via SNMP, used for CHAP authentication, and will be displayed at the prompt in the Command Mode. P128IMH Location (optional) Enter the geographic location (up to 31 characters) of your Prestige. MyHouse Contact Person's Enter the name (up to 8 characters) of the person in charge of this Name (optional) Prestige. JohnDoe Protocols : Turn on or off routing for the individual protocols. Press space-bar to toggle Route IP Route IPX Bridge Set this field to Yes to enable IP routing. You must enable IP routing for Internet access. Set this field Yes to enable IPX routing. Turn on/off bridging for protocols not supported (e.g., SNA) or not turned on in the previous Route fields. Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Note on Bridging When bridging is enabled, your Prestige forwards any packet that it does not route. Without bridging, the packets that the Prestige does not route are simply discarded. Compared to routing, bridging generates far more traffic for the same network protocol and consumes more CPU cycles and memory. Hardware Installation and Setup 2-13

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Prestige
128IMH ISDN Modem/ Router/Hub
Hardware Installation and Setup
2-13
Table 2-4 General Setup Menu Fields
Field
Description
Example
System Name
Choose a descriptive name for identification purposes. This name can be
up to 8 alphanumeric characters long. Spaces are not allowed, but
dashes “-” and underscores "_" are accepted. This name can be retrieved
remotely via SNMP, used for CHAP authentication, and will be displayed
at the prompt in the Command Mode.
P128IMH
Location (optional)
Enter the geographic location (up to 31 characters) of your Prestige
.
MyHouse
Contact Person's
Name (optional)
Enter the name (up to 8 characters) of the person in charge of this
Prestige.
JohnDoe
Protocols :
Turn on or off routing for the individual protocols.
Press
space-bar
to toggle
Route IP
Route IPX
Bridge
Set this field to
Yes
to enable IP routing.
You must enable IP routing for
Internet access.
Set this field
Yes
to enable IPX routing.
Turn on/off bridging for protocols not supported (e.g., SNA) or not turned
on in the previous Route fields.
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Note on Bridging
When bridging is enabled, your Prestige forwards any packet that it does not route.
Without
bridging, the packets that the Prestige does not route are simply discarded.
Compared to routing,
bridging generates far more traffic for the same network protocol and consumes more CPU cycles
and memory.