Editing The Routing Table; Figure 28 Routing Table Screen - Uniden evolo WNR2004 Owner's Manual

With 4 port cable/dsl router

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NOTE: If the router does not prompt you to reboot it at the

end of the last configuration step, you must use the

reboot command. See Rebooting the Router on

page 77.

EDITING THE ROUTING TABLE

To provide Internet access, the router must be able to contact all

the PCs on your network. If all the PCs on your network are

directly attached to the router, the router always knows where

they are. However, if a PC is attached to the router through an

intermediary device (such as another router or another PC), the

router cannot find it. These intermediate devices are called a

gateway, because they serve a gate between the router and the

remote PC.

The routing table tells the router which gateway devices these

remote PCs or networks are connected to. Maintaining the

routing table lets the router know which gateway device to send

a data packet to reach a remote PC. You may have to edit the

routing table if the following conditions apply:

You have more than one router on your network

You want to divide your network into smaller "virtual

networks" or subnetworks

To edit the routing table, you will need the following information:

The IP address for each remote PC, remote network or

subnetwork.

The subnet mask for each remote PC, remote network

or subnetwork.

The IP address of the gateway device. The gateway is a

router or computer connecting one network to another.

Follow the steps below to edit the routing table:

1. Open a browser window and login to the router.

2. Click Advanced Configuration, then Routing Table. This

displays the Routing Table screen (see Figure 28).

3. When you first view this screen, the table will be blank.

Click the Add button to add a routing entry to the table.

This displays the Routing Table, Add screen (see Figure

29).

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