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NetComm Wireless accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage resulting from errors or delays in transmission or reception, or the failure of the NetComm Wireless NTC-400 Series Router to transmit or receive such data.
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Document history This guide covers the following product: NetComm Wireless NTC-400 Series Router Ver. Document description Date v1.0 Initial document release 1 November 2017 v1.1 Correction to paragraph numbering 16 January 2018 v1.2 Miscellaneous changes, additions, corrections, etc. 13 March 2018 v1.3 Added RF exposure/min separation warning...
Overview Introduction This document provides you all the information you need to set up, configure and use the NetComm Wireless NTC-400 Series Router. Target audience This document is intended for system integrators or experienced hardware installers who understand telecommunications terminology and concepts.
Important notes on installation Warning: • The NTC-400 Series Router may be powered by a DC12V or DC24V car system. If the router is not installed in a vehicle, we recommend using a DC12V/2A power adapter to power the unit. •...
1.3.2.4 Connecting power The NTC-400 Series Router accepts DC power in the range of 9 V to 36 V. Follow the picture below to ensure that the power source is connected with the correct polarity. Figure 3 – Power pins on terminal block 1.3.2.5...
Table 3 – I/O specifications 1.3.2.7 Connecting serial devices The NTC-400 Series Router features one RS-232 serial port with RX and TX signals located on the terminal block as shown below. Figure 5 – Serial pins on terminal block 1.3.2.8 Connecting to the network via Ethernet The NTC-400 Series Router provides three RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports with auto-MDIX.
When all components have been connected, the unit has been powered up and the client PC is connected either by Ethernet or Wi-Fi, you can access the web interface for configuration of the NTC-400 Series Router. To access the web interface: Open a web browser and navigate to: http://192.168.20.1...
WAN & Uplink The NTC-400 Series Router provides multiple WAN interfaces to let all client hosts behind the router to access the Internet. The WAN Connection lets you specify the WAN Physical Interface, WAN Internet Setup and WAN Load Balance for computers behind the router to access the Internet.
Preferred SIM Card – Dual SIM Fail Over With a single module, the router can create only one cellular WAN interface at any time. However, the NTC-400 Series Router accepts two SIM cards and allows you to switch between them so that one SIM card is available at all times as a backup or failover.
Description Network Type Mandatory field. Select Auto to register on a network automatically, regardless of the network type. The NTC-400 Series Router will give preference to high-speed networks. Default setting: Auto Select 2G Only to register the 2G network only.
VLAN (Virtual LAN) is a logical network under a certain switch or router device to group client hosts with a specific VLAN ID. The NTC-400 Series Router supports both Port-based VLAN and Tag-based VLAN. These functions allow you to divide the local network into different “virtual LANs”.
(external network), by remapping the destination IP address and port number. There are several optional Port Forwarding related functions on the NTC-400 Series Router. They are Virtual Server, Virtual Computer, IP Translation, Special AP & ALG, DMZ, Pass Through, etc.
SIP ALG The NTC-400 Series Router supports the SIP ALG feature to allow one SIP phone behind the NAT router to call another SIP phone in the Internet, even if the router executes its NAT mechanism between the Intranet and the Internet. The NAT router...
The NTC-400 Series Router supports dynamic routing protocols, including RIPv1/RIPv2 (Routing Information Protocol), OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), and BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), for you to establish the routing table automatically. The feature of dynamic routing will be very useful when there are lots of subnets in your network.
3.6.2.4 Advanced Configurable Routing The NTC-400 Series Router features configurable routing software called Quagga. It is a routing software package that provides TCP/IP based routing services with routing protocols support such as OSPF and BGP. Quagga is made from a collection of several daemons that work together to build the routing table, so it provides an interactive user interface for each routing protocol and supports common client commands.
3.7.1.1 The NTC-400 Series Router can operate as a DNS server for the connected local clients which get their LAN IPs from the dynamic IP scheme. You can create a private host list for easy access to the hosts / servers in your intranet with corresponding domain names.
The DNS & DDNS setting allows you to create/modify a pre-defined domain name list and setup the Dynamic DNS feature. 3.7.1.4 Create / Edit Pre-defined Domain Name List The NTC-400 Series Router allows you to customise your pre-defined domain name list. It supports up to a maximum of 128 sets. Figure 182 – Pre-defined Domain Name List Click the Add button to display the Pre-defined Domain Name Configuration screen.
QoS Configuration The NTC-400 Series Router provides lots of flexible rules for you to set QoS policies. You need to know who needs to be managed, what kind of service needs to be managed and how should traffic be prioritized before you create your own policies.
Object Definition Scheduling Scheduling allows you to create time schedule rules which can be consistently applied to a range of NTC-400 Series Router functionality. For example, you may want a schedule rule for Office Hours and one for Closing Hours.
Enter string: any text, spaces Enter a meaningful name. allowed This Rule Name will be included in the drop down lists throughout the NTC-400 Series Router that reference Scheduling Rules. Rule Policy Default setting: Inactive Inactivate/activate the function during the time periods defined below.
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Notes Description User Name Uneditable in This User Name will be included in drop down lists throughout the NTC-400 Series the list or details Router that reference individual users. section. The User Name is entered in User Profile Configuration section, see next.
Checkbox When enabled, the user will be globally included in User Name drop down lists throughout NTC-400 Series Router functionality. If disabled it will not be available for selection, but its details will be retained in the system. Click the Disable button in a user’s Action column to disable the user.
Check Enable to activate the user group for use in other Enable Checkbox. applications throughout the NTC-400 Series Router interface. Cannot be When Enable is unchecked, it is not available for use in other NTC- changed from this list.
Configuration section, see next. Check Enable to activate the Host Group for use in other Enable Checkbox. applications throughout the NTC-400 Series Router interface. Cannot be When Enable is unchecked, it is not available for use in other NTC- changed from this list.
Table 116 – Host Group Configuration External Server External Servers allow you to define a range of different types of servers that are external to the NTC-400 Series Router and which then may be referenced by the NTC-400 Series Router during its operations.
Check Enable to activate the External Server for use in other Server Enable Checkbox. applications throughout the NTC-400 Series Router interface. Cannot be When Enable is unchecked, it is not available for use in other NTC-400 changed from this list.
Configuration NTC-400 Series Router allows users to create a Root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate and enable the use of SCEP. A Root CA is the primary certificate of the tree, the private key of which is used to "sign" other certificates. Only one Root CA can be set for the router at a time.
Bus & Protocol The NTC-400 Series Router router can use a DB-9 male port or other type of serial port to connect via an RS-232 serial device to an IP-based Ethernet LAN. These communication protocols give users access to serial devices anywhere over a local LAN or the Internet.
Figure 231 – VPN The NTC-400 Series Router supports different tunnelling technologies such as IPSec, OpenVPN, L2TP (over IPSec), PPTP and GRE to establish secure tunnels between multiple sites for data transfer. More advanced functions such as Full Tunnel, Tunnel Failover, Tunnel Load Balance, NetBIOS over IPSec, NAT Traversal and Dynamic VPN are also supported.
Dynamic VPN server is not allowed. You can configure one Dynamic VPN server for each WAN interface of the NTC-400 Series Router. To create and configure IPSec tunnels, go to the Security menu, select VPN from the submenu and click its IPSec tab.
OpenVPN TUN mode is the simplest solution. As shown in the diagram, the NTC-400 Series Router is configured as an OpenVPN TUN Client and connects to an OpenVPN TUN Server. Once the OpenVPN TUN connection is established, the connected TUN client will be assigned a virtual IP (10.8.0.2) which belongs to a virtual subnet that is different to the local subnet in the Control Centre.
OpenVPN in “TAP” bridge mode. As shown in the diagram above, the NTC-400 Series Router is configured as an OpenVPN TAP Client, and connects to an OpenVPN TAP Server. Once the OpenVPN TAP connection is established, the connected TAP client will be assigned a virtual IP (192.168.100.210) which is the same subnet as that of local subnet in the Control Centre.
Internet Protocol internetwork. Deploy an NTC-400 Series Router router at a remote site and establish a virtual private network with the control centre using GRE tunnelling. All client hosts behind the router can make data communication with server hosts behind control centre router.
IPS are network security appliances that monitor network and/or system activities for malicious activity, log information about this activity, attempt to block/stop it and report it. Enable the NTC-400 Series Router’s IPS function to periodically check some or all of the intrusion activities that it safeguards against. You can also enable the logging feature to record intrusion events as they are detected.
Click Undo to cancel the settings. Table 183 – Remote Administrator Host Definition Authentication Use either the Captive Portal or MAC Authentication tools to set up a Wi-Fi Hotspot using the NTC-400 Series Router router. 6.3.1 Captive Portal A captive portal, also known as a gateway, is a portal web page that is displayed before a user can browse Internet through your router.
Configure & Manage Figure 310 – Configure & Manage The NTC-400 Series Router allows for enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems. The Configure & Manage tool group supports a range of system management protocols including Command Script, TR-069, SNMP, and Telnet with CLI.
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NTC-400 Series Router. As a bi-directional SOAP/HTTP-based protocol, it supports communication between customer- premises equipment (CPE) and Auto Configuration Servers (ACS). The NTC-400 Series Router is such a CPE. TR-069 is a customised feature for ISPs. We do not recommend that you change the configuration unless instructed by your ISP.
7.1.2.2 TR-069 settings To configure TR-069 for NTC-400 Series Router: Select Configure and Manage from the Administration submenu and click the TR-069 tab: Figure 313 – Enable TR-069 In the Configuration table check the Enable box to activate the TR-069 functionality.
Click Save to save the STUN settings Table 191 – STUN Settings When you have set the ACS URL, Username and Password, your NTC-400 Series Router can periodically send an inform message to the ACS Server at the inform interval.
To configure SNMP for NTC-400 Series Router it must be enabled: Select Configure and Manage from the Administration submenu and click the SNMP tab: Figure 315 – Enable SNMP The following configurations settings are available to enable SNMP on the NTC-400 Series Router: Item Notes...
Figure 322 – Trap Event Receiver Rule Configuration Item Notes Description Server IP Mandatory field. Specifies the trap Server IP. The NTC-400 Series Router sends trap to the server IP. String format: any IPv4 address. Server Port Mandatory field. Specify the trap Server Port.
Value Range: 30 - 65535. If there has been no activity on the NTC-400 Series Router web interface for the designated time, the interface will automatically log out and you will have to enter your password to log in.
SSL/TLS (FTPS). SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is sometimes also used instead, but is technologically different. The NTC-400 Series Router includes an embedded FTP / SFTP server for administrator to download the log files to his computer or database. In the following two sections, you can configure the FTP server and create the user accounts that can log in to the server.
Table 217 – User Account Configuration Diagnostic The NTC-400 Series Router router include a set of simple network diagnosis tools for the administrator to troubleshoot abnormal behaviour or monitor traffic passing through the router. The Packet Analyzer records packets for a designated interface or specific source/destination host.
The NTC-400 Series Router router can send SMS text messages or browse received SMS messages. Select Cellular Toolkit from the Service submenu and click the SMS tab.
Activate PIN code on SIM card Figure 361 – Activate PIN code on SIM card The NTC-400 Series Router allows you to activate a PIN code on the SIM card. This example shows a PIN code on SIM-A for 3G/4G-1 with default PIN code “0000”.
The NTC-400 Series Router allows you to change the PIN code on the SIM card. In the example above, you need to type original PIN code “0000” and then type the new PIN code ‘1234’, if you want to set the new PIN code as ‘1234’. To confirm the new PIN code, re-type the new PIN code in the Verified New PIN Code field again.
The NTC-400 Series Router allows you to activate and manage USSD services via a SIM card through its web GUI. Select Cellular Toolkit from the Service submenu and click the USSD tab. The USSD screen will open. It contains up to four sections: Configuration, USSD Profile List, USSD Profile Configuration and USSD Request Figure 369 –...
Table 244 – Notifying Event Configuration Location Tracking Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) infrastructure allows the NTC-400 Series Router to determine its position, velocity, and time by processing signals received from satellites orbiting Earth. GNSS can access a variety of satellite systems and Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS).
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Assisted GPS (as known as A-GPS) is used for speeding up location fixing, especially when the satellite signal is weak. If activating this option, the NTC-400 Series Router will download almanac data from an A-GPS server through the IP network instead of from the satellite.
The NTC-400 Series Router can continue to operate when car engine is shut down. The NTC-400 Series Router will enter standby mode automatically when a pre-set timer is due. If in standby mode, the NTC-400 Series Router will stop consuming battery power to prevent draining power out.
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“Apache License“ or similar licenses. For detailed information on the Open Source software, the copyright, the respective licensing requirements and ways of obtaining the source code, contact NetComm Wireless or your local sales representative. Appendix E – Safety and product care...
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