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  • Page 1 Broadband Router DC-202 Full 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: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ................5 1.1 F ................... 5 UNCTIONS AND EATURES 1.1.1 Router Basic functions ................5 1.1.2 functions ........... Error! Bookmark not defined. 1.1.3 Security functions ..................6 1.1.4 Advanced functions .................. 6 1.1.5 Other functions ..................7 1.2 P ....................
  • Page 4 4.5.2 Special AP .....................26 4.5.3 Miscellaneous Items ................27 4.5.4 Logs .....................28 4.5.5 Dynamic DNS ..................29 4.5.6 SNMP Setting ..................30 4.5.7 Routing Table..................31 Configuration on NAT Router ................32 4.5.8 Schedule ....................33 4.6 S ..................34 ECURITY ETTINGS 4.6.1 Packet Filter...................34 4.6.1.1 Inbound Filter:..................34 4.6.1.2 Outbound Filter .................36 4.6.2 Domain Filter ..................39 4.6.3 URL Blocking ..................41...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding 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 6: Security Functions

    Statistics of WAN Supported Enables you to monitor inbound and outbound packets 1.1.2 Security functions Packet filter supported Packet Filter allows you to control access to a network by analyzing the incoming and outgoing packets and letting them pass or halting them based on the IP address of the source and destination.

  • Page 7: Other Functions

    Routing Table Supported Now, the router supports static routing. Schedule Rule supported Customers can control some functions, like virtual server and packet filters when to access or when to block. 1.1.4 Other functions UPNP (Universal Plug and Play) supported The router also supports this function. The applications: X-box, Msn Messenger.

  • Page 8: Packing List

    1.2 Packing List 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 LEDs: Function Color Status Description POWER Power indication Green Power is being applied to this product. System status M1 is flashed once per second to indicate Green Blinking indicators system is alive. The WAN port is linked.

  • Page 10: Rear Panel

    2.1.2. Rear Panel Ports: Port Description Power inlet the port where you will connect your cable (or DSL) modem or Ethernet router. Port 1-4 the ports where you will connect networked computers and other devices. Reset To reset system settings to factory defaults...

  • Page 11: Procedure For Hardware Installation

    2.2 Procedure for Hardware Installation 2.2.1 Decide where to place your Broadband Router You can place your Broadband Router on a desk or other flat surface, or you can mount it on a wall. For optimal performance, place your Broadband Router in the center of your office (or your home) in a location that is away from any potential source of interference, such as a metal wall or microwave oven.
  • Page 12 per second to indicate that this product is in normal operation.

  • Page 13: 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 14 Tip: The LAN LED of this product and the link LED of network card on your computer must be lighted. Is the TCP/IP environment of your computers properly configured? Tip: If the IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254, the IP address of your computer must be 192.168.123.X and default gateway must be 192.168.123.254.

  • Page 15: Chapter 4 Configuring Broadband Router

    Chapter 4 Configuring 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.

  • Page 16: Start-Up And Log In

    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. Then, type this product’s IP address in the Location (for Netscape) or Address (for IE) field and press ENTER. For example: http://192.168.123.254. After the connection is established, you will see the web user interface of this product.

  • Page 17: 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 Side note column. You can click this button to renew or release IP manually.

  • Page 18: Setup Wizard

    4.3 Setup wizard 1. Click Wizard to configure the router. 2. The Setup wizard will now be displayed; check that the modem is connected and click on Next. 3. Select your country from the Country list. 4. From Service, select your internet provider. Click Next.
  • Page 19 5. Depending on the chosen provider, you may need to enter your user name and password and MAC address or hostname in the following window. Then click on Next. 6. Click Reboot to complete the configuration. 7. The configuration is now completed. 8.

  • Page 20: Basic Setting

    The router will now connect to the Internet. 4.4 Basic Setting 4.4.1 Setup – Manual configuration Press “Change”...

  • Page 21: Static Ip Address

    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 22: Dynamic Ip Address

    4.4.1.2 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. 4.4.1.3 Dynamic IP Address with Road Runner Session Management 1.

  • Page 23: Dhcp Server

    4.4.2 DHCP Server Press “More>>” 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 rather simple approach to handle all these settings.

  • Page 24: Change Password

    your computer is powered on, it will automatically load the proper TCP/IP settings from this product. The settings of DHCP server include the following items: 1. DHCP Server: Choose “Disable” or “Enable.” 2. Lease Time: this feature allows you to configure IP’s lease time (DHCP client). 3.

  • Page 25: Advanced Settings

    4.5 Advanced Settings 4.5.1 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 26: Special Ap

    4.5.2 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.

  • Page 27: Miscellaneous Items

    4.5.3 Miscellaneous Items IP Address of DMZ Host DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone) Host is a host without the protection of firewall. It allows a computer to be exposed to unrestricted 2-way communication for Internet games, Video conferencing, Internet telephony and other special applications. NOTE: This feature should be used only when needed.

  • Page 28: Logs

    4.5.4 Logs This page support two methods to export system logs to specific destination by means of syslog(UDP) and SMTP(TCP). The items you have to setup including: IP Address for Syslogd Host IP of destination where syslogs will be sent to. Check Enable to enable this function.

  • Page 29: Dynamic Dns

    4.5.5 Dynamic DNS To host your server on a changing IP address, you have to use dynamic domain name service (DDNS). So that anyone wishing to reach your host only needs to know the name of it. Dynamic DNS will map the name of your host to your current IP address, which changes each time you connect your Internet service provider.

  • Page 30: Snmp Setting

    4.5.6 SNMP Setting In brief, SNMP, the Simple Network Management Protocol, is a protocol designed to give a user the capability to remotely manage a computer network by polling and setting terminal values and monitoring network events. Enable SNMP You must check either Local or Remote or both to enable SNMP function. If Local is checked, this device will response request from LAN.

  • Page 31: Routing Table

    4.5.7 Routing Table Routing Tables allow you to determine which physical interface address to use for outgoing IP data grams. If you have more than one routers and subnets, you will need to enable routing table to allow packets to find proper routing path and allow different subnets to communicate with each other.

  • Page 32: Configuration On Nat Router

    Example: Configuration on NAT Router Destination SubnetMask Gateway Enabled 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.123.216 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.123.103 So if, for example, the client3 wanted to send an IP data gram to 192.168.0.2, it would use the above table to determine that it had to go via 192.168.123.103 (a gateway), And if it sends Packets to 192.168.1.11 will go via 192.168.123.216 Each rule can be enabled or disabled individually.

  • Page 33: Schedule

    4.5.8 Schedule You can set the schedule time to decide which service will be turned on or off. Select the “enable” item. Press “Add New Rule” You can write a rule name and set which day and what time to schedule from “Start Time” to “End Time”.

  • Page 34: Security Settings

    4.6 Security Settings 4.6.1 Packet Filter Packet Filter enables you to control what packets are allowed to pass the router. Outbound filter applies on all outbound packets. However, Inbound filter applies on packets that destined to Virtual Servers or DMZ host only. You can select one of the two filtering policies: •...
  • Page 35 • (1.2.3.100-1.2.3.149) They are allow to send mail (port 25), receive mail (port 110), and browse the Internet (port 80) • (1.2.3.10-1.2.3.20) They can do everything (block nothing) • Others are all blocked. Example 2:...

  • Page 36: Outbound Filter

    • (1.2.3.100-1.2.3.119) They can do everything except read net news (port 119) and transfer files via FTP (port 21) • Others are all allowed. After Inbound Packet Filter setting is configured, click the save button. 4.6.1.2 Outbound Filter To enable Outbound Packet Filter click the check box next to Enable in the Outbound Packet Filter field.
  • Page 37 • (192.168.123.100-192.168.123.149) They are allowed to send mail (port 25), receive mail (port 110), and browse Internet (port 80); port 53 (DNS) is necessary to resolve the domain name. • (192.168.123.10-192.168.123.20) They can do everything (block nothing) • Others are all blocked.
  • Page 38 Example 2: • (192.168.123.100-192.168.123.119) They can do everything except read net news (port 119) and transfer files via FTP (port 21) • Others are allowed After Outbound Packet Filter setting is configured, click the save button.

  • Page 39: Domain Filter

    4.6.2 Domain Filter Domain Filter Let you prevent users under this device from accessing specific URLs. Domain Filter Enable Check if you want to enable Domain Filter. Log DNS Query Check if you want to log the action when someone accesses the specific URLs. Privilege IP Addresses Range Setting a group of hosts and privilege these hosts to access network without restriction.
  • Page 40 Example: In this example: • URL include “www.msn.com” will be blocked, and the action will be record in log-file. • URL include “www.sina.com” will not be blocked, but the action will be record in log-file. • URL include “www.google.com” will be blocked, but the action will not be record in log-file.

  • Page 41: Url Blocking

    4.6.3 URL Blocking URL Blocking will block LAN computers to connect to pre-defined Websites. The major difference between “Domain filter” and “URL Blocking” is Domain filter require user to input suffix (like .com or .org, etc), while URL Blocking require user to input a keyword only.
  • Page 42 In this example: • URL include “msn” will be blocked, and the action will be record in log-file. • URL include “sina” will be blocked, but the action will be record in log-file • URL include “cnnsi” will not be blocked, but the action will be record in log-file. •...

  • Page 43: Mac Address Control

    4.6.4 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 44 "Control table" is the table at the bottom of the "MAC Address Control" page. Each row of this table indicates the MAC address and the expected IP address mapping of a client. There are four columns in this table: MAC Address MAC address indicates a specific client.

  • Page 45: Miscellaneous Items

    4.6.5 Miscellaneous Items Remote Administrator Host/Port In general, only Intranet user can browse the built-in web pages to perform administration task. This feature enables you to perform administration task from remote host. If this feature is enabled, only the specified IP address can perform remote administration. If the specified IP address is 0.0.0.0, any host can connect to this product to perform administration task.

  • Page 46: Toolbox

    4.7 Toolbox 4.7.1 System Log You can View system log by clicking the View Log button 4.7.2 Firmware Upgrade You can upgrade firmware by clicking Firmware Upgrade button.

  • Page 47: Miscellaneous Items

    4.7.3 Miscellaneous Items MAC Address for Wake-on-LAN Wake-on-LAN is a technology that enables you to power up a networked device remotely. In order to enjoy this feature, the target device must be Wake-on-LAN enabled and you have to know the MAC address of this device, say 00-11-22-33-44-55. Clicking "Wake up" button will make the router to send the wake-up frame to the target device immediately.

  • Page 48: System Time

    4.7.4 System Time Get Date and Time by NTP Protocol Selected if you want to Get Date and Time by NTP Protocol. Time Server Select a NTP time server to consult UTC time Time Zone Select a time zone where this device locates. Set Date and Time manually Selected if you want to Set Date and Time manually.

  • Page 49: Backup Setting

    4.7.5 Backup Setting You can backup your settings by clicking the Backup Setting button and save it as a bin file. Once you want to restore these settings, please click Firmware Upgrade button and use the bin file you saved. 4.7.6 Reset to default You can also reset this product to factory default by clicking the Reset to default button.

  • Page 50: 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 B.2 tells you how to set TCP/IP values for working with this NAT Router correctly.
  • Page 51 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. Click Start button and choose Settings, then click Control Panel. 2.
  • Page 52 3. Click Properties button to set the TCP/IP protocol for this NAT Router. 4. Now, you have two setting methods:...
  • Page 53 a. Select Obtain an IP address automatically in the IP Address tab. b. Don’t input any value in the Gateway tab.
  • Page 54 c. Choose Disable DNS in the DNS Configuration tab. B. Configure IP manually a. 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 55 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. c. In the DNS Configuration tab, add the DNS values which are provided by the...
  • Page 56 ISP into DNS Server Search Order field and click Add button.

  • Page 57: Appendix B Faq And Troubleshooting

    Appendix B FAQ and Troubleshooting Reset to factory Default There are 2 methods to reset to default. Restore with RESET button First, turn off the router and press the RESET button in. And then, power on the router and push the RESET button down until the M1 and or M2 LED (or Status LED) start flashing, then remove the finger.

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