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  • Page 1 ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 Full manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 Contents INTRODUCTION................... 4 ....................4 NTENDED UDIENCE ....................4 ENERAL ESCRIPTION .......................4 PECIFICATIONS ADSL Standard ....................4 Software Features ....................5 Management .....................5 HARDWARE INSTALLATION................. 6 2.1 P ....................6 ANEL AYOUT 2.1.1 Top & frontpanel ..................6 2.1.2 Rear Panel ....................7 2.2 P...
  • Page 3 Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 6.3 DDNS S ....................24 ETTINGS 6.4 IGMP......................26 6.5 UP P ......................28 6.6 RIP ......................29 7 FIREWALL SETTINGS ..................31 7.1 P .................... 31 ORWARDING 7.2 URL B...

  • Page 4: Sitecom Adsl2+ Modem Dc

    This manual is intended for end users to access ADSL broadband service. General Description The DC-227 modem is a high-speed ADSL2+ modem 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.

  • Page 5: Software Features

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support Software Features RFC-1483/2684 LLC/VC-Mux bridged/routed mode RFC-1577 Classical IP over ATM RFC-2516 PPPoE RFC-2364 PPPoA ITU-T 1.610 F4/F5 OAM send and receive loop-back 802.1d Spanning-Tree Protocol DHCP Client/Server/Relay...

  • Page 6: Hardware Installation

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 2. Hardware Installation 2.1 Panel Layout 2.1.1 Backlabel Function Color Status Description POWER Power indication Green Power is connected. ADSL line was detected. Link Status Green The modem couldn’t detect the ADSL Blinking signal, or is attempting to get line sync.

  • Page 7: Rear Panel

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 2.1.2 Rear Panel Port Description The port to connect with your ADSL line. Ethernet The ports where you can connect your computer or other device. Reset To reset the system settings to factory defaults, press the reset button for at least 10 seconds.

  • Page 8: Procedure For Hardware Installation

    Hardware Setup Procedures 1. Connect the RJ-11 cable from the DC-227 to your ADSL line. 2. Connect the RJ-45 line from your PC to an Ethernet port on the DC-227. 3. Plug the power supply into a wall outlet. 2.2.5...

  • Page 9: Network Settings And Software Installation

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 3 Network Settings and Software Installation 3.1 Windows 2000/XP 1. Go to START > Configuration screen > (Network and Internet connections >) Network connections. 2. Click on your network connection with the right hand mouse button and select ‘Properties’.

  • Page 10: Configuring The Adsl2+ Modem

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 4 Configuring the ADSL2+ Modem This ADSL2+ Modem uses a easy-setup web-interface which can be opened through your webbrowser, such as Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer. This approach can be adopted in any MS Windows, Macintosh or UNIX based platforms.

  • Page 11: System Status

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support The Status section allows you to monitor the current status of your modem. You can use the Status page to monitor; the connection status of the ADSL modem's WAN/LAN interfaces, the current firmware and hardware version numbers, and information on all DHCP client PCs currently connected to your network.

  • Page 12: Lan Settings

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 4.1.1 LAN Settings This page shows the current setting of LAN interface. You can set IP address, subnet mask, and IGMP Snooping for LAN interface in this page. Fields on this page: Field Description IP Address The IP address your LAN hosts uses to identify the device’s LAN port.

  • Page 13: Arp Settings

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 4.1.2 ARP Settings This page shows a list of MAC addresses and IP addresses for devices that are/were connected to the ADSL modem. Click “Refresh” to update the list.

  • Page 14: Dhcp

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 4.1.3 DHCP This page shows a list of assigned IP addresses and MAC addresses for each DHCP leased client. Click “Refresh” to update the list.

  • Page 15: Route

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 4.1.4 Route This page shows a list of learned routes. Click “Refresh” to update the list.

  • Page 16: Interface

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 4.1.5 Interface This page shows the packet and memory statistics for the different interfaces. Click “Refresh” to update the list.

  • Page 17: Statistics

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 4.1.6 Statistics This page shows the statistics for the ADSL line and connection. Click “Refresh” to update the list.

  • Page 18: Run Setup Wizard

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 5 Run Setup Wizard Click Wizard to configure the modem. • The Setup wizard will now be displayed; check that the modem is connected and • click Next. Select your country from the Country list. •...
  • Page 19 Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support The modem will now save the settings and restart, please wait 120 seconds and you • will be transferred back to the status window. The configuration is complete.

  • Page 20: Basic Settings

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 6 Basic Settings 6.1 DNS Settings This page is used to select the way to obtain the IP addresses of the DNS servers. 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.

  • Page 21: Dhcp Settings

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 6.2 DHCP Settings You can configure your network and DSL device 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 device wants to play.

  • Page 22: Dhcp Server

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 6.2.1 DHCP Server By default, the device is configured as a DHCP server, with a predefined IP address pool of 192.168.0.100 through 192.168.0.200 (subnet mask 255.255.255.0). Field Description IP Pool Range Specify the lowest and highest addresses in the pool.

  • Page 23: Dhcp Relay Configuration

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 6.2.2 DHCP Relay Configuration Some ISPs perform the DHCP server function for their customers’ home/small office network. In this case, you can configure this device to act as a DHCP relay agent. When a host on your network requests Internet access, the device contacts your ISP to obtain the IP configuration, and then forward that information to the host.

  • Page 24: Ddns Settings

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 6.3 DDNS Settings Each time your device connects to the Internet, your ISP assigns a different IP address to your device. In order for you or other users to access your device from the WAN-side, you need to manually track the IP that is currently used.
  • Page 25 Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support Click Add to add this registration into the configuration. Remove Select an existing DDNS registration by clicking the radio button at the Select column of the Dynamic DNS Table. Click Remove button to remove the selected registration from the configuration.

  • Page 26: Igmp

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 6.4 IGMP Multicasting is useful when the same data needs to be sent to more than one hosts. Using multicasting as opposed to sending the same data to the individual hosts uses less network bandwidth. The multicast feature also enables you to receive multicast video stream from multicast servers.
  • Page 27 Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support Field Description IGMP Proxy Enable/disable IGMP proxy feature Proxy Interface The upstream WAN interface is selected here. Apply Changes Click to save the setting to the configuration.

  • Page 28: Upnp

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 6.5 UPnP The DSL device 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.

  • Page 29: Rip

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support Click to save the setting to the system configuration. 6.6 RIP RIP is an Internet protocol you can set up to share routing table information with other routing devices on your LAN, at your ISP’s location, or on remote networks connected to your...
  • Page 30 Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 Field Description Enable/disable RIP feature. Field Description Interface The name of the interface on which you want to enable RIP. Receive Mode Indicate the RIP version in which information must be passed to the DSL device in order for it to be accepted into its routing table.

  • Page 31: Firewall Settings

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 7 Firewall Settings Firewall contains several features that are used to deny or allow traffic from passing through the device. 7.1 Port Forwarding Firewall keeps unwanted traffic from the Internet away from your LAN computers. Add a Port Forwarding entry will create a tunnel through your firewall so that the computers on the Internet can communicate to one of the computers on your LAN on a single port.
  • Page 32 Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 Remote IP Address The source IP address from which the incoming traffic is allowed. Leave blank for all. External Port The destination port number that is made open for this application on the WAN-side Interface Select the WAN interface on which the port-forwarding rule is to be applied.

  • Page 33: Url Blocking

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 7.2 URL Blocking The URL Blocking is the web filtering solution. The firewall includes the ability to block access to specific web URLs based on string matches. This can allow large numbers of URLs to be blocked by specifying only a FQDN (such as tw.yahoo.com).

  • Page 34: Dmz

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 7.3 DMZ 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 doing this, the DMZ host is no longer behind the firewall.

  • Page 35: Ip Filtering

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 7.4 IP Filtering The IP/Port filtering feature allows you to deny/allow specific services or applications in the forwarding path. Field Description Outgoing Default Specify the default action on the LAN to WAN forwarding path.
  • Page 36 Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 Field Description Rule Action Deny or allow traffic when matching this rule. Direction Traffic forwarding direction. Protocol There are 3 options available: TCP, UDP and ICMP. Src IP Address The source IP address assigned to the traffic on which filtering is applied.

  • Page 37: Mac Filtering

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 7.5 MAC Filtering The MAC filtering feature allows you to define rules to allow or deny frames through the device based on source MAC address, destination MAC address, and traffic direction.
  • Page 38 Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 Apply Changes Click to save the rule entry to the configuration. Delete Selected Delete selected filtering rules from the filter table. You can click the checkbox at the Select column to select the filtering rule. Delete All...

  • Page 39: Remote Management

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 7.6 Remote Management The Remote Access function can secure remote host access to your DSL device from LAN and WLAN interfaces for some services provided by the DSL device.

  • Page 40: Advanced Settings

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 8 Advanced Settings 8.1 Bridging You can enable/disable Spanning Tree Protocol and set MAC address aging time 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).

  • Page 41: Routing

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 8.2 Routing The Routing page enables you to define specific route for your Internet and network data. Most users do not need to define routes. On a typical small home or office LAN, the existing routes that set up the default gateways for your LAN hosts and for the DSL device provide the most appropriate path for all your Internet traffic.
  • Page 42 Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 as the IP address of a subnet or a specific host in the subnet. It can also be specified as all zeros to indicate that this route should be used for all destinations for which no other route is defined (this is the route that creates the default gateway).

  • Page 43: Snmp

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 8.3 SNMP 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.
  • Page 44 Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 Apply Changes Save SNMP configuration. New configuration will take effect after saving into flash memory and rebooting the system.

  • Page 45: Qos

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 8.4 QOS The DSL device provides a control mechanism that can provide different priority to different users or data flows. The QoS is enforced by the QoS rules in the QoS table. A QoS rule contains two configuration blocks: Traffic Classification and Action.
  • Page 46 Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 required if the source port or destination port has been entered. Source Port The source port of the selected protocol. You cannot configure this field without entering the protocol first. Destination Port The destination port of the selected protocol. You cannot configure this field without entering the protocol first.

  • Page 47: Misc

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 8.5 Misc On this page, you can change IP passthrough settings. When the IP Passthrough option is enabled, only one PC is able to access the Internet, and the DHCP server will duplicate the WAN IP address from the ISP to the local client PC.

  • Page 48: Adsl Set

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 8.6 ADSL Set The ADSL setting page allows you to select any combination of DSL training modes. Field Description ADSL modulation Choose prefered xdsl standard protocols. G.lite : G.992.2 Annex A G.dmt : G.992.1 Annex A T1.413 : T1.413 issue #2...
  • Page 49 Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support Choose tones to be masked. Mased tones will not carry any data. Apply Changes Click to save the setting to the configuration and the modem will be retrained.

  • Page 50: Adsl Atm

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 8.7 ADSL ATM The page is for ATM PVC QoS parameters setting. The DSL device support 4 QoS mode —CBR/rt-VBR/nrt-VBR/UBR. Field Description Virtual Path Identifier. This is read-only field and is selected on the Select column in the Current ATM VC Table.
  • Page 51 Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support nrt-VBR (non-real-time Variable Bit Rate): When nrt-VBR − is selected, the SCR and MBS fields are enabled. rt-VBR (real-time Variable Bit Rate): When rt-VBR is − selected, the SCR and MBS fields are enabled.

  • Page 52: Toolbox

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 9 Toolbox The first time you log into the system, you use the default password. There are two-level logins: admin and user. The admin and user password configuration allows you to change the password for administrator and user.

  • Page 53: Timezone

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 9.1 Timezone Simple Network Timing Protocol (SNTP) is a protocol used to synchronize the system time to the public SNTP servers. The DSL device supports SNTP client functionality in compliance with IETF RFC2030.

  • Page 54: Acl

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 9.2 ACL The Access Control List (ACL) is a list of permissions attached to the DSL device. The list specifies who is allowed to access this device. If ACL is enabled, all hosts cannot access this device except for the hosts with IP address in the ACL table.

  • Page 55: Firmware Upgrade

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 9.3 Firmware Upgrade This page allows you to upgrade the modem’s firmware. To upgrade the firmware for the DSL device: Click the Browse button to select the firmware file.

  • Page 56: Backup Settings

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 9.4 Backup Settings The Backup screen allows you to save (Backup) the modem’s current configuration settings. When you save the configuration setting (Backup) you can re-load the saved configuration into the modem through the Restore selection. If extreme problems occur you can use the Restore to Factory Defaults selection, this will set all configurations to its original default settings (e.g.

  • Page 57: Commit And Reboot

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 9.5 Commit and reboot Whenever you use the Web configuration to change system settings, the changes are initially placed in temporary storage. These changes will be lost if the device is reset or turn off. To save your change for future use, you can use the commit function.

  • Page 58: Ping

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 9.6 Ping Once you have your DSL device configured, it is a good idea to make sure you can ping the network. A ping command sends a message to the host you specify. If the host receives the message, it sends messages in reply.

  • Page 59: Syslog

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support 9.7 Syslog This page allows you to enable or disable the system log.

  • Page 60: Appendices

    Sitecom ADSL2+ Modem DC-227 Appendices Appendix A: How to manually find your PC’s IP and MAC address 1) In Window’s open the Command Prompt program 2) Type ipconfig /all and <enter> Your PC’s IP address is the one entitled IP address (e.g. 192.168.0.100) •...

  • Page 61: Appendix B: Mapping Pvcs To Vlans

    Please check www.sitecom.com for up to date drivers & utilities, manuals and support Appendix B: Mapping PVCs to VLANs RTL867x device supports mapping ATM Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVCs) to VLANs, based on the ATM bridging standards of RFC 2684. This feature allows an ATM PVC to be configured as a bridging interface and used in conjunction with a VLAN.

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