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Reference Guide for the Model RP114 Web Safe Router

Preparing Your Network 3-7

Your Internet Account

For access to the Internet, you need to contract with an Internet service provider (ISP) for a

single-user Internet access account using an external broadband access device such as a cable

modem or DSL modem. This modem must be a separate physical box (not a card) and must

provide an Ethernet port intended for connection to a Network Interface Card (NIC) in a PC.

For a single-user Internet account, your ISP supplies TCP/IP configuration information for one

PC. With a typical account, much of the configuration information is dynamically assigned when

your PC is first booted up while connected to the ISP, and you will not need to know that dynamic

information.

In order to share the Internet connection among several computers, your router takes the place of

the single PC, and you need to configure it with the TCP/IP information that the single PC would

normally use. When the router’s WAN port is connected to the broadband modem, the router

appears to be a single PC to the ISP. The router then allows the PCs on the local network to

masquerade as the single PC to access the Internet through the broadband modem. The method

used by the router to accomplish this is called Network Address Translation (NAT) or IP

masquerading.

Some ISPs require a special login protocol. In this case, you will need to know what type of

protocol is used, and you will need a login name and password. Some common protocols are:

• PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)

Two common PPPoE clients are WinPOET and EnterNet.

• RoadRunner

Not all RoadRunner service areas require a login protocol. If your ISP is RoadRunner, you

should ask whether your PC must run a RoadRunner login program.

•PPTP

PPTP is a VPN client, but it is also used in Europe by Alcatel's ANT system and others as an

account login client.

• BigPond Authentication

After your network and router are configured, the router will perform the login task when needed,

and you will no longer need to login from your PC.

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