GemTek Technology R910625, R911129 Users manual

P380

Wi-Fi Inter-Building Router

User’s Guide

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P380 Users guide

Contents

P380 ___________________________________________________________1

User’s Guide _________________________________________________________ 1

Overview________________________________________________________4

Wireless Networking System ____________________________________________ 4

Features ________________________________________________________5
3 Operating Modes _______________________________________________6
Starting Up______________________________________________________8
Device Status page ______________________________________________10
Setup Wizard ___________________________________________________11

Operation Mode Settings Page _________________________________________ 11
General Configuration Settings Page _____________________________________ 12
Network Configuration Settings page _____________________________________ 13
Wireless Configuration Settings page ____________________________________ 14
Redirection Service___________________________________________________ 16

Advanced Settings ______________________________________________18

Firewall configuration _________________________________________________ 18
ACL Configuring _____________________________________________________ 21
Static routing configuration _____________________________________________ 21
DHCP Service Configuration ___________________________________________ 23
Port forwarding configuration ___________________________________________ 23
Setting up administrator password _______________________________________ 25

System Tools ___________________________________________________26

Clients page ________________________________________________________ 26
Loopback Test_______________________________________________________ 27
Configuring SNMP management ________________________________________ 29
Site survey page _____________________________________________________ 30
Monitoring page _____________________________________________________ 30
Upgrade page _______________________________________________________ 31
Upgrade Utility_______________________________________________________ 34
Reboot Page ________________________________________________________ 34
Reset page_________________________________________________________ 35

Hardware Reset _________________________________________________36
Specifications __________________________________________________37

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Administration _______________________________________________________ 37

Glossary _______________________________________________________39

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Overview

The AP router, P380, is a standalone wireless client, which provides IP routing
functionality between a Local Area Network (LAN) and a Wide Area Network (WAN). It
uses an Ethernet interface to connect to LAN, and wireless 802.11b-based interface to
connect to a Wireless Networking System, which provides miscellaneous WAN access.

Wireless Networking System

P380 is part of the Wireless Internet Service Provision System. It provides access for
locally connected computers to WAN, such as the Internet. In Figure 1 shown below,
P380 client devices are connected to P380 access points (please refer to P380
specification).

Figure 1: P380 Solution

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Features

P380 is based on indoor architecture. An indoor unit with 2.4 GHz antennas is placed on
the mast or the ceiling of the construction elements. It is connected to a UTP cable. An
individual computer or an entire local network can gain access to the Internet by simply
connecting the P380 indoor unit to the switch/hub. P380 is a full featured IP router with
extensive firewall capabilities and a user-friendly web interface.

Features:

• Wireless Access Point or Client (configurable)

• Router/Bridge (configurable) and Firewall

• Telecom features Built-in

Web management Interface

•

P380 can be managed via:

• FTP

• Telnet

WWW

•

• SNMP (v1, v2)

It is possible to modify the following information through a web interface :

• General information

• Network LAN and WAN interfaces settings

• Wireless device settings

• DHCP server configuration

• IP Firewall

Port forwarding

•

• Static routing

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3 Operating Modes

The P380 Router supports 3 different kind of operating modes: AP-Router, AP and
Bridge.

AP-Router Mode

In this mode, the P380 wireless unit plays the roles of the wireless network
Access point and a router.

LAN

Hub

AP Mode

In this mode, P380 acts as conventional wireless Access point. The routing
function is disabled. Local Network Area is automatically set up to Wireless.

Firewall

WOR-3000

(ETRAX-100LX)

Wireless link

Wireless endpoint

(client)

Wireless ISP Network

WWW Server

Figure 2: AP-Router mode

Hub

LAN

WOR-3000

(ETRAX-100LX)

WOR-3000

(ETRAX-100LX)

Wireless

LAN

Figure 3: AP mode

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Bridge Mode

When operating in this mode, one P380 device can connect with another P380
device and form wireless “bridge” interconnecting two or more local networks.
Note that all these devices must work in the same frequency channel and must
have the same SSID string. Please also note that wireless “bridge” DOES NOT
retransmits packets.

Figure 4: Bridge mode

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Starting Up

To setup P380 for the first time can be performed through a web browser on a computer
connected to the local network. The administrator can use one of standard browsers
available (e.g., Netscape Navigator, or Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0 or later).
Once the setup process is completed, P380 can be managed from any computer on the
network that has a web browser.

The steps to setup P380 using a web browser are listed below:

1. Launch a standard web browser on a computer connected to the network.

2. Enter the P380 IP address given to you from the ISP into the URL field of your web
browser (the default setting is 192.168.2.2). P380 device provides SSL (Secure
Sockets Layer) feature, so use https://192.168.2.2 to connect.

If local network settings were configured correctly, then a login screen should appear:

Input the username (the default username is “root”) and correct password (the default
password is “pass”) and click the “OK” button to pass the security control screen. Once
the correct username and password combination is entered, a P380 welcome screen
should appear as below:

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Figure 5: Welcome screen

Click on the “Setup Wizard” button on the menu bar to begin P380 device configuration
(described in the following section).

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Device Status page

Device status page displays all information includes system, interface and network status.

Figure 6: Device Status table

The Device Status page is divided into to four parts:

System Status table - This table shows P380 software version, system uptime
(after last reboot), average load, memory usage and radio signal strength (RSSI).

System service and interfaces status is shown in “Service/Interface Status” table ­This table shows wireless interface and system services state. Possible values in this
table can be Enabled/Disabled for appropriate interface/service state.

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Network status is shown in the “Network Status” table - This table shows
operating mode of the device, which can be “Router” for AP-Router mode, “AP” –
for access point mode and “Bridge” for bridge mode.

Network statistics are shown in separate table - This table contains statistics for
both interfaces of the P380 – wired and wireless. The wired interface is called LAN,
and the wireless interface is called WLAN. Each column corresponds to the
statistics value of the interfaces:

TxData – amount of data transferred
TxErrors – amount of transmit errors
RxData – amount of data received
RxErrors – amount of receive errors
Collisions – amount of network collisions

Setup Wizard

Operation Mode Settings Page

The first page of the P380 configuration wizard is dedicated to the device operating mode
selection:

Figure 7: Device Mode Settings page

This enables a user to select the operating mode of the device.
Click on the “Reset” button to reset the page fields to their default values. Select one of

the three device modes and click on the “Next” button to continue the configuration
wizard (For a detailed explanation of the wizard settings, please refer to the P380 Quick
Installation Guide).

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General Configuration Settings Page

Various general device parameters can be set in this page. All of those parameters are
optional.

Figure 8: General Configuration Settings page

These parameters include:

Hostname – a general network parameter returned in statistics routines
DNS Server address – this Domain Name Server address is assigned to the PCs

requesting DNS address through DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol).
System Identification – free form system identification code for easier device
identification by the service staff.
Serial Number – A unique serial number of the P380 device. Users should not
change this number.

Address – The location of the device.
Coordinates – GPS coordinates. Service staff fills this field when deploying device.
Customer Name – customer name, which is used for easy identification of P380

Click on the “Back” button to go to the previous page, Operating Mode Settings. Click
on the “Reset” button to reset all page fields to their previous values and click on the
“Next” button to continue the configuration wizard.

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Network Configuration Settings page

v Router Mode

In Router mode, LAN (Local Area Network) and WAN (Wide Area Network – For P380,
this can be the enterprise networks on the Internet) configurations can be modified using
the LAN Settings and the WAN Settings tables shown as followed:

Figure 9: Network Configuration Settings page -1 (Router mode)

WAN settings must be set up according to the information provided by the ISP. There is
no such restriction on LAN settings. WAN access can be disabled to restrict LAN users
access to this network.

The masquerade setting enables the users to use the NAT (Network Address Translation)
feature of P380. When this option is enabled, P380 “hides” LAN addresses to the
“external world”. Access to the services, such as web services, provided by servers in the
LAN, can be achieved by using the port forwarding feature.

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i Hint: Use known private IP addresses for the local network, because if you use public
addresses, you will not be able to connect to WAN. It is recommended to use IANA
(Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) reserved private address space (10.0.0.0/8,

172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16) .

v AP Mode

In AP and Bridge mode, P380 does not require an active LAN (Local Area Network)
interface, so the “LAN Interface Settings” table is not displayed.

Figure 10: Network Configuration Settings page -2 (non-Router mode)

Click on the “Back” button to go back to the previous page, which is General
Configuration Settings. Click on the “Reset” button to reset all current page fields to their
previous values and click on the “Next” button to continue wizard.

Wireless Configuration Settings page

Wireless device is configured as shown below:

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