User manual TRENDNET TEW-212APBO

[. . . ] TEW-212APBO Wi-Fi Inter-Building Router User's Guide Contents TEW-212APBO________________________________________________________ 1 Overview __________________________________________________________________ 2 Features ______________________________________________________________ 3 5 Operating Modes _____________________________________________________ 4 Starting Up ___________________________________________________________ 9 Device Status page_____________________________________________________ 12 Setup Wizard_________________________________________________________ 14 Operation Mode Settings Page_________________________________________________ 14 General Configuration Settings Page ____________________________________________ 15 Network Configuration Settings page ___________________________________________ 17 Wireless Configuration Settings page ___________________________________________ 19 Redirection Service _________________________________________________________ 23 Advanced Settings_____________________________________________________ 24 Firewall configuration _______________________________________________________ 24 ACL Configuring ___________________________________________________________ 28 Static routing configuration ___________________________________________________ 28 DHCP Service Configuration__________________________________________________ 31 Port forwarding configuration _________________________________________________ 33 Setting up administrator password ______________________________________________ 35 System Tools _________________________________________________________ 36 Clients page _______________________________________________________________ 36 Loopback Test _____________________________________________________________ 37 Configuring SNMP management _______________________________________________ 38 Site survey page ____________________________________________________________ 39 Monitoring page____________________________________________________________ 40 Upgrade page ______________________________________________________________ 42 Upgrade Utility ____________________________________________________________ 44 Reboot Page _______________________________________________________________ 48 Reset page ________________________________________________________________ 48 Specifications _________________________________________________________ 49 Administration _____________________________________________________________ 50 Glossary _____________________________________________________________ 51 Overview The TEW-212APBO is a standalone wireless client, which provides IP routing functionality between a Local Area Network (LAN) and a Wide Area Network (WAN). It uses an Ethernet interface to connect to LAN, and wireless 802. 11b-based interface to connect to a Wireless Networking System, which provides miscellaneous WAN access. Wireless Networking System TEW-212APBO is part of the Wireless Internet Service Provision System. It provides access for locally connected computers to WAN, such as the Internet. In Figure 1 shown below, the client devices are connected to the access points (please refer to TEW-212APBO specification). Figure 1: TEW-212APBO Solution 2 Features TEW-212APBO is based on indoor-outdoor architecture. [. . . ] Status line will show last measured data transfer rate, and the time when this data was received from the endpoint. Note: Due to the nature of this test, test data is stored in the web browser applet area. Clicking the "Refresh" or "Back" buttons when test is running will stop the test and clear the collected test data. 37 Configuring SNMP management SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) service is configured in the SNMP Settings page. This page is used for setting up read-only and readwrite communities: Figure 24: SNMP Settings Community strings are used for SNMP authentication purposes. It is possible to allow or deny IP address groups from accessing TEW-212APBO using SNMP. IP address and netmask combination 0. 0. 0. 0/32 means "ANY" IP address. It could be setup by a specified IP, ex 192. 168. 2. 100/32, or by a group, ex 192. 168. 2. 0/24. Hint: For security purposes, use only local IP addresses for Read/Write access Click on the "Reset" button to reset all page fields to their default values and click on the "Save Settings" button to save the SNMP setting. 38 Site survey page Figure 25: Site Survey Test Results page Site survey test shows the load situation in the wireless network. Using this test, user can scan for active Access Points; check the operating channels and their respective signal/noise levels. Hint: Because wireless card is scanning through all radio frequency channels, the page loading time is much longer when compared to the other TEW-212APBO management pages. Use the rescan button to check signal/noise levels when deploying new Access Points in the existing wireless network. 39 Monitoring page Figure 26: Monitoring page The Monitoring menu shows TX/RX statistics graph. These statistics show a five-minute average traffic rate over the last 24 hours period. RX (green) indicates incoming (Received) traffic and TX (red) indicates outgoing (Transmitted) traffic. The reason is that TEW-212APBO has no real time clock, and the time used is relative to TEW-212APBO restart. The first statistics appear as 2 points after 5 minutes after TEW-212APBO. Normal view is acquired 10 minutes and later after TEW-212APBO reboot. Click on the 'Show' button is needed when first time the TX/RX statistics applet appears in browser window. Next time click 'Refresh' button which appears instead of 'Show' button to get newer TX/RX statistics. It is possible to choose any hour from the last 24 hours, but choice can be limited to fewer hours because of TEW-212APBO reboot. The second drop-down is used to choose time interval duration in hours. The possible choices are from 1 to 25 hours, but it also can be limited to fewer hours because of TEW-212APBO reboot. Sometimes you can get 24 instead of 25 hours limit because relative time is even to hour range. 40 Note: On older firmware versions, only 'Refresh' or 'Show' buttons are available, but they have the same behaviour. 41 Upgrade page Important! [. . . ] Route table A table listing information about routes to other hosts or networks, such as the remote network or host address, the interface down 55 which the route exists, the distance to the remote address and the cost of sending data over the route. Router A system responsible for making decisions about which of several paths network (or Internet) traffic will follow. To do this it uses a routing protocol to gain information about the network, and algorithms to choose the best route based on several criteria known as "routing metrics". Service A term used with the router to refer to a connection to another port on (another) router, used to access dialup modems, hosts that do not support TCP/IP and other asynchronous devices. [. . . ]