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  • Page 1 ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 2 The reproduction and distribution of the documentation and software supplied with this product and the use of its contents is subject to written authorization from ELSA. We reserve the right to make any alterations that arise as the result of technical development.
  • Page 3 Our online services (www.elsa.com) are available to you around the clock should you have any queries regarding the topics discussed in this manual or require any further support. In the Support file section under 'Know-how', you can find answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs).
  • Page 4 ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    3.2 Configuration using ELSA LANconfig........
  • Page 6 7 Index ..............69 LANCOM Wireless reference manual on CD ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    DSL version. Notes on using wireless LAN devices ELSA Wireless LAN products can use up to 13 radio frequency channels in a frequency band between 2400 MHz and 2483 MHz. The devices are approved for operation in all EU countries and Switzerland.

  • Page 8: Operating Modes

    Furthermore, the access point forms the bridge between LAN and WLAN. Access point The ELSA access point also can function as an Internet router or a wireless bridge between two ethernet LANs. It has a slot for a wireless network adapter (ELSA AirLancer MC-11) as well as a normal Ethernet connection on the other side to exchange data between the two networks.
  • Page 9 Multiple access points can be used if the range of a cell is not sufficient to Roaming link all mobile stations. This makes it possible to switch from one wireless cell to another without interrupting the connection to the network. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 10: What Does The Elsa Lancom Wireless L-11 Offer

    LAN connection Access points for wireless networks by function in ELSA Ethernet environ- ments. Use the 10Base-T connection and a hub or switch to connect the ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-11 to a 10 Mbit LAN or to a DSL modem.
  • Page 11 Access to the device is possible from a WLAN or LAN. SNMP is supported as well as TFTP. The integrated setup wizards from ELSA LANconfig and ELSA WEBconfig help you get the unit operating in a few steps. Software update Your device has a flash ROM memory to ensure that its software remains state of the art.
  • Page 12 Carry out tests and diagnostics on the card Monitor the signal strength Assign the WEP encryption key Refer to the online help file for detailed information on the ELSA AirLancer Client Manager. Status displays LED indicators on the front of your access point allow you to monitor the Eth- ernet connections and the current line connections, thus simplifying the pro- cess of diagnosing any systems failures.
  • Page 13 Accounting Most data transfers through the ELSA router take place via dial-up connec- tions, where the charges are calculated based on the online time, or via static connections, where the charges are calculated based on the transferred data volume.
  • Page 14 Introduction With its accounting feature, ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-11 offers the ability to breakdown online times and data transfer volumes for ISDN and DSL con- nections based on the individual computers that use the connections. This allows you to determine the incorrect configuration of the computer or router quickly and allocate the resulting expenses to their appropriate causes.

  • Page 15: Installation

    The TCP/IP protocol must be installed. A web browser must be installed (for HTML configuration). An ELSA AirLancer or other ethernet card has to be installed. Several programs and drivers, such as ELSA LANconfig require a Windows operating system.

  • Page 16: Install Tcp/Ip On Your Workstation

    Installation Install TCP/IP on your workstation To establish a connection to a ELSA LANCOM access point for the first time, the TCP/IP protocol has to be set up. The following describes how to install this protocol on various operating systems.

  • Page 17: Windows Nt 4.0

    If you are going to use the router as a DHCP server, set the workstations to obtain IP addresses automatically. To do so, select Yes when completing the network protocol installation. Windows then copies the required files and, when finished, requests you to reboot. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 18 Domain Name Server (DNS server) on the 'DNS' tab. Also enter a host name on the DNS configuration page. In doing so, use the name of the PC, which ideally matches the user's name, to maintain a certain amount of consistency. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 19: Windows 2000

    LAN connection. To verify the new LAN connection, open its window by selecting Start Settings Network and Dialup Connections From there, click the connection with the right mouse button and open its properties. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 20 Select its entry and click the Properties... button. This opens a dialog where you can define all of the properties for this network protocol. The procedures for setting address, DHCP, gateway and DNS are the same here as in Windows 98. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 21: Introducing The Elsa Lancom Wireless L-11

    Installation Introducing the ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-11 This section introduces the unit's hardware. It covers the unit's display elements and connection options. 2.4.1 The front of the unit LEDs You will find a number of LEDs as display elements on the front panel.

  • Page 22: The Bottom Of The Unit

    LEDs light up to reset the unit to its factory defaults. 2.4.2 The bottom of the unit Now turn the whole thing upside down and take a look at the bottom. There you'll find: Connection for power supply unit ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 23: How To Connect The Device

    With other operating systems, you can use ELSA WEBconfig in an HTML browser to carry out the configuration. You will need a Windows PC on the LAN to run ELSA LANconfig. ELSA also provides a Linux version of ELSA LANconfig which can be downloaded from their website.

  • Page 24: The Wizards

    The Wizards The following wizards, which make it very easy to set up and configure the ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-11, are available in ELSA LANconfig and ELSA WEBconfig: Various wizards are offered, depending on whether your ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-11 has only the standard network connection or...

  • Page 25: Basic Settings

    ELSA LANconfig The first time ELSA LANconfig is run, the new device is detected on the TCP/ IP network and can immediately be configured. A wizard starts automatically to help you with the basic configuration of the unit; it can also perform the complete basic configuration for you.
  • Page 26 You have not yet used IP addresses in your network but would like to do so starting now. However, you wish to set the IP address for the router and assign it an address from an address range reserved for ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 27 DHCP server are described in this manual on CD. ELSA WEBconfig If you do not wish to or cannot use ELSA LANconfig (e.g. because you have installed a different operating system), you can configure the basic settings using a normal HTML browser.
  • Page 28 Installation From this point on, the procedure is the same as for the ELSA LANconfig. Telnet Open a Telnet connection to the address '10.0.0.254' if you have not used IP addresses in your network to date, or the address 'x.x.x.254', in which 'x.x.x' stands for the address range previously used in the network.
  • Page 29 The router itself is addressable using the IP address of '10.0.0.1'. After you reboot your system, all units on the local network will be assigned IP addresses by the DHCP server in the router. It will use an address pool from '10.0.0.2' to '10.0.0.253' automatically. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 30 Installation ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 31: Configuration And Management

    This section will show you the programs and routes you can use to access the device and set it up. And, if the team at ELSA has produced new firmware with new features for your use, we will show you how to load the new software.

  • Page 32: Configuration With Elsa Webconfig

    Configuration and management Once ELSA LANconfig has finished its search, it displays a list of all the devices it has found, together with their names and perhaps a description, the IP address and its status. Two different display options can be selected for configuring the devices with...

  • Page 33: Configuration Using Telnet

    Use the HTTP module to define the document root for the HTML help files under ELSA WEBconfig. The preset defaults refer the help link to the ELSA's website. If you want to store the help files locally, you can enter here the directory where the files are kept.

  • Page 34: Configuration Using Snmp

    CD. New firmware with FirmSafe The software in the ELSA device is constantly being updated. We have fitted the devices with a flash ROM which makes child's play of updating the operating software so that you can enjoy the benefits of new features and functions.

  • Page 35: How To Load New Software

    Firmware Upload button. Then select the directory in which the new version is located and mark the corresponding file. ELSA LANconfig then tells you the version number and the date of the firmware in the description and offers to upload the file. The firmware you already have installed will be replaced by the selected release by clicking Open.
  • Page 36 10.0.0.1 and saves it as file1 in the current directory. tftp 10.0.0.1 put file1 writeconfig: Writes the configuration from file1 to the device with the address 10.0.0.1. tftp 10.0.0.1 get dir/status/verb file2: Saves the current connection information in file2. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 37: What's Happening On The Line

    In addition to the device statistics that can be read out during a Telnet or terminal session or with ELSA WEBconfig, a variety of other options are also available.

  • Page 38: Dsl Firmware For Elsa Lancom Wireless

    Configuration and management DSL firmware for ELSA LANCOM Wireless With the accompanying DSL firmware, the ELSA Wireless router can be configured for communication via DSL (e.g. the T-DSL connector of Deutsche Telekom). Make sure that no ethernet network connections are active after uploading the firmware.
  • Page 39 Configuration and management If you would like to delete this setup and install your access point for LAN operation within an Ethernet network, proceed likewise. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 40 Configuration and management ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 41: Operating Modes And Functions

    'Security for your configuration' on page 45. Before configuring a network connection manually, check whether one of the available wizards might be applied to this purpose ('Die Assistenten' on page 31). ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 42: Considerations For Setting Up A Wireless Network

    Click Edit Profile and enter the name of the network. This name has to be the same for all computers on the network. You have now established the wireless bridge. You now have to set up a network in order to access other computers. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 43: Infrastructure Network

    In this case, access at the access point has to be permitted for the network name, 'ANY'. The corresponding menu commands are as follows: WEBconfig: Advanced configuration Setup WLAN module IAPP protocol Advanced configuration Setup WLAN module Closed network LANconfig: WLAN access General Roaming and Management Interfaces ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 44: Point-To-Point Network

    300 seconds. PPPoE is always used as the protocol and you will not find a layer list for the DSL settings. PPP list Here enter the device name of the remote station and the password. If ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 45: Security For Your Configuration

    As long as a password hasn't been set, anyone can change the configuration of the device. The password input field can be found in the ELSA LANconfig in the 'Management' configuration section on the 'Security' tab. The password prompt can be activated in a terminal or Telnet session in the /Setup/Config-module/passw.required menu.
  • Page 46 The filter entries can describe both individual computers and whole networks. The access list can be found in ELSA LANconfig in the 'TCP/IP' configuration section on the 'General' tab, or in the /Setup/TCP-IP module/ Access list menu.

  • Page 47: Security For Your Wlan

    The four various keys can contain five alphanumeric characters from the range 'a-z' and '0-9', whereby capitalization and lower case letters are ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 48: Security For Your Lan

    Security for your LAN You certainly would not like any outsider to have easy access to or to be able to modify the data on your computer. A ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-11 offers various ways of limiting access for incoming and outgoing router...
  • Page 49 Similar descriptions can form comma-separated lists, such as for host lists and address lists (%A10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2), or hyphened ranges, such as port lists (%S20-25). Specifying '0' or an empty string indicates the 'ANY' object: all computers: %A0.0.0.0 all services: all protocols: ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 50 Operating modes and functions Host names can be used only if ELSA LANCOM can resolve the names into IP addresses. To do so, ELSA LANCOM has to have learned the names via DHCP or NetBIOS, or the assignment has to be entered statically in the DNS or IP- routing table.

  • Page 51: Call Charge Management

    However, quite substantial costs may be incurred by data transfer over paid lines if the router is not configured properly (e.g. in the filter configuration) or by excessive use of the communications opportunities (e.g. extended surfing in the Internet). ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 52: Automatic Address Administration With Dhcp

    4.4.1 The DHCP server As a DHCP server, the ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-11 can administer the IP addresses in its TCP/IP network. In doing so, it passes the following parameters to the workstation computers:...

  • Page 53: Dhcp - 'On', 'Off' Or 'Auto

    In the simplest case, all that is required is to connect the new device to a network without other DHCP servers and switch it on. The DHCP server then interacts with ELSA LANconfig using a wizard and handles all of the address assignments in the local network itself.
  • Page 54 This assignment is based on the associated entries in the 'TCP-IP module'. If the DNS or NBNS servers of the wired LAN must also be available to the WLAN, their addresses must be specified. Otherwise, the access point will ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 55 Default gateway assignment The device always assigns the requesting computer its own IP address as a gateway address. However, because a ELSA AirLancer does not have the functions of a gateway, this task must be done by another gateway. If a gateway in a wired LAN must also be available in the wireless network, enter the IP address of the gateway in the DHCP module as the 'Gateway Address'.
  • Page 56 While verifying uniqueness, it was determined that the address has already been assigned to another computer. Unfortunately, the DHCP server has no means of obtaining additional information on this computer. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 57: Configuring The Dhcp Server

    You have not yet configured a network or your existing local network does not use TCP/IP. The DHCP server in your new ELSA lets you assign IP addresses to all of the computers in the network and to the router in a single operation.
  • Page 58 Install the ELSA LANconfig on a computer in the network. Start the program from the 'ELSAlan' program group. When loading, the ELSA LANconfig, will detect an unconfigured router in the network and will launch the wizard for the basic settings.

  • Page 59: Accounting

    DNS server, default gateway, etc. Manual configuration If configuration using the ELSA LANconfig wizard is not for you, set the parameters for the DHCP server manually: In ELSA LANconfig in the 'TCP/IP' configuration section on the 'DHCP' tab or in the /Setup/DHCP Module menu).

  • Page 60: Configuring Accounting

    4.5.2 Reading the accounting data ELSA LANmonitor provides the means of viewing the listed data. It also allows you to save the data to a file on a drive. The listed data can also be called up using Telnet access under /Setup/ Accounting.
  • Page 61 Depending on how the list is sorted, the 512 entries with the largest transfer volumes or longest online times are included in the table. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 62 Operating modes and functions ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 63: Technical Data

    – Extensive documentation in German, English, French and Italian – Patch network cable (UTP) – Plug-in power adapter – Software bundle CD with ELSA RVS-COM, Laplink Pro – CD with management software Standards/ ETSI, ETS 300328, ETS 300 826, EN 55022, EN 55024, EN 60601-1-2, Approvals EN 60950, CE marked;...

  • Page 64: Radio Frequency Channels

    * In France, the entire ISM band will be cleared for use by radio networks by 2001. Please read the information on this provided in the 'Readme' file on the CD. The boldface values are set as the defaults for the ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-11. ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 65: Appendix

    On behalf of the manufacturer / importer: ELSA AG Sonnenweg 11 D-52070 Aachen abgegeben durch: / this declaration is submitted by Aachen, 14. April 2000 i.V. Stefan Kriebel Aachen, 14 April 2000 Bereichsleiter Entwicklung VP Engineering ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 66: General Warranty Conditions

    Appendix General warranty conditions The ELSA AG warranty, valid as of June 01, 1998, is given to purchasers of ELSA products in addition to the warranty conditions provided by law and in accordance with the following conditions: Warranty coverage The warranty covers the equipment delivered and all its parts. Parts will, at our sole...
  • Page 67 ELSA Monitor, damage to the cathode ray tube (CRT) has been caused especially by mechanical load (e.g. from shock to the pitch mask assembly or damage to the...
  • Page 68 Appendix ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

  • Page 69: Index

    Data encryption ........47 Data volume ........13 Identifying the caller ......51 DHCP ..........52 Inband DHCP mode ......... 53 using Telnet ........33 DHCP server ........52 Infrastructure network ....9 configuration ........57 Install software ........34 ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 70 NBNS server ........ 52 NetBIOS ..........13 TCP/IP ..........23 Transfer costs ........13 Transmission rates ......11 Online media ........31 Troubleshooting ........37 Online time ......... 13 Operating modes ........ 41 Upload .......... 11 Package contents ........ 15 ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...
  • Page 71 Wireless Internet gateway ....44 Warranty conditions ......66 Wireless LAN ........8 WEBconfig ........35 Wireless network ......... 7 WEP ............47 Wireless network adapter ....8 Windows networks ......13 WLAN ........... 8 Winipcfg ..........26 WWW ..........51 ELSA LANCOM Wireless L-II...

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