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Table of Contents

Chapter1 Quick Start ....................................................................................................4

1.1 Preparation ...............................................................................................................4

1.2 Access to the Web-based UI ....................................................................................6

1.3 BR-6641 Web-based UI Overview............................................................................8

1.4 How to use BR-6641 Web-based UI.......................................................................10

1.4.1 BR-6641 Operating Menu..........................................................................10

1.4.2 BR-6641 Rule/Filter/Policy Table............................................................... 11

Chapter 2 System........................................................................................................13

2.1 Summary.................................................................................................................14

2.2 Traffic Statistics .......................................................................................................16

2.3 Diagnostic Tools......................................................................................................17

2.4 Date&Time ..............................................................................................................20

2.4.1 Date&Time Setting.....................................................................................20

2.4.2 Busyhour Setting .......................................................................................21

2.5 Administration .........................................................................................................22

Chapter3 Network .......................................................................................................25

3.1 WAN Setting............................................................................................................26

3.1.1 Standard Mode ..........................................................................................28

3.1.2 DHCP Mode...............................................................................................31

3.1.3 PPPoE Mode .............................................................................................33

3.1.4 PPTP Mode ...............................................................................................35

3.1.5 Advanced Mode.........................................................................................37

3.2 LAN Setting.............................................................................................................39

3.3 DHCP Setting..........................................................................................................42

3.4 Host Names ............................................................................................................45

3.5 Service Names........................................................................................................47

3.6 IP Grouping.............................................................................................................49

3.7 Service Grouping ....................................................................................................51

Chapter 4 Service........................................................................................................53

4.1 Firewall....................................................................................................................54

4.2 Auto Routing ...........................................................................................................57

4.3 Virtual Server ..........................................................................................................60

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4.4 QoS.........................................................................................................................62

4.5 Per IP Max Connection ...........................................................................................66

4.6 Per IP Max Rate Control .........................................................................................68

4.7 Multihoming.............................................................................................................70

4.8 Internal DNS ...........................................................................................................75

4.9 SNMP......................................................................................................................77

4.10 UPnP.....................................................................................................................78

Chapter 5 Log..............................................................................................................79

5.1 View ........................................................................................................................80

5.2 Control ....................................................................................................................81

5.3 Notification ..............................................................................................................84

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Chapter1 Quick Start

At the first time using the product of BR-6641, you may confronted with complicated settings which prevents you from starting well. This chapter will explain the basic functionalities of BR-6641 and how to operate and configure the system.It will also cover related subjects in network structures and hardware installation which will help you during your setup of BR-6641.

1.1 Preparation

Before you get started, there are few things you need to know:

The position of the BR-6641 LAN Port: It has five network interfaces, the last port is

LAN Port which is marked on the machine.

„ The default IP address for LAN interface is 192.168.2.1

„ Your IP addresses for computers in the LAN should be changed to

192.168.2.2 (or 192.168.2.x) in order to avoid conflicts with the default LAN port.

„ Connect your computers in the LAN to the BR-6641 with a cross-over cable, which is a standard attachment.

„ To access the web-based administration UI, open http://192.168.2.1/ in your

Internet Explorer 6.0.

„ The default password for the administrator account is “1234”, and “5678” for the monitor account. We strongly recommend you to modify the passwords at the first time you log into the web-based UI. It is also a wise idea to write down your changed passwords and keep them in a safe place in case you forget them.

„ Check your network environment carefully before installing BR-6641. A well-designed network environment with the necessary information such as your network structure, IP addresses, and network segments information will

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„ BR-6641 uses a web-based management user interface (Web-based UI).

Due to internal design constraints, you have to use MS Internet Explorer 6.0

(IE 6.0), or higher to access the Web-based UI. A screen resolution of

800x600 or higher is recommended.

„ Use a cross-over cable to access BR-6641 Web-based UI from the LAN port.

BR-6641 is shipped with two types of network cable in the box; one is a cross-over and the other is a straight cable. Please use the cross-over cable to connect to the computer and LAN port of BR-6641, the LED of the plugged in port will turn on when properly connected.

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1.2 Access to the Web-based UI

The Web-based UI enables you to easily perform every configuration task. Follow the steps below to access the Web-based UI.

1. Connect your PC Ethernet LAN interface to LAN port of BR-6641 with a cross-over cable. The default management LAN port of BR-6641 is LAN port.

2. After powering on BR-6641, the LED of LAN port will turn to orange. This indicates that it is on-line.

3. Assign your PC Ethernet LAN interface with IP 192.168.2.2, subnet mask

255.255.255.0.

4. Check that the proxy setting of your IE browser is turned off, no proxy server is required in order to access BR-6641 ’s Web-based UI. Open MS IE 6.0, select Internet Option on the menu bar of Tools, click the Connection tab, and then click LAN settings to open Local Area Network Settings dialog box, under Proxy server, make sure proxy server is not selected.

5. In the URL of IE 6.0, type in http://192.168.2.1

to access the Web-based UI.

6. BR-6641 provides two types of user accounts:

„ Administrator - Has privileges to monitor and modify system parameters.

„ Monitor - Has privileges to monitor only.

BR-6641 allows up to 1 administrator and 1 monitor to access concurrently.

Default password for Administrator and Monitor are 1234 and 5678, respectively. Please have your password change the first time you log in.

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Cancel the Proxy Setting

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1.3 BR-6641 Web-based UI Overview

After logging in, you will be able to start configuring or monitoring BR-6641 through the Web-based UI.

In order to help you to familiar with the basic operations, the explanations are as follows:

The Web-based UI tasks are grouped into four categories. The categories are located at the upper left-hand corner of Web-based UI task bar. These categories cover all the configuration possibilities in BR-6641. The four categories are:

„ System

„ Network

„ Service

„ Log

In the later chapters, we will introduce the functions of these four categories. On the first stage,you can login as Administrator in the Web-based UI and modify the

Administrator or Monitor password by performing the following: (1)Click System and select Administration on task bar, (2) enter your new Administrator password or Monitor password, after the system confirmation, using the new password next time you log in.

What shall we do if we forget the new password?

If you forget your administrator password, use a Terminal (VT-100 compatible) to establish the connection between PC RS - 232 series port and BR-6641 Console interface, execute system reset to default.

Before you log into serial console, please complete following setting: Bits per

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BR-6641 User Manual second: 9600, Data bits: 8, Parity: None, Stop bits: 8, Flow control: None. The serial console and Web-based UI use the same username and password pairs.

By default, the password of “Administrator” is 1234, and the password of “Monitor” is 5678. If the password is changed via the Web-based UI, it will also be changed in the serial console. In case you lose your password, you can use the username

“reset” and password “BR-6641_edimax” to log into serial console and reset the system to default.

Open the IE browser to access the Web-based UI

Note: Please remember the changed password , otherwise it is not possible to access the BR-6641 management interface.

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1.4 How to use BR-6641 Web-based UI

This section describes the operations and arrangement of Web Based UI, figure

1-2 displays the operating menu of BR-6641 Web-based UI system.

BR-6641 Web Based UI Operating Menu Items

1.4.1 BR-6641 Operating Menu

The task bar of operating menu contains five categories, which are System,

Service, Network, Log, each category has these own menu, “System /

Summary” in figure 1-2 indicates the current working menu, while

“Administrator 192.168.2.1” indicates login account is Administrator at system name of 192.168.2.1.

Select the “Logout” from up right corner to exit the system.

Apply, Reload, Help/Hide Help buttons are always displayed on the operating menu, the functions are as described below:

Button Function

After modifying the parameters of specific menu page, click this button to save your changes to memory, the old settings will also be saved.

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Click this button to recover the old settings which apply has saved.

Click the Help button to display the on-line help of the current page, the on-line help information will automatically swap when you change the function page or language.

Click Hide Help to hide the on-line help information.

Table 5.0 Buttons

Note: The Apply and Reload buttons here are active only on certain pages, any parameters modified without click Apply will not be saved to the memory.

Remember to click Apply when you are ready to move to the next page menu or logout.

1.4.2 BR-6641 Rule/Filter/Policy Table

Orders of Rules/Filters/Policies

BR-6641 provides a rule table for you to perform the tasks like system parameter or service policies. Often you are required to add or delete rules of your own. In general, when you have multiple rules in a table, BR-6641 matches these rules from top to bottom. That is, the rules at the top of the table are given a higher precedence. Thus, to achieve the outcome of your desire, the more specific rules should be placed on top of the less specific rules.

You will see in this table a few icons and their meanings:

Add a new rule below the current rule.

Move the current rule one row down.

Move the current rule one row up.

Delete the current rule.

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Write a note for the current rule.

Table 5.1 Operating Rules

When you add a new rule, the newly added rule will be placed right below the current rule. Moving the rule up or down will swap positions between the upper and lower rules.

Checkbox

It is quite common that you see the following checkboxes in some tables. These checkboxes indicate whether certain functions are enabled or not. A red check sign inside a checkbox stands for “enabled”, and an empty checkbox means “disabled”.

For example, you can enable logging for a rule by checking its checkbox in the rule table.

The function is disabled.

The function is enabled.

Table 5.2 Check Box

So far, we have only mentioned the basic operations of the Web-based UI. In the next section, we will talk more on how to integrate BR-6641 into your present network environment.

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Chapter 2 System

In this chapter, you will learn how to configure system settings. System settings are the fundamental configurations of the BR-6641 system. They have to be specific in order for the system to work properly. Examples are provided here to help you to fulfill the configuration.

Figure 3.1 The Location of “System/Summary” on the Menu Bar

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2.1 Summary

[Summary] is in the submenu of [System], which helps the Administrator to know the system information. While logging in the Web UI, System/Summary is the first page you see when you log into BR-6641’s web-based UI.

[Summary] provide the following information:

System Information

Category Field Description

System Information Version

Serial Number

Up Time

Connections

CPU Usage %

Packets/Second

The Firmware Version.

The Serial number.

Time since the last reboot.

Number of total connections.

CPU usage in percentage.

Number of packets served per second.

Table 3.1 System Information

Note: Connections may jump up to over 100 when BR-6641 is starting up. This is due to many ICMP packets sent out by BR-6641 to test the network. It will drop back to normal there after.

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WAN Link State

The section on WAN Link State shows the current status of each and every WAN link. Each WAN link is represented as a color-coded block with the following color coding scheme to indicate its status. The allowed number of WAN Link is also shown here. y Green: Active WAN link. y Red: Broken WAN link. y Black: WAN link not in use.

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Figure 3.2 The Location of “System/Traffic Statistics” on the Menu Bar

In the traffic statistics page, you can inspect real-time traffic information sorted by traffic class over each WAN link. The statistics of traffic classes in the table is adjusted accordingly by your selection of traffic type - either inbound or outbound traffic.

Field Value

Traffic Type

Traffic Class

Inbound

Outbound

WAN Link 1, 2…

Descriptions

The direction of traffic flow – either inbound traffic or outbound traffic.

The names of the traffic classes defined on the

QoS page. The rest of unclassified information is labelled as “Default Class”.

The total number of WAN links you want to inspect.

Table 3.2 The Description of the fields on the Statistics/Traffic Page

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2.3 Diagnostic Tools

System Network Service Log

Summary

Traffic Statistics

Diagnostic Tools

Date & Time

Administration

Figure 3.3 The Location of “System/Diagnostic Tools” on the Menu Bar

ARP Enforcement:

ARP Enforcement updates ARP tables of servers and network devices around BR-6641.

When the Enforce button is pushed, BR-6641 sends out ARP packets to the surrounding servers or network devices to update their ARP tables. This is necessary only if certain equipments in DMZ cannot connect to the Internet properly after initial setup.

IP Conflict Test:

IP Conflict Test helps you to detect if the location of any machines on the network conflicts with the DMZ/WAN settings of Network Setting category on BR-6641.

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Push Test button to begin the test. The result of the test is one of the following:

„ ok.

„ BR-6641 discovers that a machine in DMZ conflicts with Network Setting on

BR-6641. For example, a public IP address should be in WAN but is used by a machine in DMZ. An error message with the conflicting IP address and

MAC address of the machine will be displayed.

„ BR-6641 discovers that a machine in WAN conflicts with Network Setting on

BR-6641. For example, a public IP address should be in DMZ but is used by a machine in WAN. An error message with the conflicting IP address and MAC address of the machine will be displayed.

Ping:

Ping is used to detect network condition by sending ICMP packets to a target device.

You may specify a target device in the Target IP field. It accepts either an IP address or a host name. Select a network interface, WAN or LAN. If it is WAN, select WAN link number in Index field. As to the error message about ICMP, please refer to the concerned document.

Note:

If a domain name is used to ping, a DNS server has to be specified in [Network ]→[Host

Names].

Trace Route:

Trace route is used to detect network condition by showing the routing path from BR-6641 to the target device.

You may specify a target device in the Target IP field. It accepts either an IP address or a host name. Select a network interface, WAN or LAN. If it is WAN, select WAN link number in Index field. For ICMP related error messages, please

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You may specify a target device in the Target IP field. It accepts either an IP address or a host name.

You may specify a target device in the Target IP field. It accepts either an IP address or FQDN. Select a network interface, WAN or LAN. If it is WAN, select

WAN link number in Index field.

Note: If a domain name is used to traceroute, a DNS server has to be specified in [Network ]

→ [Host Names].

Arping:

Arping is used to detect the MAC address of a computer.

You may specify a target device in the Target IP field. It accepts either an IP address or a host name. Select a network interface (WAN, LAN). If it is WAN, select WAN link number in Index field. For ARP related error messages, please refer other materials.

Note:

If a host name is used in Target IP field, then a DNS server has to be specified in

[Network ]→[Host Names].

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2.4 Date&Time

System Network Service Log

Summary

Traffic Statistics

Diagnostic Tools

Date & Time

Administration

Figure 3.4 The Location of “System/Date/Time” on the Menu Bar

2.4.1 Date&Time Setting

In this page, you can set up time related configurations.

For time zone information, You should pick the region first and then the city you are located in (or a city of the same time zone as you). For example, if you are located in Hawaii, select ”US” in the left list and then choose “Hawaii” in the right list.

BR-6641 can use the NTP protocol to get time from the Internet. You can select a time server from the list or add your preferred time server to the list. With NTP,

BR-6641 automatically adjusts its time when necessary. On the other hand, you can push the Synchronize Time button to adjust time immediately.

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2.4.2 Busyhour Setting

Busyhour Setting is very important from a MIS manager’s point of view. It provides a tool for you to define two time segments: busy-hour and idle-hour. All other rule-based services such as bandwidth management and auto-routing can take advantage of this function. For example, you can define 9:00 am to 5:00 pm,

Monday through Friday to be busy-hour. Then you can reserve bandwidth to business-related network traffic during busy-hour and relax the rule on idle-hour.

Field Value Description

Default Type

Rule

Idle

Busy

-

Define default type to be either Idle or

Busy hour.

You set the time segment rules in this table. They are matched in sequence on a first-match basis. If none of the rules match, the default type is used.

Day of the week. Weekday Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Any Day

<Hour/Minute> From

To <Hour/Minute>

Type Busy

Idle

The start time.

The end time.

If the current time matches the day of the week and in between From and To time, then Type field applies.

Table 3.3 Busyhour Setting

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Figure 3.5 The Location of “System/Administration” on the Menu Bar

In this page, you can do a few administrative tasks. First, you can change the password of Administrator and Monitor accounts. Every BR-6641 comes with the same passwords initially. To avoid any security risks, it is absolutely necessary to change passwords before putting your BR-6641 on-line.

From time to time you might receive BR-6641 firmware updates from AscenVision or your system integrator. Just push the Update button and follow the instructions on the screen to update.

You can save your current configurations to a file and restore it later. We recommend that you save your working configuration before modifying the configuration. In case of configuration error (such as rules that block you from accessing BR-6641 anymore), you can always reset the machine to factory default state using the console command and quickly restore to your original configuration.

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You can reset BR-6641 to its factory default state. In doing this, you will lose your entire customized configuration.

Finally, you can reboot BR-6641. Due to web interface limitations. There will not be any messages after you have rebooted the system. Wait two minutes or so and try to re-connect to BR-6641 using the browser.

Administrator Password:

Here, you can add, delete, or modify administrator’s account and password.

Field Value Description

New Password

Confirm

Set Password

Enter the new password here.

Enter the new password here again.

Click the button to enable the new password.

Monitor Password:

Here, you can add, delete, or modify Monitor’s account and password.

Field Value Descreption

Password

Confirm

Set Password

Enter the new password here.

Enter the new password here again.

Click the button to enable the new password.

Firmware Update:

Push the Update button and follow the following instruction to start the firmware update process.

Obtain the latest firmware pack from your SI or VAR

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Log on to Web UI as the Administrator and go to function [System]→ [Administration].

Use [Browse...] to select the path to the new firmware image, then select [Upload].

The firmware update will take a while so be patient. During the update process BE

SURE not to turn off the system or pull the power plug. You should also NOT click on [Upload] button.

Note: Update will succeed when ¬the “Update succeeded” message appears. At this time please power off and then on again the system to restart BR-6641 with the new firmware.

Configuration File:

Push Save button to save current configuration into a file. Push Restore button to restore the configuration back from a saved configuration file. See Appendix 2 for more information.

Log into BR-6641 as Administrator. In the Web UI, go to [System]

[Administration] and select [Configuration File] → [Save] to backup the Config File to your local machine/notebook.

To restore to the previously saved config file, go to [Configuration File] [Restore], select [Browse...] to pick the saved config file and select [Upload]. Notice: DO NOT to turn off the power during the config file upload process, or repetitively select the

[Upload] button.

Restart BR-6641 to effect the configuration.

Maintenance:

Push Factory Default button to reset BR-6641 configuration to its factory default. You can do the same operation using resetconfig command in console. Push reboot button to reboot BR-6641.

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Figure 3.1 The Location of “Network” on the Menu Bar

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Figure 3.2 System / Network Setting

[WAN Setting] is quite important part for BR-6641. The relavent parameter is defined here.

The configuration is done one WAN link at a time. However, you can apply all the changes at once at the end. You can select a WAN link by selecting the link number in a WAN Link drop-down box. For each WAN link, you will fill out a few tables with correct information from its ISP.

The first thing you have to decide is the WAN type. The rest of the settings will change based on the WAN type you have selected. BR-6641 supports the following WAN types:

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After connecting the WAN Link to the machine, WAN No. need to be defined in [Basic

Setting]. WAN is to be different for different type of WAN. BR-6641 provide the following choices:

„ Standard

„ DHCP

„ PPPoE

„ PPTP

„ Advanced

Figure 3.3 WAN Setting / Basic Setting

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3.1.1 Standard Mode

„ Basic Setting:

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Figure 3.4 Standard Mode / Basic Setting

When you select Standard Mode as the WAN Type, you need to fill the parameters as in the Basic Setting table.

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Basic Setting:

Field Value

Down Stream

Up Stream

Port Speed

Health

Detection

Auto

10Mbps/Half duplex

10Mbps/Full duplex

100Mbps/Half duplex

100Mbps/Full duplex

Never

Always

Description

The down stream (inbound) bandwidth of the

WAN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).

The up stream (outbound) bandwidth of the

WAN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).

The speed and duplex of WAN Port. You can set it manually or system can got it automatically.

This function is used to configure the WAN link health detection mechanism for the

Gateway

Subnet Mask

IP(s) in DMZ packet is received

IP Range

IP Address

IP Range

Input the IP Address of BR-6641 in WAN. It can be:

IP Address

IP Range

Input the predefined Gateway, e.g.:

211.21.40.254.

Input the Subnet Mask.

Input the IP Address of BR-6641 in DMZ. It can be:

IP Address

IP Range

Table 3.1 Standard Mode / Basic Setting

WAN Link Health Detection:

This function allows MIS to configure how WAN link health detection is performed.

By fine-tuning certain parameters, an MIS can adjust BR-6641 to match a particular network structure and/or a particular ISP.

For WAN link health detection, BR-6641 sends out ICMP or TCP packets and monitors responses to determine the statuses of those links. In the WAN Link

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Figure 3.5 WAN Link Health Detection

Field Description

Never

Always

Only when no packet is received

Protocol

BR-6641 assumes a healthy WAN and stop monitoring

ICMP and TCP packets.

BR-6641 will always do the health detection according to the rules.

If BR-6641 detects no inbound WAN traffic, it will start the health detection.

Choose either ICMP or TCP as methods for WAN health detection.

Input the destination IP Address. Destination

Port/Number of Hops Set the Hops if ICMP is selected.

Set the Port number if TCP is selected.

Table 3.2 The description of the field in WAN Link Health Detection

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3.1.2 DHCP Mode

This model is enabled when BR-6641 is a client using DHCP to acquire a dynamic

IP address from an ISP's DHCP server.

Figure 3.6 DHCP Mode / Basic Setting

Field Value

Down Stream

Up Stream

Port Speed Auto

10Mbps/Half duplex

10Mbps/Full duplex

100Mbps/Half duplex

Description

The down stream (inbound) bandwidth of the

WAN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).

The up stream (outbound) bandwidth of the

WAN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).

The speed and duplex of WAN Port. You can set it manually or system can got it automatically.

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Health

Detection

Clone MAC

MAC

100Mbps/Full duplex

Never

Always

This function is used to configure the WAN link health detection mechanism for the packet is received xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx

Normally DHCP will assign IP dynamically.

Static IP, however, can be assigned to the

WAN link via the DHCP server with MAC address binding. You can enable the 'Mac

Cloning' option to force the DHCP server to assign the static IP according to the

BR-6641's MAC address.

Input the Clone MAC Address.

Table 3.3 DHCP Mode

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3.1.3 PPPoE Mode

PPPoE is a very popular bridging mode protocol for ADSL. You need to specify the

ADSL account information to obtain IPs from the ISP PPPoE server.

Figure 3.7 PPPoE Mode / Basic Setting

Field Value

Down Stream

Up Stream

Port Speed Auto

Description

The down stream (inbound) bandwidth of the

WAN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).

The up stream (outbound) bandwidth of the

WAN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).

The speed and duplex of WAN Port. You can

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Health

Detection

10Mbps/Half duplex

10Mbps/Full duplex

100Mbps/Half duplex

100Mbps/Full duplex

Never

Always set it manually or system can got it automatically.

This function is used to configure the WAN link health detection mechanism for the packet is received

User

Password

Automatically

Obtain IP

Address

Address x.x.x.x

Input the user’s account assigned by ISP.

Enter the password of the account.

Enable this function, and ISP will provide IP

Address, Gateway and Netmask.

Note: If your ADSL is dynamic IP, check the checkbox. If it is static IP, please do not.

Input the IP Address assigned by ISP.

Table 3.4 PPPoE Mode

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3.1.4 PPTP Mode

This model is enabled when BR-6641 is access to PPTP server via Internet.

Figure 3.8 PPTP Mode / Basic Setting

Field Value

Down Stream

Up Stream

Description

The down stream (inbound) bandwidth of the

WAN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).

The up stream (outbound) bandwidth of the

WAN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).

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Port Speed

Health

Detection

Auto

10Mbps/Half duplex

10Mbps/Full duplex

100Mbps/Half duplex

100Mbps/Full duplex

Never

Always

The speed and duplex of WAN Port. You can set it manually or system can got it automatically.

This function is used to configure the WAN link health detection mechanism for the

User

Password

Connection ID packet is received

Server IP x.x.x.x

My IP x.x.x.x

My subnet mask

Input the user name for login VPN.

Input the password for login VPN.

Input the ID for Connection through VPN.

Input the PPTP Sever IP Address for VPN dialing.

Input the IP Address of the local machine.

Input the Subnet Mask of the local machine.

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Advanced mode is used where BR-6641 is connected with a router via its private

IP and its actual public IP deployed in DMZ.

Figure 3.9 Advanced Model / Basic Setting

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Field Value

Down Stream

Up Stream

Port Speed

Health

Detection

Auto

10Mbps/Half duplex

10Mbps/Full duplex

100Mbps/Half duplex

100Mbps/Full duplex

Never

Always

Description

The down stream (inbound) bandwidth of the

WAN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).

The up stream (outbound) bandwidth of the

WAN link, for example 25600 (Kbps).

The speed and duplex of WAN Port. You can set it manually or system can get it automatically.

This function is used to configure the WAN link health detection mechanism for the

Subnet in WAN packet is received

IP Range

Gateway

Subnet Mask

Public-IP Subnet in DMZ

IP

Subnet Mask

Input the private IP address of BR-6641 connected with the router. There are two options available:

IP Address

IP Range

Input the predefined Gateway, e.g.:

192.168.99.1.

Input the Subnet Mask.

Input the public IP of BR-6641 in DMZ

Input the Subnet Mask.

Table 3.6 The description of the fields in Advanced Mode

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Figure 3.10 Network/LAN Setting

Basic Subnet

The table of Basic Subnet allows you to specify one or more private subnets that connect to BR-6641 directly.

Figure 3.11 LAN Setting / Basic Subnet

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Input the IP Address of LAN Port in [Basic Subnet] - [IP Address] and input the corresponding subnet mask in [Netmask]. Select the corresponding Speed/Duplex in

[Port-Speed].

RIP Configuration

BR-6641 support RIP (Routing Information Protocols) for both version 1 and 2. RIP v1 is the basic definition while v2 has some functional enhancements. Please refer to

IETF’s official documents for the complete definition of RIP. If your private LAN subnet supports RIP, you need to also enable BR-6641’s RIP function, by doing as follows:

Figure 3.12 LAN Private Subnet / RIP Configuration

If the router in LAN enable RIP v1, check the checkbox in front of RIP v1. If the router in LAN enable RIP v2, check the checkbox in front of RIP v2.

BR-6641 supports the transmission of RIP packets. If the authentication is enabled on RIP v2, password must be entered in [Authentication Password] field. If there is no predefined password, just leave the field blank.

Static Routing Subnet

If there is static routing subnet in LAN, you need to use Static Routing Subnet to fulfil the configuration. Static Routing Subnet means that a router route out a subnet from

LAN, which is not connected to the BR-6641 directly.

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Note:

DMZ is virtual area, which is in the port with LAN. DMZ support the public IP Address. The public IP support only one IP range, which do not support multi-IP range Routing.

Example:

Figure 3.13 LAN Private Subnet / Static Routing Subnet

Figure 3.14 LAN Private Subnet / Static Routing Subnet Setting

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Figure 3.15 Network / DHCP Setting

Click on “Enable DHCP” to enable this function. BR-6641 is a client using DHCP to acquire a dynamic IP address from an ISP’s DHCP server. The following is an example of how you set it up.

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Field Description

Lease Time Input the Lease Time by hour.

Default

Gateway

Input the Default Gateway. The Client will take this address as

Gateway when DHCP is enabled.

Note: This address should be in the subnet with LAN’s

Subnet

Netmask

Input the IP Address of DNS. The Client will take this address as DNS

Server when DHCP is enabled.

Domain Name Input the Domain Name of DHCP.

DNS

Range Start

-Range End

Input the IP Address of DNS.

Input the dynamic Range Start and Range End assinged for LAN host, e.g.

192.168.10.53 -199.168.10.100.

Address IP-MAC Address.

Table 3.7 DHCP Setting

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Figure 3.17 Network / DHCP Setting

This function is to define the the name for system, specific IP and IP group. These defined names will appear in sub-menu of source and destination in Firewall,

Multihoming, etc.

System Name:

Name

Domain

DNS

Field Description

Input the host name of the BR-6641.

Input the domain of the BR-6641.

Input the IP Address of DNS, BR-6641 will use it to resolve machine names to obtain IP addresses

Table 3.8 System Name

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Named IP Addresses:

Name

Field Description

Address

Input the name which is to be substitute for the IP address.

Specify the IP Address. It can be:

IP Address

IP Range

Table 3.9 System Name

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Figure 3.18 Network / Service Names

This function is to configure the name, protocol and other parameters of service.

(BR-6641 has a default list of commonly used services.) These defined names will appear in sub-menu of service in Firewall, Multihoming, etc..

Service List:

Name

Field Value

-

Description

Input the name of the service, e.g.

PING,FTP…

ICMP

TCP

UDP

Protocol Number, e.g. ICMP Protocol

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ICMP: The service used ICMP, e.g. Ping.

TCP: The service used TCP, e.g. FTP.

UDP: The service used UDP.

Type

From…To

Number: Input Protocol Number.

Type: Input the service type of ICMP.

From..To: Input the Port Number of

TCP/UDP.

Single Port Number:

A range of Port Number: Input the start port number in [From] and the end port number in

[To].

Table 3.10 Service Name

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3.6 IP Grouping

BR-6641 offers a variety of services. These services will be discussed in the next chapter. In order to help IT manager configure services efficiently, BR-6641 provides a few management tools. IP Grouping is one of them. This function allows you to assign a name to a group of IP addresses. Later on when you are asked to specify one or more IP addresses, you can use the name of an IP group instead. The name of this IP group will automatically show up in the IP address selection list if the IP group is enabled.

Figure 3.19 The Location of “System / IP Grouping” on the Menu Bar

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IP Grouping:

Feild Description

Group Name Input the name of the group, then it will appear in the service menu and the relevant options.

Note: You can set at most 5 groups.

Table 3.11 IP Grouping

Rules Setting:

Field Value

IP address <IP address>

Description

Input IP address - One single IP address, or an IP address range in the format of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy

Or a subnet in the format of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy not belong to belongs to.

Table 3.12 Rules Setting

Note: The difference between the setting of and the setting of [Named IP Addresses] is that the format in [Named IP Addresses] can only be a range of IP Address, while [IP Group] provide several types of format. BR-6641 give more priority to the group in [Named IP

Addresses]. It is recommended to use groups defined in [Host Name].

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This function allows you to assign a name to a group of TCP ports, UDP ports, and/or

ICMP. Later on when you are asked to specify a port, you can use the name of the service group instead. The name of a service group will automatically show up in the port selection list if the service group is enabled.

The Location of “System / Service Grouping” on the Menu Bar Figure 3.20

Service Grouping:

Field Value Description

Group Name <name> Input the group name, e.g. MSN File

Transfer, then it will appear in the service menu and relevant options.

Note: You can set at most 5 groups.

TCP@

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UDP@ service menu. The format is port (xxx) for single Port and port (xxx-yyy) for a range of port, e.g. 6891-6900. not belong to former Field belongs to the group.

Table 3.13 Service Grouping

For example, you can set up a service group called “MSN File Transfer”. Its ports are

TCP 6891 to 6900. You need to fill TCP@6891-6900 into Service field.

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Chapter 4 Service

After having set up your network environment in the previous chapter, we will now look into the services provided by BR-6641.

These services can help you manage your network more efficiently and effectively.

In figure 4.1, you can see a list of functions BR-6641 is capable of. These services play an important role in daily network administration. For example, Firewall protects your network from hacker attacks. It also improves your network security by filtering out unwanted service types. Routing policies can maximize the utilization of your network resources and assign routing paths accordingly based on the status of the network. QoS is another feature that you can set up to manage the traffic limit for a given TCP/UDP service (e.g. HTTP, FTP). This feature helps you allocate available bandwidth for each type of service and maximize the efficiency of your network.

Multihoming provides a safeguard against failures in WAN links. Requests to the internal servers (e.g. WWW server) will be dispatched evenly on every live WAN link.

If one of them fails, the internal servers can still be reached via other live links.

Figure 4.1 The Location of “System/Summary” on the Menu Bar

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4.1 Firewall

[Summary] is in the submenu of [System], which helps the Administrator to know the system information. While logging in the Web UI, System/Summary is the first page you see when you log into BR-6641’s web-based UI.

[Summary] provide the following information:

Figure 4.2 The Location of “Service/Firewall” on the Menu Bar

You can add as many rules as you like in the list. For each rule, you can enable or disable it individually. The rules are matched from top to down, that is, the rules listed at the top of the list are given higher precedence.

Field Value

When Busy

Idle

All-Time

Description

There are three options available: Busy hour, idle hour, and

All-times. Please refer to Chapter 2 [System]→[ Date/Time] for setting up the definition of busy or idle hours.

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Source Any address

LAN

WAN

Packets sent from the specified source will be matched:

Any Address: Match all packets regardless of its source.

LAN: Match all packets that come from the LAN.

Localhost

IP Address

IP Range

Subnet

WAN: Match all packets that come from the WAN.

Localhost:Match all packets that come from BR-6641

Localhost.

IP Address: Match packets from a single IP address. e.g.

<Named IP addresses>

IP Range: Match packets from a continuous range of IP

< IP Grouping > addresses. e.g. 192.168.1.10-192.168.1.20。

Subnet: Match packets that come from a subnet. e.g.

192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0。

Named IP addresses: If you predefined IP groups in Chapter

3 [System]→[Named IP Grouping], their group names will be shown in the list.

IP Grouping: If you predefined IP groups in Chapter 3

[System]→[IP Grouping], their Group Name will be shown in the list.

LAN

WAN

Localhost

IP Address

IP Range

Subnet

Packets sent to specified destination will be matched. This field is the same as the “Source” field, except it matches packets with specified destination. Likewise, All IP groups setup in [System]->[IP Grouping] will be shown here.

<Named IP addresses>

< IP Grouping >

Service FTP(21)

SSH (22)

TELNET(23)

SMTP(25)

HTTP(80)

POP3(110)

H323 (1720)

Protocol Number

ICMP@

TCP@

UDP@

Any

The services, which are predefined in [Service Name], will be matched. For example:

FTP(21): The packets, whose predefined TCP port number in

[Service Name] is 21, are to be match.

Protocol Number: Define the Protocol Number, then the packets with the Protocol Numbers are to be defined.

ICMP @: Define the Type value, then the packets, whose

ICMP take this Type value, will be defined.

TCP/UDP @: The TCP/UDP service type to be matched. You can select the matching criteria from the publicly known service types (e.g. FTP), or you can choose the port number in TCP/UDP packet. To specify a range of port numbers, type starting port number plus hyphen “-“and ending port number. e.g. “TCP@123-234”.

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< Service Grouping

Name>

Group: The packets from the group which are predefined in

[Service Grouping].

Any: All packets are to be matched.

Accept

Deny

Note: The default value by BR-6641 is to neglect all the packets.

Accept: The firewall will let the matched packets pass through.

Deny: The firewall will drop all the matched packets.

Enable

Disable

Enable: The logging will be enabled. Whenever the rule is matched, the system will write the event to the log file.

Disable: No log will be generated.

Table 4.1 The Description of the Fields on Firewall Page

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Auto Routing service allows administrators to specify how traffic is routed to WAN links. If you have only one WAN link, default configuration is ok.

If you have multiple WAN links, you may like to setup your routing rules in many situations. For example, an administrator can reserve a WAN link to a group of private IP addresses; or an administrator can force an application to take a particular

WAN link depending on the traffic loads in each WAN links.

Figure 4.3 The Location of “Service /Auto Routing” on the Menu Bar

Auto Routing:

Field Value

When Busy

Idle

All-Time

Description

Select when the rule will be applied. There are three options available: Busy hour, idle hour, and All-time. All-time mean the rule will be applied for all the 24 hours a day. Please refer to Chapter 2 [System]->[ Date&Time]->[Busyhour

Setting] for setting up the definition of busy or idle hours.

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Source

Destination

Service

Any address

LAN

Local host

Packets sent from the specified source will be matched:

Any Address: Match all packets regardless of its source.

LAN: Match all packets that come from the LAN.

IP Address

IP Range

Localhost: Match all packets that come from BR-6641

Localhost.

IP Address: Match packets from a single IP address. e.g.

Subnet

<Named IP addresses>

IP Range: Match packets from a continuous range of IP

< IP Grouping > addresses. e.g. 192.168.1.10-192.168.1.20

Subnet: Match packets that come from a subnet. e.g.

192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

Named IP addresses: If you predefined IP groups in

Chapter 3 [System]→[Named IP Grouping], their group name will be shown in the list.

IP Grouping: If you predefined IP groups in Chapter 3

[System]→[IP Grouping], their Group Name will be shown in the list.

Packets sent from the specified destination will be matched: Any address

WAN

Local host

IP Address

IP Range

Subnet

Any Address: Match all packets regardless of its source.

WAN: Match all packets that come from the WAN.

Localhost: Match all packets that come from BR-6641

Localhost.

IP Address: Match packets from a single IP address. e.g.

192.168.1.4. addresses>

< IP Grouping >

FTP(21)

SSH (22)

TELNET(23)

SMTP(25)

POP3(110)

H323 (1720)

Protocol Number

ICMP@

TCP@

Subnet: Match packets that come from a subnet. e.g.

192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

Named IP addresses: If you predefined IP groups in

Chapter 3 [System]→[Named IP Grouping], their group name will be shown in the list.

IP Grouping: If you predefined IP groups in Chapter 3

[System]→[IP Grouping], their Group Name will be shown in the list.

The services, which are predefined in [Service Name], will be matched. For example:

FTP(21): The packets, whose predefined TCP port number in [Service Name] is 21, are to be match.

Protocol Number: Define the Protocol Number, then the packets with the Protocol Number are to be defined.

ICMP @: Define the Type value, then the packets, whose

ICMP take this Type value, will be defined.

TCP/UDP @: The TCP/UDP service type to be matched.

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Parameter

UDP@

< Service Grouping

Name>

Any

Algorithm Fixed

By Weight

By Traffic

<select WAN link(s) for the algorithm, or put a weight on each

WAN link> service types (e.g. FTP), or you can choose the port number in TCP/UDP packet. To specify a range of port numbers, type starting port number plus hyphen “-“and ending port number. e.g. “TCP@123-234”.

Group: The packets from the group which are predefined in

[Service Grouping].

Any: All packets are to be matched

Algorithm for Auto Routing:

1. Fixed: Only route the connections on a fixed WAN link.

2. By Weight: Input the weight to route the connections to

WAN link according to weight..

3. By Traffic: Route the connection to the WAN link according to total traffic. Connection will be route to the link which has more remained bandwidth.

The type of parameter depends on the algorithm you choose.

The number represents the number of WAN link. You can check, the check box under the number, telling BR-6641 to apply the algorithm to this WAN link.

Disable matched, the system will write the event to the log file.

Disable: No log will be generated.

Table 4.2 The Description of the Fields in the Auto Routing Policy Table

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4.3 Virtual Server

Virtual Server is a feature to make your intranet (LAN) servers available to the

Internet (WAN). Because the private IP addresses assigned to the intranet servers are invisible to the external environment. If you wish to make these services

(provided on the servers) accessible to outsiders, you must tell BR-6641 to redirect these external requests to the right servers in the LAN or DMZ. Whenever an external request arrives at BR-6641, BR-6641 will look up the Virtual Server table and redirect the packet right to the corresponding server in the LAN or DMZ.

You can use this function to respond to the outside request with the server in the

LAN or DMZ, when you don’t want the private IP address to be public.

Figure 4.4 The Location of “Service/Virtual Server” on the Menu Bar

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Virtual Server :

Field Value

WAN IP

Service

Server IP

Server Port

L og

Description

Idle

All-Time

<WAN IP>

FTP(21)

SSH (22)

TELNET(23)

H323 (1720)

Protocol Number

ICMP@

TCP@

UDP@

<Service

Grouping Name>

Any

<Server IP>

Port Number

Enable

Disable and All-times. Please refer to Chapter 2

[System]→[ Date/Time] for setting up the definition of busy or idle hours.

To the users from the Internet, your virtual server is visible as a public IP on the WAN port.

This WAN IP is the “visible” IP for your virtual server in the external environment (Internet). You must specify a public IP if your WAN type is “Routing Mode”. If the WAN type is “Bridge Mode One Static IP”, your WAN IP in this field should be the public IP assigned from your ISP. Or, if your WAN type is none of the above, then choose

“dynamic IP at WAN”.

The services, which are predefined in [Service Name], will be matched. For example:

FTP(21): The packets, whose predefined TCP port number in [Service Name] is 21, are to be match.

Protocol Number: Define the Protocol Number, then the packets with the Protocol Number are to be defined.

ICMP @: Define the Type value, then the packets, whose ICMP take this Type value, will be defined.

TCP/UDP @: The TCP/UDP service type to be matched.

You can select the matching criteria from the publicly known service types (e.g. FTP), or you can choose the port number in TCP/UDP packet. To specify a range of port numbers, type starting port number plus hyphen

“-“and ending port number. e.g. “TCP@123-234”.

Group: The packets from the group which are predefined in [Service Grouping].

Any: All packets are to be matched

The original IP address of your virtual server. It can be a private IP in the LAN or a public IP in DMZ.

Input the Port Number of Server IP.

Enable: the logging will be enabled. Whenever the rule is matched, the system will write the event to the log file.

Disable: No log will be generated.

Table 4.3 The Description of the Fields on Virtual Server Page

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4.4 QoS

BR-6641 provides QoS towards both inbound and outbound traffic. It can ensure certain services which are allocated enough bandwidth to provide satisfactory quality. Because of the burst nature of voice/video/data traffic, sometimes the amount of traffic exceeds the speed of a link. This function is to manage the bandwidth so as to fine-tune your bandwidth utilization. Bandwidth Management

(BM) in BR-6641 is separated by the direction of traffic flow – either inbound (from

WAN to LAN) or outbound (from LAN to WAN).

Figure 4.5 The Location of “Service/QoS” on the Menu Bar

The setting of QoS includes two parts: Classes and Filters.

Classes are to define the bandwidth classes that the rules are imposed on. The defining of the class can be according to Priority, Idle/Busy Hour.

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You can configure your own bandwidth limit for each WAN link in Inbound Bandwidth

Settings and Outbound Settings by collapse or expand them..

Figure 4.6 The Screenshot of Classes

Classes:

Field Description

Name <Input name>

The name for this bandwidth class. We recommend you using a self-explanatory name so that you can understand it easily when it is used later in the filter table. For example, you can name your bandwidth class “HTTP” to manage the bandwidth of HTTP service.

Link

Busy Hour Settings

Note: Set Busy Hour in [System]→[Date

Time].

High

Low

-

High, Normal, or Low. The connections with higher priority are allocated with available bandwidth first.

The WAN link which you want your bandwidth limit to apply.

Guarantee d Kbps

The guaranteed bandwidth for this class:

This makes sure the connections through the WAN link will at least be allocated with the specified bandwidth. It is particularly useful when you want to ensure the quality of a certain type of service (e.g. VoIP).

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Idle Hour Settings

Note: Set Idle Hour in [System]→[Date

Time]. connections on the WAN link. Normally, we will set up maximum bandwidth for services like WWW or SMTP that have a high volume of traffic and may affect the quality of other services.

The guaranteed bandwidth for this class: Guarantee d Kbps

This makes sure the connections through the WAN link will be at least allocated with the specified bandwidth. It is particularly useful when you want to ensure the quality of a certain type of service (e.g. VoIP).

Max Kbps This defines the maximum bandwidth allowed for the connections on the WAN link. Normally, we will set up maximum bandwidth for services like WWW or SMTP that have high volume of traffic and may affect the quality of other services.

Table 4.4 The Description of the Fields in QoS Classes

Filters:

Field Value

Source

Description

Any address

LAN

Packets sent from the specified source will be matched:

WAN

Any Address: Match all packets regardless of its

Localhost source.

IP Address

IP Range

Subnet

LAN: Match all packets that come from the LAN.

IP Address: Match packets from a single IP address. e.g. 192.168.1.4 addresses>

< IP Grouping >

WAN: Match all packets that come from the WAN.

Localhost: Match all packets that come from BR-6641

Localhost.

IP Range: Match packets from a continuous range of

IP addresses. e.g. 192.168.1.10-192.168.1.20

Subnet: Match packets that come from a subnet. e.g.

192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

IP Grouping: If you predefined IP groups in Chapter 3

[System]→[IP Grouping], their Group Name will be shown in the list.

Named IP addresses: If you predefined IP groups in

Chapter 3 [System]→[Named IP Grouping], their group name will be shown in the list.

LAN

WAN

Localhost

IP Address

Connections to the specified destination will be matched. This field is the same as the “Source” field, except it matches packets with the specified destination.

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IP Range

Subnet the list as well. Please See [System]→[IP Grouping] for setting up your own IP groups.

<Named IP addresses>

< IP Grouping >

Service FTP(21)

SSH (22)

TELNET(23)

SMTP(25)

POP3(110)

The services, which are predefined in [Service Name], will be matched. For example:

FTP(21): The packets, whose predefined TCP port number in [Service Name] is 21, are to be match.

H323 (1720)

Protocol Number

ICMP@

TCP@

UDP@

Protocol Number: Define the Protocol Number, then the packets with the Protocol Number are to be defined.

ICMP @: Define the Type value, then the packets, whose ICMP take this Type value, will be defined.

TCP/UDP @: The TCP/UDP service type to be matched. You can select the matching criteria from the

Classes

Name>

Any

<Name> specify a range of port numbers, type starting port number plus hyphen “-“and ending port number. e.g.

“TCP@123-234”.

Group: The packets from the group which are predefined in [Service Grouping].

Any: All packets are to be matched.

The bandwidth class to be imposed. These classes are defined in the bandwidth class table we mentioned earlier。

Table 4.5 The Description of the Fields in the Inbound BM Filter Table

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Figure 4.7 The Location of “Service / Per IP Max Connection” on the Menu Bar

This function is used to protect network against malicious attacks caused by virus or hackers. When the number of connections exceeds the preset value, BR-6641 will block the rest of connections and write the event to a log file if the check box of ”Log” is ticked.

Field

Figure 4.8 The screenshot of Per IP Max Connection

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Limit

<in seconds>

<value>

Disable

The time interval used for system to write the event to the log file. be matched, including Any Address, LAN, WAN, IP

Address, IP Range, Subnet, and IP Group.

The maximum number of the connections allowed. matched, the system will write the event to the log file.

Table 4.6 The Description of the fields in the Per IP Max Connection Table

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Figure 4.9 The Location of “Service / Per IP Max Rate Control” on the Menu Bar

This function is used to set the maximum bandwidth assigned to inbound and outbound traffic per IP in order to prevent network congestion from non-business application bandwidth consumption.

Figure 4.10 The screenshot of Per IP Max Rate Control

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Field Value Description

IP

Inbound (Kbps)

<IP Address>

<value>

The IP where the packets come from will be matched, including LAN, IP Address, IP Range, IP Subnet, and specified IP Group.

Maximum bandwidth assigned to inbound traffic per IP.

Outbound (Kbps) <value> Maximum bandwidth assigned to outbound traffic per

IP.

Table 4.7 The Description of the fields in the Per IP Max Rate Control Table

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Figure 4.11 The Location of “Service / Multihoming” on the Menu Bar

BR-6641’s auto-routing service is a trunking technology that provides load balancing and fault tolerance for all outbound requests. But it does not apply to inbound requests. Based on a unique technology called SwiftDNS TM , BR-6641 offers a

Multihoming service for load balancing and fault tolerance for inbound requests. The minimum requirement for Multihoming is that you must have multiple WAN links and registered domain names for your publicly accessible servers. Whenever BR-6641 receives a DNS query; it answers the DNS query with a public IP address assigned to one of the WAN links according to the settings of your answering policies.

Therefore, subsequent requests to your server will be sent the public IP of the WAN link based on BR-6641’s previous response. You can configure your answering policies with a weight for each WAN link so that the public IPs returned will be distributed evenly by weight. If one of your WAN links fails, BR-6641 will not return the public IP assigned to that failed link nevertheless your publicly accessible servers

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In order to let your Multihoming function properly, you must make sure that the requirements listed below are met.

Prerequisites for Multihoming:

Multiple WAN links (at least two).

Registered domain names for your publicly accessible servers.

Your publicly accessible servers must be configured as virtual servers, or have public

IP addresses.

By default, Multihoming is switched off. To use this service, check the check box to the right of “Enable Multihoming” on the top of the page. There are three tables for configuring your Multihoming settings. The first table lets you define the global parameters. The second table is used to configure your domain name settings.

„ Global Setting

Specify the PTR data in this field, including TTL, IP Address, and Host Name for reverse looking up the host name of corresponding IP Address.

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Global Setting:

Field Value

TTL

IP Address

Host Name

<TTL>

<IP Address>

<Link Number>

Description

Set DNS query response time.

Enter the reverse lookup IP address.

Enter the corresponding FQDN to the reverse IP.

Table 4.8 The Description of the Fields in Multihoming Global Setting

„ Domain Setting

In this table, you should configure your domain settings, including your multihoming domain names (can be more than one), the DNS servers for querying your domain names, and the answering policy to apply a given prefix of the domain name.

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Figure 4.12 Domain Setting

Domain Setting:

Field Description

TTL

Responsible Mail

Primary Name Server

Source IP

Enter the domain names for Multihoming. To enter additional domain names, press +.

Assign DNS query response time.

Enter the domain administrator’s email.

Enter the primary server name.

The query IP address can be an IP address, IP range, subnet, or any address.

NS Record

Name Server Enter the prefix of the server name. For example, if a server’s

FQDN is nsl.abc.com, please enter “nsl”.

Enter the IP address corresponding to the name server. IP Address

A Record

Host Name Enter the prefix of the primary workstation’s name. For example, if the name is www.abc.com, enter “www”.

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Policy Type

Target

MX Record

Host Name

Priority

Mail Server

The algorithm for selecting WAN links, by Wight or by Traffic.

By Weight: Answer DNS queries by the weight given to each link.

By Total Traffic: Answer DNS queries by selecting the WAN link with the lightest total traffic.

Enter the IP address to answer DNS queries.

Input the weight for each WAN Link.

Parameter-IP

Parameter-Weight

CName Record

Alias Enter the alias of the domain name. For example, if you wish to use www1.abc.com as the alias of www.abc.com,

(domain name), enter “www1” in this field.

Enter the real domain name. For example, if you wish to use www1.abc.com as the alias for www.abc.com, enter “www”.

Enter the prefix of the mail server’s domain name. For example, if the domain name is mail.abc.com, enter “mail”.

Enter the priority of the mail servers. The higher the priority, the lower the number

Enter the IP address of the mail server.

Table 4.9 The Description of the Fields in Domain Setting

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Figure 4.13 The Location of “Service / Internal DNS” on the Menu Bar

BR-6641 has a built-in DNS server function which can be activated by completing the fields in this page.

Global Settings:

Field Value

Enable InternalDNS

PTR Record

TTL

IP Address

Host Name

Turn on/off internal DNS server.

Set DNS query response time.

Enter the reverse lookup IP address.

Enter the corresponding FQDN to the reverse IP.

Table 4.10 The Description of the Fields in Global Setting

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Domain Settings:

Field Description

Domain Name

TTL

Responsible Mail

Primary Name Server

IP Address

Enter the domain names for internal DNS. To enter additional domain names, press +.

Assign DNS query response time.

Enter the domain administrator’s email.

Enter the primary server name.

The query IP address can be an IP address, IP range, subnet, or any address.

NS Record

Name Server Enter the prefix of the server name. For example, if a server’s

FQDN is nsl.abc.com, please enter “nsl”.

Enter the IP address. IP Address

A Record

Host Name Enter the prefix of the primary workstation’s name. For example, if the name is www.abc.com, enter “www”.

Input the IP Address of Localhost. IP Address

Cname Record

Alias

Target

Enter the alias of the domain name. For example, if you wish to use www1.abc.com as the alias of www.abc.com,

(domain name), enter “www1” in this field.

Enter the real domain name. For example, if you wish to use www1.abc.com as the alias for www.abc.com, enter “www”.

MX Record

Host Name

Priority

Mail Server

Enter the prefix of the mail server’s domain name. For example, if the domain name is mail.abc.com, enter “mail”.

Enter the priority of the mail servers. The higher the priority, the lower the number.

Enter the IP address of the mail server.

Table 4.11 The Description of the Fields in Domain Setting

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4.9 SNMP

Figure 4.14 The Location of “Service /SNMP” on the Menu Bar

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) can be used to manage networks by providing statistical data regarding network performance and security. It is often used in the management of TCP/IP networks.

SNMP Settings:

Field Description

Enable SNMP Enable/Disable SNMP.

Community Enter the community which the SNMP belongs to. The default value is “public”.

Description Enter the description of the machine.

Contact Info

Node Name

Location

Enter the contact information of the machine.

Enter the Node Name.

Enter the location of the machine.

Table 4.12 The Description of the Fields in SNMP

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4.10 UPnP

Figure 4.15 The Location of “Service / UPnP” on the Menu Bar

BR-6641 will detect the public UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) equipment in the network and automatically respond to its predefined IP Address.

Field Value

Enable UPnP

WAN IP

Enable

Disable

<IP Address>

Description

Enable or disable the function.

Weight E.g.:1,2…

Input the WAN IP preserved for public UPnP, including dynamic

IP address and open IP address.

Input the weight, the bigger number will be given the higher priority.

Table 4.13 The Description of the Fields in UPnP

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Chapter 5 Log

In this Chapter, you can control BR-6641’s logging activities with repect to various functionalities such as the System, Firewall, Routing, etc. Administrator can also either set up the log transmission methods to another server for purpose of archiving and further analyses, or control the event notifications settings via emails.

Figure 5.1 The Location of Log and its Function on the Menu Bar

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5.1 View

In the ‘View’ Sub-menu, BR-6641 provides two types of comprehensive log records

(see the table below). Administrator can pick the desired log type and the corresponding events for that type will be shown in the windows below. Press the

‘refresh’ button to get a copy of the latest log.

For log data pushing and archiving, see the ‘control’ sub-menu in next section. An

FTP Server or Email Server or Syslog Server should be provided.

Figure 5.2 The Location of Log/View Page Menu Bar

Field Value Description

Log Type

Recent Event

Refresh

System Log

Traffic Log

-

-

You can pick the log type of your preferred events to be shown in the log viewing window.

Event log listed by order of timestamp

Refresh to get the latest event log

Table 5.1 The Description of the Fields on Log/View Page

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5.2 Control

With this sub-menu, you can set up how log data will be transmitted to other servers

(out of BR-6641) for archiving and further analyses. Transmission methods include

FTP, Email and Syslog. Each log type can have its own transmission method setting.

Figure 5.3 Location of Log/Control Page on the Menu Bar

Log Control

System Log

Log Method

Push Now

Traffic Log

Log Method

Push Now

System Log

Traffic Log

E-Mail

FTP

Syslog

Select the type of Log file to be pushed.

See below.

Use this button to start log pushing immediately.

E-Mail

FTP

Syslog

See below.

Use this button to start log pushing immediately.

Table 5.2 The Description of the Fields on Log/Control Page

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Method

BR-6641 offers three types of log transmissions: FTP out to an external FTP server,

Syslog out to a syslog server or send emails via SMTP to the administrator’s mailbox.

„ E-mail

Field Value Description

SMTP Server

Account

<IP> or <Domain Name> SMTP server for the logs.

Authenticated account for mail server

Password <Account’s Authenticated password for mail server.

Mail From

Mail To

<e-Mail address>

<e-Mail address>

Sender of the Email.

Receiver of the Email.

Scheduled Push

Initial Time

Period

Push this button to start log pushing automaticaly.

Turn on scheduled push.

<Year/Month/Day/Hour/Minute/Second> Start time for the scheduled push.

<Day/Hour/Minute> Scheduled push duration.

Table 5.3 Method: E-mail

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„ FTP

Server

Account

Password

Path

Auto Push

<IP> or <Domain Name>

<FTP Account>

<Account’s Password>

<Path>

Scheduled Push

<Year/Month/Day/Hour/Minute/Second>

Period <Day/Hour/Minute>

Table 5.4 Method: FTP

„ Syslog

Syslog Server

FTP Server’s IP or domain name.

FTP user account.

FTP user password.

FTP server path.

Push this button to start log pushing automatically.

Turn on scheduled push.

Start time for the scheduled push. duration.

<IP> or <Domain Name>

Table 5.5 Method: Syslog

Syslog Server’s IP or domain name.

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5.3 Notification

In this sub-menu, you can set up how email notifications are sent out for important system events. The setup is similar to previous section’s email account settings.

Figure 5.4 Location of Log/Notification Page on the Menu Bar

„ Notification

SNMP

Email

SNMP Settings

Destination IP

Community Name

Link Fail

Email Settings

SMTP Server

Account

Password

Mail From

Mail To

<IP Address>

<Community Name>

Select how Email notifications are sent out.

The SNMP managing device

IP.

The community name.

Enable this function, system will notify administrator when a Link Fail happened.

SMTP Server.

Authenticated account for mail server.

Authenticated password for mail server.

Sender.

Receiver.

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Link Fail

Admin Password Change

Enable this function, system will notify administrator when a Link Fail happened.

Enable this function, system will notify administrator when

Administrator password is changed.

Table 5.6 The Description of the Fields on Log/Notification

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