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Cable/DSL Router

with 4-Port Switch

GN-B40

User’s Manual

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw

Version 1.0

Summary of Contents for GN-B40

Page 1: ...Cable DSL Router with 4 Port Switch GN B40 User s Manual http www gigabyte com tw Version 1 0 ...

Page 2: ...ment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against radio interference in a commercial environment This equipment can generate use and radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions in this manual may cause harmf...

Page 3: ...3 4 4 FORWARDING RULES 17 3 5 FORWARDING RULES 18 3 5 1 VIRTUAL SERVER 19 3 5 2 SPECIAL AP 20 3 5 3 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 21 3 6 SECURITY SETTINGS 22 3 6 1 PACKET FILTER 23 3 6 2 DOMAIN FILTER 28 3 6 3 URL BLOCKING 30 3 6 4 MAC ADDRESS CONTROL 32 3 6 5 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 33 3 7 ADVANCED SETTINGS 35 3 7 1 SYSTEM TIME 35 3 7 2 SYSTEM LOG 36 3 7 3 DYNAMIC DNS 37 3 7 4 SNMP SETTING 38 3 7 5 ROUTING TAB...

Page 4: ...ngs automatically from this product z Web based configuring Configurable through any networked computer s web browser using Netscape or Internet Explorer z Virtual Server supported Enables you to expose WWW FTP and other services on your LAN to be accessible to Internet users z User Definable Application Sensing Tunnel User can define the attributes to support the special applications requiring mu...

Page 5: ...s static routing z Schedule Rule supported Customers can control some functions like virtual server and packet filters when to Access or when to block Other functions z UPNP Universal Plug and Play Supported The router also supports this function The applications X box Msn Messenger 1 3 Physical Dimensions Packaging Dimensions 134mm 81mm 22mm Before beginning the installation procedures please ins...

Page 6: ...reen Flashing To reset system settings to factory defaults On An active station is connected to the corresponding LAN port Link Act 1 4 Link status Green Blinking The corresponding LAN port is sending or receiving data 10 100 Data Rate Green On Data is transmitting in 100Mbps on the corresponding LAN port For details please refer to Appendix D FAQ and Troubleshooting 1 5 Rear Panel Port Descriptio...

Page 7: ... desk or other flat surface or you can mount it on a wall For optimal performance place your Broadband Router in the center of your office or your home in a location that is away from any potential source of interference such as a metal wall or microwave oven This location must be close to power and network connection Step 2 Setup LAN connection Wired LAN connection connects an Ethernet cable from...

Page 8: ...ally enter the self test phase When it is in the self test phase the indicators M1 will be lighted ON for about 10 seconds and then M1 M2 will be flashed 3 times to indicate that the self test operation has finished Finally the M1 will be continuously flashed once per second to indicate that this product is in normal operation ...

Page 9: ... you can use the ping command to check if your computer has successfully connected to this product The following example shows the ping procedure for Windows 95 platforms First execute the ping command ping 192 168 123 254 If the following messages appear Pinging 192 168 123 254 with 32 bytes of data Reply from 192 168 123 254 bytes 32 time 2ms TTL 64 Then a communication link between your compute...

Page 10: ...vides Web based configuration scheme which is configuring by your Web browser such as Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer This approach can be adopted in any MS Windows Macintosh or UNIX based platforms Figure 3 1 Layout Diagram 3 1 Start up and Log in ...

Page 11: ...ministrator enter the system password the factory setting is admin in the System Password field and click on the Log in button If the password is correct the web appearance will be changed into administrator configure mode As listed in its main menu there are several options for system administration 3 2 Status This option provides the function for observing this product s working status A WAN Por...

Page 12: ...9 3 3 Wizard Setup Wizard will guide you through a basic configuration procedure step by step Press Next Setup Wizard Select WAN Type For detail settings please refer to 3 4 1 primary setup ...

Page 13: ...10 3 4 Basic Setting 3 4 1 Primary Setup WAN Type Virtual Computers ...

Page 14: ... Address ISP assigns you a static IP address B Dynamic IP Address Obtain an IP address from ISP automatically C Dynamic IP Address with Road Runner Session Management e g Telstra BigPond D PPP over Ethernet Some ISPs require the use of PPPoE to connect to their services E PPTP Some ISPs require the use of PPTP to connect to their services 3 6 1 1 Static IP Address WAN IP Address Subnet Mask Gatewa...

Page 15: ...ime is being expired even the system is in idle state 3 6 1 4 PPP over Ethernet 1 PPPoE Account and Password the account and password your ISP assigned to you For security this field appears blank If you don t want to change the password leave it empty 2 PPPoE Service Name optional Input the service name if your ISP requires it Otherwise leave it blank 3 Maximum Idle Time the amount of time of ina...

Page 16: ...d your ISP assigned to you If you don t want to change the password keep it empty 3 Connection ID optional Input the connection ID if your ISP requires it 4 Maximum Idle Time the time of no activity to disconnect your PPTP session Set it to zero or enable Auto reconnect to disable this feature If Auto reconnect is enabled this product will automatically connect to ISP after system is restarted or ...

Page 17: ...ws you to setup the one to one mapping of multiple global IP address and local IP address Global IP Enter the global IP address assigned by your ISP Local IP Enter the local IP address of your LAN PC corresponding to the global IP address Enable Check this item to enable the Virtual Computer feature ...

Page 18: ...ollowing items 1 DHCP Server Choose Disable or Enable 2 Lease Time this feature allows you to configure IP s lease time DHCP client 3 IP pool starting Address IP pool starting Address Whenever there is a request the DHCP server will automatically allocate an unused IP address from the IP address pool to the requesting computer You must specify the starting and ending address of the IP address pool...

Page 19: ...16 3 4 3 Change Password You can change Password here We strongly recommend you to change the system password for security reason ...

Page 20: ...17 3 4 4 Forwarding Rules ...

Page 21: ...18 3 5 Forwarding Rules ...

Page 22: ...all requests to this port will be redirected to the computer specified by the Server IP Virtual Server can work with Scheduling Rules and give user more flexibility on Access control For Detail please refer to Scheduling Rule For example if you have an FTP server port 21 at 192 168 123 1 a Web server port 80 at 192 168 123 2 and a VPN server at 192 168 123 6 then you need to specify the following ...

Page 23: ...m of Special Applications fails to make an application work try setting your computer as the DMZ host instead 1 Trigger the outbound port number issued by the application 2 Incoming Ports when the trigger packet is detected the inbound packets sent to the specified port numbers are allowed to pass through the firewall This product provides some predefined settings Select your application and click...

Page 24: ...to be exposed to unrestricted 2 way communication for Internet games Video conferencing Internet telephony and other special applications NOTE This feature should be used only when needed Non standard FTP port You have to configure this item if you want to access an FTP server whose port number is not 21 This setting will be lost after rebooting ...

Page 25: ...22 3 6 Security Settings ...

Page 26: ...cified rules 2 Deny all to pass except those match the specified rules You can specify 8 rules for each direction inbound or outbound For each rule you can define the following Source IP address Source port address Destination IP address Destination port address Protocol TCP or UDP or both Use Rule For source or destination IP address you can define a single IP address 4 3 2 1 or a range of IP add...

Page 27: ...ling Rule Each rule can be enabled or disabled individually Inbound Filter To enable Inbound Packet Filter click the check box next to Enable in the Inbound Packet Filter field Suppose you have SMTP Server 25 POP Server 110 Web Server 80 FTP Server 21 and News Server 119 defined in Virtual Server or DMZ Host Example 1 1 2 3 100 1 2 3 149 They are allow to send mail port 25 receive mail port 110 an...

Page 28: ... net news port 119 and transfer files via FTP port 21 Others are all allowed After Inbound Packet Filter setting is configured click the save button Outbound Filter To enable Outbound Packet Filter click the check box next to Enable in the Outbound Packet Filter field ...

Page 29: ... 123 149 They are allowed to send mail port 25 receive mail port 110 and browse Internet port 80 port 53 DNS is necessary to resolve the domain name 192 168 123 10 192 168 123 20 They can do everything block nothing Others are all blocked ...

Page 30: ...2 192 168 123 100 192 168 123 119 They can do everything except read net news port 119 and transfer files via FTP port 21 Others are allowed After Outbound Packet Filter setting is configured click the save button ...

Page 31: ...ion when someone accesses the specific URLs Privilege IP Addresses Range Setting a group of hosts and privilege these hosts to access network without restriction Domain Suffix A suffix of URL to be restricted For example com xxx com Action When someone is accessing the URL met the domain suffix what kind of action you want Check drop to block the access Check log to log these access Enable Check t...

Page 32: ...tion will be record in log file 2 URL include www sina com will not be blocked but the action will be record in log file 3 URL include www google com will be blocked but the action will not be record in log file 4 IP address X X X 1 X X X 20 can access network without restriction ...

Page 33: ...to input a keyword only In other words Domain filter can block specific website while URL Blocking can block hundreds of websites by simply a keyword URL Blocking Enable Checked if you want to enable URL Blocking URL If any part of the Website s URL matches the pre defined word the connection will be blocked For example you can use pre defined word sex to block all websites if their URLs contain p...

Page 34: ...ion will be record in log file 2 URL include sina will be blocked but the action will be record in log file 3 URL include cnnsi will not be blocked but the action will be record in log file 4 URL include espn will be blocked but the action will be record in log file ...

Page 35: ... of the settings in this page will take effect only when Enable is checked Connection control Check Connection control to enable the controlling of which wired can connect to this device If a client is denied to connect to this device it means the client can t access to the Internet either Choose allow or deny to allow or deny the clients whose MAC addresses are not in the Control table please see...

Page 36: ...nding client to connect to this device A asdfasdfasdfasdf In this page we provide the following Combo box and button to help you to input the MAC address You can select a specific client in the DHCP clients Combo box and then click on the Copy to button to copy the MAC address of the client you select to the ID selected in the ID Combo box Previous Page and Next Page To make this setup page simple...

Page 37: ...ime out The time of no activity to logout automatically Set it to zero to disable this feature Discard PING from WAN side When this feature is enabled any host on the WAN cannot ping this product SPI Mode When this feature is enabled the router will record the packet information pass through the router like IP address port address ACK SEQ number and so on And the router will check every incoming p...

Page 38: ...35 3 7 Advanced Settings 3 7 1 System Time ...

Page 39: ... Date and Time manually Function of Buttons Sync Now Synchronize system time with network time server 3 7 2 System Log This page support two methods to export system logs to specific destination by means of syslog UDP and SMTP TCP The items you have to setup including IP Address for Syslogs Host IP of destination where syslogs will be sent to Check Enable to enable this function E mail Alert Enabl...

Page 40: ... So that anyone wishing to reach your host only needs to know the name of it Dynamic DNS will map the name of your host to your current IP address which changes each time you connect your Internet service provider Before you enable Dynamic DNS you need to register an account on one of these Dynamic DNS servers that we list in provider field To enable Dynamic DNS click the check box next to Enable ...

Page 41: ...38 Example After Dynamic DNS setting is configured click the save button 3 7 4 SNMP Setting ...

Page 42: ...ring network events Enable SNMP You must check either Local or Remote or both to enable SNMP function If Local is checked this device will response request from LAN If Remote is checked this device will response request from WAN Get Community Setting the community of GetRequest your device will response Set Community Setting the community of SetRequest your device will accept 3 7 5 Routing Table ...

Page 43: ... to find proper routing path and allow different subnets to communicate with each other Routing Table settings are settings used to setup the functions of static Static Routing For static routing you can specify up to 8 routing rules You can enter the destination IP address subnet mask gateway hop for each routing rule and then enable or disable the rule by checking or unchecking the Enable checkb...

Page 44: ...23 103 1 ˇ So if for example the client3 wanted to send an IP datagram to 192 168 0 2 it would use the above table to determine that it had to go via 192 168 123 103 a gateway And if it sends Packets to 192 168 1 11 will go via 192 168 123 216 Each rule can be enabled or disabled individually After routing table setting is configured click the save button ...

Page 45: ...o decide which service will be turned on or off Select the enable item Press Add New Rule You can write a rule name and set which day and what time to schedule from Start Time to End Time The following example configure ftp time as everyday 14 10 to 16 20 ...

Page 46: ... you want to Enable the Scheduler Edit To edit the schedule rule Delete To delete the schedule rule and the rule of the rules behind the deleted one will decrease one automatically Schedule Rule can be apply to Virtual server and Packet Filter for example ...

Page 47: ...44 Exanple1 Virtual Server Apply Rule 1 ftp time everyday 14 10 to 16 20 Exanple2 Packet Filter Apply Rule 1 ftp time everyday 14 10 to 16 20 ...

Page 48: ...45 3 8 Toolbox ...

Page 49: ...46 3 8 1 System Log You can View system log by clicking the View Log button 3 8 2 Firmware Upgrade You can upgrade firmware by clicking Firmware Upgrade button ...

Page 50: ...a bin file Once you want to restore these settings please click Firmware Upgrade button and use the bin file you saved 3 8 4 Reset to default You can also reset this product to factory default by clicking the Reset to default button 3 8 5 Reboot You can also reboot this product by clicking the Reboot button ...

Page 51: ...ure the target device must be Wake on LAN enabled and you have to know the MAC address of this device say 00 11 22 33 44 55 Clicking Wake up button will make the router to send the wake up frame to the target device immediately Domain Name or IP address for Ping Test Allow you to configure an IP and ping the device You can ping a specific IP to test whether it is alive ...

Page 52: ...ly A 1 Install TCP IP Protocol into Your PC 1 Click Start button and choose Settings then click Control Panel 2 Double click Network icon and select Configuration tab in the Network window 3 Click Add button to add network component into your PC 4 Double click Protocol to add TCP IP protocol 5 Select Microsoft item in the manufactures list And choose TCP IP in the Network Protocols Click OK button...

Page 53: ...el 2 Double click Network icon Select the TCP IP line that has been associated to your network card in the Configuration tab of the Network window 3 Click Properties button to set the TCP IP protocol for this NAT Router 4 Now you have two setting methods a Select Obtain an IP address automatically in the IP Address tab ...

Page 54: ...51 b Don t input any value in the Gateway tab c Choose Disable DNS in the DNS Configuration tab ...

Page 55: ...IP address of this product is 192 168 123 254 So please use 192 168 123 xxx xxx is between 1 and 253 for IP Address field and 255 255 255 0 for Subnet Mask field b In the Gateway tab add the IP address of this product default IP is 192 168 123 254 in the New gateway field and click Add button ...

Page 56: ...53 c In the DNS Configuration tab add the DNS values which are provided by the ISP into DNS Server Search Order field and click Add button ...

Page 57: ...d Troubleshooting z Reset to factory Default 1 Restore directly when the router power on First hold the RESET button about 5 seconds M1 will start flashing about 5 times move away the hand The RESTORE process is completed ...

Page 58: ... Regulatory and Environmental Compliance EMC certification MIC Temperature Range Operating 0 to 40 C Storage 20 to 70 C Humidity 10 90 Non condensing Protocols Routing Protocols Dynamic Static Routing with TCP IP PPTP PPPoE NAT Virtual Server VPN Pass Through IPSec PPTP L2TP Pass Through DHCP Client Mechanical LEDs Power Status WLAN LAN 1 4 WAN Gross Weight 240 5g Dimensions 153mm x 112mm x 27mm S...

Page 59: ...riate assembling Products are damaged due to the use of illegal accessory Products are damaged due to parts disassembling without authorization Products are damaged due to exceeding environment limits Products are damaged due to unexpected external force Products are damaged due to nature disasters Products are copies or illegally smuggled goods PLEASE RECORD THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION REGARDING YO...

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