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Proxy Management workstation Ethernet address on WAN
This checkbox may be checked if you are managing the Ethernet from the LAN side of
your network. The SonicWALL appliance takes the Ethernet address of the computer
that is managing the SonicWALL appliance and proxies that address on the WAN port
of the SonicWALL. If you are not managing the SonicWALL appliance from the LAN side
of your network, the firmware looks for a random computer on the LAN which can be
a lengthy search process.
MTU Settings
A network administrator may set the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) allowed over
the over a packet or frame-based network such as TCP/IP. If the MTU size is too large,
it may require more transmissions if the packet encounters a router unable to handle
a larger packet. If the packet size is too small, this could result in more packet header
overhead and more acknowledgements that have to sent and processed.
The default value is 1500 octets based on the Ethernet standard MTU. The minimum
value that can be set is 68. Decreasing the packet size may improve the performance
of the network.
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