Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product WBR-6012 LevelOne
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1 LevelOne User Man ual Ve r. 1 .0 WBR- 6012 300Mbps W irele ss Router.
2 Safet y FCC W A RNING This eq uipment may generat e or use ra dio fr equency energ y . Chang es or modific ations to thi s eq uipment may cause h ar mful int er ference u nles s the modific ations are ex pressl y appr oved i n the i nstructi on m anual.
3 General Pub lic Licen se This prod uct incor po rat es open s ource c ode into t he so ftw are and there fore falls un der th e gui delin es gov erned by the G eneral Publi c Lice nse ( GPL) agreeme nt.
4 T abl e of Contents Chapter 1 Intr oducti on ........................................................................... 5 1.1 Pack ing Li st ................................................................................. 5 1.2 S pec Summary T abl e .
5 C C C h h h a a a p p p t t t e e e r r r 1 1 1 I I I n n n t t t r r r o o o d d d u u u c c c t t t i i i o o o n n n Congratul ations on your purc hase of this outstanding W ireless Broadband Router . This product is specif ically des igned f or Sm all Office and H ome O ffice needs.
6 W MM W MM (W i - Fi Multim edia) ● Function ality Etherne t WAN PPP oE, DHCP clien t, S tatic IP ● WA N Connec tion Auto - reconn ect, di al - on - demand, manually ● One - to - Many NA T V ir.
7 1.3 Hardw ar e Configura tion L ED I n dicato rs Po w er LE D Power J ACK WA N P ORT LAN POR T Antenna LAN LED W iF i L E D WAN LED 3 in1 Button: 1. W PS 2.
8 1.4 LED i ndicat ors LED status Descripti on Status Green in f lash Device stat us is work ing. W AN LE D Green RJ45 c able is plugged Green in f lash Data acces s LAN LED Green RJ45 c able is plugg.
9 1.6 Procedure for Hardw ar e Inst allation Step 1 I nsert the Ethernet cabl e into LAN Port: Insert the Etherne t patc h cable int o LAN por t on the bac k panel of Route r, and an avai lable Et hernet port o n the net work adapter in the computer you wil l use to c onf igure the u nit.
10 Step 4 . Co mplete the se tup. W hen complete, t he Status LED will flas h..
1 1 C C C h h h a a a p p p t t t e e e r r r 2 2 2 M M M a a a k k k i i i n n n g g g C C C o o o n n n f f f i i i g g g u u u r r r a a a t t t i i i o o o n n n This pr oduct pro vides W eb based c onfigur ation s chem e, that is, configur ing b y your W eb browser , such as Mozi lla Fir efox or or Internet Explorer.
12 2 .1 Logi n to Configure fr om EZSetu p Insert the CD int o CD reader on your PC . T he pr ogram , AutoRun, will be exec ut ed autom aticall y. And then you can c lick the Eas y setup Ic on for th is utili ty. Configure the sett ings by the following steps.
13 2.3 Advanced mode Setup. Check the PC, Router or Internet icons for th e S ta tus o f PC , Route r or Inte rne t. 2.4 Quick Wizard Install mode Setup 1. Make sure the router is pow ered on. 2. M a ke sure your networ k adapter is connected to the LAN po rt of the router 3.
14 2.5 . Wireless Set ting. Key in the SSID, Channel and Security options, and then c lick “ Next ” f or continues. 2.6 Auto Detect WA N Service. C lick “ Next ” for c ontinue. Click t he button, “ Let m e select W AN s ervice by mysel f ” , to disabl e this f unctio n.
15 Example , the Dynam ic W AN type is detected. 2.7. Manual select WAN Serv ice I n the m anual m ode, Click the a ny icons f or continues . 2.8 Summary of the settings and Ne xt to “ Reboot ” C lick “ Ne xt ” f or continue.
16 2.9 Apply the S et ting s or M odi fy. C lick “ Ne xt ” f or continue. 2.10 Test the I nternet connection. T est W AN Network ing ser vice. C lic k “ N ext ” for c ontinue.
17 2.11 Setup Completed. The E zSetup is fin ish, you c an open the default web bro wser to configure ad vanced settings of the R outer. C lick “ Finis h ” to com plete the ins tallatio n.
18 2 .2 Login to Configur e fr om W izard T y pe in the IP Addre ss ( http://192. 168.1. 1 ) T y pe pass word, the default is “ adm in” and clic k ‘login’ button. Press “W izard” f or basic settings with simple wa y. Press “ Next” to s tart wi zard.
19 Step 1 : Set up your s y stem pas sword. Step 2: Select W an T ype. Auto Det ecting or Setup Manu all y..
20 Step 3: Setup the L AN IP a nd W AN T y pe. Step 4: Pleas e fil l in PPPoE service inform ation wh ich is pr ovid ed b y yo ur I S P . Exam ple: Step 5: Set up your W ireless.
21 Set up your Authentic ation and Encryptio n. Step 6: Then clic k Appl y Setting . And then th e dev ice wil l reboot. Step 7: Click F inish to c omplete it.
22 2.3 System S tatus This optio n provi des the f unction for obs erving this produc t’s working s tatus: WAN S tatus. I f the WAN port is as signed a d ynam ic IP , there m ay appear a “ R enew ” or “ Release ” butt on on the Siden ote co lumn.
23 2.4 Advanced 2.4 .1 Basic S etti ng Please Select “Ad vanced Setup” t o Setu p.
24 2.4 .1.1 Prim ary Set up – WAN Type, Virtual Compu ters Press “Cha nge” This optio n is prim ar y to enable t his produc t to work properly . T he sett ing item s and the web appearanc e depend on the WAN type. Choose correct WAN type before you start.
25 B. Dynam ic IP Address: O btain an I P address f rom ISP autom aticall y . C. PPP over Et hernet: Som e ISPs r equir e the us e of PPPoE to c onnect to th eir servi ces. D. PPTP: Som e ISPs r equire the use of PPTP to conne ct to their s ervices . F.
26 PPP ov er Ethernet: So me ISPs require the use of PPPoE to conne ct to their se r vice s. PPPoE Account and Pass word: th e accou nt and pass word your ISP assigne d to you . For securit y , this field a ppear s blank . If you don't w ant to cha nge the password, l eave it em pty .
27 PPTP: Some ISP s require the use o f PPTP to connect to thei r services First, Please check your IS P assigned an d Selec t S tatic I P A ddress or D ynamic IP Addres s. 1. My IP Addres s and M y Subnet Mask : the pri vate IP addres s and su bnet m ask your ISP assigned t o you.
28 Auto - R econnec t(Alwa ys - on) :The dev ice will l ink w ith ISP until the c onnec tion is es tablished . Manuall y: The device will not m ak e the link until som eone cl ick s the connect - butt on in th e S taus - page.
29 4. Maxim um Idle Ti me: the tim e of no activit y to dis connect your PPT P session. Set it to zero or enable A uto - recon nect t o di sable this f eatur e. If A uto - re connect is enabl ed , this pro duct will connect t o ISP autom atically , after s ystem is restarted or connect ion is dro pped.
30 V irtual Com puters (Onl y for Static and dynamic IP addres s W an type) Virtual Com puter enab les you to use t he or iginal NA T feature, and a llows you to setup the one - to - one m appi ng of m ultiple glob al I P addres s and l ocal IP addres s.
31 2.4 .1.2 DH CP Serv er Press “More>>” 1. DHCP Server : Choos e “Dis able” or “ Enable.” 2. Lease time : This is the length of tim e that the cl ient m ay use the I P address it has been Assigned b y dhcp s erver .
32 2.4. 1. 3 Wireless Setting W ireless settings allo w you to set t he wir eless c onfigur ation i tems . Wireless Radio: The user can tur n on or off W ireless Service .
33 The wirel ess c lients can k no w how m an y ap device s b y scann ing func tion in the network . Theref ore, This fu nction is dis abled, th e wire less cli ents can not f ind th e device f rom beacons . Channel : The radio c hann el num ber . T he perm issible chan nels depend o n the Regula tory Dom ain.
34 Securi ty : Se lect the data pr ivacy al gorithm you want . Enab ling the s ecur ity can pr otect your data while it is transf erred f rom one station to ano ther .
35 W PA - PSK 1. Select Encr y p tion and Pr e - share K ey Mode If y ou se lect HEX , you hav e to fill in 64 h exadecim al ( 0, 1, 2…8 , 9, A, B…F) di gits If ASCII, the lengt h of pre - share k ey is fr om 8 to 63.
36 W PA Check Box was us ed to s witch the f unction of the W P A. W hen the W P A f unction is ena ble d , the W ireles s us er m ust authentica te to this r outer firs t to us e the Network ser vice. RADIUS Server I P address or th e 80 2.1X ser ver ’s dom ain - nam e.
37 2. Fill in t he ke y, Ex 12345 678 W P A2 ( AE S ) Check Box was us ed to s witch the f unction of the W P A. W hen the W P A f unction is ena bled, the W ireles s us er m ust authentica te to this r outer firs t to us e the Network ser vice. RADIUS Server IP address or the 802 .
38 W P A/ W PA2 Check Box was us ed to s witch the f unction of the W P A. W hen the W P A f unction is ena bled, the W ireles s us er m ust authentica te to this router firs t to us e the Network ser vice. RADIU S Server The router will det ect au tom atically wh ich Secur ity type(W pa - psk version 1 or 2) the c lient uses to e ncr ypt.
39 W ireless Clien t List 2.4 .1.4 Chang e Passw ord Y o u can ch ange P assword here. W e strongly recommend you to ch ange th e system password f or secur ity reaso n.
40 2.4 .2.1 Virt ual Se rv er This pr oduct’s NA T fir ewall f ilters out unrec ogni zed pack ets to protect your Int ranet, so all hosts behin d this pro duct are invis ible to t he outsi de wo rld. If you wish, you ca n m ake s ome of them ac cess ible by enab ling the Virtual Ser ver Mapp ing.
41 2.4.2 .2 Special AP Some applications require multip le connect ions, like Interne t gam es, Video conf erencin g, Internet te lepho ny , et c. Bec ause of the f irewal l functio n, thes e appl ications canno t wor k with a pure NA T rout er . T he Special Application s f eature a llows som e of thes e applicat ions to work with this product.
42 2.4 .2 .3 M iscellaneo us Ite ms IP Address of DMZ Host DMZ ( DeMilitarized Z one) Host is a hos t without the pr otection of firewa ll. It allo ws a com puter to be expos ed to unrestric ted 2 - way comm unic ation for Internet gam es , Video conf erencing, Internet te lepho ny and oth er s pecial ap plicati ons.
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44 2.4 .3 Secur ity Sett ings.
45 2.4 .3.1 Pac ket Filte rs Pack et Filter ena bles you to contr ol wh at pack ets are allowed t o pass the r outer . Outbound filter ap plies on a ll outb ound pack ets. However , I nbou nd filt er appl ies on pack ets that destined to Virtual Ser vers or D MZ hos t only .
46 For sourc e or des tina tion IP addr ess, you can define a s ingle IP addres s (4.3 .2.1) or a ra nge of IP addresses (4.3.2.1 - 4.3.2 .254). A n em pty impli es all I P address es. For sourc e or dest ination p ort, you can def ine a s ingle por t (80) or a ran ge of por ts (1000 - 1999) .
47 (1.2.3.100 - 1.2.3 .149) Rem ote hos ts are allo w to send m ail (port 25), and bro wse the In ternet (port 80) (1.2.3.10 - 1.2.3. 20) Rem ote hos ts can do e veryth ing (bl ock nothing) Others ar e all bl ock ed.
48 To enabl e Outbound Packet Filte r click the check box nex t to Enable in th e Outbound Packet Filt er f ield. Example 1: Router L AN IP is 192. 168.
49 Example 2: Router L AN IP is 192. 168.12. 254 ( 192 .16 8. 12 .100 and 1 92 .16 8.1 2 .1 1 9) Locat ed Hosts c an do e verything except r ead net n ews (port 1 19) and transf er f iles via FT P (port 21) Others ar e allo wed After Outbound Pack et Filter setting is c onfigur ed, cli ck the sav e butto n.
50 2.4 .3.2 Dom ain filters Domain Fil ter L et you pre vent us ers un der this de vice f rom ac cess ing specif ic URLs. Domain Fil ter Enable Check if y ou want to enabl e Dom ain Filter . Log DNS Query Check if y ou want to log th e action when som eone acces ses the s pecific U RLs.
51 Domain Su ffix A s uffix of U RL to be restr icted. For exam ple, ".com ", "x xx.c om". Acti on W hen someone is acces sing the UR L m et the dom ain - suffix , what k ind of actio n you want. Check drop to bloc k the ac ces s. Check log to log thes e acces s.
52 In this ex ample: 1. URL include “ www .m sn.com ” will be b lock ed, and th e ac tion will be recor d in log - file . 2. URL include “ www .sin a.com ” will not be block ed, but the act ion wi ll be recor d in l og - f ile. 3. URL include “ www .
53 The m ajor differenc e between “D omain f ilter” and “URL Block ing” is Dom ain f ilter requ ire user to input s uffix (lik e .com or .org, etc) , while UR L Blocking r equire user to input a k eyword on ly .
54 In this ex ample: 1. URL includ e “m sn” will b e block ed, and t he actio n will be record i n log - file . 2. URL includ e “sina” will b e block ed, but the ac tion will be rec ord in log.
55 2.4 .3.4 MAC contr ol A dministrator MAC Control Regardles s the M AC acces s configurati on of adm inistrator , s pecif ic MAC c an acc ess the device. This devic e can rec ord 3 s ets. W hen the hos t(should b e adm in) logins W eb m anagem ent, the device w ill record MAC ad dres s of this host.
56 MAC Addr ess Con trol al lows you to as sign d ifferent ac cess r ight for d ifferent us ers and t o assign a s pecific IP addres s to a certain MAC ad dress. M A C A ddress Control Check “Enable” to ena ble t he “MAC Ad dress Control”. All of the settin gs in t his page will take eff ect onl y when “Enable” is check ed.
57 Control t able "Control tab le" is the tabl e at the b ottom of the "M AC Address Control" page. Eac h row of this table indicates th e M AC addres s and the expect ed IP addr ess mapping of a c lient. There ar e f our colum ns in this tab le: M AC A dd ress MAC addr ess ind icates a specif ic client.
58 In this s cenar io, there are t hree clie nts list ed in th e Co ntrol T able. Cl ients 1 and 2 are wireles s, and clie nt 3 is wired. 1.The "M AC Addr ess Contr ol" f unction is enable d.
59 are all al lowed to connec t to th is device. But c lient 1 is denied to connec t to th is dev ice. 6. Clients 1 and 2 are all owed to ass ociate to t he wir eless LAN, b ut a wireles s c lient with a MAC addres s not spec ified in the Contro l table is denied to as socia te to the w ireless LAN.
60 Internet. Cur rentl y , t he rout er can de tect th e follo wing DoS attack: S YN Attack , W inNuke, Port Scan, Pi ng of D eath, La nd Attack et c. VPN P PTP and I PSec Pas s - Through Virtual Private Networ king ( VPN) is t ypicall y used f or wor k - related networ king.
61 2.4 .4 A dv anced Settings.
62 2.4 .4.1 S ystem Time G et Date and T ime by NTP Protocol Selected if you want to Get Date and T im e by NTP Protocol. Time Serv er Select a NT P time ser ver to c onsult UT C tim e Time Z one Select a t ime zone where t his de vice loc ates. Set Date and T ime manually Selected if you want to Set Date and T im e manually .
63 2.4 .4.2 System Log This page s upport t wo m ethods to export s ystem logs to s pecific des tina tion b y means of syslog(UD P) and SMTP( TCP). T he items you have t o setup includ ing: IP Address for Syslog Host IP of dest ination where s yslogs will be se nt to.
64 2.4 .4.3 Dyna mi c DNS To host your s erver on a c hang ing IP address , you hav e to use d ynamic domain n am e service (DDNS). So that an yone wishing to reach your hos t onl y needs to k now the nam e of it.
65 2. 4 .4.4 QoS This devic e supp orts QoS f unc tion. User could set spe cified ups tream connec tion with differ ent priorit y. Ther e are three pr iori ties co uld be se lected. T he pac kets with High pri orit y would be pr ocess ed first. 1. QoS: Qualit y of Service.
66 2.4 .4. 5 SNM P In brief , SNMP , the S im ple Network Managem ent Prot ocol, is a protoc ol des igned to g ive a user the capab ilit y to remotel y m anage a com puter net work by poll ing and s etting ter m inal values and m onitor ing net wor k events.
67 2.4 .4. 6 Routing Routing T ables allow you to deter mine whic h ph ysical interfac e addres s to use for outg oing I P data gram s. If you have m ore than on e router s and s ubnets, you will nee d to en able ro uting table to allo w packets to f ind proper routing path and al low different s ubnets to com municate with each other .
68 Configura tion o n NA T Rout er Destinati on SubnetMask Gateway Hop Enabled 192.168. 1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168 .123.21 6 1 ˇ 192.168. 0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168 .123.10 3 1 ˇ So if, f or exam ple, the c lient3 wanted to s end a n IP data gram to 192.
69 2.4 .4. 7 Schedule Rule Y o u can s et the sched ule t ime to d ecide which ser vic e will be turned on or off. Select the “enable” i tem . Press “ Add New R ule” Y o u can write a ru le nam e and set whic h day and wh at tim e to schedule fr om “S tart T ime” to “End T ime”.
70 one automat ically . Schedul e Rule ca n be ap ply to Virtual s erver a nd Pack et Fi lter , f or exam ple: Exanple 1: Virtual Serv er – Apply Rule# 1 (ftp tim e: ever yday 14 :2 0 to 16:3 0) Exanple 2: Packet Filter – App ly Rule# 1 (ftp tim e: ever yday 14: 2 0 to 16: 3 0).
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72 2.4 .5 T oolbox 2.4 .5.1 View Log Y o u can View s ystem log by clic king the View Log button.
73 2.4 .5.2 Fi rmware Up grade Y o u can upgr ade f irm ware by clic king Fi rmw are Upg rade bu tton. 2.4 .5.3 Backu p Sett ing Y o u can bac kup your setti ngs b y click ing the Backup Setting button and s ave it as a bin f ile. Once you want to r estore t hese sett ings, please cl ick Firmw are Up grad e butto n and use the bin file you saved.
74 2.4 .5.5 Reboot Y o u can als o rebo ot this pr oduct b y clic king the Reboot button. 2.4 .5.6 M iscellan eous Ite ms M AC A ddress fo r Wake - on - LAN W ake - on - LAN is a t echnolo gy that enables you to po wer up a network ed de vice rem otel y .
75 A A A p p p p p p e e e n n n d d d i i i x x x A A A F F F A A A Q Q Q a a a n n n d d d T T T r r r o o o u u u b b b l l l e e e s s s h h h o o o o o o t t t i i i n n n g g g What can I do when I hav e some trouble at the first t ime? 1.
76 W hatever I setup, t he pc can not get ip. P lease chec k S tatus Led and ref er to th e Q2: 2. Why can I not connect the router even if the cable is plugged in Lan port and the led is light? A: F irst, pleas e chec k S tatus Led. If the de vice is norm al, the led will blink per sec ond.
77 5 .When I u se S tat ic I P Add ress to ro am In ternet , I can acce ss or p ing global IP 202. 93.91 .218 , But I can not access the site that input s domain name, fo r examp le ht tp://espn.com ? A: Pl ease ch eck the dns conf iguratio n of S tatic IP Ad dr ess.
78 If the c lient can not acces s your wire less rou ter , pleas e refr esh net work list agai n. Ho wever , I still can n ot fine the de vice w hich ssid is “d efau lt”, ple ase r efer to Q 3. Choose the one that you will want to connect and C onnect: If suc cessf ully , the c omput er will sho w and get ip f rom router: 2.
79 correct pre - share key ? A: First, you mus t check if the driver of wirel ess c lient supports AES encryptio n . Please refer to the belo w: If SSID is def ault and c lick “ Properties ” to c heck if the dr iver of wireles s client supports AES encr yption.
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