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2. _ C_ _ _ _ Terminate Sessions F bl on Link Recovery Enable Save Cancel http www peplink com 169 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f P INK Business Continuity C 2 Maintaining the Same IP Address throughout a Session C 2 1 Scenario Some client IP address sensitive web sites for example Internet banking use both client IP address and cookies matching for session identification Since different IP addresses are used during the load balancing the session is dropped when a mismatching IP is detected C 2 2 Solution Make use of the Persistency functionality of Peplink Balance With Persistence is configured and the option By Destination is selected Peplink Balance uses a consistent WAN connection for source destination pairs of IP addresses and prevents sessions from being dropped With Persistence is configured and the option By Source is selected Peplink Balance uses a consistent WAN connection for same source IP addresses This option offers even higher application compatibility but the outbound traffic load will be distributed more evenly only if more users use the Internet C 2 3 Settings Set persistence in Network gt Outbound Policy gt Managed by Custom Rules Click Add Rule select HTTP TCP port 80 for web service and select Persistence HTTP Persistence Service Name iQ HTTP Persistence Any Any v TC
3. The Peplink Balance 380 580 710 and 1350 with a suite of advanced enterprise class features make ideal single box solutions for medium to large sized business environments and allow service providers to enable highly available multi network services This manual applies to the following Peplink Balance products e Peplink Balance 20 30 firmware version v5 3 x Will be available in June 2011 e Peplink Balance 210 310 firmware version v5 3 x e Peplink Balance 380 firmware version v5 3 x e Peplink Balance 580 firmware version v5 3 x o Peplink Balance 710 firmware version v5 3 x e Peplink Balance 1350 firmware version v5 3 x The manual presents how to set up Peplink Balance and provides a collection of case studies involving advanced features of Peplink Balance Important Note to Users Upgrading from Firmware 4 7 or below If your current firmware version is 4 7 or below please upgrade to Firmware 4 8 2 first before upgrading to Firmware 5 3 Important Note to Users of Peplink Balance 30 Classic Edition Firmware 5 0 or above is NOT applicable to Peplink Balance 30 Classic Edition For more information of identifying the generation of your Peplink Balance 30 please visit our knowledge base at lt http www peplink com index php view faq amp id 231 amp path 16 gt http www peplink com Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series 2 Glossary The following terms acronyms an
4. Service Ports Port Range traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol at the Port specified port range is forwarded via the same respective ports to the LAN hosts specified by the Servers setting For example with IP Protocol set to TCP and Port set to Port Range and Service Port 80 88 TCP traffic received on ports 80 through 88 is forwarded to the configured servers via the respective ports Port Mapping Service Port Map to Port Port Mapping traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol at the specified port is forwarded via a different port to the servers specified by the Servers setting For example with IP Protocol set to TCP and Port set to Port Mapping Service Port 80 and Map to Port 88 TCP traffic on Port 80 is forwarded to the configured servers via Port 88 Please see below for details on the Servers setting Port a Range Mapping Service Ports Map to Ports Range Mapping traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol at the specified port range is forwarded via a different port to the servers specified by the Servers setting Inbound IP This setting specifies the WAN connections and Internet IP address es from which the service Address es can be accessed Server IP This setting specifies the LAN IP address of the server that handles the requests for the Address service http www peplink com 80 182 C
5. 112 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink ert USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity 16 4 2 1 Create Account Create Account Generate Accounts Generate 2011 03 24 oo 00 7 Create With this method only one account will be created each time Create Account Name This Is to specify a name for the created account for management use Email Address Username This is to specify the username of the guest account Password This Is to specify the password of the guest account Change Password at With the box checked user who uses this account to access will need to First Login change the password at first login With the box checked an expiry date can be specified This guest account will Expiry Date expire when time reach This is to enable the feature of sending an email regarding the login information Send Login i l l E Email must be set to use with this feature For details please refer to section Information to Email 16 3 4 16 4 2 2 Generate Accounts Create Account Generate Accounts test 10 52 141124 00 HHH MM E 2011 03 24 00 00 Generate With this method multiple accounts will be created in batch with the same settings http www peplink com 113 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink ee USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity Generate A
6. 171 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series i P INK Business Continuity C 4 Inbound Access Restriction C 4 1 Scenario A firewall is required in order to protect the network from potential hacker attacks and other Internet security threats C 4 2 Solution Firewall functionality is built into Peplink Balance By default inbound access is unrestricted Enabling a basic level of protection involves setting up firewall rules For example to set up a firewall rule between the Internet and the private network that monitors Web access from Internet click the Add Rule button in the Inbound Firewall Rules table and then change the settings according to the following screenshot New Firewall Rule Oil tcp HTTP Enable AO Any Address Any Port v AE Any Address Single Port Port 80 Action Allow Deny Event Logging Cancel Save After the fields have been entered as in the screenshot click Save to add the rule Then change the default inbound rule to Deny by clicking the default rule in the Inbound Firewall Rules table http www peplink com 172 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series i P INK Business Continuity C 5 Outbound Access Restriction C 5 1 Scenario For security reasons it may be appropriate to disallow LAN users to use ftp to transfer files to and from the Internet or ot
7. NAT PMP as mentioned in Section 14 4 External amp Internal Internal Address ype Description 3392 192 168 1 100 UPnP Application 031 11265 192 168 1 50 NAT PMP NAT PMP 58 3560 192 166 1 20 UPnP Application 013 236 192 168 1 30 UPNP Application 047 192 168 1 70 NAT PMP NAT PMP 97 192 168 1 40 UPnP Application 004 Delete All Click the button x to delete the single UPnP NAT PMP record in its corresponding row To delete all records click Delete All on the right hand side below the table Important Note UPnP NAT PMP records would be deleted immediately after clicking the button _X or Delete All without the need to click Save or Confirm http www peplink com 160 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 21 8 Event Log Event Log information is located at Status gt Event Log 21 8 1 Device Event Log Device Event Log AP Event Log Mar 29 12 16 19 S25 VPN Headqueaters Connected Mar 29 12 16 13 WAN WAN2 Connected Mar 29 12 16 05 525 VPN Branchi Disconnected Mar 29 12 15 58 525 VPN Headquarters Disconnected Mar 29 10 45 11 System Changes Applied Mar 28 14 23 25 WAN WAN Disconnected Health Check Failed Mar 28 14 23 11 WAN1 Disconnected Manual The log section displays a list of events that has taken place on the Peplink Balance unit Click the Refresh button to retrieve log entries again Click the Clear
8. Peplink Balance Multi WAN Routers Model 20 30 210 310 380 580 710 1350 UserManual Firmware 5 3 May 2011 Copyright amp Trademarks Specifications are subject to change without prior notice Copyright 2011 Peplink International Ltd All Rights Reserved Peplink and the Peplink logo are trademarks of Peplink International Ltd Other brands or products mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE ceececccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccsccccccsccccccccscccccccesecccsssecsccsceseccccs 5 2 GLOSSARY AA 6 3 PRODUCT COMPARISON CHART eceeececcccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccscccccccccccccscsccccsccssccscccsecsccsceseccecs 7 4 PRODUCT FEATURES cecccecccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccscsccccccsesccccsesscscscsesscccsesecccsesesecccssseccece 11 4 1 Supported Nethvork Restless misa aii a is EA 11 4 Other Supported Salesiana 12 5 PACKAGE CONTENTS ceececccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccsccccscscsccccsssecccscsesecccsscecscsesecsccccssecsece 13 5 1 Peplink Balance 201 Miercoles otras 13 5 2 Peplink Balance 21072108 e ue net nie nec a niet ete 13 5 3 Peplink Balance 380 5807 7101 1350 e ce tore ne eee tien ne ne ie ree cie 13 6 PEPLINK BALANCE OVERVIEW ceccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccscccccccccccccscsccccccsccccccscsccccscsecscccsss
9. Power Connector Kensington Security Slot 6 2 4 Unit Base Appearance Serial Number and LAN MAC Address r 5 Peplink Balance 30 oe Product Codo BPL 031 ink Senal 1820 1093 7081 LAN MAC 10 56 C4 60 13 30 bip rr pepe oom http www peplink com 17 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 6 3 Peplink Balance 210 6 3 1 Front Panel Appearance WAN Ports Status LED pep 2 E Balance210 Reset Button LAN Ports Power LED 6 3 2 LED Indicators The statuses indicated by the Front Panel LEDs are as follows Power and Status Indicators OFF Power off Power Green Power on OFF System initializing Status Red Booting up or busy Green Ready state LAN and WAN Ports ON 100 Mbps Green LED OFF 10 Mbps Solid Port is connected without traffic Yellow LED Blinking Data is transferring OFF Port is not connected Port Type Auto MDI MDI X ports http www peplink com 18 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 6 3 3 Rear Panel Appearance Power Connector 6 3 4 Unit Base Appearance Peplink Balance 210 nt Sena 1824 613D 4539 LAN MAC 10 56 CA 03 DE DC Detail Acer Limara s ran hapita 108 A arar pa 13 DG Mack E EN o ances Serial Number and LAN MAC Address http
10. UDP ICMP or IP Traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol at the specified port s is forwarded to the LAN hosts specified by the Servers setting IP Protocol Please refer below for details on the Port and Servers settings Alternatively the Protocol Selection Tool drop down menu can be used to automatically fill in the Protocol and a single Port number of common Internet services e g HTTP HTTPS etc After selecting an item from the Protocol Selection Tool drop down menu the Protocol and Port number remains manually modifiable The Port setting specifies the port s that correspond to the service and can be configured to behave in one of the following manners Any Port Single Port Port Range Port Map and Range Mapping Any Port all traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol is forwarded to the servers specified by the Servers setting For example with IP Protocol set to TCP and Port set to Any Port all TCP traffic is forwarded to the configured servers D Single Port Service Port Single Port traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol at the specified port is forwarded via the same port to the servers specified by the Servers setting For example with IP Protocol set to TCP and Port set to Single Port and Service Port 80 TCP traffic received on Port 80 is forwarded to the configured servers via Port 80 Fort Range
11. 17 3 1 Application Prioritization For Peplink Balance 20 30 210 and 310 Three priority levels can be set for application prioritization High Normal and Low Peplink Balance can detect various application traffics by inspecting the packets content Select an application by choosing a supported application or by defining a custom application manually The priority preference of supported applications is placed at the top of the table Custom applications are at the bottom Application Priority Normal For Peplink Balance 380 580 710 and 1350 You can choose whether to apply the same Prioritization settings to all user groups or customize the settings for each group Application Prioritization Apply same settings to all users Customize Three priority levels can be set for application prioritization High Normal and Low Peplink Balance supports detect various application traffics by inspecting the packets content Select an application by choosing a supported application or by defining a custom application manually The priority preference of supported applications is placed at the top of the table Custom applications are at the bottom Application Priority http www peplink com 123 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 17 3 2 Prioritization for Custom Applica
12. pep Dashboard Setup Wizard Network System Status Click Next to begin Setup Wizard gt WAN Setup gt Step 1 Welcome to Setup Wizard The Setup Wizard will guide you through the WAN port s configuration step by step This wizard is designed to simplify the process in configuring your device and connecting it to the Internet Click Next to begin Select YES if you want to set up Drop in mode in Setup Wizard Note Drop in mode is available on Peplink Balance 210 Setup Wizard gt WAN Setup gt Step 2 O Do you want to setup drop in mode Yes No Which WAN port do you want to enable drop in mode WANT Click on the appropriate check box es to select the WAN connection s to be configured If you have chosen to configure Drop in mode in Setup Wizard the box of WAN port that is to be configured in Drop in mode will be checked by default Setup Wizard gt WAN Setup gt Step 3 Choose the WAN port s to be configured CEC Eoo lal wan Mobile Internet E Mobile Internet connection is available on Peplink Balance 20 30 380 http www peplink com 37 1 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f P INK Business Continuity If Drop in mode is going to be configured Setup Wizard will move on to Drop in Settings Setup Wizard gt WAN Setup gt Step 4 Enter the parameters of Drop in Settings for WAN 1 p aadress Subnet Mask 255 255
13. provide redundancy and failover in a master slave arrangement From a high level in the event that the Master Unit is down the Slave Unit becomes active High Availability will be disabled automatically where there is a Drop in connection configured on a LAN Bypass port The following diagram illustrates an HA configuration with two Peplink Balance 210 units and two Internet connections Internet Router _ WANT Master ADSL Cable Modem 2 d Slave Local Area Network S In the diagram the WAN ports on each Peplink Balance unit connect to the router and modem and Peplink Balance unit connects to the same LAN switch via a LAN port An elaboration on the technical details of the implementation by Peplink Balance of Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol VRRP RFC 3768 follows e In an HA configuration the two Peplink Balance units communicate with each other using VRRP over the LAN e The two Peplink Balance units broadcast heartbeat signals to the LAN at a frequency of one heartbeat signal per second e In the event that no heartbeat signal from the Master Peplink Balance unit is received in 3 seconds or longer since the last heartbeat signal the Slave Peplink Balance unit becomes active e The Slave Peplink Balance unit initiates the WAN connections and binds to a previously configured LAN IP address e Ata subsequent point when the Master Peplink Balance unit recovers it will once again become ac
14. 1000 500 2000 1000 5000 Router Throughput 50M 50M 50M 50M 170M 250M 350M 1500M Core Functionality Load Balancing amp Failover Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Load Balancing Algorithms 5 5 7 7 7 7 7 7 e Weighted Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes e Enforced Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes e Persistence Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes e Priority Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes e Overflow Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes e Least Used X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes e Lowest Latency X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Drop In Mode X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Inbound Load Balancing X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes http www peplink com Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pepiink Business Continuity 3G Modem Support Yes Yes X X Yes Yes Yes Yes VPN Functionality Site to Site VPN Bonding X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Number of S2S VPN Peers X X 2 2 20 50 300 800 Bonded VPN Throughput X X 30M 30M 60M 80M 150M 350M PPTP VPN Server X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes PS HA X X 15 15 50 100 200 500 ites pkey SUPPORTO X X X X Yes Yes Yes Yes WLAN Control Functionality Manage Pepwave AP One X X X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Access Point Configuration X X X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Number of AP Support X X X X 50 100 250 500 Advanced QoS Functionality Bandwidth Usage Monitor X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes QoS for VoIP and E Commerce Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Application Prioritization X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes pan E by x x x x vie Ves vee
15. 255 0 24 DNS Servers DNS server 1 DNS server 2 Upload Bandwidth 100 Mbps Download Bandwidth 100 Mbps Select the connection type for WAN connection s from the following screen Setup Wizard gt WAN Setup gt Step 3 Choose a connection method for WAN1 Depending on the selection of connection type further configuration may be needed For example PPPOE and Static IP require additional settings for the selected WAN port Please refer to Section 10 Configuration of WAN Interface s for details on setting up DHCP Static IP and PPPOE If Mobile Internet Connection is checked Setup Wizard will move on to Operator settings Setup Wizard gt WAN Setup gt Step 3 Select whether Operator Settings for Mobile Internet will be automatically detected or customized If Custom Mobile Operator Settings is selected APN parameters are required to be entered Some service providers may charge a fee for connecting to a different APN Please consult the service provider for the correct settings Setup Wizard gt WAN Setup gt Step 4 Enter the parameters of Mobile Operator Settings for Mobile Internet http www peplink com 38 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity Click on the appropriate check box es to select the preferred WAN connection s Connection s not selected in this step will be used as back up only C
16. 6 6 2 LED Indicators The statuses indicated by the Front Panel LEDs are as follows Power and Status Indicators OFF Power off Power LED Green Power on Console and USB Ports Console Port Reserved for engineering Use USB Ports For connecting a USB based mobile modem LAN Port and WAN Ports ON 1000 Mbps Green LED OFF 100 10 Mbps Solid Port is connected without traffic Yellow LED Blinking Data is transferring OFF Port is not connected Port Type Auto MDI MDI X ports http www peplink com 25 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 6 6 3 LCD Display Menu Mm gt Power off j D a Reboot gt HA State Master Slave gt LAN IP gt VIP gt System Status gt System gt Firmware ver shows firmware version gt Serial number shows serial number gt System time shows current time gt System up time shows system uptime since last reboot gt CPU load shows current CPU loading 0 100 gt LAN gt Status shows LAN port physical status gt IP address shows LAN IP address gt Subnet mask shows LAN subnet mask gt Link status shows Connected Disconnected IP address list gt WAN1 gt WAN2 eds gt WAN5 gt VPN status shows Connected Disconnected gt VPN Profile 1 gt VPN Profile 2 gt de gt VPN Profile n gt Link usage gt Throughput in show
17. AP One Default Follow AP Profile Save Cancel Apr 27 16 57 06 Apr 27 16 56 26 Apr 27 16 42 10 Apr 27 16 26 25 Apr 27 16 11 23 Device s Name Location and Channel can be changed in here http www peplink com 104 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series Protecting Business Continuity MW Name Serial Number IP Address Firmware AP Profile ll 7 Pepwave AP One 1 10 9 2 2 a 7 Pepwave AP One 2 10 9 2 15 ll Pepwave AP One 3 10 9 2 18 Captive Portal Settings A customized Captive Portal page can be configured for each Peplink Balance device To start click the link Captive Portal Settings and you will be forwarded to the configuration page For details please refer to section 16 4 http www peplink com 105 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Ink Peplink Balance Series Protecting Business Continuity 16 2 AP Management pep Dashboard Setup Wizard Network System Status Interfaces WAN se Pepwave AP Management F Site to Site o for AP One VPN Outbound Policy Inbound Access m Servers Access points listed below Services DNS Settings Save NAT Mappings WLAN Controller m Wireless o Networks AP Profiles Access Point Management The WLAN Controller for managing Pepwave A
18. Community Settings Community Name This setting specifies the SNMP Community Name Allowed Source This setting specifies a subnet from which access to the SNMP server is allowed Subnet Address Enter subnet address here e g 192 168 1 0 http www peplink com 148 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f P INK Business Continuity Allowed Source This setting specifies the subnet mask that corresponds to the subnet specified via Allowed Subnet Mask Source Subnet Address e g 255 255 255 0 To define a user name for SNMPv3 click Add SNMP User in the SNMPv3 User Name table upon which the following screen is displayed User Name snmpuser Authentication Protocol MD5 Authentication Password mypassword Privacy Protocol DES Privacy Password myprivacypassword SNMPv3 User Settings User Name This setting specifies a user name to be used in SNMPv3 This setting specifies via a drop down menu the one of the following valid authentication ae protocols Authentication NONE Protocol o MD5 e SHA Authentication This setting specifies the authentication password and is applicable only if the MD5 or SHA Password authentication protocol is selected This setting specifies via a drop down menu the one of the following valid privacy protocols Privacy Protocol e NONE e DES This setting specifies the privacy password and is applicable only if the DES privacy Privacy Passwor
19. Continuity 14 7 DNS Record Import Wizard At the bottom of the page of DNS Settings there is a link of Import records via zone transfer which is used to import DNS record using Import Wizard DNS Record Import Wizard This wizard allows you to import DNS records from an existing DNS server via zone transfer Requirement Your existing DNS server is configured to allow one of the WAN s default IP addresses to transfer DNS zone records To continue click Next Next gt gt Cancel e Select Next gt gt to continue Step 1 of 3 Target DNS Server IP Address Transfer via WAN1 e Inthe Target DNS Server IP Address field enter the IP address of the DNS server e Inthe Transfer via field choose which connection you would like to transfer through e Select Next gt gt to continue Step 2 of 3 Domain Names Zones peplink com mycompany coml e Inthe blank space enter the Domain Names Zones which you would like to assign with the IP address entered in the previous step Enter one domain name per line e Select Next gt gt to continue http www peplink com 99 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Important Note If you have entered domain s which already exist in your settings a warning message like the following would be shown Select Next gt gt to overwrite the existing record or lt lt Back to go back t
20. DNS name servers of a WAN connection you may want to enable this option to enhance the DNS availability without modifying the DNS server setting of the clients The built in DNS name server will distribute DNS lookups to corresponding DNS servers of all available WAN connections In this case DNS service will not be interrupted even if any WAN connection is down DNS Forwarding 19 3 1 SMTP Forwarding Some ISPs require their users to send e mails via the ISP s SMTP server All outgoing SMTP connections are blocked except those connecting to the ISP s The Peplink Balance supports to intercept and redirect all outgoing SMTP connections destined for TCP port 25 via a WAN connection to the WAN s corresponding SMTP server SMTP Forwarding Setup D SMTP Forwarding Enable Enable ee Forwarding SMTP Server SMTP Port CO e http www peplink com 136 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity To enable the feature select the Enable check box under SMTP Forwarding Setup Check the box Enable Forwarding for the WAN connection s that needs such forwarding Enter the ISP s e mail server host name or IP address and TCP port number for each WAN The Peplink Balance will intercept SMTP connections choose a WAN with reference to the Outbound Policy and then forward the connection to the forwarded SMTP server if the chosen WAN has enabled forwardi
21. Interface Settings ro io oa 59 11 3 WAN Heath CHOCK seers cca sac asc seas ee cree ese ns ese ee DL acc cec 60 11 4 Ban dwidinh Alow ance WONTON rennes sets aras 63 11 5 Additional Public IP Settings o y O 64 11 56 Dynamic DNS Settings eii riores nde 65 12 SITE TO SITE VPN ec0conoococcncccccononococconocococcococococcocsococconocococcococacconosococcococaccocosecocccsasascoss 66 http www peplink com Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f pink Business Continuity 12 1 Site to Site VPN Settings dioses 66 12 2 Peplink Balance Behind NAT ROUET te tec crs cree ee tte wie in bent tient 69 12 3 VPN StatUSecccssccccccccesseeeeeeeneeeeeee a e rana rear 70 13 MANAGEMENT OF OUTBOUND TRAFFIC TO WANeecececcccccccccccccccccccccccccccccsccccccccsccccccces 71 13 1 Outbound Policy AAA ESA AAA AAA AAA 72 13 2 Custom Rules For Outbound Policy E OR nO 73 14 INBOUND ACCESS gt ooooononccccconococconocococconococconocococconocococcnocococconocococcocococcccocococcccocescccosos 79 14 1 Definition of Port Forwarding oia 79 14 2 D finition or Servers 0N LAN Essen eee aaa 81 14 3 Inbound ACCESS Services secondes ic rca 82 14 4 UPnP NAT PMP Settings ee A ea doo 84 14 5 D tinition OF DNS Records estasssasinaiasasssassccaipao ai 85 14 6 Reverse Lookup FAO cc ee ee ee 96 14 7 DNS Record Import VPs O 99 15 NAT 172 N 9 2 CRE EEE EE EEE ECECECCECECECEECECECECCECECECEECECECECCECECECEECECECECCECECECECCECECECCECE
22. Peplink Balance on a live network between the firewall and router such that changes to the settings of existing equipment are not required Drop in Mode is NOT applicable to Balance 20 and 30 The following diagram illustrates the Drop in Mode setup Public Address Space B Firewall Peplink Balance D Host 2 Q Host 2 Check the box to Enable the Drop in Mode After enabling this feature and selecting the WAN for Drop in mode various settings including the WAN s connection method and IP address will be automatically updated When Drop in Mode is enabled the LAN and the WAN for Drop in Mode ports will be bridged Traffic going in between the LAN hosts and WAN router will be forwarded to each other In this case the hosts on both sides will not notice any IP or MAC address change After successfully setting up Peplink Balance as part of the network via Drop in Mode a Peplink Balance 210 will accommodate one additional WAN connection 310 or 380 will accommodate two 580 will accommodate four 710 will accommodate six and 1350 will accommodate twelve additional WAN connections respectively IMPORTANT NOTE for customers using Drop in Mode and going to upgrade from firmware 4 8 2 or below to 5 0 MAC address passthrough for Drop in Mode is implemented in firmware 5 0 If Drop in Mode is enabled when user is upgrading from previous firmware version the ARP tables on the hosts on LAN and WAN segments have to be flushed o
23. Routing Mode Connection Type MTU Health Check Additional Public IP and Dynamic DNS Settings The PPTP Server will be disabled Tip please review the DNS Forwarding setting under the Service Forwarding section DHCP Server Settings Days O Hours 0 Mins 0 Seconds O Assign DNS server automatically DNS server 1 DNS server 2 W Assign WINS server Built in External WINS server 1 WINS server 2 No Extended DHCP Option a MAC Address Static IP A Manager s desktop 00 11 aa 22 bb 33 192 168 1 100 Lx dT Static Route Settings Destination Network Subnet Mask Gateway ISO NEO EE ES http www peplink com 41 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink er USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity WINS Server Settings IP Address Es IS A T Save Required LAN Settings IP Address amp Subnet Mask The IP address of Peplink Balance on LAN This setting specifies the speed of the LAN Ethernet Port By default Auto is selected and the appropriate data speed is automatically detected by Peplink Balance In the event of negotiation issues the port speed can be manually specified to circumvent the issues You can also choose whether or not to advertise the speed to the peer by selecting the Advertise Speed checkbox Speed Drop in Mode Settings Available on Peplink Balance 210 Drop in Mode eases the in
24. SEU Yes ON su o mm 10 WAN2 10 WANS 10 Mobile Internet 10 http www peplink com 731 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pepiink it New Custom Rule Settings Service Name This setting specifies the name of the outbound traffic rule This setting specifies whether the outbound traffic rule takes effect With an Enable value of Yes the rule takes effect traffic is matched and actions are Enable taken by Peplink Balance based on the other parameters of the rule With an Enable value of No the rule does not take effect Peplink Balance disregards the other parameters of the rule This setting specifies the source IP Address IP Network or MAC Address for traffic that Source matches the rule This setting specifies the destination IP Address or IP Network for traffic that matches the Destination rule This setting specifies the IP Protocol and Port of traffic that matches this rule You may Protocol and Port select some common protocol from the Protocol Selection Tool drop down menu This setting specifies the behavior of Peplink Balance for the custom rule One of the following values can be selected e Weighted Balance Persistence Enforced Algorithm e o Priority e Overflow Least Used not applicable to Balance 20 30 e Lowest Latency not applicable to Balance 20 30 The upcoming sections present the details of the liste
25. SOA record When the option Customize SOA Record for this domain is selected you can click the link Click here to define SOA record to create or click on the Name Server field to edit the SOA record In the SOA record you have to fill out the fields Name Server Name Server IP Address optional Email Refresh Retry Expire Min Time and TTL Default values are set for SOA and NS records e Name Server IP Address optional This is the IP address of the authoritative name server If the Balance is the authoritative name server of the domain this field s value should be the WAN connection s name server IP address that is registered in the DNS registrar If this field is entered a corresponding A record for the name server will be created automatically If it is left blank the A record for the name server must be created manually e E mail Defines the E mail address of the person responsible for this zone Note Format should be mailbox name domain com e g hostmaster example com e Refresh indicates the length of time in seconds when the slave will try to refresh the zone from the master e Retry Defines the duration in seconds between retries if the slave Secondary fails to contact the master when refresh above has expired e Expire indicates the time in seconds when the zone data is no longer authoritative This options applies to Slaves DNS servers only e Min Time Is the negative caching time which defines the time in se
26. The ICMP PING packets will be issued to test the connectivity with a configurable target IP address or host name A WAN connection is considered as up if PING responses are received from either one or both of the PING Hosts This setting specifies IP addresses or host names with which connectivity is to be tested via ICMP Ping If Use first two DNS servers as Ping Hosts is checked the target PING Host will PING Hosts be the first DNS server for the corresponding WAN connection Reliable PING hosts with a high uptime should be considered By default the first two DNS servers of the WAN connection are used as the PING Hosts http www peplink com 60 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Health Check Method DNS Lookup F O DNS Lookup y Health Check DNS Servers Host 1 Host 2 Use first two DNS servers as Health Check DNS Servers C Include public DNS servers DNS lookups will be issued to test the connectivity with target DNS servers The connection will be treated as up if DNS responses are received from either one or both of the servers regardless of whether the result was positive or negative This field allows you to specify two DNS hosts IP address with which connectivity is to be tested via DNS Lookup If Use first two DNS servers as Health Check DNS Servers is checked the first two DNS servers will be the DNS lookup targets for chec
27. VPN peers has to have this field filled Otherwise VPN connection cannot be established Enter one IP address or host name per line http www peplink com 67 1 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink er USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity WAN Connection Priority You can specify the priority of the WAN connections to be used in making VPN connections WAN connection will never be used when OFF is selected Only available WAN connections with the highest priority will be utilized Link Failure Detection The bonded Site to Site VPN can detect routing failures on the path between two sites over each WAN connection Failed WAN connections will not be used to route VPN traffic Health check packets are sent to the peer to detect any failure The more frequent checks it sends the shorter detection time but the higher bandwidth overhead will be consumed When Recommended is selected a health check packet is sent out every 5 Link Failure seconds and the expected detection time is 15 seconds Detection Time When Fast is selected a health check packet is sent out every 3 seconds and the expected detection time is 6 seconds When Faster is selected a health check packet is sent out every 1 second and the expected detection time is 2 seconds When Extreme is selected a health check packet is sent out every 0 1 second and the expected detection time is under 1 second By defaul
28. all except listed MAC Address Connection coming from the MAC Addresses in this list will be either deny or accept List based the option selected in the previous field Captive Portal When this option is enabled web redirection will be applied to all unauthenticated Wi Fi clients associated with this wireless network Requests by unauthenticated Wi Fi clients will be redirected to this Peplink Balance s built in captive portal site Enable To configure the captive portal site click the link configure your Captive Portal below For details please refer to section 16 3 NOTE All changes made in the Captive Portal Management page are effective immediately http www peplink com 108 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL e link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 16 3 1 Static WEP The configuration of Static WEP parameters enables pre shared WEP key encryption Authentication is not supported by this method The security level of this method is known to be weak Static WEP parameters are entered via the following screen upon selection Wireless Security Settings Static WEP Parameters The setting can be configured as either 40 bits 64 bit WEP or 104 bits 128 Key Size bit WEP The setting can be configured as either ASCII or HEX Key Format e ASCII will be applied to encryption keys that are manually entered only e HEX will be applied to encryption keys that are either manu
29. com 83 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 14 4 UPnP NAT PMP Settings UPnP and NAT PMP are network protocols which allow a computer on the LAN to automatically configure the router to allow parties on the WAN to connect to itself In this way the process of inbound port forwarding is automated When a computer creates a rule using these protocols the specified TCP UDP port of all WAN connections default IP address will be forwarded Check the corresponding box es to enable UPnP and or NAT PMP Enable these features only if you trust the computers on the LAN D Enable Save When the options are enabled a table listing all the forwarded ports under these two protocols can be found at Status gt UPnP NAT PMP Enable http www peplink com 84 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 14 5 Definition of DNS Records Available on Peplink Balance 210 The built in DNS Server functionality of Peplink Balance facilitates inbound load balancing With the presence of the functionality NS SOA DNS records for a domain name can be delegated to Internet IP address es of Peplink Balance Upon receiving a DNS query Peplink Balance supports returning as an A record the corresponding IP address for the domain name on the most appropriate healthy WAN connection It al
30. down Default Health Retries is set to 3 For example with the default Health Retries setting of 3 after consecutive 3 timeouts the corresponding WAN connection will be treated as down Health Check Retries http www peplink com 61 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity This setting specifies the number of consecutive successful ping DNS lookup responses that must be received before Peplink Balance treats a previously down WAN connection to be up again By default Recover Times is set to 3 For example a WAN connection that is treated as down will be considered to be up again upon receiving 3 consecutive successful ping DNS lookup responses Recovery Retries In case a WAN connection goes down all of the WAN connections with non Always on Connection Type will also be brought up until any one of higher priority WAN connections is up and found to be healthy This design could increase the overall network availability For example if WAN1 WAN2 and WANS have the connection types of Always on Backup Priority Group 1 and Backup Priority Group 2 respectively when WANT goes down WAN2 and WAN3 will also try to connect If WAN3 is connected first WAN2 will still be kept connecting If WAN2 is connected WANS will disconnect or abort making connection Automatic Public DNS Server Check on DNS Test Failure In case the health check method
31. enable Email Notification If the box Enable is checked Peplink Balance sends email messages to a System Email Notification Administrator when the WAN status changes or when new firmware is available If the box Enable is not checked Email Notification is disabled and Peplink Balance will not send email messages This setting specifies the SMTP server to be used for sending email If the Server requires SMTP Server Re a authentication check the box Require authentication Check the box to enable SMTPS When the box is checked the next field SMTP Port will SSL Encryption be changed to 465 automatically This field is for specifying the SMTP Port number By default this is set to 25 when the SSL Encryption box is checked the default port SMTP Port number will be set to 465 You may customize the port number by editing this field Click the button Default to restore to default This setting specifies the SMTP username and password while sending email These options are shown only if Require authentication check box is checked in SMTP Server setting SMTP User Name Password Confirm SMTP e a This field allows you to verify and confirm the new administrator password Password Sender s Email This setting specifies the sender email address reported by the email messages sent by Address Peplink Balance Recipient s Email This setting specifies the email address to which Peplink Balance should send the email Address messages
32. following reset key in the Password Reset Page to reset the password of the account s USERNAME Reset key RESET_KEY SENDER PS This is a post only mailing Replies to this message are not monitored or answered Save Once you have selected for Guest Account mode as the Captive portal modem in section 16 4 1 the Email Settings tab will be available Under this page email server and templates can be set Automatic emails will be sent with the specified information Email Server Template Settings Sender s Name This Is to specify the sender s name of the email Sender s Email Ailes This is to specify the sender s email address of the email This is to specify the SMTP server which will be used to send email If the AA A Server requires authentication check the box Require authentication This setting specifies the SMTP username and password while sending email These options are shown only if Require authentication check box is checked in SMTP Server setting SMTP User Name Password http www peplink com 116 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Confirm SMTP This field allows you to verify and confirm the new administrator password Password Check the box to enable SMTPS When the box ts checked the next field SE SUK eRe SMTP Port will be changed to 465 automatically Two different emails templates can be set and cus
33. for specifying a name to represent this VPN connection profile Name When this box is checked this VPN connection profile will be enabled Otherwise it will be Active disabled By default VPN traffic is encrypted with 256 bit AES standard If the option Off is selected Encryption on both sides of a VPN connection no encryption will be applied Peplink Balance only establishes VPN connection with a remote peer that has a serial Peer Serial number specified here If the remote peer is in high availability setup you can check the Number box Remote client is set up in high availability mode and enter the second unit s serial number into the second text box This is an optional field which defines the pre shared key used for this particular VPN connection The VPN connection s session key will be further protected by the factor of the Prezsnared Key pre shared key The connection will be up only if the pre shared keys on each side match When the remote peer is running firmware 5 0 or 5 1 this setting will be ignored Enter the remote peer s WAN IP address es or host name s here Dynamic DNS host names are accepted Peer IP Addresses This field is optional With this field filled the Peplink Balance will initiate connection to Host Names each of the remote IP addresses until success If the field is empty the Peplink Balance Optional will wait for connection from the remote peer Therefore at least one side of the two
34. format you can enter one IP address per line in the provided text area input control Each option is allowed to be defined once only This setting reserves the assignment of fixed IP addresses for a list of computers on the LAN The computers to be assigned fixed IP addresses on the LAN are identified by their MAC addresses The fixed IP address assignment is displayed as a cross reference list between the computers Name MAC addresses and fixed IP addresses DHCP Reservation The field Name an optional field is for you to define a name to represent the device MAC addresses should be in the format of 00 AA BB CC DD EE Press to create a new record Press X to remove a record Reserved clients information can be imported from the Client List located at Status gt Client List For more details please refer to section 20 3 Static Route Settings This table is for defining static routing rules for the LAN segment A static route consists of the network address subnet mask and gateway address The address and subnet mask values are in the format of w x y z Static Route The local LAN subnet and subnets behind the LAN will be advertised to the VPN Remote routes sent over the VPN will also be accepted Any VPN member will be able to route to the local subnets Press Le to create a new route Press x to remove a route http www peplink com 43 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pepi
35. going across the Site to Site VPN tunnel i e transferring a file to a VPN peer all WAN connections will be bonded by our Site to Site VPN technology In this case all bandwidth will be utilized and a file will be transferred across all available WAN connections For details please refer to this FAQ http www peplink com index php view faq amp id 111 amp path 19 Problem 2 am using a download manager program e g FlashGet Download Accelerator Plus DownThemAll etc now Why is the download speed still in single link s speed Solution First check whether the WAN connections are up Second ensure your download manager application has split the file into 3 parts or more It is also possible that all of 2 or even 3 download sessions were being distributed to the same link by chance Problem 3 am using some websites to lookup my public IP address e g www whatismyip com When keep pressing the browser s Refresh button the server almost always returns the same address The IP address supposed to be changing for every refresh Solution The web server has enabled the Keep Alive function such that you were using the same TCP session to query the server Try to test with a web site that does not enable Keep Alive For example try http private dnsstuff com tools aboutyou ch This third party web site is provided only for reference Peplink has no association with the site and does not guarantee the site s validity or avail
36. gt WAN2 gt WAN3 gt Throughput out shows transfer rate in Kbps gt WAN1 gt WAN2 gt WAN3 gt Data Transfer d shows volume transferred since last reboot in MB gt WANT gt WAN2 gt WAN3 gt Maintenance gt Reboot gt Reboot Yes No to reboot the unit gt Factory default gt Factory default Yes No to restore factory defaults gt LAN config gt Port speed shows port speed Auto 10baseT FD 10baseT HD gt LAN 100baseTx FD 100baseTx HD 1000baseTx FD gt WANT gt WAN2 gt WAN3 http www peplink com 23 1 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 6 5 4 Rear Panel Appearance Power Switch Power Connector Connector Ports Power Connector AC input 110 220V To hold pressing the key for 4 seconds will power down the unit When the unit is powered off press it will power on the unit Power Switch 6 5 5 Unit Label Appearance Peplink Balance 380 Product Code BPL 380 peplink Serial 1824 6144 F2A7 LAN MAC 10 56 C LAN MAC Address Made in Taiwan FC C AA A http www peplink com http www peplink com 24 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL ect link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 6 6 Peplink Balance 580 6 6 1 Front Panel Appearance WAN Port LAN Port Power LED orts USB Ports ocre A eplink Balance580 LCD Controls
37. located at System gt Admin Security Admin Settings Default Hide Characters Port Default W Hide Characters http www peplink com 139 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity WAN Connection Access Settings 2 Any Allow access from the following IP subnets only 12 34 45 0 24 11 22 33 0 24 Connection IP Address es 123 123 123 1 Interface IP Fl 123 123 123 10 Fl 123 123 123 11 Interface IP 1 1 1 1 Mobile Internet Admin Settings Router Name Admin User Name Admin Password Confirm Admin Password Read only User Name User Password Confirm User Password Web Session Timeout Authentication by RADIUS http www peplink com 140 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink This field allows you to define a name for this Peplink Balance unit By default Router Name is set as Balance_XXXX where XXXX refers to the last 4 digits of the serial number of that balance unit It is set as admin by default and is not customizable This field allows you to specify a new administrator password This field allows you to verify and confirm the new administrator password It is set as user by default and is not customizable This field allows you to specify a new user password Once the user password Is set the feature of read only user will be enabled This field allows you to verify a
38. o LAN o e Site to Site VPN o Availability YO ee Un mn 1 52 4 56 360p a http www youtube com PeplinkChannel p u 2 m977ePdM sl http www peplink com 72 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 13 2 Custom Rules For Outbound Policy Click in the Outbound Policy form Choose Managed by Custom Rules and press the Save button The following screen will then be displayed Outbound Policy O Managed by Custom Rules Ei Custom Rules pineal di EE and drop rows to erecci n rule order Algorithm Protocol Port 443 b EN Add Rule The bottom most rule is Default Edit this rule to change the device s default way to control outbound traffic for all connections that does not match any rules above it Click on the service name Default to change its settings You may drag and drop a row to rearrange the priority of outbound rules Edit Default Custom Rule Default Rule WAN1 WAN2 C WAN3 10 Mobile Internet 2 By default Auto is selected for the option Default Rule You can select Custom in order to change the Algorithm to be used Please refer to the upcoming sections for the details of the available algorithms To create a custom rule click Add Rule at the bottom of the table and the following window will be displayed Add a New Custom Rule New Custom Rule
39. of remote end of tunnel e Tunnel IP local address 192 168 128 222 IP address of local end of tunnel e Outgoing NAT IP address 210 103 22 1 This field is used for NAT routing mode only For all outgoing traffic the IP datagram will be sent via this IP address through the tunnel as a result the Outgoing NAT IP address is the public address that is seen by all external hosts on the WAN The following figure shows the packet flow for Peplink Balance under GRE connection mode and NAT routing mode d Encapsulated Request Source 192 168 113 7 1 i Destination 192 168 113 8 Issssssssessssssesssk Tunnel IP 192 168 113 7 Tunnel IP 192 168 113 8 PARADA RIAS r ER RE ER A LE EL LE D LE t i Request y 1 Request i t Source 10 0 0 10 1 Source 1 2 3 7 Destination 2 2 3 4 4 Destination 2 2 3 4 0 Ny TP Ip 10 0 0 1 oe SS ear Internet Reply o i IP 10 0 0 10 Source 2 2 3 4 Destination 10 0 0 10 x Peplink Balance GRE Gateway a 7 1 2 3 7 IP 1 2 3 1 Se l x k H p o qero lt i Server 0 Encapsulated Reply Source 192 168 113 8 k Destination 192 168 113 7 IP 10 0 0 11 Destination 1 2374 e p ssssssssss IP 2 2 3 4 I Reply http www peplink com 54 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 11 1 4 2 Routing under GRE via IP Forwarding The following figu
40. only a particular WAN connection The Scale of the graph can be set to show in Megabyte MB or Gigabyte GB All WAN 250000 MB M Dovnload Upload 200000 MB M Total 150000 MB 100000 MB 50000 MB 0 2010 08 2010 09 2010 10 2010 11 2010 12 4 151 MB 77 737 MB 18 340 MB 29 463 MB 126 368 MB 90 424 MB 2010 12 01 to now 2010 11 01 to 2010 11 30 2010 10 01 to 2010 10 31 8 202 69 MB LAN Client 3 308 03 MB 221 52 MB 3 529 55 MB LAN Client 3 003 13 MB 158 38 MB 3 161 51 MB SEEN Sees See LAR Aliant 1 oon EN MO 21 1N MO n ENN 7M MO All WAN Monthly Bandwidth Usage LAN Client 7 917 44 MB 285 25 MB WAN3 l de Cycle Calendar Month 7000 MB Mi Download Upload MM Total 6000 MB 5000 MB 4000 MB 3000 MB 2000 MB 1000 MB 0 2010 09 2010 10 2010 11 2010 12 2010 12 01 to now 1 311 MB 1 559 MB 2 870 MB 2010 11 01 to 2010 11 30 2 025 MB 2 668 MB 4 693 MB 2010 10 01 tn 21 10 21 2 AA MA G47 MR A san MA WAN3 Monthly Bandwidth Usage http www peplink com 164 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Appendix A Restoration of Factory Defaults To restore the factory default settings on a Peplink Balance unit perform the following For Balance 20 30 210 310 1 Locate the reset button on the Peplink Balance unit 2 With a paper clip
41. press and keep the reset button pressed for at least 10 seconds until the unit reboots itself For Balance 380 580 710 1350 o Use the buttons on front panel to control the LCD menu to go to Maintenance gt Factory Default and then choose Yes to confirm Afterwards the factory default settings will be restored Important Note All user settings will be lost after restoring the factory default settings Regular backup of configuration parameters is strongly recommended http www peplink com 165 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Appendix B Routing under DHCP Static IP and PPPoE The information in this appendix applies only to situations where Peplink Balance operates with to a WAN connection under DHCP Static IP and PPPoE For information that applies to GRE please refer to e Section 11 1 4 1 Routing under GRE via Network Address Translation NAT e Section 11 1 4 2 Routing under GRE via IP Forwarding B 1 Routing via Network Address Translation NAT When Peplink Balance is operating under NAT mode the source IP addresses of outgoing IP packets are translated to the WAN IP address of Peplink Balance Therefore with NAT all LAN devices share the same WAN IP address to access the Internet i e the WAN IP address of Peplink Balance Operating Peplink Balance in NAT mode requires only one WAN Internet IP address In addition
42. same as the Firewall s WAN port and the Router s LAN port 3 Ifthere are hosts other than the router existing on the WAN segment of Peplink Balance check the I have other host s on WAN segment box enter the IP address es of the host s and then click the down arrow to add the hosts The following diagram illustrates DDD Other host s i e servers or computers a ISP Gateway 210 10 10 1 y WAN 1 LAN IP 210 10 10 5 Peplink Balance Drop In mode WAN 2 22 2 2 2 Firewall 192 168 1 1 210 10 10 2 a Local Network 192 168 1 0 24 http www peplink com 46 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity Important Note Starting from firmware version 5 0 Drop in mode can be configured on any WAN ports Please be noted that still only one WAN port can be configured in Drop in mode If you have selected the LAN Bypass port which is currently available on WANT of Balance 1350 and WAN5 of Balance 580 as the WAN for Drop in Mode High Availability feature will be DISABLED automatically Tip Want to know more about Drop in mode Visit our YouTube Channel for video tutorials pep D mm 0 10 2 09 ul 360p a ES http www youtube com PeplinkChannel p u 9 xHTLCCXsqTc http www peplink com 47 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink B
43. seconds will power down the unit When the unit is powered off press it will power on the unit Power Switch Reset Switch Press and release once to reset the system 6 7 4 Unit Label Appearance Peplink Balance 710 o Product Code BPL 710 peplink Serial Number and LAN MAC Address Made in Taiwan A st epi com http www peplink com 30 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 6 8 Peplink Balance 1350 6 8 1 Front Panel Appearance Power LED LCD Display USB Ports WAN Ports LCD Controls LAN Port Status indicated in the Front Panel is as follows Console Port LED Indicator OFF Power off Power LED ON Green Power on Console amp USB Ports Console Port Reserved for engineering Use USB Ports For connecting a USB based mobile modem LAN Port and WAN Ports 1 to 3 Gigabit Ethernet ON 1000 Mbps Green LED OFF 100 10 Mbps Solid Port is connected without traffic Yellow LED Blinking Data is transferring OFF Port is not connected Port Type Auto MDI MDI X ports WAN Ports 4 to 7 Fast Ethernet ON 100 Mbps Green LED OFF 10 Mbps Solid Port is connected without traffic Yellow LED Blinking Data is transferring OFF Port is not connected Port Type MDI ports http www peplink com 31 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANU
44. specifies whether or not to log events at the specified remote Syslog server Remote Syslog Host This setting specifies the IP address or host name of the remote Syslog server This setting specifies the port number of the remote Syslog service Port By default the Port setting value is 514 http www peplink com 147 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Serles pink Business Continuity 20 6 SNMP SNMP or Simple Network Management Protocol is an open standard that can be used to collect information about the Peplink Balance unit SNMP configuration is located at System gt SNMP USER MANUAL 161 Community Name Allowed Source Network Access Mode 192 168 1 20 24 Read Only Delete __ Add SNMP Community SNMPv3 User Name Authentication Privacy Access Mode SNMP Settings SNMP Device oe a Name This field shows the router name defined in System gt Admin Security SNMP Port This option specifies the port which SNMP used The default port is set as 161 SNMPv1 This option allows you to enable SNMP version 1 SNMPv2 This option allows you to enable SNMP version 2 SNMPv3 This option allows you to enable SNMP version 3 To add a community for either SNMPv1 or SNMPv2 click the Add SNMP Community button in the Community Name table upon which the following screen is displayed SNMP Community Setting 192 168 1 20 250 200 2500 M Save SNMP
45. the appropriate items in the list Multiple items in the list can be selected by holding CTRL and clicking on the items Click Save to save the settings when configuration is complete http www peplink com 85 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Zone Transfer Default SOA NS Default Connection Priority Domain name This setting specifies the IP address es of secondary DNS server s that are to be allowed to retrieve zone records from the DNS server of Peplink Balance The zone transfer server of Peplink Balance listens on TCP Port 53 Allowed Clients 11 12 13 123 x 11 112 13 111 Ea 1 cnc Peplink Balance serves both the clients that are accessing from the specified IP addresses and the clients that are accessing from the LAN Interface of the Peplink Balance unit Click the button to define a default SOA NS record for all Domain Names For Configuration details please refer to section 14 5 2 For defining a default SOA record the field Name Server IP Address is optional If left blank the Address A record for the same server should be defined manually in each domain For defining default NS records the host domain indicates that this record is for the domain name itself without a sub domain prefix To add a secondary NS server just create a second NS record with the Host field empty When the entered Name S
46. to You may enter multiple recipients email addresses in this field http www peplink com 145 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity After you have completed the settings you can click the Test Email Notification button to test the settings before saving it After it is clicked you will see this screen to confirm the settings smtp mycompany com sure User name Sender s Email Address admin mycompany com A EST system mycompany com staff mycompany com Send Test Notification Cancel Click Yes to confirm Wait a few seconds You will see a returned message and the detailed test result Save button Test Result INFO Try email through connection 3 lt 220 ESMTP gt EHLO balance lt 250 smtp Hello balance 210 210 210 210 250 S1ZE 100000000 250 SBITHINE 230 PIPELINING 250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 200 STARTILS mmm mr T EE http www peplink com 146 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 20 5 Remote Syslog The Remote Syslog functionality of Peplink Balance enables event logging at a specified remote Syslog server The settings for configuring Remote System Log are found at System gt Remote Syslog Remote Syslog C Enable Save Remote Syslog Settings Remote Syslog This setting
47. to associate this Peplink Balance vith the specified user account on the server Specify Make sure you have a valid user account before this registration Update Cancel Reporting Server Fill in the User Account field to specify the login ID on the Reporting Server to be allowed to access the report of this Peplink Balance device http www peplink com 150 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f PINK Business Continuity Click the link to view link usage reports from the Reporting Server A login screen should be shown Peplink Balance Report Server 4 8 9 pepiink view reports Balance Reporting Server User Report Login Username O O password O Oooo Register Report Account Forgot Password Login Copyright c Peplink All Rights Reserved Important Note The registration process will establish contact to the reporting server to associate the Peplink Balance unit with the specified user account on the server Prior to registration please ensure that the user account to be entered is valid http www peplink com 151 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 20 8 Configuration Backing up the Peplink Balance settings immediately after the successful completion of the initial setup is strongly recommended The functionality to download and upload Peplink Balance s
48. 00 Matching traffic distributed to WAN2 is 40 10 25 x 100 Matching traffic distributed to WANS is 20 5 25 x 100 13 2 2 Algorithm Persistence The configuration of Persistent Services is the solution to the few situations where link load distribution for Internet services is undesirable For example many e banking and other secure websites for security reasons terminate the session when the client computer s Internet IP address changes mid session In general different Internet IP addresses represent different computers The security concern is that an IP address change during a session may be the result of an unauthorized intrusion attempt Therefore to prevent damages from the potential intrusion the session is terminated upon the detection of an IP address change Peplink Balance can be configured to distribute data traffic across multiple WAN connections Also the Internet IP depends on the WAN connections over which communication actually takes place As a result a LAN client computer behind Peplink Balance may communicate using multiple Internet IP addresses For example a LAN client computer behind a Peplink Balance 310 with three WAN connections may communicate on the Internet using three different IP addresses With the Persistency feature of Peplink Balance rules can be configured to enable client computers to persistently utilize the same WAN connections for e banking and other secure websites As a result
49. 1 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Appendix E Product Specifications El Peplink Balance 20 and 30 Routing e Flexible Custom Outbound Routing Policy WAN Support e DHCP PPPoE GRE and Static IP e Outbound Link Load Balance Device Management e Wizard amp Menu Driven Web Management Interface over HTTP HTTPS e Remote Reporting and Management e Configurations Upload and Download Internet Access Sharing e SUA Single User Account Multi to Multi NAT e NAT supports PAT Port Address Translation Security e Compatible with IPsec and PPTP VPN Passthrough e Rules based Stateful Firewall with IP Protocol and Port filtering e Intrusion Detection System Physical Interface e Two Balance 20 Three Balance 30 RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3u 10 100M WAN e Four RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3u 10 100M LAN Power Specification e AV Input 100 240V DC Output 12V Operating Environment e Kensington Lock Interface e Temperature 0 C 50 C e Humidity 10 90 non condensing http www peplink com 176 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity E 2 Peplink Balance 210 and 310 Routing e Drop in Mode and NAT o Flexible Custom Outbound Routing Policy WAN Support e DHCP PPPoE GRE and Static IP Inbound and Outbound Link Load Balance Device Management e Wizard amp Menu Driven Web Manage
50. 123 123 13 Delete WAN2 30 21 21 12 WAN2 30 21 21 12 Delete Add NAT Rule To add a rule for NAT Mappings click Add NAT Rule upon which the following screen will be displayed IP Address N 192 168 1 123 connection Inbound IP Address es 210 10 10 1 El 210 10 10 2 F210 10 10 3 El Mobile Internet LPi Connection Outbound IP Address Mobile Internet NAT Mapping Settings NAT Mapping rules can be defined for a single LAN IP Address an IP Range or an IP Network LAN Client s This refers to the LAN host s private IP address The system maps this address to a number of public IP addresses specified below in order to facilitate inbound and outbound traffic This option is only available when IP Address is selected Address This setting specifies the WAN connections and corresponding WAN specific Internet IP addresses on which the system should bind on Any access to the specified WAN connection s and IP address es will be forwarded to the LAN Host oh ri This option is only available when IP Address is selected in LAN Client s field Note 1 Inbound Mapping is not needed for WAN connections in drop in or IP forwarding mode Note 2 Each WAN IP address can be associated to one NAT Mapping only The IP range is a contiguous group of private IP addresses used by the LAN host The system maps these addresses to a number of public IP addresses specified below to facilitate outbou
51. 5 ttl 64 time 0 891 ms 10 10 10 1 ping statistics 5 packets transmitted 5 received 0 packet loss time 4023ms rt minfawg max mdew 0 868 0 958 1 080 0 105 ms Tip A System Administrator can use the Ping utility to manually check the connectivity of a particular LANAWAN connection http www peplink com 154 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 20 11 Traceroute Test The Traceroute Test tool in Peplink Balance traces the routing path to the destination through a particular Ethernet interface or a Site to Site VPN connection VPN connections are available on Peplink Balance 210 The Traceroute Test utility is located at System gt Tools gt Traceroute illustrated as follows Connection Destination oZoVPN Headquarters o2ZoVPN Branch Office 1 Tip A System Administrator can use the Traceroute utility to analyze the connection path of a LAN WAN connection 20 12 VPN Test Available on Peplink Balance 210 The VPN Test tool can help to test the throughput between different VPN peers You can define the Test Type Direction and Duration of the test and press Go to perform the throughput test The VPN Test utility is located at System gt Tools gt VPN Test illustrated as follows Headquarters TCP UDP Upload Download seconds 5 600 Preparing throughput test Starting throughp
52. 8 0 0 16 This is to choose which WAN IP address es the web server should listen on Allowed WAN IP Address es 210 10 10 1 Interface IP Allowed WAN IP F 210 10 10 2 Address es Mobile Internet http www peplink com 142 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 20 2 Firmware Upgrade The firmware of Peplink Balance is upgradeable through Web Admin Interface Firmware upgrade functionality is located at System gt Firmware Firmware Upgrade Current firmware version 5 2 0 No firmware upgrade available at this moment Check Again Manual Firmware Upgrade a Manual Upgrade There are two ways to upgrade the unit The first method is online firmware upgrade The system can Download and Upgrade over the Internet The second method is to upload a firmware file manually Click on the Check again button to use online upgrade With online upgrade Peplink Balance checks online for new firmware if new firmware is available the firmware is automatically downloaded by Peplink Balance The upgrade process will subsequently be automatically initiated You may also download a firmware image from the Peplink website http www peplink com and update the unit manually Click Browse to select the firmware file from the local computer then click Manual Upgrade to send the firmware to Peplink Balance Peplink Balance will then automat
53. AL Peplink Balance Series Protecting Business Continuity 6 8 2 LCD Display Menu gt Power off Reboot gt HA State Master Slave gt LAN IP gt VIP gt System Status gt System gt Firmware ver gt Serial number gt System time gt System up time gt CPU load gt LAN gt Status gt IP address gt Subnet mask gt Link status gt WANT gt WAN2 gt gt WAN7 gt VPN status gt VPN Profile 1 gt VPN Profile 2 ian gt VPN Profile n gt Link usage gt Throughput in gt WAN1 gt WAN2 ae gt WAN 7 gt Throughput out gt WAN1 gt WAN2 gt gt WAN 7 gt Data Transfer d gt WAN1 gt WAN2 gt gt WAN7 gt Maintenance gt Reboot gt LAN config gt Port speed gt LAN gt WAN1 gt WAN2 gt gt WAN 7 http www peplink com gt Reboot Yes No gt Factory default gt Factory default Yes No shows firmware version shows serial number shows current time shows system uptime since last reboot shows current CPU loading 0 100 shows LAN port physical status shows LAN IP address shows LAN subnet mask shows Connected Disconnected IP address list shows Connected Disconnected shows transfer rate in Kbps shows transfer rate in Kbps shows volume transferred since last reboot in MB to reboot the unit to restore factory defaults shows port speed Auto 10baseT FD 10baseT HD 100baseTx FD 100ba
54. Access Sharing e SUA Single User Account Multi to Multi NAT e NAT supports PAT Port Address Translation Security e PPTP VPN Server Rules based Stateful Firewall with IP Protocol and Port filtering VPN Encryption 256 bit AES e Intrusion Detection System Physical Interface o Five RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3ab 10 100M 1000M WAN e One RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3ab 10 100M 1000M LAN e One RJ 45 Console Serial modem TA Port e LAN Bypass from WANS to LAN Power Specification e AC input 110 220V Operating Environment o Temperature 0 C 40 C e Humidity 10 90 non condensing http www peplink com 179 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity E 5 Peplink Balance 710 Routing o Drop in Mode and NAT e Flexible Custom Outbound Routing Policy WAN Support e DHCP PPPoE GRE and Static IP Inbound and Outbound Link Load Balance Device Management e Wizard amp Menu Driven Web Management Interface over HTTP HTTPS e Remote Reporting and Management o Bandwidth Usage Monitor e Configurations Upload and Download Internet Access Sharing e SUA Single User Account Multi to Multi NAT e NAT supports PAT Port Address Translation Security e PPTP VPN Server Rules based Stateful Firewall with IP Protocol and Port filtering VPN Encryption 256 bit AES e Intrusion Detection System Physical Interface e Four RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3u 10 100M WAN e Three
55. B 10 9 19 9 LAN Client 111 11 MB 6 29 MB 1nQ 714 LAN Cliant 24 12 MR 12 20 MR as n7 MR All WAN Daily Bandwidth Usage 38 50 MB 459 65 MB Connection Scale MB GB 600 MB Mi Download Upload 500 MB En Total 400 MB 300 MB 200 MB 100 MB pl UN D 11 13 11 16 11 19 11 22 11 25 11 28 12 01 12 04 12 07 12 10 12 13 2010 12 13 0 MB 7 MB 7 MB 2010 12 12 17 MB 76 MB 93 MB 6 273 MB 2010 12 11 11 MB 78 MB 89 MB 7077 MB 2010 12 10 22 MB 86 MB 108 MB 14 056 ME 2010 12 09 136 MB 171 MB 307 MB 1 024 000 MB 2010 12 08 100 MB 124 MB 224 MB 1 2010 12 07 182 MB 107 MB 289 ME 2010 12 06 109 MB 247 MB 356 MB 2010 12 05 11 MB 83 MB 94 MB 3 IINE 2010 12 04 11 MB 83 MB 94 MB u ere 2010 12 03 309 MB 120 MB 429 MB F AAA A FAT AT A RAT 4 mr RAT aT RAT WANS3 Daily Bandwidth Usage http www peplink com 163 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pep link Protecting Business Continuity 21 9 3 Monthly This page shows the monthly bandwidth usage for each WAN connection If you have enabled Bandwidth Monitoring feature as shown in section 11 4 a particular connection can be chosen to check its usage and select to show the monthly usage period in Billing Cycle or Calendar Month Click the first two rows to view the client bandwidth usage of the most recent two months This feature is not available if you have chosen to view the bandwidth usage of
56. Balance GRE Gateway _ IP 1 2 3 4 IP 1 2 3 1 opossococececsccee lt Server 1 Encapsulated Reply Source 192 168 113 8 arar AU IP 2 2 3 4 do ol Source 2 2 3 4 IP 1 2 3 6 Destination 1 2355 http www peplink com 55 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 11 1 5 Mobile Internet Connection Available on Peplink Balance 20 30 380 The Mobile Internet Connection method is suitable for USB modem mobile connection such as 3G EVDO EDGE and GPRS etc Currently it only applies to USB mobile WAN port For the list of Supported modems please refer to Peplink 3G Modem Support page http www peplink com 3g Connection Settings 3 minutes Time value is global A change will affect all WAN profiles APN Login ID Password Dial Number Use the following DNS server address es DNS server 1 DNS server 2 Connection Settings for Mobile Internet Connection Enable Toggle the radio button to Yes to enable the connection This setting specifies the utilization of the WAN connection The selection of Always on results in the WAN connection to be used whenever it is available If Connection oe Type Backup is selected the WAN connection is treated as a backup connection and is used only in the absence of available Always on WAN The default and recommended Connection Type is Always on This op
57. CECEE 101 16 WLAN CONTROLLER ooooooconcrrcccnococcccocococconocococcocococcococococcocococccnocococcococococcocococconosos 103 16 1 a eieiei ee e et rr rr rrr eet ere ere ere rr eee eee ree 103 16 2 AP Management A A A 106 16 3 Wireless N lWOrKS een ennemies ar aa 107 16 4 Captive Portal Management SE De D 0 A 111 16 5 AP A o y ER ne ee 118 17 QOS PELLE 121 17 1 User Groups AAN 121 17 2 BANANE COMNIMOIES ee Cre etree AR 122 17 3 Application O O a a a IP o nn E a a a e E a ene 123 18 FIREWALL OO EEE EC EC ELEC ELEC ELEC EC EEE ELEC ELEC EE ELEC ELEC ELEC ELEC ELEC ECECECECECECECECECECECECECECECECECECECE 125 18 1 Outbound and Inbound Fire Wallis ie soient rro 125 18 2 Web Blocking tala 130 19 MISCELLANEOUS SETTINGS ceccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccsccccccsssccccscscsccccseseccccesccces 131 19 1 High Availability iii as 131 19 2 PPT P S rvVer rmmrcrrmsmeneenennenneneenmeneenennennenenneeneneenneneenennenneneenmneenenneneenennenneneenmeneenennennenenennennenees 134 19 3 Service Forwarding aria 136 19 4 Service Passthrough aiii nia 138 20 SYSTEM SETTINGS coccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccscsccccscsccccscssssccccesecscscsesecccsesecsccesesecccceees 139 20 1 Admin Security RR LR 139 20 2 Firmware Upgrade a riot EEE 143 20 3 MR tro 144 20 4 Email NOUICAON ee eer eee re re er rer er ee re eer rer ee rere ree ee eee eee 145 20 5 Remote Syslog declaras laca ice ne A T 147 20 6 SN IV eee ee ee alioli aii o 148 20 7 Rep
58. Local Area Network http www peplink com 34 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Internet a USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f P INK Business Continuity 7 3 Configuring the Network Environment To ensure that Peplink Balance works properly in the LAN environment and can access the Internet via the WAN connections please refer to the following setup procedures LAN Configuration For basic configuration refer to Section 8 Basic Configuration For advanced configuration refer to Section 9 Configuration of LAN Interface e WAN Configuration For basic configuration refer to Section 8 Basic Configuration For advanced configuration refer to Section 11 Configuration of WAN Interface s http www peplink com 35 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink ert USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity 8 Basic Configuration 8 1 Connecting to Web Admin Interface 1 Start a web browser on a computer that is connected with Peplink Balance through LAN 2 To connect to Web Admin of Peplink Balance enter the following LAN IP address in the address field of the web browser http 192 168 1 1 This is the default LAN IP address of Peplink Balance 3 Enter the following to access the Web Admin Interface Web Admin User Name admin Password admin This is the default Admin User login of Login Username Peplink B
59. Log button to clear the log Select 50 100 or all to show the corresponding number of events in the log 21 8 2 AP Event Log Available on Peplink Balance 380 Device Event Log AP Event Log May 05 17 59 20 Pepwave AP One 2 Online May 05 17 56 03 Pepwave AP One 1 Client 00 22 BB 55 88 66 associated with My_SSID May 05 17 55 55 Pepwave AP One 1 Client CC 88 00 55 33 44 disassociated from My_SSID This section displays a list of events that has taken place on the connected detected Pepwave AP devices Select 50 or 100 to show the corresponding number of events in the log Check the box next to Auto Refresh and the log will be refreshed automatically http www peplink com 161 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 21 9 Bandwidth This section shows the bandwidth usage statistics located at Status gt Bandwidth Bandwidth usage at the LAN and when the device is switched off e g LAN Bypass are not recorded and not shown 21 9 1 Real Time The Data Transferred since installation shows you how many network traffic has been processed by your device since first boot Click Show Details in the top right hand corner of each table and the details of data transferred will be shown The check box Stacked below the data transferred graph can be checked to show the aggregated transferred rate of both traffic direction Data transferred since instal
60. NS Settings create a domain name in the Domain Name field Then click on the newly created domain name and the following screen will be displayed peplink com x SOA Record Use Default SOA and NS Records NS Records TL se New NS Records MX Records TTL sec New MX Record CNAME Records TTL sec New CNAME Record A Records Host included IP Address es New A Record TXT Records TTL sec New TXT Record SRV Records port TIL sec there US no SRV record New SRV Record This page is for defining the domain s SOA NS MX CNAME A TXT and SRV records Seven tables are presented in this page for defining the five types of records http www peplink com 87 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 14 5 2 SOA Records Use Default SOA and NS Records L Use Default SOA and NS Records Customize SOA Record for this domain Click on the icon to choose whether to use the pre defined Default SOA Record and NS Records If the option Use Default SOA and NS Records is selected any changes made in the Default SOA NS Records will be applied to this domain automatically Otherwise select the option Customize SOA Record for this domain and you can customize this domain s SOA and NS records LE G SSS G SSS o cnc This table displays the current
61. P m HTTP f Single Port w Port 80 Persistence se pe ee O O By Source O By Destination Auto Custom Tip A network administrator can use the Traceroute utility to manually analyze the connection path of a particular WAN connection http www peplink com 170 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f P INK Business Continuity C 3 Bypassing the Firewall to Access Hosts on LAN C 3 1 Scenario There are times when remote access to computers on the LAN is desirable for example when hosting web sites online businesses and FTP download and upload areas etc In such cases it may be appropriate to create an inbound NAT mapping for the network to allow some hosts on the LAN to be accessible from outside of the firewall C 3 2 Solution Web Admin Interface can be used for adding an inbound NAT mapping to a host and to bind the host to the WAN connections via Network gt NAT Mappings gt Add NAT Rule For example the following settings add the host with IP address 192 168 1 102 to an Inbound Mapping and bind the host to the default IP and 211 123 123 100 of WANT LAN Client s P IP Address Address 192 168 1 102 Inbound Mappings 211 123 123 100 Interface IP E 211 123 123 101 Outbound Mappings WANI 211 123 123 100 Interface IP Interface IP Interface IP Mobile Internet Interface IP http www peplink com
62. Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Update Portal Page Information Click and choose a logo image and Upload for the portal page The image file should be in the format of JPEG PNG or GIF with maximum size of 2MB Logo Image Message Custom message can be specified here Terms amp Conditions Custom Terms amp Conditions messages can be specified here Custom Landing Page To specify the custom landing page opened once the clients login as a user Click Preview to preview the custom portal page and click Publish to save settings An example of custom portal page is shown as below Broadband Possibilities Get access to the network with your account Username Password Forgot password Agree and Login Powered by Peplink http www peplink com 115 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f P INK Business Continuity 16 4 4 Email Settings General Guest Accounts Portal Page Customization Email Settings Sender s Name Sender s Email Address Dear NAME Thank you for using SENDER s Wi Fi service Here is your account information User name USERNAME Password PASSWORD Expiry date EXP_DATE SENDER PS This is a post only mailing Replies to this message are not monitored or Thank you for using SENDER s Wi Fi service Enter the
63. Ps can be enabled by this option When this option is enabled the WLAN Controller will wait for management connections originating from APs over the LAN on TCP and UDP port 11753 It will also wait for captive portal connections on TCP port 443 An extended DHCP option CAPWAP Access Controller addresses field 138 will be added to the DHCP server A local DNS record wlancontroller will added to the local DNS proxy Enable The WLAN controller supports remote management of Pepwave APs When this option is enabled the WLAN controller will wait for management connections Originating from remote APs over the WAN on TCP and UDP port 11753 It will also wait for captive portal connections on TCP port 443 The DHCP server and or local DNS server of the remote AP s network should be configured as follows 1 Define an extended DHCP option CAPWAP Access Controller addresses Manage Remote field 138 in the DHCP server where the values are the WLAN controller s AP public IP addresses and or 2 Create a local DNS record for wlancontroller with a value corresponding to the WLAN controller s public IP address wlancontroller 10 10 10 1 EN Access Point devices managed will be defined in this option If Any is selected the Access Point to WLAN controller will manage any AP that reports to it If Access points listed be Managed below is selected only APs with a serial number listed in the text box will be managed http www peplink c
64. RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3ab 10 100 1000M WAN e One RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3ab 10 100 1000M LAN RS 232 Console Serial modem TA Port Power Specification e AC input 110 220V Operating Environment e Temperature 0 C 40 C Humidity 10 90 non condensing http www peplink com 180 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity E 6 Peplink Balance 1350 Routing o Drop in Mode and NAT e Flexible Custom Outbound Routing Policy WAN Support e DHCP PPPoE GRE and Static IP Inbound and Outbound Link Load Balance Device Management e Wizard amp Menu Driven Web Management Interface over HTTP HTTPS e Remote Reporting and Management o Bandwidth Usage Monitor e Configurations Upload and Download Internet Access Sharing e SUA Single User Account Multi to Multi NAT e NAT supports PAT Port Address Translation Security e PPTP VPN Server Rules based Stateful Firewall with IP Protocol and Port filtering VPN Encryption 256 bit AES e Intrusion Detection System Physical Interface e Thirteen RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3ab 10 100 1000M WAN e One RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3ab 10 100 1000M LAN e One RJ 45 Console Serial modem TA Port e LAN Bypass from WAN1 to LAN Power Specification e AC input 110 220V Operating Environment e Temperature 0 C 40 C Humidity 10 90 non condensing http www peplink com 181 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink
65. S lookup is routed through this connection You can input the ISP provided DNS server addresses into the DNS server 1 and DNS server 2 fields If no address is entered here this link will not be used for DNS lookups DNS Servers Please refer to Section 11 2 11 4 11 5 and 11 6 for details about WAN Health Check Bandwidth Allowance Monitor Additional Public IP Settings and Dynamic DNS Settings respectively http www peplink com 53 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 11 1 4 1 Routing under GRE via Network Address Translation NAT The following figure shows a typical scenario with Peplink Balance under the GRE connection mode and NAT routing mode gcc gp x r see ee eee eee ee ee ee Outgoing NAT IP Address Tunnel Local IP Address Tunnel Remote IP Address 210 103 22 1 tf 192168128222 192 109 128 223 i Lb 891 26L Peplink Balance Private IP Network Peplink Balance Router GRE Router tpessscanaaaaaae EG nn ere rs tessopaccaaaana es WAN IP Address WAN Default Gateway Remote GRE Host 1722932123 gt 172 23 2 122 172 23 254 87 In this scenario the IP address settings are as follows e WAN IP Address 172 23 2 123 e Default Gateway 172 23 2 122 o Remote GRE IP address 172 23 254 87 GRE router or host s IP address e Tunnel IP remote address 192 168 128 223 IP address
66. S network will be used respectively If the chosen network is not available no other network Network Type will be used regardless of its availability The modem connection will remain offline If 3G preferred or 2G preferred is chosen the chosen network will be used when it is available If the chosen network is not available the other network will be used whenever available The default Network Type is 3G preferred This setting allows you to specify which GSM frequency band to be used GSM1900 is used in United States Canada and many other countries in the Americas GSM900 GSM1800 GSM2100 are used in Europe Middle East Africa Asia Oceania and Brazil If All Bands is chosen the appropriate frequency band will be used automatically The default GSM Frequency Band is All Bands GSM Frequency Band http www peplink com 58 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 11 2 Physical Interface Settings Speed MTU Ol Auto Custom 1440 Default MSS ok Auto Custom MAC Address Clone Default Custom 00 11 an gt or Physical Interface Settings This setting specifies port speed and duplex configurations of the WAN Port By default Auto is selected and the appropriate data speed is automatically detected by Peplink Balance In the event of negotiation issues the port speed can be manually speci
67. Ves User Group Bandwidth x x x x ve Vee yes yes Reservation http www peplink com Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pepiink Business Continuity Individual Bandwidth Limit X X X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Networking Functionality NAT and IP Forwarding Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Configurable Static Routes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Port Forwarding Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Many to One One to One NAT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes UPnP NAT PMP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes WINS Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Dynamic DNS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Web Blocking X X X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Device Management Functionality Web Administrative Interface Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Email Notification Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Client List Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Bandwidth Usage Statistics Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Web Reporting Services Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Email Notification Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Syslog Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SNMP v1 v2c and v3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes http www peplink com Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pepiini Business Continuity Hardware Features LAN Ports 4 4 4 4 1 GbE 1 GbE 1 GbE 1 GbE Power Input 100V to 240V 100V to 240V 100V to 240V 100V to 240V 100V to 240V 100V to 240V 100V to 240V 100V to 240V AC AC AC AC AC AC AC AC Power C
68. a client computer will communicate using one IP address and eliminate the issues ae O Persistence gt III Persistence Mode O ey source By Destination TES O Auto Custom En E WANI 10 Weight z KA ii ZH p r 2 aa l WAN io r22 aaa a WAN3 10 a_i Mobile Internet 10 K K _ _ gt http www peplink com 75 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity There are two Persistent Modes One is by source and the other by destination By Source The same WAN connection will be used for traffic matching the rule and originating from the same machine regardless of its destination This option will provide the highest level of application compatibility By Destination The same WAN connection will be used for traffic matching the rule originating from the same machine and going to the same destination This option can better distribute load to WAN connections when there are only a few client machines The default Mode is By Source When there are multiple client requests they can be distributed persistently to WAN connections with a weight If you choose Auto in Load Distribution the weights will be automatically adjusted according to each WAN s Download Bandwidth which is specified in the WAN settings page see Section 11 Configuration of WAN Interface s If you choose Custom you can customize the weight of each WAN manually by using the s
69. ability Problem 4 What can do if suspect a problem on my LAN connection Solution You can test the LAN connection using Ping For example if you are using DOS Windows at the Command Prompt type ping 192 168 1 1 This pings the Peplink Balance device provided that Peplink Balance device s IP is 192 168 1 1 to test whether the connection to Peplink Balance is OK http www peplink com 174 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Problem 5 What can do if suspect a problem on my Internet WAN connection Solution You can test the WAN connection by Ping which is similar to problem 4 As we want to isolate the problems from the LAN Ping will be performed from Peplink Balance By using the Ping Traceroute under the tab Status of the Peplink Balance you may able to find out the source of problem Problem 6 When upload files to a server via ftp the transfer stalls after a few kilobytes of data are sent What should do Solution The Maximum Transmission Unit MTU or MSS setting may need to be adjusted By default the MTU is set at 1440 Choose Auto for all of your WAN connections If it does not solve you may try the MTU 1492 if a connection is a DSL If problem still persists change the size to smaller values until your problem is resolved e g 1462 1440 1420 1400 etc http www peplink com 175 182 Copyright 201
70. alance The Admin and Read only Password User Password can be changed at System gt Admin Security of the Web Admin Interface Logn 4 After successful login the Dashboard of Web Admin Interface will be displayed It looks similar to the following pep i Dashboard Setup Wizard Network System Status Web Admin LAN Interface 1 wani IP Address 210 10 10 1 Details Status Connected Logout Mobile Internet IP Address none Status No Device Detected Site to Site VPN Details WLAN Information Change AP Profile Access Point 2 Online 2 Connected Clients 9 Peplink Balance 380 Ti 0 day 1 hour 36 minutes E 4 Throughput 3 1 4 Mbps 10 2 Mbps High Availability Group 234 123 123 123 246 Last transition at Sat Apr 24 07 31 20 PST 2011 Copyright Peplink All rights reserved Important Note The Save button causes the changes to be saved Configuration changes e g WAN LAN Admin settings etc take effect after clicking the Apply Changes button on each page s top right hand corner http www peplink com 36 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 8 2 Configuration with Setup Wizard The Setup Wizard of Peplink Balance simplifies the task of configuring WAN connection s by guiding the configuration process step by step To begin click Setup Wizard after connecting to Web Admin Interface
71. ally entered or automatically generated This setting specifies a user specified encryption key value Encryption Key For ASCII format key length is either 5 or 13 For HEX format key length is either 10 or 26 Shared Key This setting enables the use of shared key authentication Open authentication Authentication is the default authentication 16 3 2 802 1X Parameters The configuration of 802 1X parameters enables Radius based 802 1X authentication with a dynamic WEP key Once selected Radius Server Setting will be available The configuration screen is as follows Wireless Security Settings 802 1x Parameters WEP Key Size The setting can be configured as either 40 bits or 104 bits This setting specifies the length of time throughout which the broadcast key remains valid Upon expiration of Re keying Period the broadcast key will no Re keying Period longer be valid and the renewal of the broadcast key will be required The default is 14400 seconds i e 4 hours A value of 0 disables re keying http www peplink com 109 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 16 3 3 WPA parameters The configuration of WPA parameters enables WPA WPA2 Personal and WPA WPA2 Enterprise Wireless Security Settings TKIP AES CCMP When WPA WPAZ2 Enterprise is configured Radius based 802 1x authentication is enabled Under this configura
72. an enable this field and enter the VLAN ID that the provider requires Note Leave this field disabled if you are not sure VLAN http www peplink com 59 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 11 3 WAN Health Check To ensure traffic is routed to healthy WAN connections only Peplink Balance provides the functionality to periodically check the health of each WAN connection The Health Check settings for each WAN connection can be independently configured via Network gt Interfaces gt WAN Health Check Settings Host 2 Use first two DNS servers as Health Check DNS Servers ET Include public DNS servers 5 second s second s Le E iil Health Check Settings This setting specifies the health check method for the WAN connection The value of Method can be configured as Disabled Ping or DNS Lookup The default Method method is DNS Lookup For Mobile Internet connection the value of Method can be configured as Disabled or SmartCheck Health Check Disabled Health Check Settings Note Health check is disabled Enable it to detect IP routing problem When Disabled is chosen in the Method field the WAN connection will always be considered as up The connection will NOT be treated as down in the event of IP routing errors Health Check Method Ping Host 2 Use first two DNS servers as Ping Hosts
73. arding and inbound NAT Mapping rules However if the default inbound rule is set as Deny a corresponding Allow firewall rules will be required http www peplink com 128 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f PINK Business Continuity 18 1 2 Intrusion Detection and DoS Prevention Intrusion Detection and DoS Prewention Enable The Balance supports detecting and preventing intrusions and Denial of Service DoS attacks from the Internet To turn on this feature click check the Enable check box for the Intrusion Detection and DoS Prevention and press the Save button When this feature is enabled the Balance will detect and protect from the following kinds of intrusions and denial of service attacks e Port Scan e NMAP FIN URG PSH e Xmas Tree e Another Xmas Tree e Null Scan e SYN RST e SYN FIN e SYN Flood Prevention e Ping Flood Attack Prevention http www peplink com 129 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 18 2 Web Blocking Available on Peplink Balance 380 Web Site Domain Name Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 24 Save 18 2 1 Web Blocking Enter an appropriate website address and Peplink Balance will block and disallow LAN PPTP Site to Site VPN peer clients to access these websites Exception can be added in the following sections 18 2 2 and 18 2 3 Y
74. bar to override the Site to Site VPN Routes Upon disabling the Expert Mode all rules above the bar will be removed This table allows you to fine tune how the outbound traffic should be distributed to the WAN connections y O es Protocol Persistence Src an IP Network TCP Auto Yy 192 168 50 0 24 443 Site to Site VPN Routes Default Lowest Latency Add Rule Click the Add Rule button to add a new rule Click the X button to remove a rule Drag a rule to promote or demote ts precedence A higher position of a rule signifies a higher precedence You may change the default outbound policy behavior by clicking the Default link If you require advanced control of r Eu dt Expert http www peplink com 78 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink ee USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity 14 Inbound Access Inbound Access is also known as inbound port address translation On NAT WAN connection all inbound traffic to the server behind Peplink unit requires Inbound Access rules By the custom definition of servers and services for inbound access Internet users can access the servers behind Peplink Balance Advanced configurations allow inbound access to be distributed among multiple servers on the LAN Important Note Inbound Access applies only to WAN connections that operate under NAT mode F
75. be automatically added for the SOA records with a Name Server IP Address provided http www peplink com 90 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pepiink ty A Record Editing This field specifies the A record of this sub domain to be served by the Peplink Balance The wildcard character is supported The IP addresses of domain name will be returned for every name ending with domain name except names that have their own records Host Name This setting specifies the time to live of this record in external DNS caches TTL In order to reflect any dynamic changes on the IP addresses in case of link failure and recovery this value should be set to a smaller value E g 5 secs 60 secs etc This option specifies the priority of different connections Select the Default option to apply the Default Connection Priority refer to the table shown on the main DNS Settings page to an A record To customize priorities choose the Custom option and a priority selection table will be shown at the bottom Priority This setting specifies lists of WAN specific Internet IP addresses that are candidates to be returned when Peplink Balance responds to DNS queries for the domain name specified by Host Name The IP addresses listed in each box as default are the Internet IP addresses associated with each of the WAN connections Static IP addresses that are not associated with any WAN
76. can be entered into the Custom IP list A PTR record is also created for each Custom IP s For WAN connections that operate under Drop in mode there may be other routable IP addresses in addition to the default IP address Therefore Peplink Balance allows custom Included IP Internet IP addresses to be added manually via filling the text box on the right hand side Address es OT clicking the button Only the checked IP addresses in the lists are candidates to be returned when responding to a DNS query In case of a WAN connection is down the corresponding set of IP addresses will not be returned However the IP addresses in the Custom IP field will always be returned If the Connection Priority field is set to Custom you can also specify the priority of the use of each WAN connection Only selected IP address es of available connection s with the highest priority and also Custom IP addresses will be returned By default the Connection Priority is set to Default http www peplink com 91 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 14 5 7 PTR Records PTR records are created along with A records pointing to Custom IPs Please refer to Section 14 5 6 for details For example if you created an A record www mydomain com pointing to 11 22 33 44 then a PTR record 44 33 22 11 in addr arpa pointing to www mydomain com will also be created When there are mult
77. cators The statuses indicated by the Front Panel LEDs are as follows Power and Status Indicators OFF Power off Power LED Green Power on Console and USB Ports Console Port Reserved for engineering Use USB Ports For connecting a USB based mobile modem LAN Port and WAN Ports ON 1000 Mbps Green LED OFF 100 10 Mbps Solid Port is connected without traffic Yellow LED Blinking Data is transferring OFF Port is not connected Port Type Auto MDI MDI X ports http www peplink com 221 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 6 5 3 LCD Display Menu Mm gt Power off j D a Reboot gt HA State Master Slave gt LAN IP gt VIP gt System Status gt System gt Firmware ver shows firmware version gt Serial number shows serial number gt System time shows current time gt System up time shows system uptime since last reboot gt CPU load shows current CPU loading 0 100 gt LAN gt Status shows LAN port physical status gt IP address shows LAN IP address gt Subnet mask shows LAN subnet mask gt Link status shows Connected Disconnected IP address list gt WANT gt WAN2 gt WAN3 gt VPN status shows Connected Disconnected gt VPN Profile 1 gt VPN Profile 2 D ts gt VPN Profile n gt Link usage gt Throughput in shows transfer rate in Kbps gt WAN1
78. ccounts No of accounts to be This is to specify the number of accounts will be generated with the same generated settings Username prefix This is to specify the prefix of the username of the guest accounts This field non empty should not leave blank Sequence number This is to specify the sequence number suffix which the username will start suffix starts from from The specified value should be a number Change Password at With the box checked user who uses this account to access will need to First Login change the password at first login If this option is enabled time quota of access will be set If this option is Time Quota disabled users will have unlimited Internet access with this wireless network With the box checked an expiry date can be specified This guest account will Expiry Date expire when time reach 16 4 3 Portal Page Customization A customized portal page will be shown each time a user access the wireless network that has captive portal enabled The portal page can be customized under the Portal Page customization tab General Guest Accounts Portal Page Customization Email Settings Update Portal Page Information Uploaded 2011 04 27 18 00 50 Note Max size 2 MB Supported image types JPEG PNG and GIF Your message 1 Terms 1 2 Terms 2 3 Terms 3 Other conditions http www your landing page com Preview Publish http www peplink com 114 182 Copyright O 2011
79. ccounts available for accessing the Web Admin Usernames are admin and user They represent two user levels admin has full administration access while user is a read only account The read only account can only access the device s status information and cannot make any change on the device att pep IK Dashboard Setup Wizard Network System Status Dashboard Status Web Admin uanintertace m mm est LAN Intertece LAN Interface Router 1P Address 192 168 1 1 Bouter IF Addresas 102 165 1 1 IP Address 10 10 10 172 putada D Address 10 10 10 172 Damis Status El Comected Duobieinternet Legal E Moblic Internet IP Addrana nana Status No Devise Detected Devine Information Paprik Malanca 3049 5 1 0 buld 1309 0 day 20 hours 35 minutes Throughput T 0 1 Mbps st D a ae Copyright E Peplink A rights reserved Admin Account Ul User Account Ul A web login session will be logged out automatically when it has been idled for a longer time than the Web Session Timeout The default timeout is 4 hours O minute Before the session expires you may click the Logout button in the Web Admin to exit from the session For security reason after logging in to the Web Admin Interface for the first time it is recommended to change the administrator password Configuring the administration interface to be accessible only from the LAN can further improve system security Administrative Settings configuration is
80. cocconososese 168 C 1 Performance Optimization e E II E AI D D eee O OE RI ce joie 168 C 2 Maintaining the Same IP Address throughout A SESSION siente ttes tiens 170 C 3 Bypassing the Firewall to Access Hosts on LAN tr i i i iit 171 C 4 iibound Access ResiticlO Msc aa acacia 172 C 5 OmiDolnda Access Re siriIClOnN seen n stone een entdee denses scunesos 173 APPENDIX D TROUBLESHOOTING ececccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccssccccccscseccccssecsccccecees 174 APPENDIX E PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS cecccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccsccccccsccsccccccsecsccccecees 176 E 1 Peplink Balante O and SO eaa ee cree 176 FE Peplink Balance 210 and 310 eieiei err er te ee 177 E 3 Peplink ell gees Ore ee Cee etre or ee eer eee rer eer eer eer er ee eee tee rene eer eee heer ee eee ere ect 178 EA Peplink Banco SBO o o ae ete cee at ec eee seinen 179 E5 Peplink Balance Dee cee eee ee rere ee eee er ee ee eee er re ee eee ee eer ee ee 180 E6 Peplink lla a MECO A ee 2 ree re eee eee eee ee eee 181 http www peplink com Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 1 Introduction and Scope The Peplink Balance series provides link aggregation and load balancing across up to thirteen WAN connections The Peplink Balance 20 30 provides a cost effective solution suitable for power users and home offices The Peplink Balance 210 310 provides advanced features for small business
81. com 14 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Serles pink Business Continuity 6 1 3 Rear Panel Appearance Power Connector USER MANUAL Kensington Security Slot 6 1 4 Unit Base Appearance Serial Number and LAN MAC Address i a Peplink Balance 20 pr Product Code BPL 021 Serial 1020 1093 7651 LAN MAC 10 56 CA 60 13 30 Default Access nities 1s 188 i 1 F Input 12V DC Made in Tahran U T or http www peplink com 15 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Serles pink Business Continuity 6 2 Peplink Balance 30 6 2 1 Front Panel Appearance USER MANUAL USB Port WAN Ports Status LED peplink Balance30 LAN Ports Reset Button Power LED 6 2 2 LED Indicators The statuses indicated by the Front Panel LEDs are as follows Power and Status Indicators OFF Power off Power Green Power on OFF System initializing Status Red Booting up or busy Green Ready state LAN and WAN Ports ON 100 Mbps Green LED OFF 10 Mbps Solid Port is connected without traffic Yellow LED Blinking Data is transferring OFF Port is not connected Port Type Auto MDI MDI X ports USB Port USB Ports For connecting a USB based mobile modem http www peplink com 16 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 6 2 3 Rear Panel Appearance
82. conds after an error record is cached o TTL Time to Live Defines the duration in seconds that the record may be cached http www peplink com 88 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series Protecting Business Continuity 14 5 3 NS Records The NS Record table shows the NS servers and TTL that correspond to the domain The NS record of the name server defined in the SOA record is automatically added here To add a new NS record click the New NS Records button in the NS Records box Then the table will expand to look like the following When creating an NS record for the domain itself not a sub domain the Host field E be left blank Enter a name server host name and its IP address into the corresponding boxes The host name can be a non FQDN fully qualified domain name please be sure that a corresponding A record is created Click the button on the right to finish and to add the other Name Server After finishing adding NS records click the Save button Before clicking the Save button all NS record changes are not yet saved to the Peplink Balance 14 5 4 MX Records The MX Record table shows the domain s MX records To add a new MX record click the New MX Records button in the MX Records box Then the table will expand to look like the following Pri rity Mail Server TIL When creating an MX record for the domain itself not a sub domain the Host fie
83. d protocol is selected http www peplink com 149 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 20 7 Reporting Server The Reporting functionality enables Peplink Balance to post traffic data and other information periodically to a Peplink s Reporting Server for generating detailed historical usage reports of the device The settings for configuring Reporting Server functionality are found at the following location System gt Reporting Server Post Data to Server Yes No report peplink com Default For first time users create a login on the Reporting Server Specify your login ID to be allowed to access the report Click here to view reports Remote Reporting Settings Post Data to This setting specifies whether or not Peplink Balance should periodically and automatically Server post traffic data to reporting server l This setting specifies the Internet IP address or host name of the reporting server Reporting Server By default the Reporting Server value is report Peplink com Click the link to register a login ID on Peplink s Reporting Server Each login ID can create a login associate with multiple Peplink Balance devices If you already have a login ID on the server you can skip this step Click on the link and the following window will pop up Reporting Server Registration Registration will contact the reporting server
84. d abbreviations are frequently used in this manual Term Definition 3G DHCP DNS EVDO HSDPA GRE HTTP ICMP IP LAN MAC Address MTU MSS NAT PPPoE QoS SNMP TCP UDP VPN VRRP WAN WINS WLAN 210 380 http www peplink com 3rd Generation family of standards for wireless communications Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Domain Name System Evolution Data Optimized High Speed Downlink Packet Access Generic Routing Encapsulation Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Internet Control Message Protocol Internet Protocol Local Area Network Media Access Control Address Maximum Transmission Unit Maximum Segment Size Network Address Translation Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet Quality of Service Simple Network Management Protocol Transmission Control Protocol User Datagram Protocol Virtual Private Network Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Wide Area Network Windows Internet Name Service Wireless Local Area Network Refer to Peplink Balance 210 310 380 580 710 1350 Refer to Peplink Balance 380 580 710 1350 Copyright 2011 Peplink Protecting Business Continuity Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 3 Product Comparison Chart Features Customer Group Home and Home Office Small Business Mid Size Business Large Enterprise Capacity WAN Ports Internet Links 2 3 2 3 3 GbE 5 GbE 7 3x GbE 13 GbE Recommended Users 1 25 1 25 1 50 1 50 50 500 300
85. d algorithms This setting specifies whether to terminate existing IP sessions on a less preferred WAN connection in the event that a more preferred WAN connection is recovered This setting is applicable to the Algorithms Weighted Persistence and Priority Terminate Sessions on Link Recovery By default this is disabled In this case all existing IP sessions will not be terminated or affected when any other WAN connection is recovered If it is set to enabled existing IP sessions may be terminated when another WAN connection is recovered such that only the preferred healthy WAN connection s are used at any point in time http www peplink com 74 I 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 13 2 1 Algorithm Weighted Balance This setting specifies the ratio of WAN connection usage to be applied on the specified IP Protocol amp Port and is applicable only when Algorithm is set to Weighted Balance Algorithm io Weighted Balance Load Distribution Weight The amount of matching traffic that is distributed to a WAN connection is proportional to the weight of WAN connection relative to the total weight Use the sliders to change each WAN s weight Example With the following weight settings on a Peplink Balance 310 e WANI 10 e WAN2 10 e WAN3 5 Total weight is 25 10 10 5 Matching traffic distributed to WAN1 is 40 10 25 x 1
86. d attach it along with a description of your encountered issue In firmware 5 1 or before Diagnostic Report file can be obtain at System gt Reboot http www peplink com 156 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity 21 2 Active Sessions Information on Active Sessions is at Status gt Active Sessions Filter 192166 1 110 Source IP Destination IP service Interface Idle Time 192 168 1 110 4147 123 123 123 1 443 WANI 00 00 02 192 168 1 110 60 60 60 1 WANT 00 00 02 192 168 1 110 2423 123 123 123 1 443 HTTP WANT 00 00 13 192 168 1 110 1144 123 123 123 123 5222 XMPP Client WAN2 00 00 19 192 168 1 110 1156 65 65 65 1 1863 WANT 00 00 22 192 166 1 110 6281 7 90 123 90 1 123 NTP WANZ 00 00 29 Source IP Destination IP ervice Idle Time 10 10 10 112 1024 192 168 1 110 514 00 00 20 This Active Sessions section displays the active inbound outbound sessions of each WAN connection on Peplink Balance A filter is available to help sort out the active session information Enter a keyword in the field or check one of the WAN connection boxes for filtering 21 3 Client List The client list table is located at Status gt Client List It lists DHCP client IP address their Name retrieved from DHCP reservation table or defined by users current Download and Upload rate and MAC address that the Peplink Balance has offered IP addresses to since it is po
87. e DNS configuration From a host on the Internet use an IP address of Peplink Balance and nslookup to lookup the corresponding host name Check the information that is returned for the expected results An example with nslookup in Windows follows C Documents and Settings User Name gt nslookup Default Server ns1 myisp com Address 147 22 11 2 gt server 202 153 122 108 This is Peplink Balance s WAN IP address Default Server balance mycompany com Address 202 153 122 108 gt www mycompany com This ts the host name to be looked up Default Server balance mycompany com Address 202 153 122 108 Name www mycompany com Address 202 153 122 109 67 38 212 19 The values of the IP addresses are fictitious and for illustration only the actual IP addresses in implementation will likely be different http www peplink com 95 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 14 6 Reverse Lookup Zones in addr arpa Reverse lookup refers to performing a DNS query to find one or more DNS names associated with a given IP address The DNS stores IP addresses in the form of specially formatted names as pointer PTR records using special domains zones The zone is in addr arpa To enable DNS clients to perform a reverse lookup for a host perform two steps Create a Reverse Lookup Zone that corresponds to the subnet network address of the host In the Rev
88. e main selections for the Outbound Traffic Policy of Peplink Balance High Application Compatibility e Normal Application Compatibility o Managed by Custom Rules The selections are explained as follows Outbound Policy Settings With the selection of this policy outbound traffic from a source LAN device is routed High Application through the same WAN connection regardless of the destination Internet IP address and Compatibility protocol This provides the highest application compatibility With the selection of this policy outbound traffic from a source LAN device to the same Normal destination Internet IP address will persistently be routed through the same WAN Application connection regardless of protocol Compatibility This provides high compatibility to most applications and users still benefit from WAN link load balancing when multiple Internet servers are accessed With the selection of this policy outbound traffic behavior can be managed by defining Managed by custom rules Custom Rules Rules can be defined in a custom rule table A default rule can be defined for connections that cannot be matched with any one of the rules The default policy is Normal Application Compatibility Tip Want to know more about how to create outbound rules Visit our YouTube Channel for a video tutorial ann Peet babe Bab Ara era DAANA TER 19 Dashboard Setup Wizard Network System Status Apply Changes Interfaces e WAN
89. eccecs 14 6 1 Peplink Balance A ee de eee nee eee dd desc ste dc sc 14 6 2 Peplink eee el ae aie Oe eee eee eee ere eee ee ds ones ces codec 16 6 3 Peplink Balance 2 eea a aa aaea sacevieencebatec ste cescceetatecccevinarcteticeseetaces 18 6 4 Peplink Balance 2108 ee nent 2 nee ed 20 6 5 Peplink Balance 00 ace le rere rs ere re ere eee re ec eee 22 6 6 Peplink Balance Sol er rer ee er eer ee er ee cr eee re rer eer ee ere ere eer eee cree 25 6 7 Peplink Balance LD ee 28 6 8 Peplink eel lg eee Ore eee eee ee ee eee eee ee eee ee ee nent eee 31 7 INSTALLATION c0oocooroconcnoconconococcococococconocococcocococoonocococcococococcocococconocococcosocaccococsococccsosascoss 34 7 1 Preparation EEE 34 7 2 Constructing the N Or cere re eer ic rra 34 7 3 Configuring the Network ENVITON Mentiras aora ete is 35 8 BASIC CONFIGURATION c0ooooncrrrccnccoconconococcococococconocococcocococcocnocococconocococnococaccocococcccosocascoss 36 8 1 Connecting to Web Admin Interaccion 36 8 2 Configuration with Setup Ma Ree ee eo ee ee ee ee ee ee 37 8 3 Advanced Setup EEE 40 9 CONFIGURATION OF LAN INTERFACE eceeeececccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccsccccccccccccccssecccsccccces 41 10 DROP IN MODE oooooroconccccccconococconocococconococconocococcocnocococcocococccnococcccococococcococeccosoceccccosos 45 11 CONFIGURATION OF WAN INTERFACE S 000000000000 0000 E E a E eee Er 48 11 1 Connection Method s A OS PPP o O dus tab Cora decide de noue nie 50 11 2 Physical
90. ed for that particular group Please refer to the following two sections for details http www peplink com 121 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f P INK Business Continuity 17 2 Bandwidth Control Available on Peplink Balance 380 This section is to define how much minimum bandwidth will be reserved to each user group when a WAN connection is in full load When this feature is enabled a slider with two indicators will be shown You can move the indicators to adjust each group s weighting The lower part of the table shows the corresponding reserved download and upload bandwidth value of each connection By default 50 of bandwidth has been reserved for Manager 30 for Staff and 20 for Guest Enable Group Reserved Bandwidth 50 0M 50 0M 3 1 oM 4 0M You can define a maximum download speed over all WAN connections and upload speed for each WAN connection that each individual Staff and Guest member can consume No limit can be imposed on individual Manager members By default Download and Upload Bandwidth Limits are set to unlimited set as 0 Download Upload Manager Unlimited Urdimited Staff 20 Mbps 10 Mbps 0 unlimited Guest En Kbps 100 Kbps 0 unlimited http www peplink com 122 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL A link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 17 3 Application
91. er Account Multi to Multi NAT o NAT supports PAT Port Address Translation Security e PPTP VPN Server Rules based Stateful Firewall with IP Protocol and Port filtering VPN Encryption 256 bit AES e Intrusion Detection System Physical Interface Balance 380 e Three RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3u 10 100M WAN e One RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3u 10 100M LAN o RS 232 Console Serial modem TA Port Physical Interface Balance 380 Hardware version 3 4 e Three RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3ab 10 100M 1000M WAN e One RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3ab 10 100M 1000M LAN o RS 232 Console Serial modem TA Port Physical Interface Balance 380 Hardware version 5 e Three RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3ab 10 100M 1000M WAN e One RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3ab 10 100M 1000M LAN e One RJ 45 Console Serial modem TA Port Power Specification e AC input 110 220V Operating Environment e Temperature 0 C 40 C e Humidity 10 90 non condensing http www peplink com 178 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity E 4 Peplink Balance 580 Routing o Drop in Mode and NAT e Flexible Custom Outbound Routing Policy WAN Support e DHCP PPPoE GRE and Static IP Inbound and Outbound Link Load Balance Device Management e Wizard amp Menu Driven Web Management Interface over HTTP HTTPS e Remote Reporting and Management o Bandwidth Usage Monitor e Configurations Upload and Download Internet
92. ers If your service provider s DHCP server requires you to supply a hostname value upon acquiring an IP address you may enter the value here If your service provider does not provide you with the value you can safely bypass this option Hostname Optional Please refer to Section 11 2 11 4 11 5 and 11 6 for details about WAN Health Check Bandwidth Allowance Monitor Additional Public IP Settings and Dynamic DNS Settings respectively http www peplink com 50 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series i P INK Business Continuity 11 1 2 Static IP Connection The Static IP connection method is suitable if the ISP provides a static IP address to connect directly IP re Subnet Mask Default Gateway DNS Servers Use the following DNS server address es DNS server 1 DNS server 2 Static IP Settings IP Address These settings specify the information required in order to communicate on the Subnet Mask Internet via a fixed Internet IP address Default Gateway The information is typically determined by and can be obtained from the ISP Each ISP may provide a set of DNS servers for DNS lookups This field specifies the DNS Domain Name System Servers to be used when a DNS lookup is routed through this connection You can input the ISP provided DNS server addresses into the DNS server 1 and DNS server 2 fields If no address is entered here this link will no
93. erse Lookup Zone add a pointer PTR resource record that maps the host IP address to the host name Click the New Reverse Lookup Zone button and enter a Reverse Lookup Zone Name If you are delegated the subnet 11 22 33 0 24 the Zone Name should be 33 22 11 in arpa addr PTR records for 11 22 33 1 11 22 33 2 11 22 33 254 should be defined in this zone where the Host IP Numbers are 1 2 254 respectively CEE WARNING You should define SOA record in your zone Click here to define SOA Record ost iame server OOO OO OO O meo WARNING You should define NS records in your zone New NS Records O ost TE 11751 There is currently no CNAME records ___ New CNAME Record There is currently no PTR records New PTR Record http www peplink com 96 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 14 6 1 SOA Record You can click the link Click here to define SOA record to create or click on the Name Server field to edit the SOA record Dsl ni eens busier In the SOA record you must fill out the field s Name Server Name Server IP Address optional Email Refresh Retry Expire Min Time and TTL Name Server Enter the NS record s FODN server name here For example ns1 mydomain com equivalent to www 1stdomain com ns2 mydomain com Email Refresh Retry Expire Min Time and TTL a
94. erver is a FQDN the IP Address field will be disabled Default Connection Priority defines the default priority group of each WAN connection in resolving A records It applies to A records which have the Connection Priority set to Default Please refer to Section 14 5 6 for the details The WAN connection s with the highest priority smallest number will be chosen Those with lower priorities will not be chosen in resolving A records unless the higher priority ones become unavailable To specify the Primary and Backup connections click the Ez button that corresponds to Default Connection Priority The screen should assemble the one below Want EE 1 Highest Mobile Internet Save Cancel Each WAN connection is associated with a priority number Click Save to save the settings when configuration is complete This section shows a list of domain names to be hosted by the Peplink Balance Each domain can have its NS MX and TXT records and its or its sub domains A and CNAME records Add a new record by clicking the New Domain Name button Click on a domain name to edit Press X to remove a domain name http www peplink com 86 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL A link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 14 5 1 Creating DNS Records To create new DNS records for a domain perform the following steps From Network gt Inbound Access gt D
95. ervice This setting specifies a list of host names or domains to be associated with the public Hosts Domain Internet IP address of the WAN connection Important Note In order to use dynamic DNS services appropriate host name registration s as well as a valid account with a supported dynamic DNS service provider are required A dynamic DNS update is performed whenever a WAN s IP address changed E g IP is changed after a DHCP IP refresh reconnection etc Due to dynamic DNS service providers policy a dynamic DNS host would expire automatically because the host record was not updated for a long time Therefore Peplink Balance performs an update every 23 days even if a WAN s IP address did not change http www peplink com 65 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 12 Site to Site VPN Available on Peplink Balance 210 VPN Bonding Mobile Location Internet Central Location Peplink Balance Site to Site VPN functionality securely connects one or more branch offices to your company s main headquarters or to other branches The data voice or video communications between these locations are kept confidential across the public Internet The Site to Site VPN of the Peplink Balance is specifically designed for multi WAN environment The Peplink Balance can aggregate all WAN connections bandwidth for routing Site to Site VPN traf
96. es the system clock of Peplink Balance to be synchronized with a specified Time Server The settings for Time Server configuration are located at System gt Time Time Zone GMT 08 00 Pacific Time US amp Canada O Show all Time Server time nistgov Default Save Time Server Settings This specifies the time zone along with the corresponding Daylight Savings Time scheme in which Peplink Balance operates Time Zone The Time Zone value affects the time stamps in the Event Log of Peplink Balance and E mail notifications Checked the box Show all to show all time zone options Time Server This setting specifies the NTP network time server to be utilized by Peplink Balance http www peplink com 144 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f P INK Business Continuity 20 4 Email Notification The Email Notification functionality of Peplink Balance provides a System Administrator with up to date information on network status The settings for configuring Email Notification are found at System gt Email Notification Enable Require authentication O Note any server certificate will be accepted 25 Default a Sender s mal adress Recipient s Email Address system mycompany com stafffmycompany com Test Email Notification Save Email Notification Settings This setting specifies whether or not to
97. ettings is found at System gt Configuration Restore Factory Settings D 20 8 1 Restore Configuration to Factory Settings The Restore Factory Settings button is to reset the configuration to the factory default settings You have to click the Apply Changes button to make the settings effective 20 8 2 Downloading Active Configurations The Download button is to backup the current active settings Click Download and save the configuration file 20 8 3 Uploading Configurations To restore or change settings based on a configuration file click Browse to locate the configuration file on the local computer and then click Upload The new settings can then be applied by clicking the Apply Changes button on the page header or discard at the Main page of Web Admin Interface 20 8 4 Uploading Configuration from High Availability Pair Available on Peplink Balance 210 In a High Availability HA configuration to quickly load onto the Peplink Balance unit the configuration of its HA counterpart click the Upload button After loading the settings configure the LAN IP address of the Peplink Balance unit to be different from the HA counterpart http www peplink com 152 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 20 9 Reboot This page provides a Reboot button for restarting the system For highest reliability Peplink Balance series are equipped with t
98. etwork protocol and a web browser installed Supported browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or above Mozilla Firefox 3 0 or above Apple Safari 3 1 1 or above and Google Chrome 2 0 or above 7 2 Constructing the Network At the high level construct the network according to the following steps 1 With an Ethernet cable connect a computer to one of the LAN ports on the Peplink Balance For Peplink Balance 20 30 210 and 310 repeat with different cables for up to 4 computers to be connected 2 With another Ethernet cable connect the WAN broadband modem to one of the WAN ports on the Peplink Balance Repeat using different cables to connect up to 2 3 5 7 or 13 WAN broadband connections with the Peplink Balance 20 30 210 310 380 580 710 and 1350 respectively or connect a USB modem to the USB WAN port on the Peplink Balance 20 30 380 580 710 1350 3 For Peplink Balance 20 30 210 and 310 connect the provided power adapter to the power connector on the Peplink Balance and then plug the power adapter into a power outlet For Peplink Balance 380 580 710 and 1350 connect the provided power cord to the AC power connector on the Peplink Balance and then plug the power cord into a power outlet The following figure schematically illustrates the configuration that results Su Broadband ise gt Modem 1 Me WAN1 Peplink WAN2 ss Balance j y lt Broadband GS MA Modem 2 Ethernet e Y AY N Switch Cay a
99. fic Unless all the WAN connections of one site are down the Peplink Balance can still maintain VPN up and running VPN Bandwidth Bonding is supported in firmware 5 0 All available bandwidth will be utilized to establish the VPN tunnel and all traffic will be load balanced at packet level across all links VPN Bandwidth Bonding is enabled by default Tip You can define firewall rules to control access within the VPN network Outbound traffic can be redirected and go through VPN tunnels with custom outbound policies please refer to section 13 for details 12 1 Site to Site VPN Settings Peplink Balance 380 580 710 and 1350 support making multiple Site to Site VPN connections with a remote Peplink Balance 210 310 380 580 710 1350 or a Pepwave MAX Mobile Router Peplink Balance 210 and 310 support making two Site to Site VPN connections with a remote Peplink Balance 210 310 380 580 710 1350 or a Pepwave MAX Mobile Router Peplink Balance that supports multiple VPN connections can act as a central hub which connects branch offices For example branch office A and branch office B make VPN connections to headquarters C both branch offices LAN subnet and subnets behind it i e static routes will also be advertised to the headquarters C and the other branches So branch office A will be able to access branch office B via headquarters C in this case The local LAN subnet and subnets behind the LAN defined under Static Route in
100. fied to circumvent the issues You can also choose whether or not to advertise the speed to the peer by selecting the Advertise Speed checkbox Speed This setting specifies the Maximum Transmission Unit By default MTU is set to Custom 1440 MTU You may adjust the MTU value by editing the text field Click Default to restore the default MTU value Select Auto and the appropriate MTU value will be automatically detected The auto detection will run each time when the WAN connection establishes This setting should be configured based on the maximum payload size that the local system can handle The MSS Maximum Segment Size is computed from MSS the MTU minus 40 bytes for TCP over IPv4 If MTU is set to Auto the MSS will also be set automatically By default MSS is set to Auto This setting allows you to configure the MAC address Some service providers e g cable providers identify the client s MAC address and require the client to always use the same MAC address to connect to the MAC Address network In such cases change the WAN interface s MAC address to the original Clone client PC s one via this field The default MAC Address is a unique value assigned at the factory In most cases the default value is sufficient Clicking the Default button restores the MAC Address to the default value Some service providers require the router to enable VLAN tagging for Internet traffic If it is required by your service provider you c
101. from the slave unit This option is displayed when Slave mode is selected in Preferred Role If this option is enabled and the Master Serial Number entered matches with the actual master unit s the master unit will automatically transfer the configuration to this unit Please make sure the LAN IP Address and Subnet Mask fields are set correctly in the LAN Settings page You can refer to the Event Log for the configuration synchronization status If the box Configuration Sync is checked serial number of the Master unit is required to be entered here The setting specifies the LAN IP address on which the active Peplink Balance listens The value of Virtual IP represents a LAN IP address that is shared among the Master and Slave units however at any time only one of the two units will listen on the IP address If the WAN is configured in NAT mode Default Gateway of the clients on the LAN should be set to the virtual IP These configurations are not required when the WAN is configured in Drop in mode This setting specifies a LAN IP address to be used for accessing administration functionality This address should be unique within the LAN This setting specifies the subnet mask of the LAN USER MANUAL peplink Continuity Peplink Balance Series Important Note For Balance in NAT mode the VIP should be set as the default gateway for all hosts sitting on the LAN segment For example a firewall sitting behind the Bala
102. gh which the Web Admin Interface can be accessible Security e HTTP e HTTPS e HTTP HTTPS These fields are for specifying the port number at which the Web Admin Interface can be Web Admin Port accessible This option is for specifying the network interfaces through which the Web Admin Interface can be accessible e LAN only e LAN WAN If LAN WAN is chosen a WAN Connection Access Settings form will be displayed WAN Connection Access Settings This field allows you to restrict web admin access only from defined IP subnets Web Admin Access e Any Allow web admin accesses to be from anywhere without IP address restriction e Allow access from the following IP subnets only Restrict web admin access only from the defined IP subnets When this is chosen a text input area will be displayed beneath Allowed Source IP Subnets be IP any Allow access from the following IP subnets only UDNES The allowed IP subnet addresses should be entered into this text area Each IP subnet must be in form of w x y z m http www peplink com 141 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f P INK Business Continuity where W X y Z is an IP address e g 192 168 0 0 and m is the subnet mask in CIDR format which is between 0 and 32 inclusively For example 192 168 0 0 24 To define multiple subnets separate each IP subnet one in a line For example 192 168 0 0 24 10
103. gth for frame aggregation By default it is set as 50000 Web Administration Settings Check the box to allow Peplink Balance to manage the web admin access information of the Pepwave AP One Enable This option specifies the web access protocol used for accessing the web admin Web Access Protocol of Pepwave AP One The two available options are HTTP and HTTPS Management Port This is to specify the management port used for accessing the device This option will be available if you have chosen HTTPS as the Web Access Protocol With this enabled any HTTP access to the web admin will be redirect to HTTPS automatically HTTP to HTTPS Redirection This specifies the administrator username of the web admin It is set as admin Admin User Name by default This field allows you to specify a new administrator password You may also Admin Password _ click the Generate button and let the system generate a random password automatically http www peplink com 120 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 17 Qos 17 1 User Groups Available on Peplink Balance 380 LAN and PPTP clients can be categorized into three user groups Manager Staff and Guest This table allows you to define rules and assign client IP addresses or subnets to a user group You can apply different bandwidth and traffic prioritization policies on each user group in the Bandwidth Co
104. gth of time throughout which an IP address of a DHCP client remains valid Upon expiration of the Lease Time the assigned IP address will no longer be valid and the renewal of the IP address assignment will be required Lease Time This option allows you to input the DNS server addresses to be offered to the DNS Servers DHCP clients If Assign DNS server automatically is selected the Peplink Balance s built in DNS server address i e LAN IP address will be offered This option allows you to specify the Windows Internet Name Service WINS server You may choose to use the built in WINS server or external WINS servers When this unit is Site to Site VPN connected other VPN peers can share this unit s built in WINS server by entering this unit s LAN IP address in their DHCP WINS Servers setting Therefore all PC clients in the VPN can resolve the NetBIOS names of other clients in remote peers If you have enabled this option a list of WINS clients will be displayed at Status gt WINS Clients WINS Server In addition to standard DHCP options e g DNS server address gateway address subnet mask you can specify the value of additional Extended DHCP Options defined in RFC 2132 In this case you can pass additional configuration Extended DHCP _ information to LAN hosts Option To define an Extended DHCP Option click the Add button choose the option that you want to define and enter its value For values that are in IP address list
105. hange AP Profile to configure the connected Pepwave AP devices and apply AP profiles For details please refer to section 16 1 1 Click Details to view Access Point details For details please refer to section 21 4 http www peplink com 103 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 16 1 1 Access Point Information Access Point can be assigned with different AP Profiles created in section 16 5 Click Change AP Profile on the Dashboard and the following will be shown IP Address Firmware AP Profile Clients Ch 10922 209 Paru Ls 109215 309 Main office Select AP Profile Auto Captive Portal Settings Close If there is a next to the channel information that means the AP One is configured to select a broadcasting channel automatically To apply a AP Profile check the box es to choose the desired Pepwave AP device s and then choose a desired AP Profile in the dropdown list under the devices list Press Yes to confirm the change Are you sure you want to apply the profile Main_Office to the selected AP s Once the change is confirmed the new AP Profile will be applied to the selected device s Changes will be activated immediately To view the device detail click the corresponding device s name and you will see the following screen Pepwave AP One 1 Location A Save Cancel 2830 7DAE 765E Pepwave
106. he box at the bottom to enable the feature Once enabled a link for configuring Captive Portal will be available as shown below Click the link configure your Captive Portal to start configuration Once the configuration is complete click the button Save to save settings Important Note Only one portal page customization is available for each Peplink Balance device multiple wireless networks with captive portal enabled will be redirected to the same portal page 16 4 1 General General Guest Accounts Portal Page Customization Email Settings Captive portal mode Guest Account mode a Open Access mode Free access quota mins 0 Unlimited Daily rollover time 02 00 Captive Portal Settings This is to specify the wireless network can be accessed by the general public or an access account Is required If Guess Account mode is selected an access account is required If Open Access mode is selected users can associated with this network to gain access to the Internet without account information a splash screen will be shown Captive Portal Mode This option is only available if Open Access mode is selected which specify Free Access Quota the length of the free access to the general public users without access accounts The number 0 mean the access is unlimited The unit used is mins This option is only available if Open Access mode is selected which specify Daily Rollover Time the daily rollove
107. herwise restrict outbound access This can easily be achieved by setting up an outbound firewall rule with Peplink Balance C 5 2 Solution To set up a firewall between Internet and private network for outbound access click the Add Rule button in the Outbound Firewall Rules table and then make the settings according the following screenshot StopTestTraffic Rule Name No FTP Access erabi Protocol OJ tcp e HTP Source IP amp Port Any Address Any Port v Destination IP amp Port Any Address Single Port Port 21 I Allow Deny Enable Cancel Save After the fields have been entered as in the screenshot click Save to add the rule http www peplink com 173 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Appendix D Troubleshooting Problem 1 Outbound load is only distributed over one WAN connection Solution Outbound load can only be distributed evenly to the WAN connection if many outbound connections are made If there is only one user on the LAN and only one download session is made from his her browser the WAN connections cannot be fully utilized For a single user download manager applications are recommended The applications can split a file into pieces and download the pieces simultaneously For example FlashGet Windows GetRight Windows iGetter MAC etc If the outbound traffic is
108. ht Target Port TTL sec oi e e Service The symbolic name of the desired service e Priority Indicates the priority of the Target the smaller the value the higher the priority e Weight A relative weight for records with the same priority e Target The canonical hostname of the machine providing the service e Port Enter the TCP or UDP port number on which the service is to be found http www peplink com 93 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink en USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pepilink Continuity Domain Delegation These are the steps to be used when you host your domain at your ISP or a domain registrar and want to delegate a sub domain to be resolved and managed at Peplink Balance 1 Click New Domain Name button to add a domain name e g www mycompany com Click the corresponding domain name to view and edit record details Domain Names Domain Name New Domain Name 2 Create SOA NS records named ns1 ns2 etc The IP addresses are the Balance s DNS server addresses SOA Record O Use Custom SOA and NS Records Ei Le NameServer Jos rares neo Email webmaster Refresh sec 16384 Retry sec 2048 220 246 168 80 3600 Expire sec 1048576 Min Time sec 2560 NS Records O most Name semer OOOO Im ss fn ex New NS Records 3 Then create an A record with an empty host name A Record Default Cus
109. iation requests This setting specifies the country region regulations which Pepwave AP One unit should follow If North America region is selected RF channels 1 to 11 are available Maximum transmission power is 26 dBm 400 mW If Europe region is selected RF channels 1 to 13 are available Maximum transmission power is 20 dBm 100 mW NOTE Users are required to choose the suitable option based on local laws and regulations Operating Country This setting is only available when the protocol is selected as 802 11bgn or 802 11n Only Channel Bonding There are three options 20 MHz 20 40 MHz and 40 MHz With this feature enabled it allows the Wi Fi system to use two channels at once Using two channels improves the performance of the Wi Fi connection This option selects the 802 11 channel to be utilized Available options are from 1 to 11 and from 1 to 13 for the country setting of North America region and Europe region respectively Channel 14 is only available when the country is selected as Japan with protocol 802 11b If Auto is set the system would perform channel scanning based on the scheduled time set and choose the most suitable channel automatically Channel This setting selects between v1 or v2 of the 802 1x EAPOL When v1 is selected both v1 and v2 clients can associate with the access point 802 1X Version i i i However when v2 is selected only v2 clients can associate with the access point http
110. ically initiate the firmware upgrade process Please note that all Peplink devices are equipped to be able to store two different firmware version in two different partitions A firmware upgrade preformed will always replace the inactive partition If you want to keep the inactive firmware you can simply reboot your device with the inactive firmware and then perform the firmware upgrade Firmware Upgrade Status for Peplink Balance 20 30 210 and 310 Status LED Information during firmware upgrade e OFF Firmware upgrade in progress DO NOT disconnect power e Red Unit is rebooting e Green Firmware upgrade successfully completed Important Note The firmware upgrade process may not necessarily preserve the previous configuration and the behavior varies on a case by case basis Consult the Release Notes for the particular firmware version Do not disconnect the power during firmware upgrade process Do not attempt to upload a non firmware file or a firmware file that is not qualified or not supported by Peplink Upgrading a Peplink Balance unit with an invalid firmware file will damage the unit and may void the warranty Important Note If the firmware is rolled back from 5 x to 4 x the configurations will be lost http www peplink com 143 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 20 3 Time The Time Server functionality enabl
111. ings gt Service Passthrough O Standard Mode Compatibility Mode Define custom signal ports E H 323 Y Enable Y Enable C Define custom control ports Y Enable O V Enable L Define custom ports Route IPsec Site to Site VPN via WANT Registered trademarks are copyrighted by their respective owner SIP Standard SIP Vonage Some Internet services required to be specially handled in a multi WAN environment The Peplink Balance supports handling such services correctly such that Internet applications do not notice it is behind a multi WAN router Settings for Service Passthrough Support are available here Service Passthrough Support Session Initiation Protocol aka SIP is a voice over IP protocol Peplink Balance can act as a SIP Application Layer Gateway ALG which binds connections for the same SIP session to the same WAN connection and translate IP address in the SIP packets SIP correctly in NAT mode Such passthrough support is always enabled and there are two modes for selection Standard Mode and Compatibility Mode If your SIP server s signal port number is non standard you can check the box Define custom signal ports and input the port numbers to the text boxes With this option enabled protocols that provide audio visual communication sessions will H 323 be defined on any packet network and passthrough the Balance FTP sessions consist of two TCP connections one for contr
112. ink Continuity WINS Server Settings Enable Check the box to enable the WINS Server A list of WINS clients will be displayed at Status gt WINS Clients DNS Proxy Settings Enable A check box to enable to DNS Proxy feature This field is to enable DNS caching on the built in DNS proxy server When the option is enabled queried DNS replies will be cached until the records TTL has been reached This feature can help improve the DNS lookup time by storing all received DNS results for a faster DNS response time However it cannot return the most updated result for those frequently updated DNS records By default it is disabled DNS Caching When this option is enabled the DNS proxy server will forward DNS requests to Use Google DNS Google s Public DNS Servers in the case if all WAN connections DNS servers Server as Backup become unavailable By default it is disabled This table is for defining custom local DNS records A static local DNS record consists of a Host Name and an IP Address When Local DNS looking up the Host Name from the LAN to LAN IP of Peplink Balance the Records corresponding IP Address will be returned Press Le to create a new record Press X to remove a record http www peplink com 44 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 10 Drop in Mode Drop in Mode or transparent bridging mode eases the installation of
113. iple host names pointing to the same IP address only one PTR record for the IP address will be created In order to have the PTR records working you will also have to create NS records for the PTR records For example if the IP address range 11 22 33 0 to 11 22 33 255 is delegated to the DNS server on the Peplink Balance you will also have to create a domain 33 22 11 in addr arpa and have its NS records pointing to your DNS server s the Peplink Balance public IP addresses Prrecord With the above records created the PTR record creation is complete 14 5 8 TXT Records This table shows the TXT record of the domain name To add a new TXT record click the New TXT Record button in the TXT Records box Click the Edit button to edit the record The time to live value and the TXT record s value can be entered Click the Save button to finish When creating a TXT record for the domain itself not a sub domain the Host field should be left blank The maximum size of the TXT Value is 255 bytes After completed editing the five types of record you can simply leave the page by going to another section of the Web Admin Interface http www peplink com 92 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 14 5 9 SRV Records To add a new SRV record click the New SRV Record button in the SRV Records box EXA JN Priority Weig
114. is set to DNS Lookup and checks failed the Balance will automatically perform DNS lookups on some public DNS servers If the tests are success it means the WAN may not be down but rather the target DNS server became malfunctioned You will see the following warning message on the Main page S Failed to receive DNS response from the health check DNS servers for WAN connection 3 But public DNS server lookup test via the WAN passed So please check the DNS server settings http www peplink com 62 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 11 4 Bandwidth Allowance Monitor Bandwidth Allowance Monitor helps keep track of your network usage Please refer to section 20 8 to view the usage statistics Bandwidth Allowance gt Monitor Enable Action P Email notification is currently disabled You can get notified when usage P hits 75 95 of monthly allowance by enabling Email Notification Disconnect when usage hits 100 of monthly allowance Start Day Monthly Allowance Bandwidth Allowance Monitor If the feature Email Notification is enabled you will be notified through email when usage hits 75 and 95 of the monthly allowance If the box Disconnect when usage hits 100 of monthly allowance is checked this Action WAN connection will be disconnected automatically when the usage hits the monthly allowance It will not resume connection unless this op
115. istence Auto in Outbound Policy with Managed by Custom Rules chosen see Section 13 2 http www peplink com 49 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 11 1 Connection Method s There are five possible connection methods 1 DHCP 2 Static IP 3 PPPOE 4 GRE 5 Mobile Internet Connection available on Peplink Balance 20 30 380 please refer to Section 11 1 5 for details 11 1 1 DHCP Connection The DHCP connection method is suitable if the ISP provides an IP address automatically by DHCP e g Cable Metro Ethernet etc DNS Servers Obtain DNS server address automatically CT Use the following DNS server add ress es OMS server 1 DNS server 2 Hostname Optional 2 ESS a Use custom hostname DHCP Settings Each ISP may provide a set of DNS servers for DNS lookups This setting specifies the DNS Domain Name System Servers to be used when a DNS lookup is routed through this connection Selecting Obtain DNS server address automatically results in the DNS Servers to be assigned by the WAN DHCP Server to be used for outbound DNS lookups over the connection The DNS Servers are obtained along with the WAN IP address assigned from the DHCP server When Use the following DNS server address es is selected you may enter custom DNS server addresses for this WAN connection into the DNS server 1 and DNS server 2 fields DNS Serv
116. k gt Link status shows Connected Disconnected IP address list gt WANT gt WAN2 e gt WAN 7 gt VPN status shows Connected Disconnected gt VPN Profile 1 gt VPN Profile 2 gt gt VPN Profile n gt Link usage gt Throughput in shows transfer rate in Kbps gt WANT gt WAN2 gt gt WAN 7 gt Throughput out shows transfer rate in Kbps gt WAN1 gt WAN2 gt gt WAN 7 gt Data Transfer d shows volume transferred since last reboot in MB gt WANT gt WAN2 a gt WAN 7 gt Maintenance gt Reboot gt Reboot Yes No to reboot the unit gt Factory default gt Factory default Yes No to restore factory defaults gt LAN config gt Port speed shows port speed Auto 10baseT FD gt LAN 10baseT HD 100baseTx FD 100baseTx HD gt WAN1 1000baseTx FD gt WAN2 gt gt WAN 7 http www peplink com 29 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink ert USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity 6 7 3 Rear Panel Appearance USB Ports Reset Switch Power Switch 4 1 a i at ate re oS NEDEN Pi pO em Po i eN Y fy ray y LE Sd z F A al J Cop Hp E E ON AS A oe Vea al ff z E A ae Po RS 232 Port Power Connector Connector Ports RS 232 Port Reserved for engineering use USB Ports For connecting a USB based mobile modem Power Connector AC input 110 220V To hold pressing the key for 4
117. king a connection s health If the box is not checked field Host 1 must be filled and field Host 2 is optional Health Check DNS If the box Include public DNS servers is selected and no response is received Servers from all specified DNS servers DNS lookups will also be issued to some public DNS servers A WAN connection will be treated as down only if there is also no response received from the public DNS servers Connections will be considered up if DNS responses are received from any one of the health check DNS servers regardless of a positive or negative result By default the first two DNS servers of the WAN connection are used as the Health Check DNS Servers Health Check Method SmartCheck AW SmariCheck SmartCheck applies only to the Peplink Balance 20 30 380 or above Mobile Internet connection It monitors the link status and is optimized for mobile networks with high traffic latency Other Health Check Settings Timeout ie second s Health Check Interval G second s rares ECS es 2 This setting specifies the timeout in seconds for ping DNS lookup requests Default Timeout Timeout is set to 5 seconds Health Check This setting specifies the time interval in seconds between ping or DNS lookup requests Interval Default Health Check Interval is 5 seconds This setting specifies the number of consecutive ping DNS lookup timeouts after which Peplink Balance is to treat the corresponding WAN connection as
118. l A firewall is a mechanism that selectively filters data traffic between the WAN side the Internet and the LAN side of the network It can protect the local network from potential hacker attacks offensive Web sites and or other inappropriate uses The firewall functionality of Peplink Balance supports the selective filtering of data traffic in both directions e Outbound LAN to WAN e Inbound WAN to LAN Intrusion Detection and DoS Prevention e Web Blocking With Site to Site VPN enabled see Section 12 the firewall rules also apply to VPN tunneled traffic 18 1 Outbound and Inbound Firewall 18 1 1 Access Rules The outbound and inbound firewall settings are located at Network gt Firewall gt Access Rules Rule Protocol aes IP Destination IP Port Add Rule E Rule Protocol WAN Seeda IP Destination IP Port Add Rule Upon clicking Add Rule the following screen appears New Firewall Rule EE Protocol 0 Any Protocol Selection Tool Source IP amp Port Any Address O Any Address Action Allow Deny Event Logging o C Enable _ Cancel http www peplink com 125 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pepiink Continuity Inbound Outbound Firewall Settings Rule Name This setting specifies a name for the firewall rule This setting specifies whether the firewall rule should take effect When Yes is selected the firewall rule
119. l and Port number remains manually modifiable IP Protocol http www peplink com 82 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity The Port setting specifies the port s that correspond to the service and can be configured to behave in one of the following manners Any Port Single Port Port Range Port Map and Range Mapping Any Port all traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol is forwarded to the servers specified by the Servers setting For example with IP Protocol set to TCP and Port set to Any Port all TCP traffic is forwarded to the configured servers Port Single Fort Service Port Single Port traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol at the specified port is forwarded via the same port to the servers specified by the Servers setting For example with IP Protocol set to TCP and Port set to Single Port and Service Port 80 TCP traffic received on Port 80 is forwarded to the configured servers via Port 80 Port Port Range Service Ports Port Range traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol at the Port specified port range is forwarded via the same respective ports to the LAN hosts specified by the Servers setting For example with IP Protocol set to TCP and Port set to Port Range and Service Port 80 88 TCP traffic received
120. lation Sun Oct 10 05 56 02 PST 2010 All WAN Connections 216 68 GB 91 70 GB 308 38 GB Data transferred since last reboot Hide Details All WAN Connections WAN1 WAN2 Aggregated Transfer 24 41 Mbps M Dovnload M Upload 19 53 Mbps 14 65 Mbps 9 77 Mbps 4 88 Mbps o Avg 0 99 Mbps 0 12 Mbps Peak 21 78 Mbps 90 67 Mbps Stacked Overall 61 kbps 75 kbps 136 kbps 21 9 2 Daily This page shows the daily bandwidth usage for all and each WAN connection Select the connection in which you want to check its usage from the drop down menu If you have enabled Bandwidth Monitoring feature as shown in section 11 4 the Current Billing Cycle table for that WAN connection will be displayed Click on a date to view the client bandwidth usage of that specific date This feature is not available if you have selected to view the bandwidth usage of only a particular WAN connection The Scale of the graph can be set to show in Megabyte MB or Gigabyte GB http www peplink com 162 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series plink Protecting Business Continuity All WAN MB GB 25000 MB E Dovnload Upload 20000 mg M Total 15000 MB 10000 MB 5000 MB 0 11 09 11 12 11 15 11 18 11 21 11 24 11 27 11 30 12 03 12 06 12 09 728 MB 3 893 MB 2010 12 09 2010 12 08 7 MB x 10 9 222 223 LAN Client 10 9 66 66 LAN Client 167 58 MB 11 14 M
121. ld Connection and has the lowest latency Latency checking packets are issued periodically to a nearby router of each WAN connection to determine its latency value The latency of a WAN is the packet round trip time of the WAN connection Additional network usage may be incurred as a result Tip The round trip time of a 6M down 640k up link can be higher than that of a 2M down 2M up link It is because the overall round trip time is lengthened by its slower upload bandwidth despite of its higher downlink speed Therefore this algorithm is good for two scenarios e All WAN connections are symmetric or e A latency sensitive application requires to be routed through the lowest latency WAN regardless the WAN s available bandwidth http www peplink com 771182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 13 2 8 Expert Mode Expert Mode is available for advance users To enable the feature click on the help test balloon and click the link turn on Expert Mode Under Expert Mode a new special rule Site to Site VPN Routes is displayed on the Custom Rules table It represents all Site to Site VPN routes learned from remote VPN peers By default this bar is on the top of all custom rules That means traffic for remote VPN subnets will be routed to its corresponding VPN peer You can create custom Priority or Enforced rules and move them above the
122. ld should be left blank For each record Priority and Mail Server name must be entered Priority typically ranges from 10 to 100 Smaller numbers have a higher a priority After finishing adding MX records click the Save button 14 5 5 CNAME Records The CNAME Record table shows the domain s CNAME records To add a new CNAME record click the New CNAME Records button in the CNAME Record box Then the table will expand to look like the following http www peplink com 89 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series Protecting Business Continuity When creating a CNAME record for the domain itself not a sub domain the Host field should be left blank The wildcard character is supported in the Host field The Reference of domain name will be returned for every name ending with domain name except names that have their own records The TTL field tells the time to live of the record in external DNS caches 14 5 6 A Records This table shows the A records of the domain name Included IP Address es TTL sec WAN1 default 323 123 123 1 _New A Record Default Custom Included IP Address es Y WAN1 W 210 210 210 1 Interface IP Cl WAN CI WAN3 C Mobile Internet Custom IP Address 123 123 123 1 a Priority 1 Highest 1 Highest 1 Highest Mobile Internet 1 Highest An A record may
123. lick Next gt gt to continue Setup Wizard gt WAN Setup gt Step 6 Choose the preferred WAN Port s that is to be used as primary connection The port s not selected in this step will only be used when none of the connection of the preferred port is up Preferred Port Mobile Internet 1 Choose the time zone of your Country Region Check the box Show all to display all time zone options Setup Wizard gt WAN Setup gt Step 6 Choose time zone of your Country Region GMT 08 00 Pacific Time US amp Canada v Show all Check in the following screen to make sure all settings have been configured correctly and then click Save Settings to confirm Setup Wizard gt WAN Setup gt Final Step Confirm the WAN connection s configuration below Click Back to modify the configuration settings in previous steps Click Save Settings when you are done able No Connection Method Operator Settings Auto O OOOO Preferred WAN Connection s Connections 1 WAN1 3 WAN3 Time Zone Settings Time Zone GMT 08 00 Pacific Time US Canada lt lt Back Cancel After finishing the last step in the Setup Wizard please click Apply Changes on the page header to allow the configuration changes to take effect http www peplink com 39 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 8 3 Advanced Setup Advanced se
124. liders 13 2 3 Algorithm Enforced This setting specifies the WAN connection usage to be applied on the specified IP Protocol amp Port and is applicable only when the Algorithm is set to Enforced WAN WAN2 WAN WANS VPN Headquarters VPN Branch Office 1 Matching traffic will be routed through the specified WAN connection regardless of health check status of the WAN connection Starting from firmware 5 2 outbound traffic can be enforced to go through a specified Site to Site VPN connection Available on Peplink Balance 210 13 2 4 Algorithm Priority This setting specifies the priority of the WAN connections to be utilized to route the specified network service The highest priority WAN connection available will always be used for routing the specified type of traffic A lower priority WAN connection will be used only when all higher priority connections have become unavailable Algorithm o Priorv v priority Order kighest Priority CS E WAN WAN E VPN Headquarters VPN Branch Office 1 Starting from firmware 5 2 outbound traffic can be prioritized to go through Site to Site VPN connection s By default VPN connections are not included in the priority list Available on Peplink Balance 210 Tip Configure multiple distribution rules to accommodate different kinds of services http www peplink com 76 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Serie
125. lution The solution is to individually set the WAN loading balance according to the service e Web browsing mainly downloads data sending e mails mainly consumes upload bandwidth o Both connections offer good download speeds WAN2 offers good upload speeds o Define WAN1 and WAN 2 s inbound and outbound bandwidths to be 3M 512k and 4M 4M respectively e For HTTP set the weight to 3 4 e For SMTP set the weight to 1 8 such that users will have a greater chance to be routed via WAN2 when sending e mail C 1 3 Settings 1 Add anew outbound traffic rule for HTTP 2 Add anew outbound traffic rule for SMTP In general to add a new outbound traffic rule Click here and Select Managed by Custom Rules Managed by Custom Rules Click Add Rule to add a new load distribution rule http www peplink com 168 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL iink Peplink Balance Series ai Business Continuity Settings for HTTP New Custom Rule Service Name Enable Source Destination Any v Protocol Qj cP efe 1 Port Singe Port Port 80 VAN and WAN2 for Algorithm HTTP to 3 and 4 Load Distribution E wani 3 Weight ecas Terminate Sessions on Link Recovery CT Enable Save Cancel Settings for SMTP New Custom Rule Service Name Enable Source Destination me om EE rat a set a A Load Distribution RC CDN DA Weight AR
126. ment Interface over HTTP HTTPS o Remote Reporting and Management e Bandwidth Usage Monitor e Configurations Upload and Download Internet Access Sharing e SUA Single User Account Multi to Multi NAT o NAT supports PAT Port Address Translation Security e PPTP VPN Server Rules based Stateful Firewall with IP Protocol and Port filtering VPN Encryption 256 bit AES e Intrusion Detection System Physical Interface Balance 210 e Two RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3u 10 100M WAN e Four RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3u 10 100M LAN o RS 232 Console Serial modem TA Port Physical Interface Balance 310 e Three RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3u 10 100M WAN e Four RJ 45 for an IEEE 802 3u 10 100M LAN o RS 232 Console Serial modem TA Port Power Specification e AV Input 100 240V DC Output 9 30V Operating Environment e Temperature 0 C 50 C Humidity 10 90 non condensing http www peplink com 177 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity E 3 Peplink Balance 380 Routing o Drop in Mode and NAT e Flexible Custom Outbound Routing Policy WAN Support e DHCP PPPoE GRE and Static IP Inbound and Outbound Link Load Balance Device Management e Wizard amp Menu Driven Web Management Interface over HTTP HTTPS e Remote Reporting and Management o Bandwidth Usage Monitor e Configurations Upload and Download Internet Access Sharing e SUA Single Us
127. n The DNS Servers are obtained along with the WAN IP address assigned from the PPPOE server When Use the following DNS server address es is selected you can put custom DNS server addresses for this WAN connection into the DNS server 1 and DNS server 2 fields DNS Servers Please refer to Section 11 2 11 4 11 5 and 11 6 for details about WAN Health Check Bandwidth Allowance Monitor Additional Public IP Settings and Dynamic DNS Settings respectively PPPoE connection made from a firewall does not work with Drop in mode http www peplink com 52 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series i P INK Business Continuity 11 1 4 GRE Connection The GRE connection method is suitable if the ISP provides GRE tunnel access through a private network to the Internet WAN Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 24 Outgoing NAT IP Address DNS Servers Use the following DNS server address es DNS server 1 DMS server 2 Please refer to the following sections for further details e Section 11 1 4 1 Routing under GRE via Network Address Translation NAT e Section 11 1 4 2 Routing under GRE via IP Forwarding The values for DNS server 1 and DNS server 2 are typically determined by and can be obtained from the ISP GRE Settings Each ISP may provide a set of DNS servers for DNS lookups This field specifies the DNS Domain Name System Servers to be used when a DN
128. n All connected PPTP sessions are displayed on the Client List at Status gt Client List Please refer to section 21 3 for details PPTP Server Required PPTP Server Setting This setting is for specifying the WAN connection s and IP address es where the PPTP server should listen on Listen On This option is only applicable on Peplink Balance 380 This setting is for specifying the source of user database for PPTP authentication There are three sources can be selected Local User Accounts LDAP Server RADIUS Server Local User Accounts User accounts are stored in the Peplink Balance locally You can add modify delete the accounts in the User Accounts table below Authentication LDAP Server Authenticate with an external LDAP server Tested with OpenLDAP server where passwords are NTLM hashed Active Directory is not Supported You can choose to use RADIUS to authenticate with a Windows Server RADIUS Server Authenticate with an external RADIUS server Tested with Microsoft Windows Internet Authentication Service and FreeRADIUS servers where passwords are NTLM hashed or in plain text http www peplink com 134 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series l P INK Business Continuity This setting allows you to define the PPTP User Accounts Click Add to input username and password to create an account After adding the user accounts User Account
129. n to be used whenever itis available If Backup Priority and a priority group are selected the WAN connection is treated as a backup connection and is used only in the absence of Connection Type available Always on WAN el and EU ay backup connection s Connection Type O Group 1 riches E AE UES TI Enable re EA Gra up 4 Lowes The default and recommended Connection Type is Always on http www peplink com 48 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity If this field is disabled the WAN connection will not respond to ICMP Ping Reply to ICMP Ping requests By default this is enabled This setting specifies the data bandwidth in the outbound direction from the LAN through the WAN interface This value is provided by the ISP and should reflect the actual speed the WAN gets This value is referenced when default weight is chosen for outbound traffic and traffic prioritization A correct value can result in effective traffic prioritization and efficient use of upload bandwidth Upload Bandwidth This setting specifies the data bandwidth in the inbound direction from the WAN interface to the LAN This value is provided by the ISP and should reflect the Download actual speed the WAN gets Bandwidth This value is referenced as the default weight value when using the custom rule Default Auto the algorithm Least Used or the algorithm Pers
130. nce or the hosts have to be rebooted Otherwise hosts on one side may not be able to reach hosts on the other side of Peplink Balance until the old ARP records expire Units without enabling Drop in Mode are not affected NOTE PPTP server will be disabled under Drop in Mode http www peplink com 45 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity To enable Drop in Mode perform the following steps 210 10 10 5 255 255 255 0 24 v 100Mbps Full Duplex Y Advertise Speed Enable WAN for Drop In Mode WAN Default Gateway 21010101 I have other host s on WAN segment Host IP Address es 210 10 10 4 ee 210 10 10 4 v Delete OJ ons server 1 10 1 1 1 DNS server 2 NOTE The DHCP Server Settings will be overwritten The following WAN 1 settings will be overwritten Enable Connection Method Routing Mode Connection Type MTU Health Check Additional Public IP and Dynamic DNS Settings The PPTP Server will be disabled Tip please review the DNS Forwarding setting under the Service Forwarding section 1 Check the Enable box under Drop in Mode located at Network gt Interfaces gt LAN After checking the Enable box most network settings for WAN1 will be hidden from Web Administration Interface 2 Putthe IP address of the WANT router in the WAN Default Gateway field Ensure that the Peplink Balance IP subnet is the
131. nce should set its default gateway as the VIP Internet DE Switch Master Active QS WAN VRRP Group 20 VIP 192 168 10 1 _ Switch LAN IP 192 168 10 2 MC WVAN2 instead of the IP of Master Balance IP 192 168 10 3 Slave Backup VRRP Group 20 VIP 192 168 10 1 Switch A Local Area Network 192 168 10 0 24 N o Internet Sx In Drop in mode no other configuration needs to be set Drop in WAN1 IP 210 210 210 1 LES Suc Master Active VRRP Group 20 VIP 210 210 210 2 R amp S IP 210 210 210 3 WAN Switch D lt wanz Switch El Slave Backup LAN VRRP Group 20 IP 210 210 210 4 VIP 210 210 210 2 a Firewall IP 210 210 210 5 Local Area Network 192 168 10 0 24 Please be noted that Drop in WAN cannot be configured in LAN Bypass port when it is configuring High Availability Copyright O 2011 Peplink http www peplink com 133 182 ee USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity 19 2 PPTP Server Available on Peplink Balance 210 PPTP VPN Mo HU Peplink Balance has a built in PPTP Server which enables remote computers to conveniently and securely access the local network PPTP server setting is located at Network gt Misc Settings gt PPTP Server Simply check the box to enable the PPTP server functio
132. nd confirm the new user password This field specifies the number of hours and minutes that a web session can remain idle before the balance terminates its access to Web Admin Interface By default it is set as 4 hours With this box is checked Web Admin will authenticate using an external RADIUS server Authenticated users are treated as admin users with full read write permission Local admin and user accounts will be disabled When the device is not able to communicate with the external RADIUS server local accounts will be enabled again for emergency access Authentication options will be available once this box is checked USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity This specifies the authentication protocol used Available options are MS CHAP v2 and Auth Protocol PAP Auth Server This specifies the access address of the external RADIUS server ATTEN SEVEN This is the secret for accessing the RADIUS server Secret Auth Timeout This option specifies the time value for authentication timeout Accounting Server This specifies the access address of the external Accounting server Accounting Server _ g This is the secret for accessing the Accounting server Secret Network This option is for specifying the network connection which will be used for authentication Connection connection Users can choose from LAN WAN and VPN connections This option is for specifying the protocol s throu
133. nd traffic This option is only available when IP Range is selected Range http www peplink com 101 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity The IP network refers to all private IP addresses and ranges managed by the LAN host The system maps these addresses to a number of public IP addresses NERO specified below to facilitate outbound traffic This option is only available when IP Network is selected This setting specifies the WAN IP addresses should be used when an IP connection is made from a LAN host to the Internet Each LAN host in an IP range or IP network will be evenly mapped to one of each Outbound selected WAN s IP addresses for better IP address utilization in a persistent Mappings manner for better application compatibility Note 1 If you do not want to use a specific WAN for outgoing accesses you should still choose default here then customize the outbound access rule in the Outbound Policy section Note 2 WAN connections in drop in or IP forwarding mode are not shown here Click Save to save the settings when configuration has been completed Important Note Inbound firewall rules override Inbound Mapping settings http www peplink com 102 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink ee USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity 16 WLAN Controller Available
134. ng If the forwarding is disabled for a WAN connection SMTP connections for the WAN will be simply forwarded to the connection s original destination If you want to route all SMTP connections only to particular WAN connection s you should create a custom rule in Outbound Policy see Section 13 1 19 3 2 Web Proxy Forwarding e web Proxy Forwarding Enable Proxy Server IP Address 123 123 11 22 Port 6060 Current settings in users browser Mobile Internet When this feature is enabled the Peplink Balance will intercept all outgoing connections destined for the proxy server specified in Web Proxy Server Interception Settings choose a WAN connection with reference of Outbound Policy and then forward them to the specified web proxy server and port number Redirected server settings for each WAN can be set here If Forwarding is disabled for a WAN web proxy connections for the WAN will be simply forwarded to the connection s original destination 19 3 3 DNS Forwarding e Forward Outgoing DNS Requests to Local DNS ae Proxy When DNS Forwarding is enabled all clients outgoing DNS requests will also be intercepted and forwarded to the built in DNS proxy server http www peplink com 137 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 19 4 Service Passthrough Service Passthrough settings can be found at Network gt Misc Sett
135. nk com 12 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 5 Package Contents The contents of Peplink Balance product packages are as follows 5 1 Peplink Balance 20 30 o Peplink Balance 20 30 e Power adapter e Information slip 5 2 Peplink Balance 210 310 o Peplink Balance 210 310 e Power adapter e Information slip Rackmount kit 5 3 Peplink Balance 380 580 710 1350 e Peplink Balance 380 580 710 1350 o Power cord e Information slip Rackmount kit http www peplink com 13 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL A link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 6 Peplink Balance Overview 6 1 Peplink Balance 20 6 1 1 Front Panel Appearance USB Port WAN Ports Status LED E peplink Balance20 LAN Ports Reset Button Power LED 6 1 2 LED Indicators The statuses indicated by the Front Panel LEDs are as follows Power and Status Indicators OFF Power off Power Green Power on OFF System initializing Status Red Booting up or busy Green Ready state LAN and WAN Ports ON 100 Mbps Green LED OFF 10 Mbps Solid Port is connected without traffic Yellow LED Blinking Data is transferring OFF Port is not connected Port Type Auto MDI MDI X ports USB Port USB Ports For connecting a USB based mobile modem http www peplink
136. ntrol and Application sections The table is automatically sorted and the table order signifies the rules precedence The smaller and more specific subnets are put towards the top of the table and have higher precedence larger and less specific subnets are placed towards the bottom Click the Add button to define clients and their user group Click the button to remove the defined rule Two default rules are pre defined and put at the bottommost They are All DHCP reservation clients and Everyone and they cannot be removed All DHCP reservation clients represents the LAN clients defined in the DHCP Reservation table in the LAN settings page Everyone represents all clients that are not defined in any rule above Click on a rule to change its group _ User Group Action Y Subnet IP Address Client Staffa A ICAO IP Address 192 168 199 Group M Staff A 2 192 168 1 99 Save Cancel Add Edit User Group From the drop down menu choose whether you are going to define the client s by an IP Address or a Subnet Subnet IP Address f IP Address is selected enter a name defined in DHCP Reservation table or a LAN client s IP address If Subnet is selected enter a subnet address and specify its subnet mask Group This field is to define which User Group the specified Subnet IP Address belongs to Once users have been assigned to a user group their internet traffic will be restricted by rules defin
137. o the previous step Step 2 of 3 Continue WARNING The following domain s already exist mycompany com The existing records of these domains will be overwritten lt lt Back Next gt gt Cancel DNS Record Import wizard I T un Fetching zone records gt i Step 3 of 3 Fetch Results Domain peplink com mycompany com 1 After the Fetching zone records process has completed the fetch results would be shown as above You can view import details by clicking the corresponding hyperlink on the right hand size Zone mytest com Name Value Type 1 SOA mytest com nsi mytest com NS mytestcom fnermytest om INS mytestcom fnezmytesteom ns mytestcom fneamytest om NS mytestcom gt psa mytestcom A download mytest com 33112233 SCS A guestmytesticom fi2iszino A incontroLmytest com 2332311 SCS A malmytestcom zaz A ma oz mytest com 200 2103101 A mvtest com http www peplink com 100 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity USER MANUAL 15 NAT Mappings The configuration of NAT Mappings allows the IP address mapping of all inbound and outbound NAT ed traffic to and from an internal client IP address The settings to configure NAT Mappings are located at Network gt NAT Mappings Inbound Mappings Outbound Mappings Action WAN1 29 123 123 13 WAN1 29
138. ofile click the profile name and the following screen will be shown AP Profile Default ilt W Wireless Network FJ Pepwave AP Wi Fi AP Advanced Settings oot Oo operating county CT coool sncing E E NCEE Bescon ae mom ESS om CE ren o sere astas A A Web Administration Settings HTTP HTTPS http www peplink com 118 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity AP Profile AP Profile Name It specifies the name of this AP Profile Wireless Networks It specifies which Wireless Networks would be chosen and used this AP Profile Wi Fi AP Advanced Settings This field specifies the VLAN ID to tag to management traffic such as inter AP Management VLAN WLAN controller communication traffic The value is zero by default which ID means that no VLAN tagging will be applied NOTE change this value with caution as alterations may result in loss of connection to the WLAN controller There are five options are available 802 11bgn Pepwave AP devices accept 802 11b 802 11g and 802 11n client association requests 802 11b g Pepwave AP devices accept both 802 11b and 802 119 client association requests Protocol 802 11b Only Pepwave AP devices accept only 802 11b client association requests 802 11g Only Pepwave AP devices accept only 802 119 client association requests 802 11n Only Pepwave AP devices accept only 802 11n client assoc
139. ol and one for data In multi WAN situation they have to be binded to the same WAN connection Otherwise problems will arise in transferring files By default the Peplink Balance monitors TCP FTP control connections on port 21 for any FTP connections and binds TCP connections of the same FTP session to the same WAN If you have an FTP server listening on a port number other than 21 you can check the box Define custom control ports and enter the port numbers to the text boxes The Peplink Balance monitors outgoing TFTP connections and routes any incoming TFTP TFTP data packets back to the client Select Enable if you want to enable the TFTP Passthrough support This field is for enabling the support of IPsec NAT T Passthrough UDP ports 500 4500 and 10000 are monitored by default You may add more custom data ports that your IPSec system uses by checking the box Define custom ports If the VPN contains IPsec Site to Site VPN traffic you have to check the box Route IPsec Site to Site VPN and choose the WAN connection to route the traffic to If you have IPsec Site to Site VPN traffic routed check the Route IPsec Site to Site VPN option and select a WAN to force routing such traffic to the specified WAN IPsec NAT T http www peplink com 138 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 20 System Settings 20 1 Admin Security There are two user a
140. om 106 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 16 3 Wireless Networks Wireless Network settings including the name of network SSID and security policy can be defined and managed in this section After defining a wireless network users can choose the network in AP Profiles Network Name SSID Security Policy Used by Click the button New Network to create a new Network profile or click the existing network profile to modify its settings Wireless Network x Wireless Network Settings for b g mode 1M 0 0 Untagged for n mode MCSO v Y Wireless Security Settings Access Control Accept all except listed Captive Portal Remember to configure your Captive Portal OK Cancel Wireless Network Settings Network Name SSID This setting specifies the SSID of the virtual AP to be scanned by Wi Fi clients This setting specifies the VLAN ID to be tagged on all outgoing packets generated from this wireless network i e packets that travel from the Wi Fi segment through VLAN ID the Pepwave AP One unit to Ethernet segment via the LAN port The default value of this setting is 0 That means VLAN tagging is disabled instead of tagged with zero This setting specifies whether or not the SSID of this wireless network can be Broadcast SSID scanned by Wi Fi clients Broadcast SSID is enabled by defaul
141. on Peplink Balance 380 WLAN Controller is a feature available since firmware 5 3 which acts as a centralized controller of Pepwave AP One devices With this feature users will be able to customize and manage multiple Pepwave AP devices in the same Peplink Balance Interface To configure navigate to Network gt WLAN Controller and the following options will be shown Special Note For demo and testing purposes two Pepwave AP One devices can be controlled by a Peplink Balance without extra costs To manage more than two units a Full Edition license is required Please contact our Authorized Reseller or Peplink Sales Team to obtain more information and price details 16 1 WLAN Information On the Dashboard of Web Admin Interface the real time WLAN information would be shown as below Dashboard Setup Wizard Network System Status Web Admin LAN Interface 1 A IP Address 210 10 10 1 Details Status Connected Logout Mobile Internet IP Address none Status No Device Detected Site to Site VPN Details WLAN Information Change AP Profile Details Device Information Model Peplink Balance 380 Firmware WLAN Information Access Point 2 Online 1 Connected Clients 15 Copyright Peplink All rights reserved Three information will be shown number of managed Pepwave AP devices number of online devices and number of current connected clients Click C
142. on ports 80 through 88 is forwarded to the configured servers via the respective ports Port Port Mapping oo Service Port Map to Port Port Mapping traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol at the specified port is forwarded via a different port to the servers specified by the Servers setting For example with IP Protocol set to TCP and Port set to Port Map Service Port 80 and Mapping to Port 88 TCP traffic on Port 80 is forwarded to the configured servers via Port 88 Service Ports Map to Ports Range Mapping traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol at the specified port range is forwarded via a different port to the servers specified by the Servers setting Inbound IP This setting specifies the WAN connections and Internet IP address es from which the Address es service can be accessed This setting specifies the LAN servers that handle requests for the service and the relative weight values The amount of traffic that is distributed to a server is proportional to the weight value assigned to the server relative to the total weight Included Example Server s With the following weight settings on a Peplink Balance e demo server 1 10 e demo_server 2 5 The total weight is 15 10 5 Matching traffic distributed to demo_server_1 67 10 15 x 100 Matching traffic distributed to demo_server_2 33 5 15 x 100 http www peplink
143. onsumption 15W 15W 15W 15W 50W 50W 70W 70W 1U Rackmount X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes High Availability X X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LAN Bypass X X X X X Yes X Yes Dimension H x W x D a a 1U x 27 0cm 1U x 27 8cm 1U x 37 9cm 1U x 39 8cm Weight 1 0kg 1 0kg 1 2kg 1 2kg 3 5kg 5 5kg 5 5kg 6 5kg http www peplink com 10 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 4 Product Features Peplink Balance Series products enable all LAN users to share broadband Internet connections and provide advanced features to enhance Internet access The following is the list of supported features 4 1 Supported Network Features 4 1 1 WAN o Multiple public IP support DHCP PPPOE Static IP Address or GRE e 10 100 Mbps Connection in Full Half Duplex e 1000 Mbps Connection in Full Half Duplex Available on Peplink Balance 380 o USB Mobile Connection Available on Peplink Balance 20 30 380 Remark Only one USB modem can be connected e Drop in Mode on selectable WAN port with MAC address passthrough Available on Peplink Balance 210 e Network Address Translation NAT Port Address Translation PAT o Inbound and Outbound NAT mapping o IPsec NAT T and PPTP packet passthrough e Multiple static IP addresses per WAN Connection o MAC address clone e Customizable MTU and MSS values e WAN connection health check o Dynamic DNS Supported service providers changeip com dyndn
144. operating in NAT mode also has security advantages because LAN devices are hidden behind Peplink Balance not directly accessible from the Internet and hence less vulnerable to attacks The following figure shows the packet flow in NAT mode Internet 12 34 56 78 Peplink LAN IP Balance 192 168 1 1 Local Area Network IP 192 168 1 10 IP 192 168 1 11 http www peplink com 166 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity B 2 Routing via IP Forwarding When Peplink Balance is operating under IP Forwarding mode the IP addresses of IP packets are unchanged Peplink Balance forwards both inbound and outbound IP packets without changing their IP addresses The following figure shows the packet flow in IP Forwarding mode Internet peaa gt e Q o lt gt AO po co O ps Peplink Balance Local Area Network IP 23 24 55 10 IP 23 24 55 11 http www peplink com 167 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity Appendix C Case Studies C 1 Performance Optimization C 1 1 Scenario In this scenario email and web browsing are the two main Internet services used by the LAN users The mail server is external to the network The connections are ADSL with slow uplink and fast downlink and Metro Ethernet Symmetric C 1 2 So
145. opyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f PINK Business Continuity 14 2 Definition of Servers on LAN Available on Peplink Balance 210 The settings to configure servers on the LAN are located at the following location Network gt Inbound Access gt Servers Inbound connections from the Internet will be forwarded to the specified Inbound IP Address es base on the protocol and port number When more than one server is defined requests will be distributed to the servers in the weight ratio specified for each server No Servers Defined To define a new server click Add Server upon which the following screen appears myserver 192 168 1 123 Save Cancel Enter a valid server name and its corresponding LAN IP address Required Upon clicking Save after entering required information the following screen appears 192 168 1 123 Delete To define additional servers click Add Server and repeat the above steps http www peplink com 81 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL ente link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 14 3 Inbound Access Services 14 3 1 Definition of Services Services are defined at Network gt Inbound Access gt Services IP Address es Protocol At least one server must be defined before services can be added To define a new service click the Add Service button upon which the following appear
146. or WAN connections that operate under drop in mode or IP forwarding inbound traffic is forwarded to the LAN by default 14 1 Definition of Port Forwarding Available on Peplink Balance 20 30 Inbound Port Forwarding rules are defined at Network gt Inbound Access gt Port Forwarding IP Address es Protocol Action WANI Interface IP 192 168 10 1 TCP 80 _Delete Add Service To define a new service click the Add Service button upon which the following appears 218 100 66 100 Interface IP O 218 100 66 66 E 218 100 66 103 Ll Mobile Internet 192 168 1 10 Save Cancel Port Forwarding Settings This setting specifies whether the Inbound Service takes effect Required Fields With an Enable value of Yes the inbound service takes effect traffic is matched and actions Enable are taken by Peplink Balance based on the other parameters of the rule With an Enable value of No the inbound service does not take effect Peplink Balance disregards the other parameters of the rule This setting identifies the service to the System Administrator Service Name Valid values for this setting consist only of alphanumeric and the underscore _ characters http www peplink com 79 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity The IP Protocol setting along with the Port setting specifies the protocol of the service as TCP
147. or not to log matched firewall events The logged messages are shown on the page Status gt Event Log A sample message is as follows Aug 13 23 47 44 Denied CONN Ethernet WAN SRC 20 3 2 1 DST 192 168 1 20 LEN 48 PROTO TCP SPT 2260 DPT 80 e CONN The connection where the log entry refers to SRC Source IP address e DST Destination IP address e LEN Packet length e PROTO Protocol e SPT Source port Event Logging e DPT Destination port Upon clicking Save after entering required information the following screen appears Pot i fas bhi Add Rule E To create an additional firewall rule click Add Rule and repeat the above steps http www peplink com 127 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity To reorder a rule s position just drag on the rule by holding the left mouse button move it to the desired position and drop it by releasing the mouse button Pi E Default Add Rule To remove a rule click _X Rules are matched from top to the bottom If a connection matches any one of the upper rules the matching process will stop If none of the rules is matching the Default rule will be applied By default the Default rule is Allow for both outbound and inbound accesses Tip If the default inbound rule is set as Allow for NAT enabled WANs no inbound Allow firewall rules will be required for inbound Port Forw
148. orting A 150 20 8 Configuration E A A NA NA 152 http www peplink com Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 20 9 REebDOD ee ee a ee iaa ios 153 20 10 Ping a ee ee ee ere ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 154 20 11 Traceroute Test sssssssssssseseseseneeneneneneneeeeneneeeneeneneneneneeneneneennneneneneneneeneneneenenenenneneenennes 155 20 12 Mion Te ee AAA AAA AAA AAA anche 155 21 CE AN 8 SEE EE EEE EC EC EEE EC ELEC EEE ECECCECECECECCECECECCECECECEECECECECEECECECECCECECECECCECECECCECECECEECECECECCECECE 156 21 1 DEVICE en ee OE 156 21 2 ACTIVE S SSIONMS 0 ers ete e cere teeters cece ces eee ee ces ce dota ee cesse ones 157 21 3 Client LIST scene rennes nn ias cs ie rl a 157 21 4 Access PO oe A er rer eee ee er nissan 158 21 5 WINS Cll Gi dorso AAA AA AAA centoin 158 21 6 Sife 10 Site VPN serres consensus AA AAA A NA sation 158 21 7 WIP AP NA TP Pise nissan een nets AA 160 21 8 Event Log sn cho ni erradicar ERRONEA SA iaa 161 21 9 o O 162 APPENDIX A RESTORATION OF FACTORY DEFAULTS ceeecccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccscccccccccces 165 APPENDIX B ROUTING UNDER DHCP STATIC IP AND PPPOE sssssssesesessssnesenessseneens 166 B 1 Routing via Network Address Translation NAT Stades side scie E A A 166 B 2 Routing via IP Forwarding o no e oo N 167 APPENDIX C CASE STUDIES lt oonooorrcrrrrrncnonoconconocococcococococcocococcococococcocococconocococcoco
149. ou may enter the wild card at the end of a domain name to block any web site with a host name having the domain name in the middle For example If you enter foobar then www foobar com www foobar co jp or foobar co uk will be blocked Placing the wild card in any other position is not supported The Peplink Balance will inspect and look for blocked domain names on all HTTP traffic Secure web HTTPS traffic is not supported 18 2 2 Exempted User Group Check and select pre defined user group s who can exempt from the access blocking rules User groups can be defined at QoS gt User Group section Please refer to section 17 1 for details 18 2 3 Exempted Subnets With the subnet defined in the field clients on the particular subnet s can exempt from the access blocking rules http www peplink com 130 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 19 Miscellaneous Settings The miscellaneous settings include configuration for High Availability PPTP Server Service Forwarding and Service Passthrough 19 1 High Availability Available on Peplink Balance 210 Peplink Balance supports High Availability HA configurations via an open standard Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol VRRP RFC 3768 In an HA configuration two same model Peplink Balance units e g a pair of Peplink Balance 210 units or a pair of Peplink Balance 710 units
150. play WAN Port gt 4 LCD Controls LAN Ports Console Port Power LED Status indicated in the Front Panel is as follows LED Indicator OFF Power off Power LED ON Green Power on Console amp USB Ports Console Port Reserved for engineering Use USB Ports For connecting a USB based mobile modem LAN Port and WAN Ports 1 to 3 Gigabit Ethernet ON 1000 Mbps Green LED OFF 100 10 Mbps Solid Port is connected without traffic Yellow LED Blinking Data is transferring OFF Port is not connected Port Type Auto MDI MDI X ports WAN Ports 4 to 7 Fast Ethernet ON 100 Mbps Green LED OFF 10 Mbps Solid Port is connected without traffic Yellow LED Blinking Data is transferring OFF Port is not connected Port Type MDI ports http www peplink com 28 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 6 7 2 LCD Display Menu gt Power off Reboot gt HA State Master Slave gt LAN IP gt VIP gt System Status gt System gt Firmware ver shows firmware version gt Serial number shows serial number gt System time shows current time gt System up time shows system uptime since last reboot gt CPU load shows current CPU loading 0 100 gt LAN gt Status shows LAN port physical status gt IP address shows LAN IP address gt Subnet mask shows LAN subnet mas
151. plink Balance 380 e Bandwidth usage control and monitoring on group and user level Available on Peplink Balance 380 e Application Prioritization for custom protocols and DSL optimization 4 1 8 Firewall e Outbound LAN to WAN firewall rules e Inbound WAN to LAN firewall rules per WAN connection o Intrusion detection and prevention e Specification of NAT mappings e Web Blocking Available on Peplink Balance 380 4 2 Other Supported Features e Easy to use web based administration interface e HTTP and HTTPS support for Web Administration Interface e Configurable web administration port and administrator password o Read only user for Web Admin e Authentication and Accounting by RADIUS server for Web Admin e Firmware upgrades configuration backups Ping and Traceroute via Web Administration Interface o Remote web based configuration via WAN and LAN interfaces e Remote reporting to Peplink Balance reporting server e Real Time Daily and Monthly Bandwidth Usage reports and charts e Hardware High Availability via VRRP with automatic configuration synchronization Available on Peplink Balance 210 o Hardware backup via LAN bypass Available on Peplink Balance 580 and 1350 e Built in WINS server e Time server synchronization o SNMP o Email notification e Syslog e SIP passthrough o PPTP packet passthrough o Event Log e Active Sessions e Client List e WINS Client List e UPnP NAT PMP http www pepli
152. r time of the free access period All access quota will be reset at this time specified http www peplink com 111 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 16 4 2 Guest Accounts TO manage and set up guest accounts for Guest Account mode click the Guest Accounts tab and the following will be shown General Guest Accounts Portal Page Customization Email Settings Search for Guest Accounts Search Unused Guest Accounts Fl testi 5 mins 2011 03 22 age 1 1 Total 9 Delete selected CSV download All Generated today Not generated today Active Guest Accounts No Active Guest Accounts CSV download All Create Account Generate Accounts Generate BFE 2011 03 24 E 00 00 4 Create All unused Guest Accounts and Active Guest Accounts are shown Check the corresponding checkbox and press delete to remove account from the system Unused Active Guest Accounts Username This shows the user name of the unused guest account Expiry Date This shows the expiry date of the corresponding guest account Time Quota This shows the time quota of the connection of the corresponding guest account Creation Date This shows the date of creation of the corresponding guest account There are two different methods to create new guest account Create Account and Generate Accounts http www peplink com
153. re shows a typical scenario with Peplink Balance under the GRE connection mode and IP Forwarding routing mode gp gp perenncnnccaaannaa x LAN IP Address Tunnel Local IP Address Tunnel Remote IP Address i 210 103 22 1 4 192 168 128 222 192 168 128 223 p PRA fuen sssa Te posees pall ez COL OLS Peplink Balance Private IP Network Peplink Balance Router GRE Router i Me eee os 2sanaasasaaaaaneo gesesescesesesesseees i WAN IP Address i WAN Default Gateway 4 Remote GRE Host y s 172 23 2 123 172 23 2 122 172 23 254 87 In this scenario the IP address settings are as follows e WAN IP Address 172 23 2 123 Default Gateway 172 23 2 122 e Remote GRE IP address 172 23 254 87 the GRE router or host s IP address e Tunnel IP remote address 192 168 128 223 IP address of remote end of tunnel e Tunnel IP local address 192 168 128 222 IP address of local end of tunnel o LAN IP Address 210 103 22 1 The following figure shows the packet flow for Peplink Balance under GRE connection mode and IP Forwarding routing mode l Encapsulated Request 4 d Source 192 168 113 7 4 Destination 192 168 113 8 leeeeee ammm e Tunnel IP 192 168 113 7 Tunnel IP 192 168 113 8 CO I iit ih i i Mi ie Mie ie id gt ap Request Source 1 2 3 5 IP 1 2 3 4 bar a Reply 4 IP 1 2 3 5 Source 2234 1 t Destination 1 2 3 5 Peplink
154. re the same as that in the forward zone Please refer to section 14 5 2 for details 14 6 2 NS Records Name Server TTL sec fs fe The NS record of the name server defined in the SOA record is automatically added here To create a new NS record click the New NS Records button When creating an NS record for the Reverse Lookup Zone itself not a sub domain or dedicated zone the Host field should be left blank Name Server field must be an FQDN http www peplink com 97 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series link Protecting Business Continuity 14 6 3 CNAME Records To create a new CNAME record click the New CNAME Record button CNAME records are typically used for defining classless reverse lookup zones Subnetted reverse lookup zones are further described in REC 2317 Classless IN ADDR ARPA delegation 14 6 4 PTR Records Host IP Number Points To To create a new PTR record click the New PTR Record button Host IP Number field is the last integer in the IP address of aPTR record E g for the IP address 11 22 33 44 where the Reverse Lookup Zone is 33 22 11 in arpa addr the Host IP Number should be 44 Points To field defines the host name which the PTR record should be pointed to It must be an FQDN http www peplink com 98 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business
155. rofile is shown as below Details ta Established Connecting VPN connection status is also shown on the LCD panel of Peplink Balance 380 580 710 and 1350 By clicking the Details button at the top right hand corner of Site to Site VPN table you will be forwarded to Status gt Site to Site VPN You can view the subnet and WAN connection information of each VPN peer Please refer to section 20 5 for details IP subnets must be unique among VPN peers The entire inter connected Site to Site VPN network is one single non NAT IP network No two subnets in two sites shall be duplicated Otherwise connectivity problems will be experienced in accessing those subnets http www peplink com 70 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL peplink Protecting Business Continuity Peplink Balance Series 13 Management of Outbound Traffic to WAN Peplink Balance provides the functionality to flexibly manage and load balance outbound traffic among the WAN connections Important Note Outbound Policy is applied only when more than one WAN connection is active The settings for managing and load balancing outbound traffic are located in Network gt Outbound Policy Select an Outbound Policy Managed by Custom Rules 71 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink http www peplink com USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 13 1 Outbound Policy There are thre
156. rough registration with dynamic DNS service provider s the default public Internet IP address of each WAN connection can be associated with a host name With Dynamic DNS service enabled for a WAN connection you can connect to your WAN s IP address from the external even if its IP address is dynamic You have to register for an account from the listed dynamic DNS service providers before enabling this option If the WAN connection s IP address is a reserved private IP address i e behind a NAT router the Public IP of each WAN will be automatically reported to the DNS service provider Either upon a change in IP address or every 23 days without link reconnection Peplink Balance will connect to the dynamic DNS service provider to perform an IP address update within the provider s records The settings for dynamic DNS service provider s and the association of host name s are configured via Network gt Interfaces gt WAN Dynamic DNS Settings een _ f Dynamic DNS Settings This setting specifies the dynamic DNS service provider to be used for the WAN based on supported dynamic DNS service providers e changeip com Service Provider e dyndns org e no ip org e tzo com Select Disabled to disable this feature User ID User Email This setting specifies the registered user name for the dynamic DNS service Password Pass TZO Key This setting specifies the password for the dynamic DNS s
157. s Pests CE A Connection IP Address es W 123 123 123 1 Interface IP WAN2 L WAN3 Mobile Internet Server Y myserver 192 168 1 123 Weight 1 7 Required Fields Save Cancel Services Settings This setting specifies whether the inbound service rule takes effect When Yes is selected the inbound service rule takes effect If the inbound traffic matches the specified IP Protocol and Port action will be taken by Peplink Balance based on the other parameters of the rule When No is selected the inbound service rule does not take effect Peplink Balance will disregard the other parameters of the rule Enable This setting identifies the service to the System Administrator Service Name Valid values for this setting consist only of alphanumeric and the underscore _ characters The IP Protocol setting along with the Port setting specifies the protocol of the service as TCP UDP ICMP or IP Traffic that is received by Peplink Balance via the specified protocol at the specified port s is forwarded to the LAN hosts specified by the Servers setting Please see below for details on the Port and Servers settings Alternatively the Protocol Selection Tool drop down menu can be used to automatically fill in the Protocol and a single Port number of common Internet services e g HTTP HTTPS etc After selecting an item from the Protocol Selection Tool drop down menu the Protoco
158. s f pink Business Continuity 13 2 5 Algorithm Overflow The traffic matching this rule will be routed through the healthy WAN connection that has the highest priority and is not in full load When this connection gets saturated new sessions will be routed to the next healthy WAN connection that is not in full load Algorithm Overflow Order Highest Priority Mobile Internet Drag and drop to specify the order of WAN connections to be used for routing traffic Only the highest priority healthy connection that is not in full load will be utilized 13 2 6 Algorithm Least Used Available on Peplink Balance 210 O teastused OOOO Connection WANI WAN WAN3 Mobile Internet The traffic matching this rule will be routed through the healthy WAN connection that is selected in the field Connection and has the most available download bandwidth The available download bandwidth of a WAN connection is calculated from the total download bandwidth specified in the WAN settings page and the current download usage The available bandwidth and WAN selection is determined every time when an IP session is made 13 2 7 Algorithm Lowest Latency Available on Peplink Balance 210 Algorithm EJ LowestLatency Note Use of Lowest Latency will incur additional network usage Connection WAN1 WANZ WAN3 Mobile Internet The traffic matching this rule will be routed through the healthy WAN connection that is selected in the fie
159. s l l l x you can click on a username to edit the account password Click the button to delete the account in its corresponding row Important Note PPTP server will be disabled automatically if the Balance is deployed in Drop in mode http www peplink com 135 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL e link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 19 3 Service Forwarding Service Forwarding settings are located at Network gt Service Forwarding SMTP Forwarding Setup 63 sw Forwarding Ol Ena Web Proxy Forwarding Setup Web Proxy Forwarding CET DNS Forwarding Setup a Service Forwarding When this option is enabled all outgoing SMTP connections destined for any SMTP Forwarding host at TCP port 25 will be intercepted These connections will be redirected to a specified SMTP server and port number SMTP server settings for each WAN can be specified after selecting Enable When this option is enabled all outgoing connections destined for the proxy server specified in Web Proxy Interception Settings will be intercepted These Web Proxy Forwarding connections will be redirected to a specified web proxy server and port number Web Proxy Interception Settings and proxy server settings for each WAN can be specified after selecting Enable When this option is enabled all outgoing DNS lookups will be intercepted and redirected to the built in DNS name server If any LAN device is using
160. s org no ip org and tzo com 4 1 2 LAN o DHCP server on LAN e Static routing rules e Local DNS 4 1 3 VPN Available on Peplink Balance 210 e Secure Site to Site VPN e VPN load balancing and failover among selected WAN connections e Site to Site VPN bandwidth bonding e Ability to route Internet traffic to a remote VPN peer e Optional pre shared key setting e Authenticate PPTP clients by RADIUS and LDAP servers Available on Peplink Balance 380 e Site to Site VPN Throughput Ping and Traceroute Test Available on Peplink Balance 210 PPTP server o PPTP and IPsec passthrough 4 1 4 Inbound Traffic Management e TCP UDP traffic redirection to dedicated LAN server s o Inbound link load balancing by means of DNS Available on Peplink Balance 210 4 1 5 Outbound Policy e Link load distribution per TCP UDP service e Persistent routing for specified source and or destination IP addresses per TCP UDP service e Prioritize and route traffic to VPN tunnels with Priority and Enforced algorithms 4 1 6 WLAN Controller e Configure and manage Pepwave AP devices e Review the status of connected AP http www peplink com 11 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 4 1 7 QoS Available on Peplink Balance 210 e Quality of Service for different applications and custom protocols e User Group classification for different service levels Available on Pe
161. s the source IP address es and port number s to be matched for a firewall rule A single address or a network can be specified as the Source IP amp Port setting as indicated with the following screenshots IP Source IP amp Port Port IP Mask 255 255 255 0 ls Port i In addition a single port or a range of ports can be specified for the Source IP amp Port setting http www peplink com 126 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity This specifies the destination IP address es and port number s to be matched for a firewall rule A single address or a network can be specified as the Source IP amp Port setting as indicated with the following screenshots Destination IP amp IP Port Port Network IP Mask 255 255 2550 Port 7 In addition a single port or a range of ports can be specified for the Source IP amp Port setting This setting specifies the action to be taken by Peplink Balance upon encountering traffic that matches the both of the following e Source IP amp Port e Destination IP amp Port Action With the value of Allow for the Action setting the matching traffic passes through Peplink Balance to be routed to the destination If the value of the Action setting is set to Deny the matching traffic does not pass through Peplink Balance and is discarded This setting specifies whether
162. s transfer rate in Kbps gt WANT gt WAN2 ie gt WAN5 gt Throughput out shows transfer rate in Kbps gt WANT gt WAN2 gt gt WAN5 gt Data Transfer d shows volume transferred since last reboot in MB gt WANT gt WAN2 Pasi gt WAN5 gt Maintenance gt Reboot gt Reboot Yes No to reboot the unit gt Factory default gt Factory default Yes No to restore factory defaults gt LAN config gt Port speed shows port speed Auto 10baseT FD 10baseT HD gt LAN 100baseTx FD 100baseTx HD 1000baseTx FD gt WANT gt WAN2 gt WAN5 http www peplink com 26 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 6 6 4 Rear Panel Appearance Power Switch Power Connector Connector Ports Power Connector AC input 110 220V To hold pressing the key for 4 seconds will power down the unit When the unit is powered off press it will power on the unit Power Switch 6 6 5 Unit Label Appearance Peplink Balance 580 ont Product Code BPL 580 peplink Serial 1824 61DE 6B04 Serial Number and LAN MAC Address LAN MAC 10 56 CA 03 E6 68 Made in Taiwan EC 4 DLL A http www peplink com http www peplink com 27 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL ARA link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 6 7 Peplink Balance 710 6 7 1 Front Panel Appearance USB Ports LCD Dis
163. seTx HD 1000baseTx FD 32 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 6 8 3 Rear Panel Appearance Power Switch etree soseses elos pa ae eee A 38 838 gee 2 9509 Bote ojete octetos sosotesete Power Connector Connector Ports RS 232 Port Reserved for engineering use USB Ports For connecting a USB based mobile modem Power Connector AC input 110 220V To hold pressing the key for 4 seconds will power down the unit When the unit is powered off press it will power on the unit Power Switch Reset Switch Press and release once to reset the system 6 8 4 Unit Label Appearance Peplink Balance 1350 Product Code BPL 135 peplink Serial 182C 1065 2932 Serial Number and LAN MAC Address Made in Taiwan http www peplink com http www peplink com 33 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 7 Installation Connecting the Network with Peplink Balance 7 1 Preparation Before installing Peplink Balance please prepare the following e Atleast one Internet WAN access account e For each network connection one 10 100BaseT UTP cable with RJ45 connector or one 1000BaseT Cat5E UTP cable for the Gigabit port on the Balance 580 710 1350 or one USB modem for the USB WAN port on Balance 380 580 710 1350 e A computer with TCP IP n
164. so supports acting as a generic DNS server for hosting A CNAME MX TXT and NS records For example This example is for illustration only the actual resolution that takes place in implementation will likely be different The DNS resolution of the domain name www mycompany com Is delegated to the WANZ2 Internet IP addresses of Peplink Balance Upon receiving the DNS query Peplink Balance returns as an A record the IP address for www mycompany com on WANT because WANT is the most appropriate healthy link The settings for defining the DNS records to be hosted by Peplink Balance are located at Network gt Inbound Access gt DNS Settings This setting specifies the WAN IP addresses on which the DNS server of Peplink Balance should listen If no addresses are selected the Inbound Link Load Balancing feature will be disabled Peplink Balance will not respond to DNS requests To specify and or modify the IP addresses on which the DNS Server should listen click the Edit button that corresponds to DNS Server Listens on and the following screen is displayed 210 10 10 1 Interface IP DNS Server Mobile Internet Save Cancel To specify the Internet IP addresses on which the DNS Server should listen select the WAN connection by checking the appropriate boxes and the IP addresses associated with the WAN connections by highlighting
165. stallation of Peplink Balance on a live network between the existing Firewall and Router such that no configuration changes are required on existing equipment Check the box to enable the Drop in Mode feature Please refer to Section 10 Drop in Mode for details Enable WAN for Drop In Select the WAN port to be used for Drop in mode If the WAN port for LAN Bypass is Mode selected High Availability feature will be disabled automatically Enter the WAN router s IP address in this field If there are more hosts other than the router on the WAN segment check the box I have other host s on WAN segment and enter the IP address of the hosts that needs to access LAN devices or to be accessed by others WAN Default Gateway WAN DNS Servers Enter the selected WAN s corresponding DNS server IP addresses DHCP Server Settings When this setting is enabled the DHCP server of Peplink Balance automatically assigns an IP address to each computer that is connected via LAN and is configured to obtain an IP address via DHCP Peplink Balance s DHCP server can prevent IP address collision on LAN DHCP Server http www peplink com 42 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity IP Range amp This setting allocates a range of IP address that will be assigned to LAN computers Subnet Mask by the DHCP server of Peplink Balance This setting specifies the len
166. t Multicast Filter This setting enables the filtering of multicast network traffic to the wireless SSID http www peplink com 107 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity This setting specifies the transmit rate to used for sending multicast network traffic Multicast Rate The rate options and values will be affected by selected Protocol and Channel Bonding Layer 2 is in reference to the second layer in the ISO Open System Interconnect model Layer 2 When this option is enabled clients on the same VLAN SSID or subnet are allowed Communication to communicate directly via the Layer 2 Protocol s Traffic is passed to upper communication layer s By default the setting is enabled Wireless Security Settings This setting configures the wireless authentication and encryption methods Available options are Open No Encryption Static WEP 802 1X WPA WPA2 Personal and WPA WPA2 Enterprise Selecting Open No Encryption disables encryption Security Policy For details on the other options please refer to the following sections 3 16 2 1 Static WEP 4 16 2 2 802 1X Parameters 5 16 2 3 WPA parameters 6 16 2 4 Radius Server Settings Access Control The settings allow administrator to control the access through Mac address filtering Restricted Mode E Available options are None Deny all except listed Accept
167. t Recommended is selected WAN Connection Priority Important Note to Users Upgrading to Firmware 5 0 The Site to Site VPN in firmware 5 0 requires the same firmware version for all devices in the VPN network Please make sure that both ends of the Peplink Balance units are running with the same firmware version Important Note e When outbound Internet traffic is routed to remote Site to Site VPN peer the remote peer will route the traffic to its first available WAN connection only e Peplink proprietary Site to Site VPN used TCP and UDP port 32015 for establishing VPN connections If you have a firewall in front of the Peplink Balance devices you will need to add firewall rules for these port and protocols which will allow inbound and outbound traffic pass through the firewall Tip Want to know more about VPN Sub Second Session Failover Visit our YouTube Channel for a video tutorial e en en ele a Ce E pi i air in HO kr OLH afd Mop a de http www youtube com PeplinkChannel p u 0 FXPAJ37b4pQ http www peplink com 68 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 12 2 Peplink Balance Behind NAT Router The Peplink Balance supports establishing Site to Site VPN over WAN connections which are behind a NAT Network Address Translation router To be able for a WAN connection behind a NAT router to accept VPN connections you can config
168. t be used for DNS lookups DNS Servers Please refer to Section 11 2 11 4 11 5 and 11 6 for details about WAN Health Check Bandwidth Allowance Monitor Additional Public IP Settings and Dynamic DNS Settings respectively http www peplink com 51 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink ee USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity 11 1 3 PPPoE Connection This connection method is suitable if ISP provides login ID password to connect via PPPoE PPPoE Settings Obtain DNS server address automatically Ol Use the following DNS server address es DNS server 1 DNS server 2 PPPoE Settings PPPoE User Name Enter the required information in these fields in order to connect via PPPoE to the Password ISP The parameter values are determined by and can be obtained from the ISP Confirm PPPoE nee ye ee Pa Word Verify your password by entering it again in this field Service Name Service Name is a PPPoE parameter which is provided by the ISP Optional Note Leave this field blank unless it is provided by your ISP Each ISP may provide a set of DNS servers for DNS lookups This setting specifies the DNS Domain Name System Servers to be used when a DNS lookup is routed through this connection Selecting Obtain DNS server address automatically results in the DNS Servers assigned by the PPPoE server to be used for outbound DNS lookups over the WAN connectio
169. takes effect If the traffic matches the specified Protocol IP Port actions will be taken by Peplink Balance based on the other parameters of Enable the rule When No is selected the firewall rule does not take effect Peplink Balance will disregard the other parameters of the rule This setting is applicable to Inbound Firewall Rules only This setting specifies the WAN connection s on which the rule applies 1 Any 2 WAN1 3 WAN2 4 WANS applicable only to Peplink Balance 30 310 380 580 710 and 1350 WAN Connection 5 WANZ4 to WANS applicable only to Peplink Balance 580 710 and 1350 6 WAN6 to WAN7 applicable only to Peplink Balance 710 and 1350 7 WAN8 to WAN13 applicable only to Peplink Balance 1350 8 Mobile Internet applicable only to Peplink Balance 20 30 380 580 710 and 1350 A value of Any WAN1 WAN2 and Mobile Internet specifies that the rule applies to all WAN connections WAN1 WANZ and Mobile Internet respectively This setting specifies the protocol to be matched Via a drop down menu the following protocols can be specified e TCP e UDP Protocol 2 Sur e IP Alternatively the Protocol Selection Tool drop down menu can be used to automatically fill in the Protocol and Port number of common Internet services e g HTTP HTTPS etc After selecting an item from the Protocol Selection Tool drop down menu the Protocol and Port number remains manually modifiable This specifie
170. the LAN settings page will be advertised to the VPN All VPN members branch offices and headquarters will be able to route to the local subnets Note that all LAN subnet and subnets behind it have to be unique Otherwise VPN members will not be able to access each other All data can be routed over the VPN with 256 bit AES encryption standard To configure navigate to Network gt Site to Site VPN 1824 1234 ABCD 192 168 50 11 1824 ABCD 1234 10 10 10 151 10 10 10 152 Delete 10 10 10 153 _ Add VPN Connection http www peplink com 66 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink 0 USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity Link Failure Detection Recommended Approx 15 secs Fast Approx 6 secs Faster Approx 2 secs D Extreme Under 1 sec Shorter detection time incurs more health checks and higher bandwidth overhead A list of defined VPN Connection profiles and Link Failure Detection Time option will be shown Click the Add VPN Connection button to create a new VPN connection profile for making VPN connection to a remote Peplink Balance via the available WAN connections Each profile is for making VPN connection with one remote Peplink Balance Click a connection name on the leftmost column to edit the profile VPN Settings E lf this field is empty this field on the peer site must be filled VPN Settings VPN Connection This field is
171. tion Click the Add button to define a custom application Click the button X in the Action column to delete the custom application in the corresponding row When Supported Applications is selected the Peplink Balance will inspect network traffic and prioritize the selected application Alternatively select Custom Applications and define the application by providing the protocol scope port number and DSCP value pa ei Audio Video Streaminc NEO ae Database pplications Email File Sharing Transfer IM Miscellaneous Remote Access Security Tunneling VoIP Category and Application availability will be different across different models of Peplink Balance 17 3 3 DSL Cable Optimization DSL cable based WAN connection has its upload bandwidth lower than the download bandwidth When this option is enabled the download bandwidth of the WAN can be fully utilized in any situation When a DSL cable circuit s uplink is congested the download bandwidth will be affected Users will not be able to download data in full speed until the uplink becomes less congested The DSL Cable Optimization can relieve such issue When it is enabled the download speed will become less affected by the upload traffic By default this feature is enabled http www peplink com 124 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 18 Firewal
172. tion the Shared Key option should be disabled The security level of this method is known to be very high Wireless Security Settings WPA WPA2 Personal Hide Characters When WPA WPAZ2 Personal is configured a Shared Key is used for data encryption and authentication Under this configuration the Shared Key option should be enabled Key length must be between 8 and 63 characters inclusive The security level of this method is known to be high 16 3 4 Radius Server Settings When 802 1X or WPA WPA2 Enterprise is selected as the wireless security protocol Radius Server settings will be available as shown below RADIUS Server Settings Primary Server Secondary Server Default Radius Server Settings Radius server specified by this setting will be used for authentication and Host accounting Secret This is the secret for accessing the Radius server This specifies the UDP port number for the Authentication port of the Radius Authentication Port mer By default it is set as 1812 This specifies the UDP port number for the Accounting port of the Radius Accounting Port Server By default it is set as 1813 http www peplink com 110 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 16 4 Captive Portal Management A customized Captive Portal page can be configured and applied to wireless networks To configure check t
173. tion allows you to choose whether to remain the connection connected or disconnect Standby State when this WAN connection is no longer in the highest priority and has entered the standby state When Remain connected is chosen upon bringing up this WAN connection to active it will be immediately available for use Idle With this option enabled an idle connection will be disconnected after a specified minutes of esmas time This time value specified is global and will affect all WAN profiles The mobile connection will re establish on demand GRE Please refer to Section 11 1 4 for details Reply to ICMP If this field is disabled the WAN connection will not respond to ICMP Ping requests Ping By default this is enabled http www peplink com 56 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series Protecting Business Continuity This setting applies to 3G EDGE GPRS modem only It does not apply to EVDO EVDO Rev A modem Operator This allows you to configure the APN settings of your connection If Auto is selected Peplink Settings Balance will automatically detect the APN configure the modem and make connection You may change the APN settings by selecting Custom Mobile Operator Settings The default and recommended Operator Settings is Auto The correct values can be obtained from your mobile Internet service provider SIM PIN T l Fe Optional This is an optional field which is only needed
174. tion has been turned off or the usage has been reset when a new billing cycle starts Start Day This option allows you to define which day in the month each billing cycle begins Monthly Allowance This field is for defining the maximum bandwidth usage allowed for the WAN connection each month http www peplink com 63 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series i P INK Business Continuity 11 5 Additional Public IP Settings IP Address List IP Address 210 10 10 0 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 24 1210 10 10 1 210 10 10 2 1210 10 10 3 210 10 10 4 210 10 10 5 Delete Those settings will not be saved until the save button below has been pressed Additional Public IP Settings The IP Address List represents the list of fixed Internet IP addresses assigned by the ISP in the event that more than one Internet IP addresses are assigned to this WAN connection IP Address List Enter the fixed Internet IP addresses and the corresponding subnet mask and then click the Down Arrow button to populate IP address entries to the IP Address List http www peplink com 64 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink ee USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity 11 6 Dynamic DNS Settings Peplink Balance provides the functionality to register the domain name relationships to dynamic DNS service providers Th
175. tive The settings to configure High Availability are located at the following location Network gt Misc Settings gt High Availability http www peplink com 131 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL lt link Peplink Balance Series Protecting Business Continuity High Availability Setup High Availability Setup 12 Enable EA Master Slave High Availability Settings High Availability Group Number Preferred Role Resume Master Role Upon Recovery Configuration Sync Master Serial Number Virtual IP LAN Administration IP Subnet Mask http www peplink com 132 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink Checking this box specifies that the Peplink Balance unit is part of a High Availability configuration This setting specifies a number that identifies a pair of Peplink Balance units that operate in a High Availability configuration The two Peplink Balance units in the pair must have the same Group Number value This setting specifies whether the Peplink Balance unit operates in Master or Slave mode Click the corresponding radio button to set the role of the unit One of the units in the pair must be configured as the Master and the other unit must be configured as the Slave This option is displayed when Master mode is selected in Preferred Role If this option is enabled once the device is recovered from outage it will take over and resume its Master role
176. tom WANI 210 10 10 1 Interface IP m Fl custom IP Address Save Cancel A Records O Host included IP address es mm sec New A Record http www peplink com 94 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity If ISC BIND 8 or 9 is being utilized in the zone file mycompany com then the addition of the following lines suffice Www IN NS balancewan1 Www IN NS balancewan2 balancewan1 IN A 202 153 122 108 balancewan2 IN A 67 38 212 18 202 153 122 108 and 67 38 212 18 represent the WAN1 and WANZ2 Internet IP addresses of Peplink Balance respectively The values of the IP addresses are fictitious and for illustration only the actual IP addresses in implementation will likely be different Hosting the complete domain at Peplink Balance To host your own DNS server contact the DNS registrar to have the NS records of the domain e g mycompany com point to your Balance s WAN IP addresses Then follow these instructions 1 Under Network gt Inbound Access gt DNS Settings create a new domain for example mycompany com 2 Create NS records named ns1 ns2 etc The IP addresses are the Balance s DNS server addresses same as above 3 Create the corresponding A CNAME MX and TXT records as you wish The A record resembles the one below WWW WAN1 default x Testing the DNS Configuration The following steps can be used to test th
177. tomize e Account Information Email will be sent when the user login at the first time with a guest account e Password Reset Email will be sent when the user is requesting a password reset on the portal page Different dynamic information is available for the email template Dynamic Information for Captive Portal Email Template S NAME This is to specify the name of account user SENDER This is to specify the sender s name RESET_KEY This is to specify the reset password of the specified account USERNAME This is to specify the account user name PASSWORD This is to specify the password of the account EXP_DATE This is to specify the expiry date of the account Once the settings are complete press the Save button to save and activate settings http www peplink com 117 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 16 5 AP Profile AP profiles assigned to each Pepwave AP device can be configured at Network gt WLAN Controller gt AP Profiles Name Action Je ES Bese o T New AP Profile Each AP is associated with one AP Profile By default all devices are associated with the first Default profile The Default profile cannot be removed You can define an AP profile by clicking the New AP Profile button Click the Clone button of an existing profile to create a new profile based on it To change the settings of an existing pr
178. ttings can be configured from the Network menu WAN connections can be configured by entering the corresponding WAN connection information at Network gt Interfaces gt WAN pep Dashboard Setup Wizard Network System Status Interfaces WAN o LAN WANI Static IP j Always on o fe E PP a J L a Outbound Policy Dre Backup Group 1 Inbound Access Servers Services o DNS Settings O NAT Mappings WLAN Controller i AA a Wireless o Networks BAP Profiles Qos User Groups a Bandwidth Control Application Firewall m Access Rules Web Blocking Misc Settings High Availability o PPTP Server m Service o Forwarding m Service o Passthrough Logout Tip Please refer to Section 11 Configuration of WAN Interface s for details on setting up DHCP Static IP PPPoE GRE and Mobile Internet Connection http www peplink com 40 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL A link Peplink Balance Series PEPIINK Business Continuity 9 Configuration of LAN Interface The LAN Interface settings are located at Network gt Interfaces gt LAN IP Settings 192 168 1 1 I have other host s on WAN segment Host IP Address es 192 168 1 123 4 Delete DNS server 1 DNS server 2 NOTE The DHCP Server Settings will be overwritten The following WAN 1 settings will be overwritten Enable Connection Method
179. tus gt WINS Client 10 9 2 1 10 9 30 1 10 9 2 4 Flush All It lists WINS client IP addresses and their Names This option will only be available when you have enabled the WINS Server in section 9 Name of clients retrieved will be automatically matched into Client List in the previous section Click the button Flush All to flush all WINS client records 21 6 Site to Site VPN Available on Peplink Balance 210 This is a page showing the current status of Site to Site VPN located at Status gt Site to Site VPN Details about Site to Site VPN connection peers would be shown as below Remote Networks A Y Headquarters 192 168 30 0 24 WANI Din Use Rx 8 kbps Tx 5 kbps Drop rate 0 00 sec WAN Din Use Rx 2 kbps Tx 1 kbps Drop rate 0 00 sec Total Rx 10 kbps Tx 6 kbps Drop rate 0 00 sec You can simply click on the corresponding peer name to explore the WAN connection s status and subnet information of each VPN peer http www peplink com 158 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity http www peplink com 159 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity 21 7 UPnP NAT PMP The table that shows the forwarded ports under UPnP and NAT PMP protocols is located at Status gt UPnP NAT PMP This section appears only if you have enabled the function of UPnP
180. ure the NAT router in front of the WAN connection to inbound port forward TCP port 32015 to the Peplink Balance If one or more WAN connections on Unit A can accept VPN connections by means of port forwarding or not while none of the WAN connections on the peer Unit B can do so you should put all public IP addresses or host names of the Unit A to the Unit B s Peer IP Addresses Host Names field Leave the field in Unit A blank With such setting site to site VPN connection can be set up and all WAN connections on both sides will be utilized For example see the following diagram Pepwave MAX Router B 192 168 1 x 192 168 3 x Pepwave MAX A cS RER Router A One of the WANs of Balance A is non NAT d 212 1 1 1 The rest of the WANs on Balance A and all WANs on Balance B are NAT d In such case the Peer IP Addresses Host Names field in Balance B should be filled with all of the Balance A s host names or public IP addresses i e 212 1 1 1 212 2 2 2 and 212 3 3 3 and the field in Balance A can be left blank The two NAT routers on WAN1 and WANS of Balance A should inbound port forward TCP port 32015 to the Balance A so that all WANs would be utilized to establish VPN http www peplink com 69 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 12 3 VPN Status VPN Status is shown in the Dashboard The connection status of each connection p
181. usiness Continuity 11 Configuration of WAN Interface s The WAN interface settings are located at Network gt Interfaces gt WAN By clicking a connection name connection settings of that WAN can be modified The connection method and details are determined by and can be obtained from the ISP WAN Connection Name Enable Connection OS Routing Mode Connection pe E Always on Backup Priority Group 1 Highest E Fr Bandwidth 100 Mbps Download Bandwidth D 100 Mbps Connection Settings ALAN a This field is for defining a name to represent this WAN connection Enable This field is for choosing whether to enable this WAN connection This option allows you to select the connection method for this WAN connection Available options are 1 DHCP 2 Static IP Connection Method 3 PPPoE 4 GRE 5 Mobile Internet Connection available on Peplink Balance 20 30 380 See Sections 11 1 1 11 1 2 11 1 3 11 1 4 11 1 5 for configuration details of each connection method This field shows that NAT Network Address Translation will be applied to the traffic routing over this WAN connection IP Forwarding is also available when you Click the link in the help text For further details please refer to Appendix B Routing under DHCP Static IP and PPPoE Routing Mode This setting specifies the utilization of the WAN connection The selection of Always on results in the WAN connectio
182. ut test ok 0 0313 MB 1 00sec 0 2614 Mbps O0 retrans 0 1250 MA 1 00 ser 1 0485 Mhn O retrans http www peplink com 155 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Serles pink Business Continuity USER MANUAL 21 Status This section displays the information of Peplink Balance on the Device Active Sessions Client List WINS Client List Site to Site VPN UPnP NAT PMP Event Log and Bandwidth 21 1 Device System information is located at Status gt Device Peplink Balance 380 1324 1234 1234 MAC Address System Information Router Name This is the name specified in the field Router Name located in System gt Admin Security System Information Model This shows the model name and number of this device Hardware Revision This shows the hardware version of this device Serial Number This shows the serial number of this device Firmware This shows the firmware version in which this device is currently running Uptime This shows the length of time since the device is rebooted System Time This shows the current system time Diagnostic Report Download button is for exporting a diagnostic report file required for system investigation The second table shows the MAC address of each LAN WAN interface connected Important Note If you encounter issues and would like to contact Peplink Support Team http www peplink com contact please download the diagnostic report file an
183. wered up Clients can be imported into DHCP Reservation table by clicking the 3 button on the right most column Further update the record after the import by going to Network gt LAN IP Address Download Upload MAC Address kbps J 192 168 0 10 0 00 00 22 11 CC 0D El 192 168 0 150 EOP 18 00 22 44 DD 11 33 Save Cancel 192 168 0 200 O O0 1A AA AA 33 A0 El 192 168 1 99 192 168 1 138 Smart Phone 192 168 50 150 Site to Site VPN Scale kbps Mbps If PPTP Server in section 19 2 Site to Site VPN in section 12 or WLAN Controller in section 16 is enabled you may see the corresponding connection name would be listed in the field of Name http www peplink com 157 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 21 4 Access Point Available on Peplink Balance 380 The Status of connected access point devices can be found at Status gt Access Point IP Address Firmware AP Profile a Pepwave AP One 1 10 9 2 15 Main_Office Pepwave AF One 2 Main_Office Auto It lists all connected or detected Pepwave access point devices and their IP address firmware version assigned AP profile number of connected clients and broadcasting channel The broadcasting channel follows by a means the channel is automatically chosen and selected by the Peplink Balance 21 5 WINS Client The WINS client list table is located at Sta
184. when there is SIM lock for your SIM card service Each ISP may provide a set of DNS servers for DNS lookups This field specifies the DNS Servers to be used when a DNS lookup is routed through this connection You can input the ISP provided DNS server addresses into the DNS server 1 and DNS server 2 fields If no address is entered here this link will not be used for DNS lookups This option is enabled automatically and it is required to define the DNS server when GRE is enabled DNS Servers Please refer to Section 11 2 11 4 11 5 and 11 6 for details about WAN Health Check Bandwidth Allowance Monitor Additional Public IP Settings and Dynamic DNS Settings respectively http www peplink com 57 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 11 1 6 Modem Specific Custom Settings The following settings may be available depending on the modem model IMSI 123400005678900 Network Type D 3G preferred GSM Frequency Band All Bands Modem Specific Custom Settings Modem Model This field displays the Manufacturer name of the connected mobile modem This field shows the IMSI number associated with the SIM inside the mobile IMSI modem This setting allows you to define your preference of using the 3G and or 2G networks 3G networks include HSPA UMTS 2G networks include EDGE GPRS If 3G only or 2G only is chosen only the HSPA UMTS or EDGE GPR
185. wo copies of firmware of different version You can select the firmware version you would like the device to reboot with The firmware marked with Running is the current system boot up firmware Please note that a firmware upgrade will always replace the inactive firmware partition Select the firmware you want to use to start up this Peplink Balance Firmware 1 v5 2 0 build 1374 Running Firmware 2 v5 2 0 build 1372 Reboot http www peplink com 153 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series f P INK Business Continuity 20 10 Ping Test The Ping Test tool in Peplink Balance performs Pings through a specified Ethernet interface or a Site to Site VPN connection VPN connections are only available on Peplink Balance 210 or above You can specify the number of pings in the field Number of times to a maximum of 10 times and Packet Size can be specified in the field Packet Size to a maximum of 1472 bytes The Ping utility is located at System gt Tools gt Ping illustrated as follows ee WANT Destination 10 10 10 1 Sto PING 10 10 10 1 10 10 10 1 from 10 10 10 151 56 84 bytes of data bytes from 10 10 10 1 icmp_req 1 ttl 64 time 1 07 ms bytes from 10 10 10 1 icmp_reg 2 ttl 64 time 1 08 ms bytes from 10 10 10 1 icmp_reg 3 ttl 64 time 0 868 ms bytes from 10 10 10 1 icmp_reg 4 ttl 64 time 0 877 ms bytes from 10 10 10 1 icmp_reg
186. www peplink com 119 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity es Most modern wireless clients support v2 In the event that there are stations that do not support v2 select the option v1 By default the value of the setting is v2 This setting provides the option to send beacon in different transmit bit rate and Beacon ate the bit rates are 1Mbps 2Mbps 5 5Mbps 6Mbps 11Mbps This setting provides the option to set the time between each beacon send SISO MEE Available options are 100ms 250ms and 500ms This setting provides the option to set the frequency for beacon to include oun Delivery Traffic Indication Message DTIM The interval unit is in millisecond This setting provides the option to set the minimum packet size for the unit to RTS Threshold send an RTS using the RTS CTS handshake Setting zero would disable this feature This setting provides the option to modify the unit wait time before it transmits Slot Time The default value is 9us ACK Timeout This setting provides the option to set the wait time to receive acknowledgement packet before doing retransmission The default value is 48us With this feature enabled throughput will be increased by sending two or more pramezygregaven data frames in a single transmission This option is only available when Frame Aggregation is enabled It specifies Sn Leu the frame len
187. www peplink com 19 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink USER MANUAL link Peplink Balance Series pink Business Continuity 6 4 Peplink Balance 310 6 4 1 Front Panel Appearance LAN Ports WAN Ports Status LED Balance310 Power LED Reset Button 6 4 2 LED Indicators The statuses indicated by the Front Panel LEDs are as follows Power and Status Indicators OFF Power off Power Green Power on OFF System initializing Status Red Booting up or busy Green Ready state LAN and WAN Ports ON 100 Mbps Green LED OFF 10 Mbps Solid Port is connected without traffic Yellow LED Blinking Data is transferring OFF Port is not connected Port Type Auto MDI MDI X ports http www peplink com 20 182 Copyright O 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Series peplink Protecting Business Continuity USER MANUAL 6 4 3 Rear Panel Appearance Power Connector 6 4 4 Unit Base Appearance Peplink Balance 310 e ara 1824 6 130 8528 105 A 00 DE 00 E A if PSC Input LV DE Late in Tanai BLUE LUN LE PE er LAN MAC Address http www peplink com 21 182 Copyright 2011 Peplink Peplink Balance Serles pink Business Continuity 6 5 Peplink Balance 380 6 5 1 Front Panel Appearance LAN Port Power LED LCD Display WAN Ports ree e e peplink S Balance380 e USER MANUAL USB Ports 6 5 2 LED Indi

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