Configuring For A Wizard-Detected Dynamic Ip Account - NETGEAR FVL328 Reference Manual

Configuring for a Wizard-Detected Dynamic IP Account

If the Setup Wizard determines that your Internet service account uses Dynamic IP assignment,
you will be directed to the menu shown in
Figure 3-8: Setup Wizard menu for Dynamic IP address
Enter your Account Name (may also be called Host Name) and Domain Name. These
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parameters may be necessary to access your ISP's services such as mail or news servers. If you
leave the Domain Name field blank, the firewall will attempt to learn the domain
automatically from the ISP. If this is not successful, you may need to enter it manually.
If you know that your ISP does not automatically transmit DNS addresses to the firewall
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during login, select "Use these DNS servers" and enter the IP address of your ISP's Primary
DNS Server. If a Secondary DNS Server address is available, enter it also.
A DNS server is a host on the Internet that translates Internet names (such as
www.netgear.com) to numeric IP addresses. Typically your ISP transfers the IP address of one
or two DNS servers to your firewall during login. If the ISP does not transfer an address, you
must obtain it from the ISP and enter it manually here. If you enter an address here, you should
reboot your computers after configuring the firewall.
The Router's MAC Address is the Ethernet MAC address that will be used by the firewall on
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the Internet port.
Connecting the FVL328 to the Internet
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