Zinwell ZWA-G880 User Manual

Wireless LAN Device Series

Multi-Mode AP

ZWA-G880 User’s Manual

T A BLE OF C ONTENTS

NOTICE..................................................................................................................................................4

PREFACE ...............................................................................................................................................6

CH 1. ZWA-G880 INSTALLATION....................................................................................................7

PACKING LIST .......................................................................................................................................7

BACK PANEL CONNECTIONS .................................................................................................................7

HARDWARE INSTALLATION..................................................................................................................8

CH 2. FIRST TIME CONFIGURATION ............................................................................................9

BEFORE START TO CONFIGURE .............................................................................................................9

KNOWING THE NETWORK APPLICATION ...............................................................................................9

BASIC SETTINGS.................................................................................................................................29

ADVANCED SETTINGS.........................................................................................................................32

CONFIGURING WIRELESS SECURITY...................................................................................................35

CONFIGURING AS WLAN CLIENT ADAPTER.......................................................................................38

QUICK START TO CONFIGURE..............................................................................................................38

MAC CLONE FOR SINGLE ETHERNET CLIENT ....................................................................................40

EXTEND THE REMOTE AP (BSS).........................................................................................................41

CH 3. CONFIGURING WDS..............................................................................................................43

WDS NETWORK TOPOLOGY................................................................................................................43

WDS APPLICATION.............................................................................................................................45

CH 4. ADVANCED CONFIGURATIONS.........................................................................................47

CONFIGURING LAN TO WAN FIREWALL ............................................................................................47

PORT FILTERING .................................................................................................................................47

IP FILTERING ......................................................................................................................................48

MAC FILTERING.................................................................................................................................49

NAT (NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION).........................................................................................50

CONFIGURING POR T FORWARDING (VIR TUAL SER VER)..............................................................................51

MULTIPLE SERVERS BEHIND NAT EXAMPLE: ..................................................................................... 51

CONFIGURING DMZ...........................................................................................................................52

CONFIGURING VPN............................................................................................................................53

CONFIGURING WAN INTERFACE.........................................................................................................55

STATIC IP............................................................................................................................................55

DHCP CLIENT (DYNAMIC IP).............................................................................................................56

PPPOE................................................................................................................................................57

PPTP..................................................................................................................................................58

CONFIGURING CLONE MAC ADDRESS ...............................................................................................60

ONFIGURING DHCP SERVER ............................................................................................................62

BANDWIDTH CONTROL.......................................................................................................................63

QOS (QUALITY OF SERVICE)...............................................................................................................63

STATIC ROUTE SETUP .........................................................................................................................67

DYNAMIC ROUTE SETUP ....................................................................................................................68

VPN PASS-THROUGH..........................................................................................................................69

USING CLI MENU...............................................................................................................................69

THE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT ..............................................................................................................71

SNMP AGENT ....................................................................................................................................71

MISCELLANEOUS SETTINGS................................................................................................................74

PING WATCH DOG ...............................................................................................................................75

AIMING TOOL.....................................................................................................................................76

CONNECTING PROFILE........................................................................................................................77

FIRMWARE UPGRADE .........................................................................................................................78

CONFIGURATION DATA BACKUP & RESTORE......................................................................................79

AUTO DISCOVERY TOOL.....................................................................................................................80

Notice

FCC Warning

Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party

responsible for compliance could void the user authority to operate the

equipment.

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions： (1) This device may not cause harmful interference,

and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including

interference that may cause undesired operation.

The user’s manual or instruction manual for an intentional or unintentional

radiator shall caution the user that changes or modifications not expressly

approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s

authority to operate the equipment.

FCC Statement

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class

B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are

designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a

residential installation. This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio

frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the

instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular

installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or

television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and

on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures：

z Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

z Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

z Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to

which the receiver is connected.

z Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

FCC RF Radiation Exposure Statement

This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an

uncontrolled environment. This equipment should be installed and operated

with minimum distance 20cm between the radiator & your body. For product

available in the USA/Canada market, only channel 1~11 can be operated.

Selection of other channels is not possible. The antenna(s) used for this

transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other

antenna or transmitter. Shielded interface cables must be used in order to

comply with emission limits.

CE Statement

Hereby, ZINWELL, declares that this device is in compliance with the essential

requirement and other relevant provisions of the R&TTE Directive 1999/5/EC.

This device will be sold in the following EEA countries：Austria, Italy, Belgium,

Liechtenstein, Denmark, Luxembourg, Finland, Netherlands, France, Norway,

Germany, Portugal, Greece, Spain, Iceland, Sweden, Ireland, United Kingdom,

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia,

Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania.

Preface

This guide is for the networking professional who installs and manages the

Zinwell ZWA-G880 product hereafter referred to as the “device”. To use this

guide, you should have experience working with the TCP/IP configuration and

be familiar with the concepts and terminology of wireless local area networks.

Ch 1. ZWA-G880 Installation

Packing List

Before you start to install the device, make sure the package contains the following items：

● ZWA-G880 Multi-Mode AP unit * 1

● Power Adapter * 1

● RJ-45 Cable * 1

Multi-Mode AP Power Adapter

RJ-45 Cable

Back panel connections

From Left to Right:

DC jack: ZWA-G880 can use power source in DC jack. Please supply the

power in 5V and 2A

WAN/LAN: This port could be WAN or LAN port depending on the

configuration. It will be WAN port in router mode and LAN port in

bridge mode.

LAN: This port is always LAN in ZWA-G880. In Bridge mode, it bridges to

WLAN and “WAN/LAN” port. In Router mode, it bridges to WLAN only, In

WISP mode, it bridges to “WAN/LAN” port only.

Reset: Press Reset button to revert it to factory default.

Antenna: This SMA Reverse allows the user to connect antenna or RF cable.

At least connect an antenna to help ZWA-G880 to send and receive

RF signal.

ZWA-G880 integrates LNA/PA (Low Noise Amplifier) module and has

at lease 3dB RF sensitivity better than the regular WLAN products.

Hardware Installation

Once you check off everything from the package, you can start to install the

device. You can use the wall mount hole on the bottom of the device to

mount the device on the wall, or just put the device on the desktop. The

administrator can refer to the figure below while constructing your WLAN

environment.

Ch 2. First Time Configuration

Before Start to Configure

There are two ways to configure the device, one is through web-browser,

and the other is through Secure Shell CLI interface. To access the

configuration interfaces, make sure you are using a computer connected to

the same network as the device. The default IP address of the device is

192.168.2.254, and the subnet-mask is 255.255.255.0.

The device has three operation modes (Router/Bridge/WISP). In bridge

mode, also known as AP Client, you can access the device by WLAN

(Wireless Local Area Network) and both wired LAN ports. And in

router/WISP modes, the device can be accessed by WLAN, LAN and WAN.

The default IP addresses for the device are 192.168.2.254 (for LAN),

172.1.1.1(for WAN), so you need to make sure the IP address of your PC is

in the same subnet as the device, such as 192.168.2.X (for LAN), 172.1.1.X

(for WAN).

Please note that the DHCP server inside the device is default to up and

running. Do not have multiple DHCP servers in your network environment,

otherwise it will cause abnormal situation.

We also provide an auto-discovery tool which is for finding out the IP of the

device. In case, you’ve forgot the IP of the device or the IP of the device has

been changed, you can use the tool to find out the IP of the device even your

PC is not in the same subnet as the device is.

Knowing the Network Application

The device can act as the following roles, and it supports WDS (Wireless

Distribution System) function.

z Access Point

z WDS mode

z Bridge/Router

z WISP

z AP Client

The device provides 3 different operation modes and the wireless radio of

device can act as AP/Client/WDS. The operation mode is about the

communication mechanism between the wired Ethernet NIC and wireless

NIC, the following is the types of operation mode.

Router

The wired Ethernet (WAN) port is used to connect with ADSL/Cable modem

and the wireless NIC is used for your private WLAN. The other wired

Ethernet (LAN) port bridges to the private WLAN. The NAT is existed

between WAN and WLAN/LAN and all the wireless and wired clients share

the same public IP address through the WAN port to ISP. The default IP

configuration for WAN port is static IP. You can access the web server of

device through the default WAN IP address 172.1.1.1 and modify the setting

base on your ISP requirement.

Bridge

The two wired Ethernet ports and wireless NIC are bridged together. Once

the mode is selected, all the WAN related functions will be disabled.

WISP (Wireless ISP)

This mode can let you access the AP of your wireless ISP and share the

same public IP address from your ISP to the PCs connecting with both the

wired Ethernet ports of the device. To use this mode, first you must set the

wireless radio to be client mode connecting to the AP of your ISP as the

WAN connection and then you can configure the WAN IP configuration to

meet your ISP requirement.

The wireless radio of the device acts as the following roles.

AP (Access Point)

The wireless radio of device serves as communications “hub” for wireless

clients and provides a connection to a wired LAN.

AP Client

This mode provides the capability to connect with the other AP using

infrastructure/Ad-hoc networking types. With bridge operation mode, you

can directly connect one of the wired Ethernet port to your PC and the

device becomes a wireless adapter. And with WISP operation mode, you

can connect one of the wired Ethernet port to a hub/switch and all the PCs

connecting with hub/switch can share the same public IP address from your

ISP.

WDS (Wireless Distribution System)

This mode combines up to 8 AP to a single wireless network; the device

forwards the packets to another AP with WDS function. When this mode is

selected, all the wireless clients can’t survey and connect to the device. The

device only allows the WDS connection.

WDS+AP

This mode combines WDS plus AP modes, it not only allows WDS

connections but also the wireless clients can survey and connect to the

device.

The following table shows the supporting combination of operation and

wireless radio modes.

Bridge Router WISP

V V X

WDS

V V X

Client

V X V

AP+WDS

V V X

Hereafter are some topologies of network application for your reference.

Bridge Mode

With

Bridge Mode

With

WDS + AP

Bridge Mode

Router Mode

With

WDS + AP

WISP Mode

Internet

Broadband

Modem

Examples of Configuration

This example demonstrates how to set up a network with different device

configurations. There are 2 DHCP servers (DEV1/DEV4) in the network to

control the IP configuration of 2 domains (192.168.2.x/192.168.3.x). Once

the setting is done, all the PCs can visit Internet through DEV1.

We assume all the devices keep the factory default setting. To make sure

that user can continuing press the rest button for more than 5 seconds to

restore the factory default setting.

The following descriptions show the steps to configure DEV1 to DEV5.

Configure DEV1:

1. Connect the ADSL modem to Ethernet port of device using Ethernet cable.

2. Access the web server (http://192.168.2.254) of device from the wireless station.

3. Use Wizard page to setup device.

4. Press “Next>>” button then set the “Operation Mode” to “Router” mode.

5. Press “Next>>” button then disable “Time Zone” function.

6. Press “Next>>” button then set the IP address of LAN interface.

7. Press “Next>>” button then select the “PPPoE” for “WAN Access Type” and fill in the “User Name” and “Password” fields.

8. Press “Next>>” button then select the “AP+WDS” for “mode” and change the SSID to “DEV1”.

9. Press “Next>>” button then select “None” for “Encryption” then press “Finished” button.

10. Wait for refreshing web page.

11. Use “WDS Settings” page to configure WDS.

12. Enable WDS function and add the BSSID of DEV2 to “Current WDS AP List”.

13. Since we access the device by wireless connection, it may temporarily disconnect when applying the WDS setting. After re-connecting to the device, use the “Status” page to check the settings.

Configure DEV2:

1. Access the web server (http://192.168.2.254) of device from the Ethernet port.

Caution If you configure multiple devices in the same PC, since the devices have the same default IP address but different MAC addresses, it may cause you not able to access the web server of device. If the situation happens, please try to clean the ARP table of your PC by DOS command “arp –d” then you can access the web server of device using the default IP address.

2. Use Wizard page to setup device.

3. Press “Next>>” button then set the “Operation Mode” to “Bridge” mode.

4. Press “Next>>” button then disable “Time Zone” function.

5. Press “Next>>” button then set the IP address of LAN interface.

6. Press “Next>>” button then select the “AP+WDS” for “mode” and change the SSID to “DEV2”.

7. Press “Next>>” button then select “None” for “Encryption” then press “Finished” button.

8. Wait for refreshing web page.

9. Access the web server by new IP address “192.168.2.202” then use “LAN Interface” page to disable DHCP Server.

10. Wait for refreshing web page.

11. Use “WDS Settings” page to configure WDS.

12. Enable WDS function and add the BSSID of DEV1 to “Current WDS AP List”.

13. Use the “Status” page to check the settings.

Configure DEV3:

1. Access the web server (http://192.168.2.254) of device from the Ethernet port.

Caution

If you configure multiple devices in the same PC, since the devices have the same default IP address but different MAC addresses, it may cause you not able to access the web server of device. If the situation happens, please try to clean the ARP table of your PC by DOS command “arp –d” then you can access the web server of device using the default IP address.

2. Use “LAN Interface” page to set the IP address of LAN interface and disable DHCP server.

3. Wait for refreshing web page.

4. Access the web server by new IP address “192.168.2.203” then use “Basic Settings” page to change SSID and CHANNEL.

5. Use the “Status” page to check the settings.

Configure DEV4:

1. Access the web server (http://192.168.2.254) of device from the Ethernet port.

Caution

If you configure multiple devices in the same PC, since the devices have the same default IP address but different MAC addresses, it may cause you unable to access the web server of device. If the situation happens, please try to clean the ARP table of your PC by DOS command “arp –d” then you can access the web server of device using the default IP address.

2. Use Wizard page to setup device.

3. Press “Next>>” button then set the “Operation Mode” to “Wireless ISP” mode.

4. Press “Next>>” button then disable “Time Zone” function.

5. Press “Next>>” button then set the IP address of LAN interface.

6. Press “Next>>” button then select the “DHCP Client” for “WAN Access Type”.

7. Press “Next>>” button then select the “Client” for “mode” and change the SSID to “DEV4”.

8. Press “Next>>” button then select “None” for “Encryption” then press “Finished” button.

9. Wait for refreshing web page.

10. Change the IP address of your PC to 192.168.3.x then access the web server by the new IP address “192.168.3.1” and use “Status” page check the setting.

11. If the “State” of “Wireless Configuration” is not “Connected” or you want to refresh the “RSSI “, please use “Site Survey” page to re-connect a AP.

Configure DEV5:

1. Access the web server (http://192.168.2.254) of device from the Ethernet port.

Caution

2. Use Wizard page to setup device.

3. Press “Next>>” button then set the “Operation Mode” to “Wireless ISP” mode.

4. Press “Next>>” button then disable “Time Zone” function.

5. Press “Next>>” button then set the IP address of LAN interface.

6. Press “Next>>” button then select the “Client” for “mode” and change the SSID to “DEV5”.

7. Press “Next>>” button then select “None” for “Encryption” then press “Finished” button.

8. Wait for refreshing web page.

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