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AR725 ROUTER

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Page 1: ...AR725 ROUTER QUICK START GUIDE ...

Page 2: ...es in specifications and other information contained in this document without prior written notice The information provided herein is subject to change without notice In no event shall AlliedTelesyn be liable for any incidental special indirect or consequential damages whatsoever including but not limited to lost profits arising out of or related to this manual or the information contained herein ...

Page 3: ... to a Basic Rate S T ISDN Service 9 Connecting to a Basic Rate U ISDN Service 9 Connecting to a Primary Rate ISDN Service 10 Connecting a Terminal or Modem 10 Documentation andTools CD ROM 12 Using the CD ROM 12 Using AT TFTP Server 12 Configuring ISDN 13 Configuring Basic Rate ISDN 13 Configuring Primary Rate ISDN 14 Configuring ISDN Dial on Demand 16 Configuring ISDN Bandwidth on Demand 16 Confi...

Page 4: ... Network Many small offices and home offices require fast and efficient access to a central office to check email access a database or download a file The AR725 supportsWindows Novell and Apple Macintosh systems The intelligent bandwidth management facility automatically opens more ISDN channels when extra capacity is required and closes them when traffic levels reduce Powerful firewall features p...

Page 5: ...ided by the AR725 Wide area networking via Frame Relay Point to Point Protocol and X 25 Basic Rate and Primary Rate access to Integrated Services Digital Network ISDN services with dial on demand bandwidth on demand and channel aggregation facilities Multiprotocol routing includingTCP IP Novell IPX DECnet AppleTalk and GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation protocols Supported routing protocols include...

Page 6: ...ter refers to its physical interfaces as ports and these are numbered starting at 0 Ports on the base unit are numbered first followed by ports on PICs Port Interface Cards in Bay 0 and Bay 1 For example eth0 is the first Ethernet port and syn1 is the second synchronous port USING WINDOWSTERMINAL OR WINDOWS HYPERTERMINAL ASTHE CONSOLE You can use a PC running terminal emulation software as the man...

Page 7: ...cept either one or two Service Profile Identifiers SPIDs CONNECTINGTOA BASIC RATE S T ISDN SERVICE Warning The factory default hardware settings described here are correct for European Union EU countries For other countries contact your distributor or reseller for details of local requirements To connect an AR725 router with an AT AR021 S BRI S T PIC installed to a Basic Rate S T ISDN service foll...

Page 8: ...r distributor or reseller The commands SHOW PRI STATE SHOW PRI CONFIGURATION display the state of the PRI interface and the modules configured to use the PRI interface Check the output of the SHOW PRI STATE command that ISDN Interface type is set to TE If not contact your distributor or reseller for assistance 2 Connect an approved ISDN 120Ω cable from the ISDN service provider s termination point...

Page 9: ...ports on the AR725 router are set to 9600 baud 8 data bits 1 stop bit no parity and hardware flow control Refer to the user manual supplied with the terminal or modem for details of how to change the communications settings for the terminal or modem If the terminal or modem is to be used with communications settings other than the default settings the asynchronous port must be configured to match ...

Page 10: ... Document menu to page through the document Click on a bookmark thumbnail or hypertext link to jump to a specific section or topic Use the Search command to search for keywords or phrases For more information about using the Adobe Acrobat Reader select Acrobat Reader Help from the Help menu 4 To install any of the tools on the CD ROM click on the Tools button in the CD Browser menu USING AT TFTP S...

Page 11: ...plicable national standards for the country in which the product is used For installations in the USA go to step 4 For installations in other countries go to step 3 3 In countries other than the USA the router s ISDN directory numbers and subaddresses may be set with the command SET Q931 0 NUM1 number NUM2 number SUB1 subaddress SUB2 subaddress This step is only required if the router is sharing t...

Page 12: ...dentification to the remote end of the link Each router will search for this call using the called subaddress IE The precedence must be set to ensure that in the event of a call collision the same call being made and answered at the same time one call is completed and other call is cleared The direction of precedence is not important but it must be set to IN at one end of the call and OUT at the o...

Page 13: ...LE timer Using the example in step 6 of Configuring Basic Rate The territory determines which Q 931 profile is used on the ISDN interface For example to select the Q 931 profile for New Zealand use the command SET SYSTEM TERRITORY NEWZEALAND Warning If you are not sure which territory to use contact your distributor or reseller Failure to select the correct territory will invalidate the approval o...

Page 14: ... bandwidth on demand PPP activates additional ISDN channels when the bandwidth exceeds an upper threshold and deactivates ISDN channels as bandwidth falls below a lower threshold To configure an ISDN connection for bandwidth on demand operation follow these steps 1 Complete steps 1 to 5 of Configuring Basic Rate ISDN or steps 1 to 4 of Configuring Primary Rate ISDN above 2 Create a second ISDN cal...

Page 15: ...connected to the Ethernet LAN and the wide area link and that the link is operational See Getting Connected for information about connecting the router to a physical network 2 Connect a terminal to the console port port 0 on each router as described in the AR700 Series Router Quick Install Guide Alternatively you can connect a PC to the console port and use a terminal emulation program like Window...

Page 16: ...about routes to all of the IP devices hosts PCs file servers etc on the internet However on a dial on demand ISDN connection this may result in excessive call charges So for this example static routes will be defined On the Head Office router enter the command ADD IP ROUTE 192 168 31 0 MASK 255 255 255 240 INT PPP0 NEXT 172 16 254 2 5 Repeat this procedure for the Remote Office router entering the...

Page 17: ...Head Office router as its gateway Refer to the documentation for the host TCP IP software for more information about configuring a gateway 3 Contact your distributor or reseller for assistance You will see the login screen for the Remote Office router To connect from the Remote Office router to the Head Office router on the Remote Office router use the command TELNET 172 16 8 33 Note We have used ...

Page 18: ...ies Router Quick Install Guide Alternatively you can connect a PC to the console port and use a terminal emulation program like Windows Terminal or Telnet to the routers using a Telnet client To use Telnet both routers must be configured for IP See Configuring an IP Network for details 3 Login to the MANAGER account on each router as described in the AR700 Series Router Quick Install Guide 4 Colle...

Page 19: ...g and record the values of the fields File server name IPX internal network number Frame type and LAN protocol You can also access the system console by running the rconsole utility from any workstation logged in as supervisor For more details contact your local Novell network administrator or refer to the Novell documentation CONFIGURING IPX The following steps are required 1 Configure the PPP li...

Page 20: ...ortant point is that the file server must appear in the service table on the Remote Office router and there must be a route to the file server s internal network number If there is and it still does not work contact your distributor or reseller for assistance 4 Check the route tables on both routers using the command SHOW IPX ROUTE Configure IPX Routing 1 Purge the IPX static database to clear any...

Page 21: ...RING IPX DIAL ON DEMAND If the PPP link uses an ISDN call and has been configured as a dial on demand link see Configuring ISDN Dial on Demand earlier in this guide then IPX can be configured for IPX dial on demand services To configure IPX dial on demand follow these steps 1 Purge the IPX static database to clear an preexisting IPX configuration and enable the IPX routing software on each router ...

Page 22: ... updates To improve performance RIP and SAP filters can be configured on the Head Office router to limit the number and size of broadcasts which activate the ISDN call To configure RIP and SAP filters follow these steps on the Head Office router only 1 Create a RIP filter that only allows information about route changes to the file server s internal network network number 7500 to be included in RI...

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