Broadband Router DC-207 Full Manual
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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 is easy to configure and operate even for non-technical users. Instructions for installing and configuring this product can be found in this manual. Before you install and use this product, please read this manual carefully for fully exploiting the functions of this product. 1.
tion is used when special application sensing tunnel feature is insufficient to allow an application to function correctly. Statistics of WAN Supported Enables you to monitor inbound and outbound packets Security functions Packet filter supported Packet Filter allows you to control access to a network by analyzing the incoming and outgoing packets and letting them pass or halting them based on the IP address of the source and destination.
UPNP (Universal Plug and Play)Supported The router also supports this function. The applications: X-box, Msn Messenger.
2. Hardware installation 2.1 Panel Layout 2.1.1 Front Panel M1&M2 System status indicators, Green. M1 is flashed once per second to indicate system is alive. When system is busy, M2 is lighted. WAN/Link Link status indicators, Green. The LED flickers when the corresponding port is sending or receiving data LAN/Speed 10/100 status indicators, Green. The LED flickers when the corresponding port is transmitting or receiving data WAN/Speed in 10 or 100Mbps. LAN/Link Link status indicators, Green.
2.1.2. Rear Panel Port Description 5VDC Power inlet: DC 5V, 1.5A (minimum) WAN the port where you will connect your cable (or DSL) modem or Ethernet router. Port 1-4 the ports where you will connect networked computers and other devices. PRINTER Printer Port 2.2 Procedure for Hardware Installation 1. Decide where to place your Broadband Router You can place your Broadband Router on a desk or other flat surface, or you can mount it on a wall.
Use the printer cable to connect your printer to the printer port of this product. (Optional) 5. 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 will be lighted ON for about 10 seconds, and then M1 will be flashed 3 times to indicate that the selftest operation has finished.
3. Network settings and software installation To use this product correctly, you have to properly configure the network settings of your computers and install the attached setup program into your MS Windows platform (Windows 95/98/NT/2000). 3.1 Make Correct Network Settings of Your Computer The default IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254, and the default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. These addresses can be changed on your need, but the default values are used in this manual.
Skip this section if you do not want to use the print server function of this product. Notice: If you are using Windows 2000/XP, please refer to Chapter 5 Printer - 5.3 Configuring on Windows 2000 and XP Platforms. It is not necessary to setup any program and the print-server can work. • 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. • Click on the INSTALL button.
• 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).
4. Configuring the router This product provides Web based configuration scheme, that is, configuring by your Web browser, such as Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer. This approach can be adopted in any MS Windows, Macintosh or UNIX based platforms. 4.1 Start-up and login Activate your browser, and disable the proxy or add the IP address of this product into the exceptions. Then, type this product’s IP address in the Location (for Netscape) or Address (for IE) field and press ENTER.
To log in as an administrator, enter the system password (the factory setting is ”admin”) 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. As listed in its main menu, there are several options for system administration. 4.2 Status This option provides the function for observing this product’s working status: • WAN Port Status.
LAN IP Address: the local IP address of this device. The computers on your network must use the LAN IP address of your product as their Default Gateway. You can change it if necessary. WAN Type: WAN connection type of your ISP. You can click Change button to choose a correct one from the following four options: • Static IP Address: ISP assigns you a static IP address. • Dynamic IP Address: Obtain an IP address from ISP automatically. • Dynamic IP Address with Road Runner Session Management.(e.g.
• WAN Type is Dynamic IP Address. If the WAN type is not correct, change it! • Host Name: optional. Required by some ISPs, e.g. @Home. • Renew IP Forever: this feature enable this product renew IP address automatically when the lease time is being expired even the system is in idle state. 4.4.1.4 PPP over Ethernet • PPPoE Account and Password: the account and password your ISP assigned to you. For security, this field appears blank. If you don't want to change the password, leave it empty.
Virtual Computer enables you to use the original NAT feature, and allows you to setup the one-to-one mapping of multiple global IP address and local IP address. • Global IP: Enter the global IP address assigned by your ISP. • Local IP: Enter the local IP address of your LAN PC corresponding to the global IP address. • Enable: Check this item to enable the Virtual Computer feature. 4.4.
matically load the proper TCP/IP settings from this product. The settings of DHCP server include the following items: • DHCP Server: Choose “Disable” or “Enable.” • Lease Time: this feature allows you to configure IP’s lease time (DHCP client). • 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.
Domain Filter lets you prevent users under this device from accessing specific URLs. • Domain Filter Enable: Check if you want to enable Domain Filter. • Log DNS Query: Check if you want to log the action when someone accesses the specific URLs. • Privilege IP Addresses 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".
• URL include “www.msn.com” will be blocked, and the action will be record in log-file. • URL include “www.sina.com” will not be blocked, but the action will be record in log-file. • URL include “www.google.com” will be blocked, but the action will not be record in log-file. • IP address X.X.X.1~ X.X.X.20 can access network without restriction. 4.5.2 Packet filter Packet Filter enables you to control what packets are allowed to pass the router. Outbound filter applies on all outbound packets.
For source or destination port, you can define a single port (80) or a range of ports (1000-1999). Add prefix "T" or "U" to specify TCP or UDP protocol. For example, T80, U53, U2000-2999. No prefix indicates both TCP and UDP are defined. An empty implies all port addresses. Packet Filter can work with Scheduling Rules, and give user more flexibility on Access control. For Detail, please refer to Scheduling Rule. Each rule can be enabled or disabled individually. 4.5.2.
4.5.2.2 Outbound Filter: To enable Outbound Packet Filter click the check box next to Enable in the Outbound Packet Filter field. Example 1 (192.168.123.100-192.168.123.149) They are allowed to send mail (port 25), receive mail (port 110), and browse Internet (port 80); port 53 (DNS) is necessary 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. 4.5.3 MAC CTRL (MAC address access control) MAC Address Control allows you to assign different access right for different users and to assign a specific IP address to a certain MAC address. • MAC Address Control: Check “Enable” to enable the “MAC Address Control”.
• Connection control: Check "Connection control" to enable the controlling of which wired 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" (please see below), to connect to this device. 4.5.3.1 Controltable "Control table" is the table at the bottom of the "MAC Address Control" page.
Remote Administrator Host/Port In general, only Intranet user can browse the built-in web pages to perform administration task. This feature enables you to perform administration task from remote host. If 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 task. You can use subnet mask bits "/nn" notation to specified a group of trusted IP addresses. For example, "10.
4.6 Advanced settings 4.6.1 Virtual Servers This product’s NAT firewall filters out unrecognized packets to protect your Intranet, 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 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.
Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet games, Video conferencing, Internet telephony, etc. Because of the firewall 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. • Trigger: the outbound port number issued by the application..
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 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. 4.6.
This page support two methods to export system logs to specific destination by means of syslog(UDP) and SMTP(TCP). The items you have to setup including: IP Address for Syslog Host IP of destination where syslogs will be sent to. Check Enable to enable this function. IP addres of Outgoing mailserver Input the SMTP server IP and port, which are concated with ':'. If you do not specify port number, the default value is 25. For example, "mail.your_url.com" or "192.168.1.100:26".
So that anyone wishing to reach your host only needs to know the name of it. Dynamic DNS will map the name of 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.
Set Community Setting the community of SetRequest your device will accept. IP 1,IP 2,IP 3,IP 4 Input your SNMP Management PC’s IP here. User has to configure to where this device should send SNMP Trap message. SNMP Version Please select proper SNMP Version that your SNMP Management software supports. 4.7 Toolbox 4.7.1 Log You can view the system log by clicking the Log button. 4.7.2 Firmware You can upgrade firmware by clicking Upgrade button. 4.7.
You can also reboot this product by clicking the Reboot button. 4.7.6 Misc MAC Address for Wake-on-LAN Wake-on-LAN is a technology that enables 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.
5. Print server This product provides the function of network print server for MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and Unix based platforms. 5.1 Configuring on Windows 95/98 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.
• Click the Details item. • Choose the “PRTmate: (All-in-1)” from the list attached at the Print To item. Be sure that the Printer Driver item is configured to the correct driver of your server printer. • Click on the button of Port Settings. • Type in the IP address of this product and then click the OK button. • Make sure that all settings mentioned above are correct and then click the OK button. 5.
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. 5.3 Configuring on Windows 2000/XP platforms Windows 2000 and XP have built-in LPR client, users could utilize this feature to Print. You have to install your Printer Driver on LPT1 or other ports before you proceed with the following sequence.
• Select “Standard TCP/IP Port”, and then click “New Port…” • Click Next and then provide the following information: • Type address of server providing LPD that is our NAT device:192.168.123.
• Select “LPR”, type ” lp“ lowercase letter in “Queue Name:” And enable “LPR Byte Counting Enabled”. • Apply your settings.
Appendix A – TCP/IP setup Set up TCP/IP If you are using a Fixed (specified) IP address, the following changes are required: • The Gateway must be set to the IP address of the DC-202 • The DNS should be set to the address provided by your ISP. Using DHCP To use DHCP, select the radio button Obtain an IP Address automatically. This is the default Windows setting. Using this is recommended. By default, the DC-202 will act as a DHCP Server.
If the list that appears on screen does not include a line, such as the one that has been selected above ("TCP/IP -> network card"), then follow the steps indicated below for adding this line: • Click on the button "Add" • Double-click on "Protocol" • Select "Microsoft" and thereafter "TCP/IP" • Click on "OK" • Wait a few seconds, so that TCP/IP can be added. Thereafter, click on "OK" to leave the network properties screen. Restart your PC. Select the line “TCP/IP -> Network card” as shown above.
Windows NT Select Control Panel - Network, and, on the Protocols tab, select the TCP/IP protocol, as shown below. Click the Properties button to see a screen like the one below. Select the network card for your LAN. Select the appropriate radio button - Obtain an IP address from a DHCP Server Restart your PC, even if you have not made any changes.
Macintosh Clients From your Macintosh, you can access the Internet via the DC-202. The procedure is as follows. 1. Open the TCP/IP Control Panel. 2. Select Ethernet from the Connect via pop-up menu. 3. Select Using DHCP Server from the Configure pop-up menu. The DHCP Client ID field can be left blank. 4. Close the TCP/IP panel, saving your settings. Note: If using manually assigned IP addresses instead of DHCP, the required changes are: • Set the Router Address field to the DC-202's IP Address.
• Select "I want to configure my Internet connection manually" or "I want to make a connection via a LAN network" and click on "Next >". • Select "I want to connect via a LAN network" and click on "Next >". • Check carefully that all of the checkboxes in the screen Internet configuration for a LAN have not been checked. • Continue with the steps in the wizard, until the task is completed. • The configuration is now completed.
Appendix B – Troubleshooting Reset to factory Default There are 2 methods to reset to default. • Restore with RESET button First, turn off the router and press the RESET button in. And then, power on the router and hold the RESET button down until the M1 and or M2 LED (or Status LED) start flashing, then move away the hand. If LED flashes about 8 times, the RESTORE process is completed. However, if LED flashes 2 times, repeat.
