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10. Select Interface Group and press Return. From the pop-up menu select either Primary or Backup. If you

select Primar y, the profile is applied to your primar y WAN inter face (the SDSL link). This would be desirable
if you were creating a profile to store your authentication information for a PPP connection over the SDSL
link. If you select Backup, the profile is applied to your backup inter face.

11. Select ADD PROFILE NOW and press Return. Your new Connection Profile will be added.

If you want to view the Connection Profiles in your router, return to the WAN Configuration screen, and
select Display/Change Connection Profile. The list of Connection Profiles is displayed in a scrolling pop-up
screen.

The default profile

If you are using RFC1483 datalink encapsulation, the Default Profile screen controls whether or not the SDSL
link will come up without an explicitly configured connection profile. (PPP datalink encapsulation does not
suppor t a default profile, and the corresponding menu item is unavailable.) See

“Connection Profiles” on

page 10-8

for more information.

You access the Default Profile screen from the Main Menu by selecting WAN Configuration and then selecting
Default Profile.

WAN Configuration
+-Profile Name---------------------IP Address----IPX Network-+
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| SmartStart Profile 127.0.0.2 |
| Profile 02 0.0.0.0 |
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Up/Down Arrow Keys to select, ESC to dismiss, Return/Enter to Edit.