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Cable/DSL Router

User Guide

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Page 1: ...MC for its use nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of SMC SMC reserves the right to change specifications at any time without notice Copyright 2000 by SMC Networks Inc 6 Hughes Irvine CA 92618 All rights reserved ...

Page 2: ...diate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions in this manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference in which case the user at his own expense will be required to take whatever measures are necessary to correct the interference CE Declaration of Conformi...

Page 3: ... Setting your computer network settings properly 10 3 2 Install the Software into Your Computers 11 Chapter 4 Configuring the Barricade 14 4 1 Startup and Log in 14 4 2 Status 15 4 3 Toolbox 16 4 4 Primary Setup 17 4 5 DHCP Server 19 4 6 Virtual Server 20 4 7 Special AP 21 4 8 Access Control 22 4 9 Miscellaneous Items 23 Chapter 5 Print Server 24 5 1 Configuring on Windows 95 98 Platforms 24 5 2 C...

Page 4: ...x A Console Mode 28 Appendix B TCP IP Configuration for Windows 95 98 29 B 1 Installing TCP IP protocol into your PC 29 B 2 Setting TCP IP protocol to work with the Barricade 30 Appendix C Installation Guide For Specific ISP 38 C 1 Home 38 C 2 MediaOne 39 ...

Page 5: ...l Broadband modem and IP sharing connects multiple computers to a broadband cable or DSL modem or an Ethernet router to surf the Internet l Auto sensing Ethernet Switch equipped with a 7 port 10 100Mbps auto sensing Ethernet switch l VPN supported supports multiple PPTP sessions and allows you to set up VPN server and VPN clients l Printer sharing embeds a print server to allow all of the networke...

Page 6: ...users can define the attributes to support the special applications requiring multiple connections such as Internet gaming video conferencing Internet telephony et al Then the Barricade can sense the application type and open a multi port tunnel for it l DMZ Host supported allows a networked computer to be fully exposed to the Internet this function is used whenthe specialapplication sensing tunne...

Page 7: ...cation Green On Power is being applied to the Barricade On The WAN port is linked WAN WAN port activity Green Blinking The WAN port is sending or receiving data On The LAN port is linked LAN LAN port activity Green Blinking The LAN port is sending or receiving data M1 System status 1 Orange Blinking The Barricade is functioning properly On The Barricade is working for a specific service M2 System ...

Page 8: ...FDX Full Duplex indication Orange On The corresponding port is transmitting or receiving data in full duplex mode 2 1 2 Rear Panel Ports Function Specification POWER Inlet Power inlet AC 90V 230V 50 60Hz COM Serial port connect analog modem or console cable 9 pins D type male connector PRINTER Printer port 25 pins D type female connector Power Switch Power on off On Off 2 2 Installation Requiremen...

Page 9: ... 55 o C Humidity 5 90 You should also remember to turn off the power remove the power cord from the outlet and keep your hands dry when you install the hardware 2 3 Procedure for Hardware Installation 1 Set up LAN connection connect an Ethernet cable from your computer s Ethernet port to one of the LAN ports of the Barricade 2 Set up WAN connection connect the network cable from your cable or DSL ...

Page 10: ... Connecting the Barricade with your printer use the printer cable to connect your printer to the printer port of the Barricade 5 Power on By connecting the power cord to power inlet and turning the power switch on the Barricade will automatically enter the self test phase When it is in the self test phase the indicatorsM1 and M2 will be lit ON for about 5 seconds and then M1 and M2 will be flashed...

Page 11: ...ndix B to configure it For example 1 configure IP as 192 168 123 1 subnet mask as 255 255 255 0 and gateway as 192 168 123 254 2 configure your computer to load the TCP IP setting automatically i e via DHCP server After installing the TCP IP communication protocol you can use the ping command to check if your computer has successfully connected to the Barricade The following example shows the ping...

Page 12: ...e lit 2 Is the TCP IP environment of your computer properly configured Tip If the IP address of the Barricade is 192 168 123 254 the IP address of your computer must be 192 168 123 X and default gateway must be 192 168 123 254 3 2 Install the Software into Your Computers Skip this section if you do not want to use the print server function of the Barricade Step 1 Insert the installation CD into yo...

Page 13: ...utton Wait for the following Welcome dialog to appear and click on the Next button Step 3 Select the destination folder and click on the Next button The setup program will then begin to install the programs into the destination folder ...

Page 14: ...Select the item to restart the computer and then click the OK button to reboot your computer Step 6 After rebooting your computer the software installation procedure is concluded You can now configure the Internet Sharer refer to Chapter 4 and set up the Print Server refer to Chapter 5 ...

Page 15: ...ddress in the Location for Netscape or Address for Explorer field and press ENTER For example http 192 168 123 254 After the connection is established you will see the web user interface There are two appearances of the web user interface for general users and for system administrator To log in as an administrator enter the system password the factory setting is admin in the System Password field ...

Page 16: ...enew or Release button on theSidenote column You can click this button to renew or release the IP manually B Modem Status C Printer Status The possible kinds of printer status include Ready Not ready Printing and Device error When a job is printing there may appear a Kill Job button on the Sidenote column You can click this button to kill the current printing job manually ...

Page 17: ...oot the Barricade by clicking the Reboot button The Clone MAC button is useful when your ISP such as Media One binds or locks your connection to a specific MAC address Please refer to Appendix C 2 for details Note we strongly recommend that you change the system password for security reasons If you forget the system password please refer to Appendix A to reset a new one ...

Page 18: ...ype WAN connection type of your ISP You can click Change button to choose a correct one from the following four options A Static IP Address ISP assigns you a static IP address B Dynamic IP Address Obtain an IP address from ISP automatically If you are a user of Home service please refer to Appendix C 1 for the setup procedure C PPP over Ethernet Some ISPs require the use of PPPoE to connect to the...

Page 19: ...e password leave it empty 2 PPPoE Service Name optional Input the service name if your ISP requires it 3 Maximum Idle Time the elapsed time of no activity to disconnect your PPPoE session Setting it to 0 will disable this feature 4 4 4 Dial up Network 1 Dial up Telephone Account and Password assigned by your ISP If you don t want to change the password leave it empty 2 Primary and Secondary DNS au...

Page 20: ...omputers as automatic IP allocation mode when your computer is powered on it will automatically load the proper TCP IP settings from the Barricade The settings of DHCP server include the following items 1 DHCPServer Choose Disable or Enable 2 Range of IP Address Pool Whenever there is a request the DHCP server will automatically allocate an unused IP address from the IP address pool to the request...

Page 21: ...ing the Virtual Server Mapping A virtual serveris definedasa Service Port and all requests to this port will be redirected to the computer specified by the Server IP 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 PPTP VPN server at 192 168 123 6 you need to specify the following virtual server mapping table Service Port Server IP Enable 2...

Page 22: ...ent to allow an application to function correctly try DMZ host in theMiscellaneous Items options 1 Trigger the outbound port number that the application assigned first 2 Incoming Ports when the trigger packet is detected the inbound packets to the specified port number are allowed to pass through the firewall The Barricade provides some predefined settings in the gray pad on the bottom of the web ...

Page 23: ...mbers of Default Group Second you must assign the access right of each group The access right can allow or block users to access specified TCP and UDP ports For example Group Members Access Right Comments Default Allow No access right allow nothing Group 1 50 99 Allow 25 53 110 Can browse 80 receive 110 and send 25 email only Group 2 100 199 Block 21 119 Cannot read net news 119 and FTP 21 only Gr...

Page 24: ...sers can browse the built in web pages to perform administration tasks This feature enables you to perform administration tasks from a remote host When this feature is enabled only the specified IP address can perform remote administration If the specified IP address is 0 0 0 0 any host can connect to the Barricade to perform administration tasks When this feature is enabled the web port will be s...

Page 25: ...ng on Windows 95 98 Platforms After you complete the software installation procedure described in Chapter 3 your computer possesses the network printing facility provided by the Barricade You re your convenience we call the printer connected to the printer port the server printer On a Windows 95 98 platform open the Printers window in the My Computer menu ...

Page 26: ...ou can now configure the print server 1 Find the corresponding icon of your server printer for example the HP LaserJet 6L Right click on that icon and then select the Properties item 2 Click the Details item ...

Page 27: ...er printer 4 Click the Port Settings button Type in the IP address of the Barricade and then click the OK button 5 Make sure that all the settings mentioned above are correct then click theOK button 5 2 Configuring on Windows NT Platforms The configuration procedure for a Windows NT platform is similar to that of Windows 95 98 except the screen of printer Properties ...

Page 28: ...or a Windows 2000 platform is similar to that of Windows 95 98 except the screen of printer Properties Compared to the procedure in last section the selection of Details is equivalent to the selection of Ports and Port Settings is equivalent to Configure Port 5 4 Configuring on Unix based Platforms Please follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to set up the print server o...

Page 29: ...h as the Hyper Terminal of MS Windows 95 The connection parameters should be set to 19200 8 N 1 Be sure to reboot the Barricade When the M1 indicator starts flashing regularly you can press the Enter key several times There should be some messages and console prompt appears in the terminal In the console mode you may reset the IP address and the system password of the Barricade Please remember to ...

Page 30: ...d manual Also Section B 2 shows you how to set TCP IP values to operate the Barricade correctly B 1 Installing TCP IP protocol into your PC 1 Click the Start button and choose Settings then click Control Panel 2 Double click the Network icon and select the Configuration tab in the Network window 3 Click the Add button to add the network component into your PC 4 Double click Protocol to add TCP IP ...

Page 31: ...utton to return to the Network window 6 The TCP IP protocol will be listed in the Network window Click OK to complete the install procedure and restart your PC to enable the TCP IP protocol B 2 Setting TCP IP protocol to work with the Barricade 1 Click the Start button and choose Settings then click Control Panel ...

Page 32: ...the TCP IP line that has been assigned to your network card in the Configuration tab of the Network window 3 Click the Properties button to set the TCP IP protocol for the Barricade 4 You now have two setting methods A Obtain IP via DHCP server ...

Page 33: ... 32 a Select Obtain an IP address automatically in the IP Address tab ...

Page 34: ... 33 b Do not input any values in the Gateway tab ...

Page 35: ... 34 c Choose Disable DNS in the DNS Configuration tab ...

Page 36: ...ly a Select Specify an IP address in the IP Address tab The default IP address of the Barricade is 192 168 123 254 You should use 192 168 123 xxx xxx is between 1 and 253 for IP Address field and 255 255 255 0 for Subnet Mask field ...

Page 37: ... 36 b In the Gateway tab add the IP address of the Barricade default IP is 192 168 123 254 in the New gateway field and click the Add button ...

Page 38: ... 37 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 That s it You are now ready to start using your Barricade ...

Page 39: ...system administrator and click Primary Setup 2 Configure the WAN type as Dynamic IP Address 3 In the Host Name field you must key in the host name specified by your ISP Say C123456 A 4 Save the setting for Primary Setup 5 Please click DHCP Server setting and configure the domain name as the one specified by your ISP Say xxx yyy home com 6 Save the setting and reboot the Barricade 7 After the Barri...

Page 40: ... it is working please run WINIPCFG in your Windows platform and release and renew the IP address manually This step ensures that your PC obtains the correct TCP IP setting from the newly configured Barricade 4 Log in as system administrator and click Primary Setup 5 Configure the WAN type as Dynamic IP Address 6 Save the setting for Primary Setup 7 Click Toolbox and check the WAN s MAC Address 8 C...

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