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1. URL Path Description Optional List of Rules Ho Object Mode KeywordsURL Path Description Action Pl i sales Keywords exe oe P T P 2 sales URL Fath www aabbec cam Se S i gt 80 4 6 4 2 Web Filtering On this page you can filter the desired web components Choose the menu Firewall Access Control gt Web Filtering to load the following page Web Filtering W Enable Web Filtering W ActiveX W Cookie 2 Jawa Figure 4 53 Web Filtering Check the box before Enable Web Filtering and select the web components to be filtered 4 6 4 3 Access Rules Choose the menu Firewall Access Control Access Rules to load the following page Access Rules Policy Select policy bl Service All Services bal Interface LAN ka Source IP MASE wt 0 0 0 0 ree Destination IF SMASE wt 0 0 0 0 sz Effective Time 00 00 Sun Mon Tue e wed e Thu Fri 7 Sat Description AN Optional Priority Insert as No Entry List of Rules No Source Destination Policy Service Interface Effective Time Description Action 0s 00 20 00 a Pl i 192 168 0 0 24 116 10 20 0 24 Block TELNET LAN amp ON Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Figure 4 54 Access Rule The following items are displayed on this screen gt Access Rules 81 Policy Service Interface Source Destination Effective Time Description Priority Select a policy for the entry e Block When this option is selected the packe
2. 21 Dynamic 1P Settings Connection Type Dynamic IP w Host Name MTU 150 576 1500 Use the following DNS Server Primary DNS ooo Secondary DNS ooo Optional Get IP address by Unicast enable it only when required Help Upstream Bandwidth kbps Downstream Bandwidth 400000 kbps Dynamic IP Status Status Connecting IP Address aa Subnet Mask ria Default Gateway Primary DNS Secondary ONS Figure 4 8 WAN Dynamic IP The following items are displayed on this screen gt Dynamic IP Connection Type Select Dynamic IP if your ISP assigns the IP address automatically Click lt Obtain gt to get the IP address from your ISP s server Click lt Release gt to release the current IP address of WAN port Host Name Optional This field allows you to give a name for the Router It s blank by default MTU MTU Maximum Transmission Unit is the maximum data unit transmitted by the physical network It can be set in the range of 576 1500 The default MTU is 1500 You are recommended to keep the default value if no other MTU value is provided by your ISP f P Get IP Address by Unicast Use the following DNS Server Primary DNS Secondary DNS Upstream Bandwidth Downstream Bandwidth gt Dynamic IP Status Status IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway Address The broadcast requirement may not be supported by a few ISPs Select thi
3. 7 j TP LINK User Guide TL R480T Load Balance Broadband Router Rev 5 0 0 1910010619 COPYRIGHT amp TRADEMARKS Specifications are subject to change without notice TP LINK is a registered trademark of TP LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective holders No part of the specifications may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative such as translation transformation or adaptation without permission from TP LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD Copyright 2012 TP LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD All rights reserved htto www tp link com FCC STATEMENT FE This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cau
4. NAT Network Address Translator NTP Server Protocol over Ethernet SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SSH Secure Shell Protocol SA Security Association TCP Transfer Control Protocol TCP IP Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 PPPoE Point to Point Standardized data link layer address that is required for every port or device that connects to a LAN Other devices in the network use these addresses to locate specific ports in the network and to create and update routing tables and data structures MAC addresses are 6 bytes long and are controlled by the IEEE The size in bytes of the largest packet that can be transmitted Mechanism for reducing the need for globally unique IP addresses NAT allows an organization with addresses that are not globally unique to connect to the Internet by translating those addresses into globally routable address space NTP Server is used for synchronising the time across computer networks POP3 is intended to permit a workstation to dynamically access a maildrop on a server host in a useful fashion PPPoE is a network protocol for encapsulating Point to Point Protocol PPP frames inside Ethernet frames SMTP is an Internet standard for electronic mail e mail transmission SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices SA is the
5. Remote Management Subnet Mask 210 10 10 0 lza Status Activate Inactivate elp Then type the corresponding port number in Web Management Port and Telnet Management Port fields as the following figure shows General Web Management Port Telnet Management Port Web Idle Timeout lb Min 5 60 Telnet Idle Timeout Min 5 60 Finally start the web browser and type 210 10 10 50 in the URL field to log in the Web management page of the Router 4 8 1 3 Remote Management On this page you can configure the Remote Management function This feature allows managing your Router from a remote location via the Internet Choose the menu Maintenance gt Setup Remote Management to load the following page Remote Management Subnet Mask 0 0 0 0 laz Status a Activate O Inactiv ate Elp List of Subnet No Subnet Mask Status Action O 1 192 168 2 0 24 Active Oe Figure 4 71 Remote Management The following items are displayed on this screen gt Remote Management Subnet Mask Specify a single IP address or network address for the hosts desired to access the Router from external network Status Activate or inactivate the entry 104 gt List of Subnet In this list you can view the Remote Management entries and edit them by the Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 71 indicates that The hosts with IP address in subnet of 192 168 2 0 24 are allowed to access the Router and this entry is activated
6. to Network gt WAN PPPoE Dynamic IP static IP Figure 3 11 WAN Connection Type 1 If you choose PPPoE you will see the screen as the Figure 3 12 shown Enter the Account Name and Password provided by your ISP Internet Service Provider PPPoE Enter the Username and Password provided by your ISP Click Next gt to dial up and the procedures will take a few minutes Account Name User Password Figure 3 12 WAN Connection Type PPPoE Click lt Next gt to dial up and the process will take a few minutes The process of configuring the network parameters is shown as Figure 3 13 If you close the screen during the process the configuration will still be continued in the background These fields are case sensitive If you have difficulty in this process please contact your ISP 14 Connecting PT Configuring network parameters Figure 3 13 WAN Connection Type PPPoE Connecting 2 If your ISP assigns the IP address automatically please choose the Dynamic IP connection type to obtain the parameters for WAN port automatically The process for obtain the parameter may take a few minutes as Figure 3 14 shown If you close the screen during the process the configuration will still be continued in the background Connecting OO Obtaining network parameters Figure 3 14 WAN Connection Type Dynamic IP 3 If you choose Static IP you should enter the detailed IP inform
7. 4 8 2 Management 4 8 2 1 Factory Defaults Choose the menu Maintenance Management Factory Defaults to load the following page Factory Defaults Click the button below to reset the device to defaults Restore to Factory Defaults Figure 4 72 Factory Defaults Click the lt Restore to Factory Defaults gt button to reset all configuration settings to their default values The default IP address is 192 168 0 1 the default login user name and password are both admin 4 8 2 2 Export and Import Choose the menu Maintenance gt Management gt Export and Import to load the following page Configuration Yersion Current Version 1 0 0 Export Click lt Export gt to save your current configuration to your computer It is recommended to export the configuration before Firmware Upgrade or configuration modification Import You can import the configuration file to restore the saved setting File o le Figure 4 73 Export and Import The following items are displayed on this screen gt Configuration Version Displays the current Configuration version of the Router 105 gt Export Click the lt Export gt button to save the current configuration as a file to your computer You are suggested to take this measure before upgrading or modifying the configuration gt Import Click the lt Browse gt button to locate the update file for the device or enter the exact path to the saved file in the text box Then click the lt
8. 5 O 1 Check the box before Enable Port Mirror to enable the Port Mirror function and select the Ingress 8 Egress mode 2 Select Port 3 to be the Mirroring Port to monitor all the packets of the other ports 3 Select all the other ports to be the Mirrored Ports 4 Click the lt Save gt button to apply 4 3 4 3 Rate Control On this page you can control the traffic rate for the specific packets on each port so as to manage your network flow Choose the menu Network Switch Rate Control to load the following page 45 Rate Control Port 1 2 Ingress Limit Enable _ Enable _ Enable _ Enable _ Enable Ingress Rate Mbps Egress Limit Egress Rate Mbps MM Enable is C Enable EMO hh C Enable ln i J Enable isd isd C Enable Eoo Figure 4 23 Rate Control The following items are displayed on this screen gt Rate Control Port Ingress Limit Ingress Rate Egress Limit Egress Rate Displays the port number Specify whether to enable the Ingress Limit feature Specify the limit rate for the ingress packets Specify whether to enable Egress Limit feature Specify the limit rate for the egress packets The first entry in Figure 4 23 indicates The Ingress and Egress Limits are enabled for port 1 The Ingress and Egress Rates are 1Mbps That is the receiving rate for all the ingress packets will not exceed 1Mbps and the transmitting rate for all the egress pac
9. Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 33 indicates This is a Virtual Server entry named host1 all the TCP data packets from Internet to port 65534 65535 of the Router will be redirected to the port 65534 65535 of the LAN host with IP address of 192 168 0 103 and this entry is activated 4 5 1 5 Port Triggering Some applications require multiple connections like Internet games video conferencing Internet calling P2P download and so on Port Triggering is used for those applications requiring multiple connections When an application initiates a connection to the trigger port all the ports corresponding to the incoming port will open for follow up connections Choose the menu Advanced NAT Port Triggering to load the following page Port Triggering Name E Trigger Port Of In Me ma ma format Clear l a Trigger Protocol TCP UDP Help Incoming Port DO O In sa ne am format Incoming Protocol TCP UDP we Status Activate Inactivate List of Rules Ho Mare BEE Trigger Port ATES TUL Incoming Port Status Action Protocol Protocol F i hosti TCP 5354 TCP UDP 5355 Active OW Figure 4 34 Port Triggering The following items are displayed on this screen 58 gt Port Triggering Name Trigger Port Trigger Protocol Incoming Port Incoming Protocol Status Note Enter a name for Port Triggering entries Up to 28 characters can be entered Enter the trigger port number or
10. Import gt button to restore the saved setting A Note e To avoid any damage please don t power down the Router while being restored e Configurations may be lost if the configuration file you imported varies greatly from current configurations 4 8 2 3 Reboot Choose the menu Maintenance gt Management gt Reboot to load the following page Reboot Click the button below to reboot the device Figure 4 74 Reboot Click the lt Reboot gt button to reboot the Router The configuration will not be lost after rebooting The Internet connection will be temporarily interrupted while rebooting Md note To avoid damage please don t turn off the device while rebooting 4 8 2 4 Firmware Upgrade Choose the menu Maintenance gt Management Firmware Upgrade to load the following page Firmware Upgrade Firmware Version 5 0 0 Build 20120131 Rel 355555 Upgrade Hardware Version TL R4580T v5 0 File Pf Brose Figure 4 75 Firmware Upgrade To upgrade the Router is to get more functions and better performance Go to http www tp link com to download the updated firmware 106 Type the path and file name of the update file into the File field Or click the lt Browse gt button to locate the update file Then click the lt Upgrade gt button to complete A Note e After upgrading the device will reboot automatically e To avoid damage please don t turn off the device while upgrading e You are suggest
11. Sean Stealth FIN smas Mull Block Ping of Death Block Large Ping Block WinNuke attack Block Ping from WAM Block TCP packets with SYN and FIN Bits set Block TCP packets with FIN Bit set but no ACE Bit set Block IP options lt E is I Ho Operation Option Security Option Loose Source Route Option Strict Source Route Option Record Route Option Stream Option Timestamp Option Enable Attack Defense Logs Figure 4 50 Attack Defense The following items are displayed on this screen gt General Flood Defense Flood attack is a kind of commonly used DoS Denial of Service which including TCP SYN UDP recommended to check all the Flood Defense options and specify the corresponding thresholds Keep the default settings if you are not sure af a ICMP and so on Packet Anomaly Packet Anomaly refers to the abnormal packets It is Defense recommended to select all the Packet Anomaly Defense options Enable Attack With this box checked the Router will record the defense logs Defense Logs 4 6 3 MAC Filtering On this page you can control the access to the Internet of local host by specifying their MAC addresses Choose the menu Firewall gt MAC Filtering MAC Filtering to load the following page General Enable MAC Filtering O Permit MAC Addresses listed below and deny the rest Dave Deny MAC Addresses listed below and permit the rest MAC Address MAC Address DEK K KK KK 2X Clear
12. Static Route Destination Subnet Mask R Interface Y Ari w Metric Oo doas Description C Optional Status Activate Inactivate List of Rules Mo Destination Subnet Mask Next Hop Interface Metric Status Description Action F i 211 162 1 0 255 255 255 0 211 200 1 1 Ww ANI 0 Active tplink1 Ow Figure 4 44 Static Route The following items are displayed on this screen gt Static Route Destination Enter the destination host the route leads to Subnet Mask Enter the Subnet Mask of the destination network Next Hop Enter the gateway IP address to which the packet should be sent next Interface Select the physical network interface through which this route is accessible Metric Defines the priority of the route The smaller the value is the higher the priority is The default value is O Keep the default value if unnecessary Description Give a description for the entry Status Activate or inactivate the entry gt List of Rules You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons 71 The first entry in Figure 4 44 indicates If there are packets being sent to a device with IP address of 211 162 1 0 and subnet mask of 255 255 255 0 the Router will forward the packets from WAN1 port to the next hop of 211 200 1 1 Application Example There is a network topology as the following figure shown WAN 116 31 88 5 WAN 116 31 88 16 Le A m miy e LA
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14. address and destination IP address of the packets as a whole and record the WAN port they pass through And then the packets with the same source IP address and destination IP address or destination port will be forwarded to the recorded WAN port This feature is to ensure the multi connected applications to work properly Check the box before Enable Bandwidth Based Balance Routing and select the WAN port below Load Balance of the specified WAN port will be enabled automatically if no routing rules are set Then click the lt Save gt button to apply the settings bd Note The WAN ports not connecting to the Internet will not apply Intelligent Balance please do not select them 4 5 4 2 Policy Routing Policy Routing provides a more accurate way to control the routing based on the policy defined by the network administrator Choose the menu Advanced gt Load Balance gt Policy Routing to load the following page General Protocol All Protacols wt Source IP 0 0 0 0 oona Clear Destination IP 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 Help Source Port CA Destination Port o 0 WAN wana C wane Effective Time 00 00 24 00 sun Mon Tue v wed 4 Thu Fri Sat Description gt Optional Status Activate Inactiwate List of Rules No Src IF Dest IP Src Port Dest Port Protocal Wy Oh Effective Time Description Status Action 197 168 0 100 116 10 20 25 All 068 00 272 00 Mn ai ae Cl WANI Acti
15. check all the options You should import the IP and MAC address of the host to List of IP MAC Binding and enable the corresponding entry before enabling Permit the packets matching the IP MAC Binding entries only When suffered ARP attack the correct ARP information will be sent to the device suffering attack initiatively by GARP Gratuitous ARP packets thus the error ARP information of the device will be replaced You can set the packets sending rate in the Interval field Check the box before Enable ARP Logs and the Router will send ARP logs to the specified server The IP address of server is the Server IP set on 4 6 6 Logs gt IP MAC Binding IP Address Enter the IP Address to be bound MAC Address Enter the MAC Address corresponding to the IP Address Description Give a description for the entry Status Activate or inactivate the entry gt List of Rules You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 47 indicates The IP address of 192 168 1 101 and MAC address of 00 19 66 83 53 CF have been bound and this entry is activated Note If all the entries in the binding list are disabled and Permit the packets of IP MAC Binding entries only option is selected and saved the WEB management page of the Router cannot be login At the moment you should restore the Router to factory default and login again 4 6 1 2 ARP Scanning ARP Scanning feat
16. current management PC 4 3 4 Switch Some basic switch port management functions are provided by TL R480T which facilitates you to monitor the traffic and manage the network effectively 4 3 4 1 Statistics Statistics screen displays the detailed traffic information of each port which allows you to monitor the traffic and locate faults promptly Choose the menu Network Switch Statistics to load the following page Statistics Packets Port 1 Fort Fort 3 Port 4 Port 5 Unicast O O 2951 O T Broadcast O O 376 O T Fause o o o 0 T Multicast O O 10 O T Received Undersize O O O O T Normal O O 3367 O T Oversize O O 0 O T Total Bytes T T 323960 T 0 Unicast O O 5721 O T Broadcast O O O O T Transmitted Pause O O O O T Multicast O O 0 O T Total Bytes 0 0 6583147 T 0 Figure 4 21 Statistics 42 The following items are displayed on this screen gt Statistics Unicast Broadcast Pause Multicast Undersize Normal Oversize Total Bytes Displays the number of normal unicast packets received or transmitted on the port Displays the number of normal broadcast packets received or transmitted on the port Displays the number of flow control frames received or transmitted on the port Displays the number of normal multicast packets received or transmitted on the port Displays the number of the received frames including error frames that are less than 64 bytes Displays t
17. function make sure the UPnP is enabled for the Router and the operating system and applications in the host support UPnP service e As some Trojan and viruses can open the specific port using UPnP service resulting in hacker attack on the host be careful of using UPnP service 101 4 8 Maintenance 4 8 1 Admin Setup 4 8 1 1 Administrator On this page you can modify the factory default user name and password of the Router Choose the menu Maintenance gt Admin Setup Administrator to load the following page Administrator Current User Name Current Password AS a Mer User Name New Password po Contirm New Password fo Figure 4 69 Administrator The following items are displayed on this screen gt Administrator Current User Name Enter the current user name of the Router Current Password Enter the current password of the Router New User Name Enter a new user name for the Router New Password Enter a new password for the Router Confirm New Re enter the new password for confirmation Password A Note e The factory default password and user name are both admin e You should enter the new user name and password when next login if the current username and password has been changed e The new user name and password must not exceed 31 characters in length and must consist of numbers or letters All the fields are case sensitive 102 4 8 1 2 Login Parameter On this page you can config
18. i Optional Help List of Rules No MAC Address Description eta Q 1 00 11 22 33 44 55 Dr a Y Pi 00 11 22 33 44 6F Dr w Y Figure 4 51 MAC Filtering The following items are displayed on this screen gt General To control the access to Internet for hosts in you private network it is recommended to check the box before Enable MAC Filtering and select a filtering mode according to actual situation gt MAC Filtering MAC Address Enter the MAC Address to be filtered Description Give a description for the entry 78 gt List of Rules You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons 4 6 4 Access Control 4 6 4 1 URL Filtering URL Uniform Resource Locator specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it URL Filter functions to filter the Internet URL address so as to provide a convenient way for controlling the access to Internet from LAN hosts Choose the menu Firewall Access Control URL Filtering to load the following page General Enable URL Filtering ave Permit URL listed below and deny the rest Deny URL listed below and permit the rest URL Filtering Rule Object Group ANY Group Groupi Mode Keywords URL Path Description Optional List of Rules Ho Object Mode Keywords URL Path Description Action Wo entries Figure 4 52 URL Filtering The following items are displayed o
19. in the drop down list of Protocol on Access Rule page Protocol Select the protocol for the service The system predefined protocols include TCP UDP and TCP UDP Dest Port Enter the start and end ports to make a destination port range for the service The start port number cannot be greater than the end port number gt List of Service You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons Note The service types predefined by the system cannot be modified 4 6 5 App Control 4 6 5 1 Control Rules On this page you can enable the Application Rules function Choose the menu Firewall App Control Control Rules to load the following page 84 General Enable Application Control Save Control Rules Object Croup Application Effective Time Description Status List of Rules Mo Object F 1 groupl a Group O ANY Clear Application List Help Sun e Mon e Tue W Wed t Thu e Fri v Sat Optional Activate Inactivate de Effective Time Status Description Action 07 00 09 00 gt View Active ae g ON sun Mon Tue Fri Figure 4 56 Application Rules The following items are displayed on this screen gt General Check the box before Enable Application Control to make the Application Control function take effect The specified application used by the specified local users will be not allowed to access the Internet if
20. is selected configure the default gateway If Dynamic IP is selected the obtained default gateway is displayed If Static IP is selected configure the DNS If Dynamic IP is selected the obtained DNS is displayed Specify the bandwidth for transmitting packets on the port Specify the bandwidth for receiving packets on the port Displays the status of L2TP connection e Disabled indicates that the L2TP connection type is not applied e Connecting indicates that the Router is obtaining the IP parameters from your ISP e Connected indicates that the Router has successfully obtained the IP parameters from your ISP e Disconnected indicates that the connection has been manually terminated or the Router gets no response from your ISP Please ensure that your settings are correct and your network is connected well Consult your ISP if this problem remains Displays the IP address assigned by your ISP Displays the IP address of your ISP s Primary DNS Displays the IP address of your ISP s Secondary DNS 31 5 PPTP If your ISP Internet Service Provider has provided the account information for the PPTP connection please choose the PPTP connection type PPTP Settings Connection Type PPTPRussian PPTP bl PPTP Connection Account Name Password Server IP Domain Name 0 0 0 0 MTU 1460 576 1460 Active Mode Manual O Always on Secondary Connection Connection Ty
21. maximum number of sessions for the client The default value is 1 Specify the Expiration Date of the account The default is 2099 1 1 90 Description Enter the description for management and search purposes Up to 28 characters can be entered Status Activate or inactivate the entry MAC Binding Select a MAC Binding type from the pull down list Options include e Disable Select this option to disable the MAC Binding function e Manual Select this option to bind the account to a MAC address manually Only from the Host with this MAC address can the account log on to the server e Automatical Select this option to bind the account to the MAC address of its first login automatically Only from the Host with this MAC address can the account log on to the server MAC Address It is available when Manually is selected Enter the MAC address of the Host to bind with the account Session Timeout Enter a time after which the connection will be dropped To keep the connection always on enter 0 in the Session Timeout field The default is 48 If Enable Advanced Account Features is not selected the Session Timeout value is 0 by default gt List of Account In this table you can view the information of accounts and edit them by the Action buttons 4 7 1 4 Exceptional IP When the Dial up Access Only function is enabled only the Dial in Users and the user with Exceptional IP can access the Internet On this page
22. on Select this option to keep the connection always on The connection can be re established automatically when it is down Here allows you to configure the secondary connection Dynamic IP and Static IP connection types are provided Select the secondary connection type Options include Disable Dynamic IP and Static IP If Static IP is selected configure the IP address of WAN port If Dynamic IP is selected the IP address of WAN port obtained is displayed If Static IP is selected configure the subnet mask of WAN port If Dynamic IP is select the subnet mask of WAN port obtained is displayed 33 Default Gateway Primary DNS Secondary DNS Upstream Bandwidth Downstream Bandwidth gt PPTP Status Status IP Address Primary DNS Secondary DNS If Static IP is selected configure the default gateway If Dynamic IP is selected the obtained default gateway is displayed If Static IP is selected configure the DNS If Dynamic IP is selected the obtained DNS is displayed Specify the bandwidth for transmitting packets on the port Specify the bandwidth for receiving packets on the port Displays the status of PPTP connection e Disabled indicates that the PPTP connection type is not applied e Connecting indicates that the Router is obtaining the IP parameters from your ISP e Connected indicates that the Router has successfully obtained the IP parameters from
23. only one WAN port Mode You can select Timing or Failover 68 Timing Failover Backup Effective Time Status gt List of Rules Link Backup will be enabled if the specified effective time is reached All the traffic on the primary WAN will switch to the backup WAN at the beginning of the effective time the traffic on the backup WAN will switch to the primary WAN at the ending of the effective time Specify the premise for Failover Mode The backup WAN port will be enabled only when the premise is met Specify the backup effective time if Timing Mode has been selected Then the backup WAN port will be enabled while the primary WAN port is disabled in the specified time period When the start time you enter is not earlier than the end time the default effective time is from the start time of the day to the end time of the next day Activate or inactivate the entry You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 42 indicates WAN1 is the primary port and WANZ is the backup port WAN2 will be enabled while WAN1 is failed This entry is enabled a Note The same WAN port cannot be added to the primary and secondary WAN lists at the same time and one WAN port should be added to only one list 4 5 4 4 Protocol On this page you can specify the protocol for routing rules conveniently A protocol constitutes of the name and number The Ro
24. please consult your ISP Enter the Password provided by your ISP Enter the Server IP provided by your ISP MTU Maximum Transmission Unit is the maximum data unit transmitted by the physical network lt can be set in the range of 576 1460 The default MTU is 1460 You are recommended to keep the default value if no other MTU value is provided by your ISP You can select the proper Active Mode according to your need e Manual Select this option to manually activate or terminate the Internet connection by the lt Connect gt or lt Disconnect gt button It is optimum for the dial up connection charged on time e Always on Select this option to keep the connection always on The connection can be re established automatically when it is down Here allows you to configure the secondary connection Dynamic IP and Static IP connection types are provided Select the secondary connection type Options include Disable Dynamic IP and Static IP If Static IP is selected configure the IP address of WAN port If Dynamic IP is selected the IP address of WAN port obtained is displayed If Static IP is selected configure the subnet mask of WAN port If Dynamic IP is select the subnet mask of WAN port obtained is displayed 30 Default Gateway Primary DNS Secondary DNS Upstream Bandwidth Downstream Bandwidth gt L2TP Status Status IP Address Primary DNS Secondary DNS If Static IP
25. range of port numbers Only when the trigger port initiates connection will all the corresponding incoming ports open and provide service for the applications otherwise the incoming ports will not open Select the protocol used for trigger port Enter the incoming port number or range of port numbers The incoming port will open for follow up connection after the trigger port initiates connection Select the protocol used for incoming port Activate or inactivate the entry e The Trigger Port and Incoming Port should be set in the range of 1 65535 The Incoming Port can be set in a continuous range such as 8690 8696 e The Router supports up to 16 Port Triggering entries Each entry supports at most 5 groups of trigger ports and overlapping between the ports is not allowed e Each entry supports at most 5 groups of incoming ports and the sum of incoming ports you set for each entry should not be more than 100 gt List of Rules In this table you can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 34 indicates that This is a Port Triggering entry named host1 When the LAN host initiates a TCP request via port of 5354 the incoming port 5355 will open for TCP and UDP protocol This entry is activated 4 5 16 ALG Some special protocols such as FTP H 323 SIP IPsec and PPTP will work properly only when ALG Application Layer Gateway service is enabled 59
26. the MAC address of the previous router which can avoid all the devices under this network node to update their ARP binding tables Set the MAC Address for WAN port In the condition that your ISP has bound the account and the MAC address of the dial up device if you want to change the dial up device to be TL R480T you can just set the MAC address of TL R480T s WAN port the same to the MAC address of the previous dial up device for a normal Internet connection Choose the menu Network MAC Address gt MAC Address to load the following page MAC Port Current MAC Address Mac Clone Ward 40 16 3F 61 B4 E3 Restore Factory MAC Clone Current PC s Mac WAN 2 40 16 9F 61 B4 E4 Restore Factory Mac Clone Current PC s MAC LAN 40 16 3F 61 B4 ES Restore Factory MAC Figure 4 20 MAC Address The following items are displayed on this screen gt MAC Address Port Displays the port type of the Router Current MAC Address Displays the current MAC address of the port 41 MAC Clone It s only available for WAN port Click the lt Restore Factory MAC gt button to restore the MAC address to the factory default value or click the lt Clone Current PC s MAC gt button to clone the MAC address of the PC you are currently using to configure the Router Then click lt Save gt to apply Note To avoid a conflict of MAC address on the LAN it s not allowed to set the MAC address of the Router s LAN port to the MAC address of the
27. you can specify the Exceptional IP Choose the menu Services PPPoE Server Exceptional IP to load the following page 91 Exceptional IP IP Address Range Lo Pp EA Clear Description po Optional Help Status Activate Inactivate List of Exceptional IP Mo IF Address Range Description Status Action A 192 168 0 200 192 168 0 210 Active foe Figure 4 61 Exceptional IP The following items are displayed on this screen gt Exceptional IP IP Address Range Specify the start and the end IP address to make an exceptional IP address range This range should be in the same IP range with LAN port of the Router The start IP address should not exceed the end address and the IP address ranges must not overlap Description Give a description to the exceptional IP address range for identification Status Activate or inactivate the entry gt List of Account In this table you can view the information of Exceptional IPs and edit them by the Action buttons 4 7 1 5 List of Account On this page you can view the detailed information of all accounts you have established Choose the menu Services PPPoE Server gt List of Account to load the following page List of Account No Account Name Status IP Address Mac Address Online Time Interface Description Action 1 user Connected 10 20 1 100 40 61 86 FC TS C3 Hour 45Min LAH nae Figure 4 62 List of Account Figure 4 62 displays the connection informati
28. 0 means PING detection is disabled Enter the IP address of DNS server in Manual mode 0 0 0 0 means DNS Lookup is disabled 110 Port Detection WAN Status 4 8 5 Time Displays the detected WAN port Displays whether the Online Detection is enabled Display the detecting results System Time is the time displayed while the Router is running On this page you can configure the system time and the settings here will be used for other time based functions like Access Rule PPPoE and Logs Choose the menu Maintenance gt Time gt Time to load the following page Current Time System Time Time Zone Status Config Get GMT Time Zone Primary NTF Server Secondary WTP Server O Manual Date Time 0009 05 26 11 45 36 Tus GMT 08 00 Beijing Urumqi Hong Kong Taipei Succeeded to get GMT SMT 08 00 Beijing Urumai Hong Kong Taipei kal 0 0 0 j rrrr MM DD i Ba hh mm ss IL Figure 4 80 Time The following items are displayed on this screen gt Current Time System Time Time Zone Status gt Config Get GMT Displays the current date and time of the Router Displays the current time zone of the Router Displays the status of time capturing When this option is selected you can configure the time zone and the IP Address for the NTP Server The Router will get GMT automatically if it has connected to a NTP Server e Time Zone Select your local
29. Choose the menu Advanced NAT ALG to load the following page ALG FTP ALG H 323 ALG SIF ALG IPsec ALG FPTF ALG 00000 Enable Disable Enable Disable Enable Disable Enable Disable Enable Disable Figure 4 35 ALG The following items are displayed on this screen gt ALG FTP ALG H 323 ALG SIP ALG IPsec ALG PPTP ALG 4 5 2 Traffic Control Traffic Control functions to control the bandwidth by configuring rules for limiting various data flows In Enable or disable FTP ALG The default setting is enabled It is recommended to keep the default setting if no special requirement Enable or disable H 323 ALG The default setting is enabled H 323 is used for various applications such as NetMeeting and VoIP Enable or disable SIP ALG The default setting is enabled It is recommended to keep the default setting if no special requirement Enable or disable IPsec ALG The default setting is enabled It is recommended to keep default if no special requirement Enable or disable PPTP ALG The default setting is enabled It is recommended to keep default if no special requirement this way the network bandwidth can be reasonably distributed and utilized 4 5 2 1 Setup Choose the menu Advanced Traffic Control Setup to load the following page 60 General Disable Bandwidth Control Enable Bandwidth Control all the time Enable Bandwidth
30. Control when bandwidth usage reaches hy Default Limit Direction Limited Bandwidth Kbps Upstream CI Downstream OO Interface Bandwidth Interface Upstream Bandwidth kbps Downstream Bandwidth Kbps Why 100000 100000 War 100000 100000 Total 00000 00000 View IP Traffic Statistics Figure 4 36 Configuration The following items are displayed on this screen gt General Disable Bandwidth Select this option to disable Bandwidth Control Control Enable Bandwidth Select this option to enable Bandwidth Control all the time Control all the time Enable Bandwidth With this option selected the Bandwidth Control will take effect when the Control When bandwidth usage reaches the specified value gt Default Limit Limited Bandwidth Default Limit applies only for users that are not constrained by Bandwidth Control Rules These users share certain bandwidth with upper limit configured here Value 0 means all the remained bandwidth is available to use 61 gt Interface Bandwidth Interface Upstream Bandwidth Downstream Bandwidth Note Displays the current enabled WAN port s The Total bandwidth is equal to the sum of bandwidth of the enabled WAN ports Displays the bandwidth of each WAN port for transmitting data The Upstream Bandwidth of WAN port can be configured on WAN page Displays the bandwidth of each WAN port for receiving data The Downstream Bandwidth of WAN port can be confi
31. Description C 1 Groupi Figure 4 27 Group Configuration The following items are displayed on this screen gt Group Config Group Name Specify a unique name for the group Description Give a description for the group It s optional gt List of Group Clear Help Action ey In this table you can view the information of the Groups and edit them by the Action buttons 4 4 2 User On this page you can configure the User for the group Choose the menu User Group User to load the following page User Config User Name Po 1 28 Char IP Address Description P Optional 1 28 Char List of User No User Mame IP Address Description No entries Figure 4 28 User Configuration 49 Clear Help Action The following items are displayed on this screen gt User Config User Name Specify a unique name for the user IP Address Enter the IP Address of the user It cannot be the network address or broadcast address of the port Description Give a description to the user for identification It s optional gt List of User In this table you can view the information of the Users and edit them by the Action buttons 4 4 3 View On this page you can configure the User View or Group View Choose the menu User Group View to load the following page View Config View User Group Group Name Group Structure Available Member Selected Member gt E Figure 4 29 View C
32. Multi Nets NAT entries with Subnet Mask of VLAN2 and VLANZ3 Multi Nets NAT Subnet Mask 192 168 2 0 7 24 Interface Lot bl Description VLAN Optional Status Activate Inactivate The configured entries are as follows 55 List of Rules Mo Network Address Interface Description Status F 1 192 168 2024 LAM WLAN Active F Z 192 168 3 0 24 LAM LAN Active Action Oe Oe 2 Then set the corresponding Static Route entry enter the IP address of the interface connecting the Router and the three layer switch into the Next Hop field Choose the menu Advanced Routing Static Route to load the following page Static Route Destination 192 168 2 0 Subnet Mask 2902030 ooo Next Hop 192 165 0 2 Interface WANI1 Metric 0 15 Description Optional Status Activate Inactivate The set Static Route entry is as follows List of Rules Mo Destination Subnet Mask Next Hop Interface Metric Status F 1 192 168 2 0 aa ala aaa 192 168 0 2 LAR j Active F E 192 165 53 0 fod cod eo oi 192 165 0 2 LAN j Active 4 5 1 4 Virtual Server Add Help Description Action VLANZ Ow VLAN fOww Virtual server can be used for setting up public services in your private network such as DNS Email and FTP Virtual server can define a service port All the service requests to this port will be transmitted to the LAN server appointed by the Router via IP address Choose the menu Advanced NAT Virtua
33. N 192 168 0 1 LAN 192 168 2 1 Ri LAN LANZ 192 168 1 0 24 192 168 2 0 24 Gateway 192 168 1 1 Gateway 192 168 2 1 If the LAN port of TL R480T with Non NAT or Classic system mode is connected to LAN1 with subnet of 192 168 0 0 24 while the LAN port of another Router R1 is connected to LAN2 with network of 192 168 2 0 24 Meanwhile the WAN ports of the two routers are interconnected and within the same network Now a host under TL R480T and within network of LAN1 desires to communicate with the host within network of LANZ You can set a Static Route entry Enter the WAN IP address of R1 116 31 88 16 in the Next Hop field on the Static Route page of TL R480T as the following figure shown then click the lt Add gt button to save the entry Static Route Destination 192 168 2 0 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Next Hop 116 31 85 16 Interface LAM ka Metric o o 0 15 Description YLANZ Optional Status Activate Inactivate 72 4 6 Firewall 4 6 1 Anti ARP Spoofing ARP Address Resolution Protocol is used to analyze and map IP addresses to the corresponding MAC addresses so that packets can be delivered to their destinations correctly ARP functions to translate the IP address into the corresponding MAC address and maintain an ARP Table where the latest used IP address to MAC address mapping entries are stored ARP protocol can facilitate the Hosts in the same network segment to communicate with one ano
34. One Click restricting of applications to save time energy Supporting URL Filtering to prevent potential hazards from visiting the malicious Web sites Powerful Firewall Supporting One Click IP MAC Binding to avoid ARP spoofing and guarantee a network without stagnation Featured Attack Defense to protect the network from a variety of flood attack and packet anomaly attack Possessing MAC Filtering function to block the access of illegal hosts Flexible Traffic Control Featured Bandwidth Control with flexible bandwidth management to automatically control the bandwidth of the host in bi direction to avoid bandwidth over occupation as well as optimize bandwidth usage Supporting Session Limit to avoid the complaint of a few people to force whole sessions Multi WAN Ports Providing three adjustable WAN LAN ports for users to configure the amount of WAN ports based on need and connect multiple Internet lines for bandwidth expansion Supporting multiple Load Balance modes including Bandwidth Based Balance Routing Application Optimized Routing and Policy Routing to optimize bandwidth usage 4 Featured Link Backup to switch all the new sessions from dropped line automatically to another for keeping an always on line network Easy to use Providing easy to use GUI with clear configuration steps and detailed help information for the users to configure the Router simply Helping administrators to mon
35. PoE Server function Specify whether to enable the Dial up Access Only function If enabled only the Dial in Users and the user with Exceptional IP can access the Internet Specify whether to allow the Dial in Users to communicate with one another Enter the Primary Secondary DNS server address The default is 0 0 0 0 Specify the maximum number of the sessions for PPPoE server The default is 256 87 Max Echo Requests Idle Timeout Authentication Auth Protocol Radius Server Shared Key Specify the maximum number of Echo Requests sent by the server to wait for response The default is 10 The link will be dropped when the number of the unacknowledged LCP echo requests reaches your specified Max Echo Requests Enter the maximum idle time The session will be terminated after it has been inactive for this specified period It can be 0 10080 minutes If you want your Internet connection to remain on at all times enter 0 in the Idle Timeout field The default value is 30 Select the Authentication type It can be Local authentication and Remote authentication Select Local authentication for authentication in PPPoE server and select Remote authentication for authentication in the remote server Select at least one authentication protocol for Local Authentication e PAP transferring username and password in plain text in the network is used in a less secured network e CHAP is more secured fo
36. S Optional Secondary DNS Optional Upstream Bandwidth kbps Downstream Bandwidth kbps Figure 4 7 WAN Static IP The following items are displayed on this screen gt Static IP Connection Type Select Static IP if your ISP has assigned a static IP address for your computer IP Address Enter the IP address assigned by your ISP If you are not clear please consult your ISP Subnet Mask Enter the Subnet Mask assigned by your ISP 20 Default Gateway MTU Primary DNS Secondary DNS Upstream Bandwidth Downstream Bandwidth 2 Dynamic IP Optional Enter the Gateway assigned by your ISP MTU Maximum Transmission Unit is the maximum data unit transmitted by the physical network lt can be set in the range of 576 1500 The default MTU is 1500 You are recommended to keep the default value if no other MTU value is provided by your ISP Enter the IP address of your ISP s Primary DNS Domain Name Server If you are not clear please consult your ISP It s not allowed to access the Internet via domain name if the Primary DNS field is blank Optional If a Secondary DNS Server address is available enter it Specify the bandwidth for transmitting packets on the port Specify the bandwidth for receiving packets on the port If your ISP Internet Service Provider assigns the IP address automatically please choose the Dynamic IP connection type to obtain the parameters for WAN port automatically
37. ack Defense Supports IP MAC Binding Supports GARP Gratuitous ARP 2 3 Appearance 2 3 1 Front Panel The front panel of TL R480T is shown as the following figure TP LINK TL R480T LEDs LED PWR SYS Link Act WAN LAN 100Mbps WAN LAN SYS Status On Off Flashing On Off Off On Green Yellow Flashing Green Yellow Off On Green Yellow WAN 1 2 3 4 PWR Link Act Link Act Link Act Link Act Link Act Reset gt gt m WAN LAN gt LAN WAN LAN 5 100Mbps 100Mbps 100Mbps 100Mbps 100Mbps Indication The Router is powered on The Router is powered off or power supply is abnormal The Router works properly The Router works improperly There is no device linked to the corresponding port There is a device linked to the corresponding port but no activity Green light indicates the corresponding port is working as a LAN port and yellow indicates WAN port There is an active device linked to the corresponding port Green light indicates the corresponding port is working as a LAN port and yellow indicates WAN port The linked device is running at 10Mbps The linked device is running at 100Mbps Green light indicates the corresponding port is working as a LAN port and yellow indicates WAN port 6 eo Interface Description Interface Port Description WAN 1 4 The WAN port is for connecting the Router to a DSL Cable modem or Ethernet by th
38. anced NAT NAT Setup to load the following page 51 MAPT Source Port Range MNAT D M2 NAT DMZ Enable Disable Host IP Address 192 168 0 100 Figure 4 30 NAT Setup The following items are displayed on this screen gt NAPT Source Port Range Enter the source port range between 2049 and 65000 the span of which must be not less than 100 gt NAT DMZ NAT DMZ Enable or disable NAT DMZ NAT DMZ is a special service of NAT application which can be considered as a default forwarding rule When NAT DMZ Pseudo DMZ is enabled all the data initiated by external network falling short of the current connections or forwarding rules will be forwarded to the preset NAT DMZ host Host IP Address Enter the IP address of the host specified as NAT DMZ server 4 5 1 2 One to One NAT On this page you can configure the One to One NAT Choose the menu Advanced NAT One to One NAT to load the following page 59 One to One NAT Interface WAMI w DMZ Forwarding Enable Disable Clear Description Of Optional Help Status Activate Inactivate List of Rules Mo Original IP Translated IF Interface DMZ Description Status Action Forwarding 1 192 168 0 128 222 135 48 128 WAN Enable hosti Active O VW Figure 4 31 NAT Setup The following items are displayed on this screen gt One to One NAT Mapping IP Address Enter the Original IP Address in the first checkbox and Translated IP Addr
39. and edit them by the Action buttons The smaller the value is the higher the priority is The first entry in Figure 4 54 indicates The TELNET packets transmitted from the hosts within the network of 192 168 0 0 24 will be not allowed to pass through the Router at 8 00 20 00 from Tuesday to Saturday Note e For the users in the private network and not being set access rule the default Policy is Allow e To specify all IP addresses type 0 0 0 0 32 in the Policy field e For detailed setting of subnet mask please refer to Appendix B FAQ 4 6 4 4 Service The Service function allows you to specify the protocol and port number to be filtered for Firewall function conveniently Protocol name and port range constitute a service type The Router predefines three commonly used services such as HTTP FTP and TELNET and you can also add customized services if needed Choose the menu Firewall Access Control Service to load the following page Service Name y Protocal TCP UDP v Clear Dest Port oo J gt List of Service Bo Name Protocol Dest Port Action 1 ICMP ICMP Ned 2 FTP TER el 3 SSH TOP ee 4 TELNET TOP 23 J SMTP TEF on 6 DAS UDF 33 T HTTF TCP a0 5 POPS TCP 110 J SMTP UDF 123 10 Haza TOP 1720 Figure 4 55 Service The following items are displayed on this screen 83 gt Service Name Enter a name for the service The name should not be more than 28 characters The name will display
40. ation provided by your ISP in Figure 3 15 15 Static IP Enter the network parameters provided by your ISP Click Next gt to connect to the network IP Address 116 20 10 116 Subnet Mask Default Gateway Optional Primary DNS Optional Secondary ONS Optional Figure 3 15 WAN Connection Type Static IP Then click lt Next gt The process for configuring the network parameters is shown as Figure 3 16 lf you close the screen during the process the configuration will still be continued in the background If you have difficulty in this process please contact your ISP Connecting A oO Configuring network parameters Figure 3 16 WAN Connection Type Static IP Connecting After that you will see the next screen Click lt Finish gt to complete the quick installation or click lt Continue gt to configure other WAN ports 16 Configuration completed The configuration is completed Click lt Continue gt to set other WAN ports or click Finish gt to exit this Quick Setup Figure 3 17 Configuration Completed 7 Chapter 4 Configuration 4 1 Status The Status page shows the system information the port connection status and other information related to this Router Choose the menu Status to load the following page Device Info Firmware Version Hardware Version System Time System Time Running Time WAN IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway MAC Addres
41. creen gt No IP DDNS Account Name Password Domain Name DDNS Service WAN Port DDNS Status gt List of No IP Account Enter the Account Name of your DDNS account If you have not registered click lt Go to register gt to go to the website of No IP for register Enter the password of your DDNS account Enter the Domain Name that you registered with your DDNS service provider Activate or inactivate DDNS service here Displays the WAN port for which No IP DDNS is selected Displays the current status of DDNS service Offline DDNS service is disabled Connecting client is connecting to the server Online DDNS works normally Authorization fails The Account Name or Password is incorrect Please check and enter it again In this table you can view the existing DDNS entries or edit them by the Action button 97 4 7 3 3 PeanutHull On this page you can configure PeanutHull DDNS client Choose the menu Services gt Dynamic DNS gt PeanutHull to load the following page PeanutHull DONS Account Mame Go to register Password CONS Service Activate Inactivate Wahl Port WAM 1 Service Type DONS Status Offline Domain Name View All List of Peanuthull Account Wy fy Account Name Domain Name Status Action 1 useri ia offline Fa O 2 user2 Offline Fa O Figure 4 66 PeanutHull DDNS The following items are displayed on this screen gt PeanutHull DDNS Account Na
42. ctions they are extremely flexible Data communications network that serves users across a broad geographic area and often uses transmission devices provided by common carriers 120
43. d on this screen gt Dyndns DDNS 95 Account Name Password Domain Name DDNS Service WAN Port DDNS Status Enter the Account Name of your DDNS account If you have not registered click lt Go to register gt to go to the website of Dyndns for register Enter the password of your DDNS account Enter the Domain Name that you registered with your DDNS service provider Activate or inactivate DDNS service here Displays the WAN port for which Dyndns DDNS is selected Displays the current status of DDNS service gt List of DynDNS Account Offline DDNS service is disabled Connecting client is connecting to the server Online DDNS works normally Authorization fails The Account Name or Password is incorrect Please check and enter it again In this table you can view the existing DDNS entries or edit them by the Action button 4 7 3 2 No IP On this page you can configure NO IP DDNS client Choose the menu Services Dynamic DNS No IP to load the following page 96 MNo IP DONS Account Mame Password Domain Name DONS Service useri tp link com Go to register Activate Inactivate WAN Port war 1 DONS Status offline List of No IP Account Wut OT Account Name Domain Name Status Action 1 userLa to link com userL no ip into Offline Fd O E userz tp link com userz no ip info Offline Fa O Figure 4 65 NO IP DDNS The following items are displayed on this s
44. de is selected only the incoming packets sent by the mirrored port will be copied to the mirroring port e Egress When this mode is selected only the outgoing packets sent by the mirrored port will be copied to the mirroring port e Ingress amp Egress When this mode is selected both the incoming and outgoing packets through the mirrored port will be copied to the mirroring port gt Port Mirror Mirroring Port Select the Mirroring Port to which the traffic is copied Only one port can be selected as the mirroring port Mirrored Port Select the Mirrored Port from which the traffic is mirrored One or multiple ports can be selected as the mirrored ports The entry in Figure 4 22 indicates The outgoing packets sent by port 1 port 2 port 3 and port 5 mirrored ports will be copied to port 4 mirroring port A4 Tips If both the mirrored port and the mirroring port are the LAN ports these two LAN ports should be in the same Port VLAN For example if port 3 the mirroring port and port 4 the mirrored port are the LAN ports the Port Mirror function can take effect only when port 3 and port 4 are in the same Port VLAN Application Example To monitor all the traffic and analyze the network abnormity for an enterprise s network please set the Port Mirror function as below General Enable Port Mirror Mode Ingress Egress v Port Mirror Port Mirroring Port Mirrored Port 1 O 2 O 3 4
45. dwidth is 10000kbps This entry takes effect at 8 a m to 10 p m from Monday to Friday 63 b Note e The premise for single rule taking effect is that the bandwidth of the interface for this rule is sufficient and not used up e tis impossible to satisfy all the guaranteed bandwidth if the total guaranteed bandwidth specified by all Bandwidth Control rules for certain interface exceeds the physical bandwidth of this interface 4 5 3 Session Limit The amount of TCP and UDP sessions supported by the Router is finite If there are some local hosts transmitting too many TCP and UDP sessions to the public network the communication quality of the other local hosts will be affected thus it is necessary to limit the sessions of those hosts 4 5 3 1 Session Limit On this page you can configure the session limit to specified PCs Choose the menu Advanced gt Session Limit Session Limit to load the following page General Enable Session Limit Save Session Limit Max Sessions OS 30 1000 Description OS Optional Status Activate Inactivate Clear Help List of Session Limit Mo Group Max Sessions Status Description Action O 1 Groupi 100 Active hosti fOw Figure 4 38 Session Limit The following items are displayed on this screen gt General Enable Session Check here to enable Session Limit otherwise all the Session Limit Limit entries will be disabled 64 gt Session Limit Gro
46. e IP address subnet with Subnet Mask What are the common values of the Subnet Mask Subnet Mask is a 32 bit binary address used to distinguish the network address and the host address When dividing the network the different Subnet Mask defines different subnet and each subnet owns different number of hosts After conversed from 32 bit binary address to decimal address the common Subnet Mask values can be 8 which represents the default Subnet Mask value of class A 255 0 0 0 16 which represents the default Subnet Mask value of class B 255 255 0 0 24 which represents the default Subnet Mask value of class C 255 255 255 0 or 32 which represents the default Subnet Mask value of class D 255 255 255 255 116 Appendix C Glossary RR DSL Digital Subscriber Line ALG Application Layer Gateway ARP Address Resolution Protocol AH Authentication Header gt DDNS Dynamic Domain Name Server DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DMZ Demilitarized Zone DNS Domain Name Server ESP Encapsulating Security Payload FTP File Transfer Protocol GMT Greenwich Mean Time A technology that allows data to be sent or received over existing traditional phone lines Application Level Gateway ALG is application specific translation agent that allows an application on a host in one address realm to connect to its counterpart running on a host in different realm transpar
47. e RJ45 cable LAN 95 The LAN port is for connecting the Router to the local PCs or switches by the RJ45 cable The Console port is for connecting with the serial port of a Console computer or terminal to monitor and configure the Router eo Reset button Use the button to restore the Router to the factory defaults With the Router powered on use a pin to press and hold the Reset button about 5 seconds If the SYS LED is flashing 5 times in high frequency release the Reset button It means the Router is restored successfully The default management address of the Router is http 192 168 0 1 and the default username and the password are both admin 2 3 2 Rear Panel The rear panel of TL R480T is shown as the following figure Grounding Terminal AC Power Receptacle AC Power Receptacle Connect the female connector of the power cord to this power receptacle and the male connector to the AC power outlet Please make sure the voltage of the power supply meets the requirement of the input voltage 100 240V 50 60Hz e Grounding Terminal The Router already comes with lightning protection mechanism You can also ground the Router through the PE Protecting Earth cable of AC cord or with Ground Cable Note Please only use the power cord provided with this Router To Chapter 3 Quick Installation Guide After connecting the TL R480T router into your network you should configure it This chapter describes ho
48. ed to backup the configuration before upgrading 4 8 3 Statistics 4 8 3 1 Interface Traffic Statistics Interface Traffic Statistics screen displays the detailed traffic information of each port and extra information of WAN ports Choose the menu Maintenance Statistics Interface Traffic Statistics to load the following page Interface Traffic Statistics Rate Rx Rate Tx Packets Rix Packets Tx Interface Tas Eee Pkt Pkt Bytes Rx Byte Bytes Tx Byte WAMI 3 016 1 564 107563 99411 32242046 22061638 WAM O O O 1929 O 9941532 LAM O O 61656 09504 21129752 415321007 Advanced WAN Information Interface IP Fragments Rx Pkt Abnormal IP Packets Rx Pkt WAMI O O War O O Figure 4 76 Interface Traffic Statistics The following items are displayed on this screen gt Interface Traffic Statistics Interface Displays the interface Rate Rx Displays the rate for receiving data frames Rate Tx Displays the rate for transmitting data frames Packets Rx Displays the number of packets received on the interface Packets Tx Displays the number of packets transmitted on the interface Bytes Rx Displays the bytes of packets received on the interface Bytes Tx Displays the bytes of packets transmitted on the interface gt Advanced WAN Information 107 Interface Displays the interface IP Fragment Rx Displays the amount of IP Fragments received by WAN port Abnormal IP Packets Rx Displays the rate for transmitting data f
49. een that appears cancel the Using Proxy checkbox and click OK to finish it After a successful login the Quick Setup screen will pop up as the Figure 3 8 shown If it does not prompt you can click the Quick Setup on the left of the main menu Then click lt Next gt Quick Setup This Quick Setup will help you to configure the basic network parameters The router will access the Internet immediately after it has been successfully configured Click Next gt to start Quick Setup Don t show this Quick Setup again Figure 3 8 Quick Setup Select the total number of WAN ports you prefer to use as the Figure 3 9 shown Then click lt Next gt to load the WAN Port screen 12 WAN Mode Select the desired WAN mode according to the practical situation Then click Next gt to choose the WAN port WAN Port Number One Two Three Four Figure 3 9 WAN Mode Select the WAN port you want to use as the Figure 3 10 shown and then click lt Next gt to load the WAN Connection Type screen WAN Port Choose the WAN port to be configured and then click Next gt to set the WAN connection type Figure 3 10 WAN Port Select the connection type provided by your ISP as the Figure 3 11 shown Three popular types are provided here For other connection types please refer to the 4 3 1 WAN 13 WAN Connection Type Select the connection type provided by your ISP For other connection types please refer
50. end Tracert packets to test the connectivity of the gateways during the journey from the source to destination of the test data and the results will be displayed in the box below 4 8 4 2 Online Detection On this page you can detect the WAN port is online or not Choose the menu Maintenance Diagnostics Online Detection to load the following page General Port Detecting Mode Ping DAS Lookup List of WAN Status WANI Activate Inactivate Auto Manual ooo Port Detecting Status Wt AL Active Online Detection failed Wt ah Active Physical port is disabled WANG Active Online Detection failed wW Ad Inactive Figure 4 79 Online Detection The following items are displayed on this screen gt General Port Detecting Mode Ping DNS Lookup gt List of WAN status Select the port to be detected Activate or inactivate Online Detection function When Online Detection is active WAN status will depend on the result of both PING and DNS Lookup When Online Detection is inactive WAN status will be detected according to physical connection status and dial up status Detect automatically or Manually In Auto mode gateway will be selected as destination for PING detection DNS server of WAN port will be selected as destination for DNS Lookup In Manual Mode you can configure the destination for PING and DNS Lookup manually Enter the destination IP for Ping in Manual mode 0 0 0
51. entions Chapter 2 Introduction Introduces the features and appearance of TL R480T router Chapter 3 Quick Installation Guide Introduces how to log in and set up the Router Chapter 4 Configuration Introduces how to configure the Router via Web management page Appendix A Hardware Lists the hardware specifications of this Router Specifications sd Appendix B FAQ Provides the possible solutions to the problems that may occur during the installation and operation of the router Appendix C Glossary Lists the glossary used in this guide Chapter 2 Introduction Thanks for choosing the Load Balance Broadband Router TL R480T 2 1 Overview of the Router The Load Balance Broadband Router TL R480T from TP LINK possesses excellent data processing capability and multiple powerful functions including Load Balance Access Control Bandwidth Control Session Limit PPPoE Server and so on which consumedly meet the needs of small and medium enterprises hotels and communities with volumes of users demanding an efficient and easy to manage network with high security Powerful Data Processing Capability Built in MIPS32 network processor and 64MB DDR high speed RAM guarantee the stability and reliability for operation Online Behavior Management Complete Functions of Access Rules can allow managers to select the network service levels to block or allow applications of FTP downloading Email Web browsing and so on Deploying
52. ently Internet protocol used to map an IP address to a MAC address A security protocol that provides data authentication and optional anti replay services AH is embedded in the data to be protected a full IP datagram The capability of assigning a fixed host and domain name to a dynamic Internet IP address A protocol that automatically configure the TCP IP parameters for the all the PCs that are connected to a DHCP server A Demilitarized Zone allows one local host to be exposed to the Internet for a special purpose service such as Internet gaming or videoconferencing An Internet Server that translates the names of websites into IP addresses Security protocol that provides data privacy services optional data authentication and anti replay services ESP encapsulates the data to be protected Application protocol part of the TCP IP protocol stack used for transferring files between network nodes It is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich London 117 e anno HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol ICMP Internet Control Messages Protocol Internet IP Internet Protocol ISP Internet Service Provider IKE Internet Key Exchange IPsec IP Security LAN Local Area Network H 323 allows dissimilar communication devices to communicate with each other by using a standardized communication protocol H 323 defines a common set o
53. er the Gateway address to be assigned It is recommended to enter the IP address of the LAN port of the Router Optional Enter the domain name of your network Optional Enter the Primary DNS server address provided by your ISP It is recommended to enter the IP address of the LAN port of the Router Optional If a Secondary DNS Server address is available enter it On this page you can view the information about all the DHCP clients connected to the Router Choose the menu Network gt LAN gt DHCP Client to load the following page List of DHCP Client Mo Host Mame 1 TP 113E4910272 2 tp 113ea910272d Moc Address IP Address Lease Time 40 61 86 FC 75 C3 192 168 0 2 01 27 04 40 61 56 FE 75 B4 192 168 0 3 01 27 00 Figure 4 15 DHCP Client You can view the information of the DHCP clients in this table Click the Refresh button for the updated information 4 3 2 4 DHCP Reservation DHCP Reservation feature allows you to reserve an IP address for the specified MAC address The client with this MAC address will always get the same IP address each time when it accesses the DHCP server Choose the menu Network LAN DHCP Reservation to load the following page 39 DHCP Reservation MAC Address RRA IP Address fo Description fo Optional Status Activate Inactivate Clear Help List of Reserved Address Mo MAC Address IP Address Status Description Action O i 00 19 66 83 53 CF 192 168 0 101 Active h
54. ess in the second checkbox TL R480T allows mapping from LAN port to WAN port Interface Select an interface for forwarding data packets DMZ Forwarding Enable or disable DMZ Forwarding The packets transmitted to the Translated IP Address will be forwarded to the host of Original IP if DMZ Forwarding is enabled Description Give a description for the entry Status Activate or inactivate the entry gt List of Rules In this table you can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 31 indicates The IP address of host1 in local network is 192 168 0 128 and the WAN IP address after NAT mapping is specified to be 222 135 48 128 The data packets are transmitted from WAN1 port DMZ Forwarding and this entry are both activated Note One to One NAT entries take effect only when the Connection Type of WAN is Static IP Changing the Connection type from Static IP to other ones will make the entries attached to the interface disabled 53 4 5 1 3 Multi Nets NAT Multi Nets NAT functions to allow the IP under LAN within multiple subnets to access the Internet via NAT Choose the menu Advanced NAT Multi Nets NAT to load the following page Multi Nets NAT Subnet Mask Oooo e Description Optional a Status Activate Inactivate Help List of Rules Ho Metwork Address Description Status Action Mo entries Figure 4 32 Multi Nets NAT The follow
55. establishment of shared security attributes between two network entities to support secure communication Connection oriented transport layer protocol that provides reliable full duplex data transmission Common name for the suite of protocols to support the construction of worldwide Internetworks TCP and IP are the two best known protocols in the suite 119 Telnet Telecommunication Network protocol UDP User Datagram Protocol UPnP Universal Plug and Play URL CUniform Resource Locator VLAN Virtual Local Area Network WAN Wide Area Network Telnet is used for remote terminal connection enabling users to log in to remote systems and use resources as if they were connected to a local system UDP is a simple protocol that exchanges datagrams without acknowledgments or guaranteed delivery requiring that error processing and retransmission be handled by other protocols UPnP is a set of networking protocols for primarily residential networks without enterprise class devices that permits networked devices URL describes the access method and the location of an information resource object on the Internet Group of devices on one or more LANs that are configured using management software so that they can communicate as if they were attached to the same wire when in fact they are located on a number of different LAN segments Because VLANs are based on logical instead of physical conne
56. f CODECs call setup and negotiating procedures and basic data transport methods The protocol used by Web browsers and Web servers to transfer files such as text and graphic files Network layer Internet protocol that reports errors and provides other information relevant to IP packet processing Largest global Internetwork connecting tens of thousands of networks worldwide and having a culture that focuses on research and standardization based on real life use Network layer protocol in the TCP IP stack offering a connectionless Internetwork service IP provides features for addressing type of service specification fragmentation and reassembly and security Company that provides Internet access to other companies and individuals IKE establishes a shared security policy and authenticates keys for services such as IPSec that require keys Before any IPSec traffic can be passed each Router firewall host must verify the identity of its peer A framework of open standards that provides data confidentiality data integrity and data authentication between participating peers High speed low error data network covering a relatively small geographic area up to a few thousand meters LANs connect workstations peripherals terminals and other devices in a single building or other geographically limited area 118 RR MAC address Media Access Control address MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
57. f so please disable the IE proxy server first Q2 What can do if forgot the username and the password of the Router How to restore the Router to its factory default settings You can restore the Router to its factory default settings by the Reset button It must be noted that once the Router is reset all the current configuration settings will be lost With the Router powered on use a pin to press and hold the Reset button about 5 seconds If the SYS LED is flashing 5 times in high frequency release the Reset button It means the Router is restored successfully The default management address of the Router is http 192 168 0 1 and the default username and the password are both admin 115 Q3 What can do if the Router with the remote management function enabled cannot be accessed by the remote computer 1 Make sure that the IP address of the remote computer is in the subnet allowed to remotely access the router 2 If the router s management port has been modified please log into the Router with the new address such as http 192 168 0 1 XX XX is the new management port number 3 Check to see if the management port has been mapped to the service port of the LAN host in the Virtual Server function If so you should make a change in the router s management port or virtual server s service port 4 Make sure that the NAT DMZ service is disabled Q4 Some function of the Router need to define th
58. gured on WAN page e The Upstream Downstream Bandwidth of WAN port you set must not be more than the bandwidth provided by ISP Otherwise the Traffic Control will be invalid e If there are data flowing into the Router from interface A and out from interface B while the downstream bandwidth of A is different from the upstream bandwidth of B then the smaller one should be considered as the effective bandwidth and vise versa e Click the lt View IP Traffic Statistics gt button to jump to IP Traffic Statistics page 4 5 2 2 Bandwidth Control On this page you can configure the Bandwidth Control function Choose the menu Advanced Traffic Control gt Bandwidth Control to load the following page Bandwidth Control Rule Direction LAN gt WAMI Mode 2 Individual Shared Help Guaranteed Bandwidth Up 10 Kbps 10 100000 Limited Bandwidth Up 0 Kbps 0 or 10 100000 0 means no limit Guaranteed Bandwidth Down 10 Kbps 10 100000 Limited Bandwidth Down 0 Kbps 0 or 10 100000 0 means no limit Effective Time 00 00 24 00 Sun Mon 4 Tue Wed e Thu e Fri vw Sat Description Ee O O Optional Status Activate Inactivate List of Rules No Direction Group Mode Guaranteed Limited Guaranteed Limited Effective Time Status Description Action Up p Down ow LAN 08 00 22 00 ps s rl i sales Shared 5000 10000 5000 10000 Active g ON Wt AML Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Figure 4 37 Bandw
59. he PCs on the LAN e Group The bulletin will be released to the users in the selected group You can click lt L_ _ gt button to add a group to the selected group and click lt L_ lt lt _J gt to remove a group from the selected group Group is created on User Group gt Group page Specify the effective time for the bulletin Only one bulletin can be set for the object at the same time Enter the name of the bulletin s publisher Enter the description for the bulletin Activate or inactivate the entry In this table you can view the existing bulletins and edit them by the Action button The No 1 entry in Figure 4 63 indicates this bulletin is released by the administrator and it is released to the Group1 from 8am to 20pm on Thursday and Friday every a bulletin interval the interval in the figure is 30 min This entry is enabled Tips For the configuration for groups and users please refer to the User Group section 4 7 3 Dynamic DNS DDNS Dynamic DNS service allows you to assign a fixed domain name to a dynamic WAN IP address which enables the Internet hosts to access the Router or the hosts in LAN using the domain names 94 As many ISPs use DHCP to assign public IP addresses in WAN the public IP address assigned to the client is unfixed In this way it s very difficult for other clients to get the latest IP address of this client for access DDNS Dynamic DNS server provides a fixed d
60. he number of the received packets including error frames that are between 64 bytes and the maximum frame length The maximum untagged frame this Router can support is 1518 bytes long and the maximum tagged frame is 1522 bytes long Displays the number of the received packets including error frames that are longer than the maximum frame Displays the total number of the received or transmitted packets including error frames Check the box and click the lt Clear gt button to clear the traffic statistics of the corresponding port Click the lt Clear All gt button to clear all the traffic statistics 4 3 4 2 Port Mirror Port Mirror the packets obtaining technology functions to forward copies of packets from one multiple ports mirrored port to a specific port mirroring port Usually the mirroring port is connected to a data diagnose device which is used to analyze the mirrored packets for monitoring and troubleshooting the network Choose the menu Network Switch Port Mirror to load the following page 43 General Enable Port Mirror Made Port Mirror Port Mirroring Port Mirrored Port 1 O 2 O 3 O 4 5 O Figure 4 22 Port Mirror The following items are displayed on this screen gt General Enable Port Mirror Check the box to enable the Port Mirror function If unchecked it will be disabled Mode Select the mode for the port mirror function Options include e Ingress When this mo
61. idth Control The following items are displayed on this screen 62 gt Bandwidth Control Rule Direction Group Mode Guaranteed Bandwidth Up Limited Bandwidth Up Guaranteed Bandwidth Down Limited Bandwidth Down Effective Time Description Status Select the data stream direction for the entry The direction of arrowhead indicates the data stream direction WAN ALL means all WAN ports through which the data flow might pass Individual WAN port cannot be selected after WAN ALL rules are added Select the group to define the controlled users Individual The bandwidth of each user equals to the current bandwidth of this entry Shared The total bandwidth of all controlled IP addresses equals to the current bandwidth of this entry Specify the Guaranteed Upstream Bandwidth for this entry Specify the Limited Upstream Bandwidth for this entry Specify the Guaranteed Downstream Bandwidth for this entry Specify the Limited Downstream Bandwidth for this entry Specify the time for the entry to take effect Give a description for the entry Activate or inactivate the entry gt List of Rules You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 37 indicates The users within group sales share the bandwidth and the Downstream Upstream Guaranteed Bandwidth is 5000kbps while the Downstream Upstream Limited ban
62. iguration Protocol server enabled can automatically assign an IP address to the computers in the LAN Choose the menu Network LAN DHCP to load the following page DHCP Settings DHCP Server Enable Disable Start IP Address End IP Address 192 168 0254 Lease Time Min 1 2880 Default Gateway Optional Default Domain Optional Primary DNS Optional Secondary DNS Optional Figure 4 14 DHCP Settings The following items are displayed on this screen gt DHCP Settings DHCP Server Enable or disable the DHCP server on your Router Select Enable to make the Router automatically assign TCP IP parameters to the computers in the LAN Start IP Address Enter the Start IP address to define a range for the DHCP server to assign dynamic IP addresses This address should be in the same IP address subnet with the Router s LAN IP address The default address is 192 168 0 2 End IP Address Enter the End IP address to define a range for the DHCP server to assign dynamic IP addresses This address should be in the same IP address subnet with the Router s LAN IP address The default address is 192 168 0 254 38 Lease Time Default Gateway Default Domain Primary DNS Secondary DNS 4 3 2 3 DHCP Client Specify the length of time the DHCP server will reserve the IP address for each computer After the IP address expired the client will be automatically assigned a new one Optional Ent
63. ing items are displayed on this screen gt Multi Nets NAT Subnet Mask Enter the subnet mask to make the address range for the entry Description Give a description for the entry Status Activate or inactivate the entry gt list of Rules You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 32 indicates that This is a Multi Nets NAT entry named tplink1 The subnet under the LAN port of the Router is 192 168 2 0 24 and this entry is activated After the corresponding Static Route entry is set the hosts within this subnet can access the Internet through the Router via NAT Note e Multi Nets NAT entry takes effect only when cooperating with the corresponding Static Route entries e For detailed setting of subnet mask please refer to the Appendix B FAQ 54 Application Example Network Requirements The LAN subnet of TL R480T is 192 168 0 0 24 the subnet of VLAN2 under a three layer switch is 192 168 2 0 24 while the subnet of VLAN3 is 192 168 3 0 24 The IP of VLAN for cascading the switch to the Router is 192 168 0 2 Now the hosts within VLAN2 and VLAN3 desire to access the Internet The network topology is shown as the following internet no a Pi 192 168 0 1 24 192 168 0 2 24 Ley Layer 3 Switch 1P 192 168 0 0 24 LAN Subnet IP 192 168 2 0 24 IP 192 168 3 0 24 VLAN2 VLANS Configuration procedure 1 Establish the
64. itor the whole network status and take actions to malfunctions according to the recorded log information Supporting remote management to manage the Router from remote places 2 2 Features Hardware gt Vv Vv Y V V Yy 1 fixed WAN port port 1 3 adjustable WAN LAN ports 1 fixed LAN port port 5 and 1 Console port Built in high quality power supply with non fan system design for quietness Possesses standard sized 19 inch outfit for standard rack Supports Professional 4kV common mode lightning protection Complies with IEEE 802 3 IEEE 802 3u Supports TCP IP DHCP ICMP NAT NAPT protocols Supports PPPoE SNTP HTTP DDNS UPnP NTP protocols Basic Functions gt Vv Vv Y Y VY V WV Supports Static IP Dynamic IP PPPoE Russian PPPoE L2TP Russian L2TP PPTP Russian PPTP Dual Access BigPond Internet connections Supports Virtual Server Port Triggering ALG Static Route Built in Switch supporting Port Mirror Port VLAN Rate Control and so on Supports to change the MAC address of LAN and WAN ports Supports PPPoE Server and E Bulletin Supports Logs Statistics Time setting Supports Remote and Web management Supports Diagnostic Ping Tracert and Online Detection Traffic Control gt gt Supports Bandwidth Control Supports Session Limit Security gt Built in firewall supporting URL MAC Filtering gt Vv WV WV gt Supports Access Control Supports App Control Supports Att
65. kets will not exceed 1Mbps 4 3 4 4 Port Config On this page you can configure the basic parameters for the ports Choose the menu Network Switch Port Config to load the following page 46 Port Config Port Status Flow Control Negotiation Mode 1 Enable Enable Es Enable Enable 4 Enable Enable 4 Enable Enable a Enable Enable All Ports Figure 4 24 Port Config The following items are displayed on this screen gt Port Config Status Specify whether to enable the port The packets can be transported via this port after being enabled Flow Control Allows you to enable disable the Flow Control function Negotiation Mode Select the Negotiation Mode for the port All Ports Allows you to configure the parameters for all the ports at one time 4 3 4 5 Port Status On this page you can view the current status of each port Choose the menu Network Switch Port Status to load the following page Port Status Port Status Speed Mbps Duplex Mode Flow Control 1 Link down 2 Link down 3 Link up 100 FO Enabled 4 Link down 5 Link down Figure 4 25 Port Status 47 4 3 4 6 Port VLAN A VLAN Virtual Local Area Network is a network topology configured according to a logical scheme rather than the physical layout which allows you to divide the physical LAN into multiple logical LANs so as to control the communication among the ports The VLAN function can prevent the br
66. l Server to load the following page 56 Yirtual Server jil ii Mame Clear External Port PA Internal Port Protocol TCPLUDP wt Internal Server IP Help Status Activate Inactivate List of Rules Ho Mame Protocol External Port Internal Port did ii Status Action Fj host TCF 65534 65535 65534 65535 192 168 0 103 Active amp E Figure 4 33 Virtual Server The following items are displayed on this screen gt Virtual Server Name Enter a name for Virtual Server entries Up to 28 characters can be entered External Port Enter the service port or port range provided by Router for accessing external network All requests from Internet to this service port or port range will be redirected to the specified server in local network Internal Port Specify the service port of the LAN host as virtual server Protocol Specify the protocol used for the entry Internal Server IP Enter the IP address of the specified internal server for the entry All the requests from the Internet to the specified LAN port will be redirected to this host Status Activate or inactivate the entry 57 Note e The External port and Internal Port should be set in the range of 1 65535 e The external ports of different entries should be different whereas the internal ports can be the same gt List of Rules In this table you can view the information of the entries and edit them by the
67. ly terminated or the Router gets no response from your ISP Please ensure that your settings are correct and your 36 network is connected well Consult your ISP if this problem remains IP Address Displays the IP address assigned by your ISP Subnet Mask Displays the Subnet Mask assigned by your ISP Default Gateway Displays the IP address of the default gateway assigned by your ISP Note To ensure the BigPond connection re established normally please restart the connection at least 5 seconds after the connection is off 4 3 2 LAN 4 3 2 1 LAN On this page you can configure the parameters for LAN port of this router Choose the menu Network LAN LAN to load the following page LAN IP Address 192 165 0 1 Subnet Mask 295 255 255 0 Figure 4 13 LAN The following items are displayed on this screen gt LAN IP Address Enter the LAN IP address of the Router 192 168 0 1 is the default IP address The Hosts in LAN can access the Router via this IP address lt can be changed according to your network Subnet Mask Enter the Subnet Mask The default subnet mask is 255 255 255 0 87 Note If the LAN IP address is changed you must use the new IP address to login to the Router To guarantee a normal communication please be sure that the Gateway address and the Subnet Mask of the Hosts are consistent with that of the Router accordingly 4 3 2 2 DHCP The Router with its DHCP Dynamic Host Conf
68. me Enter the Account Name of your DDNS account If you have not registered click lt Go to register gt to go to the website of PeanutHull for register Password Enter the password of your DDNS account DDNS Service Activate or inactivate DDNS service here WAN Port Displays the WAN port for which PeanutHull DDNS is selected Service Type Displays the DDNS service type including Professional service and Standard service 98 DDNS Status Domain Name Displays the current status of DDNS service e Offline DDNS service is disabled e Connecting client is connecting to the server e Online DDNS works normally e Authorization fails The Account Name or Password is incorrect Please check and enter it again Displays the domain names obtained from the DDNS server Up to 16 domain names can be displayed here gt List of PeanutHull Account In this table you can view the existing DDNS entries or edit them by the Action button 4 7 3 4 Comexe On this page you can configure Comexe DDNS client Choose the menu Services Dynamic DNS Comexe to load the following page Comexe DONS Account Mame Password Domain Name 1 Domain Name 2 Domain Name 3 Domain Name 4 Domain Name 5 DONS Service WAN Port DONS Status List of Comexe Account Wit AM Sccount Mame 1 userl 2 Usere Go to register userl go2Zip cn Optional Optional optional optional Activate I
69. n this screen gt General To control the access to Internet for hosts in your private network you are recommended to check the box before Enable URL Filtering and select a filtering rule based on the actual situation gt URL Filtering Rule Object Select the range in which the URL Filtering takes effect e ANY URL Filtering will take effect to all the users 79 e Group URL Filtering will take effect to all the users in group Mode Select the mode for URL Filtering Keyword indicates that all the URL addresses including the specified keywords will be filtered URL Path indicates that the URL address will be filtered only when it exactly matches the specified URL Description Give a description for the entry gt List of Rules You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons Application Example Network Requirements Prevent the local hosts from accessing Internet website www aabbcc com and downloading the files with suffix of exe Configuration Procedure Select Keywords mode and type exe in the field select URL mode and type www aabbcc com as the following figure shows and then click the lt Add gt button to make the setting take effect General Enable URL Filtering Permit URL listed below and deny the rest Save Deny URL listed below and permit the rest URL Filtering Rule Object Group ANY Group Mode Keywords
70. nactivate Wah 1 Offline Domain Name useri gozip cn user2 goZ2ip cn Figure 4 67 Comexe DDNS The following items are displayed on this screen gt Comexe DDNS 99 Status Offline Offline Action e a f O Account Name Password Domain Name 1 Domain Name 2 Domain Name 3 Domain Name 4 Domain Name 5 DDNS Service WAN Port DDNS Status Enter the Account Name of your DDNS account If you have not registered click lt Go to register gt to go to the website of Comexe for register Enter the password of your DDNS account Enter the Domain Name that you registered with your DDNS service provider Optional Enter the Domain Name that you registered with your DDNS service provider Optional Enter the Domain Name that you registered with your DDNS service provider Optional Enter the Domain Name that you registered with your DDNS service provider Optional Enter the Domain Name that you registered with your DDNS service provider Activate or inactivate DDNS service here Displays the WAN port for which Comexe DDNS is selected Displays the current status of DDNS service e Offline DDNS service is disabled e Connecting client is connecting to the server e Online DDNS works normally e Authorization fails The Account Name or Password is incorrect Please check and enter it again gt List of Comexe Account In this table you can view the existi
71. nection gt View status of this connection Change settings of this connection Other Places g Control Panel 2 My Network Places G My Documents ag My Computer LAN or High Speed Internet A LL Disable Status Repair Bridge Connections Create Shortcut Delete Rename Properties Figure 3 2 Step 3 In the next screen select General tab highlight Internet Protocol TCP IP and then click the Properties button Local rea Connection Properties General Authentication Advanced Connect using EJ Realtek RTL8129 Family PCI Fast Ett Thi connection uses the following items El Client for Microsoft Networks ial File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks i q internet Protocol TCP IP de E _ gt Install Description C Properties Uninstall Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol The default Wide area network protocol that provides communication across diverse interconnected networks Show icon in notification area when connected Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity Figure 3 3 Step 4 Configure the IP address as shown in Figure 3 4 After that click OK Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties Fs General Tou can get IF settings assigned automatically if your network supports this capability Othermize you need to ask pour network administrator for the appropriate IF settings O Obtain an IP address a
72. ng DDNS entries or edit them by the Action button 4 7 4 UPnP Devices based on UPnP Universal Plug and Play protocol from different manufacturer can automatically discover and communicate with one another 100 If UPnP groupware are installed in the host in LAN and UPnP function is enabled for the Router the host in LAN can automatically open the corresponding port to allow the UPnP application in WAN to access the resource of the host in LAN via this port so that the functions limited to NAT can work normally For example MSN Messenger installed in Windows XP and Windows ME system is using UPnP protocol when audio and video communications are processing On this page you can configure UPnP service Choose the menu Services UPnP to load the following page General UPnP Function Enable Disable List of UPnP Mapping Mo Description Protocol IP Address External Port Internal Port Status 1 hastl TCF 192 165 0 101 12556 12556 Active Figure 4 68 UPnP The following items are displayed on this screen gt General UPnP Function Enable or disable the UPnP function globally gt List of UPnP Mapping Action gt After UPnP is enabled all UPnP connection rules will be displayed in the list of UPnP Mapping The NO 1 entry in Figure 4 68 indicates TCP data received on port 12856 of the WAN port in the Router will be forwarded to port 12856 in 192 168 0 101 server in LAN A Note e When using UPnP
73. not connected to the Router 10 Documents and Settings Administrator ping 192 168 60 1 Pinging 192 168 80 1 wath 32 bytes of data Request timed out Request timed out Request timed out Request timed out Ping statistics for 192 168 6 1 Packets Sent 4 Received HW Lost 4 C1AMx loss Figure 3 6 You can check it by following the steps below Note e Is the connection between your PC and the Router correct The LEDs of LAN port which you link to the device and the LEDs on your PC s adapter should be lit e Is the TCP IP configuration for your PC correct If the Router s IP address is 192 168 0 1 your PC s IP address must be within the range of 192 168 0 2 192 168 0 254 the gateway must be 192 168 0 1 3 2 Login Once your host PC is properly configured please proceed as follows to use the Web based Utility Start your web browser and type the private IP address of the Router in the URL field http 192 168 0 1 Address http 192 168 0 1 After that you will see the screen shown below enter the default User Name admin and the default Password admin 11 TP LINK UserName Password Copyright ic 2012 TP LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO LTO All Rights Reserved Figure 3 Note If the above screen Figure 3 7 does not prompt it means that your web browser may be set to a proxy Choose Tools menu Internet Options Connections gt LAN Settings in the scr
74. nstream Bandwidth gt BigPond Status Status Enter the Password provided by your ISP If you are not clear please consult your ISP Enter the address of authentication server It can be IP address or server name Enter the domain name of authentication server It s only required when the address of Auth Server is a server name You can select the proper Active mode according to your need e Manual Select this option to manually activate or terminate the Internet connection by the lt Connect gt or lt Disconnect gt button It s optimum for the dial up connection charged on time e Always on Select this option to keep the connection always on The connection can be re established automatically when it is down MTU Maximum Transmission Unit is the maximum data unit transmitted by the physical network It can be set in the range of 576 1500 The default MTU is 1500 Specify the Upstream Downstream Bandwidth for the port To make Load Balance and Bandwidth Control take effect please set these parameters correctly Displays the status of BigPond connection e Disabled indicates that the BigPond connection type is not applied e Connecting indicates that the Router is obtaining the IP parameters from your ISP e Connected indicates that the Router has successfully obtained the IP parameters from your ISP e Disconnected indicates that the connection has been manual
75. oadcast storm in LANs and enhance the network security By creating VLANs in a physical LAN you can divide the LAN into multiple logical LANs each of which has a broadcast domain of its own Hosts in the same VLAN communicate with one another as if they are in a LAN However hosts in different VLANs cannot communicate with one another directly Therefore broadcast packets are limited in a VLAN TL R480T provides the Port VLAN function which allows you to create multiple logical VLANs for the LAN ports based on their port numbers Choose the menu Network Switch Port VLAN to load the following page Port YLAN Fart Port 1 Fort E Fort 3 Port 4 Network WA TH WO TH LAM LAN Figure 4 26 Port VLAN The following items are displayed on this screen gt Port VLAN Network Displays the current logical network of the physical port VLAN Select the desired VLAN for the port Tips e The Port VLAN can only be created among the LAN ports 4 4 User Group Fort 5 LAM The User Group function is used to group different users for unified management so that you can perform other applications such as Bandwidth Control Session Limit and Access Control etc on per group 48 4 4 1 Group On this page you can define the group for management Choose the menu User Group Group to load the following page Group Config Group Name 4 28 Char Description Optional 1 28 Char List of Group Mo Group Name
76. omain name for DDNS client and maps its latest IP address to this domain name When DDNS server works DDNS client informs the DDNS server of the latest IP address the server will update the mappings between the domain name and IP address in DNS database Therefore the users can use the same domain name to access the DDNS client even if the IP address of the DDNS client has changed DDNS is usually used for the Internet users to access the private website and FTP server both of which are established based on Web server The Router as a DDNS client cannot provide DDNS service Prior to using this function be sure you have registered on the official websites of DDNS service providers for username password and domain name TL R480T Router offers PeanutHull DDNS client Dyndns DDNS client NO IP DDNS client and Comexe DDNS client The Dynamic DNS can be implemented on DynDNS DDNS No IP DDNS Peanuthull DDNS and Comexe DDNS pages 4 7 3 1 DynDNS On this page you can configure DynDNS client Choose the menu Services gt Dynamic DNS DynDNS to load the following page DynDNS Account Mame Go to register Password Domain Marne userL dyndns inta DONS Service Activate Inactivate Wahl Port Wah 1 DONS Status Offline List of DynDNS Account WAM Account Mame Domain Name Status Action 1 useri userL dyndns into Offline Fd 7 Z Usera user2 dyndns into Offline Fd O Figure 4 64 DynDNS DDNS The following items are displaye
77. on of PPPoE users Click to disconnect the account Click the lt Disconnect All gt button to disconnect all accounts 92 4 7 2 E Bulletin With E Bulletin function bulletin information can be released to the specified users On this page you can edit the bulletin content and specify the receiving user group Choose the menu Services E Bulletin to load the following page General Enable E Bulletin Interval Min Enable Logs E Bulletin Title E SA Object Group ANY Available Group Selected Group Groupl Group Effective Time 00 00 Sun vw Mon w Tue e wed Thu v Fri e Sat Publisher A Description f Optional Status Activate Inactivate List of E Bulletin Mo Title Object Effective Time Publisher Description Action 08 00 20 00 Administ a a F i Notice Groupi l nce FOON Thu Fri rator Figure 4 63 E Bulletin The following items are displayed on this screen gt General Enable E Bulletin Specify whether to enable electronic bulletin function Interval Specify the interval to release the bulletin 93 Enable Logs gt E Bulletin Title Content Object Effective Time Publisher Description Status gt List of E Bulletin Specify whether to log the E Bulletin Enter a title for the bulletin Enter the content of the bulletin Select the object of this bulletin Options include e ANY The bulletin will be released to all the users and t
78. onfiguration The following items are displayed on this screen 50 gt View Config View User Name Available Group Selected Group Group Name Group Structure Available Member Selected Member 4 5 Advanced 4 5 1 NAT Select the desired view for configuration Select the name of the desired User Displays the Groups that the User can join Displays the Groups to which this User belongs Select the name of the desired Group Click this button to view the tree structure of this group All the members of this group will be displayed including Users and sub Groups The Group Names are displayed in bold Displays the Users and the Groups which can be added into this group Displays the members of this group including Users and Groups NAT Network Address Translation is the translation between private IP and public IP which allows private network users to visit the public network using private IP addresses With the explosion of the Internet the number of available IP addresses is not enough NAT provides a way to allow multiple private hosts to access the public network with one public IP at the same time which alleviates the shortage of IP addresses Furthermore NAT strengthens the LAN Local Area Network security of the network since the address of LAN host never appears on the Internet 4 5 1 1 NAT Setup On this page you can set up the NAT function Choose the menu Adv
79. osti OW Figure 4 16 DHCP Reservation The following items are displayed on this screen gt DHCP Reservation MAC Address Enter the MAC address of the computer for which you want to reserve the IP address IP Address Enter the reserved IP address Description Optional Enter a description for the entry Up to 28 characters can be entered Status Activate or Inactivate the corresponding entry gt List of Reserved Address In this table you can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons Up to 512 DHCP static address entries can be supported for LAN by this Router The first entry in Figure 4 16 indicates The IP address 192 168 0 101 is reserved for the computer with the MAC address 00 19 66 83 53 CF and this entry is activated A Note It s recommended that users first bind the IP address and the MAC address in 4 4 1 1 IP MAC Binding then import the entries from the IP MAC binding table to the List of Reserved Address in buck by clicking lt Import gt button in Figure 4 16 DHCP Reservation 40 4 3 3 MAC Address The MAC Media Access Control address as the unique identifier of the router in network does not need to be changed commonly Set the MAC Address for LAN port In a complex network topology with all the ARP bound devices if you want to use TL R480T instead of the current router in a network node you can just set the MAC address of TL R480T s LAN port the same to
80. ostics Diagnostics to load the following page Ping Destination IP Domain 192 168 1 123 WANI 4 Pinging 192 168 1 128 Jwith 64 bytes of data L Reply from 192 168 1 128 Size 64bytes Time ims z2 Reply from 192 168 1 128 Size 64bytes Time ims 3 Reply from 192 168 1 128 Size 64bytes Time ims d Reply from 192 168 1 128 Size 64bytes Time ims lt Completed gt Ping statistics for 192 165 1 125 Packets Sentid Recelved 4 Lost 0 loss Approximate round trip times in milli seconds Minimum ims Maximum ims Average lms Tracert Destination IP Domain 202 116 64 226 WANI Traceting 202 116 64 226 Maximum hops 25 1 ims ims ims 192 160 ll lt Completed gt Figure 4 78 Diagnostics The following items are displayed on this screen gt Ping Destination IP Domain Enter destination IP address or Domain name here Then select a port for testing if you select Auto the Router will select the interface of destination automatically After clicking lt Start gt button the Router will send Ping packets to test the network connectivity and reachability of the host and the results will be displayed in the box below gt Tracert 109 Destination IP Domain Enter destination IP address or Domain name here Then select a port for testing if Auto is selected the Router will select the interface of destination automatically After clicking the lt Start gt button the Router will s
81. ot clear please consult your ISP Enter the Password provided by your ISP You can select the proper Active mode according to your need e Manual Select this option to manually activate or terminate the Internet connection by the lt Connect gt or lt Disconnect gt button It s optimum for the dial up connection charged on time e Always on Select this option to keep the connection always on The connection can be re established automatically when it is down e Time based Select this option to keep the connection on during the Active time you set Check here to enable PPPoE advanced settings Once PPPOE is connected the Router will send keep alive packets every Keep Alive Interval sec and Keep Alive Retry Times to make sure the connection is still alive If the Router does not get the response from ISP after sending keep alive packets the Router will terminate the connection MTU Maximum Transmission Unit is the maximum data unit transmitted by the physical network It can be set in the range of 576 1492 The default MTU is 1480 You are recommended to keep the default value if no other MTU value is provided by your ISP Optional Enter the ISP address provided by your ISP It s null by default 26 Service Name Primary DNS Secondary DNS Secondary Connection Connection Type IP Address Subnet Address Status Upstream Bandwidth Downstream Bandwidth PPPOE Status S
82. pe Static IF Dynamic IP IP Address Subnet Mask Default Gateway Primary DONS Secondary DNS Upstream Bandwidth Kbps Downstream Bandwidth Kbps PPTP Status Status Disabled IP Address 0 0 0 0 Primary DNS 0 0 0 0 Secondary ONS 0 0 0 0 Figure 4 11 WAN PPTP The following items are displayed on this screen gt PPTP Settings Connection Type Select PPTP if your ISP provides a PPTP connection Click lt Connect gt to dial up to the Internet and obtain the IP 39 Account Name Password Server IP MTU Active Mode Secondary Connections Connection Type IP Address Subnet Mask address Click lt Disconnect gt to disconnect the Internet and release the current IP address Enter the Account Name provided by your ISP If you are not clear please consult your ISP Enter the Password provided by your ISP Enter the Server IP provided by your ISP MTU Maximum Transmission Unit is the maximum data unit transmitted by the physical network It can be set in the range of 576 1460 The default MTU is 1460 You are recommended to keep the default value if no other MTU value is provided by your ISP You can select the proper Active mode according to your need e Manual Select this option to manually activate or terminate the Internet connection by the lt Connect gt or lt Disconnect gt button It s optimum for the dial up connection charged on time e Always
83. port and protocol This entry is activated d and will take effect at 8 am to 10 pm from Monday to Friday 4 5 4 3 Link Backup With Link Backup function the Router will switch all the new sessions from dropped line automatically to another to keep an always on line network 67 On this page you can configure the Link Backup function based on actual need to reduce the traffic burden of WAN port and improve the network efficiency Choose the menu Advanced gt Load Balance gt Link Backup to load the following page General WNL Wan WAN Ports r Cy Clear Primary WAM Backup Wah o B E Mode Timing Failover Backup Effective Time Sun Mon Tus wed e Thu e Fri e Sat Status Activate Inactivate List of Rules Ho Primary WAM Backup Woh Mode Effective Time Status Action Backup when any a aen O 1 WANI WANZ q Active Lg ON primary WAN failed l Figure 4 42 Link Backup The following items are displayed on this screen gt General WAN Ports Displays all the WAN ports in use You can drag the light blue WAN button to primary and backup WAN list The color of WAN button changing to gray indicates that the WAN port is already in the primary and backup WAN list WAN Config The WAN port in the secondary WAN list will share the traffic for the WAN in the primary WAN list under the specified condition The primary WAN list can contain one or more WAN ports while the backup WAN list contains
84. r it adopts three handshakes and does not transfer password in plain text e MS CHAP put forward by Microsoft adopts a different encryption algorithm of CHAP e MS CHAP v2 with a higher security is an improved version of MS CHAP It is available when Remote Authentication is selected RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial In User Service provides an authentication for dial up users Enter the Radius Server address for Remote authentication Enter the Shared Key for Remote authentication It should be the same to the shared key of the Radius Server 4 7 1 2 IP Address Pool On this page you can define or edit the IP Address Pool Choose the menu Services PPPoE Server gt I1P Address Pool to load the following page 88 IP Address Pool Pool Name Doo IP Address Range o as List of IP Pool Clear Help Mo Pool Name IP Address Range Action A addi 10 20 1 100 10 20 1 199 Figure 4 59 IP Address Pool The following items are displayed on this screen gt IP Address Pool Pool Name Specify a unique name to the IP Address Pool for identification and management purposes IP Address Range Specify the start and the end IP address for IP Pool The start IP address should not exceed the end address and the IP address ranges must not overlap gt List of IP Pool In this table you can view the information of IP Address Pools and edit them by the Action buttons 4 7 1 3 Account On this page
85. r the PPPoE connection please choose the PPPoE connection type Used mainly for DSL Internet service 24 PPPoE Settings Connection Type PPPoE Russian PPPoE PPPoE Connection Account Name Password eee Active Mode Manual Almways on Time based Active Time 0 o HH MM AS PPPoE Advanced Settings Keep Alive Interval a 0 120 second O for not sending Keep live Retry Times 1 30 MTU 576 1492 Static IP Optional Service Name is Fill in only when required Primary DNS Secondary DNS Optional Secondary Connection Connection Type Dynamic IP we IP Address 1 1 1 1 Subnet Address 255 255 255 0 Status Connecting Upstream Bandwidth Kbps Downstream Bandwidth kbps PPPoE Status Status Disconnected IP Address 116 10 20 28 Default Gateway 116 10 20 1 Primary DAS 211 162 78 1 Secondary DNS 211 162 8 2 Figure 4 9 WAN PPPoE The following items are displayed on this screen gt PPPoE Settings 25 Save Refresh Help Connection Type Account Name Password Active Mode PPPoE Advanced Settings Keep Alive MTU ISP Address Select PPPOE if your ISP provides xDSL Virtual Dial up connection Click lt Connect gt to dial up to the Internet and obtain the IP address Click lt Disconnect gt to disconnect the Internet and release the current IP address Enter the Account Name provided by your ISP If you are n
86. rames 4 8 3 2 IP Traffic Statistics IP Traffic Statistics screen displays the detailed traffic information of each PC on LAN Choose the menu Maintenance Statistics IP Traffic Statistics to load the following page General Enable 1P Traffic Statistics Enable Auto refresh Traffic Statistics Direction LAN gt WAN1 v LAN WANM1 Statistics Transmiting Rate KB s Packets Rate Pkt s Total Packets Pkt Total Bytes Byte IF Address Sessions Upstream Downstream Upstream Downstream Upstream Downstream Upstream Downstream 192 166 02 o 0 O o 24043 20120 0460092 46059569 350 Sorted by IP address Increasing Order Figure 4 77 IP Traffic Statistics The following items are displayed on this screen gt General Enable IP Traffic Allows you to enable or disable IP Traffic Statistics Statistics Enable Auto refresh Allows you to enable disable refreshing the IP Traffic Statistics automatically The default refresh interval is 5 seconds gt Traffic Statistics Direction Select the direction in the drop down list to get the Flow Statistics of the specified direction gt IP Traffic Statistics This table displays the detailed traffic information of corresponding PCs Sorted by Select the rule for displaying the traffic information 4 8 4 Diagnostics 4 8 4 1 Diagnostics This Router provides Ping test and Tracert test functions for network diagnose 108 Choose the menu Maintenance Diagn
87. rd One Console Cable One Ethernet Cable Quick Installation Guide Mounting kits for installing in a standard 19 inch rack Resource CD Note Make sure that the package contains the above items If any of the listed items are damaged or missing please contact with your distributor The provided power cord may be different due to local power specifications Chapter 1 About this Guide This User Guide contains information for setup and management of TL R480T Load Balance Broadband Router Please read this guide carefully before operation 1 1 Intended Readers This Guide is intended for Network Engineer and Network Administrator 1 2 Conventions In this Guide the following conventions are used gt The Router or TL R480T mentioned in this Guide stands for TL R480T Load Balance Broadband Router without any explanation gt Menu Name gt Submenu Name gt Tab page indicates the menu structure Advanced NAT Basic NAT means the Basic NAT page under the NAT menu option that is located under the Advanced menu gt Bold font indicates a toolbar icon menu or menu item gt lt Font gt indicate a button Symbols in this Guide ee A Ignoring this type of note might result in a malfunction or damage to the device This format indicates important information that helps you make better use of your device 1 3 Overview of this Guide Chapter 1 About This Guide Introduces the guide structure and conv
88. rent Version Ll Expiration Date Permanent Database File i Figure 4 57 Database The database refers to all the applications in the application list on the Application Rules page you can download the latest database from http www tp link com Click the lt Browse gt button and select the file and then click the lt Upgrade gt button to upgrade the database 4 7 Services 4 7 1 PPPoE Server The Router can be configured as a PPPoE server to specify account and IP address to users in LAN and thus you can control the dial up of users for a high efficiency in network management The PPPoE configuration can be implemented on General IP Address Pool Account Exceptional IP and List of Account pages 86 4 7 1 1 General On this page you can configure PPPoE function globally Choose the menu Services PPPoE Server General to load the following page General PPPoE Server O Enable Disable Dial up Access Only Enable Disable elp PPPoE User Isolation Enable Disable Primary DNS secondary DONS Max Sessions 256 256 Max Echo Requests 40 ae Idle Timeout 30 Min Authentication Local Remote Auth Protocol PAR Y CHAP ms cHar Y MS CHAP v2 Figure 4 58 General The following items are displayed on this screen gt General PPPOE Server Dial up Access Only PPPOE User Isolation Primary Secondary DNS Max Sessions Specify whether to enable the PP
89. s 5 0 0 Build 20120131 Rel 38859s TL R460T v5 0 2012 02 22 15 36 08 Wednesday 4 Hour 44 Min 21 Sec 152 31 70 93 255 255 255 0 152 31 70 1 40 16 9F 61 BA E9 Secondary Connection Status IP Address Subnet Mask IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway MAC Address Secondary Connection Status IP Address Subnet Mask 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 16 9F 61 BA EA WANS Primary Connection Status IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway MAC Address Secondary Connection Status IP Address Subnet Mask LAN Interface LAN CPU Usage Core Cored N A Dynamic IP Disabled 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 16 9F 61 BA EB WAN4 Primary Connection Status IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway MAC Address Secondary Connection Status IP Address Subnet Mask N A Dynamic IP Disabled 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 16 9F 61 BA EC IP Address Subnet Mask DHCP Server MAC Address 192 168 0 1 255 255 255 0 Enabled 40 16 9F 61 B4 E5 Usage Figure 4 1 Status 4 2 Quick Setup Please refer to the Chapter 3 Quick Installation Guide 18 4 3 Network 4 3 1 WAN 4 3 1 1 WAN Mode TL R480T provides four available WAN ports You can set the number of WAN ports on this page Choose the menu Network WAN WAN Mode to load the following page WAN Mode wan Ports 01 02 03 04 CONSOLE Figure 4 6 WAN Mode gt WAN Mode WAN Ports Select the total number of WAN ports
90. s Displays the IP address assigned by your ISP Gateway Address Displays the Gateway Address assigned by your ISP Primary DNS Displays the IP address of your ISP s Primary DNS Secondary DNS Displays the IP address of your ISP s Secondary DNS 4 L2TP If your ISP Internet Service Provider has provided the account information for the L2TP connection please choose the L2TP connection type 28 L2TP Settings Connection Type LE2TPRussian LeTP w LTP Connection Account Name Password Server IP Domain Name 0 0 0 0 MTU 1460 576 1460 Active Mode Manual Always on Secondary Connection Connection Type Static IF Dynamic IP IF Address Subnet Mask Default Gateway Primary DNS Secondary DNS Upstream Bandwidth kbps Downstream Bandwidth kbps L2TP Status Status Disabled IP Address 0 0 0 0 Primary DNS 0 0 0 0 Secondary DNS 0 0 0 0 Figure 4 10 WAN L2TP The following items are displayed on this screen gt L2TP Settings Connection Type Select L2TP if your ISP provides a L2TP connection Click lt Connect gt to dial up to the Internet and obtain the IP address Click lt Disconnect gt to disconnect the Internet and release the current IP address 29 Account Name Password Server IP MTU Active Mode Secondary Connection Connection Type IP Address Subnet Mask Enter the Account Name provided by your ISP If you are not clear
91. s option if you can not get the IP address from your ISP even with a normal network connection This option is not required generally Select this option to enter the DNS Domain Name Server address manually Enter the IP address of your ISP s Primary DNS Domain Name Server If you are not clear please consult your ISP Optional If a Secondary DNS Server address is available enter it Specify the bandwidth for transmitting packets on the port Specify the bandwidth for receiving packets on the port Displays the status of obtaining an IP address from your ISP Disabled indicates that the Dynamic IP connection type is not applied Connecting indicates that the Router is obtaining the IP parameters from your ISP Connected indicates that the Router has successfully obtained the IP parameters from your ISP Disconnected indicates that the IP address has been manually released or the Router gets no response from your ISP Please check your network connection and consult your ISP if this problem remains Displays the IP address assigned by your ISP Displays the Subnet Mask assigned by your ISP Displays the Gateway Address assigned by your ISP 293 Primary DNS Displays the IP address of your ISP s Primary DNS Secondary DNS Displays the IP address of your ISP s Secondary DNS 3 PPPoE If your ISP Internet Service Provider has provided the account information fo
92. se harmful interference 2 This device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment CE Mark Warning This is a class A product In a domestic environment this product may cause radio interference in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures CONTENTS Package Contento edo 1 Chapter About this GUI inn 2 1 1 mended Rea Sl A AS Damen talod 2 b2 CONVENIOS tod de eel 2 13 Overview of this GUIde etica aaa 2 Chapter 2 Introduction otto d id 4 2 1 Overview OF the Rota ds ae i eno nl T 4 2 2 A cent a tached cd E E nn Oeadmceiie 5 Zo APP nos td 6 2 3 1 ELOntR AM lui dd di ali 6 2 3 2 Rear Ranes asas T Chapter 3 Quick Installation Guide ococoncncocaconanononcacararanononcacararanoranononcacararnrnnnananararnrnananann 8 3 1 CONOS PO PAR PE o 3AqPePVPm ter a enatieteie dana sae ubasnaniena ieee eee cece ees 8 3 2 O S E 11 Chapter 4 Configuration ssssssssuuununnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnnm nnmnnn 18 4 1 A A E A A E E E A E E A E A N 18 AZ E AO A a a A A O 18 deo NEIWOLK urera a N a aa uane Gada year ia aaeianatanae 19 4 3 1 WAN A e e a E A 19 4 3 2 LAN ea S 37 4 3 3 MASIA OS ide a ne Pe od 41 4 3 4 SWIC hen oe e ee ae 42 4 4 User GOUD ea E
93. set your PC to get the IP address automatically Then the Router with DHCP enabled can automatically assign the IP address to your PC If you want to configure your PC manually please set 192 168 0 x x is any number between 2 to 254 for the IP address and 255 255 255 0 for the Subnet Mask 3 Test the connection between your PC and TL R480T via Ping command 4 If you still cannot access the configuration page please restore your Router to its factory default settings and try to log in again 2 If your management port has been changed please log into the Router with the new address such as http 192 168 0 1 XX XX is the new management port number 3 If you had successfully logged into the Router before but now you cannot access the Router It s quite possible that the configuration of your Router has been changed by others especially when the Remote Web Management function is enabled You re recommended to restore your Router and reconfigure the management port number and the username as well as the password for your network security 4 If you cannot access the Router even after restoring the Router to its defaults or your login is dropped down just after a while it s quite possible that your Router is attacked by ARP cheating Its recommended to locate and quarantine the source of ARP cheating so as to prevent your network from the attacks 5 Check to see if you have configured the proxy server for IE browser I
94. specify the server IP then the new added logs will be sent to the specified server The Logs of switch are classified into the following eight levels 112 Severity emergencies alerts critical errors warnings notifications informational debugging o The system is unusable Action must be taken immediately Critical conditions menes O 113 Appendix A Hardware Specifications IEEE 802 3 802 3u Standards and Protocols TCP IP PPPoE DHCP ICMP NAT SNTP HTTP DNS One 10 100 Auto Negotiation WAN RJ45 port Auto MDI MDIX Three adjustable 10 100M Auto Negotiation WAN LAN RJ45 ports Auto Ports MDI MDIX One 10 100M Auto Negotiation LAN RJ45 port Auto MDI MDIX One Console Port 10Base T UTP STP of Cat 3 or above Transmission Medium 100Base TX UTP STP of Cat 5 or above PWR SYS Link Act Speed WAN Operating Temperature 0 C 40 C Storage Temperature 40 C 70 C Operating Environment Operating Humidity 10 90 RH Non condensing Storage Humidity 5 90 RH Non condensing 114 Appendix BFAQ Q1 What can do if cannot access the web based configuration page 1 For the first login please try the following steps 1 Make sure the cable is well connected to the LAN port of the Router The corresponding LED should flash or be solid light 2 Make sure the IP address of your PC is set in the same subnet addresses of the Router It s recommended to
95. tatus Optional Enter the Service Name provided by your ISP It s null by default Enter the IP address of your ISP s Primary DNS Optional Enter the IP address of your ISP s Secondary DNS Here allows you to configure the secondary connection Dynamic IP and Static IP connection types are provided Select the secondary connection type Options include Disable Dynamic IP and Static IP If Static IP is selected configure the IP address of WAN port If Dynamic IP is selected the obtained IP address of WAN port is displayed If Static IP is selected configure the subnet address of WAN port If Dynamic IP is selected the obtained subnet address of WAN port is displayed Displays the status of secondary connection Specify the bandwidth for transmitting packets on the port Specify the bandwidth for receiving packets on the port Displays the status of PPPoE connection e Disabled indicates that the PPPoE connection type is not applied e Connecting indicates that the Router is obtaining the IP parameters from your ISP e Connected indicates that the Router has successfully obtained the IP parameters from your ISP e Disconnected indicates that the connection has been OTa manually terminated or the Router gets no response from your ISP Please ensure that your settings are correct and your network is connected well Consult your ISP if this problem remains IP Addres
96. the Application Control entry is enabled gt Control Rules Object Group Application Specify the object for the entry You can select Group to limit the predefined group or select ANY to limit all the users If select Group as object you can select the group in the drop down list To establish new group please refer to 4 2 1 Group Click the lt Application List gt button to select applications from the popup checkbox The applications include IM Web IM SNS P2P Media Basic and Proxy The default setting is to limit all the applications in the application list except for Basic and Proxy 85 Effective Time Specify the time for the entry to take effect Description Give a description for the entry Status Activate or inactivate the entry gt List of Rules You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 56 indicates The group1 is applied with Application Rules You can click lt View gt to view the limited applications in the popup checkbox The effective time of this entry is 7 00 9 00 on Monday Tuesday Friday Saturday and Sunday This entry is enabled Note To set the group and group members please refer to 4 2 1 Group 4 6 5 2 Database On this page you can upgrade the application database Choose the menu Firewall gt App Control Database to load the following page Application Database Upgrade Cur
97. ther or access to external network via Gateway However since ARP protocol is implemented with the premise that all the Hosts and Gateways are trusted there are high security risks during ARP Implementation Procedure in the actual complex network The attacker may send the ARP spoofing packets with false IP address to MAC address mapping entries and then the device will automatically update the ARP table after receiving wrong ARP packets which results in a breakdown of the normal communication Thus ARP defense technology is generated to prevent the network from this kind of attack 4 6 1 1 IP MAC Binding IP MAC Binding functions to bind the IP address MAC address of the host together and only allows the Hosts matching the bound entries to access the network Choose the menu Firewall Anti ARP Spoofing IP MAC Binding to load the following page General Enable ARF Spoofing Defense l E Permit the packets matching the IP MAC Binding entries only Send GARP packets when SRP attack is detected Interval ms Enable ARF logs IP MAC Binding IP Address MAC Address Fo EABAR KER Clear Description Doo O O Optional Help Status Activate Inactivate List of Rules Ho IF Address MAZ Address Status Description Action Pl i 192 168 0 101 00 19 66 83 53 CF Active hosti f Ow Figure 4 47 IP MAC Binding The following items are displayed on this screen 73 gt General It is recommended to
98. this page the IP MAC information of the hosts which communicated with the Router recently will be saved in the ARP list Choose the menu Firewall Anti ARP Spoofing ARP List to load the following page 75 ARP List No IF Address Mac Address Status F 1 OL O0 OF E2 80 30 90 F 2 192 165 0 2 40 61 56 FE 75 23 Figure 4 49 ARP List The configurations for the entries is the same as the configuration of List of Scanning Result on 4 4 1 2 ARP Scanning page The unbound IP MAC information will be replaced by new IP MAC information or be automatically removed from the list if it has not been communicated with others for a long time This period is regarded as the aging time of the ARP information 4 6 2 Attack Defense With Attack Defense function enabled the Router can distinguish the malicious packets and prevent the port scanning from external network so as to guarantee the network security Choose the menu Firewall Attack Defense Attack Defense to load the following page 76 General Flood Defense Multi connections TCP SYN Flood Multi connections UDP Flood Multi connections ICMP Flood Stationary source TOP SYN Flood Stationary source UDP Flood Stationary source ICMP Flood Packet Anomaly Defense Threshold Threshold Threshold Threshold Threshold Threshold 3000 Plts Pts soo Pktis Pkt s Pkt s 200 Pkt s lt e el El El E Block Fragment Traffic Block TCP
99. time e Primary Secondary NTP Server Enter the IP Address for the NTP Server 111 Manual With this option selected you can set the date and time manually Synchronize with With this option selected the administrator PC s clock is utilized PC S Clock A Note e f Get GMT function cannot be used properly please add an entry with UDP port of 123 to the firewall software of the PC e The time will be lost when the Router is restarted The Router will obtain GMT time automatically from Internet 4 8 6 Logs The Log system of Router can record classify and manage the system information effectively Choose the menu Maintenance gt Logs Logs to load the following page List of Logs Mo Content 1 2011 06 10 16 35 54 lt 5 gt The IP address web succeed to access the 192 168 5 100 server 2 2011 06 10 16 36 29 lt 5 gt The IP address web succeed to access the 192 168 0 2 server Config Enable Auto refresh O Severity Send System Logs server IF f116 1 10 5 Figure 4 81 Logs gt List of Logs List of Logs displays the system log information in log buffer An entry of log contains the following four parts gt Config Enable Auto refresh With this option selected the page will refresh automatically every 5 seconds Severity Displays the severity level of the log information You can select a severity level to display the log information with the same level Send System Logs Select Send System Logs and
100. ts obeyed the rule will not be allowed to pass through the Router e Allow When this option is selected the packets obeyed the rule will be allowed to pass through the Router Select the service for the entry Only the service belonging to the specified service type is limited by the entry For example if you select Block for Policy and only FTP for Service the packets of other service types can still pass through the Router You can add new service types on 4 4 4 4 Service Select interface for the entry The entry will take effect when the interface to which the data is flowing is selected WAN or LAN refers to all the WAN or LAN interfaces Select the Source IP Range for the entries including the following three ways e IP MASK Enter an IP address or subnet mask 0 0 0 0 32 means any IP e Group Select a predefined group of users You can set the group on4 2 1 Group e ANY means for any users Select the Destination IP Range for the entries including the following two ways e IP MASK Enter an IP address or subnet mask 0 0 0 0 32 means any IP is acceptable e ANY means for any users Specify the time for the entry to take effect Give a description for the entry Select this option to specify the priority for the added entries The latest enabled entry will be displayed at the end of the list by default 82 gt List of Rules You can view the information of the entries
101. up Select a group to define the controlled user Max Sessions Enter the max Sessions for the users Description Give a description for the entry Status Activate or inactivate the entry gt List of Session Limit You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 38 indicates The amount of maximum sessions for the hosts within group1 is 100 and this entry is enabled 4 5 3 2 Session List On this page you can view the Session Limit information of hosts configured with Session Limit Choose the menu Advanced Session Limit Session List to load the following page List of Limited Sessions No User Max Sessions Current Sessions Mo entries Figure 4 39 Session List In this table you can view the session limit information of users configured with Session Limit Click the lt Refresh gt button to get the latest information 4 5 4 Load Balance On this part you can configure how the traffic load is shared by the WAN ports to optimize the resource utilization 4 5 4 1 Configuration Choose the menu Advanced gt Load Balance Configuration to load the following page 65 General Enable Application Optimized Routing Enable Bandwidth Based Balance Routing Select Bandwidth Based Balance Routing ports wan wane Figure 4 40 Configuration With the box before Enable Application Optimized Routing checked the Router will consider the source IP
102. ure and modify the Web and Telnet port Choose the menu Maintenance gt Admin Setup Login Parameter to load the following page General Web Management Port Telnet Management Port E Web Idle Timeout Min 5 60 Telnet Idle Timeout Min 5 60 Figure 4 70 Login Parameter The following items are displayed on this screen gt General Web Management Port Enter the Web Management Port for the Router Telnet Management Port Enter the Telnet Management Port for the Router Web Idle Timeout Enter a timeout period that the Router will log you out of the Web based Utility after a specified period Web Idle Timeout of inactivity Telnet Idle Timeout Enter a timeout period that the Router will log the remote PCs out of the Web based Utility after a specified period Telnet Idle Timeout of inactivity Note e The default Web Management Port is 80 If the port is changed you should type http IP address port to login the Router E g If the Web Management Port is changed to 88 type http 192 168 0 1 88 in the address filed to login the Router e The new timeout period will take effect when next login Application Example Network Requirements Allow the IP address within 210 10 10 0 24 segment to manage the Router with IP address of 210 10 10 50 remotely Configuration Procedure 103 Type 210 10 10 0 24 in the Subnet Mask field on Remote Management page and enable the entry as the following figure shows
103. ure enables the Router to scan the IP address and corresponding MAC address and display them on the List of Scanning Result Choose the menu Firewall Anti ARP Spoofing ARP Scanning to load the following page 74 General Scanning IP Range 192 160 0 1 192 166 0 254 Scanning Result Ho IP Address MAC Address Status F 1 192 1166 0 2 40 61 86 FC 5 C35 Figure 4 48 ARP Scanning Enter the start and the end IP addresses in the Scanning IP Range field Then click the lt Scan gt button the Router will scan all the active hosts within the scanning range and display the result in the list The entries displayed on the List of Scanning Result do not mean the IP and MAC addresses are already bound The current status for the entry will display in the Status field a Indicates that the IP and MAC address of this entry is not bound and may be replaced by error ARP information 4 Indicates that this entry is imported to the list on IP MAC Binding page but not effective yet 5 Indicates that the IP and MAC address of this entry is already bound To bind the entries in the list check these entries and click the lt Import gt button then the settings will take effect if the entries do not conflict with the existed entries A Note If the local hosts suffered from ARP attack you cannot add IP MAC Binding entries on this page Please add entries manually on 4 4 1 1 IP MAC Binding 4 6 1 3 ARP List On
104. uter predefines three commonly used protocols such as TCP UDP and TCP UDP Moreover you can also add new protocols as your wish Choose the menu Advanced gt Load Balance gt Protocol to load the following page 69 Protocol Name E Number List of Protocol Clear Help No Name Number Action 1 TCP 6 2 UDP 17 3 TCP UDP 4 TELNET 23 EN 5 RAV 56 YE Sele A Figure 4 43 Protocol The following items are displayed on this screen gt Protocol Name Enter a name to indicate a protocol The name will display in the drop down list of Protocol on Access Rule page Number Enter the Number of the protocol in the range of 0 255 gt List of Protocol You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons A Note The system predefined protocols cannot be configured 4 5 5 Routing 4 5 5 1 Static Route Routing is the process of selecting optimized paths in a network along which to send network traffic Static Route is a kind of special routing configured by the administrator which is simple efficient and reliable Commonly used in small sized network with fixed topology Static Route does not change along with the network topology automatically The administrator should modify the static route information manually as long as the network topology or link status is changed 70 Choose the menu Advanced Routing Static Route to load the following page
105. utomatically 5 Use the following IP address IF address 192 166 U 2 Subnet mask 250 oo eee Al Default gateway 192 168 0 1 Use the following DNS server addresses Preferred ONS server 1952 168 1 1 Alternate DNS server Figure 3 4 Note You can configure the PC to get an IP address automatically select Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically in the screen above For Windows 98 OS or earlier the PC and router may need to be restarted Now you can run the Ping command in the command prompt to verify the network connection Please click the Start menu on your desktop select run tab type cmd in the field and then type ping 192 168 0 1 on the next screen and then press Enter If the result displayed is similar to the screen below the connection between your PC and the Router has been established Pinging 192 168 60 1 with 32 bytes of data Reply from 192 168 0 1 bhytes 32 time 1ms TTL 254 Reply from 192 168 0 1 bytes 32 time 1ms TTL 254 Reply from 192 168 0 1 bytes 32 time ims TITL 254 Reply from 192 168 0 1 bhytes 32 time 1ms TTL 254 Ping statistics for 192 168 M 1 Packets Sent 4 Received 4 Lost A Ax los gt a a a a a L aT Approximate round trip times in milli seconds Minimum Ams Maximum ims Average Ams Figure 3 5 If the result displayed is similar to the screen shown below it means that your PC has
106. ve O 192 168 0 199 116 10 20 29 Protocols Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Figure 4 41 Policy Routing 66 The following items are displayed on this screen gt General Protocol Source IP Destination IP Source Port Destination Port WAN Effective Time Status gt List of Rules Select the protocol for the entry in the drop down list If the protocol you want to set is not in the list you can add it to the list on 4 3 4 4 Protocol page Enter the source IP range for the entry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 means any IP is acceptable Enter the destination IP range for the entry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 means any IP is acceptable Enter the source Port range for the entry which is effective only when the protocol is TCP UDP or TCP UDP The default value is 1 65535 which means any port is acceptable Enter the destination port range for the entry which is effective only when the protocol is TCP UDP or TCP UDP The default value is 1 65535 which means any port is acceptable Select the WAN port for transmitting packets Specify the time for the entry to take effect Activate or inactivate the entry You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons The first entry in Figure 4 41 indicates All the packets with Source IP between 192 168 0 100 and 192 168 0 199 and Destination IP between 116 10 20 28 and 116 10 20 29 will be forwarded from WANT1 port regardless of the
107. w to configure the basic functions of your TL R480T Load Balance Broadband Router These procedures only take you a few minutes You can access the Internet via the router immediately after it has been successfully configured 3 1 Configure PC Step 1 Click the Start menu on your desktop right click My Network Places and then select Properties shown in Figure 3 1 Ny Abas ork s mingzhu Internet Y My Documents Internet Explorer JD 4 My Recent Documents gt e ali D My n la e lt a Q Snagit 7 ar My Music Y Micro a Office Outlook PE My Computer bs My Net Open Windows Media Player Explore gt ControlF search for Computers w Microsoft Office Word 2003 Set Prog Map Network Drive Defaults f 3 Disconnect Network E Drive y Printers 3 Windows Messenger a lv Show on Desktop Rename w pas Y Help anc pP Search All Programs gt I Run A Log Off O Turn OFF Computer 1 IENE E g PM Figure 3 1 Step 2 In the next screen right click Local Area Connection LAN and then select Properties Network Connections File r Clik Back by Edit View Favorites Seli ar Tools Advanced Help Search Folders EE Address WA Metwork Connections hs 29 Network Tasks Create a new connection Set up a home or small office network 2 Change Windows Firewall settings a Disable this network device E Repair this connection mi Rename this con
108. you can configure the PPPoE account Choose the menu Services PPPoE Server Account to load the following page 89 Account Account Mame Password IP Address 4ssigned Mode IP Address Fool Max Sessions Expiration Date Description Status O MAZ Binding Mac Address Session Timeout List of Account O Mo Account Mame 1 useri Dynamic Static Bo 258 1 1 crrer mm DD Optional Clear Help Activate Inactivate Enable Advanced Account Features A KK KKK Hour 0 168 IP Address Pool Mos Enpe an MAC Address Seso On Description Status Action Sessions Date Timeout addi 1 2099 01 01 Ze Active fOwWw al Figure 4 60 Account The following items are displayed on this screen gt Account Account Name Password IP Address Assigned Mode Static IP Address IP Address Pool Max Sessions Expiration Date Enter the account name This name should not be the same with the one in L2TP PPTP connection settings Enter the password Select the IP Address Assigned Mode for IP assignment e Static Select this option to assign a static IP address to the client e Dynamic Select this option to assign available IP addresses to the client automatically It s available on Static mode Enter a static IP address for the client It s available on Dynamic mode Select an IP Address Pool to make a range to assign dynamic IPs Specify the
109. you prefer to use And the Router will adjust the physical ports accordingly which can be illustrated on the following port sketch Note e By default TL R480T is set to work in the mode of dual WAN ports e Any change to the number of WAN ports may lead to a loss of current configurations Please be sure to backup your configurations in advance 4 3 1 2 WANT TL R480T provides the following six Internet connection types Static IP Dynamic IP PPPoE Russian PPPoE L2TP Russian L2TP PPTP Russian PPTP and BigPond To configure the WAN please first select the type of Internet connection provided by your ISP Internet Service Provider 19 Tips e It s allowed to set the IP addresses of multiple WAN ports within the same subnet However to guarantee a normal communication make sure that the WAN ports can access the same network such as Internet or a local area network e The amount of tab pages for WAN port varies with the number of the WAN ports For the configurations of the other WAN ports please refer to the instructions of WAN Choose the menu Network WAN WAN to load the configuration page 1 Static IP If a static IP address has been provided by your ISP please choose the Static IP connection type to configure the parameters for WAN port manually Static IP Settings Connection Type Static IP e IP Address 0 0 0 0 Subnet Mask Default Gateway Optional MTL 576 1500 Primary DN
110. your ISP e Disconnected indicates that the connection has been manually terminated or the Router gets no response from your ISP Please ensure that your settings are correct and your network is connected well Consult your ISP if this problem remains Displays the IP address assigned by your ISP Displays the IP address of your ISP s Primary DNS Displays the IP address of your ISP s Secondary DNS 34 6 BigPond If your ISP Internet Service Provider has provided the account information for the BigPond connection please choose the BigPond connection type BigPond Settings Connection Type Account Mame Password Auth Server Auth Domain Active Mode Manual Always on MTU Upstream Bandwidth Downstream Bandwidth BigPond Status status IP Address Subnet Mask Default Gateway BigPond e 1500 576 1500 100000 kbps 100000 kbps Disabled Figure 4 12 WAN Bigpond The following items are displayed on this screen gt BigPond Settings Connection Type Account Name Select BigPond if your ISP provides a BigPond connection Click lt Connect gt to dial up to the Internet and obtain the IP address Click lt Disconnect gt to disconnect the Internet and release the current IP address Enter the Account Name provided by your ISP If you are not clear please consult your ISP 35 Password Auth Server Auth Domain Auth Mode MTU Upstream Dow

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