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SMC Networks Barricade User Manual

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  • Page 1: User Guide

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide The information furnished by SMC Networks, Inc. (SMC) is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, no responsibility is assumed by SMC for its use, nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use. No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of SMC.
  • Page 2 Trademarks: SMC is a registered trademark; and Barricade is a registered trademark of SMC Networks, Inc. Other products and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. 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.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Chapter 3 Network Settings and Software Installation ......10 3.1 Make Correct Network Settings of Your Computer .....10 3.2 Install the Software into Your Computers ........11 Chapter 4 Configuring the Barricade ............14 4.1 Startup and Log in ................14 4.2 Status ....................15 4.3 Toolbox..................16...
  • Page 4 Appendix A: Console Mode ..............29 Appendix B: TCP/IP Configuration for Windows 95/98 ......30 B.1 Installing TCP/IP protocol into your PC........30 B.2 Setting TCP/IP protocol to work with the Barricade....31 Appendix C: Installation Guide For Specific ISP ........38 C.1 @Home ..................38...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the Barricade. This product is specifically designed for small office and home office needs. It provides a complete SOHO solution for Internet surfing and for sharing office resources. Step-by-step instructions make installation easy.

  • Page 6: Packing List

    - allows a networked computer to be fully exposed to the Internet; this function is used when the special application sensing tunnel feature is insufficient to allow an application to function correctly. 1.2 Packing List Barricade Broadband Router Installation CD Power adapter One CAT-5 UTP Ethernet cables...

  • Page 7: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2.1 Panel Layout 2.1.1. Front Panel Figure 2-1 Front Panel 1 - 4 LAN port socket (RJ-45). These are where you will connect to devices on your local area network. (adapter, hub, or switch, e.g.) 2.1.2. Rear Panel Figure 2-2 Rear Panel PRINT Parallel port connector (25-pins D-type female).

  • Page 8: Installation Requirements

    2. Switch Power switch. 2.2 Installation Requirements The Barricade can be positioned at any convenient place in your office or home. No special wiring or cooling requirements are needed. You should, however comply with the following guidelines: Place product on a flat horizontal plane.

  • Page 9: Procedure For Hardware Installation

    2. Set up WAN connection: Prepare an Ethernet cable for connecting this product to your Cable/DSL modem or Ethernet backbone. Figure 2-6 illustrates the WAN connection. 3. Connecting the Barricade with your printer: Use the printer cable to connect to the printer port of this product.
  • Page 10 Figure 2-6 Setup of WAN and Printer connections for this product. 4. Power on: Connect the power cord to power inlet and turn the power switch on. The Barricade will automatically enter the self-test phase. When it is in this phase, the indicator M1 will light up for about 5 seconds, and then M1 will flash 3 times to indicate that the self-test operation is complete.

  • Page 11: 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 12: 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 13 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. -12-...
  • Page 14 Step 4: When the following window is displayed, click on the Finish button. Step 5: Select the item to restart the computer, then click the OK button to reboot your computer. Step 6: After rebooting your computer, the software installation procedure is complete. Now, you can configure the Internet Sharer (refer to Chapter 4) and set up the Print Server (refer to Chapter 5).

  • Page 15: Chapter 4 Configuring The Barricade

    Windows, Macintosh or UNIX based platform. 4.1 Startup and Log in Activate your browser, and disable the proxy or add the IP address of the Barricade into the exceptions. Then type the Barricade’ s IP address in the Location (for Netscape) or Address (for Explorer) field and press ENTER.

  • Page 16: Status

    4.2 Status This option provides the function for observing the product’ s operating 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 the IP manually.

  • Page 17: Toolbox

    This option enables you to change the administrator password. You can also obtain information about Firmware version and WAN's MAC Address. You can also reboot the Barricade by clicking the Reboot button. The Clone MAC button is useful when your ISP, such as Media One, binds (or locks) your connection to a specific MAC address.

  • Page 18: Primary Setup

    4.4 Primary Setup This option enables the product to work properly. The setting items and the web appearance depend on the type of WAN. Choose the correct WAN. 1. LAN IP Address: The default IP address is 192.168.123.254. You can change it to fit your needs.
  • Page 19 4.4.2 Dynamic IP Address Host Name: optional. Required by some ISPs; for example, @Home. Renew IP Forever: this feature enables the Barricade to renew the IP address automatically when the lease time is expired, even if the system is in an idle state.

  • Page 20: Dhcp Server

    Fortunately, DHCP provides a rather simple approach to handle all these settings. The Barricade supports the function of DHCP server. If you enable the Barricade’ s DHCP server and configure your computers as “automatic IP allocation” mode, when your computer is powered on it will automatically load the proper TCP/IP settings from the Barricade.

  • Page 21: Virtual Server

    The Barricade’ s NAT (Network Address Translation) firewall filters out unrecognized packets to protect your Intranet, so all hosts behind the Barricade are invisible externally. You can, if you desire, make some of them accessible by enabling the Virtual Server Mapping.

  • Page 22: Special Ap

    Incoming Ports: when the trigger packet is detected, the inbound packets to the specified port number are allowed to pass through the firewall. The Barricade provides some predefined settings in the gray pad on the bottom of the web page. Choose the Popular application and click Copy to copy the predefined setting.

  • Page 23: Access Control

    4.8 Access Control Access Control allows you to assign the access right for each user. First, you must divide users into different groups, as 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 must assign the access right of each group.

  • Page 24: Miscellaneous Items

    When 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 the Barricade to perform administration tasks. When this feature is enabled, the web port will be shifted to 88.

  • Page 25: Chapter 5 Print Server

    Chapter 5 Print Server This product provides the function of the network print server for MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and Unix-based platforms. 5.1 Configuring on Windows 95/98 Platforms After you completed the software installation procedure described in Chapter 3, your computer has obtained the network printing facility provided by this product. For convenience, we call the printer connected to the printer port of this product as server printer.
  • Page 26 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: Click the Details item: -25-...

  • Page 27: 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 28: Configuring On Windows 2000 Platforms

    Compared to the procedure in the previous 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 the previous section, the selection of Details is equivalent to the selection of Ports, and Port Settings is equivalent to Configure Port.

  • Page 29: Configuring On Unix-Based Platforms

    5.4 Configuring on Unix-based Platforms Please follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to set up the print server of this product. The printer name is “lp.” -28-...

  • Page 30: Appendix A: Console Mode

    Hyper Terminal of MS Windows 95. The connection parameters should be set to 19200 8-N-1. Be sure to reboot the Barricade. When the M1 indicator starts flashing regularly, you can press the “ Enter” key several times. There should be some messages, and console prompt ">"...

  • Page 31: Appendix B: Tcp/Ip Configuration For Windows 95/98

    This section will show you how to install the TCP/IP protocol into your personal computer. If you are unfamiliar with it, please refer to your network card manual. Also, Section B.2 shows you how to set TCP/IP values to operate the Barricade correctly. B.1 Installing TCP/IP protocol into your PC 1.

  • Page 32: Setting Tcp/Ip Protocol To Work With The Barricade

    6. The TCP/IP protocol will be listed in the Network window. Click OK to complete the install procedure and restart your PC to enable the TCP/IP protocol. B.2 Setting TCP/IP protocol to work with the Barricade 1. Click the Start button and choose Settings, then click Control Panel.
  • Page 33 2. Double click the Network icon. Select the TCP/IP line that has been assigned to your network card in the Configuration tab of the Network window. 3. Click the Properties button to set the TCP/IP protocol for the Barricade. 4. You have now two setting methods: A.
  • Page 34 Select Obtain an IP address automatically in the IP Address tab. b. Don’t input any values in the Gateway tab. -33-...
  • Page 35 c. Choose Disable DNS in the DNS Configuration tab. -34-...
  • Page 36 B. Configure the IP manually Select Specify an IP address in the IP Address tab. The default IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254, You should 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 37 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. -36-...
  • Page 38 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. That’s it. You are now ready to start using your Barricade! -37-...

  • Page 39: Appendix C: Installation Guide For Specific Isp

    Appendix C: Installation Guide For Specific ISP The WAN types provided by Barricade will cover almost all types of ISP services. Some ISPs, however, have proprietary authentication methods. For example, MediaOne binds your connection with a registered MAC address; @Home assigns you a hostname and requires you to set up the domain name.

  • Page 40: Mediaone

    ISP. Please use this computer and Ethernet adapter to perform the following steps. Connect the Ethernet adapter to any LAN port of the Barricade and connect the cable modem to the WAN port of Barricade. Power on the Barricade. After it is working, please run WINIPCFG in your Windows platform and release and renew the IP address manually.

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