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  • Page 1 BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router with 4-port 10/100M Switch User Manual...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Content Chapter 1 ..........................1 1.1 An Overview of BIPAC 6500W ........................1 1.2 Package Contents ............................2 1.3 BIPAC 6500W Features ..........................2 1.4 BIPAC 6500W Application........................... 4 Chapter 2 ..........................5 2.1 Cautions for Using BIPAC 6500W........................ 5 2.2 The Front LEDs ............................
  • Page 4 How can I explore a local server to be visible to outside users?..............53 What is DMZ host? ............................54 How to configure my MacOS to surf Internet through the BIPAC 6500W?............54 How can I do if I forget the password for accessing Router?................54 How can I do if there is already a DHCP server in LAN? .................

  • Page 5: Chapter 1

    BIPAC 6500W 1.1 An Overview of BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router functions as an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet- based router. It provides four 10/100Mbps Dual Speed Ethernet ports and among a 11Mbps wireless network for connection to a home or small office network and one 10/100Mbps Ethernet port for a DSL Modem, Cable Modem, or other broadband access device.

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router 1.2 Package Contents BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router One CD containing the on-line manual and application program One Quick Start Guide One CAT5 cable One power adapter One 802.11b (11Mbps) wireless PCMCIA or USB adaptor (optional)
  • Page 7 Chapter 1 Introduction • Prevent DoS attacks including IP Spoofing, Land Attack, Smurf Attack, Ping of Death, TCP SYN Flooding, etc. • Packet filtering – port, source IP address, destination IP address, MAC address • URL filtering – string or domain name detection in URL string Virtual Private Network (VPN) •...

  • Page 8: Bipac 6500W Application

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router BIPAC 6500W Application Be noted, the router provides a 10/100Mbps Ethernet port (10Base-T) in the WAN site, it will not detect MDI and MDIX automatically. Therefore, an Ethernet cross-over cable should be used to connect to DSL/CABLE modem.

  • Page 9: Chapter 2

    Chapter 2 Using BIPAC 6500W 2.1 Cautions for Using BIPAC 6500W Do not place the router under high humidity and high temperature. Do not use the same power source for the router with other equipment. Do not open or repair the case yourself. If the router is too hot, turn off the power immediately and have a qualified serviceman repair it.

  • Page 10: The Rear Ports

    A Power ON/OFF switch Switch 2.4 Cabling Please refer to section 1.4 “BIPAC 6500W Application” first; it gives a clear cable connection diagram. The most common problem associated with Ethernet is bad cabling. Make sure that all connected devices are turned on. On the top of the product is a bank of LEDs, as a first check, verifies that the LAN Link and WAN Link LEDs are lit.

  • Page 11: Chapter 3

    Chapter 3 Configuration BIPAC 6500W can be configured with your Web browser. The web browser is included as a standard application in following operation systems, UNIX, Linux, Mac OS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP, etc. The product provides a very easy and user-friendly interface for configuration.
  • Page 12 BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router 3. In the Local Area Connection Status window, click Properties. 4. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties.
  • Page 13 Chapter 3 Configuration 5. Select the Obtain an IP address automatically and the Obtain DNS server address automatically radio buttons. 6. Click OK to finish the configuration. Configuring PC in Windows 2000 1. Go to Start / Settings / Control Panel.
  • Page 14 BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router 3. In the Local Area Connection Status window, click Properties. 4. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties.
  • Page 15 Chapter 3 Configuration 5. Select the Obtain an IP address automatically and the Obtain DNS server address automatically radio buttons. 6. Click OK to finish the configuration. Configuring PC in Windows 95/98/ME 1. Go to Start / Settings / Control Panel.
  • Page 16 BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router 4. Select the IP Address tab. In this page, click the Obtain an IP address automatically radio button. 5. Then select the DNS Configuration tab. 6. Select the Disable DNS radio button and click OK to finish the...
  • Page 17 Chapter 3 Configuration Configuring PC in Windows NT4.0 1. Go to Start / Settings / Control Panel. In the Control Panel, double-click on Network and choose the Protocols tab. 2. Select TCP/IP Protocol and click Properties. 3. Select the Obtain an IP address from a DHCP server radio button and click OK.

  • Page 18: Factory Default Settings

    “OK”, and then you are logged in for the first time. It is recommended that you set a password for security and management purpose. BIPAC 6500W maintains the password only. It means the router only checks the password even you enter characters in the User Name field.

  • Page 19: Lan And Wan Port Addresses

    Chapter 3 Configuration 3.2.2 LAN and WAN Port Addresses The parameters of LAN and WAN ports are pre-set in the factory. The default values are shown below. LAN Port WAN Port IP address 192.168.1.254 Obtain an IP address automatically. This IP Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 address is assigned by...

  • Page 20: Configuring With Web Browser

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router 3.4 Configuring with Web Browser Open the web browser, enter the local port IP address of this router, which default at 192.168.1.254, and click “Go” to get the login page. No user name is required. The default password is left blank. If you have set a password, enter that and click “OK”...

  • Page 21: Main Navigation Pane

    Chapter 3 Configuration 3.4.1 Main Navigation Pane Save Config : After configuring this network router, you have to save all of the configuration parameters to FLASH. Restart : In case the router stops responding correctly or in some other way stops functioning, you can perform the reboot.

  • Page 22: Configuration

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router 3.4.3 Configuration When you click this item, you get following sub-items to configure the ADSL router. LAN, WAN, Firewall, System, VPN, Virtual Server, Advanced and Help 3.4.3.1 LAN This screen contains settings for LAN interface attached to the LAN port.
  • Page 23 Chapter 3 Configuration IP Address: Default at 192.168.1.254. This is the device IP address in LAN site. If you plan to change it to another IP address to a different range of IP subnet. Please make sure your PC is also located at the same IP subnet. Otherwise, you may not be able to access the router.

  • Page 24: Dhcp Server

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router DHCP Server Check DHCP Server to enable the router to distribute IP Addresses, subnet mask and DNS setting to computers. Hence, the following fields will be activated. If you check this selection, Disable, remember to specify a static IP address, subnet Mask, and DNS setting for each of your local computers.

  • Page 25: Wireless

    Chapter 3 Configuration 3.4.3.2 Wireless ESSID : Enter the unique ID given to the Access Point (AP) built in the wireless broadband firewall gateway. To connect to this device, your wireless clients must have the same ESSID as that of this device. Channel ID : Select the ID of channel you would like to use.

  • Page 26: Wan

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router 3.4.3.3 WAN The screens below contain settings for the WAN interface toward Internet. There are four ways ─ Obtain an IP Address Automatically (DHCP Client), PPPoE, Fixed IP, and PPTP Client ─ for the device to have a public IP address and then to access Internet. You have to check with your ISP about which way is adopted.
  • Page 27 Chapter 3 Configuration PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) is known as a dial-up DSL or cable service. It is designed to integrate the broadband services into the current widely deployed, easy-to-use, and low-cost dial-up-access networking infrastructure. Therefore, users can get greater access speed without changing the operation concept, sharing the same ISP account and paying for one access account.
  • Page 28 BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router Configure this WAN interface with a specific IP address. This IP address should be given from ISP directly. IP Address: Enter the information provided by your ISP. Subnet Mask: Enter the information provided by your ISP.

  • Page 29: System

    Chapter 3 Configuration Password: Enter the password. Maximum input is 128 alphanumeric characters (case sensitive). PPTP Server: Enter the IP address of the PPTP Server. Own IP Address: Choose Obtain IP address automatically, or choose Static IP. If Static IP is selected, enter the IP address below.

  • Page 30: Time Zone

    Caps Lock is off. 3.4.3.4.2 Time Zone BIPAC 6500W does not have a real time clock on board; instead, it uses the simple network time protocol (SNTP) to get the current time from the SNTP server in outside network. Please choose your local time zone and click Apply button.

  • Page 31: Upgrade

    Chapter 3 Configuration Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes: It is optional for different time zone area. SNTP Server IP Address: Specify the IP address if you want to use your familiar SNTP server. 3.4.3.4.3 Upgrade To upgrade the firmware of the router, you should download or copy the firmware to your local environment first.

  • Page 32: Firewall

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router 3.4.3.5 Firewall User can decide to enable this firewall function including Packet Filter, Block Hacker Attack, and Block WAN request features for better security control or not. But be noted, it wastes network processor computation power.
  • Page 33 Chapter 3 Configuration Add: Click this button to add a new packet filter rule. After click, next figure will appear. Edit: Check the Rule No. you want to edit. Then, click the “Edit” button. Delete: Check the Rule No. you want to delete. Then, click the “Delete” button. Outgoing Incoming: Determine whether the rule is for outgoing packets or for incoming packets.

  • Page 34: Mac Filter

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router Select TCP if you want to scope for the connection-based application service on the remote server using the port number. Or select UDP if you want to scope for the connectionless application service on the remote server using the port number.

  • Page 35: Block Hacker Attack

    MAC address listed in the list. 3.4.3.5.3 Block Hacker Attack BIPAC 6500W can automatically detect and block the DoS (Denial of Service) attack if user enables this function. This kind of attack is not to achieve the confidential data of this network; instead, it aims to crush specific equipment or the entire network.

  • Page 36: Block Wan Request

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router Alert Mail: Check if you want to be informed by emails when hackers attack the router. E-mail address: The alert mail will be sent to this address. SMTP server: Enter the SMTP server of the above E-mail address.

  • Page 37: Url Blocking

    Chapter 3 Configuration 3.4.3.5.5 URL Blocking URL blocking function enables you to avoid your LAN PCs from accessing some URLs. You must check the “Enable” radio button to make the following figure appear for further configuration. Always Block Check this button, if you wish not to access this website through out the entire time. Block ( From Check this button, if you only wish to block a URL in a specific time interval.
  • Page 38 BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router Domains Filter If the router is configured to allow internal users to access only certain specified domains, check the Disable all web traffic except for Trusted Domains and add domain name into the domain list.

  • Page 39: Vpn

    CD. 3.4.3.7 Virtual Server Being a natural Internet firewall, BIPAC 6500W protects your network from being accessed by outside users. When it needs to allow outside users to access internal servers, e.g. Web server, FTP server, E-mail server or News server, this product can act as a virtual server. You can set up a local server with specific port number that stands for the service, e.g.
  • Page 40 BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router access request to the router for specified port is received, it will be forwarded to the corresponding internal server. For example, if you set the Service Port number 80 (Web) to be mapped to the IP Address 192.168.1.2, then all the http requests to the router from outside users will be forwarded to the...

  • Page 41: Advanced

    Chapter 3 Configuration 3.4.3.8 Advanced There are six items under the Advanced section: Remote Config, Dynamic Routing, Static Routing, Dynamic DNS, Check Email and UPnP . 3.4.3.8.1 Remote Config Check “Enable” if you want to configure your router from any PC in the Internet world with a web browser, such as Internet Explorer.

  • Page 42: Static Routing

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router RIP1 or RIP1+RIP2 ─ you want the router to use to transmit / receive data on / from the network. 3.4.3.8.3 Static Routing If you have another router with a LAN-to-LAN connection, you may create a static routing on the router that is the gateway to Internet.

  • Page 43: Dynamic Dns

    Chapter 3 Configuration Delete: Check the item you want to delete. Then, click the “Delete” button. Destination Subnet / Dest. Subnet Mask / Gateway Address: Fill in these fields required by this Static Routing function. 3.4.3.8.4 Dynamic DNS With Dynamic DNS service, a domain name can be translated into a dynamic IP address, which is often issued by ISP for dial-up service.

  • Page 44: Check Email

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router You may sign up Dynamic DNS service at http://www.dyndns.org and there you can also register domain names. Host: Enter one domain name you have registered. User Name: Enter the username used for sign-up.

  • Page 45: Help

    Chapter 3 Configuration devices to automatically connect with one another and work together to make networking - particularly home networking - possible for more people. The UPnP aware applications such as MSN Messenger will discover that they are behind a NAT router, learn the external IP address and configure port mappings on the router to forward packets from the external ports of the router to the internal ports used by the application.

  • Page 46: Status

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router 3.4.4 Status The Status section provides and contains many items including device H/W and S/W information, LAN, WAN, Port status and all defined interfaces. It also provides useful information for users to review the status of the device.
  • Page 47 Chapter 3 Configuration As for “PPPoE” protocol, its right column seems some kind different. When the PPPoE status is disconnected, you can click the “Connect” button to logon your ISP. You will see the system status changing from connecting, authenticating to connected if the procedure of connecting works smoothly.

  • Page 48: Device Info

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router This page will refresh automatically every 15 seconds, which enables you to get the most updated status of your system. You can also click the “Refresh” button to get the latest information of system status manually.

  • Page 49: System Logs

    Chapter 3 Configuration 3.4.4.3 System Logs Display the system logs cumulated till the present time. You can trace the historical information through this function. Refresh: Click “Refresh” to get the latest information of system logs. 3.4.4.4 Security Logs Display the information of security logs. If hacker attacks your sever, he will be isolated by the firewall function and the router will record related information.

  • Page 50: Arp Cache Table

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router Refresh: Click “Refresh” to get the latest information of system logs. 3.4.4.5 ARP Cache Table From this table, you can see the IP address of each PC in your LAN as well as its associated MAC address.

  • Page 51: Routing Table

    Chapter 3 Configuration 3.4.4.7 Routing Table Display the current routing paths of the router. 3.4.4.8 VPN Connect Status Display the current VPN connection status.
  • Page 52 BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router...

  • Page 53: Chapter 4

    Chapter 4 Troubleshooting If the router is not functioning properly, you can refer first to this chapter for simple troubleshooting before contacting your service provider. This could save you time and effort but if the symptoms persist, then consult your service provider. How to do a factory reset? If for any reason, you have to reset this device to factory default settings, be careful that the current settings will be lost and the settings are reset back to it’s default state.

  • Page 54: Why Won't My Internet Application Work

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router Why won't my Internet application work? To protect your computer from Hackers, the product uses port blocking algorithm. A port likes a door into your computer. Each service on the Internet has an associated port. The product protects your computer by closing certain ports off so that malicious programs can't access your computer.
  • Page 55 Chapter 4 Troubleshooting WINIPCFG.EXE For Win95, 98, ME, the WINIPCFG program is used to gather information about the TCP/IP connections that are active on your system. It cannot be used to dynamically adjust TCP/IP connections. You can also renew leases (if allowed by the network), and get the current IP address assignments through this program.

  • Page 56: How Can I Test The Whole Path (Pc←→Router←→Outside World) To Make Sure It Works Fine

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router Click here to reveal more. 4. On the top, the “Host Name” and “DNS server” of the computer are configured to call when it is looking for a named resource. The default gateway is the server through which the client connects to the Internet.

  • Page 57: How Can I Check The Active Ip Settings For My Wan Port

    Chapter 4 Troubleshooting For example, you can enter PING command in MS-DOS prompt (or after choosing START_ RUN from the Start menu) as below in sequence. PC to Router ( e.g. ping 192.168.1.254 ) If there is no reply from router, please verify the PC, cables, HUB/Switch and router. PC to external station with IP address (e.g.

  • Page 58: What Is Dmz Host

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router access request to the router for specified port is received, it will be forwarded to the corresponding internal server. For example, if you set the Service Port number 80 (Web) to be mapped to the IP Address 192.168.1.2, then all incoming requests with router’s public IP address from outside users will...

  • Page 59: How Many Pcs Can Share This Single Bipac 6500W Simultaneously

    Chapter 4 Troubleshooting How many PCs can share this single BIPAC 6500W simultaneously? Basically, it is depended on your subnet mask setting in router. For example, if you set 255.255.255.0 for subnet mask, router will allow up to 253 users to share the outgoing bandwidth.

  • Page 60: Appendix A

    BIPAC 6500W Wireless Broadband VPN Firewall Router APPENDIX A Internet Applications There are many popular Internet applications, we list some of them here to configure the port numbers in NAT and virtual server functions to enable the services, please refer below for details.

  • Page 61: Appendix B

    Most problems can be solved by using the Troubleshooting in Chapter 4. If you continue to have problems, you should contact the dealer where you bought this product. For further assistances with the product, please feel free to http://www.billion.com/T contact and visit us at:...

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