How to Set Up and Configure a Synology Router (SRM) | 2026
…From there, give your VLAN a Name and enter the Local IP Subnet you’d like to use. In this example, I’m going to set it as 192.168.40.1…
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…Create a username and password to access Portainer, then select create user . 7. Select Docker and then Connect . 8. Select Local to manage the local Docker instance (on your Synology NAS). Docker…