Basic Setup - Planet Networking & Communication MH-5001 User Manual

MH-5001 User Manual
3.1 Demands
1. For the external network, suppose your company uses DSL to connect Internet via fixed-IP. By this way, you should setup
WAN port of the MH-5001 in advance.
2. There are some adjustment within your company, so the original network stucture has been changed. Now, you should
modify the configuration between the internal network (DMZ, LAN).
3. Your company needs more network bandwidth if it is insufficent for your company to connect to the external network.
Suppose there are many public IPs in your commpany, you would like to specify an unique public IP to a local server.
4. When the default WAN link is disconnected, you need a backup solution to keep the Internet connection working.
3.2 Objectives
1. Configure the network settings of the MH-5001 WAN1 port.
2. Configure the network settings of the MH-5001 DMZ1 and LAN1 ports.
3. We hope to assign another IP address to the same WAN port that we have configured before.
4. Ping the public Internet Server IP addresses with a sequence of every specified Timeout to check the connection of the
current default WAN link. When the specified WAN link is disconnected, MH-5001 will try to make the ping action to the
first Public Internet Server IP address within the specified Timeout. When all of them are timeout, the default route/link
will be switched to another WAN link to continue the ping action within the specified Detection Interval.
3.3 Methods
1. Select the Fixed IP Address method in the MH-5001 Basic Setup/WAN settings/WAN1 IP, and then configure the related
account and password in order to connet to the Internet.
2. Configure the related network settings in the pages of the MH-5001 Basic Setup / DMZ settings / DMZ1 Status、Basic
Setup / LAN settings / LAN1 Status.
3. Configure the IP alias in WAN1 port.
4. Configure the public Internet Server IP addresses, set the time to continue the ping action per IP address and then set the
detection interval for the next WAN link check.
In this chapter, we will introduce how to setup network settings for each port separately
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