CalAmp Vanguard 3000 User Manual

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WAN Data Usage EstimatesThis section tracks the data received from and transmitted to the cellular network. This is a tool that may be used toestimate network usage. These totals are tracked by the router. Your carrier maintains separate statistics from whichyour billing is determined. One way to use this tool is to track usage over a fairly short period of typical usage. The totalthen can be extrapolated to estimate longer time periods. This router updates these statistics once approximatelyevery 30 seconds. Press the Clear button to reset the totals to 0.• Rx BytesThe total number of bytes received by the modem from the cell network. All statistics will be cleared automaticallyif this count exceeds 1 billion (1,000,000,000).• Rx PacketsThe total number of TCP and UDP packets received by the modem from the cell network.• Rx ErrorsThe number of corrupted TCP and UDP packets received by the modem from the cell network.• Rx Packets DroppedThe number of TCP and UDP packets received by the modem from the cell network that were not accepted. Thismay occur due to memory or throughput problems.• Tx BytesThe total number of bytes transmitted by the modem to the cell network. All statistics will be cleared automaticallyif this count exceeds 1 billion (1,000,000,000).• Tx PacketsThe total number of TCP and UDP packets transmitted by the modem to the cell network.• Tx ErrorsThe number of corrupted TCP and UDP packets received by the modem that were meant to be transmitted on thecell network.• Tx Packets DroppedThe number of TCP and UDP packets received by the modem for transmit to the cell network that were notaccepted. This may occur due to memory or throughput problems.Click Clear to reset the totals to 0. These totals are NOT cleared by a modem reboot.3.2.5 DYNAMIC DNSSelect Cell Connection from the left navigation pane. Select the Dynamic DNS tab to open the Dynamic DNSconfiguration page. Dynamic DNS is a system which allows the domain name data of a computer with a varying(dynamic) IP addresses held in a name server to be updated in real time in order to make it possible to establishconnections to that machine without the need to track the actual IP address themselves at all times. A number ofproviders offer Dynamic DNS services ("DDNS"), free or for a charge. For example, a free service provided by NO-IPallows users to setup between one and five host names on a domain name provided by NO-IP. No-IP is the default DNSservice.Vanguard 3000 Series Multicarrier Cellular Data Modem & IP Router PN 001-7300-100 Rev. B | Page 33