User manual NETGEAR FWG114P V2 REFERENCE MANUAL

[. . . ] Reference Manual for the ProSafe Wireless 802. 11g Firewall/Print Server Model FWG114P v2 NETGEAR, Inc. 4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA 201-10301-02 May 2005 201-10301-02, May 2005 © 2005 by NETGEAR, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks NETGEAR is a trademark of Netgear, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] The number of collisions on this interface since reset or manual clear. The amount of time since the router was last restarted. Maintenance 201-10301-02, May 2005 9-5 Reference Manual for the ProSafe Wireless 802. 11g Firewall/Print Server Model FWG114P v2 Table 9-1. Field Serial Up Time Poll Interval Router Statistics Fields (continued) Description The time elapsed since this port acquired the link. Specifies the intervals at which the statistics are updated in this window. Click on Stop to freeze the display. WAN Status action buttons are described in Table 9-2. Table 9-2. Field Set Interval Stop Connection Status action buttons Description Enter a time and click the button to set the polling frequency. Click the Stop button to freeze the polling information. Viewing a List of Attached Devices The Attached Devices menu contains a table of all IP devices that the router has discovered on the local network. From the Main Menu of the browser interface, under the Maintenance heading, select Attached Devices to view the table shown below: Figure 9-4: Attached Devices menu For each device, the table shows the IP address, Device Name (if available), and Ethernet MAC address. Note that if the router is rebooted, the table data is lost until the router rediscovers the devices. To force the router to look for attached devices, click the Refresh button. 9-6 201-10301-02, May 2005 Maintenance Reference Manual for the ProSafe Wireless 802. 11g Firewall/Print Server Model FWG114P v2 Upgrading the Router Software The routing software of the FWG114P v2 Wireless Firewall/Print Server is stored in FLASH memory, and can be upgraded as new software is released by NETGEAR. If the upgrade file is compressed (. ZIP file), you must first extract the binary file before sending it to the router. Note: The Web browser used to upload new firmware into the FWG114P v2 Wireless Firewall/ Print Server must support HTTP uploads. NETGEAR recommends using Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator 3. 0, or above. From the Main Menu of the browser interface, under the Maintenance heading, select the Router Upgrade heading. In the Router Upgrade menu, click the Browse button and browse to the location of the binary (. IMG) upgrade file. Note: When uploading software to the FWG114P v2, it is important not to interrupt the Web browser by closing the window, clicking a link, or loading a new page. The upgrade process will typically take about one minute. In some cases, you may need to reconfigure the router after upgrading. Configuration File Management The configuration settings of the FWG114P v2 Wireless Firewall/Print Server are stored within the router in a configuration file. This file can be saved (backed up) to a user's computer, retrieved (restored) from the user's computer, or cleared to the factory default settings. Maintenance 201-10301-02, May 2005 9-7 Reference Manual for the ProSafe Wireless 802. 11g Firewall/Print Server Model FWG114P v2 From the Main Menu of the browser interface, under the Maintenance heading, select the Settings Backup heading to bring up the menu shown below. Figure 9-5: Settings Backup menu Three options are available, and are described in the following sections. Restoring and Backing Up the Configuration The Restore and Backup options in the Settings Backup menu allow you to save and retrieve a file containing your router's configuration settings. Your browser will extract the configuration file from the router and will prompt you for a location on your computer to store the file. You can give the file a meaningful name at this time, such as SBC. cfg. To restore your settings from a saved configuration file, enter the full path to the file on your computer or click the Browse button to locate the file. When you have located it, click the Restore button to send the file to the router. The router will then reboot automatically. 9-8 201-10301-02, May 2005 Maintenance Reference Manual for the ProSafe Wireless 802. 11g Firewall/Print Server Model FWG114P v2 Erasing the Configuration It is sometimes desirable to restore the router to a known blank condition. This can be done by using the Erase function, which will restore all factory settings. [. . . ] But, using TKIP, WPA-PSK automatically changes the keys at a preset time interval, making it much more difficult for hackers to find and exploit them. The Wi-Fi Alliance will call this, 'WPA-Personal. ' Wi-Fi Protected Access and IEEE 802. 11i Comparison Wi-Fi Protected Access will be forward-compatible with the IEEE 802. 11i security specification currently under development by the IEEE. Wi-Fi Protected Access is a subset of the current 802. 11i draft, taking certain pieces of the 802. 11i draft that are ready to bring to market today, such as its implementation of 802. 1x and TKIP. These features can also be enabled on most existing Wi-Fi CERTIFIED products as a software upgrade. [. . . ]