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This chapter describes how to configure LAN settings. This chapter is only applicable when

the ZyWALL is in router mode. The LAN Port Roles screen is available on the ZyWALL 5

and ZyWALL 35.

A network is a shared communication system to which many computers are attached.

The Local Area Network (LAN) includes the computers and networking devices in your home

or office that you connect to the ZyWALL's LAN ports.

The Wide Area Network (WAN) is another network (most likely the Internet) that you connect

to the ZyWALL's WAN port. See

set up your WAN connection.

The LAN and the WAN are two separate networks. The ZyWALL controls the traffic that

goes between them. The following graphic gives an example.

Similar to the way houses on a street share a common street name, so too do computers on a

LAN share one common network number.

Chapter 6 LAN Screens

ZyWALL 5/35/70 Series User's Guide

Chapter 8 on page 147

for how to use the WAN screens to

Zywall 70 series Zywall 35 series