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LevelOne

FBR-1412TX

1W,4L Broadband Router w/Printer

Server(parallel)

User`s Manual

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Page 1: ...1 LevelOne FBR 1412TX 1W 4L Broadband Router w Printer Server parallel User s Manual ...

Page 2: ...ge or transmitted in any form or by any means mechanical magnetic electronic optical photocopying manual or otherwise without the prior written permission Trademarks All product company brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies They are used for identification purpose only Specifications are subject to be changed without prior notice ...

Page 3: ...is 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 Conformity This equipment complies with the requirements relating to electromagnetic compatibility EN 55022 ...

Page 4: ...er 4 Configuring NAT Router 16 4 1 Start up and Log in 16 4 2 Status 17 4 3 Wizard 18 4 4 Basic Setting 20 4 4 1 Primary Setup 21 4 4 2 DHCP Server 26 4 4 3 Change Password 28 4 5 Forwarding Rules 29 4 5 1 Virtual Server 30 4 5 2 Special AP 31 4 5 3 Miscellaneous Items 33 4 6 Security Settings 34 4 6 1 Packet Filter 35 4 6 2 Domain Filter 39 4 6 3 URL Blocking 41 4 6 4 MAC Address Control 43 4 6 5...

Page 5: ...hapter 5 Print Server 63 5 1 Configuring on Windows 95 98 Platforms 63 5 2 Configuring on Windows NT Platforms 66 5 3 Configuring on Windows 2000 and XP Platforms 67 5 4 Configuring on Unix based Platforms 74 Appendix A TCP IP Configuration for Windows 95 98 75 A 1 Install TCP IP Protocol into Your PC 75 A 2 Set TCP IP Protocol for Working with NAT Router 776 ...

Page 6: ...rver to allow all of the networked computers to share one printer z Firewall All unwanted packets from outside intruders are blocked to protect your Intranet z DHCP server supported All of the networked computers can retrieve TCP IP settings automatically from this product z Web based configuring Configurable through any networked computer s web browser using Netscape or Internet Explorer z Packet...

Page 7: ...e capability to remotely manage a computer network by polling and setting terminal values and monitoring network events z Routing Table Supported Routing Tables allow you to determine which physical interface address to use for outgoing IP data grams If you have more than one routers and subnets you will need to enable routing table to allow packets to find proper routing path and allow different ...

Page 8: ...ond to indicate system is alive When system is busy S2 is lighted WAN WAN port activity Green On The WAN port is linked Blinking The WAN port is sending or receiving data Link Act 1 4 Link status Green On An active station is connected to the corresponding LAN port Blinking The corresponding LAN port is sending or receiving data Speed 10 100 Data Rate Green On Data is transmitting in 100Mbps on th...

Page 9: ...ts please follow the steps 1 Power off the device 2 Press the reset button and hold 3 Power on the device 4 Keep the button pressed about 5 seconds 5 Release the button 6 Watch the S1 LED and S2 LEDs they will flash 8 times and then M1 flash once per second ...

Page 10: ... 2 2 Installation Requirements FBR 1412TX can be positioned at any convenient place in your office or house No special wiring or cooling requirements is needed However you should comply with the following guidelines to install z Place this product on a flat horizontal plane z Keep this product away from any heating devices z Do not place this product in dusty or wet environment The recommended ope...

Page 11: ...prepare an Ethernet cable for connecting this product to your cable xDSL modem or Ethernet backbone 3 Power on Connecting the power cord to power inlet and turning the power switch on this product will automatically enter the self test phase When it is in the self test phase the indicators M1 and M2 will be lighted ON for about 5 seconds and then M1 and M2 will be flashed 3 times to indicate that ...

Page 12: ...n protocol 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 a communication link between your co...

Page 13: ...ers Skip this section if you do not want to use the print server function of FBR 1412TX Step 1 Insert the installation CD ROM into the CD ROM drive The following window will be shown automatically If it isn t please run install exe on the CD ROM ...

Page 14: ...tton Wait until the following Welcome dialog to appear and click on the Next button Step 3 Select the destination folder and click on the Next button Then the setup program will begin to install the programs into the destination folder ...

Page 15: ... 5 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 finished Now you can configure the NAT Router refer to Chapter 4 and setup the Print Server refer to Chapter 5 ...

Page 16: ... s IP address in the Location for Netscape or Address for IE field and press ENTER For example http 192 168 123 254 After the connection is established you will see the web user interface of this product There are two appearances of 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 Pa...

Page 17: ...the Sidenote column You can click this button to renew or release IP manually B 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 current printing job manually C Statistics of WAN enables you to monitor inbound and outbound packets ...

Page 18: ...18 4 3 Wizard Setup Wizard will guide you through a basic configuration procedure step by step Press Next ...

Page 19: ...19 Setup Wizard Select WAN Type For detail settings please refer to 4 4 1 primary setup ...

Page 20: ...20 4 4 Basic Setting ...

Page 21: ...21 4 4 1 Primary Setup Press Change ...

Page 22: ...ollowing four options A Static IP 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 F L2TP Some ISPs require t...

Page 23: ...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 inactivity before disconnecting your PPPoE session Set it to zero or enable Auto reconnect to disable this feature 4 4 1 5 PPTP 1 My IP Address and My Subnet Mask the private IP address and subnet mas...

Page 24: ...ress 3 Server IP Address the IP address of the L2TP server 4 L2TP Account and Password the account and password your ISP assigned to you If you don t want to change the password keep it empty Maximum Idle Time the time of no activity to disconnect your L2TP session Set it to zero or enable Auto reconnect to disable this feature If Auto reconnect is enabled this product will automatically connect t...

Page 25: ...25 Example1 Static IPAddress Example2 Dynamic IPAddress ...

Page 26: ...26 4 4 2 DHCP Server Press More ...

Page 27: ...DHCP server include the following items 1 DHCP Server Choose Disable or Enable 2 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 3 Domain Name Optional this information will be pass...

Page 28: ...28 4 4 3 Change Password You can change Password here We strongly recommend you to change the system password for security reason ...

Page 29: ...29 4 5 Forwarding Rules ...

Page 30: ...ping 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 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 a...

Page 31: ...irewall function these applications cannot work with a pure NAT router The Special Applications feature allows some of these applications to work with this product If the mechanism 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 detect...

Page 32: ...ss through the firewall This product provides some predefined settings Select your application and click Copy to to add the predefined setting to your list Note At any given time only one PC can use each Special Application tunnel ...

Page 33: ...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 34: ...34 4 6 Security Settings ...

Page 35: ...he two filtering policies 1 Allow all to pass except those match the specified 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...

Page 36: ...xibility on Access control For Detail please refer to Scheduling 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 1 192 168 123 100 192 ...

Page 37: ...d 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 Example 1 ...

Page 38: ...ssary to resolve the domain name 192 168 123 10 192 168 123 20 They can do everything block nothing Others are all blocked Example 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 39: ...ion when someone accesses the specific URLs Privilege IPAddresses 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 to...

Page 40: ...action will be record in log file 2 URL include girl com will not be blocked but the action will be record in log file 3 URL include erotica com will be blocked but the action will not be record in log file 4 IP address X X X 1 X X X 10 can access network without restriction ...

Page 41: ...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 42: ...on will be record in log file 2 URL include erotica will be blocked but the action will be record in log file 3 URL include girl will not be blocked but the action will be record in log file 4 URL include game will be blocked but the action will be record in log file ...

Page 43: ...All 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 clients 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...

Page 44: ...ice In this page we provides the following Combobox and button to help you to input the MAC address You can select a specific client in the DHCP clients Combobox 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 Combobox Previous page and Next Page To make this setup page simple and clear we have divided the Control table into severa...

Page 45: ...address is 0 0 0 0 any host can connect to this product to perform administration task You can use subnet mask bits nn notation to specified a group of trusted IP addresses For example 10 1 2 0 24 NOTE When Remote Administration is enabled the web server port will be shifted to 88 You can change web server port to other port too Administrator Time out The time of no activity to logout automaticall...

Page 46: ...46 4 7 Advanced Setting 4 7 1 System Time ...

Page 47: ...y NTP Protocol Time Server Select a NTP time server to consult UTC time Time Zone Select a time zone where this device locates Set Date and Time manually Selected if you want to Set Date and Time manually Function of Buttons Sync Now Synchronize system time with network time server ...

Page 48: ...setup including IPAddress for Syslogd Host IP of destination where syslogs will be sent to Check Enable to enable this function IPAddress of Outgoing Mail Server Input the IP Address of Outgoing Mail Server For example 192 168 1 100 Log or Alert Recipient The recipients who will receive these logs Check Enable to enable Email alert send syslog via email ...

Page 49: ...f 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 in the DDNS field Next you can enter the appropriate information about your Dynamic DNS Server You have to d...

Page 50: ...50 Username E mail Password Key You will get this information when you register an account on a Dynamic DNS server Example After Dynamic DNS setting is configured click the save button ...

Page 51: ...lues and monitoring 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 Exampl...

Page 52: ...vice will response to SNMP client which s get community is set as public 2 This device will response to SNMP client which s set community is set as private 3 This device will response request from both LAN and WAN ...

Page 53: ... 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 and dynamic routing 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 unchecki...

Page 54: ...o send an IP data gram to 192 168 3 88 it would use the above table to determine that it had to go via 192 168 1 33 a gateway And if it sends Packets to 192 168 5 77 will go via 192 168 1 55 Each rule can be enabled or disabled individually ...

Page 55: ... You can set the schedule time to 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 56: ...56 After configure Rule 1Æ ...

Page 57: ...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 Exanple1 Virtual Server Apply Rule 1 ftp time everyday 14 10 to 16 20 ...

Page 58: ...58 Exanple2 Packet Filter Apply Rule 1 ftp time everyday 14 10 to 16 20 ...

Page 59: ...59 4 8 Toolbox 4 8 1 System Log You can View system log by clicking the View Log button ...

Page 60: ...60 4 8 2 Firmware Upgrade You can upgrade firmware by clicking Firmware Upgrade button ...

Page 61: ...a bin file Once you want to restore these settings please click Firmware Upgrade button and use the bin file you saved 4 8 4 Reset to default You can also reset this product to factory default by clicking the Reset to default button 4 8 5 Reboot You can also reboot this product by clicking the Reboot button ...

Page 62: ... you to power up a networked device remotely In order to enjoy this feature 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 ...

Page 63: ...figuring on Windows 95 98 Platforms After you finished the software installation procedure described in Chapter 3 your computer has possessed the network printing facility provided by this product For convenience we call the printer connected to the printer port of this product as server printer On a Windows 95 98 platform open the Printers window in the My Computer menu Now yon can configure the ...

Page 64: ...64 1 Find out the corresponding icon of your server printer for example the HP LaserJet 6L Click the mouse s right button on that icon and then select the Properties item 2 Click the Details item ...

Page 65: ...re that the Printer Driver item is configured to the correct driver of your server printer 4 Click on the button of Port Settings Type in the IP address of this product and then click the OK button 5 Make sure that all settings mentioned above are correct and then click the OK button ...

Page 66: ...cedure for a Windows NT 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 ...

Page 67: ...0 and XP Platforms Windows 2000 and XP have built in LPR client users could utilize this feature toPrint You have to install your Printer Driver on LPT1 or other ports before you preceed the following sequence 1 Open Printers and Faxs ...

Page 68: ...68 2 Select Ports page Click Add Port ...

Page 69: ...69 3 Select Standard TCP IP Port and then click New Port 4 Click Next and then provide the following information Type address of server providing LPD that is our NAT device 192 168 123 254 ...

Page 70: ...70 5 Select Custom then click Settings ...

Page 71: ...71 6 Select LPR type lp lowercase letter in Queue Name And enable LPR Byte Counting Enabled ...

Page 72: ...72 7 Apply your settings ...

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Page 74: ...74 5 4 Configuring on Unix based Platforms Please follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to setup the print server of this product The printer name is lp ...

Page 75: ...not please refer to your network card manual Moreover the Section B 2 tells you how to set TCP IP values for working with this NAT Router correctly 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 ...

Page 76: ...s list And choose TCP IP in the Network Protocols Click OK button to return to Network window 6 The TCP IP protocol shall be listed in the Network window Click OK to complete the install procedure and restart your PC to enable the TCP IP protocol ...

Page 77: ...en click Control Panel 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 Get IP via DHCP server ...

Page 78: ...78 a Select Obtain an IP address automatically in the IP Address tab ...

Page 79: ...79 b Don t input any value in the Gateway tab ...

Page 80: ...80 c Choose Disable DNS in the DNS Configuration tab ...

Page 81: ... a Select Specify an IP address in the IP Address tab The default 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 ...

Page 82: ...82 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 83: ...83 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 ...

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