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  • Page 1 ’ ’ Revision 1.0 July 2004...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual Table of Contents INTRODUCTION....................4 ......................4 EATURES GATEWAY OVERVIEW ..................5 ..................5 ORTS AND UTTONS LED D ..................6 ESCRIPTION INSTALLING YOUR GATEWAY ..............7 SETTING UP YOUR GATEWAY ..............8 ................8 OG INTO ATEWAY ....................9 CREEN ......................10 ETUP 4.3.1 Wide Area Network Connection............10 4.3.2...
  • Page 3 SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide 4.7.8 Bridge Filters ..................32 4.7.9 Multicast ....................34 4.7.10 Static Routing..................35 4.7.11 Dynamic Routing .................36 ......................37 OOLS 4.8.1 System Commands ................37 4.8.2 Remote Log ..................37 4.8.3 User Management................38 4.8.4 Update Gateway...................38 4.8.5 Ping Test ....................39 4.8.6 Modem Test..................39 4.8.7...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual Introduction The SOHOSpeed ADSL Gateway is the perfect high-speed WAN bridge/router. This full- featured product is specifically designed to connect to the Internet and directly connect to your local area network via high speed 10/100 Mbps Ethernet or 802.11b/g. The gateway also has full NAT firewall and DMZ services to block unwanted users from accessing your network.

  • Page 5: Gateway Overview

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide Gateway Overview Your gateway has many ports, switches and LEDs. Let’s take a look at the different options. Depending upon your model of gateway, your gateway may have some or all of the features listed below Ports and Buttons (1 Port Ethernet Gateway)

  • Page 6: Led Description

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual LED Description (1 Port Ethernet Gateway) (1 Port Wireless Gateway) (4 Ports Ethernet Gateway) (4 Ports Wireless Gateway) Power LED: The LED stays lighted to indicate the system is power on properly. WAN LED: This LED is lighted when the WAN connection is established and flashes when the WAN port is sending/receiving data.

  • Page 7: Installing Your Gateway

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide Installing Your Gateway 1. Locate an optimum location for the gateway. 2. For connections to the Ethernet and DSL interfaces, refer to the quick start guide. 3. Connect the AC Power Adapter. Depending upon the type of network, you may want to put the power supply on an uninterruptible supply.

  • Page 8: Setting Up Your Gateway

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual Setting up Your Gateway This section will guide you through your gateway’s configuration. The gateway is shipped with a standard default bridge configuration; for most users, you may want to change the gateway from a bridge to a router. Log into Your Gateway To configure your gateway, open your web browser.

  • Page 9: Home Screen

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide Home Screen The first screen (Figure 2) that appears (after the log in screen) is the Home screen. From this screen the user can setup the modem (configure the LAN and WAN connection(s), configure the advanced configuration options within the modem (security, routing, and filtering), access tools that are helpful for debug purposes, obtain the status of the modem, and view the extensive online help.

  • Page 10: Setup

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual Setup To setup your gateway with a basic configuration, from the Home page, select Setup. Figure 3 illustrates the setup page. The page is broken into two subsections the WAN configuration and the LAN configuration. Before configuring the Gateway, there are several concepts that you should be familiar with on how your new Gateway works.

  • Page 11: New Connection

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide For PPPoA or PPPoE users, you also need these values from your ISP: • Your username and password For RFC 1483 users, you may need these values from your ISP: • Your DSL fixed Internet IP address •...

  • Page 12: Pppoa Connection Setup

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual (at the top of the page) and select System Commands. At the system commands page, click on Save All. 4.4.1.2 PPPoA Connection Setup PPPoA is also known as RFC 2364. It is a method of encapsulating PPP packets over ATM cells which are carried over the DSL line.

  • Page 13: Pppoe Connection Setup

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide Figure 5 (PPPoA Connection Setup) To complete the connection you must now click the apply button. The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Tools (at the top of the page) and select System Commands.

  • Page 14: Dhcp Connection Setup

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual n. Keep Alive: When on-demand option is not enable, this value specifies the time to wait without being connected to your provider before terminating the connection. To ensure that the link is always active, enter a 0 in this field. o.

  • Page 15: Static Connection Setup

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide To configure the gateway for a DHCP connection, click on Setup and then click on Connection. The default DHCP connection setup is displayed. At the Type field select DHCP and the DHCP connection setup page is displayed; figure 7 illustrates a typical DHCP configuration.

  • Page 16: Classical Ip Over Atm Connection Setup

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual To configure the gateway for a Static connection, click on Setup and then click on Connection. The default Static connection setup is displayed. At the Type field select Static and the Static connection setup page is displayed; figure 8 illustrates a typical Static configuration.

  • Page 17: Modify An Existing Connection

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide To configure the gateway for a CLIP connection, click on Setup and then click on Connection. The default CLIP connection setup is displayed. At the Type field select CLIP and the CLIP connection setup page is displayed; figure 9 illustrates a typical CLIP configuration.

  • Page 18: Configuring The Wlan

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual Configuring the WLAN Before you can use the wireless to access Internet or wire LAN via the modem, you must enable the AP functionality of this modem first. You can enable it following below setting, Setup Wireless Enable...

  • Page 19: Configuring The Lan

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide Following is a description of the different options: Beacon Period: Beacon is a special broadcast packet sent by AP, the unit is 1024 us DTIM Period: Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM), if AP have broadcast packets need to transmit in Beacon packet will include this parameter, to indicates the number of Beacon intervals between successive DTIMs, default value is 2 RTS Threshold: if the packet size is large than this value, AP will start RTS/CTS transmitted,...

  • Page 20: Enable/Disable Dhcp

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual 4.6.1 Enable/Disable DHCP To enable or disable DHCP go to the Home screen, Click setup. Under LAN Setup, select DHCP Configuration. This will bring up the screen shown in Figure 10. The Start IP Address is where the DHCP server starts issuing IP addresses. This value must be greater than the gateways IP address value.

  • Page 21: Changing The Gateways Ip Address

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide In addition to the DHCP server feature, the gateway supports the DHCP relay function. When the gateway is configured as DHCP server, it assigns the IP addresses to the LAN clients. When the gateway is configured as DHCP relay, it is responsible for forwarding the requests and responses negotiating between the DHCP clients and the server.

  • Page 22: Firewall/Nat Services

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual Figure 12 (Management IP address) The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Tools (at the top of the page) and select System Commands. At the system commands page, click on Save All.

  • Page 23: Wireless Security

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide 4.7.1 Wireless Security For security issue, when you using wireless you probable want to enable wireless security functionality, there have three methods of security supported in this modem. Following the instruction Advanced Wireless Security, by default security is disable. None: By default, the wireless security functionality is disabled WEP: defined in IEEE802.11, this modem support 64, 128 and 256 bits encryption key 802.1x: IEEE802.1x with RADIUS Server support...

  • Page 24: 802.1X

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual Notice that after you change any parameters of Wireless, you must Restart the AP. 4.7.1.2 802.1x Before you used 802.1x to secure your WLAN, you need to setup RADIUS Server to provide authentication service, then you type the IP of the RADIUS Server in Server IP Address record, and secret key in Secret...

  • Page 25: Wpa

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide Following is a description of the different options: Port: the RADIUS Server’s TCP/IP port number Group Key Interval: one problem of WEP is WEP never change the encapsulation key, RADIUS can fix this problem by renew key in a time period. 4.7.1.3 WPA WPA is instructed by 802.1x, EAP and TKIP, but for SOHO environment, where there are no central authentication servers or EAP framework, WPA provide another method for such...

  • Page 26: Wireless Management

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual 4.7.2 Wireless Management There have three methods to help administrator to manage Wireless, Access List, Associated Stations and Multiple SSID. 4.7.2.1 Access List You can allow/ban a user to access Internet via wireless by put its MAC address on this access list.

  • Page 27: Associated Stations

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide 4.7.2.2 Associated Stations You can see a user information list that is associated with this AP, you can reject its access by click the Ban Station button on the left side in each row.

  • Page 28: Multiple Ssid

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual 4.7.2.3 Multiple SSID This functionality can not used combine with any wireless security functionality, you must disable wireless security function before use it. To enable this functionality, just select Enable Multiple SSID, type a new SSID and click button.

  • Page 29: Upnp

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide 4.7.3 UPnP UPnP NAT and Firewall Traversal allow traffic to pass-thru the Gateway for applications using the UPnP protocol. This feature requires one active DSL connection. In presence of multiple DSL connections, select the one over which the incoming traffic will be present, for example the default Internet connection.

  • Page 30: Port Forwarding

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual 4.7.4 Port Forwarding Using the Port Forwarding page, you can provide local services (for example web hosting) for people on the Internet or play Internet games. When users send this type of request to your network via the Internet, the Gateway will forward those requests to the appropriate PC.

  • Page 31: Advanced Security

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide 4.7.5 Advanced Security In the presence of the firewall, anonymous Internet traffic is blocked. Using the advanced security features, you can redirect this traffic to a dedicated computer on your local network (DMZ) or open the access from the Internet to the Gateway's management ports (web, telnet). The Gateway's firewall and NAT services (port forwarding, access control) can be disabled for all interfaces by un-checking the "Enable Firewall and NAT Service"...

  • Page 32: Enable Remote Telnet

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual 4.7.5.3 Enable Remote Telnet Enabling the Remote Web on your local network allows telnet requests that come from the Internet to be re-routed to a telnet Server that is on a different LAN IP subnet. This is different that the telnet server rule that is configurable via the port-forwarding page.
  • Page 33 SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide The User Interface for Bridge Filter allows the user to add/edit/delete, as well as, enables the filter rules. To add rules, simply define the source MAC address, destination MAC address and frame type with desired filtering type (i.e. allow/deny), and press the “Add” button. The MAC address must be in a xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx format, with 00-00-00-00-00-00 as “don’t care”.

  • Page 34: Multicast

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual Tip: On a windows based machine, to find a MAC address, at a DOS prompt type ipconfig /all. The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Tools (at the top of the page) and select System Commands. At the system commands page, click on Save All.

  • Page 35: Static Routing

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide 4.7.10 Static Routing If the Gateway is connected to more than one network, you may need to set up a static route between them. A static route is a pre-defined pathway that network information must travel to reach a specific host or network.

  • Page 36: Dynamic Routing

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual 4.7.11 Dynamic Routing Dynamic Routing allows the Gateway to automatically adjust to physical changes in the network. The Gateway, using the RIP protocol, determines the network packets’ route based on the fewest number of hops between the source and the destination. The RIP protocol regularly broadcasts routing information to other routers on the network.

  • Page 37: Tools

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide Tools The gateway supports a host of tools which will allow you to customize and debug your gateway. 4.8.1 System Commands To make the changes permanent you need to click on Tools (at the top of the page) and select System Commands.

  • Page 38: User Management

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual 4.8.3 User Management You can change your gateway’s username and password by going to the Home screen, under the tools menu, click User Management. From here you can change the login name and password. You can also change the idle timeout; you will need to log back onto the gateway once the timeout expires.

  • Page 39: Ping Test

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide 4.8.5 Ping Test Once you have your gateway configured, it is a good idea to make sure you can Ping the network. You can get to the Ping web page by going to the Home screen, under the Tools title, click Ping Test.

  • Page 40: Status

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual Status The Status section allows you to view the Status/Statistics of different connections and interfaces. 4.9.1 Network Statistics Select to view the Statistics of different interfaces - Ethernet/USB/DSL. 4.9.2 Connection Status Select to view the Status of different connections. 4.9.3 DHCP Clients Select to view the list of DHCP clients.

  • Page 41: Appendix A: Troubleshooting

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide Appendix A: Troubleshooting Below is a list of commonly asked questions. Before calling technical support, please look through these issues to see if they help solve your problem. The gateway is not functional. Check to see that the power LED is green and than the network cables are installed correctly.

  • Page 42: The Leds Blink In A Sequential Pattern

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Gateway User’s Manual The LEDs blink in a sequential pattern. This typically means that either the kernel or flash file system is corrupted. The only way to recover from this type of failure is via the PC tool. You need to install the PC tool that was provided with SOHOSpeed ADSL Gateway and perform the following steps: In windows disable all network adapters except the one, which is connected to the gateway.

  • Page 43: Gateway Terms

    SOHOSpeed ADSL Ethernet/Wireless Router User’s Guide Gateway terms What is a firewall? A firewall is protection between the Internet and your local network. It acts similarly to the firewall in your car, protecting the interior of the car from the engine. Your car's firewall has very small opening that allow desired connections from the engine into the cabin (gas pedal connection, etc), but if something happens to your engine, you are protected.
  • Page 44 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:(1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user‘s authority to operate the equipment.

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