What is the difference between a Private Network and an Internet Service Provider?
A. When configuring a Private Network, you are able to specify the network address of the remote LAN. When the LAN Modem sees a packet on the LAN that is destined for an address not on the local LAN it will look in the Service Provider tables to decide where to route the packet to. The LAN Modem first looks though the Private Network entries to see if the packet matches the specified network address of a remote LAN. It starts from the first Service Provider profile, and continues through to the last. If the packet matches the remote network address, the packet will be routed to that Private Network. Of course, if there is no data call currently up to that Private Network, then one will be made. If there is no match among the Private Network profiles, the LAN Modem will route a packet to the first Internet Service Provider entry it finds. In networking terms, the Internet Service Provider can be considered a “default route”.
