Nlynx Wireless Gateway manual

0 Wireless Gateway 1 2 3 4 5 6 User's Guide 7 8 Rev. 01 (Oct., 2001)[...]

2 FCC Warning This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the li m its for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable pro tection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate ra[...]

3 9 T able of Contents 10 1. Introduction ................................ ................................ ........ 5 11 Features ................................ ................................ ...................... 5 12 2. External Components ................................ ........................ 7 13 Back Panel ............................[...]

4 41 Tools ................................ ................................ ........................ 65 42 Reset ................................ ................................ ................................ ..... 65 43 Factory Reset ................................ ................................ ........................ 66 44 Print Test ...[...]

5 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing the Wireless Gateway with Ethernet switch, wireless access point, and print server. It is the ideal all - in - one solution for any home or small office with a need for high - speed shared Internet access, wireless station support, and network - based printing. This guide describes the Wi reless Gateway and[...]

6 • Full selection of wireless channels (number depends on region of sale) • Supports TCP/IP and AppleTalk printing protocols • Configurable as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server • “Port Forwarding” function for outside access to specified local servers • “DMZ Host” function • “Port Open” function for contro[...]

7 2 External Components This section describes the back and front panels of the Wireless Gateway in details. Back Panel Following are explanations of the items on the Wireless Gateway's ba ck panel: • Antennae: The antennae at the back panel carry radio - frequency signals between wireless stations and the Wireless Gateway's wireless br[...]

8 Note: All connections to the Wireless Gateway's LAN ports should be made with Category 5 Ethernet cabling. Lower - grade cabling cannot reliably carry 100 - Mbps signals. • LAN ports 1 through 4: Sw itched, auto - negotiating 10/100 - Mbps Ethernet ports for connecting end nodes (or downstream hub - or switched - based clusters of end node[...]

9 • LPT LED Faulty Component low speed flashing Need Reload Firmware on DRAM e rror 1 long 2 short Timer INT error 1 long 3 short Flash Protected 1 long 5 short Flash Erase/Program error 1 long 6 short LAN Controller error 1 long 7 short LAN Memory error 1 long 8 short WAN or LPT Controller error 1 long 9 short W AN Memory or LPT error 1 long 11 [...]

10 3 Web Configura tion The Wireless Gateway must be configured through its built - in Web - based configuration utility. Before attempting to access this utility, note the following factory defaults: • WAN interface defaults: IP address 192.168.100.254, address mask 255.255.255.0 . DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) client and PPPoE (Poi[...]

11 Note: If the operating system or the browser is set to use an HTTP proxy server, either turn off the setting or put the Wireless Gateway's IP address in the list of unproxied hosts. 3. Power up the Wireless Gateway and wait about 15 seconds while it boots up. 4. Command the browser to acces s the following URL: http://192.168.0.254/ Note: I[...]

12 Basic Setup The settings panels under the Basic Setup menu contain settings that almost always must be adjusted to let the Wireless Gateway operate at all. Four settings panels can be accessed from the Basic Setup menu: • Broadband Router • Wireless AP • Print Server • Admin Password[...]

13 Basic Setu p — Broadband Router The Basic Setup menu's Broadband Router panel is the first to appear whenever the configuration utility starts up. The controls in this panel are explained below. Router Name The Router Name is a text string that some ISPs require a s a means of identification. The setting is ignored if the ISP does not req[...]

14 The Local LAN settings are the IP address and subnet mask that will identify the Wireless Gateway to the other machines on you r LAN. The address must be unique on the LAN, that is, assigned exclusively to the Wireless Gateway; the subnet mask must be the same for all machines on the LAN that will communicate directly with the Wireless Gateway. [...]

15 The Global WAN Mode controls must be adjusted as required by your ISP. The settings you enter here determine how the Wireless Gateway will be identified to your ISP's equipment and other machines on the global Internet. • If your ISP has given you a fixed IP address to use on the WAN link, click the Specify Global IP Address control. Then[...]

16 server for the machin es on your LAN, it will pass the addresses to those machines as part of the automatic configuration process. (If the Wireless Gateway will not act as a DHCP server, you might need to set the DNS server addresses on each of the machines individually.) WAN P ort MAC A MAC (Media Access Control) address is a globally unique id[...]

17 Basic Setup — Wireless AP The Wireless Gateway's “wireless AP” is the access point — the radio - frequency transmi tting and receiving circuitry — through which wireless devices will communicate with your LAN's wired devices and the Internet. To begin setting up the wireless AP, click Wireless AP in the command panel at the l[...]

18 If the Wireless Gateway is the only AP on your LAN, it does not matter which channel you set the unit to use; properly configured 802.11b wireless stations will find the correct channel automatically. Where there are multiple APs with overlapping coverage areas, channel assignment must be carefully planned. A good practice is to set the Wireless[...]

19 Basic Setup — Print Server To view and adjust the Wireless Gateway's print server settings, click Print Server in the command panel at the left edge of your browser window (if the com mand does not appear there, click Basic Setup at the top of the window first). Controls in the Print Server settings panel are explained below. Print Port T[...]

20 Machines running the Macintosh OS on your LAN can print on a PostScript printer attached to the Wireless Gateway. When such machines request information about network printers using the AppleTalk protocol, the Wireless Gateway will respond with the information shown in the Print Server panel. This information must be correct for successful print[...]

21 Basic Setup — Admin Password It is highly recommended that you set an administrator password on the Wireless Gateway as soon as possible to prevent any tampering with the device's settings. To do this, click Admin Password in the command panel at the left edge of your browser window (if the command does not appear there, click Basic Setup[...]

22 Advanced Settings Basic setup ensures that the Wireless Gateway will work with your ISP's equipment, your wireless stations, and your printer. Further adjustments are usually necessary to provide more sophisticated functions that may by desired or required on the local network. Such adjustments are carried out through the settings panels un[...]

23 Advanced Settings — DHCP Server The Wireless Gateway can act as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server for machines on your LAN. It is a way to use private addresses in t he LAN when your ISP does not offer you enough globally legal IP addresses. This function is turned on by default when the Wireless Gateway is first shipped or a[...]

24 Enable Click No to turn the Wireless Gateway's DHCP server function off, or click Yes to turn t he function on. If you turn this function off, you can go directly to the bottom of the panel and click Save , ignoring the rest of the controls in the panel; they will have no effect on the Wireless Gateway's operation. Address Range The Ad[...]

25 that the range of addresses must not contain the IP address you have already given to the Wireless Gateway. The From and To addresses always begin with the same three numbers as the Wireless Gateway's Local LAN address (see “Broadband Router” under “Basic Setup,” above). Only the last number of each add ress can be changed through t[...]

26 twelve hexadecimal digits with or without spaces in between. The hexadecimal digits are 0 through 9 and A through F (in upper or lower case); 0080C82F8086, 0080c82f8086, 0080C8 2 F8086, and 00 80 C8 2F 80 86 are all different ways of writing the same MAC address. To enter a MAC address in the Reserve Table, click in a table entry's MAC Addr[...]

27 Advanced Settings — Port Forwarding A TCP “port” is a number associated with a protocol providing a specific service. The source and destination port numbers are the first parts of a TCP packet. Port forwarding is often used in conjunction with Network Address Translation (NAT). When you use NAT, your LAN appears to the rest of the world t[...]

28 TCP Port to IP Forwarding This is a table of up to sixteen entries. A lis t of standard, commonly used TCP port numbers appears next to the table to help you create entries. Each entry consists of (1) the port number for the protocol on which a particular network - based service is based, and (2) the IP address of the server on yo ur LAN that wi[...]

29 DMZ Host A DMZ host is a machine exposed to the Internet and running software desi gned to provide specific services while protecting the LAN's other machines from direct access from outside. On the Wireless Gateway, if an IP address for a DMZ host is specified, incoming packets of types not listed in the TCP Port to IP Forwarding table wil[...]

30 Advanced Settings — Port Open The Port Open function is provided mainly to facilitate controlled Internet gaming. It lets you specify the TCP ports that are used for input and output by up to sixteen applicati ons. When the function is enabled for application, the Wireless Gateway will allow packets for the specified ports only (and none for a[...]

31 The Application section of the Port Open settings panel contains a number, a Name input bo x, and Save and Cancel buttons. The number is the number of the application for which Port Open settings currently appear (see “Go to,” above). The Name box helps you identify the application that the displayed settings are for. To enter a name, click [...]

32 to specify a range, click the Start Port box and type the lowest number of the range, and then click in the End Port box and type the highest number. The Add button is for sending the displ ayed I/O, Start Port, and End Port settings to the Wireless Gateway for storage in non - volatile memory. Once an entry has been added, it will appear in the[...]

33 Advanced Settings — Routing Routing settings determine whether the Wireless Gateway acts as a router, and how it interacts with other routers for efficient dispatching of packets to other networks. To view the Routing settings panel, click Routing in the command panel at the left edge of your browser window (if the command does not appear ther[...]

34 A static route is a known, unchanging path from your LAN to another network or subnet. You can set up to sixteen static routes on the Wireless Gateway. A static route consists of the settings described below. IP Address: This is the IP network address of an outside network or subnet. When a machine on your LAN addresses a packet to any machine o[...]

35 The LAN Interface settings control whether and how the Wireless Gateway uses RIP with any routing devices networked to it through its LAN p orts. • The TX setting controls the transmission of routing information to such devices. Possible settings are None (send no RIP packets), RIP - 1 (send RIP version 1 packets), RIP - 1 Compatibility (send [...]

36 After making sure all settings in the Routing settings panel are correct, click Save to store the settings in the Wireless Gateway's non - volatile memory. You can, alternatively , click Cancel (or simply exit the panel) to restore all settings in the panel to the values last saved to or retrieved from the Wireless Gateway.[...]

37 Advanced Settings — Filters The Filters settings panel can be used to ensure that certain machines on the LAN cannot access the WAN; to ensure that certain protocols cannot be used by anyone on the LAN to access the WAN; to keep certain packets from triggering an on - demand PPPoE connection; and to block all requests that originate on the WAN[...]

38 Users Filter The Users Filter table lists machines on the LAN that are not allowed to access the WAN at all. There is room for sixteen entries. An entry can consist of an IP address or a MAC address, or both. (If both are e ntered, the Wireless Gateway will block all packets with either one, regardless of whether the other is associated with it.[...]

39 The Protocols Filter control lets you list the TCP port numbers for up to sixteen protocols that you do not want LAN users to use over the WAN connection. A list of standard, commonly used TCP port numbers appears next to the table to help you create entries. To create an entry, simply click in a TCP Port # box and type a port number. NetBIOS ov[...]

40 After making sure all settings in the Filters settings panel are correct, click Save to store the settings in the Wireless Gateway's non - volatile memory. You can, alternatively, click Cancel (or simply exit the panel) to res tore all settings in the panel to the values last saved to or retrieved from the Wireless Gateway.[...]

41 Advanced Settings — Manager Console A “manager console” is a computer running Manager Server, a program designed to enhance the capabilities of devices such as the Wireless Gateway and can be found in the DC - ROM that comes with the Wireless Gateway. All the features in the Manager Console panel require that such a computer be networked t[...]

42 Manager Console To communicate with a manager console, the Wireless Gateway must know the manager console's IP address. If you have set up a manager console, click in the IP Address box and type the address in. If no manager console exists, make sure the manager console IP Address control is set to 0.0.0.0 (this is the default setting). Any[...]

43 to filter (that is, bloc k) connections that meet criteria you set. For full details, see the Manager Server user's guide. The default setting of the Log and Filter control is Disable . This setting ensures that the Wireless Gateway will not send information about network activity to the manager console for logging or filtering. If you have[...]

44 Separate connection periods with commas; do not type any other characters, not even spaces. The Holiday Table is for specifying days of the year when the Wireless Gateway should not connect to the WAN at all. Cl ick in the input box for the desired month and type the day or days of that month on which connection is not allowed. Use only a comma,[...]

45 Advanced Settings — Wireless Access The Wireless Access panel lets you contr ol which machines can, and which ones cannot, connect to the network through the Wireless Gateway's wireless access point. Initially, no controls are placed on wireless access through the Wireless Gateway. To control access, you must create a “user list,” tha[...]

46 MAC address is 0080C82F8086, w hich may also be written as 0080c82f8086, 0080C8 2F8086, or 00 80 C8 2F 80 86. The first step in creating a User List entry is to click in the MAC Address input box and type the station's MAC address, with or without spaces. The Wireless Access control is for specifying whether the wireless station with the sp[...]

47 Advanced Settings — Wireless Encryption Wireless network communications are easily intercepted. WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is an encryption method specified by the IEEE 802.11b standard to make any intercepted commun ications extremely difficult to interpret by unauthorized parties. The Wireless Gateway supports WEP with up to four “keys[...]

48 wireless devices to communicate through the Wireless Gateway, their encryption settings must be the same as the Wireless Gateway's. Input Format The Input Format control determines how your input for Key 1 through Key 4 will be interpreted by the Wireless Gateway when you save the settings in the W ireless Encryption panel. Although your ke[...]

49 This control determines which key the Wireless Gateway will use when WEP encryption is enabled. Click the list box to open it, and then drag to or click the name of the desired key. For good security, it is advisable to switch keys often. Remember to switch to the same key on bot h the Wireless Gateway and all wireless stations that need to comm[...]

50 Advanced Settings — Wireless Bridge The “wireless bridge” is the circuitry tha t transfers packets between the wireless access point and wired connections. The purpose of the Wireless Bridge settings panel is to prevent specified kinds of packets from passing across this bridge. This may be done to increase network security or to avo id co[...]

51 Protocol Filters Protocol filters prevent specified kinds of packets from passing in either direction across the wireless bridge. The Protocol Filters section of the Wireless Bridge panel c ontains controls for turning this function on and off and for selecting the filter or filters you want to use. The Enable/Disable control is for turning the [...]

52 Unlike protocol filters, the Broadcast/Multicast Filter function is one - way: it prevents broadcast packets (those addressed to all stations on the network) and multicast packets (those addressed to two or more, but not all, stations) from passing through the wireless bridge from the wired segment to the wireless segment. Because of its (usuall[...]

53 or 00 80 C8 2F 80 86. To list a station, find its MAC address, click in a MAC Address box, and type the address, with or without spaces. Save/Cancel After making sure all the controls in the Wireless Bridge setti ngs panel are set as desired, click Save to store the settings in the Wireless Gateway's non - volatile memory. You can, alternat[...]

54 Information The Information menu contains commands for displaying information about the Wireless Gateway and network activity. Those commands are: • Device • DHCP • Routing • Users • Connections • WAN Link • Printer Status • Wireless Stations • Wire less Tallies Some or all of the information displayed by each of these commands[...]

55 Information — Device The Device information panel shows information about the Wireless Gateway itself. Information shown at the top of the panel is fixed: Model, Hardware Version (version number of the unit's physical circuitry), and Firmware Version (version number of the code in the unit's read - only memory). The unit's MAC a[...]

56 Information — DHCP Click DHCP in the command panel at the left edge of your browser window to monitor the operation of the Wireless Gateway's DHCP server function. The DHCP information panel shows the IP addresses that the Wireless Gateway has assigned to machines on the LAN. Next to each IP address is the MAC address of the machine to wh[...]

57 Information — Routing The Routing information panel shows information about the Wireless Gatewa y's ports and known routes, both learned and static, to other networks or subnets. A learned or static route consists of a network address and subnet mask, the IP address of the gateway to that network, and the Wireless Gateway interface (LAN o[...]

58 Information — Users The Users information panel identifies machines on the LAN that have currently active connections to the Internet. For each machine with an active connection, it shows the IP address, MAC addres s, and the number of minutes since the last packet transfer through the Wireless Gateway.[...]

59 Information — Connections The Connections information panel gives details of connections between the LAN and the Internet. The source and destination IP addresses i dentify the machines at the two ends of the connection; the protocol identifies the application being used; and the “Idle (minutes)” column shows how long it has been since the[...]

60 Information — WAN Link The Information menu's WAN Link command displays the status of the Wireless Gateway's WAN port. Basic status can be “Specify Global IP Address,” “Obtain Global IP Address Automatically (DHCP),” or “PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE),” depending on which of these is currently selected in th e Basic Setup menu[...]

61 Information — Printer Status The Printer Status panel shows whether a connection to a printer can be detected on the Wireless Gateway's printer port. If the connection to the printer is good and the printer is on, printer status will be given as “On line”; otherwise it will be given as “Off line.”[...]

62 Information — Wireless Stations The Wireless Stations panel displays the MAC addresses of wireless stations that have sent packets to the wired segment or the WAN port. The amount of time since the last wireless - to - wired communication is also shown. Click Refresh to add any wireless stations that began sending packets to the wired segment [...]

63 Information — Wireless Tallies The Wireless Tallies panel gives statistics on the operation of the Wireless Gateway's wireless access point. These statistics help you check wireless activity levels and monitor the health of the wireless segment. Figures are given for several kinds of transmitted (Tx) and recei ved (Rx) frames. (“Frame,?[...]

64 Rx Discards WEP Undecryptable is the number of packets dropped because the sender's WEP encryption settings differed from the Wireless Gateway's. Packets will be dropped if the devices use different keys or one device uses encryption and the other does not. Click Refresh at any time to retrieve the most recent wireless tallies from the[...]

65 Tools The Tools menu contains commands for restarting the Wireless Gateway, testing the printer connection, and controlling a PPPoE (Point - to - Point over Ethernet) WAN link. The names of these commands are — • Reset • Factory Reset • Print Test • PPPo E Connect • PPPoE Disconnect Only the PPPoE Connect and PPPoE Disconnect command[...]

66 The Reset command restarts the Wireless Gateway just like turning the device off and on. Saved settings are retained, but tally counters are restarted from zero after the reset. The Reset panel contains the message “Do you really want to reset this device?” and a YES button. If you do not want to reset the Wireless Gateway, exit the panel wi[...]

67 any reason the Wireless Gateway canno t connect to your ISP, click PPPoE Disconnect to cancel the command. The message “PPPoE had been disconnected” will appear (possibly after a delay of a few seconds).[...]

68 Help The Help menu contains the About command. This command displays the full name and t he version of the Wireless Gateway.[...]

69 Appendix Device Utility Device Utility is a free monitoring program designed for your convenience and may be found in the CD - ROM shipped together with the Wireless Gateway. It may be used to detect the existence of various devices on the network, obtain relative information, change their IP addresses, and upgrade their firmware if necessary. I[...]

70 Using Device Utility If network devices are found upon launching Device Utility, their names will appear in the Device Name field at the left side of the Device Utility application window. Clicking on any of the names will make the information pertaining to that particular device appear in the Information field at the right side of the applicati[...]

71 Changing IP Address Device Utility may be used to change the IP address of a network device. Simply follow these steps: 1. Click on the name of the device in the Device Name list, and then click on the button Change IP Address . 2. If the device has a password protection, a password window will appear asking the user to enter it. Enter the passw[...]

72 Specifications External Connection LAN Ports: 4 switched auto - negotiating 10/100Mbps Nway RJ - 45 Ports, 1 Ethernet uplink port, 1 wireless LAN standard 802.11b 11Mbps Access Point WAN Port: 1 10Mbps Ethernet Port for connection to ADSL/cable modem Printer Port: 1 IEEE 1284 - compliant parallel port Network Protocols Supported TCP/IP, NAT, DHC[...]