Planet Technology ADW-4401A/Bv2 manual

802.11g Wireless ADSL 2/2+ Router ADW-4401 A/Bv2 User's Manual[...]

2 Copyright Copyright  2007 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication ma y be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a r etriev al s y s tem, or translated into any language or computer language, in an y form or by an y means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, wit[...]

3 FCC Caution To assure continued compliance (example-use only shielded interface cables wh en connecting to computer or p eripheral devices). A n y change s or modifications not expressly approved b y t he party responsible for compliance could void t he user’s authority to operate the equipment. This device complies with P art 15 of the FCC Rul[...]

4 Revision User’s Manual for 802.11g Wireless ADSL 2/2+ Router Model: ADW-4401 A/Bv2 Rev: 1.0 (Dec. 2006) Part No. EM-ADW4401v2_v1[...]

5 Table of Conte nts 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………7 1.1 Feature…………………………………………………………………….…….7 1.2 Package Cont ents………………………………………………………………..8 1.3 Physical Details…………[...]

6 3.7.1.4 DNS Relay……………………………………………………...36 3.8 Wireless Configuration……………………………………………………......36 3.8.1 Wireless Settings……………………………………….……………....36 3.8.1.1 Wireless Security………………………….……………….….[...]

7  1. Introduction The PLANET 802.11g Wireless ADS L 2/ 2+ Router, ADW-4401v2, provides office and residential users the ide al solution for sharing a hig h-speed ADSL 2/2+ broadband Internet connection on a 54Mbps wireless network and a 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet backbone. I t can support downstream transmission rates of up to 24Mbps and upstream[...]

8  VPN Pass through Support. PC s with VPN (Virtual Private Networking) software using PPTP, L2TP and IPSec are transparently supported - no configuration is required.  RIP1/2 Routing. It supports RIP1/2 routing protocol for routing capabilit y .  Simple Network Managemen t Protocol (SNMP). I t is an e asy way to remot ely manage the route[...]

9 Front Panel LED definition LED State Descr iption ON When the router is powered on and in ready state PWR OFF When the router is powered off. WLAN Flashing Wh en wireless AP is ready ON Successful connection between ADSL modem and telecom' s network ADSL Flashing Modem is t rying to establish a connection to telecom’s network ON Link Flash[...]

10  2. Installation This chapter offers information about install ing your router. If you are not f amiliar with the hardware or software parameters presented here, please consult your service provider for the values needed.  2.1 System R e quirem ent 1. Personal computer (PC) 2. Pentium III 266 MHz processor or higher 3. 128 MB RAM minimum 4[...]

11 telephone equipment is connected to a POTS splitter.  2.3 Configuring the Network Properties Configuring PC in W indows XP 1. Go to S tart / Contr ol Panel (in Classic V iew) . I n the Control Panel, double-click on Network Connections 2. Double-click Local Area Connection . 3. In the Local Area Connection S tatus wind ow , click Pr oper ties[...]

12 4. Select Internet Pr oto col (TCP/IP) and click Properties . 5. Select the Obtain an IP ad dr ess automatically and the Obtain DNS server ad dre ss automatically radio buttons. 6. Click OK to finish the configuration. Configuring PC in W indows 2000 1. Go to S tart / Settings / Contr ol Panel . In the Control Panel, double-click on Network and [...]

13 2. Double-click Local Area Connection . 3. In the Local Area Connection S tatus wind ow click Pr o perties . 4. Select Internet Pr oto col (TCP/IP) and click Properties . 5. Select the Obtain an IP ad dr ess automatically and the Obtain DNS server address autom a tically radio buttons. 6. Click OK to finish the configuration.[...]

14 Configuring PC in W indows 98/Me 1. Go to S tart / Settings / Contr ol Panel . In the Control Panel, double-click on Network and choose the Configuration tab. 2. Select TCP/IP -> NE2000 Compatible , or the name of your Network Interface Card (NIC) in your PC. 3. Select the Obtain an IP address automatically radio button. 4. The n s elect the [...]

15 Configuring PC in W indows NT4.0 1. Go to S tart / Settings / Contr ol Panel . In the Control Panel, double-click on Network and choose the Pr otocols tab. 2. Select TCP/IP Protocol and click Pr ope rties . 3. Select the Obtain an IP address fr o m a DHCP server radio button and click OK .[...]

16  3 Configuration  3.1 Determine your co nnection sett i ngs Before you configure the router, you need to know the connection information supplied by your ADSL service provider.  3.2 Connecting the ADSL Router to your network Unlike a simple hub or switch, the setup of the ADSL Router consists of more than simply plugging everything toge[...]

17  3.3.1 Quick Setup G uide You can use " Quick Setup " to setup the router as follows, and the router will connect to the Internet via ADSL line. Click " Quick Start " to get into the quick setup procedures.[...]

18 Click " RUN WIZARD " to start up this procedure. Step 1 - Click "Next" to setup your new administrator' s password.[...]

19 Step 2 - Click " Next " to setup your time zone. Step 3 - Click " Next " to setup y ou r Internet connection t ype. You can have this information from your Internet Service Provider. Enter the connection information provided b y your I SP.[...]

20  3.4 Maintenance  3.4.1 System Tim e Go to Maintenance->Time Zone and select system time as you wish. The system time is the ti me used by the d evice for schedulin g s ervices. You can manually set the t ime or connect to a NTP (Network Time P rotocol) server. If an NTP[...]

21 server is set, you will only need to set th e time z one. If you manuall y set the time, you may also set Da y li ght Saving dates and the system time will automatically adjust on those dates. Current Date/Time: Th is field displays an upd ated Date and Time when you reenter this menu. [Time Synchronization] Synchronize time with: You can choose[...]

22  3.4.2 Admin Setting Go to Maintenance-> Administration to set a new user' s name and password to restrict management access to the router. The default is admin (User's name) and admin (Password) New Password: Type the new password in this field. Confirm Password: Type the new password again in t his field. Note: If you ever forg[...]

23 Current Firmware Version: This fil ed displays the cur rent firmware version. New Firmware Location: T y pe in t he lo cation of the file y ou want to upl oad in this field or click Browse… to find it. UPGRADE: Click UPGRADE to begin the upload process.  3.4.4 SysRestart Go to Maintenance -> SysRestart to do system restart. The SysRestar[...]

24  3.5 Status  3.5.1 Device Info Go to Status -> Device Info to check system information . The Device I nfo screen is a tool that y ou use to monitor your ADS L Router. I t shows the Firmware Version, WAN, LAN, and MAC address i nformation. Note that these fields are read-only and are not meant for d iagnostic purposes. Ex cept the Virtua[...]

25 [WAN] Virtual Circuit: Click the drop-down list and s elect the name of the Virtual Circuit on which the system status is to be shown. Status: Connected or Not Connected Connection Type: The WAN Connection Type. IP Address: The WAN port IP address Subnet Address: The WAN port IP subnet mask. Default Gateway: The IP address of the default gateway[...]

26  3.5.3 Statistics Go to Status-> Statistics and select ADSL or Ethernet interface. The ADS L Router keeps statistic of traffic that passes through it. You are able to view the amount of packets that passes through the Router on both the WAN port & the L A N port. The traffic counter will reset if the device is rebooted. Yo u can select[...]

27 [ADSL] The ADSL screen gives you information about how much data your router has transmitted or received across the ADSL connection. Click on RE FRESH to update the screen.  3.6 WAN Configur ation  3.6.1 VC Configurat i on Go to Interface Setup -> Internet . To add or delete ADS L VC configuration, these information provide by ISP. ATM [...]

28 MBS: Maximum Burst Size (MBS) is th e max imum num ber of cells that can be sent at the PCR. After MBS is r e ached, c ell r ates fall below SCR until cell rate ave rages to the SCR again. At this time, more cells (up to the MBS) can be sent at the PC R again. CBR is for connections that support constant rates of data transfer. The onl y paramet[...]

29 (1) Dynamic IP Address Select this option if y our I S P provides y ou an IP add ress automatically. Please enter the Dynamic IP information accordingly. The following table describes the labels in this screen. LABEL DESCRIPTION Encapsulation Select your encapsulation t y p e from the dropdown list. NA T Select whether NA T i s Enabled or Disabl[...]

30 The following table describes the labels in this screen. LABEL DESCRIPTION Encapsulation Select your encapsulation t y p e from the dropdown list. Static I P Address Enter the static IP Address here. IP S ubnet Mask Enter the IP Subnet Mask here. Gateway Enter the Gateway address here. NA T Select whether NA T is Enabled or Disabled. Default Rou[...]

31 LABEL DESCRIPTION Username Enter your username for your PPPoE/PPP oA connection. Password Enter your password for your PPPoE/PPPoA connection. Encapsulation Select your encapsulation t y p e from the dropdown list. Bridge Interface Select whether the Interface will be Activated or Deactivated. Connection Select whether your connection is always [...]

32 Connection Setting : For PPPoE/PPPoA connection, y ou ca n select Al ways on or Connect on-demand. Connect on demand is dep endent on the traffic. If there is no traffic (or Idle) for a p re-specified period of time, the connection w ill tear down automatically. And on ce t here is tr affic send or receive, the connection will be automatically o[...]

33 (4) Bridge Mode The modem can be config ur ed to act as a bridg ing device between your LAN and y our ISP. Bridges are devices t hat enable 2 or more n etworks to communicate as if they are 2 segments of the same physical LAN. Please set the Connection type. The following table describes the labels in this screen. LABEL DESCRIPTION Encapsulation[...]

34  3.7.1.1 Router Local IP IP Address: Enter the IP address of your ADSL r outer in dot ted decimal n otation, for example, 192.168.1.1 (default setting). IP Subnet Mask: Your ADSL router will automaticall y calculate the subnet mask based on the IP address that you assign. Unless you are impl ementing sub netting, use the subnet mask computed [...]

35 LABEL DESCRIPTION Starting IP Address Enter the starting IP address y ou wish to use as the DHCP server' s IP assi gnment. IP P ool Count Enter the maximum us er pool size you wish to allow . Lease T ime Enter the amount of time you wish to lease out a given I P address. DNS Relay Select the DNS relay option you wish to use from the dropdow[...]

36  3.7.1.4 DNS Relay The DNS Configuration allows the user to set the configuration of DNS. DNS Rely Selection: If user wants to disable this feature, he just needs to set both Primary & S econdary DNS to 0.0.0.0. Using DNS relay, users can setup DNS server IP to 192.168.1.1 on their computer. If not, device will perform as NO DNS rela y. I[...]

37  3.8.1.1 Wireless Security WEP (Wired Equi valent P rivacy) encrypts data frames before transmitting over the wireless network. Select Disab le to allo w all wireless computers to communicate with the ac cess points without an y data encr y ption. Select 64-bi t WE P or 128-bi t WE P to use data encryption. Key#1~Key#4 The WEP keys are us ed [...]

38  3.8.1.2 Advanced Setting Beacon Interval: The B eacon Interval value indicates the frequency interval of th e beacon. Ente r a value between 20 and 1000. A beacon is a packet broadcast b y th e Router to synchronize the wireless network. RTS T hreshold: The RTS (Request To Send) threshol d (number of b ytes) for enablin g RTS/CTS handshake. [...]

39 DTIM: This value is between 1 and 255, i ndicates the interval of the Deliver y Traffic Indication Message (DTIM). s  3.8.1.3 MAC Address Filter You can allow or den y a lust of MAC addr esses associated with the wireless stations access to the ADSL Router. Status: Use the drop down list box to enable or disable MAC address filtering. Action:[...]

40 ACL: There has Activated & Deactivated op tion. The default setting is Deactivated which means all IP can access via router. If you choose Activated , you only c an access via router by listed IP addresses. ACL Rule Index: Index number from 1 and up to 16. Active: Once you choose Yes then you can access the I P vi a router. Application: Each[...]

41 IP Filter Set Index: The I P Filter S et Index from 1 to 12 and each index can set up to 6 IP Filter. Interface: Choices from PVC0 to PVC7 and LAN . Direction: Choices are B oth , I ncoming and Outgoing . Select which di rection of data flow y ou wish to appl y the filt ers to. Note t hat Inco ming and Outgoing are f rom the point of view of you[...]

42  3.9.3 SNMP Go to Access Management -> SNMP to set SNMP. The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used for exchanging information between network devices. It ena bles a host computer to access configuration, pe rformance, and othe r s ystem data that resides in a datab ase on the modem. The host computer is called a management stat[...]

43 Get Co mmunity: Select to set the password for incoming Get- and GetNext request from management station. Set Community: Select to set the password for incoming Set request from management station. The default pa ssword is ‘ public ’. When y ou are done making chan ges, click on S AVE to save your changes.  3.9.4 UPNP Go to Access Managem[...]

44 UPnP (Universal Plug and Play): You can choose “Activated” or “Deactivated” option from this session. Auto-Configured (by UPnP App lication): UPnP network d evices can autom atically configure network addressi ng, announce their pres ence i n the network to other UPnP devices and enabl e exchange of simple product and service description[...]

45 Dynamic DNS : Choose the option for Activated or Deactivated DDNS. Service Provider: The default Dynamic DNS service provider is www .dyndns.org . My H ost Na me: T ype the domain name assigne d to your ADSL b y your Dynamic DNS provider. E-mail Address : Type your e-mail address. Username: Type your user name. Password: Type the password assign[...]

46 Virtual Circuit (VC): The Virtual Circuit (VC) properties of the ATM VC interface identify a uni que path that your ADS L/Ethernet router uses to communicate via the ATM-based network with the telephone compan y central office equipment. NAT Status: Thi s filed shows the current status of the NAT function for the current VC. Number of I Ps: This[...]

47 from probing your network. For more information on IP add ress translation, refer to RFC 1631, The IP Network Address Translator (NAT). Inside/outside indicates where a hos t is loc ated relative to t he RO UTER. The computers hosts of your LAN are inside, while t he W eb servers on t he Internet are outside. Global/local indicates the IP addr e[...]

48 NAT Application The following fi gure illustrates a possible NAT application, where three i nside L ANs (logical L A Ns us ing IP Alias) behind the router can communi cate with three distinct WAN networks. More examples follow at the end of this chapter. NAT Mapping Typ es NAT supports five types of IP/port mapping. The y are: a. One-to-One : In[...]

49 c. Many-to-Many Over load : In Many-to-Man y Overload mode, t he TC3162 EVM maps multiple local IP addresses to shared global IP addresses. d. Many-to-Many No Overload : I n Man y-to-Many No Overload mode, the TC3162 EVM maps each local IP address to a unique global I P address. e. Server : This t ype allows y ou to sp ecify inside s ervers of d[...]

50 number. For example, set the FTP Virtual server, you can s et the start and end port number to 21. Local IP Address: Enter the IP Address for the Virtual Server in LAN side. Virtual Server Listing: This is a listi ng of all virtual serve rs your have set. When you are done making changes, click on S AVE to save your chang es, DELETE to delete th[...]

51 When you are done making chan ges, click on SA VE to save y our changes or on BACK to return to the previous screen.  3.10.1.3 IP Address Mappi ng Go to Advanced Setup ->NAT -> Multiple ->IP Address mapping to s et IP Address mapping parameters. The IP Address Mapping is for those VCs that wit h multiple IPs. The IP Address Mapping r[...]

52 and Many-to Many No-Overload . Local Start & E nd IP: Enter the local IP address y ou plan to map to. L o cal Start IP is the starting local IP address & Local End I P is the ending local IP ad dress. If the rule is for all local IPs, then the Start IP is 0.0.0.0 and the End IP is 255.255.255.255. Public Start & E nd I P: Enter the P[...]

53  3.10.3 Routing  3.10.3.1 Static Routing Go to Advance Setup-> Routing to see the Routing Table Routing Table List This table lists I P address of Internet destinati ons commonly a ccessed by y ou r network. When a computer requests to send data to a l isted destination, the device uses t he G ateway IP to identify th e first Internet r[...]

54 IP Subnet Mask: Enter the subnet mask for this destinatio n. Gateway IP Address: Enter the I P address of the gatewa y . A gateway does the actual forwarding of the packet s. Enter t he gatewa y’ s IP address in the field or select which PVC you wish to act as a gateway. The gatewa y is an immediate nei ghbor of your ADSL R outer that wil l fo[...]

55 RIP-1 is universa ll y supp orted, but RIP-2 carries more information. R IP-1 is adequate for most networks. Only consider RI P-2 if your network has unusual topology. Both RIP-2B and RIP-2M sends the routing data i n RIP-2 format. RIP-2B uses subnet broadcasting while RIP-2M uses multicasting. Direction: Select the RIP direction from None , Bot[...]

56 Firewall : Select this option can automaticall y detect and block Denial of S ervice (DoS) attacks, such as Ping of Death, SYN Flood, Port S can and Land Attack. SPI : Select this option to Enabled or Disabled the S PI feature. (NOTE: If you enable SPI, all traffics initiate from W AN would be blocked, including DMZ, Virtual Server, and ACL WAN [...]

57 AWG American Wire Gauge - The measurement of thickness of a wire Bridge A device connects two or more physical networks and forward packets between them. Bridges can usually be made to filter packets, that is, to forward onl y certain traffic. Related devices are repeaters which simply forward electrical signals from one cable to the other and f[...]

58 Dynamic IP Addresses A dynamic IP address is an IP address that is automatically assigned to a client statio n (computer, printer, etc.) in a TCP/IP network. Dynamic IP addresses are typically assigned by a DHCP server, which can be a computer on the network or another piece of hardware, such as the Router. A dynamic IP address may change every [...]

59 ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol - The protocol handle errors and control messages at the IP layer. ICMP is actually part of the IP protocol. Internet address An IP address is assigned in blocks of numbers to user organizations accessing the Internet. These addresses are established by the United States Department of Defense' s Networ[...]

60 PAP Password Authentication Protocol PORT The abstraction used in Internet transport protocols to disti nguish among multiple simultaneous connections to a single destination host. POTS Plain Old Telephone Service - This is the term describe basic telephone service. PPP Point-to-Point-Protocol - The successor to SLIP, PPP p rovides router-to-rou[...]

61 Information stored within a router that contains network path and status information. It is used to select the most appropriate route to forward information along. Routing Information Protocol Routers periodically exchange information with one another so that the y can determine minimum distance paths between sources and destinations. SNMP Simpl[...]

62 during your Router' s configuration. Subnet For routing purposes, IP networks can be divided into logical subnets b y using a subnet mask. Values below those of the mask are valid addresses on the subnet. TCP Transmission Control Protocol - The major transport protocol in the Internet suite of protocols provides reliable, connection-oriente[...]

63 reality, the data is delivered across a network via the most appropriate route. The sending and receiving devices do not have to be aware of the options and the route is chosen only when a message is sent. There is no pre-arrangement, so each vi rtual connection exists onl y fo r the duration of that one transmission. WAN Wide area network - A d[...]