Lan; Basics Of Lan - Draytek Vigor2925 Series User Manual

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4 . 2 L A N
4 . 2 L A N
Local Area Network (LAN) is a group of subnets regulated and ruled by router. The design of
network structure is related to what type of public IP addresses coming from your ISP.
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4 . 2 . 1 B a s i c s o
The most generic function of Vigor router is NAT. It creates a private subnet of your own. As
mentioned previously, the router will talk to other public hosts on the Internet by using public
IP address and talking to local hosts by using its private IP address. What NAT does is to
translate the packets from public IP address to private IP address to forward the right packets
to the right host and vice versa. Besides, Vigor router has a built-in DHCP server that assigns
private IP address to each local host. See the following diagram for a briefly understanding.
In some special case, you may have a public IP subnet from your ISP such as
220.135.240.0/24. This means that you can set up a public subnet or call second subnet that
each host is equipped with a public IP address. As a part of the public subnet, the Vigor router
The system can choose one of the following actions
to perform when the traffic has exceeded the budget limit.
Shutdown WAN interface – All the outgoing traffic
through such WAN interface will be terminated.
Send Mail Alert to Administrator – The system will send
out a warning message to the administrator. However, the
connection charges will be calculated continuously.
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