ARRIS Group Inc. 224762 User Manual

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Administrator’s Handbook
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LCP Settings:
Authentication: Select OffPAP and/or CHAPPAP only, or CHAP only from the pull-down menu. The 
settings for por t authentication on the Gateway must match the authentication expected by the remote sys-
tem. The username and passwords are available on the WAN IP Inter faces page.
MRU: Specifies the Maximum Receive Unit for the PPP Inter face.
Magic Number: Enables or disables LCP magic number negotiation.
Protocol Compression: Specifies whether you want the Gateway to compress the PPP Protocol field when 
it transmits datagrams over the PPP link.
LCP Echo Requests: Specifies whether you want your Gateway to send LCP echo requests. You should 
turn off LCP echoing if you do not want the Gateway to drop a PPP link to a nonresponsive peer. 
Max Failures: Specifies the maximum number of Configure-NAK messages the PPP module can send with-
out having sent a Configure-ACK message.
Max Configures: Specifies the maximum number of unacknowledged configuration requests that your 
Gateway will send.
Max Terminates: Specifies the maximum number of unacknowledged termination requests that your Gate-
way will send before terminating the PPP link.
Restart Timer: The number of seconds the Gateway should wait before retransmitting a configuration or 
termination request.
Click the 
Submit
 button when you are finished.
Ethernet WAN interface
Click the 
Ethernet WAN
 link to configure it.