ZyXEL Communications P-2302R Series User Manual

P-2302R Series User’s Guide

Chapter 6 WAN Screens

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To change your Prestige’s WAN MAC settings, click WAN, then the MAC tab. The screen 
appears as shown.

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,  

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.

Allow between LAN 

and WAN

Select this check box to forward NetBIOS packets from the LAN to the WAN 

and from the WAN to the LAN. 
Clear this check box to block all NetBIOS packets going from the LAN to the 

WAN and from the WAN to the LAN.
You also need to configure a firewall rule that allows NetBIOS traffic to pass 

from the WAN to the LAN.

Allow Trigger Dial

Select this option to allow NetBIOS packets to initiate calls.

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the Prestige.

Reset

Click Reset to begin configuring this screen afresh.

Table 18   WAN: IP