EN Installation and Operation Manual EN PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] The latest versions of manual, drivers and applications are available on www.pentagram.eu . v.2.101102.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Important information Safety precautions • • • • • • • • Do not use or store the device in dusty places, where the humidity is high or in extreme temperatures. Do not operate the device with wet hands to avoid the risk of device damage or electric shock. Do not clean the device with chemicals, such as benzine or detergents – always clean the device with a soft, dry cloth. Disconnect the device from the computer prior to cleaning.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] INDEX IMPORTANT INFORMATION........................................................................................ 2 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS.........................................................................................................2 INFORMATION CONCERNING WASTE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT.........................2 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................... 5 PACKAGE CONTENTS.....................
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] DNS Settings..........................................................................................................................24 LAN Settings [Wireless AP Mode].................................................................................24 WLAN SETTINGS...................................................................................................................25 Basic Settings......................................................................................
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Introduction PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] wireless router is a universal network device, capable of performing different roles basing on currently selected work mode. PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] is an excellent foundation for a wireless network at home or a small business. With the Cerberus, your Internet connection sharing, file transfer and gaming experience can be even better and safer than before. PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] can support a 802.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Router work modes Router can work in one of the four modes. Router's work mode should be selected basing on the used Internet connection, access device (modem) supplied by ISP and role the router will perform in the local network. Below, you can find description of all four modes, which should make choice much easier. To change currently used mode, use MODE button located at the side of the device.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] WISP Mode In this mode router acts as the wireless network access point (AP), which amplifies and relays to the wireless stations wireless signal received from ISP. Connection with the Internet is accomplished via ISP's wireless (Wi-Fi) network. Local network computers connects to router via wireless Wi-Fi network. Additionally, one computer can be connected to router with network cable (twisted-pair).
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Operating the device Front panel LED 3G Router AP WISP Router Wireless Router 3G WPS/Reset LAN/WAN 8 Action Lit up Lit up Lit up Lit up Not lit Lit up Flashing Flashing Not lit Lit up Flashing Description Router is working in 3G Router mode Router is working in Wireless AP mode Router is working in WISP Router mode Router is working in Wireless Router mode Not connected or not supported 3G modem 3G modem connected to the USB port Data transfer between router and 3G modem De
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Rear Panel Label USB Application Connecting 3G modem NOTE: Connecting power to this socket will cause router damage, which is not covered by warranty.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Connecting computers to the Cerberus Computers and other network devices can be connected to the Cerberus in two ways as described below. Wired connections (LAN interface) NOTE: Router's LAN/WAN port can be used for LAN connections only in 3G Router or WISP Router modes. LAN/WAN port of the router support Auto MDI/MDIX functionality, which enables and disables crossover automatically, as required.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Windows Vista/7 1. Click Start > Control Panel. 2. Click View network status and tasks. 3. Click View status (Vista) or click the connection type (7) for your connection. 4. On the General tab, click Properties. 5. On the Networking tab, select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click Properties. 6. On the General tab, select Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically. 7.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Windows 2000/XP 1. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel. 2. Double-click the Network Connections icon (2000/XP classic view) or Network and Internet Connections and then Network Connections (XP default view). 3. Double-click Local Area Connection. 4. On the General tab, click Properties. 5. On the General tab, select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties. 6. On the General tab, select Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Windows 95/98/Me 1. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel. 2. Double-click the Network icon. 3. On the Configuration tab, select TCP/IP for the appropriate network adapter and click Properties. 4. On the IP Address tab, select Obtain an IP address automatically. 5. On the DNS Configuration tab, select Disable DNS. 6. Click OK to save the settings and close the TCP/IP Properties dialog. To verify whether your adapter has a valid IP address: 1.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Configuring the router - foreword Router's configuration settings are available on it’s configuration page, which can be accessed using any Web browser. NOTE: It is advised to carry out the initial router configuration from a computer connected to the router via Ethernet cable. Default settings Before configuring the router, we recommend reviewing the default settings for key router parameters shown below.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Configuration using the configuration page Logging on 1. Launch your Web browser. 2. In the address bar, type the default IP address: http://192.168.1.100 . 3. If the system password is set, enter your username and password (default: admin / pentagram). Navigation After successful logging in, the router's configuration page will be displayed.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Setup Wizard Make sure that mode you want to configure is selected at the top bar of configuration page and then click Setup Wizard item in the navigation menu on the left side of the page. When Setup wizard welcoming screen appears, click Next to begin the Wizard configuration. WISP Settings [WISP Mode] Click Scan to scan the wireless signals in WISP settings interface, and select the channel you want to use.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Connection Method [WISP or Wireless Router Mode] In WISP or Wireless Router mode, there are five access modes: Dynamic IP (via DHCP), Static IP, ADSL Virtual Dial-up (via PPPoE), L2TP and PPTP. The default mode is Dynamic IP. If your ISP provides you the Dynamic IP access mode, please select Dynamic IP and click Next.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Wireless Basic Settings Network Mode: Select one mode according to the using environment, and you are recommended to use the 11b/g/n mixed mode. SSID: SSID (Service Set Identifier) is the unique name of the wireless network. You can change it to other names. Broadcast SSID: Select Enable to enable the device's SSID to be visible by your wireless devices. The default is enabled. Channel: The wireless frequency used by wireless network.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Finishing the wizard Click Apply to save the settings. The Router is rebooting to bring the configuration into effect, please DO NOT power off it. Advanced Settings [3G Router, WISP or Wireless Router Mode] LAN Settings [3G Router, WISP or Wireless Router Mode] This section mainly describes how to configure the TCP/IP parameters of local network. In 3G Router mode, WISP mode, Wireless Router mode, please configure the LAN port parameters as the diagram below.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] WAN Settings [3G Router Mode] Select the corresponding ISP to identify the 3G modem card and auto-match the 3G network parameters, which makes it convenient for 3G network users. If you don’t find your ISP name in the list, please select OTHER and input the parameters provided by your ISP. Click System Status to view the connection status between current 3G WAN port and your ISP. When it shows Connected, you can share the 3G network service.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] WAN Settings [WISP or Wireless Router Mode] Depending on your access ways, there are five ways of WAN configuration. Dynamic IP MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit. The default value is 1492. DO NOT modify it unless necessary. But if some specific websites or web application software can not be open or enabled, you can have a try to change the MTU value as 1450, 1400, etc.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] ADSL Virtual Dial-up (via PPPoE) Connection Method: It shows the current connection method. User name: Enter the user name provided by your ISP Password: Enter the password provided by your ISP. L2TP L2TP server: The IP address or domain name of the destination server and it is used to specify the destination address which needs for L2TP connection. User name/Password: Used to validate identity when connecting to the L2TP server.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] PPTP For PPTP connection configuration, please refer to the L2TP connection method above. MAC Address Clone [Wireless Router Mode] This page is for the Router’s WAN MAC address configuration. Some ISPs require user's MAC address to access their network. This feature copies the MAC address of your network device to the Router. MAC Address: It displays the router’s WAN MAC address, which can be entered manually.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] DNS Settings DNS is short for Domain Name System (or Service).The server that implements domain name service is called DNS server, which is used to respond to the domain name service inquiry. DNS settings: Tick to enable the DNS server. The router’s DNS address connected via WAN will adopt the manually added DNS address. Router’s DHCP sever will answer the client’s requests and distribute DNS address. Primary DNS Address: Enter the necessary address provided by your ISP.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] your ISP or network administrator. Primary DNS Address: Enter the necessary address provided by your ISP. Secondary DNS Address: Enter the second address if your ISP provides, and it is optional. Host Name: The device’s WINS name which you can use to visit the device. NOTE: Once you changed the IP address of the LAN port, you should use the new IP to enter the WEB management interface.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] BSSID: Basic Service Set Identifier of wireless network. In IEEE802.11, BSSID is the MAC address of wireless access point. Channel: The channel used by the current router. You can select other effective channels from the drop-down list. There are channels 1 to 13 for your options. When there are many wireless signals around, you can select a different channel to reduce interference. Operating mode: works in 11n mode only.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Security Settings This interface enables you to configure wireless encryption. This device supports WPAPersonal, WPA2-Personal, mixed WPA/WPA2-Personal, Mixed WEP, OPEN, and SHARED etc. It is suggested you encrypt the wireless network to avoid network stealing. Three commonest encryption methods are introduced here (you need to input password to connect to your wireless network adapter when you have encrypted the router).
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] WPA2-Personal WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access version 2) provides better security than Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) does. It does not only adopt TKIP encryption but also the new encryption mode: AES. WPA Algorithms: Select data encryption type. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) and TKIP&AES are supported. Pass Phrase: Please enter the encryption characters string. The valid character is ASCII.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Mixed WEP Wired equivalent protection (WEP) encrypts the data wirelessly transmitted between two devices to avoid unauthorized users’ wire tapping or invasion. WEP security, based on RC4 data encryption technology, provides data confidentiality, integrity, and authentication for wireless network communication. WEP Key: It can be set as ASCII and Hex formats. Key description: Select ASCII code (5 or 13 ASCII characters) or valid Hex characters (10 or 26 hex characters).
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Advanced Settings This section introduces configuration of wireless advanced functions, which enables you to configure wireless parameters at length, including BG protection mode, basic data rates, Fragmentation threshold, RTS threshold, and WMM etc. BG protection Mode: Auto by default. It is good for relatively slow 11b/g wireless clients to connect 11n wireless network smoothly in a complicated wireless area.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] WPS Settings WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setting) is an easy and quick way to establish the encrypted connection between the wireless network clients and the device. Users only need to enter PIN code or press WPS button on the side panel to configure it. In the WLAN Settings menu, click WPS settings to enter the configuration interface. WPS Settings: To enable or disable WPS function. WPS mode: Provide two simple WPS ways: PBC (Push-Button Configuration) and PIN code.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Reset OOB: Press this button, the WPS client will be in idle state, and WPS indicator will turn off. AP will not respond to the WPS client’s connection requests. WDS Settings Wireless AP signal coverage has range limits. WDS is mainly used to repeat wireless signal, and enlarge its coverage. Please keep SSID, channel and encryption type of all AP respectively consistent. This router supports three WDS modes: Lazy, Bridge, Repeater.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] block and click Add. MAC Address list: Show the added MAC addresses. You can add or delete them. Connection Status This page displays wireless client’s connection status, including MAC address, rate, etc. MAC Address: Shows the wireless MAC addresses of the hosts connected to the Router. Bandwidth: Shows the channel bandwidth current connected host (the wireless client) use.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] DHCP List and Binding DHCP client list displays computers’ IP address, MAC address, host name and other information which are assigned by the DHCP server. You can manually enter the IP and MAC address and convert it to static allocation. According to the connected computer's MAC address, DHCP will assign the appropriate IP address. If you can not find the corresponding static binding entry, assign an IP from the DHCP pool to the computer.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Virtual Server [3G Router, WISP or Wireless Router Mode] Port Range Forwarding This section deals with the port range forwarding mainly. The Port Range Forwarding allows you to set up kinds of public services such as web servers, ftp, e-mail and other specialized Internet applications on your network. Start/End Port: Service port range provided by the mapped host in internal network. IP Address: the IP address of the computer which is used as a server in LAN.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] DMZ Settings DMZ Host IP: Please enter the IP address of the LAN computer which you want to set as the DMZ host. Enable: Click to enable/disable the DMZ host. For example: Set the LAN computer at the IP address of 192.168.1.10 as a DMZ Host to intercommunicate with another host on the Internet. NOTE: When the DMZ host is enabled, the computer is completely exposed to extranet, and the firewall settings of the DMZ host will not function.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Traffic Control Traffic Control Traffic Control is for communication traffic limit in the LAN and WAN. It can support limitation rules up to 20 entries and simultaneously control maximum of 254 PCs' traffic. In addition, IP address range configuration is supported. Traffic Control: To enable or disable the internal IP traffic control. The default is disabled. Interface: Enter the actual uploading and downloading bandwidth in WAN port.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Traffic Statistics This function is to calculate the data traffic of the client that connected to this router and the speed of each client. 3G WAN Traffic [3G Router Mode] 3G WAN Traffic In 3G WAN access mode, 3G WAN traffic statistic function is supported. Click 3G WAN traffic to check the router's Internet traffic, transmission rate, transmission data volume and data traffic for the recent two months, and you will know how much traffic still can be used.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Security Settings [3G Router, WISP or Wireless Router Mode] Client Filter To better manage the computers in LAN, you can control LAN computers’ access to some ports on Internet by data packet filters function. Client Filtering Setting: Check to enable client filter. Access Policy: Select one number from the drop-down menu. Enable: Check to enable the access policy.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] URL Filter To better control the LAN computers’ access to the websites; you can use URL filtering to permit or forbid their access to certain websites at a specified time. URL Filtering Setting: Check to enable URL filter. Access Policy: Select one number from the drop-down menu. Enable: Check to enable the access policy. Filtering mode: Select Disable to forbid the computer at the filtered IP address to access the Internet at a specified time.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] MAC Filter In order to manage the computers in LAN better, you could control the computer’s access to Internet by MAC Address Filter. MAC Filtering Settings: Check to enable MAC address filter. Access Policy: Select one number from the drop-down menu. Enable: Check to enable the access policy. Filtering mode: Select Disable to forbid the computer at the filtered MAC address to access the Internet at a specified time.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Remote WEB Management This section is to set the IP address and WEB management port of the computer that can implement remote WEB management. Enable: Check to enable remote web management. Port: The management port used by remote WEB management. WAN IP Address Range: Specify the range of the WAN IP address for remote management.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Routing Settings This page displays the router’s main routing table The main duty for a router is to look for a best path for every data packet, and transfer this data packet to a destination. So, it’s essential for the router to choose the best path, i.e. routing arithmetic. In order to complete this work, the related data packets of various transfer paths, i.e. routing table, are saved in the router for options.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] DDNS [3G Router, WISP or Wireless Router Mode] DDNS is short for Dynamic Domain Name Server, and it takes effect in 3G router, WISP and wireless router modes. It is to assign a fixed host and domain name to a dynamic Internet IP address, which is used to monitor hosting website, FTP server and so on behind the Router. If you want to activate this function, please select Enable and a DDNS service provider to sign up.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Restore to Factory Default Settings This button is to restore all settings to the default values. NOTE: Click Restore to Factory Default Settings, and the router will reboot automatically. Firmware Upgrade By upgrading the router’s firmware, you’ll get more stable firmware version and appreciated routing function. For upgrading files, you can download from www.pentagram.eu . Browse: click this button to select the upgrade file.
PENTAGRAM Cerberus [P 6367] Change Password This section is to change the default user name and password. User Name: Enter a new user name for the device. Old Password: Enter the old password. New Password: Enter a new password. Re-enter to Confirm: Re-enter to confirm the new password. NOTE: It is highly recommended to change the password to secure your network and the Router. System Log The section is to view the system log. Refresh: Click this button to update the log.
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