Eusso GL2411-AR User Manual

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  • Page 1 User’ s Manual...
  • Page 2 Copyright The contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any part or as a whole, stored, transcribed in an information retrieval system, translated into any language, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, magnetic, electronic, optical, photocopying, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission.
  • Page 3: Fcc Interference Statement

    FCC Interference Statement This 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 radio interference in a commercial environment. This equipment can generate, use and radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions in this manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction................5 1.1 Functions and Features..............5 1.2 Packing List..................7 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation..............8 2.1 Panel Layout...................8 2.2 Procedure for Hardware Installation ..........10 Chapter 3 Network Settings and Software Installation ......13 3.1 Make Correct Network Settings of Your Computer .....13 3.2 Install the Software into Your Computers ........14 Chapter 4 Configuring Wireless Broadband Router........17 4.1 Start-up and Log in...............17...
  • Page 5 5.4 Configuring on Unix based Platforms ..........42 Appendix A TCP/IP Configuration for Windows 95/98......43 A.1 Install TCP/IP Protocol into Your PC ..........43 A.2 Set TCP/IP Protocol for Working with NAT Router ....44...
  • Page 6: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding Wireless Broadband Router. This product is specifically designed for Small Office and Home Office needs. It provides a complete SOHO solution for Internet surfing, and is easy to configure and operate even for non-technical users.
  • Page 7 Printer sharing (Optional ) Embeds a print server to allow all of the networked computers to share one printer. Firewall All unwanted packets from outside intruders are blocked to protect your Intranet. DHCP server supported All of the networked computers can retrieve TCP/IP settings automatically from this product.
  • Page 8: Packing List

    Provides firmware upgrade via Web Browser or Windows Application. 1.2 Packing List Wireless broadband router unit Installation CD-ROM Power adapter CAT-5 UTP Fast Ethernet cable...
  • Page 9: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2.1 Panel Layout 2.1.1. Front Panel The front panel features four 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports, one Wide Area network (WAN) port and diagnostic LED indicators. The WAN port connects your DSL or cable modem to the router. The LAN ports are used to connect to your computers or other network devices.
  • Page 10 LED: Function Color Status Description Power is being applied to this POWER Power indication Green product. This product is functioning System status 1 Orange Blinking properly. This product is working for some service. System status 2 Orange This product is being configured Blinking or upgraded.
  • Page 11: Procedure For Hardware Installation

    2.1.2. Rear Panel Figure 2-2 Rear Panel Ports: Port Description To reset system settings to factory defaults, please follow the steps: RESET 1. Power off the device, 2. Press the reset button and hold, 3. Power on the device, 4. Keep the button pressed about 5 seconds, 5.
  • Page 12 2. Setup LAN connection: a. Wired LAN connection: connects an Ethernet cable from your computer’ s Ethernet port to one of the LAN ports of this product. b. Wireless LAN connection: locate this product at a proper position to gain the best transmit performance.
  • Page 13 4. Connecting this product with your printer: use the printer cable to connect your printer to the printer port of this product. (Optional) 5. Power on: Connecting the power cord to power inlet and turning the power switch on, this product will automatically enter the self-test phase.
  • Page 14: Chapter 3 Network Settings And Software Installation

    Chapter 3 Network Settings and Software Installation To use this product correctly, you have to properly configure the network settings of your computers and install the attached setup program into your MS Windows platform (Windows 95/98/NT/2000). 3.1 Make Correct Network Settings of Your Computer The default IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254, and the default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.
  • Page 15: Install The Software Into Your Computers

    there must be something wrong in your installation procedure. You have to check the following items in sequence: Is the Ethernet cable correctly connected between this product and your computer? Tip: The LAN LED of this product and the link LED of network card on your computer must be lighted.
  • Page 16 Step 2: Click on the INSTALL button. Wait until the following Welcome dialog to appear, and click on the Next button. Step 3: Select the destination folder and click on the Next button. Then, the setup program will begin to install the programs into the destination folder. -15-...
  • Page 17 Step 4: When the following window is displayed, click on the Finish button. Step 5: Select the item to restart the computer and then click the OK button to reboot your computer. Step 6: After rebooting your computer, the software installation procedure is finished. Now, you can configure the NAT Router (refer to Chapter 4) and setup the Print Server (refer to Chapter 5).
  • Page 18: Chapter 4 Configuring Wireless Broadband Router

    Chapter 4 Configuring Wireless Broadband Router This product provides Web based configuration scheme, that is, configuring by your Web browser, such as Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer. This approach can be adopted in any MS Windows, Macintosh or UNIX based platforms. 4.1 Start-up and Log in Activate your browser, and disable the proxy or add the IP address of this product into the exceptions.
  • Page 19 administrator. To log in as an administrator, enter the system password (the factory setting is ”admin”) in the System Password field and click on the Log in button. If the password is correct, the web appearance will be changed into administrator configure mode. As listed in its main menu, there are several options for system administration.
  • Page 20: Status

    4.2 Status This option provides the function for observing this product’ s working status: A. WAN Port Status. If the WAN port is assigned a dynamic IP, there may appear a “ Renew” or “Release” button on the Sidenote column. You can click this button to renew or release IP manually.
  • Page 21: Toolbox

    4.3 Toolbox This option enables you to change the administrator password. Besides, you can get the information about Firmware version and WAN's MAC Address. There are some useful buttons in this page: View Log View the system logs Reboot Reboot this device Backup Setting You can backup your settings by clicking this button and save it as a bin file.
  • Page 22: Primary Setup

    4.4 Primary Setup This option is primary to enable this product to work properly. The setting items and the web appearance depend on the WAN type. Choose correct WAN type before you start. 1. LAN IP Address: the local IP address of this device. The computers on your network must use the LAN IP address of your product as their Default Gateway.
  • Page 23 4.4.1 Static IP Address WAN IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, Primary and Secondary DNS: enter the proper setting provided by your ISP. 4.4.2 Dynamic IP Address Host Name: optional. Required by some ISPs, for example, @Home. Renew IP Forever: this feature enables this product to renew your IP address automatically when the lease time is expiring-- even when the system is idle.
  • Page 24 quality between the ISP and your MODEM or ISDN TA -23-...
  • Page 25: Dhcp Server

    4.5 DHCP Server The settings of a TCP/IP environment include host IP, Subnet Mask, Gateway, and DNS configurations. It is not easy to manually configure all the computers and devices in your network. Fortunately, DHCP Server provides a simple approach to handle all these settings.
  • Page 26 3. Domain Name: Optional, this information will be passed to the client. Clients List List the current mapping of the IP and MAC address for each DHCP client. Fixed Mapping In general, DHCP server assigns an IP address chosen from the IP addresses pool randomly.
  • Page 27: Virtual Server

    4.6 Virtual Server This product’ s NAT firewall filters out unrecognized packets to protect your Intranet, so all hosts behind this product are invisible to the outside world. If you wish, you can make some of them accessible by enabling the Virtual Server Mapping. A virtual server is defined as a Service Port, and all requests to this port will be redirected to the computer specified by the Server IP.
  • Page 28 Service Port Server IP Enable 192.168.123.1 192.168.123.2 1723 192.168.123.6 -27-...
  • Page 29: Special Ap

    4.7 Special AP Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet games, Video conferencing, Internet telephony, etc. Because of the firewall function, these applications cannot work with a pure NAT router. The Special Applications feature allows some of these applications to work with this product. If the mechanism of Special Applications fails to make an application work, try setting your computer as the DMZ host instead.
  • Page 30: Access Control

    4.8 Access Control Access Control allows you to assign different access right for different users. First, you have to divide users into different groups. Users are identified by their IP addresses. You can assign the members of Group 1, 2 and 3. The others are all members of Default Group. Second, you have to assign the access right for each group.
  • Page 31 MAC Level The basic Access Control is based on the IP address only. If a user is able to change his IP address, the user will be out of control. The MAC level access control allows you to control the mapping of MAC addresses and IP addresses.
  • Page 32: Misc. Items

    4.9 Misc. Items 1. IP Address of DMZ Host: The DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) Host is a host without the protection of a firewall. It allows a computer to be exposed to unrestricted 2-way communication for Internet games, video conferencing, Internet telephony and other special applications.
  • Page 33 4. Discard PING from WAN side: When this feature is enabled, hosts on the WAN cannot ping this product. 5. Non-standard FTP port: You have to configure this item if you want to access an FTP server whose port number is not 21. This setting will be lost after rebooting. -32-...
  • Page 34: Wireless Setting

    4.10 Wireless Setting Wireless settings allow you to set the wireless configuration items. 1. Network ID(SSID): Network ID is used for identifying the Wireless LAN (WLAN). Client stations can roam freely over this product and other Access Points that have the same Network ID.
  • Page 35 IEEE 802.11 WEP (64-bit or 128-bit) is used here. 4. WEP Key 1, 2, 3 & 4: When you enable the 64-bit or 128-bit WEP key security, please select one WEP key to be used and then input 10 or 26 hex-decimal (0-9, A-F) digits.
  • Page 36: Mac Address Control

    4.11 MAC Address Control MAC Address Control allows you to assign different access right for different users and to assign a specific IP address to a certain MAC address. MAC Address Control Check “Enable” to enable the “MAC Address Control”. All of the settings in this page will take effect only when “Enable”...
  • Page 37 are not in the "Control table" (please see below), to connect to this device. Association control Check "Association control" to enable the controlling of which wireless client can associate to the wireless LAN. If a client is denied to associate to the wireless LAN, it means the client can't send or receive any data via this device.
  • Page 38 In this page, we provides the following Combobox and button to help you to input the MAC address. You can select a specific client in the “DHCP clients” Combobox, and then click on the “Copy to” button to copy the MAC address of the client you select to the ID selected in the “ID”...
  • Page 39: Chapter 5 Print Server

    Chapter 5 Print Server This product provides the function of network print server for MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and Unix based platforms. (If the product you purchased doesn’t have printer port, please skip this chapter.) 5.1 Configuring on Windows 95/98 Platforms After you finished the software installation procedure described in Chapter 3, your computer has possessed the network printing facility provided by this product.
  • Page 40 1. Find out the corresponding icon of your server printer, for example, the HP LaserJet 6L. Click the mouse’ s right button on that icon, and then select the Properties item: 2. Click the Details item: -39-...
  • Page 41: Configuring On Windows Nt Platforms

    3. Choose the “PRTmate: (All-in-1)” from the list attached at the Print To item. Be sure that the Printer Driver item is configured to the correct driver of your server printer. 4. Click on the button of Port Settings: Type in the IP address of this product and then click the OK button. 5.
  • Page 42: Configuring On Windows 2000 Platforms

    Compared to the procedure in last section, the selection of Details is equivalent to the selection of Ports, and Port Settings is equivalent to Configure Port. 5.3 Configuring on Windows 2000 Platforms The configuration procedure for a Windows 2000 platform is similar to that of Windows 95/98 except the screen of printer Properties: Compared to the procedure in last section, the selection of Details is equivalent to the selection of Ports, and Port Settings is equivalent to Configure Port.
  • Page 43: Configuring On Unix Based Platforms

    5.4 Configuring on Unix based Platforms Please follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to setup the print server of this product. The printer name is “lp.” -42-...
  • Page 44: Appendix A Tcp/Ip Configuration For Windows 95/98

    Appendix A TCP/IP Configuration for Windows 95/98 This section introduces you how to install TCP/IP protocol into your personal computer. And suppose you have been successfully installed one network card on your personal computer. If not, please refer to your network card manual. Moreover, the Section A.2 tells you how to set TCP/IP values for working with this NAT Router correctly.
  • Page 45: Set Tcp/Ip Protocol For Working With Nat Router

    5. Select Microsoft item in the manufactures list. And choose TCP/IP in the Network Protocols. Click OK button to return to Network window. 6. The TCP/IP protocol shall be listed in the Network window. Click OK to complete the install procedure and restart your PC to enable the TCP/IP protocol. A.2 Set TCP/IP Protocol for Working with NAT Router 1.
  • Page 46 2. Double click Network icon. Select the TCP/IP line that has been associated to your network card in the Configuration tab of the Network window. 3. Click Properties button to set the TCP/IP protocol for this NAT Router. 4. Now, you have two setting methods: A.
  • Page 47 Select Obtain an IP address automatically in the IP Address tab. -46-...
  • Page 48 b. Don’t input any value in the Gateway tab. -47-...
  • Page 49 c. Choose Disable DNS in the DNS Configuration tab. -48-...
  • Page 50 B. Configure IP manually Select Specify an IP address in the IP Address tab. The default IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254. So please use 192.168.123.xxx (xxx is between 1 and 253) for IP Address field and 255.255.255.0 for Subnet Mask field.
  • Page 51 b. In the Gateway tab, add the IP address of this product (default IP is 192.168.123.254) in the New gateway field and click Add button. -50-...
  • Page 52 c. In the DNS Configuration tab, add the DNS values which are provided by the ISP into DNS Server Search Order field and click Add button. -51-...

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