Step 2 –
Retrieve your NETGEAR’s LAN and WAN Configuration
(*) If you are using a subnet mask with elements that are not 0 or 255, you can
use one of the many subnet calculators available for free on the Internet to
calculate the network address.
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00:00:00
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➍
➏
➎
‣
Go to
Maintenance > Router Status
and obtain the
following information from the Router Status page:
‣
WAN1 Configuration:
‣
Write down the
WAN IP Address
➍
‣
If you use Dynamic DNS for your device, or if it has a
DNS host name, write down the host name instead
‣
LAN Port:
‣
Write down the
LAN IP Address
➎
‣
Write down the
LAN IP Subnet Mask
➏
‣
Calculate your
LAN Network Address
by applying the
LAN
Subnet Mask
➏
to the
LAN IP Address
➎
:
‣
Applying the subnet mask means setting those elements of
the IP address to 0 where the subnet mask is 0, and
preserving all elements where the subnet mask is 255 (*)
‣
In our example:
‣
Write down the
LAN Network Address
you have
calculated as
➐
192
168
13
1
255
255
0
255
.
.
.
.
.
.
LAN Subnet Mask
LAN IP Address
applied to
LAN Network Address
192
168
13
0
.
.
.
