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Intellinet 520638 User Manual

Wireless broadband (switch) router standard/pro/advanced/advanced+
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Wireless Broadband (Switch) Router
Standard/Pro/Advanced/Advanced+
User's Guide
Version: 2.10
Last Updated: 01/17/2003

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  • Page 1 Wireless Broadband (Switch) Router Standard/Pro/Advanced/Advanced+ User’s Guide Version: 2.10 Last Updated: 01/17/2003...
  • Page 2 Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pur- suant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
  • Page 3 R&TTE Compliance Statement This equipment complies with all the requirements of DIRECTIVE 1999/5/CE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF 9 March 1999 on radio equipment and telecommunication terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity (R&TTE). The R&TTE Directive repeals and replaces in the directive 98/13/EEC (Telecommunications Termi- nal Equipment and Satellite Earth Station Equipment) as of April 8,2000.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    2.6. Deploying the Wireless Broadband (Switch) Router... 15 2.6.1. Connecting the Wireless Broadband (Switch) Router to Ethernet Client Computers ... 15 2.6.2. Connecting the Wireless Broadband (Switch) Router to a Modem ... 15 2.7. Setting up Client Computers... 16 2.7.1. Configuring IEEE 802.11b-Related Settings ... 16 2.7.2.
  • Page 5 3.6. Configuring Advanced Settings ... 42 3.6.1. Filters and Firewall ... 42 3.6.2. Management... 44 Appendix A... 46 A-1: Default Settings... 46 A-2: LED Definitions ... 47 Appendix B: Troubleshooting... 49 B-1: Wireless Settings Problems ... 49 B-2: TCP/IP Settings Problems ... 50 B-3: Unknown Problems ...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    In the remainder of this guide, a wireless broadband (switch) router is often referred to as a WIASA (Wireless Internet Access Server Appliance) for short.
  • Page 7 Repeater. A wireless router can communicate with other wireless APs/routers via WDS (Wireless Distribution System). Therefore, a wireless router can wirelessly forward packets from wireless clients to another wireless AP/router, and then the later AP/router forwards the packets to the Ethernet network.
  • Page 8 Ethernet cards provided by the ISP. If a wireless router is used in such an environment, the MAC address of the WAN interface of the router has to be changed to the MAC address of the ISP-provided Ethernet network card.

  • Page 9: Feature Comparison

    IEEE 802.1x, and Private Enterprise MIB are supported. UPnP. The wireless router responds to UPnP discovery messages so that a Windows XP user can locate the wireless router in My Network Places and use a Web browser to con- figure it.

  • Page 10: First-Time Installation And Configuration

    2.2. Selecting a Power Supply Method Optionally, the wireless broadband router can be powered by the supplied power adapter or PoE (Power over Ethernet). The wireless broadband router automatically selects the suitable one depend- ing on your decision.

  • Page 11: Preparing For Configuration

    Hang the wireless broadband router on the screws. Fig. 1. Mounting the wireless broadband router on a wall. 2.4. Preparing for Configuration For you to configure a WIASA, a managing computer with a Web browser is needed. For first-time configuration of a WIASA, an Ethernet network interface card (NIC) should have been installed in the managing computer.

  • Page 12: Connecting The Managing Computer And The Wireless Broadband (Switch) Router

    2.4.1. Connecting the Managing Computer and the Wire- less Broadband (Switch) Router 2.4.1.1. Router To connect the Ethernet managing computer and the managed router for first-time configuration, you have two choices as illustrated in Fig. 3. Managing Computer Fig. 2. Connecting a managing computer and a wireless broadband router via Ethernet.

  • Page 13: Changing The Tcp/Ip Settings Of The Managing Computer

    By default, the first assignable IP address of the DHCP server on the WIASA is 192.168.0.2. 2.5. Configuring the Wireless Broadband (Switch) Router After the IP addressing issue is resolved, launch a Web browser on the managing computer. Then, go to “http://192.168.0.1”...
  • Page 14 Fig. 4. Entering the user name and password. NOTE: It is strongly recommended that the password be changed to other value for security reasons. On the start page, click the General, Password link to change the value of the password (see Section 3.3.2 for more information).

  • Page 15: Configwizard Step 1: Selecting An Operational Mode

    If the WIASA is to be used with a DSL or cable modem and the IP address of the Ethernet WAN interface has to be manually set, select Router with a Static-IP DSL/Cable Connection. If the WIASA is to be used with a V.90 modem or ISDN TA, select Router with a Dial-up Connection.

  • Page 16: Configwizard Step 2: Configuring Tcp/Ip Settings

    Fig. 8. TCP/IP settings for Router with a PPPoE-Based DSL/Cable Connection mode. If the WIASA was set to be in Router with a PPPoE-Based DSL/Cable Connection mode, two IP addresses are needed—one for the Ethernet/wireless LAN interfaces and the other for the WAN in- terface.
  • Page 17 Fig. 10. TCP/IP settings for Router with a Static-IP DSL/Cable Connection mode. If the WIASA was set to be in Router with a Static-IP DSL/Cable Connection mode, two IP ad- dresses are needed—one for the Ethernet/wireless LAN interfaces and the other for the WAN inter- face.

  • Page 18: Configwizard Step 3: Configuring Ieee 802.11 Settings

    Fig. 11. TCP/IP settings for Router with a Dial-up Connection mode. If the WIASA was set to be in Router with a Dial-up Connection mode, two IP addresses are needed—one for the Ethernet/wireless LAN interfaces and the other for the WAN interface. The IEEE 802.11b interface and the Ethernet LAN interface share the LAN IP address.

  • Page 19: Configwizard Step 4: Reviewing And Applying Settings

    2.5.5. ConfigWizard Step 4: Reviewing and Applying Set- tings Fig. 13. Settings changes are highlighted in red. Fig. 14. Settings review. On the final page, you can review all the settings you have made. Changes are highlighted in red. If they are OK, click Save &...

  • Page 20: Deploying The Wireless Broadband (Switch) Router

    After the settings have been configured, deploy the WIASA to the field application environment. Connect Ethernet client computers to the Ethernet switch ports of the WIASA. If the WIASA is con- figured as a router, also connect a DSL modem, cable modem, V.90 modem, or ISDN TA to the WI- ASA.

  • Page 21: Setting Up Client Computers

    Use the utility to make appropriate Operating Mode, SSID and WEP settings. NOTE: A client must be in infrastructure mode, so that it can associate with a wireless access point or broadband router. NOTE: The SSID of the wireless client computer and the SSID of the WIASA must be identical. Or, in case the SSID broadcasts capability of the WIASA is enabled (by default), the SSID of the wire- less client computer could be set to “any”.

  • Page 22: Confirming The Settings Of The Wireless Broadband (Switch) Router And Client Computers

    Then press Enter. NOTE: If the WIASA is set to be in router mode, the default gateway of the client computer should be the WIASA. You can skip this step in this case. If the gateway responds, go to the next step; else, see Appendix B-2, “TCP/IP Settings Prob- lems”...

  • Page 23: Installing The Print Client Components (Switch Router)

    If the WIASA is set to be in Router with a PPPoE-Based DSL/Cable Connection or Router with a Dial-up Connection, it needs some time to establish a PPPoE or PPP link to the ISP. Therefore, this step will fail but the WIASA will be triggered to establish a link to the ISP.

  • Page 24: Using Web-Based Network Manager

    3. Using Web-Based Network Manager In this chapter, we’ll explain each Web management page of the Web-based Network Manager. 3.1. Overview 3.1.1. Menu Structure The left side of the start page contains a menu for you to carry out commands. Here is a brief descrip- tion of the hyperlinks on the menu: Home.

  • Page 25: Save, Save & Restart, And Cancel Commands

    General. Global operations. Operational Mode. Operational mode of the WIASA based on the type of the Internet connection provided by the ISP. Password. For gaining right to change the settings of the WIASA. Firmware Tools. For upgrading the firmware of the WIASA and backing up and restor- ing configuration settings of the WIASA.

  • Page 26: Home And Refresh Commands

    effect. Fig. 17. Settings have been changed. 3.1.3. Home and Refresh Commands Fig. 18. Home and Refresh. At the bottom of each status page that shows read-only information, there are two buttons—Home and Refresh. Clicking Home brings you back to the start page. Clicking Refresh updates the shown status information.

  • Page 27: Current Dhcp Mappings

    bytes it has received, and the time of its last activity, is shown. 3.2.2. Current DHCP Mappings Fig. 20. Current DHCP mappings. On this page, all the current static or dynamic DHCP mappings are shown. A DHCP mapping is a correspondence relationship between an IP address assigned by the DHCP server and a computer or device that obtains the IP address.

  • Page 28: General Operations

    IP address of the Ethernet WAN interface must be manually set. Router with a Dial-up Connection. In this mode, the WIASA assumes that a V.90 modem or ISDN TA is connected to its RS232 (COM) port. The client computers can therefore share this V.90/ISDN-based Internet connection by the NAT server functionality.

  • Page 29: Changing Password

    For a wireless broadband router, connect the computer and the LAN/CONFIG Ethernet port with a crossover Ethernet cable. For a wireless broadband switch router, connect the computer and one of the LAN Ethernet switch port with a normal Ethernet cable.

  • Page 30: Backing Up And Restoring Configuration Settings

    TIP: It’s more convenient to use the Firmware Upgrade Wizard of Wireless Network Manager to up- grade the firmware of a WIASA. NOTE: After the dialog box of the TFTP server program appears, be sure to specify the working folder within which the downloaded firmware files reside. NOTE: Make sure the Accept read requests check box of TFTP Server is selected.
  • Page 31 For a wireless broadband router, connect the computer and the LAN/CONFIG Ethernet port with a crossover Ethernet cable. For a wireless broadband switch router, connect the computer and one of the LAN Ethernet switch port with a normal Ethernet cable.

  • Page 32: Configuring Tcp/Ip Related Settings

    Trigger the restoring process by clicking Restore. The WIASA will then download the configu- ration backup file from the TFTP server. NOTE: Make sure the file is a valid configuration backup file for the WIASA. 3.4. Configuring TCP/IP Related Settings 3.4.1.
  • Page 33 Fig. 28. TCP/IP settings for Router with a PPPoE-Based DSL/Cable Connection mode. If the WIASA was set to be in Router with a PPPoE-Based DSL/Cable Connection mode, two IP addresses are needed—one for the Ethernet/wireless LAN interfaces and the other for the WAN in- terface.
  • Page 34 Fig. 29. TCP/IP settings for Router with a DHCP-Based DSL/Cable Connection mode. If the WIASA was set to be in Router with a DHCP-Based DSL/Cable Connection mode, two IP addresses are needed—one for the Ethernet/wireless LAN interfaces and the other for the WAN in- terface.
  • Page 35 Fig. 30. TCP/IP settings for Router with a Static-IP DSL/Cable Connection mode. If the WIASA was set to be in Router with a Static-IP DSL/Cable Connection mode, two IP ad- dresses are needed—one for the Ethernet/wireless LAN interfaces and the other for the WAN inter- face.

  • Page 36: Dns Proxy

    Fig. 31. TCP/IP settings for Router with a Dial-up Connection mode. If the WIASA was set to be in Router with a Dial-up Connection mode, two IP addresses are needed—one for the Ethernet/wireless LAN interfaces and the other for the WAN interface. The IEEE 802.11b interface and the Ethernet LAN interface share the LAN IP address.

  • Page 37: Nat Server

    In this section of the page, you can specify the IP addresses of the DNS servers, when the WIASA is in Router with a Static-IP DSL/Cable Connection mode. In other modes, the WIASA obtains the DNS server information automatically from the ISP.
  • Page 38 For example, say an ISP provides 5 public IP addresses, 61.16.33.114 to 61.16.33.118 inclusive, to its customer, WIASA Technology. The network administrator of WIASA Technology decides to use 61.16.33.114 for the wireless broadband router, 61.16.33.115 for their public Web server, and 61.16.33.116 for their public POP3 server. And the administrator has registered with InterNIC (Inter- net Network Information Center) some domain name-to-IP address mappings—www.wiasa.com to...

  • Page 39: Virtual Server Mappings

    3.4.3.3. Virtual Server Mappings The WIASA enables you to expose internal servers on the intranet through NAT to the Internet for public use. The exposed internal servers are called virtual servers because from perspective of hosts on the Internet, these servers are invisible in terms of TCP/IP. To expose “preset”...

  • Page 40: Dhcp Server

    3.4.4. DHCP Server 3.4.4.1. Basic Fig. 37. Basic DHCP server settings. The WIASA can automatically assign IP addresses to client computers by DHCP. In this section of the management page, you can specify the Default gateway, Subnet mask, Primary DNS server, and Secondary DNS server settings that will be sent to a client at its request.

  • Page 41: Configuring Ieee 802.11B-Related Settings

    it requests one from the DHCP server. Therefore, instead of configuring the IP address of an intranet server manually, you can configure the server to obtain an IP address by DHCP and it is always as- signed the same IP address. To always assign a static IP address to a specific DHCP client: Specify the MAC address of the DHCP client and the IP address to be assigned to it.

  • Page 42: Wireless Distribution System

    If the by-number-of-users policy is selected, a new wireless user can only associate with an AP that has the smallest number of associated wireless users in the group. On the other hand, if the by-traffic-load policy is selected, a new wireless user can only associate with an AP that has the less traffic load in the group.

  • Page 43: Security

    00-02-65-01-62-C5, set the peer MAC address of port 1 to 00-02-65-01-62-C6 and on AP 00-02-65-01-62-C6, set the peer MAC address of port 1 to 00-02-65-01-C5. TIP: Plan your wireless network and draw a diagram, so that you know how a WIASA is connected to other peer WIASAs, APs, or wireless bridges by WDS.
  • Page 44 802.1x EAP-MD5 + 128-bit WEP. The IEEE 802.1x functionality is enabled and the user- name/password-based EAP-MD5 authentication is used. Data encryption is achieved by 128-bit WEP. 802.1x EAP-TLS; no encryption. The IEEE 802.1x functionality is enabled and the digital certificate-based EAP-TLS user authentication. No data encryption is used. 802.1x EAP-TLS 64-bit key.

  • Page 45: Ieee 802.1X/Radius

    Select Enabled from the Functionality drop-down list. Set the Access control type to exclusive. Specify the MAC address of a wireless client to be denied access, and then click Add. Repeat Steps 3 for other wireless clients. To delete an entry in the access control table: Click Delete next to the entry.
  • Page 46 Fig. 45. IEEE 802.1x and RADIUS. A WIASA supporting IEEE 802.1x can be configured to communicate with two RADIUS servers. When the primary RADIUS server fails to respond, the WIASA will try to communicate with the secondary RADIUS server. You can specify the length of timeout and the number of retries before communicating with the secondary RADIUS server after failing to communicate with the primary RADIUS server.

  • Page 47: Configuring Advanced Settings

    3.6. Configuring Advanced Settings 3.6.1. Filters and Firewall 3.6.1.1. Packet Filters You can specify rules for the firewall component of WIASA to check incoming and outgoing packets. Packets that meet the rules can be permitted or denied. The protocol field, source IP address field, destination IP address field, and destination port field of a packet’s IP header are inspected to see if it meets a rule.

  • Page 48: Url Filters

    To set a rule for packet filtering: Specify the protocol type, source IP address, source IP mask, destination IP address, desti- nation IP mask, and destination port for the rule. Then specify in the Action setting how to deal with a packet that meets the rule. Select the corresponding Enabled check box.

  • Page 49: Management

    Select the corresponding Enabled check box. NOTE: Do not type “http://” when specifying a URL. Just type the domain name. 3.6.2. Management 3.6.2.1. Remote Web-Based Management Fig. 50. Remote Web-based management setting. The WIASA can also be managed from the Internet using a Web browser. To enable this capability, select the Enable remote Web-based management check box.
  • Page 50 management functionality can be disabled. You can specify the name (used as a password) of the read-only and read-write community. In addition, up to 5 SNMP trap targets can be set in the SNMP Trap Table. So far, the WIASA issues the following types of traps—Cold Start, Warm Start, Link Up, Link Down and SNMP Authentication Failure.

  • Page 51: Appendix A

    User Name Password Telephone Number PPPoE User Name Password Default Value root root Router with a Static-IP DSL/Cable Con- nection FCC (U.S.) wireless Enabled 11Mbps High See the label on the accompanying PCMCIA card or the label on the housing of the WIASA.

  • Page 52: A-2: Led Definitions

    RF: IEEE 802.11b interface LAN: Ethernet LAN interface WAN: Ethernet WAN interface PWR: Power Wireless Broadband Switch Router PWR: Power RF: IEEE 802.11b interface LNK: Link. Lights up when the IEEE 802.11b interface is initialized successfully. ACT: Active. Lights up when the IEEE 802.11b interface is transmitting or receiving data.
  • Page 53 PPP: PPP/PPPoE. Lights up when a PPP or PPPoE link has been established. ALV: Alive. Blinks when the WIASA is working normally. ST1-ST2: Status 1 to 2 for status indication WAN: Ethernet WAN interface LNK: Link. Lights up when the Ethernet WAN interface is initialized successfully. ACT: Active.

  • Page 54: Appendix B: Troubleshooting

    Appendix B: Troubleshooting Check the following first: Make sure that the power of the WIASA is on and the Ethernet cables are connected firmly to the RJ-45 jacks of the WIASA. Make sure that the LED ALV of the WIASA is blinking to indicate the WIASA is working. Make sure the types of the Ethernet cables are correct.

  • Page 55: B-2: Tcp/Ip Settings Problems

    B-2: TCP/IP Settings Problems IEEE 802.11b Ethernet LAN Stage A Client WIASA Computer Fig. 53. Communication stages for a client to reach its correspondent host. For a client computer to communicate with a correspondent host on the Internet by the host’s domain name (e.g.
  • Page 56 ASA are in the same IP subnet. TIP: If you forget the current IP address of the WIASA, use Wireless Router/AP Browser to get the information (see Appendix B-3). The default gateway of the WIASA does not respond to ping from the client computer.

  • Page 57: B-3: Unknown Problems

    B-3: Unknown Problems The router has been set to be in Simple Access Point mode and to obtain an IP address automatically by DHCP. How can I know its acquired IP address so that I can manage it using a Web browser? Use the utility, Wireless Router/AP Browser (WLBrwsr.exe), in the “Utilities”...

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