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BR-6641 Us er Manual 4 Chapter1 Quick Start At the first time using the product of BR-6641, you may confronted with complicated settings whi ch prevent s you from start ing well. This chapter wil l explain the basic functiona lities of BR-6 641 and h ow to operate and configure th e system.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 5 help you complete the setup of BR-6641 p arameters. BR-6641 uses a web-based man agement user interface (W eb-base d UI). Due to internal design co nstraints, you have to u se MS Internet Explorer 6.0 (IE 6.0), or higher to access the W eb-based UI.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 6 1.2 Access to the W eb-based UI The Web-based UI enable s you to easily per form every configuration task. Follow the steps below to acce ss the Web-ba sed UI. 1. Connect your PC Ethernet LAN interface to LAN port of BR-6641 with a cross-over cable.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 7 Cancel the Proxy Setting.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 8 1.3 BR-6641 Web-based UI Overview After logging in, you will be able to st art configuring or monitoring BR-6641 through the Web -based UI. In order to help you to familiar with the basic operations, the expla nations are as follows: The Web -based UI ta sks are grouped into four categories.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 9 second: 9600, Dat a bits: 8, Parity: None, S top bits: 8, Flow control: None. The serial console and Web-b ased UI use the sa me username and passwo rd pai rs. By default, the password of “Administrato r” is 12 34, and the password of “Monitor” is 5678.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 10 1.4 How to use BR-6641 Web-based UI This section describes the operatio ns a nd arrangement of W eb Based UI, figure 1-2 displays the operating menu of BR-6641 Web -based UI system. BR-6641 Web Based UI Operating Menu Items 1.4.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 11 Click this button to recover the old settings which apply has saved. Click the Help button to display the on-line help of the current page, the on-line hel p information will automatically swap when you change the function page or language.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 12 Write a note for the current rule . Table 5.1 Operating Rules When you add a new rule, the newly added rule will be placed right below the current rule. Moving the rule up or down will swap positions betwee n the upper and lower rules.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 13 Chapter 2 System In this chapter , you will learn how to c onfigure system settings. System settings are the fundament al configurations of the BR- 6641 system. They have to be spe cific in order for the system to work properly .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 14 2.1 Summary [Summary] is in the submenu of [System], which helps the Administrato r to know the system information. While logging in the Web UI, System/Summary is the first page you see when you log into BR-6641’ s web-based UI.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 15 W AN Link St ate The section on W A N Link S tate shows the current st atus of each and every W AN link. Each W AN link is represented as a color-coded block with the following color coding scheme to indicate its status. The allowed numbe r of W AN Link i s also show n here .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 16 2.2 T raffic S t atistics Figure 3.2 The Location of “System/ Traffic S tatistics” on the Menu Bar In the traffic st atistics pa ge, you can insp ect real-time traf fic information sorted by traffic class o ver each W AN link.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 17 2.3 Diagnostic T ools System Traffic Statistics Summary Diagnostic Tools Administration Date & Time Network Service Log Figure 3.3 The Location of “System/Diagnostic T ools” on the Menu Bar ARP Enforcement: ARP Enforce ment updates ARP tables of servers and network devices around BR-6641.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 18 Push T est button to begin the test. The result of the test is one of the following: Everything is ok. BR-6641 discovers that a machine in DMZ conflict s with Network Setting on BR-6641. For example, a public IP address sho uld be in W AN but is use d by a machine in DMZ.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 19 refer other materials. Y ou may specify a target device in the T ar get IP field. It accepts either an IP address or a host name. Y ou may specify a target device in the T ar get IP field. It accepts either an IP address or FQDN.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 20 2.4 Date&T ime System Traffic Statistics Summary Diagnostic Tools Administration Date & Time Network Service Log Figure 3.4 The Location of “System/Date/Time” on the Menu Bar 2.4.1 Date&T ime Setting In this page, you can set up time related configurations.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 21 2.4.2 Busyhour Setting Busyhour Setting is very important from a MIS manager’s point of view. It provide s a tool for you to define two time segm ents: busy-hour and idle-hou r. All other rule-based services such as bandwidth managemen t and auto-routing can take advantage of this function.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 22 2.5 Administration Figure 3.5 The Location of “System/Administration” on the Me nu Bar In this page, you ca n do a few administrative t asks. First, you can ch ange the password of Administrator and Monito r accounts. Every BR-6641 comes with the same passwords initially .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 23 Y ou can reset BR-6641 to i ts factory default st ate. In doi ng this, you will lose your entire customized configuration. Finally , you can reboot BR-664 1. Due to web interface limitations. There will not be any messages after you h ave rebooted the sy stem.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 24 Log on to Web UI as the Administrator and go to function [System] → [Administration]. Use [Browse...] to select the path to t he new firmware image, then select [Upload]. The firmware update will t ake a while so be patient. During the u pdate process B E SURE not to turn of f the system or pull the po wer plug.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 25 Chapter3 Network Figure 3.1 The Location of “Network” on the Menu Bar.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 26 3.1 W AN Setting Figure 3.2 System / Network Setting [W AN Setting] is quite important p art for BR-6641 . The relavent parameter is defined here. The configuration is done one W AN link at a time. However , you can apply all the changes at once at the end.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 27 After connect ing the W AN Link to the machine, W AN No. need to be defined in [Basic Setting]. W AN is to be dif ferent for dif ferent type of W AN. BR-6641 p rovide the following choices: S tandard DHCP PPPoE PPTP Advanced Figure 3.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 28 3.1.1 S t andard Mode Basic Setting: Figure 3.4 S tandard Mode / Basic Setting When you select S tandard Mode as the W A N T ype, you need to fill the paramete rs as in the Basic Setting tabl e.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 29 Basic Setting: Field V alue Description Down S tream The down stream (inbound) bandwidth of the W AN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).
BR-6641 Us er Manual 30 Health Detection pa ge, the following parameters are available: Figure 3.5 WAN Link Health Detection Field Description Never BR-6641 assumes a healthy W AN and stop monitoring ICMP and TCP packet s. Always BR-6641 will always do the health detection according to the rules.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 31 3.1.2 DHCP Mode This model is enabled when BR-6641 is a client using DHCP to acquire a dynamic IP addre ss from an ISP's DHCP se rver . Figure 3.6 DHCP Mode / Basic Setting Field V alue Description Down S tream The down stream (inbound) bandwidth of the W AN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).
BR-6641 Us er Manual 32 100Mbps/Full duplex Health Detection Never Always Only wh en no packet is received This function is used to configure the W AN link health detection mechanism for the specific W AN link. Please refer to Chapter 3.2.1 W AN Link Health Detection.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 33 3.1.3 PPPoE Mode PPPoE is a very popular bridging mode protoc ol for ADSL. Y ou need to specify the ADSL account information to obtain IPs f rom the ISP PPPoE server . Figure 3.7 PPPoE Mode / Basic Setting Field V alue Description Down S tream The down stream (inbound) bandwidth of the W AN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).
BR-6641 Us er Manual 34 10Mbps/Half duplex 10Mbps/Full duplex 100Mbps/Half duplex 100Mbps/Full duplex set it manually or system can got it automatically . Health Detection Never Always Only wh en no packet is received This function is used to configure the W AN link health detection mechanism for the specific W AN link.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 35 3.1.4 PPTP Mode This model is enabled when BR-6641 i s access to PPTP server via Internet. Figure 3.8 PPTP Mode / Basic Setting Field V alue Description Down S tream The down stream (inbound) bandwidth of the W AN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).
BR-6641 Us er Manual 36 Port S peed Auto 10Mbps/Half duplex 10Mbps/Full duplex 100Mbps/Half duplex 100Mbps/Full duplex The speed and duplex of WAN Port.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 37 3.1.5 Advanced Mode Advanced mode is used where BR-6641 is c onnecte d with a router via its private IP and it s actual public IP deployed in DMZ.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 38 Field V alue Description Down S tream The down stream (inbound) bandwidth of the W AN link, for example 25600 (Kbps). Up S tream The up stream (outbound) bandwidth of the W AN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).
BR-6641 Us er Manual 39 3.2 LAN Setting Figure 3.10 Network/LAN Setting Basic Subnet The table of Basic Subnet allows you to specify one or more priv ate subnet s that connect to BR-6641 dire ctly .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 40 Input the IP Address of LA N Port in [Basic Subnet] - [IP Address] and input the corresponding subnet mask in [Netmask]. Select the correspon ding Speed/Duple x in [Port-Speed]. RIP Configuration BR-6641 support RIP (Routing Information Protocol s) for both version 1 and 2.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 41 Note: DMZ is virtual area, which is in the port wi th LAN. DMZ support the public IP Address. T he public IP support only one IP range, which do not support multi-IP range Routing. Example: Figure 3.13 LAN Private Subnet / S tatic Routing Subnet Figure 3.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 42 3.3 DHCP Setting Figure 3.15 Network / DHCP Setting Click on “Enable DHCP” to enable this functi on. BR-6641 is a client using DHCP t o acquire a dynamic IP ad dress from an ISP’ s DHCP server . The following is an example of how you set it up.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 43 Figure 3.16 DHCP Setting.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 44 Field Description Lease T ime Input the Lease T ime by hour . Default Gateway Input the Default Gateway . The Client will take this address as Gateway when DHCP is enabled. Note: This address should be in the subnet with LAN’s Subnet Netmask Input the IP Address of DNS.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 45 3.4 Host Names Figure 3.17 Network / DHCP Setting This function is to define th e the name for system, specific IP and IP group. These defined names will ap pear in sub-me nu of source and destination in Fire wall, Multihoming, etc.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 46 Named IP Addresses: Field Description Name Input the name which is to be substitute for the IP address. Address S pecify the IP Ad dress.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 47 3.5 Service Names Figure 3.18 Network / Service Names This function is to configure the name, pr otocol and other p arameters of servi ce. (BR-6641 has a default list of comm only used services.) The se defined names will appear in sub-menu of service in Firewall , Multihoming, etc.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 48 ICMP: The service used ICMP , e.g. Ping. TCP: The service used TCP , e.g. FTP . UDP: The service used UDP . Parameter Number T ype From…T o S pecify the parameter for dif ferent Protocols. Number: Input Protocol Number . T ype: Input the service type of ICMP .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 49 3.6 IP Grouping BR-6641 of fers a variety of services. Thes e services will be discussed in the next chapter . In order to help IT manager configure service s efficiently , BR-6641 provides a few management tools. IP Grouping is one of them.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 50 IP Grouping: Feild Description Group Name Input the name of the group, then it will appear in the service menu and the relevant options.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 51 3.7 Service Grouping This function allows you to assign a name to a group o f TCP ports, UDP ports, and/or ICMP. Later on when you are asked to spec ify a port, you can use the name of the service group instead.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 52 UDP@ service menu. The format is port (xxx) for single Port and port (xxx-yyy) for a range of port, e.g. 6891-6900. Group belong to not belong to Define if the the Port IP Address in former Field belongs to the group. T able 3.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 53 Chapter 4 Service After having set up your network environment in the previous chapter , we will now look into the services provided by BR-6641. These services can help y ou manage your n etwork more ef ficiently and effectively .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 54 4.1 Firewall [Summary] is in the submenu of [System], which helps the Administrator to know the system information. While logging in the W eb UI, System/Summary is the first pag e you see when you log into BR-6641’ s web-based UI.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 55 Source Any address LAN WA N Localhost IP Address IP Range Subnet <Named IP addresses> < IP Grouping > Packets sent from the specified source will be matched: Any Address: Ma tch all packet s regardless of its source.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 56 < Service Grouping Name> Group: The packets from the group which are predefined in [Service Grouping]. Any: All packets are to be matched. Note: The default value by BR-6641 is to neglect all the packet s. Action Accept Deny Accept: The firewall will let the matched p ackets p ass through.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 57 4.2 Auto Routing Auto Routing service allows administrators to speci fy how traf fic is routed to W AN links. If you have only one W AN link, default config uration is ok. If you have multiple W AN links, you may like to setup your routing rules in m any situations.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 58 Source Any address LAN Local host IP Address IP Range Subnet <Named IP addresses> < IP Grouping > Packets sent from the specified source will be matched: Any Address: Ma tch all packet s regardless of its source. LAN: Match all packet s that come from the LAN.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 59 UDP@ < Service Grouping Name> Any service types (e.g. FTP), or you can choose the po rt number in TCP/UDP packet. T o specify a range of port numbers, type starting port number plus hyphen “-“and en ding port number .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 60 4.3 V irtual Server Virtual Serve r is a feature to make your intranet (LAN) servers available to the Internet (W AN). Be cause the private IP add resses assigned to th e intranet servers are invisible to the external environment.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 61 Virtual Server : Field V alue Description When Busy Idle All-T ime There are three options available: Bus y hour , idle hour , and All-times. Please refer to Chapter 2 [System] → [ Date/Time] for setting up the definition of busy or idle hours.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 62 4.4 QoS BR-6641 provides QoS to wards both inbound and outbound traf fic. It can ensure certain services whi ch are allocated enough ban dwidth to provide satisfa ctory quality . Because of the burst nature of voice/video/data traf fic, sometimes the amount of traffic excee ds the speed of a link.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 63 Y ou can configure your own bandwid th limit for each W AN link in Inbound Band width Settings and Outbound Settings by collap se or exp and them.. Figure 4.6 The Screenshot of Classes Classes: Field Description Name <Input name> The name for this bandwidth class.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 64 connections on the W AN link. Normally , we will set up maximum bandwidth for servic es like WWW or SMT P that have a high volume of traffic and may af fect the quality of other services.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 65 IP Range Subnet <Named IP addresses> < IP Grouping > the list as well. Please See [System] → [IP Grouping] for setting up your own IP groups.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 66 4.5 Per IP Max Connection Figure 4.7 The Location of “Service / Per IP Max Connection” on the Menu Bar This function is used to protect network against malicious att acks caused by virus or hackers.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 67 Log Interval <in seconds> The time interval used for system to write the event to the log file. Source <IP Address> Connections estab lished from the specified source will be matched, including Any Address, LAN, WAN, IP Address, IP Range, Subnet, and IP Group.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 68 4.6 Per IP Max Rate Control Figure 4.9 The Location of “Service / Per IP Ma x Rate Control” on the Menu Bar This function is use d to set the maximum bandwi dth a ssigned to inbound and outbound traf fic per IP in order to prev ent network congestion from non-bu siness application bandwid th consumption.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 69 Field V alue Description IP <IP Address> The IP where the packets come from will be matched, including LAN, IP Address, IP Range, IP Subnet, and specified IP Group. Inbound (Kbps) <value> Maximum bandwidth assigned to inbound traffic per IP .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 70 4.7 Multihoming Figure 4.1 1 The Location of “Serv ice / Multihoming” on the Menu Bar BR-6641’ s auto-ro uting service is a trunking technol ogy that provides load balan cing and fault tolerance for all outbound request s.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 71 are still reachable via other live W AN links. In order to let your Multihoming function properly , you must make sure that the requirement s listed below are met. Prerequisites for Multihoming: Multiple W AN links (at least two).
BR-6641 Us er Manual 72 Global Setting: Field V alue Description TTL <TTL> Set DNS query response time. IP Address <IP Address> Enter the reverse lookup IP address. Host Name <Link Number> Enter the corresponding F QDN to the reverse IP .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 73 Figure 4.12 Domain Setting Domain Setting: Field Description Domain Name Enter the domain names for Multihoming. T o ente r additional domain names, press +. TTL Assign DNS query response time. Responsible Mail Enter the domain administrator ’s email.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 74 Policy T ype The algorithm for selecting WAN links, by Wight or by T raf fic. By Weight: Answer DNS queries by the weight given to each link. By T otal T raf fic: Answer DNS queries by selecting the WAN link with the lightest total traf fic.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 75 4.8 Internal DNS Figure 4.13 The Location of “Service / Internal DNS” on the Men u Bar BR-6641 has a built-in DNS server function which can be activate d by completing the fields in this page. Global Settings: Field V alue Enable InternalDNS Turn on/of f internal DNS server .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 76 Domain Settings: Field Description Domain Name Enter the domain names for internal DNS. T o enter additional domain names, press +. TTL Assign DNS query response time. Responsible Mail Enter the domain administrator ’s email.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 77 4.9 SNMP Figure 4.14 The Location of “Service /SNMP” on the Menu Bar SNMP (Simpl e Network Management Protoc ol ) can be used to manage net works by providing stat istical data regarding network perfo rmance and se curity .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 78 4.10 UPnP Figure 4.15 The Location of “Service / UPnP” on the Menu Bar BR-6641 will detect the public UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) equipment in the network and automatically respon d to it s predefined IP Address. Field V alue Description Enable UPnP Enable Disable Enable or disable the function.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 79 Chapter 5 Log In this Chapter , you can control BR-6641’ s logging activities with repect to va rious functionalities such as the System, Firewa ll, Routing, etc.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 80 5.1 V iew In the ‘View’ Sub-menu, BR-6641 provides two types of comprehensive log re cords (see the tab le below). Administrator can pick the desired log type and the corresponding event s for that type will be shown in the windows below .
BR-6641 Us er Manual 81 5.2 Control With this sub-menu, you can set up how log data will b e transmitted to other servers (out of BR-6641) for archiving and further analy ses. T ransmi ssion methods includ e FTP , Email and Syslog. Each log type can hav e its own transmi ssion method sett ing.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 82 Method BR-6641 of fers three types of log transm issions: FTP out to an external FTP server , Syslog out to a syslog server o r send emails via SMTP to the administrator ’ s mailbox. E-mail Field V alue Description SMTP Server <IP> or <Domain Name> SMTP server for the logs.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 83 FTP Field V alue Description Server <IP> or <Domain Name> FTP Server ’s IP or domain name. Account <FTP Account> FTP user account. Password <Account’s Password> FTP user password. Path <Path> FTP server path.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 84 5.3 Notification In this sub-menu, you can set up ho w email notifications are sent out for import ant system event s. The setup is similar to pr evious section’ s email account settings.
BR-6641 Us er Manual 85 Link Fail Enable this function, system will notify administrator when a Link Fail happened. Admin Password Change Enable this function, system will notify administrator when Administrator password is changed.
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