PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Hurricane 5200C/H5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Version 1.0 17/02/2009 Page 1 of 59...
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Contents Introduction..........................5 Intended Audience ...................... 5 Definitions Of Terms Used In This Document ............5 Acronyms Used Throughout This Document ............. 5 Usage Instructions ...................... 5 Questions Or Comments On This Document ............. 5 System Overview........................
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Port Mapping ......................43 IP QoS........................44 Remote Access......................47 DNS Configuration....................48 Dynamic DNS......................50 ACL Configuration ....................51 10 Admin............................53 10.1 Save & Reboot......................53 10.2 Backup/Restore Settings................... 54 10.3...
User Manual 1 Introduction The ADSL2+ Modem/Router user manual contains the guidance to install and configure PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem/Router using the Web GUI. INTENDED AUDIENCE This manual is intended for end users to access ADSL broadband service. DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN THIS DOCUMENT None.
2 System Overview GENERAL DESCRIPTION Hurricane 5200C/H5201 modem/router is a high-speed ADSL2+ Ethernet router that is specifically designed to connect to the Internet and to directly connect to your local area network (LAN) via high-speed 10/100 Mbps Ethernet. The ADSL2+ modem is compatible with the latest ADSL standards, including ADSL2 and ADSL2+, and supports up to 24 Mbps downstream and 1.5 Mbps upstream to deliver true broadband speed and...
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual DHCP Client/Server/Relay RIP v1/v2 DNS Relay Agent DMZ support IGMP Proxy/Snooping Stateful Packet Inspection Protection against Denial of Service attacks IP Packet Filtering Dynamic DNS UPnP support VoIP/VPN Pass-through Management Web-based Configuration...
DSL Splitter (optional ) 3.2 HARDWARE SETUP PROCEDURES 1. Connect the phone line (RJ-11) from Hurricane 5200C/5201 to the wall phone socket. 2. Connect the network cable (RJ-45) from your PC LAN port (network card) to Hurricane 5200C/5201 Ethernet (LAN) port.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 4 Software Configuration When you switch ON the modem/router, the system will boot up and connect to ADSL automatically. The system provides PVC for bridge test by default. These default configurations for the system are listed as below.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Once you are connected to the ADSL2+ router, you will see the status page. This page displays the ADSL modem/router’s current status and settings. This information is read-only except for the PPPoE/PPPoA channel for which user can connect/disconnect the channel on demand.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual DIAGNOSTIC TEST The Diagnostic Test page shows the test results for the connectivity of the physical and protocol layers. Fields in this page: Field Description Select the Internet The available WAN side interfaces are listed. You have to select one of them for WAN diagnostic.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual STATISTICS – INTERFACES The modem/router shows the different layer of network statistics information. You can view statistics on the processing of IP packets on your networking interfaces. You will not typically need to view this data, but you may find it helpful when working with your ISP to diagnose network and Internet data transmission problems.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual STATISTICS – ADSL LINE This page shows the ADSL line statistic information. Page 13 of 59...
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 5 Quick Setup Fields in this page: Field Description Username Enter your login username provided by your ISP (Internet Service Provider). Password Enter your password provided by ISP. Function buttons in this page: Commit &...
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 6 Internet Interface WAN CONFIGURATION Function buttons in this page: Click Add to complete the WAN Configuration setup and add this PVC channel into the Current ATM VC Table. Modify Select an existing PVC channel by clicking the radio button at the Select column of the Current ATM VC Table before you can modify the PVC channel.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Select an existing PVC channel to be deleted by clicking the radio button at the Select column of the Current ATM VC Table. Click Delete to delete this PVC channel from configuration.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Fields in this page: Field Description Virtual Path Identifier. This is a read-only field and is selected on the Select column in the Current ATM VC Table. Virtual Channel Identifier. This is a read-only field and is selected on the Select column in the Current ATM VC Table.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual ADSL SETTINGS The ADSL Settings page allows you to select any combination of DSL training modes. Fields in this page: Field Description Choose preferred XDSL standard protocols. ADSL modulation G.lite : G.992.2 Annex A G.dmt : G.992.1 Annex A...
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual “SRA Enable” : Enable/Disable SRA (seamless rate adaptation) capability. Function buttons in this page: Tone Mask Choose tones to be masked. Masked tones will not carry any data. Apply Changes Click to save the setting to the configuration and the modem will be retrained.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 7 LAN INTERFACE IP ADDRESS This page shows the current setting of LAN (Local Area Network) interface. You can set IP address, subnet mask, and IGMP Snooping for LAN interface in this page.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Function buttons in this page: Apply Changes Click to save the settings into flash memory. New parameters will take effect after system is rebooted (automatically). Undo Discard your changes. Page 21 of 59...
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual DHCP SETTINGS DHCP Mode You can configure your network and the modem/router to use the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). This page provides DHCP instructions for implementing it on your network by selecting the role of DHCP protocol that this modem/router wants to play.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Field Description IP Pool Range Specify the lowest and highest addresses in the pool. Max Lease Time The Lease Time is the amount of time that a network user is allowed to maintain a network connection to the modem/router using the current dynamic IP address.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Fields in this page: Field Description DHCP Server Specify the IP address of your ISP’s DHCP server. Requests for IP Address information from your LAN will be passed to the default gateway, which should route the request appropriately.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 8 Firewall Configuration Firewall contains several features that are used to deny or allow traffic from passing through the modem/router. IP/PORT FILTERING The IP/Port filtering feature allows you to deny/allow specific services or applications in the forwarding path.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Function button for the first block: Apply Changes Click to apply the setting of default actions to the configuration. Fields settings on the second block: Field Description Rule Action Deny or allow traffic when matching this rule.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual MAC FILTERING The MAC filtering feature allows you to deny/allow frames through the modem/router based on source MAC address, destination MAC address, and traffic direction. Fields settings on the first block:...
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Fields settings on the second block: Field Description Rule Action Deny or allow traffic when matching this rule. Direction Traffic bridging/forwarding direction. Src MAC Address The source MAC address. It must be xxxxxxxxxxxx format. Blanks can be used in the MAC address space and will be considered as “don’t care”.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual PORT FORWARDING Firewall keeps unwanted traffic in the Internet away from your LAN computers. By adding a Port Forwarding entry, a tunnel will be created through your firewall so that users on the Internet can initiate communication to one of the computers in your local network.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual WAN-side Interface Select the WAN interface on which the port-forwarding rule is to be applied. Function buttons for the setting block: Apply Changes Click to save the rule entry to the configuration.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual A DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) allows a single computer on your LAN to expose ALL of its ports to the Internet. Enter the IP address of that computer as a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) host with unrestricted Internet access.
When a host wishes to join a multicast group, it sends IGMP REPORT message to Hurricane 5200C’s IGMP downstream interface. The proxy sets up a multicast route for the interface and host requesting the video content. It then forwards the Join to the upstream multicast router.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Fields in this page: Field Description Enable/disable IGMP proxy feature IGMP Proxy Proxy Interface The upstream WAN interface is selected here. Function buttons in this page: Apply Changes Click to save the setting to the configuration.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual UPnP CONFIGURATION The modem/router supports a control point for Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) version 1.0, and supports two key features: NAT Traversal and Device Identification. This feature requires one active WAN interface. In addition, the host should support this feature. In the presence of multiple WAN interfaces, select an interface on which the incoming traffic is present.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Fields in this page Field Description UPnP Enable/disable UPnP feature. WAN Interface Select WAN interface that will use UPnP from the drop-down list box. Function buttons in this page: Apply Changes Click to save the setting to the system configuration.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Fields settings on the first block: Field Description Enable/disable RIP feature. Function buttons for the second setting block in this page: Apply Changes Click to save the setting of this block to the system configuration...
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Function buttons for the second setting block in this page: Add a RIP entry and the new RIP entry will be display in the table. Delete Selected Entry Delete a selected RIP entry. The RIP entry can be selected on the Select column of the RIP Config Table.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 9 Advance Configuration BRIDGING You can enable/disable Spanning Tree Protocol and set MAC address aging time in this page. Fields in this page: Field Description Ageing Time Set the Ethernet address ageing time, in seconds. After [Ageing Time] seconds of not having seen a frame coming from a certain address, the bridge will time out (delete) that address from Forwarding Database (fdb).
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual memory and rebooting the system (See section “Admin” for details). Show MACs List MAC addresses in forwarding table. ROUTING The Routing page enables you to define specific route for your Internet and network data.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Fields in this page: Field Description Check to enable the selected route or route to be added. Enable Destination The network IP address of the subnet. The destination can be specified as the IP address of a subnet or a specific host in the subnet.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Function buttons in this page: Add Route Add a user-defined destination route. Update Update the selected destination route on the Static Route Table. Delete Selected Delete a selected destination route on the Static Route Table.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual SNMP CONFIGURATION Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a troubleshooting and management protocol that uses the UDP protocol on port 161 to communicate between clients and servers. The modem/router can be managed locally or remotely by SNMP protocol.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual operation to the objects defines as read-writable in the MIB. (write-only) Function buttons in this page: Apply Changes Save SNMP configuration. New configuration will take effect after saving into flash memory and rebooting the system (See section “Admin”...
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Fields in this page: Field Description Enabled/Disabled Radio buttons to enable/disable the interface group feature. If disabled, all interfaces belong to the default group. Interface groups To manipulate a mapping group: a.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Fields settings on the first block: Field Description IP QoS Enable/disable the IP QoS function. Source IP The IP address of the traffic source. The source IP netmask. This field is required if the source IP has been Source Netmask entered.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual for non-applicable. Fields settings on the second block: Field Description Outbound Priority The priority level for the traffic that matches this classification rule. The possible selections are (in descending priority): p0, p1, p2, p3.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual REMOTE ACCESS The Remote Access function can secure remote host access to your modem/router from LAN and WAN interfaces. Fields in this page: Field Description Check the services on the LAN column to allow access from LAN and vice-versa.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual DNS CONFIGURATION This page is used to select the way to obtain IP addresses of the DNS (Domain Name Servers). Page 48 of 59...
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Field Description Attain DNS Select this item if you want to use the DNS servers obtained by the WAN Automatically interface via the auto-configuration mechanism. Set DNS Manually Select this item to configure up to three DNS IP addresses.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Dynamic DNS Each time the modem/router connects to Internet, your ISP assigns a different IP address to the modem. In order to remote access your modem from the Internet, you need to manually track the WAN IP that is currently used.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Function buttons in this page: Click Add to add this registration into the configuration. Modify Select an existing DDNS registration by clicking the radio button at the Select column of the Dynamic DNS Table.
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PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual Fields in this page: Field Description ACL Capability Enable or disable the ACL function Enable Check to enable this ACL entry Interface Select the interface domain: LAN or WAN Enter IP address that is allowed to access this modem/router.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 10 Admin 10.1 SAVE & REBOOT Whenever you use the Web configuration to change system settings, the changes are initially stored in temporary storage. These changes will be lost if the modem/router is reset or turn off.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 10.2 BACKUP/RESTORE SETTINGS This page allows you to backup and restore your configuration from files in your host PC (LAN). Page 54 of 59...
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 10.4 PASSWORD SETUP There are two-level of logins: admin and user. The admin and user password configuration allows you to change the password for administrator and user. Fields in this page:...
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 10.5 Upgrade Firmware To upgrade the firmware for Hurricane 5200C/5201: − Click on the Browse button to select the firmware file. − Confirm your selection. − Click on the Upload button to start upgrading.
PROLiNK Hurricane 5200C/5201 ADSL2+ Modem / Router User Manual 10.6 TIME ZONE SETTING Simple Network Timing Protocol (SNTP) is the protocol used to synchronize the system time to the public SNTP servers. The modem/router supports SNTP client functionality in compliance with IETF RFC2030.
Appendix PRODUCT SUPPORT AND CONTACT INFORMATION At PROLiNK, we are committed to provide you with the best quality of products as well as the best technical support. While if your computer is infected by virus, we may suggest you to find a solution in order to remove the virus, because we are unable to assist you until the virus is eradicated.
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