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    Pr estige 660W/HW Series ADSL 2/2+ Gateway with 802.11g Wireless Compact Guide Version 3.40 May 2004[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 2 T able of Content s 1 Introducing th e Pres tige .............................................................................................. 4 2 Hardware ..................................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Rear Panel Connecti ons......[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 3 6.5 Configuring SUA Server ...................................................................................... 30 6.6 Firewall Over view................................................................................................ 32 6.7 Enabling th e Fir ewall ...........................................[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 4 1 Introducing the Prestige The Prestige 660W/HW ADSL 2/2+ Gateway with 802.11g Wireless is the id eal all-in- one device for small networks connecting to the Internet vi a ADSL. Ke y features of the Prestige include NAT, 802.1x wireless LAN se curity, WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) and Firewall. See your User?[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 5 2 Hardware 2.1 Rear Panel Connections Figure 1 P660HW Hardware Connections Table 1 Prestige Rear Panel Desc ription LABEL DESCRIPTION DSL Connect to a telephone jack using the included phone wire. LAN 1 to LAN 4 Connect to a computer/e xternal hub using an Ethernet cable. POWER Connect to a power source using[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 6 Table 1 Prestige Rear Panel Desc ription LABEL DESCRIPTION RESET You only need to use this button if you’ve forgotten the Prestige’s password. It returns the Prestige to the factory defaults (password is 1234, LAN IP address 192.168.1.1 etc.; see your User’s Guide for details). 2.2 The Front Panel LEDs [...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 7 Table 2 P660HW F ront Panel LED Descripti on LED COLOR STATUS DESCRIPTION Off The system is not ready or has malfunctioned. On The Prestige has a successful 10Mb Ethernet connection. Green Blinking The Prestige is sending/receiving data. On The Prestige has a successful 100Mb Ethernet connection. Amber Blinki[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 8 Figure 3 P660W F ront Panel Refer to the following tab le for more detailed LED descriptions. Table 3 P660W F ront Panel LED Descripti on LED COLOR STATUS DESCRIPTION Green On The Prestige is receiving power. PWR Off The Prestige is not receiving power. On The Prestige is functioning properly. Green Blinking [...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 9 Table 3 P660W F ront Panel LED Descripti on LED COLOR STATUS DESCRIPTION Green Blinking The Prestige is sending/receiving non-PPP data. On The Prestige has a PPP (PPPoA or PPPoE) connection. Amber Blinking The Prestige is sending/receiving PPPoA or PPPoE traffic. PPP/ACT Off The system is ready, but is not se[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 10 3 Internet Access With Zero Configuration With the Prestige’s Zero Configuration, you c an access the Internet easily. Simply connect a computer to the Prestige and access the In ternet without changing the network settings (such as the IP address and subnet mask) of the computer. Step 1. Make the hardware[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 11 4 Setting Up Y our Computer ’s IP Address Skip this section if your computer is alread y set up to accept a dynamic IP address. This is the default for most new computers. The Prestige is already set up to assign your co mputer an IP address. Use this section to set up your com puter to receive an IP addr [...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 12 3. In the Network wi nd o w Configuration tab, select your network adapter's TCP/IP entry and click Properties . 4. Click the IP Address tab. -If your IP address is dynamic, select Obtain an IP address auto matically . -If you have a static IP address, select Specify an IP address and type your informat[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 13 5. Click the DNS Configuration tab. -If you do not know your DNS information, select Disable DNS . -If you know your DNS information, select Enable DNS and type the information in the fields below (you may not need to fill them all in). 6. Click the Gateway tab. -If you do not know your gateway’s IP addres[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 14 8. Click OK to close the Network window. Insert the Windows CD if prompted. 9. Turn on your Prestige and restart your comp uter when prompted. Verifying Your Computer’s IP Address 1. Click Start and then Run . 2. In the Ru n window, type "winipcfg" and then click OK to open the IP Configuration w[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 15 Then enter your DNS server IP address(es) in the Preferred DNS server and/or Alter nate DNS serv er fields. If you have more than two DNS servers, click Advanced , the DNS tab and then configure them using Ad d . 6. Click Advanced . Remove any previously installed gateways in the IP Settin gs tab and click O[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 16 Your computer can now communica te with the Prestige using the LAN port. C:>ping 192.168.1.1 Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=254 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=254 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=254 Reply from[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 17 5 Configuring Y our Prestige This Compact Guide shows you how to use the web configurator only . See your User’s Guide for background information on all Prestige features and SMT (System Management T erminal) configuration. 5.1 Accessing Y our Prestige V ia Web Configurator Step 1. Launch your web browser.[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 18  Click a link under Maintenance to see Prestige performance statistics, upload firmware and back up, restore or upload a configuration file.  Click Logout in the navig ation pan el when y ou have fi nished a Pre stige management session. Figure 6 Web Config urator: Site Map Screen The Prestige automati[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 19 5.3 Internet Access Using the Wizard Use the Wizard Setup screens to configure your s ystem for Internet access settings and fill in the fields with the information in the Internet Account Information table. Your ISP may have alread y configured some of the fields in the wizard screens for you. Step 1. In th[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 20 Figure 8 Internet Connection with PPPoE If your ISP provides the name of your PPPoE service provider, enter it in the Service Name field. Enter the user name and password exactly as your ISP assigned them. Select Obtain an IP Address Automatically if you have a dynamic IP address; otherwise select Static IP [...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 21 Figure 10 Internet Conne ction with ENET ENCAP In the ENET ENCAP Gateway field, enter the gateway IP address given by your ISP. Refer to Figure 8 for other field descriptions . Figure 11 Internet Connection with PPPoA Refer to Figure 8 for field descriptions. The IP Address and Network Address T ranslation f[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 22 Step 3. Verify the settings in th e screen shown next. To change th e LAN information on the Pr estige, click Change LAN Configurations . Otherwise click Save Settings to save the configu ration and skip the following step. Figure 12 Wi zard Screen 3 Step 5. If you want to change your Prestige LAN settings, [...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 23 Figure 13 Wizard: LA N Configuration Enter the IP address of your Prestige in dotted decimal notation in the LAN I P Address field. For example, 192.168.1.1 (factory default). If you change the Prestige’ s L AN IP address, you must use the new IP address if you want to access the web configurator again. En[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 24 Figure 14 Wizard Screen 4 5.4 T est Y our Internet Connection Launch your web browser and navigate to www.zyxel.com . Internet access is just the beginning. Refer to the User’s Guide for mo re detailed information on th e complete range of Prestige features. If you cannot access the Internet, open the web [...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 25 6 Advanced Configuration This section shows how to configure some of the advanced features of th e Prestige. 6.1 Wireless LAN Setup A wireless LAN (WLAN) provides a flexible data communications system that you can use to access var ious services (the Internet, email , printer services, etc.) on the wired net[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 26 The following table d escribes the fields in this screen. Table 4 Wireless L AN: Wireless LA BEL DESCRIPTION Enable Wireless LAN The wireless LAN is turned off by default, before you enable the wireless LAN you should configure some security by setting MAC filters and/or 802.1x security; otherwise your wirel[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 27 Table 4 Wireless L AN: Wireless LA BEL DESCRIPTION Key 1 to Key 4 The WEP keys are used to encrypt data. Both the Prestige and the wireless clients must use the same WEP key for data transmission. If you chose 64-bit WEP , then enter any 5 ASCII characters or 10 hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 28 Figure 16 Wireless L AN: MAC Address Filter The following table d escribes the fields in this screen. Table 5 Wireless L AN: MAC Address Filter LA BEL DESCRIPTION Active Select Yes from the drop down list box to enable MAC address filtering. Action Define the filter action for the list of MAC addresses in th[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 29 not listed will be denied access to the router. MAC Address Enter the MAC addresses (in XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX format) of the wireless station that are allowed or denied access to the Prestige in these address fields. 6.3 802.1x and WPA Overview Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a subset of th e IEEE 802.11i securi[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 30 2. Many-to-One : Many-to-One mode maps multiple local IP addresses to one global IP address. 3. Many-to-Many Overload : Many-to-Many Overload mode maps multiple local IP addresses to shared global IP addresses. 4. Many-to-Many No Overload : Many-to-Many No Overload mode maps each local IP address to unique g[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 31 Figure 18 SUA /N AT Server The following table d escribes the labels in this screen. Table 6 SUA/NA T Server LABEL DESCRIPTION Start Port No. Type a port number in this field. To forward only on e port, type the port number again in the End Port field. To forward a series of ports, t ype the start port numbe[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 32 6.6 Firewall Overview The Prestige firewall is a stateful inspection firewall and is design ed to protect against Denial of Service atta cks when activated. The Prestige’s purpose is to allow a private Local Area Network (LAN) to b e securely connected to the Internet. The Prestig e can be used to prevent [...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 33 6.7 Enabling the Firewall From the main s creen, click Advanced Setu p , Firewall and then Config to open the Configuration screen. Enable (or activate) the firewall by selectin g the Enable Firew all check box as seen in the following screen. Figure 20 Enab ling the Firew all 6.8 Procedure for Configuring F[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 34 Figure 21 Rule Summary The following table d escribes the labels in this screen. Table 7 Rule Summary LABEL DESCRIPTION The default action for packets not matching following rules Should packets that do not match the following rules be blocked or forwarded? Make your choice from the drop do wn list box. Note[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 35 Table 7 Rule Summary LABEL DESCRIPTION The following read-only fields summarize the rules you have created that appl y to traffic traveling in the selected packet direction. The firewall rules that you configure (summarized below) take priority over the general firewall action settings above. No. This is you[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 36 Available Service buttons . For a comprehensive list of port numbers and services, visit the IANA (Internet A ssigned Number Authority) web site. Step 3. Configure the Source Address and Destination Address for the rule. Figure 22 Creating/Editing A Firewall Rule The following table d escribes the labels in [...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 37 Table 8 Creating/Editing A Firewall Rule LABEL DESCRIPTION Source Address Click SrcAdd to add a new address, SrcEdit to edit an existing one or SrcDelete to delete one. Please see the next s ection for more information on adding and editing source addresses. Destination Address Click DestAdd to add a new add[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 38 Figure 23 Adding/Editing Source an d Destination Addresses The following table d escribes the labels in this screen. Table 9 A dding/Editing Source and De stination Addresses LABEL DESCRIPTION Address Type Do you want your rule to appl y to packets with a particular (single) IP address, a range of IP address[...]

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    Prestige 660W/HW Series Compact Guide 39 7 T roubleshooting Table 10 Trouble shooting PROBLEM CORRECTIVE ACTION None of the LEDs turn on when you turn on the Prestige. Make sure that you have the correct power adaptor connected to the Prestige and plugged in to an appropriate power source. Check all cable connections. If the LEDs still do not turn [...]

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