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F8X23 Series
User Manual

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F8X23 Series User Manual

The user manual is suitable for the following model:

Model

Product Type

F8123

GPRS ROUTER

F8223

CDMA ROUTER

F8323

EDGE ROUTER

F8423

WCDMA ROUTER

F8523

TD-SCDMA ROUTER

F8623

EVDO ROUTER

Xiamen Four-Faith Communication Technology Co., Ltd.

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J1-J3,3rd Floor,No.44,GuanRi Road,SoftWare

Park,XiaMen,China Zip Code:361008

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+86 592-6300326

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6300325

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6300324

Fax:+86 592-5912735

http://www.fourfaith.com

Summary of Contents for F8 23 Series

Page 1: ...uct Type F8123 ZigBee GPRS ROUTER F8223 ZigBee CDMA ROUTER F8323 ZigBee EDGE ROUTER F8423 ZigBee WCDMA ROUTER F8523 ZigBee TD SCDMA ROUTER F8623 ZigBee EVDO ROUTER Xiamen Four Faith Communication Technology Co Ltd Add J1 J3 3rd Floor No 44 GuanRi Road SoftWare Park XiaMen China Zip Code 361008 Tel 86 592 6300326 6300325 6300324 Fax 86 592 5912735 http www fourfaith com ...

Page 2: ...J3 3 rd Floor No 44 GuanRiRoad SoftWare Park XiaMen 361008 China http www fourfaith com Tel 86 592 6300326 6300325 6300324 Fax 86 592 5912735 Files Revised Record Date Version Remark Author 2012 2 1 1 00 For first Public Frank Hjm 2012 5 22 1 10 Correct ZigBee Specification Frank Hjm ...

Page 3: ...y Co Ltd Without written permission all commercial use of the files from Four Faith are forbidden such as copy distribute reproduce the files etc but non commercial purpose downloaded or printed by individual all files shall be not revised and the copyright and other proprietorship notice shall be reserved are welcome Trademark Notice Four Faith 四信 are all registered trademarks of Xiamen Four Fait...

Page 4: ... Xiamen Four Faith Communication Technology Co Ltd Page 4 of 42 Add J1 J3 3 rd Floor No 44 GuanRiRoad SoftWare Park XiaMen 361008 China http www fourfaith com Tel 86 592 6300326 6300325 6300324 Fax 86 592 5912735 ...

Page 5: ...able Connection 11 2 4 Power 13 2 5 Indicator Lights Introduction 13 2 6 Reset Button Introduction 14 Chapter 3 Configuration and Management 15 3 1 Configuration Connection 15 3 2 Access the Configuration Web Page 15 3 3 Configuration 16 3 3 1 Welcome 16 3 3 2 WAN Settings 16 3 3 3 LAN Settings 18 3 3 4 NAT 19 3 3 5 DMZ 20 3 3 6 Filter 21 3 3 7 Static Routes 23 3 3 8 Router Status 24 3 3 9 Backup ...

Page 6: ... to connect to your existing serial ZigBee and Ethernet devices with only basic configuration It has been widely used on M2M fields such as intelligent transportation smart grid industrial automation telemetry finance POS water supply environment protection post weather and so on 1 2 Features and Benefits Design for Industrial Application High powered industrial cellular module High powered indust...

Page 7: ...agement Support several work modes Convenient configuration and maintenance interface WEB or CLI High performance Support data transfer by cellular and ZigBee network Support VPN client PPTP L2TP IPSEC and GRE only for VPN version Support multi online trigger ways including SMS ring and data Support link disconnection when timeout Support APN VPDN Support wireless video monitoring and dynamic pict...

Page 8: ... dBm F8323 ZigBee EDGE ROUTER GSM850 900 1800 1900MHz GPRS EDGE Class 12 236 8Kbps GSM850 900 33dBm GSM1800 1900 30dBm 106 dBm F8423 ZigBee WCDMA HSDPA HSUPA ROUTER UMTS WCDMA HSDPA HSUPA 850 1900 2100MHz 850 900 1900 2100MHz optional GSM850 900 1800 1900MHz GPRS EDGE CLASS 12 HSUPA 5 76Mbps Upload speed HSDPA 7 2Mbps Download speed UMTS 384Kbps DL UL 24dBm 109 dBm F8523 ZigBee TD SCDMA ROUTER TD ...

Page 9: ...mber of channels 16 Direct Sequence Channels Channels 11 to 26 Max packge size 512 Bytes Hardware System Item Content CPU Industrial 32bits CPU FLASH 4MB Extendable to 16MB SDRAM 32MB Extendable to 64MB Interface Type Item Content Ethernet 1 10 100 Mbps Ethernet port RJ45 auto MDI MDIX 1 5KV magnetic isolation protection Serial 1 RS232 or RS485 RS422 port 15KV ESD protection Data bits 5 6 7 8 Stop...

Page 10: ...outer to its original factory default settings Power Input Item Content Standard Power DC 12V 1 5A Power Range DC 5 35V Consumption 430mA 12V Physical Characteristics Item Content Housing Iron providing IP30 protection Dimensions 157x97x25 mm Weight 445g Environmental Limits Item Content Operating Temperature 25 65º C 13 149 Extended Operating Temperature 30 75º C 22 167 Storage Temperature 40 85º...

Page 11: ...2 Installation Introduction 2 1 General The router must be installed correctly to make it work properly Warning Forbid to install the router when powered 2 2 Encasement List Name Quantity Remark Router host 1 Wireless Antenna 1 Network cable 1 Console cable 1 optional Power adapter 1 Manual CD 1 Certification card 1 Maintenance card 1 Stator 2 optional ZigBee Antenna 1 ZigBee 2 3 Installation and ...

Page 12: ...d Installation of antenna Screw the SMA male pin of the antenna to the female SMA outlet of the router tightly Warning The antenna must be screwed tightly or the signal quality of antenna will be influenced Installation of cable The router supports RS232 interface and 10 100M Ethernet interface These two interfaces both adopt RJ45 outlet and distinguish by the sign on panel The sign of the RS232 i...

Page 13: ...inserted wrongly or the router can t work properly The signal connection of the console cable is as follows RJ45 DB9F 1 8 2 6 3 2 4 1 5 5 6 3 7 4 8 7 The signal definition of the DB9F serial communication interface is as follows 2 4 Power The power range of the router is DC 5 35V Warning When we use other power we should make sure that the power can supply power above 6W We recommend user to use t...

Page 14: ...hasn t logged on network ZigBee ON ZigBee s work status is Normal Communicating OFF Hardware Error Disable ZigBee Application System BLINK System works properly OFF System does not work Link ACT OFF The interface of Ethernet hasn t been connected ON BLINK The interface of Ethernet has been connected Communicating 2 6 Reset Button Introduction The router has a Reset button to restore it to its orig...

Page 15: ...one end into the LAN port ETH of the router and another end into your configure PC s Ethernet port The connection diagram is as following Please modify the IP address of PC as the same network segment address of the router for instance 192 168 1 9 Modify the mask code of PC as 255 255 255 0 and set the default gateway of PC as the router s IP address 192 168 1 2 3 2 Access the Configuration Web Pa...

Page 16: ... XiaMen 361008 China http www fourfaith com Tel 86 592 6300326 6300325 6300324 Fax 86 592 5912735 3 3 Configuration 3 3 1 Welcome The Welcome page will give some contact information if you have any question or problem please contact us 3 3 2 WAN Settings This page is used to configure the Internet access parameters WAN Wireless ...

Page 17: ... Model APN Username and password Call center F8123 Cmnet Uninet null 99 1 F8223 null card 777 F8323 cmnet null 99 1 F8423 3gnet null 99 F8523 cmnet null 98 1 F8623 null card 777 Internet IP Address Normally The Internet IP Address of the router is allocated by the ISP automatically you can also fix this address if the ISP agree Domain Name Server DNS Address Normally the Domain Name Server DNS Add...

Page 18: ...etect connection with route method when choose this method you should also configure Detection Interval Primary Detection Server IP and Backup Detection Server IP items PPP Detect connection with PPP method when choose this method you should also configure Detection Interval item Detection Interval The time interval between two detections unit is second Primary Detection Server IP The server used ...

Page 19: ...ork as a DHCP server Starting IP Address The starting IP Address of the DHCP server s Address pool Ending IP Address The ending IP Address of the DHCP server s Address pool 3 3 4 NAT The router causes your entire local network to appear as a single machine to the Internet You can make a local server visible and available to the Internet This is done using the NAT Network Address Translation The NA...

Page 20: ...ss packet with the destination port from 5001 5003 total 3 port numbers after processed by the NAT module the destination port will be 5001 5003 correspondingly and the packet will be sent to host 192 168 1 249 Delete a NAT item To delete a NAT item you should choose this item and press Delete Item button 3 3 5 DMZ Incoming traffic from the Internet is normally discarded by the router unless the t...

Page 21: ...ternet packets getting local network access you can configure filter items to block these packets Packet Filter Packet filter function is realized based on IP address or port of packets Enable Packet Filter Enable or disable packet filter function Policy The filter rule s policy you can choose the following options Discard The Following Discard all packets matched the custom filter rules Accept al...

Page 22: ...tion Port packet s destination port Source IP packet s source IP address Destination IP packet s destination IP address Note Source Port Destination Port Source IP Destination IP could not be all empty you have to input at least one of these four parameters Example If want to block local network PC 192 168 1 249 telnet TCP port 23 to any other Internet Address the filter item could be configured a...

Page 23: ...e Following Accept all packets matched the custom MAC Restrict rules Discard all other packets MAC Address The MAC Address applied to this MAC Restrict item 3 3 7 Static Routes Static Routes provide additional routing information to your router Under normal circumstances the router has adequate routing information after it has been configured for Internet access and you do not need to configure ad...

Page 24: ...his destination If the destination is a single host please input 255 255 255 255 Gateway IP Address The gateway IP Address of this packet Metric A number between 1 and 15 It represents the number of routers between your network and the destination Usually a setting of 2 or 3 works If you want to delete one custom static route choose this item and press Delete button 3 3 8 Router Status This page d...

Page 25: ...ling to ISP Online System has got Internet access IP Address The local Internet IP Address Gateway The ISP gateway IP Address Domain Name Server The Domain Name Server DNS IP Address IP Address the LAN port IP Address DHCP the DHCP server status IP Subnet Mask The LAN port subnet mask Status current PPTP client status Interface The interface name of the PPTP tunnel when the tunnel is up Local Tunn...

Page 26: ...a file You can restore the configuration with the file later Note Please do not edit the saved file If the file used to restore configuration is not correct the router will restore to factory default setting To save your configuration click the Backup button your browser will extract the configuration file from the router and will prompt you for a location on your computer to store the file The de...

Page 27: ...the factory default settings This can be done by using the Load Default function which will restore all factory settings To load default settings please click the Load Default button A prompt page will give you a choice to give up this operation or continue Click YES button to load default and No to give up 3 3 11 Set Password The default username and password are both admin To change the username...

Page 28: ...x 86 592 5912735 This function is used to debug the software when there is some problem with the router you can get the log information and send it to us to diagnose the problem Normally this function should be disabled Enable Log Enable or disable this function Log Way there are three log ways Web The log message is displayed on this web page You can save the log message to a file by click Save L...

Page 29: ...2 5912735 Console The log message is output to the console port To use this way you should connect the router s console port and your PC s serial port with the supplied console cable Then open hyper terminal with the following serial port settings Baud 115200 bps Databit 8 Parity None Stopbit 1 Flow control None When you configure the serial port settings press call button The router log message w...

Page 30: ...n capture the log message into a file From the menu choose Transfer capture text Input the log file name and press start button the output message are now stored in the log file When enough message captured you can stop capturing From the menu choose Transfer capture text stop Syslog The log message is output to a syslog server if choose this way you should input a syslog server s IP Address and r...

Page 31: ...e listening port please configure web config port item To reboot the router press the Reboot button 3 3 14 PPTP Client Enable PPTP Client Enable or disable PPTP Client function PPTP Server IP The PPTP server s IP Address Local Tunnel IP The local tunnel IP Address if you choose Auto the Address is allocated by the PPTP Server dynamically You can also use the fixed local tunnel IP if the PPTP Serve...

Page 32: ...324 Fax 86 592 5912735 Enable L2TP Client Enable or disable L2TP Client function L2TP Server IP LNS The L2TP server s IP Address Local Tunnel IP The local tunnel IP Address if you choose Auto the Address is allocated by the L2TP Server dynamically You can also use the fixed local tunnel IP if the L2TP Server support User Name Username to login the L2TP Server Password Password to login the L2TP Se...

Page 33: ...e that name linked with your IP address by public Domain Name Servers DNS However if your Internet account uses a dynamically assigned IP address you will not know in advance what your IP address will be and the address can change frequently In this case you can use a commercial dynamic DNS service which will allow you to register your domain to their IP address and will forward traffic directed a...

Page 34: ...ider s server hostname Backup Host Name The 88ip provider s backup server hostname User Name Your 88ip account username Password Your 88ip account password Update Interval The time interval of IP Address update unit is second 3322 Enable Dynamic DNS Service Enable DDNS service Service Provider the DDNS service provider Host Name The 3322 provider s server hostname Customer Domain Your custom 3322 ...

Page 35: ...ddress 10 95 207 236 3 3 18 Serial Settings There is a console port on Four Faith router Normally this port is used to debug the router This port can also be used as a serial port The router has embedded a serial to TCP program The data sent to the serial port is encapsulated by TCP IP protocol stack and then is sent to the destination server This function can work as a Four Faith DTU Data Termina...

Page 36: ... protocol Client The Heartbeat Packet And Register Packet would be customed Server Address The data service center s IP Address or domain name Server Port The data service center s listening port Device ID The router s identity number This item is valid only when you choose UDP DTU or TCP DTU Heartbeat Interval The time interval to send heart beat packet This item is valid only when you choose UDP...

Page 37: ...mand whether the reflective character support AT command input mode enter the AT command the contents of the echo to confirm Node Type divided into coordination routing and terminal when the coordinator node number must be set to 0 Network numbers a Mesh network all nodes have the same network number The parameter values set in 0 16383 for the specified network number Set to 65535 for the system t...

Page 38: ... with a format for transmission Protocol mode see Annex I ZigBee receiver timeout Set the ZigBee receiver maximum wait time for the same packet the unit of time to the millisecond restore the factory this parameter defaults to 20 Enable ZigBee applications whether ZigBee communication function make sure to disable the serial application before the application is enabled Equipment transmission mode...

Page 39: ... 6300325 6300324 Fax 86 592 5912735 Server address IP address or domain name of the data service center Server port data service center program monitor port TCP Server Port select the protocol type for TCP Server the parameters must be configured to configure the input value must be greater than 1024 and the system is not occupied by the port number Such as port 8080 Web application port ...

Page 40: ...92 6300326 6300325 6300324 Fax 86 592 5912735 Chapter 4 Appendix The following steps describe how to setup Windows XP Hyper Terminal 1 Press Start Programs Accessories Communications Hyper Terminal 2 Input connection name choose OK 3 Choose the correct COM port which connects to modem choose OK 4 Configure the serial port parameters as following choose OK Bits per second 115200 ...

Page 41: ...41 of 42 Add J1 J3 3 rd Floor No 44 GuanRiRoad SoftWare Park XiaMen 361008 China http www fourfaith com Tel 86 592 6300326 6300325 6300324 Fax 86 592 5912735 Data bits 8 Parity None Stop bits 1 Flow control None 5 Complete Hyper Terminal operation It runs as following ...

Page 42: ...trolCode Node1 Addr Frame length Valid data XOR 3Byte 1Byte 2Byte 2Byte 1Byte 3 The Node2 Data format Frame head ControlCode Node1 Addr Frame length Valid data XOR 3Byte 1Byte 2Byte 2Byte 1Byte Frame head by three characters Control Code indicates the node receiving data sent to what equipmen 0x01 Send to UART 0x02 Send to ZigBee 0x04 Send to Network Frame length The whole length of data frame Val...

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