Website URL: http://www.planet.com.tw Before contacting customer service, please take a moment to gather the following information: ♦ The GRT-501 serial number and MAC address ♦ Any error messages that displayed when the problem occurred ♦ Any software running when the problem occurred ♦...
Chapter 1 Overview The Planet new SHDSL family member GRT-501 is the G.SHDSL.bis router that complies with ITU-T G.991.2 standard and provides affordable, flexible, efficient Internet access solution for SOHO and Small Medium Business environment. The GRT-501 supports business-class, multi-range from 192kbps to 5.7Mbps (2-wire) symmetric data rates and also can be connected as the LAN-to-LAN network connection at the distance up to 6.7km...
Package Contents The following items should be included. If any of these items are damaged or missing, please contact your dealer immediately. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router x 1 Power Adapter x 1 Quick Installation Guide x 1 User’s manual CD x 1...
100M/ACT Green Rear View GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Active Description The power adaptor is connected to GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis connection is established Blink G.SHDSL.bis is handshaking Blink Transmit data or receive data over G.SHDSL.bis link LAN Port connect with 10M Ethernet link...
The figure shows the rear panel connections of GRT-501. The GRT-501 is a standalone and can able to place in desktop. All the external wiring shall be located at the rear panel. The LAN port is a 10 Base-T / 100Base-TX auto-sensing and half/full duplex Ethernet interface and complied with IEEE 802.3 / 802.3u respectively.
Step 4. Connect the phone cable to the Line port, and the other side of phone cable connects to wall jack. Step 5. Connect the power adapter to power source. Step 6. Turn on the PC or NB, which is used for configuration the Router. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual...
Make sure the correct Ethernet cable is used for connecting the LAN port of your computer to GRT-501. The LAN LNK indicator on the front panel shall light if a correct cable is used. Starting your Telnet client with VT100 terminal emulation and connecting to the management IP of GRT-501(192.168.0.1 is the default IP), wait for the login screen...
Make sure the correct Ethernet cable is used for connecting the LAN port of your computer to GRT-501. The LAN LNK indicator on the front panel shall light if a correct cable is used. Starting your web browser and connecting to the management IP of GRT-501(192.168.0.1 is the default IP), wait for the login screen appears.
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Chapter 4 Configuration by Web Browser 4.1 Basic Setting The Basic Setup contains LAN, WAN, Bridge and Route operation mode. User can use it to completely setup the router. After successfully completing it, you can access Internet.
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Step 2. Enter Parameters in BASIC – TEP2: IP: 192.168.0.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.0.254 (The Gateway IP is provided by ISP) Host Name: SOHO Some of the ISP requires the Host Name as identification. You may check with ISP to see if your Internet service has been configured with a host name.
Enter Parameters in BASIC – STEP2: IP: 192.168.0.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Host Name: SOHO The embedded DHCP server assigns network configuration information at most 253 users accessing the Internet in the same time. Click Next for next setting. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual...
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6. Click Next. Step 6. The screen will prompt the new configured parameters. Check the parameters and click Restart. The router will reboot with the new setting or press Continue to configure another parameters. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual...
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual 4.1.3 Routing Mode for IPoA or EoA Web UI Configuration Step 1. For Route Mode with IPoA and EoA, follow the following setting. First, select ROUTE and CPE Side, and then click Next for setting others parameters.
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5. Click Next. Step 6. The screen will prompt the new configured parameters. Check the parameters and click Restart. The router will reboot with the new setting or press Continue to configure another parameters. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual...
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual 4.1.4 LAN-to-LAN Connection with Bridge Mode Web UI Configuration STU-R (CO) side Step 1. Click Bridge and CO Side to setup Bridge mode of the Router and then click Next. Step 2. Enter LAN Parameters 1.
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The screen will prompt the new configured parameters. Check the parameters and Click Restart. The router will reboot with the new setting or press Continue to configure another parameters.. After rebooting, the GRT-501 will establish a connection and the PC1 and PC2 can access to each other.
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual 4.2 Advanced Setup Advanced configuration contains SHDSL.bis, WAN, Bridge, VLAN, Ethernet, Route, NAT/DMZ and Virtual Server settings. 4.2.1 SHDSL.bis Web UI Configuration Step 1. You can setup the Annex type, data rate and SNR margin for SHDSL.bis parameters in SHDSL.bis.
4.2.2 WAN The GRT-501 supports up to 8 PVCs. WAN 1 was configured via BASIC except QoS. If you want to setup the PVC 2 to 7, the parameters are setup in the page of WAN under ADVANCED. On the other hand, you do not need to setup WAN except you apply two or more Internet Services with ISPs.
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual PCR (Peak Cell Rate) in kbps: The maximum rate at which you expect to transmit data, voice and video. Consider PCR and MBS as a menas of reducing lantency, not increasing bandwidth. The range of PCR is 64kbps to 2400kbps SCR (Substained Cell Rate): The sustained rate at which you expect to transmit data, voice and video.
4.2.3 Bridge If you want to setup advanced filter function while GRT-501 is working in bridge mode, you can use BRIDGE menu to setup the filter function, blocking function. Web UI Configuration Step 1. Click Bridge to start Bridge configuration.
PVID: Port VID which is an untagged member of default VLAN. Link Type: Access means the port can receive or send untagged packets. Trunk means that the port can receive or send tagged packets. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual...
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Step 4. Port-Based VLANs are VLANs where the packet forwarding decision is based on the destination MAC address and its associated port. Click Port-Based VLAN to configure the router. Step 5. Press Finish to finish setting.
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual 4.2.6 Route If the GRT-501 is connected to more than one network, it may be necessary to set up a static route between them. A static route is a pre-determined pathway that network information must travel to reach a specific host or network.
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Step 3. RIP Mode: This parameter determines how the product handle RIP (Routing information protocol). RIP allows it to exchange routing information with other router. If set to Disable, the gateway does not participate in any RIP exchange with other router.
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual The screen will prompt the modified parameter. Check the parameters and perss Restart to restart the router or press Continue to setup another parameters. 4.2.7 NAT/DMZ NAT (Network Address Translation) is the translation of an Internet Protocol address (IP address) used within one network to a different IP address known within another network.
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Step 1. Press NAT/DMZ to setup the parameters. If you want to enable the NAT/DMZ functions, click Enable. Enable the DMZ host Function is used the IP address assigned to the WAN for enabling DMZ function for the virtual IP address.
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual 4.2.8 Virtual Server For example: Specific ports on the WAN interface are re-mapped to services inside the LAN. As only 69.210.1.8 (e.g., assigned to WAN from ISP) is visible to the Internet, but does not actually have any services (other than NAT of course) running on gateway, it is said to be a virtual server.
WAN status will display the WAN interface information. Ethernet status will display the Media Type. ROUTE status can view the routing table in the device. INTERFACE status inculdes LAN and WAN statistics information. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual...
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual 4.4 Administration This section introduces security and simple network management protocol (SNMP) and time synchronous. 4.4.1 Security For system security, suggest to change the default user name and password in the first setup otherwise unauthorized persons can access the router and change the parameters.
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Step 2. Configured 0.0.0.0 will allow all hosts on Internet or LAN to access the router. Leaving blank of trust host list will cause blocking all PC from WAN to access the router. On the other hand, only PC in LAN can access the router.
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Step 3. Access Right: Deny for deny all access Read for access read only Write for access read and write. Community: it serves as password for access right. After configuring the community pool, press OK. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual...
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Step 4. SNMP trap is an informational message sent from an SNMP agent to a manager. Click Modify to modify the trap host pool. Version: select version for trap host. (Version 1 is for SNMPv1; Version 2 for SNMPv2).
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Step 2. SNTP is the acronym for Simple Network Time Protocol, which is an adaptation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) used to synchronize computer clocks in the Internet. SNTP can be used when the ultimate performance of the full NTP implementation.
Web UI Configuration Click System Info for review the information. The browser will prompt the system information. 4.5.2 Config Tool This configuration tool has three functions: load Factory Default, Restore Configuration, and Backup Configuration. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual...
4.5.3 Upgrade You can upgrade the Firmware by using the upgrade function. Press Upgrade in UTILITY. Browse the file and press OK button to upgrade. The system will reboot automatically after finishing. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual...
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual 4.5.4 Logout To logout the router, press LOGOUT in UTILITY. The browser will prompt the logout window. Press Yes to logout GRT-501. 4.5.5 Restart For restarting the router, click the Restart in UTILITY. Press Restart to reboot the router.
8. Frames are sent out tagged or untagged depend on if the egress port is a tagged or untagged member of the VLAN that frames belong. 9. If VID and source address look up fails, the source address will be learned. GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual...
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Frame Specification An untagged frame or a priority-tagged frame does not carry any identification of the VLAN to which it belongs. Such frames are classified as belonging to a particular VLAN based on parameters associated with the receiving port. Also, priority tagged frames, which, by definition, carry no VLAN identification information, are treated the same as untagged frames.
GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Appendix B: Glossary Address mask A bit mask select bits from an Internet address for subnet addressing. The mask is 32 bits long and selects the network portion of the Internet address and one or more bits of the local portion. Sometimes it called subnet mask.
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) DHCP is software that automatically assigns IP addresses to client stations logging onto a TCP/IP network. DHCP eliminates having to manually assign permanent IP addresses to every device on your network. DHCP software typically runs in servers and is also found in network devices such as Routers.
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual HTML Hypertext Markup Language - The page-coding language for the World Wide Web. HTML browser A browser used to traverse the Internet, such as Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer. http Hypertext Transfer Protocol - The protocol carry world-wide-web (www) traffic between a www browser computer and the www server being accessed.
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Protocol). Network Address Translation - A proposal for IP address reuse, where the local IP address is mapped to a globally unique address. Network Virtual Terminal Password Authentication Protocol PORT The abstraction used in Internet transport protocols to distinguish among multiple simultaneous connections to a single destination host.
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Router A system is responsible for making decisions about which of several paths network (or Internet) traffic will follow. To do this, it uses a routing protocol to gain information about the network and algorithms to choose the best route based on several criteria known as "routing metrics".
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Static IP addresses are usually assigned to networked devices that are consistently accessed by multiple users, such as Server PCs, or printers. If you are using your Router to share your cable or DSL Internet connection, contact your ISP to see if they have assigned your home a static IP address.
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GRT-501 G.SHDSL.bis Bridge Router User’s Manual Virtual Connection (VC) A link that seems and behaves like a dedicated point-to-point line or a system that delivers packets in sequence, as happens on an actual point-to-point network. In reality, the data is delivered across a network via the most appropriate route.