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MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual
Version: 2.0
MWGAR/MWGARB
Wireless 802.11g/b AP Router

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MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation
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  • Page 1: User Manual

    MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Version: 2.0 MWGAR/MWGARB Wireless 802.11g/b AP Router User Manual MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 2: Copyright Statement

    This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment. This equipment should be installed and operated with minimum distance 20cm between the radiator & your body. This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Wireless - Advanced Settings..............18 3.3.6 Wireless - Security Setup ................20 WEP Key Setup ..................... 22 3.3.7 Wireless - Access Control ................23 3.3.8 WDS Settings..................... 25 WDS Security Setup ..................26 MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 4 HAT IS ESSID? ....................57 HAT IS ?......58 HAT ARE POTENTIAL FACTORS THAT MAY CAUSES INTERFERENCE ?......58 HAT ARE THE YSTEM AND HARED EY AUTHENTICATIONS WEP? ....................58 HAT IS MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 5 VPN?..................... 63 HAT IS 4.28 W IPSEC? ....................63 HAT IS 5.1 E – PPP WAN ..............64 XAMPLE ON THE 5.2 E – F WAN ..............66 XAMPLE IXED ON THE MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 6: Revision History

    MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Version: 2.0 Revision History D ATE R EVISION OF USER’S MANUAL FIRMWARE 2006/7/27 Version 2.0 (g/v)1.4.1 MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 7: Terminology

    Network Time Protocol PPTP Point to Point Tunneling Protocol Power Spectral Density Radio Frequency SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm Signal to Noise Ratio SSID Service Set Identification Transmission Control Protocol TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 8 MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Version: 2.0 TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol UPNP Universal Plug and Play Virtual Private Network Wireless Distribution System Wired Equivalent Privacy WLAN Wireless Local Area Network Wi-Fi Protected Access MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 9: Introduction

    One 10/100BaseT with RJ45 connector (WAN) Four 10/100BaseT with RJ45 connectors (LAN) Power Consumption 7.5V DC Power Adapter Operating Temperature 0 ~ 50 C ambient temperature Storage Temperature -20 ~ 70 C ambient temperature MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 10: Product Features

    Supports NTP client service. Supports Log table and remote Log service. Support Setup Wizard mode. Support DoS (Denial of Service) function. VPN Router Supports Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection. Supports IPSEC tunnel encryption(3DES/AES128) and authentication(MD5/SHA1) MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 11: Description

    3. LAN LED Data is transmitting or receiving on the LAN Flashing interface. Port linked. No link. 4. WAN LED Data is transmitting or receiving on the Flashing WAN interface. Port linked. No link. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 12: Description

    Category 5 cable. Support auto-sensing on 10/100M speed and half/ full duplex; comply with IEEE 802.3/ 802.3u respectively. 5. Reset Push continually the reset button 5 ~ 10 seconds to reset the configuration parameters to factory defaults. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 13 Data is transmitting or receiving on the LAN Flashing interface. No data is transmitting or receiving on the LAN interface. 10/100M Connection speed is 100Mbps on LAN interface. Connection speed is 10Mbps on LAN MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 14 IEEE 802.3/ 802.3u respectively. 5. Power The power jack allows an external DC +7.5 V power supply connection. The external AC to DC adaptor provide adaptive power requirement to the WLAN Broadband Router. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 15: Installation

    WLAN Broadband Router; Power LED will be active, and after that the WLAN Activity LED will be flashing to show the WLAN interface is enabled and working now. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 16: Software Configuration

    192.168.1.253 is good to connect the Wireless LAN Access Point. IP Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 8. Click OK and reboot your PC after completes the IP parameters setting. For OS of Microsoft Windows 2000, XP: MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 17 6. Select TCP/IP and click the properties button on the Network dialog box. 7. Select Specify an IP address and type in values as following example. IP Address: 192.168.1.1, any IP address within 192.168.1.1 to MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 18: Connect To The Wlan Broadband Router

    This page shows the current status and some basic settings of the device, includes system, wireless, Ethernet LAN and WAN configuration information. Screen snapshot – Status Item Description System Uptime It shows the duration since WLAN Broadband MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 19 IP address. The IP address can be set manually to a fixed one or set dynamically by DHCP server or attain IP by PPPoE / PPTP connection. IP Address It shows the IP address of WAN interface of WLAN MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 20: Setup Wizard

    3.3.2 Setup Wizard This page guides you to configure wireless broadband router for first time Screen snapshot – Setup Wizard Operation Mode This page followed by Setup Wizard page to define the operation mode. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 21 MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Version: 2.0 Screen snapshot – Operation Mode MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 22: Time Zone Setting

    This page is used to enable and configure NTP client Screen snapshot – Time Zone Settings LAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure local area network IP address and subnet mask Screen snapshot – LAN Interface Setup MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 23: Wan Interface Setup

    Screen snapshot – WAN Interface Setup Wireless Basic Settings This page is used to configure basic wireless parameters like Band, Mode, Network Type SSID, Channel Number, Enable Mac Clone(Single Ethernet Client) Screen snapshot – Wireless Basic Settings MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 24: Wireless Security Setup

    Screen snapshot – Wireless Security Setup 3.3.3 Operation Mode This page is used to configure which mode wireless broadband router acts Screen snapshot – Operation Mode Item Description Gateway Traditional gateway configuration. It always MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 25: Wireless - Basic Settings

    This page is used to configure the parameters for wireless LAN clients that may connect to your Broadband Router. Here you may change wireless encryption settings as well as wireless network parameters. Screen snapshot – Wireless Basic Settings MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 26: Wireless - Advanced Settings

    Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. 3.3.5 Wireless - Advanced Settings These settings are only for more technically advanced users who have a MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 27 Set the RTS Threshold, value can be written between 0 and 2347 bytes. Refer to 4.11 What is RTS(Request To Send) Threshold? Beacon Interval Set the Beacon Interval, value can be written between 20 and 1024 ms. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 28: Wireless - Security Setup

    3.3.6 Wireless - Security Setup This page allows you setup the wireless security. Turn on WEP, WPA, WPA2 by using encryption keys could prevent any unauthorized access to your wireless network. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 29 Click to select the WPA Authentication Mode with Enterprise (RADIUS) or Personal (Pre-Shared Key). Refer to 4.15 What is Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)? Pre-Shared Key While Encryption is selected to be WPA. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 30: Iwep Key Setup

    Screen snapshot – WEP Key Setup Item Description Key Length Select the WEP shared secret key length from pull-down menu. The length can be chose between 64-bit and 128-bit (known as “WEP2”) keys. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 31: Wireless - Access Control

    MAC addresses are in the access control list will be able to connect to your Access Point. When this option is enabled, no wireless clients will be able to connect if the list contains no entries. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 32 WLAN Broadband Router. Delete Selected Click to delete the selected clients that will be access right removed from this WLAN Broadband Router. Delete All Click to delete all the registered clients from the MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 33: Wds Settings

    Fill in the comment tag for the registered AP. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to register the AP to new configuration setting. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 34: Iwds Security Setup

    This page is used to configure the wireless security between APs. Refer to 3.3.6 Wireless Security Setup. Screen snapshot – WDS Security Setup WDS AP Table This page is used to sh ow WDS statistics MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 35: Site Survey

    Refresh Click to refresh the statistic counters on the screen. Close Click to close the current window. 3.3.9 Site Survey This page is used to view or configure other APs near yours. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 36: Lan Interface Setup

    This page is used to configure the parameters for local area network that connects to the LAN ports of your WLAN Broadband Router. Here you may change the setting for IP address, subnet mask, DHCP, etc. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 37 IP address from the range. Show Client Click to open the Active DHCP Client Table window that shows the active clients with their assigned IP address, MAC address and time expired information. [Server mode only] MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 38: Wan Interface Setup

    Static IP, DHCP, PPPoE or PPTP by click the item value of WAN Access Type. Static IP Screen snapshot – WAN Interface Setup – Static IP MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 39 Click the checkbox to enable PPTP packet pass through on VPN through connection Enable L2TP pass Click the checkbox to enable L2TP packet pass through on VPN through connection Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to complete the MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 40: Dhcp Client

    Please select Set DNS Manually if the DHCP support is selected. Set DNS Manually Click to select getting DNS address for DHCP support. DNS 1 Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 1. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 41: Pppoe

    Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. PPPoE Screen snapshot – WAN Interface Setup – PPPoE Item Description MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 42 1400. Refer to 4.23 What is Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) Size? Attain DNS Click to select getting DNS address for PPPoE Automatically support. Please select Set DNS Manually if the PPPoE support is selected. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 43: Pptp

    Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. PPTP Screen snapshot – WAN Interface Setup – PPTP MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 44 Clone MAC Address Fill in the MAC address that is the MAC address to be cloned. Refer to 4.24 What is Clone MAC Address? Enable uPNP Click the checkbox to enable uPNP function. Refer to 4.22 What is Universal Plug and Play (uPNP)? MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 45: Firewall - Port Filtering

    Comments end-port, and the protocol, also put your comments on it. The Protocol can be TCP, UDP or Both. Comments let you know about whys to restrict data MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 46: Firewall - Ip Filtering

    Click to enable the IP filtering security function. Local IP Address To restrict data transmission from local network on Protocol certain IP addresses, fill in the IP address and the Comments protocol, also put your comments on it. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 47: Firewall - Mac Filtering

    Screen snapshot – Firewall - MAC Filtering Item Description Enable MAC Filtering Click to enable the MAC filtering security function. MAC Address To restrict data transmission from local network on MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 48: Firewall - Port Forwarding

    Gateway's NAT firewall. Screen snapshot – Firewall - Port Forwarding MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 49: Firewall - Url Filtering

    Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. 3.3.16 Firewall – URL Filtering URL Filtering is used to restrict users to access specific websites in internet. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 50: Firewall - Dmz

    A Demilitarized Zone is used to provide Internet services without sacrificing unauthorized access to its local private network. Typically, the DMZ host contains devices accessible to Internet traffic, such as Web (HTTP) servers, FTP servers, SMTP (e-mail) servers and DNS servers. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 51: Vpn Setting

    Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. 3.3.18 VPN Setting This page is used to show VPN connection table, configure IPSEC VPN, NAT Traversal, Generate RSA Key, Show RSA Public Key. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 52 Edit Click to enter the current VPN tunnel configuration page. Delete Click to delete the current VPN tunnel that radio button stay. Refresh Click to refresh the current VPN connection table. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 53: Ivpn Setup - Edit Tunnel

    Remote Site option you choose. Remote Subnet Mask Fill in remote subnet mask Local/Peer ID Define IKE exchange information type Local ID Type Click to select IP, DNS or E-mail as local exchange type Local ID MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 54 Encryption Key Fill in encryption key. [Manual mode only] Authentication Key Fill in authentication key. [Manual mode only] Apply Change Click the Apply Changes button to save current tunnel settings. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 55: Advanced Ike Setup

    It returns back to VPN Setup page. Advanced IKE Setup Screen snapshot – Advanced VPN Settings for IKE Item Description Phase 1 Negotiation Mode Main mode. Encryption Algorithm Click to select 3DES or AES128 encryption. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 56: Management - Statistics

    This page shows the packet counters for transmission and reception regarding to wireless, Ethernet LAN and Ethernet WAN networks. Screen snapshot – Management - Statistics Item Description Wireless LAN It shows the statistic count of sent packets on the MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 57: Management - Ddns

    Screen snapshot – Management – DDNS Item Description Enable DDNS Click the checkbox to enable DDNS service. Refer to 4.25 What is DDNS? Service Provider Click the drop down menu to pickup the right provider. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 58: Management - Time Zone Setting

    Click the Apply Changes button to save and enable NTP client service. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. Refresh Click the refresh the current time shown on the screen. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 59: Management - Denial-Of-Service

    / Per-Source IP Flood… Select ALL Click the checkbox to enable all prevention items. Clear ALL Click the checkbox to disable all prevention items. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to save above MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 60: Management - Log

    Input the remote log IP address Address Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to save above settings. Refresh Click the refresh the log shown on the screen. Clear Clear log display screen MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 61: Management - Upgrade Firmware

    This page allows you save current settings to a file or reload the settings from the file that was saved previously. Besides, you could reset the current configuration to factory default. Screen snapshot – Management - Save/Reload Settings MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 62: Management - Password Setup

    Apply Changes Clear the User Name and Password fields to empty, means to apply no web management login control. Click the Apply Changes button to complete the MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 63: Logout

    Screen snapshot – Logout Screen snapshot – Logout - OK Item Description Apply Change Click the Apply Change button, Then click OK button to logout. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 64: Frequently Asked Questions (Faq)

    This configuration is called a Basic Service Set (BSS). An Extended Service Set MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 65: What Is Bssid

    Also know as just SSID. Serves as a network ID or name. 4.6 What is ESSID? The Extended Service Set ID (ESSID) is the name of the network you want to MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 66: What Are Potential Factors That May Causes Interference

    Ethernet card) and an access point (i.e. a base station). The secret key is used to encrypt packets before they are transmitted, and an integrity check is used to ensure that packets are not modified in transit. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 67: What Is Fragment Threshold

    By lowering the RTS threshold, there may be fewer collisions, and performance should improve. Basically, with a faster RTS threshold, the system can recover from problems MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 68: What Is Beacon Interval

    SSID disabled, it's not a bad idea to run that way to enhance network security. However it's no replacement for WEP, MAC filtering or other protections. 4.15 What is Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)? Wi-Fi’s original security mechanism, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), has been MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 69: What Is Wpa2

    WEP. 4.19 What is Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)? Security issues are a major concern for wireless LANs, AES is the U.S. government’s next-generation cryptography algorithm, which will replace DES MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 70: What Is Inter-Access Point Protocol (Iapp)

    MAC address. Since that all the clients will communicate outside world through the WLAN Broadband Router, so have the cloned MAC address set on the WLAN Broadband Router will solve the issue. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 71: What Is Ddns

    VPN is the abbreviation of Virtual Private Network. It is designed for creating point-to point private link via shared or public network. 4.28 What is IPSEC? IPSEC is the abbreviation of IP Security. It is used to transferring data securely under VPN. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 72: Example One - Pppoe On The Wan

    Ethernet Ethernet cable Cable Internet xDSL/ CM DHCP client Bridge mode Power adapter PPPoE connection parameters: User Name: H890123456 Passwrod: pw192867543210 Figure 3 – Configuration Example One – PPPoE on the WAN MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 73 Setup page, enter the IP Address “192.168.1.254”, Subnet Mask “255.255.255.0 ”, Default ateway “0.0.0.0”, enable DHCP Server, DHCP client range “192.168.1.100 ” to “192.168.1.200 ”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

  • Page 74: Example Two - Fixed Ip On The Wan

    Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway 192.168.2.10 DNS Address 168.95.1.1 LAN configuration IP Address 192.168.1.254 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway 192.168.2.254 DHCP Client 192.168.1.100 – 192.168.1.200 Range WLAN configuration SSID MyWLAN Channel Number MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 75 DHCP range: 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.200 WAN IP: 192.168.2.254/ 255.255.255.0 Ethernet Cable Ethernet cable 192.168.2.10/ 255.255.255.0 Internet xDSL/ CM DHCP client Router mode Power adapter Figure 4 – Configuration Example Two – Fixed IP on the WAN MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 76 Configure the LAN interface: Open LAN Interface Setup page, enter the IP Address “192.168.1.254”, Subnet Mask “255.255.255.0”, enable DHCP Server, DHCP client range “192.168.1.100” to “192.168.1.200”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...
  • Page 77 MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Version: 2.0 Configure the WLAN interface: Open WLAN Interface Setup page, enter the SSID “MyWLAN”, Channel Number “11”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting. MWGAR/MWGARB User Manual Copyright © 2006 Minitar Corporation...

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