Prestige 324 User’s Guide
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Table 6-7 WAN: IP
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
RIP Direction
RIP (Routing Information Protocol) allows a router to exchange routing information
with other routers. The
RIP Direction
field controls the sending and receiving of
RIP packets.
Choose
Both
,
None
,
In Only
or
Out Only
.
When set to
Both
or
Out Only
, the Prestige will broadcast its routing table
periodically.
When set to
Both
or
In Only
, the Prestige will incorporate RIP information that it
receives.
When set to
None
, the Prestige will not send any RIP packets and will ignore any
RIP packets received.
By default,
RIP Direction
is set to
Both
.
RIP Version
The
RIP Version
field controls the format and the broadcasting method of the RIP
packets that the Prestige sends (it recognizes both formats when receiving).
Choose
RIP-1
,
RIP-2B
or
RIP-2M
.
RIP-1
is universally supported; but
RIP-2
carries more information. RIP-1 is
probably adequate for most networks, unless you have an unusual network
topology. Both
RIP-2B
and
RIP-2M
sends the routing data in RIP-2 format; the
difference being that RIP-2B uses subnet broadcasting while RIP-2M uses
multicasting. Multicasting can reduce the load on non-router machines since they
generally do not listen to the RIP multicast address and so will not receive the RIP
packets. However, if one router uses multicasting, then all routers on your network
must use multicasting, also. By default, the
RIP Version
field is set to
RIP-1
.
Multicast
Choose
None
(default),
IGMP-V1
or
IGMP-V2
. IGMP (Internet Group Multicast
Protocol) is a network-layer protocol used to establish membership in a Multicast
group - it is not used to carry user data. IGMP version 2 (RFC 2236) is an
improvement over version 1 (RFC 1112) but IGMP version 1 is still in wide use. If
you would like to read more detailed information about interoperability between
IGMP version 2 and version 1, please see sections 4 and 5 of RFC 2236.
Windows Networking (NetBIOS over TCP/IP):
NetBIOS (Network Basic Input/Output System) are TCP or UDP broadcast packets that enable a computer
to connect to and communicate with a LAN. For some dial-up services such as PPPoE or PPTP, NetBIOS
packets cause unwanted calls. However it may sometimes be necessary to allow NetBIOS packets to pass
through to the WAN in order to find a computer on the WAN.
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