It was a breeze. The quick start guide I was provided with explained to me that even a trained monkey could have set this thing up network wise. Simply turn of Cable/DSL modem, physically setup CNIG907BP, plug unit in, turn on Cable/DSL modem, and plug in all of your workstations.
The 907 will automatically assign all workstations an IP in the class C range, from 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.254. 192.168.0.1 is reserved for the web configuration.
Configuration
By simply tryping in http://192.168.0.1 into your web browser, you can configure the router a multitue of different ways.
The first main configuration menu is the LAN menu. From here you can configure the IP address of the unit, as well as the IP range is uses for DHCP, the DNS servers used, and you can even setup a routing table if you already have a router on the network. The WAN menu allows configuring the connection type, being it Direct or PPPoE.
The Advanced Internet Menu allows one to setup special internet applications for two way communication, such as Dialpad and Paltalk (both of which come pre-configured for your activation). The user can also setup Virtual Servers. This allows for you to have a server behind this router on the LAN, but still have it server outside to the WAN (my saving grace, more on that further down). As the name implies, this feature allows your server to “virtually” be the router. There are several pre-configured virtual server that only need the user to enter the IP address of the destination machine (which requires an IP address to be reserved, more further down). The user can also define a virtual server by simply giving the device the port name, as well as the protocol (UDP or TCP) as well as the IP number, and a unique name consisting of nine or less characters.
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