Your Internet Account - NETGEAR FR314 Reference Manual

Reference Guide for the Model FR314, FR318 and FV318 Cable/DSL Firewall and VPN Routers
The panel is updated to show your settings, which should match the values below if you are using
the default TCP/IP settings that NETGEAR recommends:
• The IP Address is between 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.9
• The Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
• The Router address is 192.168.0.1
If you do not see these values, you may need to restart your Macintosh or you may need to switch
the "Configure" setting to a different option, then back again to "Using DHCP Server".
At this point, your Macintosh computers can communicate with each other and with the firewall
router, but they still require Name Server (DNS) addresses in order to browse the Internet. The
Name Server addresses are not assigned until after the firewall router is configured and the
Macintosh computers are rebooted.

Your Internet Account

For access to the Internet, you need to contract with an Internet service provider (ISP) for a
single-user Internet access account using an external broadband access device such as a cable
modem or DSL modem. This modem must be a separate physical box (not a card) and must
provide an Ethernet port intended for connection to a Network Interface Card (NIC) in a PC.
For a single-user Internet account, your ISP supplies TCP/IP configuration information for one
PC. With a typical account, much of the configuration information is dynamically assigned when
your PC is first booted up while connected to the ISP, and you will not need to know that dynamic
information.
In order to share the Internet connection among several computers, your firewall router takes the
place of the single PC, and you need to configure it with the TCP/IP information that the single PC
would normally use. When the firewall router's INTERNET port is connected to the broadband
modem, the firewall router appears to be a single PC to the ISP. The firewall router then allows the
PCs on the local network to masquerade as the single PC to access the Internet through the
broadband modem. The method used by the firewall router to accomplish this is called Network
Address Translation (NAT) or IP masquerading.
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