Connecting The Firewall To The Internet; What You Will Need Before You Begin; Cabling And Computer Hardware Requirements; Network Configuration Requirements - NETGEAR FVM318 Reference Manual

This chapter describes how to set up the firewall on your Local Area Network (LAN), connect to
the Internet, perform basic configuration of your FVM318 Cable/DSL ProSafe Wireless VPN
Security Firewall using the Setup Wizard, or how to manually configure your Internet connection.

What You Will Need Before You Begin

You need to prepare these three things before you begin:
Have active Internet service such as that provided by an cable or DSL broadband account.
1.
Locate the Internet Service Provider (ISP) configuration information for your account.
2.
Connect the firewall to a cable or DSL modem and a computer as explained below.
3.

Cabling and Computer Hardware Requirements

To use the FVM318 firewall on your network, each computer must have an installed Ethernet
Network Interface Card (NIC) and an Ethernet cable. If the computer will connect to your network
at 100 Mbps, you must use a Category 5 (CAT5) cable such as the one provided with your firewall.

Network Configuration Requirements

The FVM318 includes a built-in Web Configuration Manager. To access the configuration menus
on the FVM318, your must use a Java
uploads such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape
using Internet Explorer 5.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.7 or above. Free browser programs are readily
available for Windows
For the initial connection to the Internet and configuration of your firewall, you will need to
connect a computer to the firewall which is set to automatically get its TCP/IP configuration from
the firewall via DHCP.
Note: For help with DHCP configuration, please refer to

Connecting the Firewall to the Internet

Connecting the Firewall to the Internet
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