Thecus 1U4500S Leaflet

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Network Management 
Use the Network menu to make network configuration settings as well as service 
support settings. 
WAN Configuration 
From the Network menu, choose WAN
and the WAN Configuration screen 
appears. This screen displays the network 
parameters of the WAN connection. You 
may change any of these items and press 
Apply to confirm your settings. See a 
description of each item in the following 
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WAN Configuration 
Item Description 
Host name 
Host name that identifies the 1U4500 on the network. 
Domain name 
Specifies the domain name of the 1U4500. 
MAC Address 
MAC address of the network interface. 
Jumbo Frame Support 
le Jumbo Frame Support of the WAN interface on 
Enable or disab
your 1U4500. 
DHCP 
c IP, disable this feature and 
Enable or disable the 1U4500 from obtaining in IP address via 
DHCP server. If you require a stati
input your network configuration. 
IP 
IP address of the WAN interface. 
Netmask 
Network mask, which is generally: 255.255.255.0 
Gateway 
Default Gateway IP address. 
DNS Server 
Domain Name Service (DNS) server IP address. 
IP Sharing Mode 
LAN port will be able to 
When enabled, PCs connected to the 
access the WAN. Default is Enabled. 
Link Aggregation  
 WAN and LAN ports will be aggregated and 
Ethernet traffic will flow alternative between two 
age two Ethernet ports in parallel to increase 
throughput.  
Specifies whether
act as one port. 
Failover: When one port fails, the other one will take over. 
Load Balance
Ethernet ports. 
802.3ad: Link
 
 
NOTE 
• 
 
TP 
• 
the other end of 
Ethernet cable also supports 802.3ad protocol. 
Only use Jumbo Frame settings when operating in a Gigabit 
environment where all other clients have Jumbo Frame Setting 
enabled. 
Enabling DHCP au
• 
tomatically turns on UPnP—see the Service 
Support Screen. 
If you are only using the WAN port, we suggest that 
• 
you disable IP
Sharing Mode. This will result in higher throughput. 
A correct D
• 
NS setting is vital to networks services, such as SM
and NTP. 
To use the Link Aggregation with “802.3ad selected” feature, 
please make sure the networking equipment on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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