Additional Notes - NETGEAR FR314 Reference Manual

Reference Guide for the Model FR314, FR318 and FV318 Cable/DSL Firewall and VPN Routers
In the NETGEAR Firewall LAN IP Address box, type a unique, valid IP address from your
2.
LAN address range.
The firewall router LAN IP Address is the address assigned to the firewall router's LAN port
and is used for management of the firewall router.
In the LAN Subnet Mask box, type your network's subnet mask. The LAN Subnet Mask
3.
notifies your firewall router which IP addresses are on your LAN. The default value,
, supports up to 254 IP addresses.
255.255.255.0
In the WAN Gateway (Router) Address box, type the IP address of the next router or gateway
4.
to which your firewall router connects to access the Internet.
In cable and DSL environments, the WAN Gateway is located at the ISP.
In the DNS Servers box, type the IP address or IP addresses of your DNS servers.
5.
The firewall router uses these DNS servers for diagnostic tests and for upgrade and
registration functionality.
Click Update.
6.
Once the firewall router has been updated, a message confirming the update is displayed at the
bottom of the browser window.
Click Restart for these changes to take effect.
7.
The restart may take up to 90 seconds, during which time the firewall router is inaccessible
and all network traffic through the firewall router is halted. After the reboot, your firewall
router's IP address will be changed to the IP address you entered in Step 2.
Reconfigure your Management Station's IP address to an address on the same subnet as the
8.
firewall router's new LAN IP Address.
You will need to reconfigure all PCs on your LAN to use addresses on the new subnet. In addition,
you need to configure all connected PCs to use the firewall router's IP address as their gateway.

Additional Notes

Unless you have selected the NAT Disabled addressing mode, your firewall router uses Network
Address Translation (NAT) to share a single-user Internet account among all of your attached PCs.
In addition to the network settings described in this chapter, you must enable and configure the
firewall router's DHCP server or manually configure your computers' DNS settings in order to
obtain DNS name resolution.
5-10 General Configuration