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D-Link DGL-4100 User Manual

D-Link DGL-4100 User Manual

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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Number of Dynamic DHCP Clients ... 18 Add Static DHCP Client ... 19 Static DHCP Client List ... 19 Advanced ... 20 Virtual Server... 20 Add/Edit Virtual Server ... 21 Virtual Servers List ... 21 Table of Contents D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 3 MAC Address List ... 30 Firewall ... 31 Firewall Settings ... 31 Inbound Filters ... 32 Add/Edit Inbound Filter Rule ... 32 Inbound Filter Rules List ... 32 Configuring an Inbound Filter Rule ... 33 Table of Contents D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 4 Firmware Upgrade Notification Options ... 39 Dynamic DNS ... 40 Status... 41 Device Info ... 41 General ... 41 WAN... 41 LAN ... 41 Routing... 42 Logs ... 42 Log Options ... 42 Log Details ... 42 Table of Contents D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 5 LAN Statistics ... 43 WAN Statistics ... 43 Active Sessions ... 43 Appendix ... 44 Securing Your Network ... 44 Glossary ... 46 Technical Specifications ... 56 Contacting Technical Support ... 57 Warranty... 58 Registration ... 62 Table of Contents D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    1.2GHz Processor 256MB Memory CD-ROM Drive Ethernet Adapter with TCP/IP Protocol Installed Windows® XP/2000/Me or Mac® OS X v10.3/v10.2/v10.1 Internet Explorer v6 or Netscape® Navigator v7 D-Link® DGL-4100 Gaming Router Ethernet Cable Vertical Stands Package Contents CD-ROM with Manual Power Adapter Rubber Feet D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 7: Introduction

    The DGL-4100 incorporates GameFuel ™ Technology designed to provide the uninterrupted and flawless gaming experience serious online gamers expect. The DGL-4100’s high-performance CPU supports up to 1000 concurrent connections, making it ideal for P2P applications and multiplayer interactivity. D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 8: Features And Benefits

    Pre-configured ports to accommodate up to 256 policies for games and applications Customizable settings to add or modify new applications or game configurations New firmware upgrade notification keeps your D-Link Gaming Router up-to-date Next Generation hardware with one Fast Ethernet 10/100 WAN port and four Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000 auto-sensing LAN ports Shamelessly attractive chassis –...

  • Page 9: Hardware Overview

    The Auto MDI/MDIX WAN port is the connection for the Ethernet cable to the Cable or DSL modem. Hardware Overview Receptor for the Power Adapter Pressing the Reset Button restores the router to its original factory default settings. D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 10: Leds

    A solid light indicates a connection to an Ethernet-enabled computer on ports 1-4. This LED blinks during data transmission WAN LED A solid light indicates connection on the WAN port. This LED blinks during data transmission Hardware Overview D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 11: Using The Configuration Interface

    Basic The Basic settings tab contains the Setup Wizard, Internet connection, and network setting options. Wizard The Wizard screen contains the Internet Connection Setup Wizard that assist you with the configuration of your D-Link ® Gaming Router. Basic > Wizard...

  • Page 12: Internet Connection Setup Wizard

    The Internet Connection Setup Wizard guides you through the following basic router setup steps: To begin, click on the Launch Internet Connection Setup Wizard button. The Welcome To The D-Link Setup Wizard screen appears, click Next to continue. Step 1: Set Your Password prompts you to enter a password for the Web-based configuration interface.
  • Page 13 Set Static IP Address Connection prompts you to enter the IP address, Subnet Mask, Gateway Address, Primary and Secondary DNS address information. Setup Complete will appear after all of the settings have been entered. Click Connect to save your settings and reboot the router. Wireless Basics D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 14: Wan

    Advanced options on the following page can be modified for any of the three connection modes. You should be able to get the Primary DNS and Secondary DNS Servers settings from your router configuration settings, ISP, or your network administrator. Only the primary DNS server address is required, though it is best to have both the primary and secondary addresses.

  • Page 15: Advanced

    The ISP will then only grant Internet access to requests from a computer with this particular MAC address. The D-Link router has a different MAC address than the computer that initially connected to the ISP. To resolve this problem, enable this option.

  • Page 16: Static Wan Mode

    IP address. In other words, they know that you are paying for their service. The Release button will release the current IP address of the router. The DHCP Connection: Renew button will request an IP address.

  • Page 17: Pppoe Wan Mode

    Verify Password: If your ISP requires a service name, enter it here. Service Name: Typically PPPoE connections are not always on. The D-Link Router allows you to set the connection mode: Reconnect Mode: • Always on: A connection to the Internet is always maintained.

  • Page 18: Dhcp

    DHCP Settings DHCP Server Enabled: Once your D-Link Router is properly configured and this option is enabled, the DHCP Server function will assign your network devices the necessary information to connect to the LAN and Internet. This eliminates the need to manually configure each device on your network with IP settings.

  • Page 19: Add Static Dhcp Client

    Static DHCP Clients receive the same IP address all the time. This is almost the same as if a device has a static IP address except that it must still actually request an IP address from the D-Link Router. The D-Link Router will provide the device the same IP address all the time. Servers on your network should either use a static IP address or this option.

  • Page 20: Advanced

    FTP, Web, or Game Servers. For each Virtual Server, you define a public port on your router for redirection to an internal LAN IP Address and port. Example: You are hosting a Web Server on a PC that has Private IP Address of 192.168.0.50 and your ISP is blocking Port 80.

  • Page 21: Add/Edit Virtual Server

    Save Settings button at the top of the page to save your changes. The router must reboot before new settings will take effect. You will be prompted to Reboot the Device or Continue. If you need to make additional settings changes, click Continue.

  • Page 22: Special Applications

    Special Applications The Special Application section is used to open single or multiple ports on your router when the router senses data sent to the Internet on a ‘trigger’ port or port range. Special Applications rules apply to all computers on your internal network.

  • Page 23: Add/Edit Special Applications Rule

    Save Settings button at the top of the page to save your changes. The router must reboot before new settings will take effect. You will be prompted to Reboot the Device or Continue. If you need to make additional settings changes, click Continue.

  • Page 24: Gaming

    Gaming The Gaming section is used to open multiple ports or a range of ports in your router and redirect data through those ports to a single PC on your network. This feature allows you to enter ports in various...

  • Page 25: Gamefuel

    VoIP quality is not optimal; select a larger size for faster uplinks. Uplink Speed: The speed at which data can be transferred from the router to your ISP. This is determined by your ISP. ISP’s often speed as a download/upload pair. For example, 1.5Mbits/284Kbits.

  • Page 26: Add/Edit Gamefuel Rule

    Save Settings button at the top of the page to save your changes. The router must reboot before new settings will take effect. You will be prompted to Reboot the Device or Continue. If you need to make additional settings changes, click Continue.

  • Page 27: Routing

    After you’ve completed all modifications or deletions, you must click the Save Settings button at the top of the page to save your changes. The router must reboot before new settings will take effect. You will be prompted to Reboot the Device or Continue.

  • Page 28: Access Control

    LAN that needs access to the Internet. When finished updating Access Control Rules, you must still click the Save Settings button at the top of the page to make changes effective and permanent. Using the Configuration Interface Advanced > Access Control D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 29: Access Control Rules List

    After you’ve completed all modifications or deletions, you must click the Save Settings button at the top of the page to save your changes. The router must reboot before new settings will take effect. You will be prompted to Reboot the Device or Continue. If you need to make additional settings changes, click Continue.

  • Page 30: Mac Address Filters

    Save Settings button at the top of the page to save your changes. The router must reboot before new settings will take effect. You will be prompted to Reboot the Device or Continue. If you need to make additional settings changes, click Continue. If you are finished with your configuration settings, click the Reboot the Device button.

  • Page 31: Firewall

    Firewall A firewall protects your network from the outside world. The D-Link Gaming Router offers a firewall type functionality. The SPI feature helps prevent cyber attacks. Sometimes you may want a computer exposed to the outside world for certain types of applications. If you choose to expose a computer, you cam enable DMZ.

  • Page 32: Inbound Filters

    Save Settings button at the top of the page to save your changes. The router must reboot before new settings will take effect. You will be prompted to Reboot the Device or Continue. If you need to make additional settings changes, click Continue. If you are finished with your configuration settings, click the Reboot the Device button.

  • Page 33: Configuring An Inbound Filter Rule

    When rules are configured, the router compares incoming data packets against the rules in the list. It is very important to understand that the router examines each rule one by one in the order that they are listed in the Rule list until it finds a match. The packet will either be DENIED (Dropped) or ALLOWED.

  • Page 34: Tools

    Note: This applies to local or remote administration. Save and Restore Configuration Save Settings: This option allows you to save the router configuration to a file on your computer. Be sure to save the configuration before performing a firmware upgrade.

  • Page 35: Time

    (Note: Be sure the computer’s time is set correctly). Note: If the router loses power for any reason, it cannot keeps its clock running and will not have the correct time when it is started again. To maintain the correct time for schedules and logs, either you must enter the correct time after you restart the router or you must enable the NTP Server option.

  • Page 36: Schedules

    Save Settings button at the top of the page to save your changes. The router must reboot before new settings will take effect. You will be prompted to Reboot the Device or Continue. If you need to make additional settings changes, click Continue. If you are finished with your configuration settings, click the Reboot the Device button.

  • Page 37: Syslog

    Syslog Server IP Address: Enter the IP address of the Syslog Server. Email The Email feature can be used to send the system log files, router alert messages, and firmware update notification to your email address. Email Settings Enable Email...

  • Page 38: System

    System The System Settings section allows you to reboot the device or restore the router to the factory default settings. Restoring the unit to the factory default settings will erase all settings including any rules that you’ve created. System Commands This will restart the router.

  • Page 39: Firmware

    To upgrade the firmware, follow these steps: 1. Click the [Browse] button to locate the D-Link upgrade file on your computer. 2. Once you have found the file to be used, click the Upload button below to start the firmware upgrade process.

  • Page 40: Dynamic Dns

    The time between periodic updates to the Dynamic DNS, if your dynamic IP address has not change. The timeout period is entered in hours. Note: Option will disable it self if Username and Password or keys are incorrect. Using the Configuration Interface Tools > Dynamic DNS D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 41: Status

    Status The Status items are mainly informational. Device Info The Device Info page displays your Router settings. Options cannot be modified from this page. General Displays the time and date that the router is set to. Time: Firmware Version: Displays the currently loaded firmware version.

  • Page 42: Routing

    The Logs option allows you to view the router logs. You can define what types of events you want to view and the level of the events to view. This router also has external Syslog Server support so you can send the log files to a computer on your network that is running a Syslog utility.

  • Page 43: Statistics

    The number of collisions involving packets intended for the WAN port. Errors: The number of errors occuring with packets intended for the WAN port. Active Sessions The Active Session page displays the full details of active sessions to your router. Using the Configuration Interface D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 44: Appendix

    - 172.31.255.255 (172.16.0.0/12) 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168.0.0/16) D-Link routers use 192.168.0.1 as their default LAN IP address. Choosing an alternate IP address lessens the probabilty of an intruders knowing what IP network your devices are on. Appendix D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 45 Appendix 4. Set up MAC Filtering Each networking device (router, network card, etc) on a network contains a unique hexadecimal number that identifies that specific product. This number is referred to as a MAC address. MAC filtering allows you to create a list of the MAC address of each device on your network and only allows these specific devices to associate with your network.

  • Page 46: Glossary

    Automatic Private IP Addressing - APIPA. An IP address that a Windows computer will assign itself when it is configured to obtain an IP address automatically but no DHCP server is available on the network D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 47 Cookie – Information that is stored on the hard drive of your computer that holds your preferences to the site that gave your computer the cookie CSMA/CA – Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance CSMA/CD – Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 48 Domain Name that will always by linked to their changing IP address. The IP address is updated by either client software running on a computer or by a router that supports DDNS, whenever the IP address changes D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 49 Gigabit Ethernet – Transmission technology that provides a data rate of 1 billion bits per second Graphical user interface – GUI H.323 – A standard that provides consistency of voice and video transmissions and compatibility for videoconferencing devices D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 50 Telecommunication) that provides speeds up to 1.6 Mbps and a distance of 150 ft using a Frequency Hopping transmission method Hop – The action of data packets being transmitted from one router to another Host – Computer on a network HTTP –...
  • Page 51 MAC address – A unique hardware address for devices on a Local Area Network MDI – Medium Dependent Interface is an Ethernet port for a connection to a straight-through cable MDIX - Medium Dependent Interface Crossover, is an Ethernet port for a connection to a crossover cable Megabit - Mb D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 52 OSPF – Open Shortest Path First is a routing protocol that is used more than RIP in larger scale networks because only changes to the routing table are sent to all the other routers in the network as opposed to sending the entire routing table at a regular interval, which is how RIP functions D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 53 RJ-11 – The most commonly used connection method for telephones RJ-45 - The most commonly used connection method for Ethernet RS-232C – The interface for serial communication between computers and other related devices RSA – Algorithm used for encryption and authentication D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 54 Traceroute – A utility displays the routes between you computer and specific destination UDP – User Datagram Protocol UNC – Universal Naming Convention allows for shares on computers to be identified without having to know what storage device it’s on D-Link Systems, Inc.
  • Page 55 Wireless LAN – Connecting to a Local Area Network over one of the 802.11 wireless standards WISP – Wireless Internet Service Provider WLAN – Wireless Local Area Network Yagi antenna – A directional antenna used to concentrate wireless signals on a specific location D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 56: Technical Specifications

    • Power • WAN • LAN Dimensions • L = 7.5 inches (190.5mm) • W = 4.6 inches (116.84mm) • H = 1.375 inches (35mm) Power Input • External Power Supply DC 5V, 2.5A Warranty • 1-Year Appendix D-Link Systems, Inc.

  • Page 57: Contacting Technical Support

    Contacting Technical Support You can find software updates and user documentation on the D-Link website. D-Link provides free technical support for customers within the United States and within Canada for the duration of the warranty period on this product. U.S. and Canadian customers can contact D-Link technical support through our web site, or by phone.

  • Page 58: Warranty

    D-Link’s sole discretion. Such repair or replacement will be rendered by D-Link at an Authorized D-Link Service Office. The replacement Hardware need not be new or have an identical make, model or part. D-Link may in its sole discretion replace the defective Hardware (or any part thereof) with any reconditioned product that D-Link reasonably determines is substantially equivalent (or superior) in all material respects to the defective Hardware.
  • Page 59 D-Link or become the property of D-Link. Products shall be fully insured by the customer. D-Link will not be held responsible for any packages that are lost in transit to D-Link. The repaired or replaced packages will be shipped to the customer via UPS Ground or any common carrier selected by D-Link, with shipping charges prepaid.
  • Page 60 This limited warranty provides specific legal rights and the product owner may also have other rights which vary from state to state. Trademarks: D-Link is a registered trademark of D-Link Systems, Inc. Other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective manufacturers or owners.
  • Page 61 Appendix For detailed warranty outside the United States, please contact corresponding local D-Link office. FCC Caution: The manufacturer is not responsible for any radio or TV interference caused by unauthorized modifications to this equipment; such modifications could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment.

  • Page 62: Registration

    Appendix Registration Product registration is entirely voluntary and failure to complete or return this form will not diminish your warranty rights. D-Link Systems, Inc.

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