Home Networking; Overview; What You Can Do In This Chapter - ZyXEL Communications VMG4381-B10A User Manual

8.1 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

8.1.1 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 8.2 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
140).
• Use the Additional Subnet screen to configure IP alias and public static IP
141).
• 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 Ethernet WAN port as a LAN port
on page 150).
• Use the MoCA screen to set the MoCA Privacy, and enable multimedia and home networking over
coaxial cable (Section 8.10 on page 151).
• 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 TFTP Server Name screen to access the TFTP server using DHCP option 66 (Section
8.12 on page 152).
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