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U-011-03E0-000516

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  • Page 1 User’ s Manual U-011-03E0-000516...
  • Page 2 Copyright The contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any part or as a whole, stored, transcribed in an information retrieval system, translated into any language, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, magnetic, electronic, optical, photocopying, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission.

  • Page 3: Fcc Interference Statement

    FCC Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against radio interference in a commercial environment. This equipment can generate, use and radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions in this manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Chapter 3 Network Settings and Software Installation ... 11 3.1 Make Correct Network Settings of Your Computer ... 11 3.2 Install the Software into Your Computers ...12 Chapter 4 Configuring NAT Router ...15 4.1 Start-up and Log in...15 4.2 Status ...16 4.3 Toolbox...17...
  • Page 5 Appendix A Console Mode ...30 Appendix B TCP/IP Configuration for Windows 95/98 ...31 B.1 Install TCP/IP Protocol into Your PC ...31 B.2 Set TCP/IP Protocol for Working with NAT Router...32...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding Broadband Router. This product is specifically designed for Small Office and Home Office needs. It provides a complete SOHO solution for Internet surfing and office resources sharing, and it is easy to configure and operate for even non-technical users. Instructions for installing and configuring this product can be found in this manual.

  • Page 7: Packing List

    Lets a networked computer to be fully exposed to the Internet; this function is used when special application sensing tunnel feature is insufficient to allow an application to function correctly. 1.2 Packing List One broadband router unit One installation CD-ROM One power cord and power adapter Two CAT-5 UTP Fast Ethernet cable...

  • Page 8: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2.1 Panel Layout 2.1.1. Front Panel M1&M2 System status indicators, Orange. M1 is flashed once per second to indicate system is alive. When system is busy, M2 is lighted. WAN & LAN Ethernet port indicators, Green. The LED flickers when LAN or WAN port is sending or receiving data.

  • Page 9: Installation Requirements

    (Optional) WAN port socket (RJ -45). This is where you will connect to your cable (or DSL) modem or Ethernet router. Serial port connector (9-pins D-type male). This is where you will connect your modem. This port is also a console port.

  • Page 10: Procedure For Hardware Installation

    2.3 Procedure for Hardware Installation 1. Setup LAN connection: connect an Ethernet cable from your computer’ s Ethernet port to one of the LAN ports of this product. Figure 2-3 Setup of LAN connections for this product. 2. Setup WAN connection: prepare an Ethernet cable for connecting this product to your cable/xDSL modem or Ethernet backbone.
  • Page 11 4. Power on: Connecting the power cord to power inlet and turning the power switch on, this product will automatically enter the self-test phase. When it is in the self-test phase, the indicators M1 and M2 will be lighted ON for about 5 seconds, and then M1 and M2 will be flashed 3 times to indicate that the self-test operation has finished.

  • Page 12: Chapter 3 Network Settings And Software Installation

    Chapter 3 Network Settings and Software Installation To use this product correctly, you have to properly configure the network settings of your computers and install the attached setup program into your MS Windows platform (Windows 95/98/NT/2000). 3.1 Make Correct Network Settings of Your Computer The default IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254, and the default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.

  • Page 13: Install The Software Into Your Computers

    there must be something wrong in your installation procedure. You have to check the following items in sequence: Is the Ethernet cable correctly connected between this product and your computer? Tip: The LAN LED of this product and the link LED of network card on your computer must be lighted.
  • Page 14 Step 2: Click on the INSTALL button. Wait until the following Welcome dialog to appear, and click on the Next button. Step 3: Select the destination folder and click on the Next button. Then, the setup program will begin to install the programs into the destination folder. -13-...
  • Page 15 Step 5: Select the item to restart the computer and then click the OK button to reboot your computer. Step 6: After rebooting your computer, the software installation procedure is finished. Now, you can configure the NAT Router (refer to Chapter 4) and setup the Print Server (refer to Chapter 5). -14-...

  • Page 16: Chapter 4 Configuring Nat Router

    Chapter 4 Configuring NAT Router This product provides Web based configuration scheme, that is, configuring by Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer. This approach can be adopted in any MS Windows, Macintosh or UNIX based platforms. 4.1 Start-up and Log in Activate your browser, and disable the proxy or add the IP address of this product into the exceptions.

  • Page 17: Status

    4.2 Status This option provides the function for observing this product’ s working status: A. WAN Port Status. If the WAN port is assigned a dynamic IP, there may appear a “ Renew” or “Release” button on the Sidenote column. You can click this button to renew or release IP manually.

  • Page 18: Toolbox

    4.3 Toolbox This option enables you change the administrator password. Besides, you can get the information about Firmware version and WAN's MAC Address. You can also reboot this product by clicking the Reboot button. Note: we strongly recommend you to change the system password for security reason. If you forgot the system password, please refer to Appendix A to reset a new one.

  • Page 19: Primary Setup

    4.4 Primary Setup This option is primary to enable this product to work properly. The setting items and the web appearance depend on the WAN type. Choose correct WAN type before you start. 1. LAN IP Address: this product’ s IP address. The default address is 192.168.123.254. You can change it on your need.
  • Page 20 4.4.1 Static IP Address WAN IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, Primary and Secondary DNS: enter the proper setting value provided by your ISP. 4.4.2 Dynamic IP Address Host Name: optional. Required by some ISPs, for example, @Home. Renew IP Forever: this feature enable this product renew IP address automatically when the lease time is being expired even the system is in idle state.

  • Page 21: Dhcp Server

    4.5 DHCP Server The settings of TCP/IP environment include Host IP, Subnet Mask, Gateway, and DNS configurations. It is not a simple task to correctly configure all the computers in your LAN environment. Fortunately, DHCP provides a rather simple approach to handle all these settings.

  • Page 22: Virtual Server

    4.6 Virtual Server This product’ s NAT firewall filters out unrecognized packets to protect your Intranet, so all hosts behind this product are invisible to the outside world. If you wish, you can make some of them accessible by enabling the Virtual Server Mapping. A virtual server is defined as a Service Port, and all requests to this port will be redirected to the computer specified by the Server IP.

  • Page 23: Special Ap

    Internet telephony and so on. Due to the firewall function, these applications can not work with pure NAT router. Special Applications makes some of these applications to work with NAT router. If Special Applications is still insufficient to allow an application to function correctly, try DMZ host in the Misc Items options.

  • Page 24: Access Control

    4.8 Access Control Access Control allows you to assign different access right for different users. First, you have to divide users into different groups. Users are identified by their IP addresses. You can assign the members of Group 1, 2 and 3. The others are all members of Default Group. Second, you have to assign the access right of each group.

  • Page 25: Misc Items

    4.9 Misc Items 1. IP Address of DMZ Host: DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone) Host is a host without the protection of firewall. It allows a computer to be exposed to unrestricted 2-way communication. Note that, this feature should be used only when needed. 2.

  • Page 26: Chapter 5 Print Server

    Chapter 5 Print Server This product provides the function of network print server for MS Windows 95/98/NT and Unix based platforms. (If the product you purchased doesn’t have printer port, please skip this chapter.) 5.1 Configuring on Windows 95/98 Platforms After you finished the software installation procedure described in Chapter 3, your computer has possessed the network printing facility provided by this product.
  • Page 27 1. Find out the corresponding icon of your server printer, for example, the HP LaserJet 6L. Click the mouse’ s right button on that icon, and then select the Properties item: 2. Click the Details item: -26-...

  • Page 28: Configuring On Windows Nt Platforms

    3. Choose the “PRTmate: (All-in-1)” from the list attached at the Print To item. Be sure that the Printer Driver item is configured to the correct driver of your server printer. 4. Click on the button of Port Settings: Type in the IP address of this product and then click the OK button. 5.

  • Page 29: Configuring On Windows 2000 Platforms

    Compared to the procedure in last section, the selection of Details is equivalent to the selection of Ports, and Port Settings is equivalent to Configure Port. 5.3 Configuring on Windows 2000 Platforms The configuration procedure for a Windows 2000 platform is similar to that of Windows 95/98 except the screen of printer Properties: Compared to the procedure in last section, the selection of Details is equivalent to the selection of Ports, and Port Settings is equivalent to Configure Port.

  • Page 30: Configuring On Unix Based Platforms

    5.4 Configuring on Unix based Platforms Please follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to setup the print server of this product. The printer name is “lp.” -29-...

  • Page 31: Appendix A Console Mode

    Appendix A Console Mode When you forget the system password or the IP address of this product, you need enter console mode to reset them. Before invoking the console program, be sure to find a null modem cable and use it to connect from this product’...

  • Page 32: Appendix B Tcp/Ip Configuration For Windows 95/98

    And suppose you have been successfully installed one network card on your personal computer. If not, please refer to your network card manual. Moreover, the Section B.2 tells you how to set TCP/IP values for working with this NAT Router correctly. B.1 Install TCP/IP Protocol into Your PC 1.

  • Page 33: Set Tcp/Ip Protocol For Working With Nat Router

    6. The TCP/IP protocol shall be listed in the Network window. Click OK to complete the install procedure and restart your PC to enable the TCP/IP protocol. B.2 Set TCP/IP Protocol for Working with NAT Router 1. Click Start button and choose Settings, then click Control Panel.
  • Page 34 2. Double click Network icon. Select the TCP/IP line that has been associated to your network card in the Configuration tab of the Network window. 3. Click Properties button to set the TCP/IP protocol for this NAT Router. 4. Now, you have two setting methods: A.
  • Page 35 Select Obtain an IP address automatically in the IP Address tab. -34-...
  • Page 36 b. Don’t input any value in the Gateway tab. -35-...
  • Page 37 c. Choose Disable DNS in the DNS Configuration tab. -36-...
  • Page 38 B. Configure IP manually Select Specify an IP address in the IP Address tab. The default IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254. So please use 192.168.123.xxx (xxx is between 1 and 253) for IP Address field and 255.255.255.0 for Subnet Mask field.
  • Page 39 b. In the Gateway tab, add the IP address of this product (default IP is 192.168.123.254) in the New gateway field and click Add button. -38-...
  • Page 40 c. In the DNS Configuration tab, add the DNS values which are provided by the ISP into DNS Server Search Order field and click Add button. -39-...

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