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 Chapter 11 WLAN Screens
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To change your ZyWALL’s IP alias settings, click NETWORK > WLAN > IP Alias. The 
screen appears as shown.
Figure 124   NETWORK > WLAN > IP Alias 
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 56   NETWORK > WLAN > IP Alias
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Enable IP Alias 1, 
2
Select the check box to configure another WLAN network for the ZyWALL.
IP Address
Enter the IP address of your ZyWALL in dotted decimal notation. 
Alternatively, click the right mouse button to copy and/or paste the IP address.
IP Subnet Mask
Your ZyWALL will automatically calculate the subnet mask based on the IP 
address that you assign. Unless you are implementing subnetting, use the subnet 
mask computed by the ZyWALL.
RIP Direction
RIP (Routing Information Protocol, RFC 1058 and RFC 1389) allows a router to 
exchange routing information with other routers. The RIP Direction field controls 
the sending and receiving of RIP packets. Select the RIP direction from Both/In 
Only
/Out Only/None. When set to Both or Out Only, the ZyWALL will broadcast 
its routing table periodically. When set to Both or In Only, it will incorporate the 
RIP information that it receives; when set to None, it will not send any RIP packets 
and will ignore any RIP packets received.
RIP Version
The RIP Version field controls the format and the broadcasting method of the RIP 
packets that the ZyWALL 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. 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, RIP direction is set to Both and the Version set 
to RIP-1.