BROWAN reserves the right to change specifications without prior notice. While the information in this document has been compiled with great care, it may not be deemed an assurance of product characteristics. BROWAN shall be liable only to the degree specified in the terms of sale and delivery.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Federal Communication Commission 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 harmful interference in a residential installation.
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Purpose This document provides information and procedures on hardware installation, setup, configuration, and management of the high performance Outdoor Access Point BW2251. Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge To use this document effectively, you should have a working knowledge of Local Area Networking (LAN) concepts and wireless Internet access infrastructures.
The BW2251 is fully compliant to 802.11a/b/g/n standard and provides the flexibility of different kinds of 802.11n, 802.11a, 802.11g or 802.11b clients access to the BW2251. With the high speed data rate(Max. 300Mbps) and security, feature rich software functionality, it provides the high performance wireless connection for the SMB, enterprise, and hotspot of public area.
Power option includes an integrated IEEE 802.3at Power-over-Ethernet port enables effortless deployment in various environments. Easy and Secure Remote Management BW2251 supports secure remote management through HTTPS, CLISH, SNMP and TR-069(DMS) management. Secure management via HTTPs, CLISH, SNMP Support TR-069 protocol...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Chapter 2 – Hardware Installation Hardware Introduction General Overview BW2251 equips with an aluminum-alloy frame-resistant with waterproof design housing is able to operate even under extreme weather conditions. Figure 1 – BW2251 General View I/O Interface Antenna(2.4G)
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Bottom Cover The Bottom Cover of the BW2251 contains: Item Connector Description Console For console connection(RJ-45 interface) ETH/PoE Connecting RJ-45 cable to Ethenet network and for PoE power supply. Ant. connector WLAN 1(2.4G) N type antenna connector(mark with ANT1) Ant.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Back label The back label format as below. Figure 4 – back label 1. Back Label with MAC address and S/N, model name, certification…etc. 2. MAC address. The label shows the WLAN interface MAC address of the device.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Hardware Installation LAN port with waterproof connector The waterproof connector of LAN port is to lock to the corresponding contact on the device in order to be waterproof. Following the assemble instruction shown as below. It is recommend to use shielding(STP) RJ-45 cable to be grounding and shielding.
Failing to do this may result in water leakage and poor contact. Figure 6 – secure the waterproof RJ45 connector Antenna connection and grounding The BW2251 is equipped with N type connector for outdoor antenna connection. Connecting the N type antenna to the connector as shown on the right.
The waterproof tape protect device from water leakage. Use the enclosed waterproof tape to wrap around the base of N type and RJ-45 connector which shown as following. Figure 8 – waterproof tape The BW2251 equipped with aluminum housing already IP-68 rated waterproof. Page 14 of 187...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Mounting kit Step 1 Assemble the supplied mount kit as shown below. The mount kit is made of two parts, mast holder and base. Assemble the mast holder first and combine these two parts. All the screws and nuts must be locked tightly and securely.
Connect DC 48V power supply to PoE injector DC jack. Step 3 Connect the Ethernet cable from the BW2251 to PoE injector “P+data” out port. Step 4 Connect Ethernet cable from PoE injector “data in” port to the computer or through LAN switch connect to your local network.
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Figure 12 – Security alert Figure 13 – login page Step 3 After successful administrator log on you will see the main page of the BW2251 Web interface: Figure 14 – Web interface Management Menu Now you are enabled to perform your configuration.
Nov. 2013 Chapter 3 – Reference Manual----AP Mode This chapter describes the configuration of the BW2251 which works in AP mode using the Web Interface. The BW2251 Web Interface in AP mode is different from that in AP-Router mode. To change your BW2251 to AP-Router mode, please refer to System | System Mode .
System Log – check the system log locally or specify address where to send system log file System Mode – specify whether the BW2251 works in AP mode or in AP router mode System Info – specify some device related information for BW2251 Configuration –...
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Free System Memory – indicate the memory currently available in the BW2251 Total System Memory – indicate the total memory in the BW2251 LAN Mode – indicate static IP or DHCP client is used for BW2251 LAN IP address LAN MAC – display the Ethernet MAC address LAN IP –...
Mode – AP or Bridge mode is be used for this wireless interface Band – specify which band is in use for wireless interface Total Connected Clients – indicate number of the currently connected clients to your BW2251 Tx Power – indicate radio transmit power of the BW2251 MAC ACL –...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Status | Interface Statistics The Interface Statistics shows each network interface status, including Input / Output bytes, packets or error. Figure 18 – Interface Statistics Interface Name – show the name of each network interface, where ixp0 is related to LAN interface, wlan1_x is related to wireless sub-interface.
Apply Changes – save all changes in the interface table at once. Discard Changes – restore all previous values. For such change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears:...
Specify STP(spanning tree protocol) status of 802.1d bridge here. Figure24– 802.1d bridge STP settings STP Status – Enable or disable the 802.1d STP for BW2251 Clicking Edit, the follow UI will be appear: Figure 25 – Edit bridge settings...
Reboot button to restart and take effect for all settings. Network | Attack Countermeasure To protect BW2251 from outside attack, anti-attack polices can be set here based on network needs. Figure 27– Attack Countermeasure settings Anti-DOS Status –...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Network | RADIUS Server Up to 32 different RADIUS servers can be configured in the RADIUS servers menu. By default, one RADIUS server is specified for the system: Figure 28 – RADIUS Servers Settings Details –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Authentication Secret – show the shared secret string that is used to make sure the integrity of data frames used for the Authentication RADIUS server Accounting IP – show the IP address of Accounting RADIUS server If the Accounting IP address is 0.0.0.0, it means that the Accounting service is...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 31 – Add a new RADIUS Server's profile Name – specify the new RADIUS server name which is used for selecting RADIUS server Default – specify this RADIUS profile as default or not. When selected, the profile will be used as default Authentication IP –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 32 – Apply or Discard RADIUS Server Changes Details – show the detail information of this RADIUS Server profile Edit – edit the selected RADIUS Server entry you want to configure Delete – delete the selected RADIUS Server entry. The last entry can not be deleted Add –...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Network | RADIUS Properties General RADIUS settings are configured using the RADIUS Properties menu under the network: Figure 34 – RADIUS Properties settings RADIUS Retries – retry count of sending RADIUS packets before giving up [0-99] RADIUS Timeout (seconds) –...
Discard Changes – restore all previous values Network | DHCP In AP mode, BW2251 can act as DHCP server. The DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) service is supported on layer 2 interfaces. DHCP server and DHCP relay are disabled by default.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Status – select status from the drop-down menu. Disabled – disable the DHCP server service. DHCP Server – enable the DHCP server service. Choose DHCP Server to enable DHCP server service. DHCP Server This DHCP server service enables clients on the LAN to request configuration information, such as IP address, from a server.
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The Gateway of DHCP server settings must be same with the Gateway of BW2251 For each change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears:...
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When BW2251 network Interface uses DHCP to get IP address dynamically, DHCP server service cannot be enabled. When BW2251 uses DHCP to get IP address, the similar WEB UI will be appeared: Figure 41 – Warning information Page 34 of 187...
Status – Enable or disable the feature of Link Integrity Target IP1 to Target IP5 – IP addresses for BW2251 detecting if its Ethernet interface can access network. The AP will ping every IP address 15 times in sequence. As long as one ping is successful it will consider the network is no problem.
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Apply Changes – save all changes in the interface table at once. Discard Changes – restore all previous values. Maximum 5 target IP can be specified. The BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 46 – Reboot Server Reboot –...
VOIP-phones for the end users. The TR-069 standard was developed for automatic configuration of these devices with Auto Configuration Servers(ACS). configure the remote management through TR069 ACS server(eg:BROWAN DMS server) Figure 48 – TR-069 settings Click Edit button and the similar page will be appeared.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 49 – edit TR-069 settings Status – enable or disable TR-069 setting.[enable/disable] ACS URL – enter the ACS server URL. ACS UserName – the user name for AP register to ACS server. ACS UserPassword – the password for AP register to ACS server.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Reboot – click the button to restart the server and apply the changes. If there is no other settings needed to be modified, click the Reboot button to apply all changes. If there are any other settings need to be changed, continuously to finish and apply all changes and then click Reboot button to restart and take effect for all settings.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Wireless Wireless | Basic Use the Wireless | Basic menu to configure wireless settings such as regulatory domain, channel, band, and power, layer 2 isolation. Click the edit button on the setting you need to change: Figure 51 –...
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DCA threshold – specify the value (in minutes) of DCA threshold. This threshold is been used to judge if there is no wireless users connected during this time. And if yes, BW2251 will monitor the environment and adjust channel for the best operational one.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Wireless users’ will be kicked off when DCA is processing (new operational frequency channel takes effect). DCA optional channel – show the channels only in which auto channel selection (DCA) will be processed to reduce interference.
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Nov. 2013 Figure 54 – Edit Basic Wireless Settings with DCA enabled Radio Name – specify wireless interface of BW2251 is shown Mode – configure the radio operation mode. [AP mode or Dynamic Bridge mode]. There will be different configuration for the two mode within Wireless | Advanced menu. Please refer to corresponding chapter.
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DCA threshold – specify the value (in minutes) of DCA threshold. This threshold is been used to judge if there is no wireless users connected during this time. And if yes, BW2251 will monitor the environment and adjust channel for the best operational one.
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Change status or leave in the default state if no editing is necessary and click the Save button. Figure 56 – Apply or Discard dynamicbridge setting For such change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears:...
BW2251 supports Multiple BSSID (MBSSID) function. You can configure up to 16 BSSIDs on BW2251 and assign different configuration settings to each BSSID. For wireless users, they can think BW2251 as single AP with multi-service supporting, including different security policy, different VLAN ID, different authentication etc.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 AP Mode If you configure AP mode, the page will be shown as below in Wireless | Advanced menu. Figure 58 – Advanced Wireless Setting (AP Mode) Radio – specify wireless interface to be configured.[wlan1(2.4G/wlan2(5G)] Mode –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 59 – BSSID Setting -1 Radio – show the wireless interface is being configured. Interface – show the current sub-interface. Mode – show the operation mode of current radio. SSID – a unique ID for your wireless network. It is case sensitive and must not exceed 32 characters.
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WMM –BW2251 support WMM wireless clients and implement WMM QoS with the WMM clients. [enable] ESS in Tunnel – Settings for ESS in tunnel. When enabled, BW2251 setup tunnel with remote AC for passing through layer3 network. Remote Server IP – IP address of remote AC product that setup tunnel with BW2251...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 61 – Multiple BSSID Setting – 3 Security – specify the security policy WEP – Wired Equivalent Privacy(WEP) is a security algorithm for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. WEP Key Index – select the default key Index to make it the Default key and encrypt the data before being transmitted.
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Group Key MAC Auth – when selected, the MAC address of wireless client will be passed to RADIUS server for PAP authentication when it connects with BW2251. The MAC address of wireless client acts as username and password RADIUS Server Profile –...
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Change status or leave in the default state if no editing is necessary and click the Save button. Figure 64 –Apply or Discard the advanced Settings in AP mode For each change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears:...
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DynamicBridge is smart, high efficiency, high performance, easy deployment and easy configuration for point to multi-point bridge link. It enables BW2251 to automatically seek and associate nearby root AP and dynamically self-configure for wireless bridge connection. Whenever a bridge link is broken, the network will auto re-configure route to minimize the lost of WLAN operation.
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Click Save button to save the change of settings or Cancel button to discard the change Figure 68 –Apply or Discard the advanced Settings in Bridge mode For each change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 69 –...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Reboot – click the button to restart the server and apply the changes. If there is no other setting needed to be modified, click the Reboot button for applying all modifications. And if there are still other setting modifications needed, go ahead to finish all changes and then click Reboot button to restart and apply all settings together.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 72 –Apply or Discard WEP Configuration For each change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 73 – Reboot information Reboot –...
Nov. 2013 Wireless | MAC ACL Use the MAC ACL service to control the default access to the wireless interface of the BW2251 or define special access rules for mobile clients. Configure the ACL using the Wireless | MAC ACL menu: Figure 74 –...
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Apply Changes – to save all changes made in the interface table at once Discard Changes – restore all previous values For such change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 78 –...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Reboot – click the button to restart the server and apply the changes If there is no other settings needed to be modified, click the Reboot button to apply all changes. If there are any other settings need to be changed, continuously to finish and apply all changes and then click Reboot button to restart and take effect for all settings.
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Save – click the button to save the new Allowed MAC List entry Cancel – discard change and restore all previous values For such change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 83 –Save Allowed MAC List Changes...
Adjacent Interference –display the neighbor access point channel adjacent to BW2251.[“Y”,yes or “N”,no]. It is based on the neighbor within 4 channels of BW2251. For instance, if BW2251 channel is 6 then the neighbor access point will be marked “Y” if its channel is 2,3,4,5 or 7,8,9,10.
Figure 87 – enable 5G priority Interface – the interface of BW2251 SSID – the SSID of BW2251.[both 2.4G and 5G] Reject counter – the counter that AP will reject 2.4G client connection Interval second – the interval second during every reject counter Delay –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 If there is no other settings needed to be modified, click the Reboot button to apply all changes. If there are any other settings need to be changed, continuously to finish and apply all changes and then click Reboot button to restart and take effect for all settings.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 User User | Users The User | Users menu shows the statistics of connected users. The user can be monitored and managed such as drop from the network. Figure 90 – User’s statistics User – show the connected client’s MAC address Interface –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 91 – User’s Details MAC address – hardware address of the network device from which the user is connected L2 Auth – show layer2 authentication status, including all supported EAP type of 802.1x auth and MAC auth WISP –...
The Station Supervision function is used to monitor the connected host station availability. This monitoring is performed with ping. If the specified number of ping failures is reached (failure count), the user is logged out from the BW2251. Figure 92 – Station Supervision To adjust the ping interval/failure count, click the Edit button.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 For such change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 95 – Reboot Server Reboot – click the button to restart the server and apply the changes If there is no other settings needed to be modified, click the Reboot button to apply all changes.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Services | SNMP SNMP is the standard protocol that regulates network management over the Internet. To communicate with SNMP manager you must set up the same SNMP communities and identifiers on both ends: manager and agent.
Thus the modified time will be taken effect at once. No reboot is needed. If NTP is enabled, the local time cannot be modified. Since BW2251 hasn’t RTC (real-time clock), the system time will back to 1970/01/01 00:00 after reboot.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 101 – NTP Settings NTP Status – specify enable or disable this NTP service Time Zone – specify the time zone for NTP service Delete – delete the existed NTP server Edit – edit the settings of the existed NTP server Add –...
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Click Save button to save new Time Zone setting. Figure 105 – Apply or Discard Time Zone/NTP status Changes For each change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 106 –...
Figure 108 – edit Software Watchdog settings Status – Enable or Disable software watchdog Check Interval – the periodical time that software watchdog checks the whole file system of BW2251. The hardware watchdog function will protect device even the operation system crash.
The System | Administrator menu is for changing the administrator’s settings: username and password: Figure 110 – system security settings User Name – administrator username for access to BW2251 (e.g. web interface, CLI mode) [1-32 symbols, spaces not allowed] Old Password – old password New Password –...
Do not output “debug” log unless there are important issue needs to be clarified. Debug log will output all of the information so that it will severely drop down the network performance. BW2251 support standard sys. log server. Save – save changes Cancel – restore the previous values...
In this page, you can select the system mode of your BW2251. Figure 116 – System Mode Settings Mode – select whether the system mode of BW2251 is AP mode or AP Router mode AP – The Ethernet interface and wireless interface will bridge into the same interface working as transparent access point.
Apply and Reboot – click the button to restart the device and apply all setting changes The BW2251 Web Interface in AP mode is different from that in AP-Router mode. For the detailed configuration of BW2251 working in AP-Router mode, please refer to the next chapter: Chapter 4 –...
A configuration file name will be required when you download/save the configuration file. And please remember or re-name the file if necessary. The configuration file name should only include characters or numbers. Otherwise, this configuration file will not upload to BW2251. Page 77 of 187...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 You can upload saved configuration file any time you want to restore this configuration to the device by using the Browse button. Select the configuration file and upload it on the device: Figure 123 – Configuration Upload/Restore - 1 Click Upload for upload the specified configuration and then the similar UI appears Figure 124 –...
Click the Upload and then click the browse button to specify the full path of the new firmware image and click the Upload button: Figure 130 – Firmware Upgrade Click the Upgrade button to flash and upgrade the firmware. Please make sure the firmware is correct for BW2251. Otherwise the upgrade will be failed. Page 79 of 187...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 131 – upgrade firmware Do not turn off the BW2251 during the firmware update process. It will backward to previous version in case upgrade failure. Update firmware will take about 4 minutes. System | TFTP Upgrade BW2251 support firmware upgrade via TFTP server.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Please make sure the firmware is correct for BW2251. Otherwise the upgrade will be failed. Do not turn off the BW2251 during the firmware update process. It will backward to previous version in case upgrade failure.
The BW2251 Web Interface in AP-Router mode is different from that in AP mode. To change your BW2251 to AP mode, please refer to System | System Mode . For the detailed configuration of BW2251 working in AP mode, please refer to: Chapter 3 –...
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System Log – check the system log locally or specify address where to send system log file System Mode – specify whether the BW2251 works in AP mode or in AP router mode System Info – specify some device related information for BW2251 Configuration –...
Free System Memory – indicate the memory currently available in the BW2251 Total System Memory – indicate the total memory in the BW2251 WAN Mode – indicate static IP or DHCP client is used for BW2251 WAN IP address WAN IP – show the WAN IP address of BW2251 WAN Mask –...
Mode – AP or Bridge mode is be used for this wireless interface Band – specify which band is in use for wireless interface Total Connected Clients – indicate number of the currently connected clients to your BW2251 Tx Power – indicate radio transmit power of the BW2251 MAC ACL –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Output Packets – show the packets number transmitted out of the network interface. Output Errors – show the packets number which contain errors preventing them from being transmitted out correctly. Refresh – get the updated network interface information.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Network Network | Interface The AP-Router contains two kinds of network interfaces: eth1 is worked as wide area network (WAN) interface for Access Points; each BSS interface is worked as local area network (LAN) interface which bridge into the br0 interface.
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Apply Changes – save all changes in the interface table at once. Discard Changes – restore all previous values. For such change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears:...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 144 – Reboot Server Reboot – click the button to restart the server and apply the changes. If there is no other settings needed to be modified, click the Reboot button to apply all changes.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 147 – edit PPPoE service Default WAN gateway specified in Network | Interface page will not be used, because all Internet traffic will be sent/received via the specified PPPoE server (tunnel). Click Save and Apply Changes button to take effect the changes.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Click Edit button to enable or disable the service. Figure 150 – L2TP services Name – service name Status – change status for this service.[disable/enable] Server IP – enter the server IP address. [in digits and dots notation, e.g. 192.168.2.2] Username –...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 153 – reboot and take effect the changes If there is no other settings needed to be modified, click the Reboot button to apply all changes. If there are any other settings need to be changed, continuously to finish and apply all changes and then click Reboot button to restart and take effect for all settings.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 155 – Detail for Radius Server profile Name – the new RADIUS server name which is used for selecting RADIUS server If a “(default)” appears on the right side of the Name entry, it means this RADIUS server profile is the default profile.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 156 – Edit the RADIUS Server’s profile Figure 157 – Add a new RADIUS Server's profile Name – specify the new RADIUS server name which is used for selecting RADIUS server Default – specify this RADIUS profile as default or not. When selected, the profile will be used as default Authentication IP –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Accounting Port –specify the network port used to communicate with the Accounting RADIUS server [1-65535] Accounting Secret – shared secret string that is used to make sure the integrity of data frames used for the Accounting RADIUS server The default port value for authentication is 1812.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 159 – Reboot Server Reboot – restart the access point to make applied changes work. If there is no other settings needed to be modified, click the Reboot button to apply all changes. If there are any other settings need to be changed, continuously to finish and apply all changes and then click Reboot button to restart and take effect for all settings.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 User Session Timeout (seconds) – amount of time from the user side (no network carrier) before closing the connect [1-999999999] User Accounting Update Interval (Seconds) – period after which server should update accounting information [60-999999999] User Accounting Update Retry (seconds) –...
Discard Changes – restore all previous values Network | DNS DNS (Domain Name Service) service allows BW2251 subscribers to enter URLs instead of IP addresses into their browser to reach the desired web site. You can enter the DNS server settings under the Network | DNS menu.
Change status or leave in the default state if no editing is necessary and click the Save button. Figure 165 – Apply or Discard DNS server Settings For each change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 166 –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Interface Name – select which LAN interface to be configured.[only br0 interface in BW2251] Select the interface, and then click Edit button, a similar screen will appear as below: Figure 168 – Set DHCP Mode Mode –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 170 – Apply or Discard DHCP server Settings The DHCP server settings will be automatically adjusted to match the network interface settings. If all of the DHCP settings are correct, click Apply Changes, request for reboot server appears: Figure 171 –...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Network | DHCP Lease This page display the DHCP lease information of wireless client which connect to the AP when DHCP server enable. Figure 172 – DHCP lease information Host Name – the host name of wireless client which associate to the access point.
Figure 175 – Save New Route Static route will take effect immediately after click save button. Network | Attack Countermeasure To protect BW2251 from outside attack, anti-attack polices can be set here based on network needs. Figure 176– Attack Countermeasure settings Anti-DOS Status –...
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Status – Enable or disable the feature of Link Integrity Target IP1 to Target IP5 – IP addresses for BW2251 detecting if its Ethernet interface can access network. The AP will ping every IP address 15 times in sequence. As long as one ping is success it will consider the network is reachable.
VOIP-phones for the end users. The TR-069 standard was developed for automatic configuration of these devices with Auto Configuration Servers(ACS). configure the remote management through TR069 ACS server(eg:BROWAN DMS server) Figure 181 – TR-069 settings Click Edit button and the similar page will be appeared.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 182 – edit TR-069 settings Status – enable or disable TR-069 setting.[enable/disable] ACS URL – enter the ACS server URL. ACS UserName – the user name for AP register to ACS server. ACS UserPassword – the password for AP register to ACS server.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Reboot – click the button to restart the server and apply the changes. Figure 184 – reboot device If there is no other settings needed to be modified, click the Reboot button to apply all changes.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Wireless Wireless | Basic Use the Wireless | Basic menu to configure wireless settings such as regulatory domain, channel, band, and power, layer 2 isolation. Click the edit button on the setting you need to change: Figure 185 –...
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DCA threshold – specify the value (in minutes) of DCA threshold. This threshold is been used to judge if there is no wireless users connected during this time. And if yes, BW2251 will monitor the environment and adjust channel for the best operational one.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Wireless users’ will be kicked off when DCA is processing (new operational frequency channel takes effect). DCA optional channel – show the channels only in which auto channel selection (DCA) will be processed to reduce interference.
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Nov. 2013 Figure 188 – Edit Basic Wireless Settings with DCA enabled Radio Name – specify wireless interface of BW2251 is shown Mode – configure the radio operation mode. In AP-Router mode, the radio only support AP mode for wireless client connection.
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DCA threshold – specify the value (in minutes) of DCA threshold. This threshold is been used to judge if there is no wireless users connected during this time. And if yes, BW2251 will monitor the environment and adjust channel for the best operational one.
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Figure 189 – Apply or Discard Basic Wireless Settings with Static Channel selection Figure 190 – Apply or Discard Basic Wireless Settings with DCA enabled For such change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears:...
BW2251 supports Multiple BSSID (MBSSID) function. You can configure up to 16 BSSIDs on BW2251 and assign different configuration settings to each BSSID. For wireless users, they can think BW2251 as single AP with multi service supporting, including different security policy, different VLAN ID, different authentication etc.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 AP Mode Figure 192 – Advanced Wireless Setting (AP Mode) Radio – specify wireless interface to be configured. [wlan1(2.4G/wlan2(5G)] Mode – show the current operation mode of this radio (AP or Bridge) Interface – display the interface which corresponding to the SSID. Each Interface maps to a BSSID SSID –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 193 – BSSID Setting -1 Radio – show the wireless interface is being configured. Interface – show the current sub-interface. Mode – show the operation mode of current radio. SSID – a unique ID for your wireless network. It is case sensitive and must not exceed 32 characters.
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WMM –BW2251 support WMM wireless clients and implement WMM QoS with the WMM clients. [enable] ESS in Tunnel – Settings for ESS in tunnel. When enabled, BW2251 setup tunnel with remote AC for passing through layer3 network. Remote Server IP – IP address of remote AC product that setup tunnel with BW2251...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 195 – Multiple BSSID Setting – 3 Security – specify the security policy WEP – Wired Equivalent Privacy(WEP) is a security algorithm for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. WEP Key Index – select the default key Index to make it the Default key and encrypt the data before being transmitted.
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Group Key MAC Auth – when selected, the MAC address of wireless client will be passed to RADIUS server for PAP authentication when it connects with BW2251. The MAC address of wireless client acts as username and password RADIUS Server Profile –...
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Change status or leave in the default state if no editing is necessary and click the Save button. Figure 198 –Apply or Discard the advanced Settings in AP mode For each change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears:...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 199 – Reboot information Reboot – click the button to restart the server and apply the changes. If there is no other settings needed to be modified, click the Reboot button to apply all changes.
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Change status or leave in the default state if no editing is necessary and click the Save button. Figure 202 –Apply or Discard WEP Configuration For each change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears:...
Reboot button to restart and take effect for all settings. Wireless | MAC ACL Use the MAC ACL service to control the default access to the wireless interface of the BW2251 or define special access rules for mobile clients. Configure the ACL using the Wireless | MAC ACL menu: Figure 204 –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Select Allow means only the wireless clients whose MAC are listed in the MAC List would be permitted to access this AP. Other wireless client cannot access this AP. Select Deny means only the wireless clients whose MAC are listed in the MAC List would be prevented from accessing.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Discard Changes – restore all previous values For such change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 208 – Reboot Server Reboot –...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 User User | Users The User | Users menu shows the statistics of connected users. The user can be monitored and managed such as drop from the network. Figure 209 – User’s statistics User – show the connected client’s MAC address Interface –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 210 – User’s Details User – login user name interface – the interface that wireless client associated. User IP – the IP address of wireless client. MAC address – hardware address of the network device from which the user is connected WEB Auth/L2 Auth –...
The Station Supervision function is used to monitor the connected host station availability. This monitoring is performed with ping. If the specified number of ping failures is reached (failure count), the user is logged out from the BW2251. Figure 211 – Station Supervision To adjust the ping interval/failure count, click the Edit button.
Apply Changes – to save all changes at once Discard Changes – restore all previous values For such change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 214 –...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 First step select the rule policy [drop/accept/masquerade] to deal with packet and the packet type [all/TCP/UDP/ICMP] and which interface the rule will act on. Policy – define the policy of client through the access point. It supports three types of rules: DROP, ACCEPT and MASQUERADE.
Discard Changes – restore all previous values Please be careful to use the DROP policy. For example, if DROP tcp for any source IP, BW2251 web UI will not be accessed. User | Walled Garden The walled garden is an environment that controls the user's access to Web content and services. It is to define a free, restricted service set for a user do not logged into the system.
User | WISP menu: Figure 227 – WISP Menu Domain policy means BW2251 use which policy to fetch WISP name from user name then to judge user belong which domain. Page 132 of 187...
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Save – click the button to save the new WISP Cancel – restore all previous values Figure 230 – Apply or Discard Changes of WISP settings BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Page 133 of 187...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 231 – Reboot information Reboot – click the button to restart the server and apply the changes. If there is no other settings needed to be modified, click the Reboot button to apply all changes.
BW2251 support internal and external customized UAM. Internal means user can upload their html login and logout page to BW2251. External means BW2251 will go to an external web server to fetch login and logout page the local and push to web login client.
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First is Customized UAM status configuration: Pop Logout Page – after user successful web login, if this item is enabled, BW2251 will pop out a logout page for user. In default this setting is enabled if customized page is enabled Logout Page’s Dimension –...
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Don’t forget fill out the Logout page’s dimension, or logon user maybe can only see part of your logout page. After select the file you want, press upload button and the files will upload to BW2251. after successful upload files, you can see the page below:...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 239 – Flash upload files OK After successful flash the files, uploaded files will appear in uploaded file list. Next is an example for customized login and logout page. Figure 240 – Example login and logout page For external page, enabled the “Use External Page”...
External page example will be found in the links under the last line. In External page mode, BW2251 will only fetch the login and logout html page to local, the picture or the CSS file which link on the customized login/logout page will not be fetch.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 242 – Available User Pages for Configuration Login/Logout/Help/Unauthorized pages settings detailed description is given in the Chapter 5 – User Pages. Only Welcome page settings reference is provided here. Welcome – first page the user gets when he/she opens its browser and enters the URL.
How to upload user pages see in the Chapter 5 – User Pages. User | HTTP Headers System administrator can set HTML headers encoding and language settings for BW2251 web management interface and new uploaded user pages. Select User | HTTP Headers menu: Figure 246 –...
Shared Secret – enter password for WAS to communicate with AC [sting (4-32), no spaces allowed]. The shared secret must match that configured on the WAS. This shared secret allows the WAS to initiate a secure (SSL) command session with the BW2251 to pass login commands.
Nov. 2013 Services Services | Telnet Use Services | Telnet menu to manage the telnet/SSH service of your BW2251. Figure 250 – System Configuration settings Telnet Service – Enable or disable telnet service of BW2251 SSH Service – Enable or disable SSH service of BW2251 The default of these two services are all Enabled.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 HeartBeat Trap Interval – define the interval that AP send trap information to the server.[in seconds] Trap Configuration Table: You can configure your SNMP agent to send SNMP Traps (and/or inform notifications) under the defined host (SNMP manager) and community name (optional).
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 NTP Status – specify enable or disable this NTP service Time Zone – specify the time zone for NTP service Delete – delete the existed NTP server Edit – edit the settings of the existed NTP server Add –...
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Click Save button to save new Time Zone setting. Figure 258 – Apply or Discard Time Zone/NTP status Changes For each change of settings, the BW2251 needs to be restarted to apply all settings changes when clicking Apply Changes. Request for reboot server appears: Figure 259 –...
Since BW2251 hasn’t RTC (real-time clock), the system time will back to 1970/01/01 00:00 after reboot. Services | Watchdog BW2251 supply watchdog function for the reliability. Use Services | Watchdog to enable/disable watchdog service. Figure 262 – Watchdog settings Page 147 of 187...
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Figure 263 – edit Software Watchdog settings Status – Enable or Disable software watchdog Check Interval – the periodical time that software watchdog checks the whole file system of BW2251. The hardware watchdog function will protect device even the operation system crash.
The System | Administrator menu is for changing the administrator’s settings: username and password: Figure 265 – system security settings User Name – administrator username for access to BW2251 (e.g. web interface, CLI mode) [1-32 symbols, spaces not allowed] Old Password – old password value New Password –...
Do not output “debug” log unless there are important issue needs to be clarified. Debug log will output all of the information so that it will severely drop down the network performance. BW2251 support standard sys. log server. Save – save changes Cancel – restore the previous values...
Refresh – get the updated log messages Return – back to System Log page System | System Mode In this page, you can select the system mode of your BW2251. Figure 271 – System Mode Settings Page 151 of 187...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Mode – select whether the system mode of BW2251 is AP mode or AP Router mode IP – specify the IP address of current interface [dots and digits] Netmask – specify the subnet mask of current interface [dots and digits] Gateway –...
A configuration file name will be required when you download/save the configuration file. And please remember or re-name the file if necessary. The configuration file name should only include characters or numbers. Otherwise, this configuration file will not upload to BW2251. Page 153 of 187...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 You can upload saved configuration file any time you want to restore this configuration to the device by using the Browse button. Select the configuration file and upload it on the device: Figure 278 – Configuration Upload/Restore - 1 Click Upload for upload the specified configuration and then the similar UI appears Figure 279 –...
Click the Upload and then click the browse button to specify the full path of the new firmware image and click the Upload button: Figure 285 – Firmware Upgrade Click the Upgrade button to flash and upgrade the firmware. Please make sure the firmware is correct for BW2251. Otherwise the upgrade will be failed. Page 155 of 187...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 286 – upgrade firmware Do not turn off the BW2251 during the firmware update process. It will backward to previous version in case upgrade failure. Update firmware will take about 4 minutes. System | TFTP Upgrade BW2251 support firmware upgrade via TFTP server.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Please make sure the firmware is correct for BW2251. Otherwise the upgrade will be failed. Do not turn off the BW2251 during the firmware update process. It will backward to previous version in case upgrade failure.
The subscriber gets to the login page after clicking the link on the welcome page. The login page is loaded from the BW2251. To get access to the network, the user should enter his authentication settings: login name and password and click the login button:...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 292 – Simple Login Page The login name and password can be obtained from your Hotspot Operator. The login page also displays subscriber’s logical and physical network addresses (IP and MAC). Once authenticated, a start page appears. In addition, a smaller logout window (page) pops up.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Logout button – click the button to logout from the network. The log-out pop-up window closes. Bill button – display subscriber’s billing information (not include current session). Passwd button – click the button to change subscriber’s password.
The following image formats are supported for new templates. Other formats are not accepted: The following examples demonstrate the use of internal and external user pages. Contact with BROWAN if you need the User Pages templates samples. Example for External Pages...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 297 - configure external pages Step 3 Choose the external option under the use column: Figure 298 - configure external pages Step 4 Specify the new user page location in the location field (http://servername/filelocation): Figure 299 - configure external pages Do not to upload different type of formats.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 300 - configure external pages Step 6 Check for new uploaded user page (e.g. login): Figure 301 - login page If at anytime you wish to restore factory default user pages, click the reset button under the system | reset &...
We will use the user pages templates to show the example how to upload the internal pages. Follow the steps below: Contact with BROWAN if you need the User Pages templates samples. Step 1 Ensure that internal option is selected for all user pages you want to change. By...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 304 - upload template files Step 4 Click the upload button to upload specified templates and files. You do not need to upload all additional files at once. You can repeat the upload process a number of times until all necessary images are uploaded.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 306 - customize login page If at anytime you wish to restore the factory default user pages, click the reset button under the system | reset & reboot menu. Page 166 of 187...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Extended UAM The Extensions feature (User menu) allows an external Web Application Server (WAS) to intercept/take part in the user authentication process externally log on and log off the user as necessary. It provides means to query user session information as well.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 When the Web Application server has all needed data from the client, it must try to authenticate (6) the client. Authentication is done by the RADIUS server but through the AC. At this step the shared secret is used to make the connection between the WAS and the AC.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Parameters Sent to WAS Parameters that are send to the external server (WAS) using the remote user authentication method (UAM). Parameter Description Comments nasid NAS server ID value Can be specified under the Network | RADIUS Properties...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Disabled Remote authentication is disabled. Bad secret Incorrect shared secret supplied. No password No user password. User already logged on. Failed to authorize Failed to authorize user. Bad password Incorrect username or/and password. Network failed Network connection failed.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 found. No user by IP User with supplied IP address and username not found. No user by IP and MAC User with supplied IP, MAC addresses and username not found. Failed to logoff Failed to logoff user.
Step1. Configure and Upload Customized Login/Logout Page files Login BW2251 as super administrator and go to User | Customized UAM. In order to configure BW2251 using the customized login/logout page, Customize Page status must be set to enable. To enable Customized Page, edit the Customize page status(User | Customized UAM) and set to Enabled.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 311 – upload files Enter the physical path and filename of the coffee template files, or click the “browse” button to search the coffee template files are located. The first two items are for login.html and logout.html files only. Additional files are for CSS and image files, such as jpg, gif, png and etc.
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Nov. 2013 Figure 312 – upload login.html After entering all the template files, press upload button to start the uploading files to BW2251. Only ten Additional files can be uploaded at one time. To upload more additional file, repeat the same upload process in step 2-4, but please be aware of the first two items are only for login.html and logout.html files.
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Figure 315 – set the pixels of logout window Step3. Everything is ready Now, any users that access the internet via the BW2251 will see the new personalized login and logout pages. Let’s look at the new appearance of login and logout page based on the coffee bar template.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Figure 316 – example of coffee bar login page Figure 317 – example of coffee bar logout page Page 177 of 187...
3. Question: If I don’t want the logout window to pop-up to users, how could I do? Answer: Please login BW2251 and go to User | Customized UAM to disable “pop logout page.” 4. Question: If I close the logout window, how can I logout? Answer: 1.
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 B) Factory Defaults for the BW2251 Network Interface Configuration Settings Operation Mode Mode Network | Interface AP Mode (Default) Interface Type IP Address 192.168.2.2 Netmask 255.255.255.0 Gateway 0.0.0.0 AP Router Mode Interface eth0 Type IP Address 192.168.2.2...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 IP Address from 192.168.3.2 IP Address to 192.168.3.254 Netmask 255.255.255.0 Gateway 192.168.3.1 WINS Address 0.0.0.0 Lease Time (seconds) 86400 DNS address 0.0.0.0 DNS Secondary address 0.0.0.0 Network | DNS (only for AP router mode)
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Wireless | MSSID No multiple BSSID entry Wireless | WEP Status Disabled Key1 to Key4 aaaaa Wireless |MAC ACL ACL Policy Disabled User Settings User | Customized UAM (Only for AP router mode) Use SSL...
BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Date 1970/01/01 System | System Log Remote Log Status Disabled Host IP 192.168.2.1 Log Level info Local Log Status Enabled Log Limit(bytes) 102400 Log Level info C) Location ID and ISO Country Codes This list states the country names (official short names in English) in alphabetical order as given in ISO 3166-1 and the corresponding ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code elements.
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Benin Morocco Bermuda Mozambique Bhutan Myanmar Bolivia Namibia Bosnia and Herzegovina Nauru Botswana Nepal Bouvet island Netherlands Brazil Netherlands Antilles British Indian ocean territory New Caledonia Brunei Darussalam New Zealand Bulgaria Nicaragua Burkina Faso...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 El Salvador San Marino Equatorial guinea Sao tome and Principe Eritrea Saudi Arabia Estonia Senegal Ethiopia Seychelles Falkland islands (malvinas) Sierra Leone Faroe islands Singapore Fiji Slovakia Finland Slovenia France Solomon islands French Guiana...
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BW2251 User Guide v1.0 Nov. 2013 Italy United states minor outlying islands Jamaica Uruguay Japan Uzbekistan Jordan Vanuatu Kazakhstan Vatican city state see holy see Kenya Venezuela Kiribati Viet nam Korea, democratic people's republic Virgin islands, British Korea, republic of Virgin islands, u.s.
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