Manually configuring your modem – Belkin High Speed ADSL2+ Modem F5D5730au User Manual
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ATM Interface 
Clicking on the ATM VC 
brings up the following 
screen. The Modem 
uses ATM as its WAN 
interface. Protocols 
including 1483 Routing, 
1483 Bridging, MAC 
Encapsulated Routing 
(MER), PPPoA and PPPoE 
with LLC-SNAP and VC-
Mux encapsulations are 
supported for each ATM 
PVC. 
When you have finished 
entering your connection parameters, click “SAVE SETINGS”. You 
can verify that you have established an ADSL connection by clicking 
Status at the bottom of the left-hand menu.
See the table for a description of the parameters. 
Parameter
Description
Protocol
•
Disable: Disables the connection.
•
1483 Bridging: Bridging is a standardized layer 
2 technology. It is typically used in corporate 
networks to extend the physical reach of a single 
LAN segment and increase the number of stations 
on a LAN without compromising performance. 
Bridged data is encapsulated using the RFC1483 
protocol to enable data transport. 
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PPPoA: Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM is a 
method of encapsulating data for transmission to 
a far point. 
•
1483 Routing: 1483 Routing allows a simple, low-
cost connection to the Internet via a standard 
Ethernet port. The Modem looks up the network 
address for each packet seen on the LAN port. If 
the address is listed in the routing table as local, it 
is filtered. If the address is listed under the ADSL 
port, it is forwarded. Or if the address is not found, 
then it is automatically forwarded to the default 
Modem (i.e., the Modem at the head end). 
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PPPoE: Point-to-Point over Ethernet is a common 
connection method used for xDSL. 
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MAC Encapsulated Routing: If your ADSL service 
is a Bridged mode service and you want to share 
the connection to multiple PC’s, please select 
MAC Encapsulated Routing. MER is a protocol 
that allows you do IP routing with NAT enabled.
VPI/VCI
See Virtual Path Identifier (VPI) and Virtual Circuit 
Identifier (VCI). Data flows are broken up into fixed 
length cells, each of which contains a Virtual Path 
Identifier (VPI) that identifies the path between two 
nodes, and a Virtual Circuit Identifier (VCI) that 
identifies the data channel within that virtual path. 
Each virtual circuit maintains a constant flow of 
cells between the two end points. When there is 
no data to transmit, empty cells are sent. When 
data needs to be transmitted, it is immediately 
inserted into the cell flows.
