Home Networking; Chapter 8 Home Networking; Overview; What You Can Do In This Chapter - ZyXEL Communications VMG8924-B10A Series User Manual

8.1 Overview

A Local Area Network (LAN) is a shared communication system to which many networking devices
are connected. It is usually located in one immediate area such as a building or floor of a building.
Use the LAN screens to help you configure a LAN DHCP server and manage IP addresses.
LAN

8.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter

• Use the LAN Setup screen to set the LAN IP address, subnet mask, and DHCP settings of your
VMG (Section 8.2 on page
• Use the Static DHCP screen to assign IP addresses on the LAN to specific individual computers
based on their MAC Addresses
• Use the UPnP screen to enable UPnP and UPnP NAT traversal on the VMG
140).
• Use the Additional Subnet screen to configure IP alias and public static IP
143).
• Use the STB Vendor ID screen to have the VMG automatically create static DHCP entries for Set
Top Box (STB) devices when they request IP addresses
• Use the 5th Ethernet Port screen to configure the WAN port as the Ethernet WAN port or a LAN
port (Section 8.7 on page
• Use the Wake on Lan screen to remotely turn on a device on the network.
146).
• Use the TFTP Server screen to identify a TFTP server for configuration file download using DHCP
option 66. (Section 8.9 on page
135).
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145).
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