Status, Device info – D-Link DI-724GU User Manual

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D-Link DI-724GU User Manual

Section 3 - Conﬁguration

Clicking the

DHCP Release button unassigns the router’s IP

address. The router will not respond to IP messages from the

WAN side until you click the

DHCP Renew button or power-up

the router again. Clicking the

DHCP Renew button causes the

router to request a new IP address from the ISP’s server.

Depending on whether the WAN connection is currently

established, you can click either the

Connect button to

attempt to establish the WAN connection or the

Disconnect

button to break the WAN connection.

Depending on whether you are currently logged in to BigPond,

you can click either the

BigPond Login button to attempt to

establish the WAN connection or the

BigPond Logout button

to break the WAN connection.

This area of the screen continually updates to show all DHCP

enabled computers and devices connected to the LAN side

of your router. The detection “range” is limited to the address

range as conﬁgured in DHCP Server. Computers that have

an address outside of this range will not show. If the DHCP

Client (i.e. a computer conﬁgured to “Automatically obtain an

DHCP Connection:

PPPoE, PPTP, L2TP

Connection:

BigPond

Connection:

LAN Computers:

Device Info

Status

All of your Internet and network connection details are displayed on the Device

Information page. This is primarily a recap of all the WAN, LAN, Wireless, and

DHCP options that are set from the Home tab. The ﬁrmware version is also

displayed here.

Note: Some browsers have limitations that make it impossible to update the WAN
status display when the status changes. Some browsers require that you refresh
the display to obtain updated status. Some browsers report an error condition
when trying to obtain WAN status.