ZyXEL Communications P-870HW-51a v2 User Manual

Chapter 5 WAN Setup

P-870HW-51a v2 User’s Guide

To edit your ZyXEL Device's advanced WAN settings, click the Advanced Setup 
button in the More Connections Edit screen. The screen appears as shown.

Figure 31   WAN > More Connections: Edit: Advanced Setup

The following table describes the labels in this screen. 

Table 13   WAN > More Connections: Edit: Advanced Setup

RIP & Multicast 
Setup

This section is not available when you configure the ZyXEL Device to be 
in bridge mode.

RIP Version

RIP (Routing Information Protocol) allows a router to exchange routing 
information with other routers. The version field controls the format and 
the broadcasting method of the RIP packets that the ZyXEL Device sends 
(it recognizes both formats when receiving). 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

This field is available only when you select ENET ENCAP.

Select the RIP version from RIPv1, RIPv2 and RIPv1v2.

RIP 

Operation

This field is available only when you select ENET ENCAP.

Select Active to enable RIP. Otherwise, select Disable.

IGMP 

Multicast

Multicast packets are sent to a group of computers on the LAN and are 
an alternative to unicast packets (packets sent to one computer) and 
broadcast packets (packets sent to every computer).

IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) is a network-layer protocol 
used to establish membership in a multicast group. The ZyXEL Device 
supports both IGMP version 1 and version 2. Select Enable to turn on 
IGMP. Otherwise, select Disable.