Chapter 2 Hardware Installation ...4 2.1 Back Panel ...4 2.2 Check the components you need ... 4 2.3 Connect ESG-103 to your ADSL / Cable Modem ..5 2.4 Connecting PC to your ESG-103 ...5 2.5 Power on ...6 2.6 LED Indication ...6 Chapter 3 Configuration ...8...
Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Product Introduction The ESG-103 is a broadband router, which is to provide home users a secure environment in their private side. It also acts as a Network Address Translation (NAT) device and let home users use private IP addresses to access the Internet from single or multiple global IP addresses.
WAN port. 1.2.3 Act as a DHCP server in its LAN side ESG-103 can act as a DHCP server in its LAN side, and this functionality can help users need not to configure their own IP addresses. When users are booting their machines, ESG-103 will assign each machine an IP address and other useful information, such as DNS server's IP address etc.
1.2.7 Firmware Upgrade ESG-103 provides an efficient way to upgrade the firmware. Users can use web browser to upgrade firmware and also can use TFTP client to do this job. 1.3 Packing List This packing includes the following parts: (1) 1 x ESG-103 Broadband Router (2) 1 x User’s Guide...
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation This chapter will describe how to set up ESG-103 step by step. After you've set up your ESG-103 well, then you may need to configure your WAN setting to match the mode that you've applied for from your ISP or NSP.
(2) Pick up one RJ-45 Category-5 cable and plug one end of this cable into your ADSL / Cable's LAN port (3) Plug the other end of this cable into ESG-103's WAN port 2.4 Connecting PC to your ESG-103 (1) Pick up the other RJ-45 Category-5 cable and plug one end of this cable...
2.5 Power on (1) Connect your power adapter to DC inlet to power on your ESG-103 (2) Turn on ADSL / Cable modem's power (3) Finish 2.6 LED Indication Power Status TX / RX (Green) 1X,2X, 3X,4X TX / RX (Green)
You must log in with the cor- rect user name and password to start the ESG-103 configuration in a MD5 authenticated web session. For setting up this MD5 authenticated session, the default user name is “admin”, and the default password is also...
3.1 Quick Installation Wizard 3.1.1 WAN Parameters ESG-103 provides three ways to get an IP address in its WAN interface- Fixed IP, DHCP, and PPPoE. There are three radio boxes in this configuration page and you can choose one of which is suitable for your access environment.
3.1.2 PPPoE Parameters When you choose to use PPPoE mode to acquire your WAN IP addresses, you should first set up PPPoE parameters to facilitate ESG-103 to communicate with your ISP. When you connect to your ADSL dial-in service, you need your PPPoE parameters given by your ISP.
3.1.4 Remote Control Parameters ESG-103 provides some remote control features to help user's remote man- agement for ESG-103. In this configuration tags, you can set up a dedicated remote host to control your ESG-103, reject or accept "Ping" packets from the Internet, and set up the listening port of ESG-103's built-in web server.
Ping Reply - If you do not like to let your ESG-103 respond to "Ping" HTTP Public Port - In ESG-103, it has a built-in web server to process all 3.2 Information 3.2.1 Statistics This configuration page can bring the data traffic information to user who would like to know the quantity of received or transmitted Ethernet packets in ESG-103.
Please note that the DNS relay is a default setting in ESG-103. However, ESG-103 chooses ISP's DNS server to be the first choice to relay its DNS packets, if user use PPPoE or DHCP client to connect to Internet. These two...
3.3.2 DHCP Setup 3.3.2.1 DHCP Clone MAC Address ESG-103 provides "MAC clone" function to let users change their WAN MAC address. This feature is provided for authentication purpose if your ISP would like to ask you to offer this information.
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ESG-103 itself. Netmask - Tell hosts their netmask. Name Server 1, 2, 3 - ESG-103 works as a DNS server to its hosts to help DHCP Start IP - In ESG-103, there are 100 IP addresses at most can be assigned to hosts.
Static NAT means you can set up a private IP address and public IP address to be a pair. In ESG-103, you can set up to 5 set static NAT. This function is very similar to DMZ (demilitarized zone).
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192.168.1.101 and the remote host can access FTP server in the LAN interface by accessing 211.21.83.14 through FTP client application installed in the remote host itself. When you access ESG-103's WAN side, the ESG-103 can convert your FTP packets and let them pass through the NAT. ...
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Service Name - Name this service in 10 characters. Port Number - The port is opened to others in the Internet side. Server IP Address - The server's private IP address in the LAN side Server Port Number - The port of the inside server which is listening 3.3.3.2 Dynamic NAT In the first table, you can assign a range of private IP addresses that can be converted to public ones.
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Number of Address - The number of the public IP addresses which are 3.3.3.2 Static NAT The ESG-103 provides static NAT function, which also acts as virtual DMZ. It means that you can put your server in the LAN side and give it a mapped public IP address.
2) to exchange routing information with other RIP routers. How- ever, the default value is "disable" in ESG-103. If you have to use RIP to deal with packets passed through ESG-103, you can choose "enable" to turn on this feature.
Network Address - Host or network that you would like to forward your packets Netmask Address - Network mask. Gateway Address - Host that you would like packets to go from. 3.4 Backup Dial Line When your broadband Internet does not work or disconnected, you can use dial-up modem as a backup line of ADSL modem through the RS232 connec- tion port, the backup line port.
Password Confirm - Reenter your "admin" password in this field to con- 3.6 Save Setting If you have already configured you ESG-103 and hope to save your configura- tion, you have to select "Save Setting" page to save all your configurations.
"Upgrade" button to begin the updating process. The process needs one minute, so ESG-103 will pop up a page to ask users to wait for one minute. When all procedures have been done, the web browser will connect to ESG- 103's web server automatically, and please be carefully not to turn off the power of ESG-103 before all progresses completed.
3.9 Load Default Setting Every ESG-103 has its default setting when shipped to users. It can prevent you from mistakenly setting up the configurations and making ESG-103 work abnormally. If this situation happens, you can go to the web page shown below and try to down load ESG-103's default setting.
X (X is between 1 to 253) for IP address field and 255.255.255.0 for Sub- net Mask filed. ii. In the Gateway tab add the IP address of ESG-103 (default IP is 192.168.1.1) in the New Gateway field and click Add button.
X (X is a number between 1 to 253) for IP address field and 255.255.255.0 for Subnet Mask filed. ii. In the Gateway tab add the IP address of ESG-103 (default IP is 192.168.1.1) in the New Gateway field and click Add button.
Appendix D: Remove the Proxy Server in Web Browser 1. Open your Web Browser. 2. At the menu of your Web Browser, Go to Tool > Internet Options. 3. Click the "Connection" tab in the menu at the top. 4. Click the LAN Settings at the bottom. Chapter 4 Appendix - 28...
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5. Uncheck the box "Use a proxy server" under the "Proxy server." 6. Click OK to confirm the settings and close the menus of "LAN Set- tings” and "Internet Options". Chapter 4 Appendix - 29...
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