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Chapter 1 Brief Introduction of Product 1.1 General Four-Faith Industrial Router F-R200 is an intelligent 4G LTE routers to provide the necessary M2M applications for all types of terminals. It adopts high-powered industrial 32-bits CPU and embedded real time operating system. It...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router 1.2 Features and Benefits Design for Industrial Application High-powered industrial cellular module High-powered industrial 32bits CPU Adapt dual SIM design to ensure the stable and reliable of the router Support low-consumption mode, including sleep mode, scheduled online/offline mode, scheduled power-on/power-off mode(optional) ...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Chapter 2 Installation Introduction 2.1 General The router must be installed correctly to make it work properly. Warning: Forbid to install the router when powered! 2.2 Encasement List Name Quantity Remark Router host Cellular antenna (Male SMA)
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Fixed Size Router Size Installation of SIM/UIM card: 1、Firstly power off the router 2、Unscrewed the screw 3、Press the out button of the SIM/UIM card outlet with a needle object. Then the SIM/UIM card sheath will flick out at once 4、Put SIM/UIM card into the card sheath (Pay attention to put the side which has metal point...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Installation of antenna: Screw the SMA male pin of the cellular antenna to the female SMA interface of the Router with sign “ANT-1” and “ANT-2”. Screw the SMA female pin of the WIFI antenna to the male SMA interface of the router with sign 14 / 81 Email: allen@four-faith.com...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router “WIFI”. Warning: The cellular antenna and the WIFI antenna can not be connected wrongly. And the antennas must be screwed tightly, or the signal quality of antenna will be influenced! Installation of cable: Insert one end of the network cable into the switch interface with sign“LAN1/LAN2/LAN3/...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Blue Data Carrier Detect Output White/ System Ground Blue Green Transmit Data Input White/ Data Terminal Ready Input Brown Brown Request To Send Input 2.4 Power The power range of the router is DC 5~36V. Warning: When we use other power, we should make sure that the power can supply power above We recommend user to use the standard DC 12V/1.5A power.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Router hasn’t logged on network The SIM card has been identified The SIM card is not recognized The corresponding interface of switch is not connected ON / The corresponding interface of switch is connected BLINK /Communicating...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Chapter 3 Configuration and Management This chapter describes how to configure and manage the router. 3.1 Configuration Connection Before configuration, you should connect the router and your configuration PC with the supplied network cable. Plug the cable’s one end into the Local Network port of the router, and another end into your configure PC’s Ethernet port.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Users need to input user name and password if it is their first time to login. 19 / 81 Email: allen@four-faith.com Tel: +86-13828722770 Web: www.four-faith.hk Add: Floor 11, Area A06, No 370, chengyi street, Jimei, Xiamen, China...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Input correct user name and password to visit relevant menu page. Default user name is admin, password is admin. (available to modify user name and password on management page, then click submit) 3.3 Management and configuration 3.3.1 Setting...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Forbid the setting of WAN port connection type Static IP WAN IP Address: Users set IP address by their own or ISP assigns Subnet Mask: Users set subnet mask by their own or ISP assigns Gateway: Users set gateway by their own or ISP assigns...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router User Name: login users' ISP(Internet Service Provider) Password: login users' ISP Dial String: dial number of users' ISP APN: access point name of users' ISP PIN: PIN code of users' SIM card Connection type Connection type: Auto, Force 3G, Force 2G, Prefer 3G, Prefer 2G options. If using 4G module, there has 4G network option.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Route: Detect connection with route method, when choose this method, users should also configure "Detection Interval", "Primary Detection Server IP" and "Backup Detection Server IP" items. PPP: Detect connection with PPP method, when choose this method, users should also configure "Detection Interval"...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Router Internal Network Settings Router IP Local IP Address: IP address of the Router Subnet Mask: the subnet mask of the Router Gateway: set internal gateway of the Router. If default, internal gateway is the address of the Router Local DNS: DNS server is auto assigned by network operator server.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router DHCP Server: keep the default Enable to enable the Router's DHCP server option. If users have already have a DHCP server on their network or users do not want a DHCP server, then select Disable Start IP Address: enter a numerical value for the DHCP server to start with when issuing IP addresses.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router 3.3.9.2 Dynamic DNS If user's network has a permanently assigned IP address, users can register a domain name and have that name linked with their IP address by public Domain Name Servers (DNS). However, if their Internet account uses a dynamically assigned IP address, users will not know in advance what their IP address will be, and the address can change frequently.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router 3.3.9.3 Clone MAC Address Some ISP need the users to register their MAC address. The users can clone the Router MAC address to their MAC address registered in ISP if they do not want to re-register their MAC address Clone MAC address can clone three parts: Clone LAN MAC, Clone WAN MAC, Clone Wireless MAC.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Note:Dynamic Routing is not available in Gateway mode Static Routing Select set number: 1-50 Route Name: defined routing name by users, up to 25 characters Metric: 0-9999 Destination LAN NET: the Destination IP Address is the address of the network or host to which users...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router VLANs function is to divide different VLAN ports by users' will. The system supports 15 VLAN port from VLAN1-VLAN15. However there is only 5 time ports (1 WAN port and 4 LAN port) divided by users themselves,and LAN port and WAN port disable to divide into one VLAN port meanwhile.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Bridging - Assign to Bridge: allows users to assign any valid interface to a network bridge. Consider setting the Wireless Interface options to Bridged if they want to assign any Wireless Interface here. Any system specific bridge setting can be overridden here in this field.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router To make br1 bridge has the same function with DHCP assigned address, users need to set multiple DHCP function, see the introduction of multi-channel DHCPD: Port Setup: Set the port property, the default is not set...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Multiple DHCPD: using multiple DHCP service. Click 'Add' in multiple DHCP server to appear relevant configuration. The first means the name of port or bridge (do not be configured as eth0), the second means whether to on DHCP. Start means start address, Max means maximum assigned DHCP clients, Leasetime means the client lease time, the unit is second, click 'Save' or 'Apply' to put it into effect after setting.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router “Disable”, radio off. Wireless Mode:AP, Client, Adhoc, Repeater, Repeater Bridge four options。 Wireless Network Mode: Mixed:Support 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n wireless devices. BG-Mixed:Support 802.11b, 802.11g wireless devices. B-only:Only supports the 802.11b standard wireless devices. B-only:Only supports the 802.11b standard wireless devices.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router AP Isolation : This setting isolates wireless clients so access to and from other wireless clients are stopped. Note : Save your changes, after changing the "Wireless Mode", "Wireless Network Mode", "wireless width", "broadband" option, please click on this button, and then configure the other options.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router WEP : Is a basic encryption algorithm is less secure than WPA.Use of WEP is discouraged due to security weaknesses, and one of the WPA modes should be used whenever possible. Only use WEP if you have clients that can only support WEP (usually older, 802.11b-only clients).
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Personal client mix. WPA Shared Key:Between 8 and 63 ASCII character or hexadecimal digits.。 Key Renewal Interval(in seconds):1-99999。 WPA Enterprise/WPA2 Enterprise/WPA2 Enterprise Mixed: WPA Enterprise uses an external RADIUS server to perform user authentication. WPA Algorithms: AES/TKIP/TPIP+AES.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Use NVRAM for client lease DB: users can store data to the system NVRAM area is enabled Used domain: users can select here which domain the DHCP clients should get as their local domain. This can be the WAN domain set on the Setup screen or the LAN domain which can be set here.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router For example: static allocation: dhcp-host=AB:CD:EF:11:22:33,192.168.0.10,myhost,myhost.domain,12h max lease number: dhcp-lease-max=2 DHCP server IP range: dhcp-range=192.168.0.110,192.168.0.111,12h SNMP Location: equipment location Contact: contact this equipment management Name: device name RO Community: SNMP RO community name, the default is public, Only to read.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Syslog Out Mode: two log mode Net: the log information output to a syslog server Console: the log information output to console port Remote Server: if choose net mode, users should input a syslog server’s IP Address and run a syslog server program on it.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Broadcast support: enable or disable broadcast support of PPTP server Force MPPE Encryption: enable of disable force MPPE encryption of PPTP data DNS1/DNS2/WINS1/WINS2: set DNS1/DNS2/WINS1/WINS2 Server IP: input IP address of the Router as PPTP server, differ from LAN address Client IP(s): IP address assigns to the client, the format is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-xxx...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router MPPE Encryption: enable or disable Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption。 MTU: maximum Transmission Unit MRU: maximum Receive Unit NAT: network Address Translation User Name: user name to login PPTP Server. Password: password to log into PPTP Server. 3.3.6.2...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Gateway(L2TP Server): L2TP server’s IP Address or DNS Name Remote Subnet: the network of remote PPTP server Remote Subnet Mask: subnet mask of remote PPTP server MPPE Encryption: enable or disable Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption MTU: maximum transmission unit...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Network: network address allowed by OPENVPN server Netmask: netmask allowed by OPENVPN server Bridge (TAP): DHCP-Proxy mode: enable or disable DHCP-Proxy mode Pool start IP: pool start IP of the client allowed by OPENVPN server Pool end IP: pool end IP of the client allowed by OPENVPN server...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Use LZO Compression: enable or disable use LZO compression for data transfer Redirect default Gateway: enable or disable redirect default gateway Allow Client to Client: enable or disable allow client to client Allow duplicate cn: enable or disable allow duplicate cn...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Additional Config: additional configurations of the server CCD-Dir DEFAULT file: other file approaches TLS Auth Key: authority key of Transport Layer Security Certificate Revoke List: configure some revoke certificates OPENVPN Client Server IP/Name: IP address or domain name of OPENVPN server...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Use LZO Compression: enable or disable use LZO compression for data transfer NAT: enable or disable NAT through function Bridge TAP to br0: enable or disable bridge TAP to br0 Local IP Address: set IP address of local OPENVPN client...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router 3.3.6.4 IPSEC Connect Status and Control Show IPSEC connection and status of current router on IPSEC page. Name: the name of IPSEC connection Type: The type and function of current IPSEC connection Common name: local subnet, local address, opposite end address and opposite end subnet of current...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Name: to indicate this connection name, must be unique Enabled: If enable, the connection will send tunnel connection request when it is reboot or re-connection, otherwise it is no need if disable Local WAN Interface: local addresss of the tunnel Remote Host Address: IP/domain name of end opposite;...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Enable Advanced Settings: enable to configure 1 and 2 phase information, otherwise it will automic negotiation according to opposite end IKE Encryption: IKE phased encryption mode IKE Integrity: IKE phased integrity solution IKE Grouptype: DH exchange algorithm...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router GRE Tunnel: enable or disable GRE function Number:Switch on/off GRE tunnel app Status:Switch on/off someone GRE tunnel app Name:GRE tunnel name Through:The GRE packet transmit interface Peer Wan IP Addr:The remote WAN address Peer Subnet:The remote gateway local subnet, eg: 192.168.1.0/24 Peer Tunnel IP:The remote tunnel ip address...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router 3.3.5 Security 3.3.5.1 Firewall You can enable or disable the firewall, filter specific Internet data types,and prevent anonymous Internet requests,ultimately enhance network security. Firewall Protection Firewall enhance network security and use SPI to check the packets into the network.To use firewall protection, choose to enable otherwise disabled.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Block WAN SNMP access: This feature prevents the SNMP connection requests from the WAN. After Complete the changes, click the Save Settings button to save your changes. Click the Cancel Changes button to cancel unsaved changes.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Log button. Outgoing Log: To see a temporary log of the Router's most recent outgoing traffic, click the Outgoing Log button. Click the Save Settings button to save your changes. Click the Cancel Changes button to cancel unsaved changes.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Internet access policies filtering specific PCs access Internet services at a particular time period. Access Policy: You may define up to 10 access policies. Click Delete to delete a policy or Summary to see a summary of the policy.
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router set up Internet access policy 1. Select the policy number (1-10) in the drop-down menu. 2. For this policy is enabled, click the radio button next to "Enable" 3. Enter a name in the Policy Name field.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router 10. Click the Add to Policy button to save your changes and active it. 11. To create or edit additional policies, repeat steps 1-9. 12. To delete an Internet Access Policy, select the policy number, and click the Delete button.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router To block some packets getting Internet access or block some Internet packets getting local network access, you can configure filter items to block these packets. Packet Filter Packet filter function is realized based on IP address or port of packets.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Port Forwarding allows you to set up public services on your network, such as web servers, ftp servers, e-mail servers, or other specialized Internet applications. Specialized Internet applications are any applications that use Internet access to perform functions such as videoconferencing or online gaming.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Protocol: Chose the right protocol TCP,UDP or Both. Set this to what the application requires. IP Address: Enter the IP Address of the PC running the application. Enable: Click the Enable checkbox to enable port forwarding for the application.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Uplink (kbps): In order to use bandwidth management (QoS) you must enter bandwidth values for your uplink. These are generally 80% to 90% of your maximum bandwidth. Downlink (kbps):In order to use bandwidth management (QoS) you must enter bandwidth values for your downlink.
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Enable Serial TCP Function: Enable the serial to TCP function Protocol Type: The protocol type to transmit data. UDP(DTU) – Data transmit with UDP protocol , work as a Four-Faith IP MODEM device which has application protocol and hear beat mechanism.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Heartbeat Interval: The time interval to send heart beat packet. This item is valid only when you choose UDP(DTU) or TCP(DTU) protocol type. TCP Server Listen Port: This item is valid when Protocol Type is “TCP Server”...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Enable Info Site:Enable or disable the login system information page Info Site Password Protection:Enable or disable the password protection feature of the system information page Remote Access:This feature allows you to manage the Router from a remote location, via the Internet.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Remote Upgrade: custom-developed remote management server for this station Router monitoring and management, configuration parameters, WIFI advertising updates. 3.3.10.2 Keep Alive Schedule Boot&Shutdown The user can set the startup or shutdown time: For example,the user want to set the start time at 8:07 and boot time at 9:07.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router You can schedule regular reboots for the Router : Regularly after xxx seconds. At a specific date time each week or everyday. Note: For date based reboots Cron must be activated. See Management for Cron activation.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Reset Router settings:Click the Yes button to reset all configuration settings to their default values. Then click the Apply Settings button. Note: Any settings you have saved will be lost when the default settings are restored. After restoring the Router is accessible under the default IP address 192.168.1.1 and the default password admin.
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Backup Settings:You may backup your current configuration in case you need to reset the Router back to its factory default settings.Click the Backup button to backup your current configuration. Restore Settings:Click the Browse... button to browse for a configuration file that is currently saved on your PC.Click the Restore button to overwrite all current configurations with the ones in the...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Router Name: name of the Router, settingbasic setting to modify Router Model: model of the Router, unavailable to modify Firmware Version: software version information MAC Address: MAC address of WAN, settingClone MAC Address to modify Host Name: host name of the Router, settingbasic setting to modify WAN Domain Name: domain name of WAN, settingbasic setting to modify...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Active IP Connections: total active IP connections Protocol: connection protocol Timeouts: connection timeouts, unit is second Source Address: source IP address Remote Address: remote IP address Service Name: connecting service port Status: displayed status 3.3.11.2 WAN Connection Type: disabled, static IP, automatic configuration-DHCP, PPPOE, PPTP, L2TP, 3G/UMTS Connection Uptime: connecting uptime;...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router IP Address: IP address of Router WAN Subnet Mask: subnet mask of Router WAN Gateway: the gateway of Router WAN DNS1, DNS2, DNS3: DNS1/DNS2/DNS3 of Router WAN Remaining Lease Time: remaining lease time of IP address in DHCP way...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Total Flow: flow from power-off last time until now statistics, download and upload direction Monthly Flow: the flow of a month, unit is MB Last Month: the flow of last month Next Month: the flow of next month...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router MAC Address: MAC Address of the LAN port ethernet IP Address: IP Address of the LAN port Subnet Mask: Subnet Mask of the LAN port Gateway: Gateway of the LAN port Local DNS: DNS of the LAN port...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router IP Address: IP address of the client MAC Address: MAC address of the client Expires: the expiry the client rents the IP address Delete: click to delete DHCP client Interface: the interface assigned by dial-up system...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Interface: the interface assigned by dial-up system User Name: user name of the client Local IP: tunnel IP address of PPTP client Remote IP: IP address of PPTP client Delete: click to delete PPTP client 3.3.11.4 Wireless...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router MAC Address: MAC address of wireless client Interface: interface of wireless client Uptime: connecting uptime of wireless client TX Rate: transmit rate of wireless client RX Rate: receive rate of wireless client Signal: the signal of wireless client...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Bandwidth Monitoring-LAN Graph abscissa axis: time vertical axis: speed rate Bandwidth Monitoring-WAN Graph abscissa axis: time vertical axis: speed rate 76 / 81 Email: allen@four-faith.com Tel: +86-13828722770 Web: www.four-faith.hk Add: Floor 11, Area A06, No 370, chengyi street, Jimei, Xiamen, China...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Bandwidth Monitoring-Wireless (W10) Graph abscissa axis: time vertical axis: speed rate 3.3.11.6 Sys-Info Router Name: the name of the Router Router Model: the model of the Router LAN MAC: MAC address of LAN port 77 / 81 Email: allen@four-faith.com...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router WAN MAC: MAC address of WAN port Wireless MAC: MAC address of the wireless WAN IP: IP address of WAN port LAN IP: IP address of LAN port Radio: display whether radio is on or not...
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router DHCP Server: enabled or disabled ff-radauth: enabled or disabled USB Support: enabled or disabled Total Available: the room for total available of RAM (that is physical memory minus some reserve and the kernel of binary code bytes)
F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Appendix The following steps describe how to setup Windows XP Hyper Terminal. 1. Press “Start””Programs””Accessories””Communications””Hyper Terminal” 2. Input connection name, choose “OK” 3. Choose the correct COM port which connects to modem, choose “OK” 4. Configure the serial port parameters as following, choose “OK”...
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F-R200 User Manual--Industrial Router Data bits: 8 Parity: None Stop bits: 1 Flow control: None 5. Complete Hyper Terminal operation, It runs as following Note: If the user is using the win7 system, you can download a win7 super terminal on the internet.
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