Home Networking; Chapter 7 Home Networking; Overview; What You Can Do In This Chapter - ZyXEL Communications VMG8324-B10A series User Manual

7.1 Overview

A Local Area Network (LAN) is a shared communication system to which many networking devices
are connected. It is usually located in one immediate area such as a building or floor of a building.
Use the LAN screens to help you configure a LAN DHCP server and manage IP addresses.
LAN

7.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter

• Use the LAN Setup screen to set the LAN IP address, subnet mask, and DHCP settings of your
Device (Section 7.2 on page
• Use the Static DHCP screen to assign IP addresses on the LAN to specific individual computers
based on their MAC Addresses
• Use the UPnP screen to enable UPnP and UPnP NAT traversal on the Device
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• Use the Additional Subnet screen to configure IP alias and public static IP
115).
• Use the STB Vendor ID screen to have the Device automatically create static DHCP entries for
Set Top Box (STB) devices when they request IP addresses
• Use the 5th Ethernet Port screen to configure the WAN port as the Ethernet WAN port or a LAN
port (Section 7.10 on page
• Use the LAN VLAN screen to control the VLAN ID and IEEE 802.1p priority tags of traffic sent out
through individual LAN ports
• Use the Wake on Lan screen to remotely turn on a device on the network.
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