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Click

Advanced Configuration

, and then click

Firmware Upgrade

to

display the Firmware Upgrade page.

3.

Browse for the file you just downloaded.

4.

Click the

update

button.

5.

Follow the on-screen instructions.

Note:

If the firmware upgrade process is interrupted, you will need to use
the FirstAid Utility to reflash the firmware.

LAN configuration

To configure your LAN, click

Advanced Configuration

, and then click

LAN

Configuration

to display the Lan Configuration table.

Part 5: Using tools for advanced configuration

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Summary of Contents for 22P6415

Page 1: ...IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway User s Guide OPTIONS by IBM ...

Page 2: ...e operating the device v Safety information v Information to the user including regulatory information and additional installation requirements v Federal Communications Commission FCC statement v Product warranty and notices v Help and service information First Edition November 2001 Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2001 All rights reserved US Government Users Restricted Rights...

Page 3: ...4 Setting up client computers for Internet access 4 1 Client computer requirements 4 1 System requirements 4 1 Part 5 Using tools for advanced configuration 5 1 Advanced configuration 5 1 DHCP configuration 5 1 DMZ configuration 5 5 Firmware Upgrade 5 6 LAN configuration 5 7 Language select 5 9 MAC address clone 5 9 Packet filtering 5 10 Profile upload download 5 15 Static Routing table 5 16 Virtu...

Page 4: ...Connecting to other routers 7 1 Troubleshooting 7 2 Part 8 Notices 8 1 iv IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway User s Guide ...

Page 5: ...urchasing OPTIONS by IBM Please take a few moments to register your product and provide us with information that will help IBM to better serve you in the future Your feedback is valuable to us in developing products and services that are important to you as well as in developing better ways to communicate with you Register your option on the IBM Web site at http www ibm com pc register IBM will se...

Page 6: ...vi IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway User s Guide ...

Page 7: ...ks by translating the data packets IP address from the one provided by the Internet service provider ISP to the IP address of the computer connected to the IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway All computers on the network can share a single ISP account v Dynamic host configuration protocol DHCP The IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway provides IP address acquisition and management v Web based manageme...

Page 8: ...utility users can update the firmware to the IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway v MAC Address Clone For ISPs needing a specific MAC address the IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway can be configured to use the expected MAC address v Virtual private networks VPN The IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway supports the following VPNs IP Security IPSec passthrough Point to point tunneling protocol PPTP pass...

Page 9: ... one is labeled for use in Japan v One RJ 45 Ethernet cable v The IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway Quick Start Guide v The IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway Safety and Warranty Information v The IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway User s Guide CD The included CD contains the following items This User s Guide in PDF format Adobe Acrobat Reader If any of the above items are missing or damaged cont...

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Page 11: ...s pre configured with the default IP address of 192 168 1 1 1 Launch your Internet browser on a computer you have configured for TCP IP networking 2 Be sure that the computer and the Gateway have LAN IP addresses on the same subnet 3 Type http 192 168 1 1 into the Location field in Netscape Navigator or the Address field in Internet Explorer at the top of the browser window and then press Enter No...

Page 12: ...t of buttons and links displayed in the Web based setup utility v Apply Stores the new configurations into flash memory after configuration is completed v Add Adds a new entry into the configuration table v Modify Modifies an entry in the configuration table v Cancel Cancels the configurations and restores previous values v Back Back to the last page viewed v Refresh Only used on the System Inform...

Page 13: ... table Saving configurations The configuration changes made through the Web based setup utility are automatically saved into the flash memory within 30 seconds after clicking Apply For more information see Part 5 Using tools for advanced configuration on page 5 1 Part 2 Configuration 2 3 ...

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Page 15: ...ch as a DSL Cable modem printer file server or other wireless clients Click Wireless settings on the home page These three items are displayed in the left hand navigation bar v Advanced v MAC control setup v Status monitor The Network Name or SSID ESSID window is displayed in the right frame Devices must use the same SSID for example ANY before they can communicate with or through the Gateway The ...

Page 16: ...eless clients with the WSSID of ANY are also allowed access WEP Key You can create up to four WEP keys After enabling WEP you must enter the same WEP key in the client computers otherwise they will be refused a connection When WEP is enabled type the WEP key in the WEP Key 1 field You can type your WEP key in one of two ways v For 64 bit encryption use either five alphanumeric characters or 10 hex...

Page 17: ...acket to send The Gateway then issues a clear to send CTS signal to all clients which keeps the other clients waiting while the requesting client sends its data The default value for the IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway is 2432 which is large so that RTS does not activate in most cases In most network environments RTS is not necessary or desired since it reduces performance The Fragmentation Thr...

Page 18: ...ple of a MAC address v 00 30 AB 00 00 01 After you have entered the MAC address click Apply to save your settings If you choose Disable MAC Address Limit any user with the correct ESSID correct WEP settings and within range of your access point can access your Gateway Enabling this mechanism provides protection to your Gateway and LAN Enable MAC Address Control In this field you can type the MAC a...

Page 19: ...eless Settings Status Monitor The Status monitor is an advanced function for experts only Click Status monitor in the left hand navigation bar to display the following window IEEE 802 11b Wireless LAN Access Point General Information v MAC Address BSS ID 00 00 00 00 00 00 v Frequency Domain v Statistics v Wireless Transmit v Wireless Receive v Fragments 0 v Fragments 0 v Unicast Packets 0 v Unicas...

Page 20: ...ackets that are transmitted without errors Multicast Packets The number of multicast packets that are transmitted without errors Multicast Bytes The number of bytes in multicast packets that are transmitted without errors v Wireless Receive Fragments The number of fragmented packets that are received without errors Unicast Packets The number of directed packets that are received without errors Uni...

Page 21: ...ed due to wrong source address Discards Other Reason The number of packets discarded for reasons other than wrong source address v Wireless Receive Error Packet FCS Errors The number of packets that are received with checksum errors Discards No Buffer The number of packets that the wireless MAC cannot receive due to the lack of MAC receive buffer space Discards WEP Errors The number of packets dis...

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Page 23: ...rosoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition SE Microsoft Windows NT 4 0 Workstation Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Microsoft Millennium Edition Me 3 The Gateway routes only IP packets from the LAN Wireless ports to the Internet broadband port Setting up Windows 95 Windows 98 and Windows Millenium clients If you use the built in DHCP server the server provides the following TCP I...

Page 24: ...IP address of your computer do the following on the TCP IP Properties page for the network card connected to the Gateway 1 Select Specifying an IP Address 2 Type the IP address for your computer 3 Type the subnet mask If you choose to keep the default subnet mask setting on your server type 255 255 255 0 4 Click the Gateway tab 5 Type the IP address of the server 6 Click Add to insert the entry as...

Page 25: ... configure the TCP IP settings of your Windows 2000 Professional computer The server provides the following TCP IP configuration information to your computer v IP address of the computer v Subnet mask of the computer v IP address of the default gateway which is also the IP address of the server v DNS server To configure a Windows 2000 Professional computer as your client computer do the following ...

Page 26: ...of your computer do the following on the TCP IP Properties page for the network card connected to the Gateway 1 Click to check the Use The Following IP address radio button 2 Type the IP address for your computer 3 Type the subnet mask If you choose to keep the default subnet mask setting on your server type 255 255 255 0 4 Type the IP address of the server in the Default Gateway field 5 Click to ...

Page 27: ...n the network protocols list double click TCP IP 5 Click the IP Address tab 6 Select the Obtain an IP address from a DHCP server radio button 7 Save the changes and then restart your computer Your computer can access the Internet through the server Note If you do not want to use DHCP service you must manually configure the IP address of your computer To manually configure the IP address of your co...

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Page 29: ...mputers on the LAN including the IP address and subnet mask The Gateway integrates a DHCP server to simplify the setup of TCP IP networks The server can provide the following settings to the client computers v IP Address v Subnet Mask v Default Gateway v DNS Server To adjust the DHCP configuration on your Gateway do the following 1 Click Advanced Configuration and then click DCHP Configuration to ...

Page 30: ... DHCP server Note The configuration changes made through the Web based setup utility are automatically saved into the flash memory within 30 seconds after clicking Apply Fixed IP table This feature is useful for those servers that want permanently assigned IP addresses These client computers are identified by their MAC addresses To permanently assign an IP address to a client do the following 1 Cl...

Page 31: ... entry is added to the Fixed IP table Note The configuration changes made through the Web based setup utility are automatically saved into the flash memory within 30 seconds after clicking Apply Excluded IP table The feature is useful when some of the IP addresses in the pool are already manually assigned to client computers on the LAN To exclude an IP address from the DHCP server do the following...

Page 32: ...n changes made through the Web based setup utility are automatically saved into the flash memory within 30 seconds after clicking Apply BOOTP IP Table These are IP addresses reserved for the user using a BOOTP protocol to get an IP address The IP address must be within the address pool To specify an IP address to be used by the BOOTP protocol do the following 1 Click Advanced Configuration DHCP Co...

Page 33: ... IP address 3 Click Apply A new entry is added to the BOOTP IP table Note The configuration changes made through the Web based setup utility are automatically saved into the flash memory within 30 seconds after clicking Apply DMZ configuration With DMZ you can expose a specific computer to the Internet for special applications and faster Internet gaming Click Advanced Configuration DMZ Configurati...

Page 34: ...n your local network The computer specified for DMZ is not protected by the built in firewall Firmware Upgrade The firmware upgrade function allows the user to easily upgrade the Gateway to the latest firmware version 1 Download the latest firmware version from the IBM Web site to your computer 5 6 IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway User s Guide ...

Page 35: ...pdate button 5 Follow the on screen instructions Note If the firmware upgrade process is interrupted you will need to use the FirstAid Utility to reflash the firmware LAN configuration To configure your LAN click Advanced Configuration and then click LAN Configuration to display the Lan Configuration table Part 5 Using tools for advanced configuration 5 7 ...

Page 36: ...he LAN use as their default Gateway as well as on their DNS server if you want to use the built in DNS feature of the Gateway You can change the IP address if your existing network uses a different subnet or there is another computer with the same IP address Note The value of the IP address in this table and the range of the IP address pool in the DHCP server must be in the same subnet and have th...

Page 37: ...r Japanese in the Language pull down menu Selecting Default will display the language select page the next time you log into the IBM High Rate Wireless Gateway MAC address clone This feature is used when an ISP is expecting s specific MAC address from an ISP supplied network card Part 5 Using tools for advanced configuration 5 9 ...

Page 38: ...is will reset the MAC address to the factory default Packet filtering By default all users can access all services on the Internet With packet filtering the network Administrator can block users from specific sites or applications on the Internet Note The type of packet filtering used by the Gateway is not the same as the packet filtering used by the built in firewall To configure packet filtering...

Page 39: ...ed that you select Enable and click on Apply before configuring any of the available packet filtering rules There are three rules to define packet filtering IP rule Port rule and URL rule IP rule To filter packets using the IP rule do the following 1 Click IP Rule to display the IP rule table Part 5 Using tools for advanced configuration 5 11 ...

Page 40: ... changes made through the Web based setup utility are automatically saved into the flash memory within 30 seconds after clicking Apply Port rule Different services or applications on the Internet have corresponding port numbers With the Gateway you can filter packets based on their port numbers To filter packets using the Port rule do the following 1 Click Port Rule to display the Port rule table ...

Page 41: ... or UDP port number Use this field if the protocol or application is not found in the list or a non default port number is used Note This blocks all users on the LAN from accessing this port to the Internet 3 Click Apply The Port rule table has a new entry added to it Repeat steps 2 and 3 to block more Web sites using the port rule Note The configuration changes made through the Web based setup ut...

Page 42: ... Click Allow or Block This will permit you to either block the specified URL or allow ONLY the specified URL 3 Enter the URLs of the Internet sites that you wish to control access for the LAN users 5 14 IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway User s Guide ...

Page 43: ... utility are automatically saved into the flash memory within 30 seconds after clicking Apply Profile upload download To save a configuration profile for the IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway select Advanced Configuration Profile Upload Download Type the Part 5 Using tools for advanced configuration 5 15 ...

Page 44: ...d Click the Open button the work with the file in a text editor Click Save to save the file Static Routing table The IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway supports static TCP IP routing It can serve as a router between two different TCP IP networks or subnets In the static routing table you can exchange packets with other network segments The static routing table might be necessary when there are oth...

Page 45: ...ed v Interface Output interface to which packets will be forwarded It can be the LAN Ethernet or Internet broadband port 3 Click Apply A new entry is added to the routing table Note The configuration changes made through the Web based setup utility are automatically saved into the flash memory within 30 seconds after clicking Apply Virtual server With the IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway you can...

Page 46: ...Port TCP or UDP port number used by the Gateway on the Internet broadband port This is the port number visible to users in the Internet and is also known as the External Port Number v Local IP IP address of the server computer on the LAN v Local Port TCP or UDP port number used by the server computer on the LAN Designated external port numbers are translated into this internal port number v Protoc...

Page 47: ...Change password table The Administrator Login Name and Administrator Login Password can be changed in this table The default login name is default A password is not required For security reasons you might want to change the Administrator Login Name and Password Click Apply to complete the configuration Note The configuration changes made through the Web based setup utility are automatically saved ...

Page 48: ...and navigation bar click Reset factory defaults to display the Reset to factory default page Click the Reset factory defaults button The following page is displayed Click here to continue 5 20 IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway User s Guide ...

Page 49: ...ing dialog box is displayed Click OK to restart the IBM High Rate Wireless Gateway For information on the System information and the Help functions of the IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway see Part 6 System information and help on page 6 1 Part 5 Using tools for advanced configuration 5 21 ...

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Page 51: ...onnection and system up time v Hardware Version Displays the version of the Gateway hardware v Software Version Displays the version of the Gateway software v System up Time Displays the elapsed time since the last reset or power on event v LAN Status MAC Address The Ethernet MAC address of the LAN interface of the Gateway displayed in six hexadecimal numbers IP Address The IP address of the local...

Page 52: ...ess provided by your ISP DNS Server The IP address of the DNS Server Note If PPPoE has been enabled there will be a PPPoE Status button on the System information page This button will display the PPPoE status and buttons for you to manually disconnect and reconnect the PPPoE session with your ISP Help Feature The GUI Management tool provides an easy help function to help you configure the Gateway ...

Page 53: ...Part 6 System information and help 6 3 ...

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Page 55: ...n click LAN configuration to display the LAN configuration page c Change the LAN IP address to another number d Click Apply Note The configuration changes made through the Web based setup utility are automatically saved into the flash memory within 30 seconds after clicking Apply 3 If the Gateway will be connected to a router and the Gateway will only be used as a switched hub and a wireless acces...

Page 56: ...th the Self test LED turn the power off and on to the Gateway and check that the LED turns off after a short amount of time If the error persists contact the IBM HelpCenter Note If you have recently upgraded the firmware and the LED stays on use the FirstAid Utility for an emergency firmware upgrade v Check your LAN connections to the Gateway After checking the Ethernet connection between your com...

Page 57: ...lt gateway Note In Microsoft Windows NT 4 0 Workstation and Windows 2000 Professional run ipconfig from a command prompt c Check to be sure that the network address of your computer the portion of the IP address specified by the subnet mask is different than the network address of the remote device d Click System information to verify the Internet broadband status If the Internet broadband connect...

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Page 59: ...P to be a DHCP server 7 If the IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway is not functioning properly briefly press the RESET button on the back of the unit This will restart the Gateway If proper function is not resumed press and hold down the RESET button for at least five seconds until all the LEDs on the front panel are turned on This will restore the Gateway configuration to the factory defaults Any ...

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Page 62: ... Part Number 22P6415 Printed in the United States of America on recycled paper containing 10 recovered post consumer fiber 1P P N 22P6415 ...

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