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Lanpro LP-LB404 Manual

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LanPro LP-LB404 Quad-WAN
Load Balancer
Rev:1.0.0
LanPro, The natural choice in Networking and LanProfessional are US registered Brands. LanPro
(LanProfessional) products are made in one of the following Countries: USA, Taiwan, Thailand, China,
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  • Page 1 LanPro LP-LB404 Quad-WAN Load Balancer Rev:1.0.0 LanPro, The natural choice in Networking and LanProfessional are US registered Brands. LanPro (LanProfessional) products are made in one of the following Countries: USA, Taiwan, Thailand, China, and Canada. The exact country of origin is unknown 1 ...
  • Page 2 LanPro® LanProfessional is a registered trademark of LanPro Inc Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. No part of the specifications may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative such as translation, transformation, or adaptation without permission from LanPro Inc.
  • Page 3   FCC STATEMENT This LanPro 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.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    4.6.2 IP Filtering 4.6.3 Domain Filtering 4.6.4 MAC Filtering 4.6.5 Screen 4.7 Static Routing 4.8 Session Limit 4.8.1 Session Limit 4.8.2 Session List 4.9 QoS 4.9.1 QoS Settings 4.9.2 QoS Rules List 4.10 IP & MAC Binding 4   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 5 4.13.4 Backup and Restore 4.13.5 Reboot 4.13.6 Password 4.13.7 System Log 4.13.8 Remote Management 4.13.9 Statistics 4.13.10 WAN Speed Detect 4.13.11 IP NAT Table 4.13.12 NAT Source Port Settings Appendix A: Specifications Appendix B: FAQ Appendix C: Glossary 5   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1.Introduction

    The superior performance will bring you full-new experience of anon-bottle-neck network. LP-LB404 Broadband Router makes plenty of applications become a reality. It can be used for constructingintranet FTP, WEB, and Mail server, etc. Inaccessibly, it features network game ports opened, MSN audioconversation and special application setting, providing much more additional value to your network.LP-LB404...

  • Page 7: Conventions

    LPLB404_UM_ENB01W     1.3 Conventions Parameters provided in the pictures are just references for setting up the product, which may differ from the actual situation. You can set the parameters according to your demand. 7   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 8: Chapter 2. Hardware Installation

    2.1 Panel Layout 2.1.1 The Front Panel The front panel of the LP-LB404 consists of several LED indicators, which is designed to indicate connections. Viewed from left, the next table describes the LEDs on the front panel of the router.

  • Page 9: The Rear Panel

    • LAN: One 10/100 Mbps RJ45 port for connecting the router to the local PCs 2.1.2 The Rear Panel The rear panel of the LP-LB404 only features a power receptacle, which is an AC power receptacle. Connect the female of the power cord head here, and the male head to the AC power outlet.
  • Page 10     Before you install the LanPro router, you should connect your PC to the Internet through your broadband service successfully. If there is any problem, please contact with your ISP for help. After that, please install the router according to the following steps.

  • Page 11: Chapter 3. Quick Installation Guide

      Chapter 3. Quick Installation Guide After connecting the LP-LB404 router into your network, you should configure it. This chapter describes how to configure the basic functions of your LP-LB404 Broadband Router. These procedures only take you a few minutes. You can access the Internet via the router immediately after it has been successfully configured.
  • Page 12 Step 3: In the next screen, select General tab, highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click the Properties button. Figure 3- 3 Step 4: Configure the IP address as shown in Figure 3-4. After that, click OK. 12   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 13 Enter. If the result displayed is similar to the screen below, the connection between your PC and the Router has been established. Figure 3- 5 If the result displayed is similar to the screen shown below, it means that your PC has not connected to the Router. 13   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 14: Login

    After that, you will see the screen shown below, enter the default User Name admin and the default Password admin, and then click OK to access to the Quick Setup screen. You can follow the steps below to complete the Quick Setup. 14   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 15 Step 1: Select the Quick Setup tab on the left of the main menu and the “Quick Setup” screen will appear. Click the Next button. Figure 3- 8 Step 2: Select the connection type to connect to the ISP and then click the Next button. 15   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 16 Step 4: If you choose Dynamic IP in Figure 3-9, the router will automatically receive the IP parameters from your ISP without needing to enter any parameters. Step 5: If you Choose Static IP, you should enter the detailed IP information in Figure 3-11. Click the Next button. 16   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 17 LPLB404_UM_ENB01W     Figure 3- 11 Step 6: After that, you will see the next screen. Click Finish to complete the quick installation. Figure 3- 12 17   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 18: Chapter 4. Configuring The Router

    Web-based Utility. To apply any settings you have altered on the page, please click the Save button. 4.1 Status Choose “Status” menu, you can view the router's current status and configuration as shown in Figure 4-1. All information is read-only. 18   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 19 LPLB404_UM_ENB01W     Figure 4- 1 19   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 20: Quick Setup

    Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 4.3.1 LAN Choose menu “Network-LAN”, you can configure the IP parameters of the LAN on the screen below. 20   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 21: Wan

    IP (shown in Figure 4-4), then the router will automatically get IP parameters from your ISP. Click the Renew button to renew the IP parameters from your ISP. Click the Release button to release the IP parameters. 21   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 22 • Get IP with Unicast DHCP: A few ISPs' DHCP servers do not support the broadcast applications. If you can not get the IP address normally, you can choose this option. (You don’t need select this option generally). 22   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 23 • Primary DNS - Type the DNS address in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP (Optional). • Secondary DNS - Type another DNS address in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP if provided (Optional). • Ingress Bandwidth: Enter the bandwidth for ingress traffic. 23   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 24 Max Idle Time. This is because there may still be active applications in the background, which may cause fee accounted by your ISP. • Connect Automatically - Connect automatically after the router is disconnected. To use this option, click the radio button. 24   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 25 Max Idle Time. This is because there may still be active applications in the background, which may cause fee accounted by your ISP. Click the Advanced button to set up the advanced option as shown in Figure 4-7. 25   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 26 DNS servers and enter the address in dotted-decimal notation of your ISP’s primary DNS server. If a secondary DNS server address is available, enter it as well. • Ingress Bandwidth: Enter the bandwidth for download traffic. • Egress Bandwidth: Enter the bandwidth for upload traffic. 4. BigPondCable 26   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 27 After a specified period of inactivity (Max Idle Time), the router will disconnect your Internet connection, and not be able to re-establish your connection automatically as soon as you attempt to access the Internet again. To 27   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 28 Internet connecting last unless a new link requested. Note: Sometimes the connection cannot be disconnected although you specify a time to Max Idle Time because some applications visit the Internet continually in the background. 28   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 29 Internet connection, and not be able to re-establish your connection automatically as soon as you attempt to access the Internet again. To use this option, click the radio button. If you want your Internet connection to 29   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 30 Internet connection has been terminated due to inactivity, Connect on Demand enables the router to automatically re-establish your connection as soon as you attempt to access the Internet again. If you wish to activate Connect on Demand, click the radio button. 30   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 31: Network Service Detection

    Max Idle Time because some applications visit the Internet continually in the background. 4.3.3 Network service detection Choose menu “Network-Network service detection”, you can Use WAN Network Service Detection feature on next screen, this router can detect the Internet connection online or not. Figure 4- 11 31   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 32: Mac Clone

    3) After you finish the configuration, click the Save button, and the router will prompt you to reboot. 4.3.5 Flow Balance Choose menu “Network-Flow Balance”, you can specify priority channels according to source or destination IP addresses, distributing flexibly Internet 32   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 33 Step 1: Click Add New button shown in Figure 4-13, you will see a new screen shown in Figure 4-14. Step 2: Select the Rules select, protocol, Datagram Pass Policy and Transmit Path, enter IP address and Port like the next screen shows. 33   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 34: Balance Policy

    Speed Detect Table, Fast Connection Table, Paired IP Table, Application Table. Note that, the time parameters below are configured with the corresponding tables, and they have passed relevant tests, if you are not sure, please don't change the settings. 34   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 35 Table, and the later connections between the paired IP will be made through the WAN port also. • Age for IP-Pairs-Table - Normal timeouts for the entries in Paired-IP-first Table. During the time, if an entry has never been used, the entry will be deleted from the Paired IP Table. 35   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 36: Wan Port Parameter

    WAN ports in the next screen. Figure 4- 16 • WAN Index - This shows the Router's WAN ports. • Port Status - This shows the ports' current status: Enabled or Disabled, the default status is Enabled. 36   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 37: Dhcp

    (shown in Figure 4-18). The router is set up by default as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server, which provides the TCP/IP configuration for all the PCs that are connected to the router on the LAN. Figure 4- 18 37   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 38: Dhcp Clients List

    • Client Name - This field displays the name of the DHCP client. • MAC Address - This field displays the MAC address of the DHCP client. • Assigned IP - This field displays the IP address that the router has allocated to the DHCP client. 38   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 39: Address Reservation

    Step 2: Enter the MAC address, IP address and select Status as shown in the screen below. Figure 4- 21 Step 3: Click the Save button when finished. Note: 1) If you want to add more than one reserved IP, please go to step 1 to continue. 39   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 40: Forwarding

    Internet to this service port will be redirected to the computer specified by the server IP. Any PC that was configured as a virtual server must have a static or a reserved IP address because its IP address may change when using the DHCP function. 40   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 41 Service Port” does not contain the service that you want, please configure the Service Port, IP Address and Protocol manually. Figure 4- 24 Step 3: After that, select Enable to make the entry take effect. Step 4: Click Save button to save the configuration. 41   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 42: Port Triggering

    • Incoming Ports - This displays the port or port range used by the remote system, they are used for responding to the outgoing request. A response using one of these ports will be forwarded to the PC that triggered this rule. You can input 42   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 43 Step 3: After that, select Enabled to make the entry take effect. Step 4: Click Save button to save the configuration. Note: 1) If you want to add more than one reserved IP, please go to step 1 to continue. 43   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 44: Dmz

    After you set the DMZ host, the firewall related to the host will not take effect. 4.5.4 UPnP Choose menu “Forwarding-UPnP”, you can view the information about UPnP in the screen (shown in Figure 4-28). You can click Refresh to update the Current UPnP Settings List before viewing the information. 44   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 45: Security

    • Status - This displays the status. Enabled means that the port is still active, Disabled means that the port is inactive. 4.6 Security Choose menu “Security”, you can see the submenus under the main menu: Firewall, IP Address Filtering, Domain Filtering, MAC Filtering, and Screen. 45   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 46: Firewall

    • Enable IP Address Filtering - Enable the IP Address Filtering or not. There are two default filtering rules, please select the rule for your need. • Enable Domain Filtering - Enable the Domain Filtering or not. 46   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 47: Ip Filtering

    • WAN Port - This is the WAN Port or the range of WAN Ports. For example, 25 – 110. Keep the field blank, which means all WAN Ports are controlled by the rule. • Protocol - This indicates which protocol is used, either TCP, UDP, or All (all protocols supported by the router). 47   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 48 Step 6: Click the Save button to save this entry. Step 7: Go to Step 2 to complete the other rules continually. After you finish the configurations, you will see the rules in the table below: Figure 4-33. 48   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 49: Domain Filtering

    Choose menu “Security-Domain Filtering”, you can configure the Domain filtering rule in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-34). The Domain Filtering feature allows you to control access to certain websites on the Internet by specifying their domains or key words. Figure 4- 34 49   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 50 Figure 4- 36 Note: Before adding an IP Address Filtering entry, you should enable the Firewall and the IP Address Filtering function first (shown in Figure 4-30). Other configurations for the entries as shown in Figure 4-31: 50   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 51: Mac Filtering

    Disabled means the rule is ineffective. To add or modify a Domain Filtering entry: Fox example: If you want to block the PCs with MAC addresses 00-0A-EB-00-07- BE and 00-0A-EB-00-07-5F to access the Internet, you can configure as follows. 51   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 52: Screen

    Click the Previous button to view the information in the previous screen, click the Next button to view the information in the next screen. 4.6.5 Screen Choose menu “Security-Screen”, you can configure the functions below to protect the router from being attacked in the next two screens. 52   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 53 • Scan Attack Defence • IP Scan: During the specific time, if a computer (identified by a particular source IP address) transmits packets to at least ten different computers (identified by 53   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 54 • TCP packet with both SYN and FIN: The TCP packets which have both SYN and FIN settings in the packets header will be considered as abnormal TCP packets. And the Router will start up the blocking function immediately. 54   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 55: Static Routing

    Choose menu “Static Routing”, you can configure the static route in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-41). A static route is a pre-determined path that network information must travel to reach a specific host or network. 55   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 56 Other configurations for the entries as shown in Figure 4-31: Click the Delete button to delete the entry. Click the Enable All button to enable all the entries. Click the Disable All button to disable all the entries. 56   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 57: Session Limit

    To add/modify a session limit entry: Step 1: Click Add New…/Modify shown in Figure 4-44, you will see a new screen shown in Figure 4-45. Step 2: Enter the appropriate LAN IP Address, Max Session and then select the status. 57   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 58: Session Limit

    Choose menu “QoS”, you can see the submenus under the main menu: Figure 4- 47 Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 58   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 59: Qos Settings

    • Ingress bandwidth - This field displays the max and mix download bandwidth through the WAN port, the default is 0. • Enable - This displays the status of the rule. • Modify - Click “Modify” to edit the rule, click “Delete” to delete the rule. 59   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 60: Qos Rules List

    Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 4.10.1 Binding Setting Choose menu “IP & MAC Binding-Binding Setting”, you can view and add IP & MAC binding entries in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-52). 60   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 61 To find a specific IP & MAC binding entry: Step 1: Click Find shown in Figure 4-52, you will see a new screen shown in Figure 4-54. Step 2: Enter the specific MAC Address or IP Address in the corresponding field. 61   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 62: Arp List

    IP & MACBinding entries. To manage the computer, you could observe the computers in the LAN by checking the relationship of MAC address and IP address on the ARP list, and you could configure the items on the ARP list also. Figure 4- 55 62   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 63: Dynamic Dns

    (shown in Figure 4-56). Figure 4- 56 • Connection Status - The status of the DDNS service is displayed here. To set up for Dyndns DDNS, follow these instructions: Step 1: Select the WAN port to configure. 63   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 64: Peanuthull Ddns

    Step 2: Type the User Name and Password for your DDNS account. Step 3: Enable DDNS, and click Save to save the current configuration. Click the Login button to login to the DDNS service. Click Logout to logout of the DDNS service. 4.11.3 Comexe DDNS 64   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 65 Step 3: Type the “User Name” and “Password” for your DDNS account. Step 4: Enable DDNS, and click Save to save the current configuration. Click Login to login the DDNS service. Click Logout to logout the DDNS service. 65   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 66: Switch Setting

    Choose menu “Switch Setting-Port statistics”, you can view the statistics information about the LAN port in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-60). Figure 4- 60 Note: Before you view the information, please click the Refresh button to update it. 66   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 67: Port Rate Control

    LAN port in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-62). Figure 4- 62 4.12.4 Port Status Choose menu “Switch Setting-Port Status”, you can view the status of the LAN port in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-63). 67   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 68: System Tools

    Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 4.13.1 Time Settings Choose menu “System Tools-Time Settings”, you can configure the time on the screen (shown in Figure 4-65). 68   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 69: Firmware

    3) The router will obtain GMT time automatically from Internet if it has already connected to the Internet. 4.13.2 Firmware Choose menu “System Tools-Firmware”, you can update the latest version of firmware for the Router on the screen (shown in Figure 4-66). 69   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 70: Factory Defaults

    Router’s current hardware version. To upgrade the router's firmware, follow these instructions below: Step 1: Download a more recent firmware upgrade file from the LANPRO website (www.Lan-Products.com). Step 2: Type the path and file name of the update file into the “File” field. Or click the Browse button to locate the update file.

  • Page 71: Backup And Restore

    Step 1: Click the Backup button (shown in Figure 4-68), click Save button in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-69) to proceed. Figure 4- 69 Step 2: Save the file as the appointed file (shown in Figure 4-70). 71   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 72: Reboot

    3) DHCP service function. 4) Static address assignment of DHCP server. 5) Web Service Port of the router. 6) Upgrade the firmware of the router (system will reboot automatically). Restore router's settings factory default (system will reboot automatically). 72   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 73: Password

    Enter the new Password twice to confirm it. 3) You can click the Clean All button to clean all the configurations. 4.13.7 System Log Choose menu “System Tools-System Log”, you can view the logs of the Router. 73   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 74 The router can keep logs of all traffic. You can query the logs to find what happened to the router. Click the Refresh button to refresh the logs. Click the Clean All button to clean all the logs. 74   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 75: Remote Management

    Choose menu “System Tools-Statistics”, you can view the statistics of the Router. This screen (shown in Figure 4-75 ) displays the network traffic of each PC on LAN, including total traffic and current traffic of the last “Packets Statistic interval” seconds. 75   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 76 60 seconds in the pull-down list. The Packets Statistic interval value indicates the time section of the packets statistic. • Sort Rules - Select the rule for displaying the traffic information. • Statistics Table - This table displays the statistics information about the traffic. 76   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 77: Wan Speed Detect

    There are three detecting ways: ICMP DETECT, TCP DETECT, UDP DETECT. The detect way is the router sends datagram to destination ip address, and then counts the interval between sending the datagram and receiving the response. Figure 4- 76 77   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 78: Ip Nat Table

    • Refresh - To get the latest status and settings of the router • Per page - To set how many information entries a page show. 4.13.12 NAT Source Port Settings Choose menu “System Tools-NAT Source Port Settings”, you can configure the rang of exterior port for NAT. 78   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 79: Appendix A: Specifications

    LPLB404_UM_ENB01W     Figure 4- 78 Click the Restore button to restore the setting to default value- 1040-65500. 79   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 80: Appendix B: Faq

    Automatically” for Internet connection mode. Figure B- 2 Note: 1) Sometimes the connection can not be disconnected although you specify a time to Max Idle Time, because some applications still visit the Internet continually in the background. 80   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 81 Server screen, add a Virtual Server rule as shown in the next screen: configure 1720 as the “Service Port” and enter your IP address (assuming 192.168.1.102 for an example), then click select the status Enabled and click Save. 81   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 82 Step 1: To change the WEB management port number: Login to the router, click the menu Security- Remote Management. On the Remote Management screen, enter a port number except 80 (such as 88) into the "Web Management Port" field. Click Save and the router will reboot. 82   www.lanpro.com   ...
  • Page 83 Virtual Servers on the left of your browser, On the Virtual Server screen, add a Virtual Server rule as shown in the next screen: configure “80” as the “Service Port”, and enter your IP address (assuming 192.168.1.188 for an example), remember to “Enable” and “Save”. Figure B- 7 83   www.lanpro.com   ...

  • Page 84: Appendix C: Glossary

    IP address for the Internet. • PPPoE (Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet) - PPPoE is a protocol for connecting remote hosts to the Internet over an always-on connection by simulating a dial-up connection. 84   www.lanpro.com   ...

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