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USER MANUAL

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Configuration of LAN Interface

The LAN Interface settings are located at: Network > Interfaces > LAN

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IP Address &

Subnet Mask

LAN Settings

The IP address of Peplink Balance on LAN

Speed

This setting specifies the speed of the LAN Ethernet Port.

By default, Auto is selected and the appropriate data speed is automatically detected by

Peplink Balance.

In the event of negotiation issues, the port speed can be manually specified to circumvent the issues. You can also choose whether or not to advertise the speed to the peer by selecting the Advertise Speed checkbox.

Drop-in Mode Settings

(Available on Peplink Balance 210+)

Enable

Drop-in Mode eases the installation of Peplink Balance on a live network between the existing Firewall and Router, such that no configuration changes are required on existing equipment. Check the box to enable the Drop-in Mode feature.

Please refer to Section

10

Drop-in Mode

for details.

WAN for Drop-In

Mode

Select the WAN port to be used for Drop-in mode. If the WAN port for LAN Bypass is selected, High Availability feature will be disabled automatically.

WAN Default

Gateway

Enter the WAN router's IP address in this field. If there are more hosts other than the router on the WAN segment, check the box have other host(s) on WAN segment and enter the

IP address of the hosts that needs to access LAN devices or to be accessed by others.

WAN DNS Servers

Enter the selected WAN's corresponding DNS server IP addresses.

DHCP Server Settings

DHCP Server

When this setting is enabled, the DHCP server of Peplink Balance automatically assigns an

IP address to each computer that is connected via LAN and is configured to obtain an IP address via DHCP.

Peplink Balance’s DHCP server can prevent IP address collision on LAN.

IP Range &

Subnet Mask

This setting allocates a range of IP address that will be assigned to LAN computers by the

DHCP server of Peplink Balance.

Lease Time

DNS Servers

WINS Server

This setting specifies the length of time throughout which an IP address of a DHCP client remains valid. Upon expiration of the Lease Time, the assigned IP address will no longer be valid and the renewal of the IP address assignment will be required.

This option allows you to input the DNS server addresses to be offered to the DHCP clients.

If Assign DNS server automatically is selected, the Peplink Balance’s built-in DNS server address (i.e. LAN IP address) will be offered.

This option allows you to specify the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server. You may choose to use the built-in WINS server or external WINS servers.

When this unit is SpeedFusion

TM

connected, other VPN peers can share this unit's built-in

WINS server by entering this unit's LAN IP address in their DHCP WINS Servers setting.

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Therefore, all PC clients in the VPN can resolve the NetBIOS names of other clients in remote peers.

If you have enabled this option, a list of WINS clients will be displayed at Status > WINS

Clients.

Extended DHCP

Option

In addition to standard DHCP options (e.g. DNS server address, gateway address, subnet mask), you can specify the value of additional Extended DHCP Options defined in RFC

2132. In this case, you can pass additional configuration information to LAN hosts.

To define an Extended DHCP Option, click the Add button, choose the option that you want to define and enter its value. For values that are in IP address list format, you can enter one

IP address per line in the provided text area input control. Each option is allowed to be defined once only.

DHCP Reservation

This setting reserves the assignment of fixed IP addresses for a list of computers on the

LAN. The computers to be assigned fixed IP addresses on the LAN are identified by their

MAC addresses.

The fixed IP address assignment is displayed as a cross-reference list between the computers’ Name, MAC addresses and fixed IP addresses.

The field Name (an optional field) is for you to define a name to represent the device. MAC addresses should be in the format of 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE

Press to create a new record. Press to remove a record.

Reserved clients information can be imported from the Client List, located at Status > Client

List. For more details, please refer to section 23.3

Static Route Settings

Static Route

This table is for defining static routing rules for the LAN segment.

A static route consists of the network address, subnet mask, and gateway address. The address and subnet mask values are in the format of w.x.y.z

The local LAN subnet and subnets behind the LAN will be advertised to the VPN. Remote routes sent over the VPN will also be accepted. Any VPN member will be able to route to the local subnets.

Press to create a new route. Press to remove a route.

Enable

WINS Server Settings

Check the box to enable the WINS Server. A list of WINS clients will be displayed at Status

> WINS Clients.

DNS Proxy Settings

Enable

DNS Caching

A check box to enable to DNS Proxy feature.

Network > LAN > DNS Proxy Settings table

A DNS proxy server can be enabled to serve DNS requests originating from LAN/PPTP/

SpeedFusion

TM peers. Requests are forwarded to the DNS servers/resolvers defined in each WAN connection.

This field is to enable DNS caching on the built-in DNS proxy server. When the option is enabled, queried DNS replies will be cached until the records’ TTL has been reached. This feature can help improve the DNS lookup time by storing all received DNS results for a faster DNS response time. However, it cannot return the most updated result for those frequently updated DNS records.

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By default, it is disabled.

Include Google

Public DNS

Servers

When this option is enabled, the DNS proxy server will also forward DNS requests to

Google's Public DNS Servers in addition to the DNS servers defined in each WAN. This could increase the DNS service's availability.

Default: disabled

Local DNS

Records

This table is for defining custom local DNS records.

A static local DNS record consists of a Host Name and an IP Address. When looking up the

Host Name from the LAN to LAN IP of Peplink Balance, the corresponding IP Address will be returned.

Press to create a new record. Press to remove a record.

Enable

LAN DNS Resolver Settings

Check the box to enable the WINS Server. A list of WINS clients will be displayed at

Network > LAN > DNS Proxy Settings > DNS Resolvers.

This field specifies which DNS resolvers will receive forwarded DNS requests. If no

WAN/VPN/LAN DNS resolver is selected, all of the WAN’s DNS resolvers will be selected.

If a SpeedFusion

TM address(es).

peer is selected, you may enter the VPN peer’s DNS resolver IP

Queries will be forwarded to the selected connections’ resolvers. If all of the selected connections are down, queries will be forwarded to all resolvers on healthy WAN connections.

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