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Web Interface User’s Guide
Allied Telesyn
AT-AR236E
ADSL Ethernet & USB Combo Router
Rev 1.0
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1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 3 1.1 Features ......................................................................................................................... 3 2. Your gateway at a glance ....................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Ports and buttons ..........................................................
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1. Introduction The AT-AR236E ADSL Ethernet & USB Combo Router is the perfect high-speed WAN bridge/router. This full-featured product is specifically designed to connect to the Internet and directly connect to your local area network via high speed 10/100 Mbps Ethernet. The ADSL Router also has full NAT firewall and DMZ services to block unwanted users from accessing your network. For game users, the ADSL Router is already pre configured for several low latency game ports. Just clic
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Management Support • Web Based HTTP management GUI • TFTP/FTP Support for Firmware Upgrade • Web Based Firmware Upgrade (Local) • Soft Factory Reset Button via Web GUI • Diagnostic Test (DSL, OAM, Network, Ping Test) • Telnet/CLI (Read Only) • Syslog Support Security Support • NAT for basic Firewall support • Packet Filtering Firewall Support • Stateful Packet Inspection Support • Protection against Denial of Service attacks • Password Authentication to Modem External Connect
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2. Your gateway at a glance The AT-AR236E ADSL Ethernet & USB Combo Router has several ports and LEDs. Let’s take a look at them. 2.1 Ports and buttons Reset and Restore to Factory Defaults: The restore to factory defaults feature will set the ADSL Router back to its factory default configuration. If you had forgotten the login password, you may need to place the ADSL Router into its factory default settings. Note that while the ADSL Router is resetting, you will loose the ability to i
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3. Installing your ADSL Router 1. Locate an optimum location for the ADSL Router. 2. For connections to the Ethernet and DSL interfaces, please refer to the easy start guide. 3. Connect the AC Power Adapter. Depending upon the type of network, you may want to put the power supply on an uninterruptible supply. Only use the power adapter supplied with the ADSL Router. A different adapter may damage the product. Now that the hardware installation is complete, proceed to Chap
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4. Setting up your ADSL Router This section will guide you through your ADSL Router’s configuration. The ADSL Router is shipped with a standard PPP configuration. 4.1 Log into your ADSL Router To configure your ADSL Router, open your web browser. You may get an error message at this point; this is normal. Do not panic!. Continue following these directions. Type the default IP address (192.168.1.1) Press the Enter key and the following screen, shown in Figure 1 will appear. The defa
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4.2 Quick Start The first screen (Figure 2) that appears (after the log in screen) is the Quick Start screen. Depending on the country that you reside in, some profiles had been preset for the VPI/VCI and type of encapsulation. For example, if you reside in New Zealand, click on the button for New Zealand and then click Next. The next screen will display the preset profile of VPI=0, VCI=100 and encapsulation type is PPPoA VC-MUX. If this is not correct, select Customise Settings and enter
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4.3 Setup (for advance user) From this screen the user can setup the ADSL Router (configure the LAN and WAN connection(s), configure the advanced configuration options within the ADSL Router (security, routing, and filtering), access tools that are helpful for debug purposes, obtain the status of the modem, and view the extensive online help. To setup your ADSL Router with a basic configuration, select Setup. Figure 3 illustrates the setup page. The page is broken into two subsections
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4.4 Configuring the WAN Before the gateway will pass any data between the LAN interface(s) and the WAN interface, the WAN side of the modem must be configured. Depending upon your DSL service provider or your ISP, you will need some (or all) of the information outlined below before you can properly configure the WAN: • Your DSL line VPI and VCI • Your DSL encapsulation type and multiplexing • Your DSL training mode (default is MMODE) • For PPPoA or PPPoE users, you also need these values
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Figure 4 (Bridge Connection Setup) To complete the connection you must now click the apply button. The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent, you need to click on Save Settings. At the system commands page, click on Save All. 4.4.1.2 PPPoA Connection Setup PPPoA is also known as RFC 2364. It is a method of encapsulating PPP packets over ATM cells which are carried over the DSL line. PPP or Point-to-Point protocol is a method o
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Following is a description of the different options: a. Username: The username for the PPPoA access; this is provided by your DSL service provider or your ISP. b. Password: The password for the PPPoA access; this is provided by your DSL service provider or your ISP. c. On-Demand: Enables on-demand mode. The connection will disconnect if no activity is detected after the specified idle timeout value. d. Idle Timeout: Specifies that PPPoA connection should disconnect if the link has no act
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4.4.1.3 PPPoE Connection Setup PPPoE is also known as RFC 2516. It is a method of encapsulating PPP packets over Ethernet. PPP or Point-to-Point protocol is a method of establishing a network connection/session between network hosts. It usually provides a mechanism of authenticating users. To configure the gateway for PPPoE, click on Setup and then click on New Connection. The default PPPoE connection setup is displayed. At the Type field select PPPoE and the PPPoE connection se
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Figure 6 (PPPOE Connection Setup) To complete the connection you must now click the apply button. The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Save Setting (at the side of the page). At the system commands page, click on Save All. 4.4.1.4 DHCP Connection Setup Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) allows the ADSL Router to automatically obtain the IP address from the server. This option is commonly used in situ
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Figure 7 (DHCP Connection Setup) To complete the connection you must now click the apply button. The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Save Settings (at the side of the page). At the system commands page, click on Save All. 4.4.1.5 Static Connection Setup Static is used whenever a known static IP is assigned. The accompanying information such as the Subnet mask and the gateway should also be specified. Up to th
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Figure 8 (Static IP Connection Setup) To complete the connection you must now click the apply button. The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Save Settings (at the side of the page). At the system commands page, click on Save All. 4.4.1.6 Classical IP over ATM (CLIP, defined in RFC1577) Connection Setup The Classical IP over ATM (CLIP) support provides the ability to transmit IP packets over an ATM network, CL
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Figure 9 (CLIP Connection Setup) To complete the connection you must now click the apply button. The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Save Settings (at the side of the page). At the system commands page, click on Save All. 4.4.2 Modify an Existing Connection To modify an existing connection, click setup and then click the connection you want to modify. The connections are listed as Connection 0 through
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4.5 Configuring the LAN By default, your ADSL Router has DHCP server (LAN side) enabled. If you already have a DHCP server running on your network, you must disable one of the two DHCP servers; if you plug a second DHCP server into the network, you will experience network errors and the network will not function normally. 4.5.1 Enable/Disable DHCP To enable or disable DHCP, Click setup. Under LAN Setup, select DHCP Configuration. This will bring up the screen shown in Figure 10.
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In addition to the DHCP server feature, the ADSL Router supports the DHCP relay function. When the ADSL Router is configured as DHCP server, it assigns the IP addresses to the LAN clients. When the ADSL Router is configured as DHCP relay, it is responsible for forwarding the requests and responses negotiating between the DHCP clients and the server. See figure 11. Figure 11 (Example of a DHCP Relay configuration) By turning off the DHCP server and relay the network administrator
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The hostname can be any alphanumeric word that does not contain spaces. The domain name is used in conjunction with the host name to uniquely identify the gateway. To access the ADSL Router’s web pages the user can type 192.168.1.1 (the default IP address) or type mygateway.ar7. Figure 12 (Management IP address) The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Save Settings (at the side of the page). At the system commands p
