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Chapter 5 LAN Screens
Figure 17
IP Alias
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 14
IP Alias
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
IP Alias 1,2
Select the check box to configure another LAN network for the Prestige.
IP Address
Enter the IP address of your Prestige in dotted decimal notation.
IP Subnet Mask
Your Prestige will automatically calculate the subnet mask based on the IP
address that you assign. Unless you are implementing subnetting, use the subnet
mask computed by the Prestige.
RIP Direction
RIP (Routing Information Protocol, RFC1058 and RFC 1389) allows a router to
exchange routing information with other routers. The
RIP Direction
field controls
the sending and receiving of RIP packets. Select the RIP direction from
Both
/
In
Only
/
Out Only
/
None
. When set to
Both
or
Out Only
, the Prestige will broadcast
its routing table periodically. When set to
Both
or
In Only
, it will incorporate the
RIP information that it receives; when set to
None
, it will not send any RIP
packets and will ignore any RIP packets received.
RIP Version
The
RIP Version
field controls the format and the broadcasting method of the
RIP packets that the Prestige sends (it recognizes both formats when receiving).
RIP-1
is universally supported but RIP-2 carries more information. RIP-1 is
probably adequate for most networks, unless you have an unusual network
topology. Both
RIP-2B
and
RIP-2M
sends the routing data in RIP-2 format; the
difference being that
RIP-2B
uses subnet broadcasting while
RIP-2M
uses
multicasting. Multicasting can reduce the load on non-router machines since they
generally do not listen to the RIP multicast address and so will not receive the RIP
packets. However, if one router uses multicasting, then all routers on your
network must use multicasting, also. By default, RIP direction is set to
Both
and
the Version set to
RIP-1
.
Apply
Click
Apply
to save your changes back to the Prestige.
Reset
Click
Reset
to begin configuring this screen afresh.