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19.3
General IP settings
The general IP settings provided fall into three categories:
❼ Routing: Configuration of default gateway, static IP routes, and ability to
enable/disable IP forwarding (IP forwarding is available for products running
software level WeOS Extended).
❼ IGMP: Configuration of IGMP snooping parameters such as querier mode,
query interval and static multicast router ports. (IGMP snooping is covered
in
❼ Services: Examples of include settings for DNS and DDNS servers, domain
search path, and NTP client settings.
19.3.1
Routing
To manage the WeOS unit remotely, it should generally be configured with a
default gateway. It is also possible to configure additional, static IP routes.
WeOS units running software level WeOS Extended are capable of IP forwarding,
i.e., it can route incoming IP packets to other interfaces and IP subnets. For
unicast, both static routing and dynamic routing (RIP and OSPF) are supported.
Units running WeOS Extended act as routers by default, i.e., IP forwarding is
enabled in the factory default setting.
WeOS units are also able to route IP multicast (static multicast routing). In ad-
dition, WeOS devices can efficiently distribute IP multicast packets in a switched
LAN by use of IGMP snooping.
This chapter only covers rudimentary routing features, such as enabling/disabling
IP forwarding and configuring a default gateway. WeOS routing support is de-
scribed further in
. IGMP snooping support is covered in
19.3.2
Time synchronisation via NTP Server
The switch can synchronise its clock with an external time server via the NTP pro-
tocol. Up to 8 NTP servers can be configured, but it is also possible to acquire NTP
server(s) via DHCP when no static NTP server is configured (see
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