The Utilities & Diagnostics menus provide a selection of seven tools for monitoring and diagnosing the
router's behavior, as well as for updating the firmware and rebooting the system. See

“Utilities and

Diagnostics” on page 13-1

for detailed information.

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The Statistics & Logs menus display nine sets of tables and device logs that show information about your
router, your network, and their histor y. See

“Statistics & Logs” on page 12-4

for detailed information.

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The Quick Menus screen is a shor tcut entr y point to 22 of the most commonly used configuration menus
that are accessed through the other menu entr y points.

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The Quick View menu displays at a glance current real-time operating information about your router. See

“Quick View status over view” on page 12-1

for detailed information.

Connecting through a Telnet session

Features of the Netopia 4541/4542 can be configured through the console screens.

Before you can access the console screens through Telnet, you must have:

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A network connection locally to the router or IP access to the router.

Note: Alternatively, you can have a direct serial console cable connection using the provided console cable
for your platform (PC or Macintosh) and the Console por t on the back of the router. For more information on
attaching the console cable, see

“Connecting a console cable to your router” on page 5-3

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Telnet software installed on the computer you will use to configure the router

This manual is related to the following products:

4542