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Interface Type
The network interface is categorized into four types:
Local Area Network (LAN)
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
LAN Connection Type (only configurable for WANs)
It has three connection types, namely:
NAT Routing: Allows private IP addresses (available and valid ones)
to be translated into public addresses based on network policy.
Transparent Bridging: Allows internal users to access a specific
networking device in a different network based on network policy
through the default gateway. Note: This type requires configuring
Interface Group settings under Network.
Transparent Routing: Provides internal users with direct access to
the Internet due to being in the same subnet range.
IPv4 Settings
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth revision in the development
of the Internet Protocol (IP) and it is by far the most widely deployed
Internet Layer protocol.
IPv4 addresses are written in dot-decimal notation, which consists of the
four octets of the address expressed in decimal and separated by periods,
such as 192.168.1.1.
Please configure the IPv4 Address, Netmask and MAC Address fields
according to your network addresses.
IPv6 Settings
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is called the "IP Next Generation" (IPng),
which is designed to fix the shortcomings of IPv4, such as data security
and maximum number of user addresses. It is backward compatible and
thus expected to slowly replace IPv4, with the two existing side by side for
many years.
IPv6 address represent itself as text string using the following three
conventional forms:
Colon-hexadecimal form: This is the preferred form n:n:n:n:n:n:n:n.
Each n represents the hexadecimal value of one of the eight 16-bit
elements of the address. For example:
21DA:00D3:0000:2F3B:02AA:00FF:FE28:9C5A
Compressed form: It is used to simplify writing addresses that
contains a long string of zeros, use the compressed form, in which a
single contiguous sequence of 0 blocks are represented by a
double-colon symbol (::). This symbol can appear only once in an
address. For example, the unicast address FE80:0:0:0:2AA: FF:
FE9A:4CA2 in compressed form is FE80:: 2AA:FF:FE9A:4CA2.
Mixed form:
IPv4-compatible addresses: The IPv4-compatible address,
0:0:0:0:0:0:w.x.y.z or ::w.x.y.z (where w.x.y.z is the dotted decimal
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