Configure - Microsoft MN-500 User Manual

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Customizing the Base Station
The Base Station Management Tool is a Web-based utility that you
can use to manage network settings and customize security
options on the Microsoft
Station.
You can select many base station settings when you run the Setup
Wizard. However, if you want to change a setting, such as your
base station password, or if you have special network requirements
(for example, if you want to establish a Web server on your
network), you can use the Base Station Management Tool to
configure the necessary settings.
If you do not run the Setup Wizard when you set up your network,
you must use the Base Station Management Tool to configure your
network settings.
This chapter explains how to perform the following tasks:
• Open the Base Station Management Tool and view the current
configuration of your base station.
• Configure the base station with the settings provided by your
Internet service provider (ISP) so that your networked
computers can connect to the Internet.
• Manage network time settings, base station password, and
firmware upgrades.
• Create a backup file of the base station settings.
• Change the wireless channel and wireless network name (also
known as Service Set Identifier, or SSID) for your network.
• Customize security features, such as firewall settings, media
access control (MAC) filtering, and wireless security (also known
as Wired Equivalent Privacy, or WEP) settings.
• Change the base station configuration from routing mode to
bridging mode.
• Limit access to the Internet or to particular applications on one
or more of your networked computers by setting up client
filtering.
• Set up the network to allow unrestricted access to the Internet
from one computer by establishing a virtual demilitarized zone
(DMZ).
• Configure port forwarding to run applications with special
network requirements.
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