Manuale d’uso / di manutenzione del prodotto BR-6004 del fabbricante Edimax Technology
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L A N P R O F E S S I O N A L 4 Port Switch Broadband Router BR - 6004 User ’ s Manual Broadband Router.
- 1 - Copyright The contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any part or as a whole, stored, transcribed in an information retrieval system, translated into any language, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, magn etic, electronic, optical, photocopying, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission.
- 2 - FCC Interference Statement This equipment 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 design ed to provide reasonable protection against radio interference in a commercial environment.
- 3 - Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction ........................................................................... 4 1.1 Functions and Features ................................................................ 4 1.2 Packing Lis t ..............
- 4 - Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding Broadband Router. This product is specifically designed for Small Office and Home Office needs. It provides a complete SOHO solution for Internet surfing and office resources sharing, and it is easy to configure and operate for even non - technical users.
- 5 - ● Access Control supported allows you to assign different access right for dif ferent users. ● Virtual Server supported enables you to expose WW W , FTP and other services on your LAN to be accessible to Internet users.
- 6 - Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2.1. Panel Layout 2.1 .1. Front Panel Figure 2 - 1 Front Panel RESET When RESET is pushed, system settings will be set to factory defaults. Readmy &Com System status indicators, Orange . Ready is flashed once per second to indicate system is alive.
- 7 - Power Power inlet. This is where you connect the included power adapter. Note that, the included power adapter is DC 5V/1A. Using wrong type of power adapter m ay cause this product damage . 2.2. Installation Requirements This product can be positioned at any convenient place in your office or house.
- 8 - Figure 2 - 3 Setup of LAN connections for this product. 2. Setup WAN connection: prepare an Ethernet cable for connecting this product to your cable/xDSL modem or Ether net backbone. Figure 2 - 4 illustrates the WAN connection. Figure 2 - 4 Setup of WAN connections for this product.
- 9 - finished. Finall y , the M1 will be continuously flashed once per second to indicate that this product is in normal operation..
- 10 - Chapter 3 Network Settings and Software Installation To use this product correctl y , you have to properly configure the network settings of your computers and install the attached setup pro gram into your MS Windows platform ( Windows 95/98/NT ).
- 11 - there must be something wrong in your installation procedure. You have to check the following items in sequence: 1. Is the Ethernet cable correctly connected between this product and your computer? Tip : The LAN LED of this product and the link LED of network card on your c omputer must be lighted.
- 12 - Chapte r 4 Configuring IP Sharer This product provides Web based configuration scheme, that is, configuring by Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer.
- 13 - To log in as an administrator, enter the system password (the factory setting is ” a dmin ”) 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.
- 14 - 4. 3 T oolbox This option enables you change the administrator password. Besides, you can get the information about Firmware version and WAN's MAC Address . You can also reboot this product by clicking the Reboo t button. Note: we strongly recommend you to change the system password for security reason.
- 15 - 4. 4 Primary Setup This option is primary to enable this product to work properl y . The setting items and the web appearance depend on the WAN type. Choose correct WAN type before you start. 1. LAN IP Address : this product ’ s IP address. The default address is 192.
- 16 - 4.4.1 Static IP Address WAN IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, Primary and Secondary DNS : enter the proper setting value provided by your ISP . 4.
- 17 - 4. 5 DHCP Server The settings of TCP/IP environment include Host I P , Subnet Mask, Gatewa y , and DNS configurations. It is not a simple task to correctly configure all the computers in your LAN environment . Fortunatel y , DHCP provides a rather simple approach to handle all these settings.
- 18 - 4. 6 Virtual Server Th is product ’s NAT firewall filters out unrecognized packets to protect your I ntranet, so all hosts behind this product are invisible to the outside world. If you wish, you can make some of them accessible by enabling the Virtual Serv er Mapping .
- 19 - 4. 7 Special AP Some applications require multiple c onnections, like Internet games, Video conferencing, Internet telephony and so on. Due to the firewall function, these applications can not work with pure N AT router. Special Applications makes some of these applications to work with N AT router.
- 20 - 4. 8 Access Control Access Control allows you to assign different access right for different users. First, you have to divide users into different groups. Users are identified by their IP addresses . You can assign the members of Group 1, 2 and 3.
- 21 - 4. 9 Misc Items 1. IP Address of DMZ Host : DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone) Host is a host without the protection of firewall. It allows a computer to be exposed to unrestricted 2 - way communication. Note that, this feature sh ould be used only when needed.
- 22 - Appendix A Co nsole Mode When you forget the system password or the IP address of this product, you need enter console mode to reset them. Before invoking the console program, be sure to find a null modem cable and use it to connect from this product ’ s COM port to your computer ’ s COM port.
- 23 - Appendix B TCP/IP Configuration for Windows 95/98 This section introduces you how to install TCP/IP protocol into your personal computer. And suppose you have been successfully i nstalled one network card on your personal computer. If not, please refer to your network card manual.
- 24 - 5. Select Microso ft item in the manufactures list. And choose TCP/IP in the Network Protocols . Click OK button to return to Network windo w. 6. The TCP/IP protocol shall be listed in the Network windo w . Click OK to complete the install procedure and restart your PC to enabl e the TCP/IP protocol.
- 25 - 2. Double click Network icon. Select the TCP/IP line that has been associated to your network card in the Configuratio n tab of the Network windo w. 3. Click Properties button to set the TCP/IP protocol for this IP Sharer. 4. Now, you have two setting methods: A.
- 26 - a. Select Obtain an IP address automatically in the IP Address tab. b. Don ’ t input any value in t he Gateway tab..
- 27 - c. Choose Disable DNS in the DNS Configuration tab..
- 28 - B. Configure 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. 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.
- 29 - 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. c. In the DNS Configuration tab, add the DNS value s which are provided by the ISP into DNS Server Search Order field and click Add button.
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