ZyXEL Communications 5 Series User Manual

 Chapter 36 WAN and Dial Backup Setup

ZyWALL 5/35/70 Series User’s Guide

Retype to 
Confirm

Enter your password again to make sure that you have entered is correctly.

Authen

This field sets the authentication protocol used for outgoing calls.
Options for this field are:
CHAP/PAP - Your ZyWALL will accept either CHAP or PAP when requested by this 
remote node. 
CHAP - accept CHAP only. 
PAP - accept PAP only. 

Pri Phone #

Enter the phone number (dial string) used to dial up a connection to your service 
provider’s base station. Your ISP should provide the phone number.
For example, *99# is the dial string to establish a GPRS or 3G connection in Taiwan.

Edit IP

This field leads to a “hidden” menu. Press [SPACE BAR] to select Yes and press 
[ENTER] to go to Menu 11.3.2 - Remote Node Network Layer Options. See 

for more information.

Edit Script 
Options

Press [SPACE BAR] to select Yes and press [ENTER] to edit the AT script for the 
dial backup remote node (Menu 11.3.3 - Remote Node Script). See

for more information.

Always On

Press [SPACE BAR] to select Yes to set this connection to be on all the time, 
regardless of whether or not there is any traffic. Select No to have this connection act 
as a dial-up connection. 

Session 
Options

Edit Filter sets

This field leads to another “hidden” menu. Use [SPACE BAR] to select Yes and press 
[ENTER] to open menu 11.3.4 to edit the filter sets. See 

 

for more details.

Idle Timeout

Enter the number of seconds of idle time (when there is no traffic from the ZyWALL to 
the remote node) that can elapse before the ZyWALL automatically disconnects the 
3G connection.

Once you have configured this menu, press [ENTER] at the message “Press ENTER to Confirm...” to 
save your configuration, or press [ESC] at any time to cancel.

Table 223   Menu 11.2: Remote Node Profile (3G WAN) (continued)