Running Diagnostic Utilities And Rebooting The Wireless Adsl Modem Router - NETGEAR DG834PN Reference Manual

Reference Manual for the Model DG834PN 108 Mbps RangeMax
If the Weekly, Daily or Hourly option is selected and the log fills up before the specified
period, the log is automatically e-mailed to the specified e-mail address. After the log is sent, it
is cleared from the wireless ADSL modem router's memory. If the wireless ADSL modem
router cannot e-mail the log file, the log buffer may fill up. In this case, the wireless ADSL
modem router overwrites the log and discards its contents.
Running Diagnostic Utilities and Rebooting the Wireless
ADSL Modem Router
The DG834PN RangeMax Wireless ADSL Modem Router has a diagnostics feature. You can use
the diagnostics menu to perform the following functions from the wireless ADSL modem router:
• Ping an IP Address to test connectivity to see if you can reach a remote host.
• Perform a DNS Lookup to test if an Internet name resolves to an IP address to verify that the
DNS server configuration is working.
• Display the Routing Table to identify what other wireless ADSL modem routers the wireless
ADSL modem router is communicating with.
• Reboot the wireless ADSL modem router to enable new network configurations to take effect
or to clear problems with the wireless ADSL modem router's network connection.
From the Main Menu of the browser interface, under the Maintenance heading, select the Wireless
ADSL Modem Router Diagnostics heading to display the menu shown in
Figure 6-10: Diagnostics menu
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Figure 6-10.
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