Bridge Settings; Dns Server - Option Audio GlobeSurfer 3G Reference Manual

802.11b/g wireless router and internet gateway

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4.4.3 Bridge Settings

The bridge section allows you to specify the LAN devices that you would like

to join under the network bridge. Click the Edit icon on the VLAN column to

assign the network connections to speciﬁc Virtual LANs.

Select the STP check box to enable the Spanning Tree Protocol on the device.

You should use this to ensure that there are no loops in your network con-

ﬁguration, and apply these settings in case your network consists of multiple

switches, or other bridges apart from those created by the GlobeSurfer 3G.

Figure 4.58: LAN Bridge Settings

Domain Name System (DNS) is the method by which website or domain names

are translated into IP addresses. You can conﬁgure the connection to auto-

matically obtain a DNS server address, or specify such an address manually,

according to the information provided by your ISP.

To conﬁgure the connection to automatically obtain a DNS server address, se-

lect Obtain DNS Server Address Automatically from the DNS Server drop down

menu.

Figure 4.59: Automatic DNS Settings

To manually conﬁgure DNS server addresses, select Use the following DNS server

addresses from the DNS server drop down menu (see ﬁgure 4.100). Specify up

to two different DNS server addresses, one primary and one secondary.

Figure 4.60: DNS Settings

To learn more about this feature, refer to Section 6.2.

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