Planet Technology Router XRT-401E User Manual

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3.2.3 PPPoE Your ISP requires PPPoE connection. 
 
3.2.4 PPTP Your ISP requires you to use a Point-to-Point Tunneling 
Protocol (PPTP) connection.  
 
3.2.5 L2TP    Your ISP requires L2TP connection. 
  
3.2.1 Dynamic IP 
 
Choose the Dynamic IP selection if your ISP will automatically give you an IP address. Some 
ISP’s may also require that you fill in additional information such as MAC address (see chapter 2 
“Cable Modem” for more detail). Select Big Pond if your ISP requires the Big Pond...

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Parameters   Description Does ISP provide more IP          Select  if your ISP provide more than one IP address. 
addresses?                                                     
 
More IP address Type the other IP address that ISP provide to you, this IP 
address will be useful in DMZ function.  
 3.2.3 PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) 
Select PPPoE if your ISP requires the PPPoE protocol to connect you to the Internet. Your ISP 
should provide all the information required in this section. (See chapter 2...

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Connection Mode Select the desired option:  
                                                    Keep-alive (maintain connection) 
The connection will never be disconnected by this device. If 
disconnected by your ISP, the connection will be re-established 
immediately. (However, this does not ensure that your Internet IP 
address will remain unchanged.) 
 
                                                    Auto-Connect  
An Internet connection is automatically made when required, and...

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WAN Interface Settings               To configure WAN Interface IP  
Dynamic IP The ISP requires you to obtain an IP address by DHCP before 
connecting to the PPTP server. 
                                                                                                                
 MAC Cloning  
                                                       Select  to allow replacing the WAN MAC address 
with a specific MAC address. 
 
 MAC Address...

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MPPE Select  to enable “Microsoft Point to Point 
Encryption” ability.  
                
3.2.5 L2TP 
 
Select L2TP if your ISP requires the L2TP protocol to connect you to the Internet. Your ISP 
should provide all the information required in this section. 
  
 
 
Parameter      Description  
WAN Interface Settings               To configure WAN Interface IP 
Dynamic IP The ISP...

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you to connect to the Internet. This MAC address is the PC’s 
MAC address that your ISP had originally connected your 
Internet connection to. Type in this MAC address in this 
section or use the “Clone MAC Address” button to replace 
the WAN MAC address with the MAC address of that PC. 
 
Static IP The ISP gives you a static IP to be used to connect to the 
PPTP server. You must type in...

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The LAN Port screen below allows you to specify a private IP address for your router’s LAN ports 
as well as a subnet mask for your LAN segment. 
  
 
 
Parameters  Default   Description  
LAN Settings 
IP address                     192.168.0.1 This is the router’s LAN port IP address (Your 
LAN clients default gateway IP address) 
 
IP Subnet Mask             255.255.255.0 Specify a Subnet Mask for your LAN segment 
 
DHCP Server                 Enabled             You can enable or...

 33 Lease Time The DHCP when enabled will temporarily give 
your LAN clients an IP address. In the Lease 
Time setting you can specify the time period that 
the DHCP lends an IP address to your LAN 
clients. The DHCP will change your LAN client’s 
IP address when this time threshold period is 
reached 
DNS Proxy Select  that all DNS requests to a 
specific Domain Name will be routed to the XRT-
401E’s IP address. If you want to use the DNS 
Proxy function of the device, the end user’s main 
DNS server IP...

 34 3.4.5 DMZ The DMZ function allows you to re-direct all packets 
going to your WAN port IP address to a particular IP 
address in your LAN. 
  
3.4.1 Virtual Server 
Use the Virtual Server function when you want different servers/clients in your LAN to handle 
different service/Internet application type (e.g. Email, FTP, Web server etc.) from the Internet. 
Computers use numbers called port numbers to recognize a particular service/Internet application 
type. The Virtual Server allows you to re-direct...

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Comment The description of this setting.  
 
Enable  To enable the rule of Virtual Server. 
 3.4.2 Special Applications  
Some applications require multiple connections, such as Internet games, video conferencing, 
Internet telephony and others. In this section you can configure the router to support multiple 
connections for these types of applications. 
  
 
 
Parameters   Description  
Trigger Port This is the out going (Outbound) range of port numbers for this 
particular application...