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EZ Cable/DSL Router

SMC7004BR

User Guide

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Summary of Contents for Barricade SMC7004BR

Page 1: ...ed by SMC 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: ...radiate 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 Confor...

Page 3: ...1 Setting your computer network settings properly 10 3 2 Install the Software into Your Computers 11 Chapter 4 Configuring the SMC7004BR 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 22 4 8 Access Control 23 4 9 Miscellaneous Items 24 Chapter 5 Print Server 25 5 1 Configuring on Windows 95 98 Platforms 25 5 2 ...

Page 4: ...pendix B TCP IP Configuration for Windows 95 98 30 B 1 Installing TCP IP protocol into your PC 30 B 2 Setting TCP IP protocol to work with the SMC7004BR 31 Appendix C Installation Guide For Specific ISP 35 C 1 Home 35 C 2 MediaOne 36 ...

Page 5: ...odem 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 4 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 networked computers t...

Page 6: ...ne the attributes to support the special applications requiring multiple connections such as Internet gaming video conferencing Internet telephony et al Then this product 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 when the special application sensing tunnel feature is ...

Page 7: ...work adapter hub or switch e g 2 1 2 Rear Panel Figure 2 2 Rear Panel PRINT Parallel port connector 25 pins D type female This is where you connect the shared printer WAN WAN port socket RJ 45 This is where you connect to your Cable or DSL modem or an Ethernet router COM Serial port connector 9 pins D type male This is where you connect your 56K modem This port is also a console port ...

Page 8: ...dicate the system is functioning properly 2 1 4 Left Side Panel Figure 2 4 Left Side Panel 1 Power Power inlet This is where you connect the included power adapter Note The included power adapter is DC 5V 1A Using the wrong type of power adapter may cause damage 2 Switch Power switch 2 2 Installation Requirements The SMC7004BR can be positioned at any convenient place in your office or home No spe...

Page 9: ...d 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 adapter to one of the LAN ports Figure 2 5 Setup of LAN connections for this product 2 Set up WAN connection Prepare an Ethernet cable for connecting this product to your Cable DSL modem or Ethernet backbone Figure 2 6 illustrat...

Page 10: ... switch on The SMC7004BR will automatically enter the self test phase When it is in this phase the indicator M1 will light up for about 5 seconds and then M1 will flash 3 times to indicate that the self test operation is complete Finally the M1 will continuously flash once per second to indicate that this product is operating normally ...

Page 11: ... 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 this product The following example shows the ping proc...

Page 12: ... be lit 2 Is the TCP IP environment of your computer properly configured Tip If the IP address of this product 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 this product 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: ...dress 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 a...

Page 16: ...enew or Release button on the Sidenote 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 SMC7004BR by clicking the Reboot button The Clone MAC button is useful when your ISP such as Media One binds orlocks 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: ...mputers as automatic IP allocation mode when your computer is powered on it will automatically load the proper TCP IP settings from this product The settings of DHCP server include the following items 1 DHCP Server 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 requesti...

Page 21: ...ind this product are invisible externally You can if you desire make some of them accessible by enabling the Virtual Server Mapping A virtual server is defined as a 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 ...

Page 22: ... 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 21 192 168 123 1 V 80 192 168 123 2 V 1723 192 168 123 6 V ...

Page 23: ...ient to allow an application to function correctly try DMZ host in the Miscellaneous Itemsoptions 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 This product provides some predefined settings in the gray pad on the bottom of the web ...

Page 24: ...ers 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 1 100 199 Allow 25 53 80 110 Can browse 80 receive 110 and send 25 email only Group 2 50 99 Block 21 119 Cannot read net news 119 and FTP 21 only G...

Page 25: ...emote Administrator Host In general only Intranet users 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 this product to perform administration tasks W...

Page 26: ...ibed in Chapter 3 your computer possesses the network printing facility provided by this product For 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 You now can configure the print server 1 Find the corresponding icon of your server printer for example the HP LaserJet 6L Right click on tha...

Page 27: ... 26 2 Click the Details item 3 Choose the PRTmate All in 1 from the list attached under the Print To item Be sure that the Printer Driver item is configured to the correct driver of your server ...

Page 28: ...and then click the OK button 5 Make sure that all the settings mentioned above are correct then click the OK 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 29: ...ails is equivalent to the selection of Ports and Port Settings is equivalent to Configure Port 5 3 Configuring on Unix based Platforms Please follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to set up the print server of this product The printer name is lp ...

Page 30: ... as the Hyper Terminal of MS Windows 95 The connection parameters should be set to 19200 8 N 1 Be sure to reboot the SMC7004BR 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 this product Please remember to ex...

Page 31: ... SMC7004BR 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 protocol 5 Select the Microsoft item in the manufacturers list And choose T...

Page 32: ...tocol B 2 Setting TCP IP protocol to work with the SMC7004BR 1 Click the Start button and choose Settings then click Control Panel 2 Double click the Network icon Select 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 SMC7004BR ...

Page 33: ... 32 4 You have now two setting methods A obtain IP via DHCP server a Select Obtain an IP address automatically in the IP Address tab b Don t input any values in the Gateway tab ...

Page 34: ...B Configure the IP manually a Select Specify an IP address in the IP Address tab The default IP address of this product 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 35: ...ult IP is 192 168 123 254 in the New gateway field and click Add button 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 SMC7004BR ...

Page 36: ... 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 SMC7004BR 7 After the SMC7...

Page 37: ... 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 SMC7004BR 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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