ZyXEL Communications Corporation P8802T Manuel D’Utilisation

Chapter 5 LAN Setup

Basic Home Station VDSL2 P8802T User’s Guide

IP addresses identify individual devices on a network. Every networking device (including 
computers, servers, routers, printers, etc.) needs an IP address to communicate across the 
network. These networking devices are also known as hosts.

Subnet masks determine the maximum number of possible hosts on a network. You can also use 
subnet masks to divide one network into multiple sub-networks.

A DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server can assign your VDSL Router an IP address, 
subnet mask, DNS and other routing information when it's turned on.

DNS (Domain Name System) is for mapping a domain name to its corresponding IP address and 
vice versa. The DNS server is extremely important because without it, you must know the IP 
address of a networking device before you can access it.

When an IPv6 host sends a Router Solicitation (RS) request to discover the available routers, 
RADVD with Router Advertisement (RA) messages in response to the request. It specifies the 
minimum and maximum intervals of RA broadcasts. RA messages containing the address prefix. 
IPv6 hosts can be generated with the IPv6 prefix an IPv6 address.

See 

 for technical background information on LANs.

Find out the MAC addresses of your network devices if you intend to add them to the DHCP Client 
List screen.

Click Advanced Setup > LAN to open the LAN Setup screen. Use this screen to set the Local Area 
Network interface settings.