Addressing mode section of New Interface page | ||
Status | Displays PPPoE status messages as the FortiGate unit connects to the PPPoE server and gets addressing information. Select Status to refresh the addressing mode status message. The status is only displayed if you selected Edit. Status can be any one of the following 4 messages. | |
Initializing | No activity. | |
Connecting | The interface is attempting to connect to the PPPoE server. | |
Connected | The interface retrieves an IP address, netmask, and other settings from the PPPoE server. When the status is connected, PPPoE connection information is displayed. | |
Failed | The interface was unable to retrieve an IP address and other information from the PPPoE server. | |
Reconnect | Select to reconnect to the PPPoE server. Only displayed if Status is connected. | |
User Name | The PPPoE account user name. | |
Password | The PPPoE account password. | |
Unnumbered IP | Specify the IP address for the interface. If your ISP has assigned you a block of IP addresses, use one of them. Otherwise, this IP address can be the same as the IP address of another interface or can be any IP address. | |
Initial Disc Timeout | Enter Initial discovery timeout. Enter the time to wait before starting to retry a PPPoE discovery. | |
Initial PADT timeout | Enter Initial PPPoE Active Discovery Terminate (PADT) timeout in seconds. Use this timeout to shut down the PPPoE session if it is idle for this number of seconds. PADT must be supported by your ISP. Set initial PADT timeout to 0 to disable. | |
Distance | Enter the administrative distance for the default gateway retrieved from the PPPoE server. The administrative distance, an integer from 1‑255, specifies the relative priority of a route when there are multiple routes to the same destination. A lower administrative distance indicates a more preferred route. The default distance for the default gateway is 1. | |
Retrieve default gateway from server | Enable to retrieve a default gateway IP address from a PPPoE server. The default gateway is added to the static routing table. | |
Override internal DNS | Enable to replace the DNS server IP addresses on the System DNS page with the DNS addresses retrieved from the PPPoE server. When VDOMs are enabled, you can override the internal DNS only on the management VDOM. |