Grandstream Networks, Inc.

GWN7000

Enterprise Multi-WAN Gigabit VPN Router

User Manual

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CAUTION

Changes or modifications to this product not expressly approved by Grandstream, or operation of this product in any way other than as detailed by this guide, could void your manufacturer warranty.

WARNING

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Table of Contents

DOCUMENT PURPOSE ............................................................................................... 10

CHANGE LOG .............................................................................................................. 11

Firmware Version 1.0.4.23 ................................................................................................................... 11

Firmware Version 1.0.4.20 ................................................................................................................... 11

Firmware Version 1.0.2.75 ................................................................................................................... 11

Firmware Version 1.0.2.71 ................................................................................................................... 12

WELCOME ................................................................................................................... 13

PRODUCT OVERVIEW ................................................................................................ 14

Technical Specifications ....................................................................................................................... 14

INSTALLATION ............................................................................................................ 16

Equipment Packaging .......................................................................................................................... 16

Connect your GWN7000 ...................................................................................................................... 16

Safety Compliances ............................................................................................................................. 17

Warranty ............................................................................................................................................... 17

GETTING STARTED ..................................................................................................... 18

LED Indicators ..................................................................................................................................... 18

Use the WEB GUI ................................................................................................................................ 18

Access WEB GUI .......................................................................................................................... 18

WEB GUI Languages ................................................................................................................... 20

WEB GUI Configuration ................................................................................................................ 21

Overview Page ............................................................................................................................. 22

Save and Apply Changes ............................................................................................................. 23

ROUTER CONFIGURATION ........................................................................................ 24

Status ................................................................................................................................................... 24

Ports Configuration .............................................................................................................................. 24

WAN Ports Settings ...................................................................................................................... 25

Tunnel ........................................................................................................................................... 26

Global Settings ............................................................................................................................. 27

Port Mirroring ................................................................................................................................ 28

Static Routes ........................................................................................................................................ 28

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QoS ...................................................................................................................................................... 29

DDNS ................................................................................................................................................... 33

DPI ....................................................................................................................................................... 33

SETTING UP A WIRELESS NETWORK ...................................................................... 35

Discover and Pair GWN76xx Access Points ....................................................................................... 35

Network Groups ................................................................................................................................... 38

Create an SSID under a Network Group ...................................................................................... 46

Additional SSID under Same Network Group .............................................................................. 47

Client Bridge ........................................................................................................................................ 49

CLIENTS CONFIGURATION ........................................................................................ 50

Clients .................................................................................................................................................. 50

Status ............................................................................................................................................ 50

Edit IP and Name .......................................................................................................................... 51

Bandwidth Rules ........................................................................................................................... 51

Block a client ................................................................................................................................. 52

Clients Access ...................................................................................................................................... 52

Time Policy ........................................................................................................................................... 53

Banned Clients ..................................................................................................................................... 54

VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) ......................................................................... 55

Overview .............................................................................................................................................. 55

OpenVPN® Server Configuration ........................................................................................................ 55

Generate Self-Issued Certificate Authority (CA) ........................................................................... 55

Generate Server/Client Certificates .............................................................................................. 58

Create OpenVPN® Server ........................................................................................................... 65

OpenVPN® Client configuration .......................................................................................................... 69

L2TP/IPSEC Configuration .................................................................................................................. 72

GWN7000 L2TP/IPSec Client Configuration ................................................................................ 72

PPTP CONFIGURATION ..................................................................................................................... 75

GWN7000 Client Configuration .................................................................................................... 75

GWN7000 PPTP Server Configuration ........................................................................................ 78

FIREWALL .................................................................................................................... 80

Basic Settings ...................................................................................................................................... 80

General Settings ........................................................................................................................... 80

Port Forwarding ............................................................................................................................ 80

DMZ .............................................................................................................................................. 81

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Inter-Group Traffic Forwarding ...................................................................................................... 82

UPnP ............................................................................................................................................ 83

Traffic Rules Settings ........................................................................................................................... 84

Firewall Advanced Settings .................................................................................................................. 85

General Settings ........................................................................................................................... 85

SNAT ............................................................................................................................................. 86

DNAT ............................................................................................................................................ 87

CAPTIVE PORTAL ....................................................................................................... 89

Policy Configuration Page ................................................................................................................... 89

Files Configuration Page ..................................................................................................................... 90

Clients Page ......................................................................................................................................... 92

BANDWIDTH RULES ................................................................................................... 93

MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING .............................................................. 95

Maintenance ........................................................................................................................................ 95

Debug .................................................................................................................................................. 98

Capture ......................................................................................................................................... 98

Ping/Traceroute ............................................................................................................................ 99

Syslog ......................................................................................................................................... 101

NAT Table ................................................................................................................................... 102

Email/Notification ............................................................................................................................... 103

LED Schedule .................................................................................................................................... 104

File Sharing ........................................................................................................................................ 105

SNMP ................................................................................................................................................. 107

User Manager .................................................................................................................................... 108

UPGRADING AND PROVISIONING .......................................................................... 110

Upgrading Firmware .......................................................................................................................... 110

Upgrading via WEB GUI ............................................................................................................. 110

Provisioning and backup .....................................................................................................................111

Download Configuration ..............................................................................................................111

Configuration Server ....................................................................................................................111

Reset and reboot ................................................................................................................................111

EXPERIENCING THE GWN7000 ENTERPRISE ROUTER ....................................... 112

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Table of Tables

Table 1: GWN7000 Technical Specifications .............................................................................................. 14

Table 2: GWN7000 Equipment Packaging .................................................................................................. 16

Table 3: LED Indicators ............................................................................................................................... 18

Table 4: Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 22

Table 5: GWN7000 WEB GUIRouterPortWAN Port (1,2)................................................................. 25

Table 6: 6In4 Tunnels .................................................................................................................................. 26

Table 7: 6rd Tunnels .................................................................................................................................... 27

Table 8: AICCU Tunnels .............................................................................................................................. 27

Table 9: GWN7000 WEB GUIRouterPortGlobal Settings ................................................................ 27

Table 10: Port Mirroring ............................................................................................................................... 28

Table 11: IPv4 Static Routes ....................................................................................................................... 29

Table 12: IPv6 Static Routes ....................................................................................................................... 29

Table 13: QoS Basic .................................................................................................................................... 30

Table 14: Upstream QoS ............................................................................................................................. 30

Table 15: QoS Policer ................................................................................................................................. 31

Table 16: QoS Smart Queue ....................................................................................................................... 32

Table 17: DPI Settings ................................................................................................................................. 34

Table 18: Device Configuration ................................................................................................................... 36

Table 19: Basic ............................................................................................................................................ 40

Table 20: Wi-Fi ............................................................................................................................................ 41

Table 21: Time Policy Parameters .............................................................................................................. 54

Table 22: CA Certificate ............................................................................................................................... 56

Table 23: Server Certificate ......................................................................................................................... 59

Table 24: Client Certificate .......................................................................................................................... 63

Table 25: OpenVPN® Server ...................................................................................................................... 66

Table 26: OpenVPN® Client ....................................................................................................................... 70

Table 27: L2TP Configuration ...................................................................................................................... 73

Table 28: PPTP Configuration ..................................................................................................................... 76

Table 29: PPTP Server Configuration Parameters ..................................................................................... 78

Table 30: Port Forward ................................................................................................................................ 81

Table 31: DMZ ............................................................................................................................................. 82

Table 32: UPnP Settings ............................................................................................................................. 83

Table 33: Firewall Traffic Rules ................................................................................................................... 84

Table 34: Firewall-General Settings ............................................................................................................ 85

Table 35: SNAT ........................................................................................................................................... 86

Table 36: DNAT ........................................................................................................................................... 87

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Table 37: Basic Configuration Page ............................................................................................................ 89

Table 38: Bandwidth Rules.......................................................................................................................... 93

Table 39: Maintenance ................................................................................................................................ 95

Table 40: Debug-Capture ............................................................................................................................ 99

Table 41: Email Setting ............................................................................................................................. 103

Table 42: Email Events .............................................................................................................................. 104

Table 43: LED Schedule settings .............................................................................................................. 104

Table 44: Add a New File to Share ............................................................................................................ 106

Table 45: SNMP Basic Page ..................................................................................................................... 107

Table 46: SNMP Advanced Page .............................................................................................................. 108

Table 46: VPN User Parameters ............................................................................................................... 109

Table 48: Network Upgrade Configuration ................................................................................................ 110

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Table of Figures

Figure 1: GWN7000 Front View .................................................................................................................. 16

Figure 2: GWN7000 Back View .................................................................................................................. 17

Figure 3: GWN7000 Web GUI Login Page ................................................................................................. 19

Figure 4: Change Password on first boot .................................................................................................... 20

Figure 5: Setup Wizard ............................................................................................................................... 20

Figure 6: GWN7000 Web GUI Language ................................................................................................... 21

Figure 7: GWN7000 Web GUI Language ................................................................................................... 21

Figure 8: Overview Page ............................................................................................................................. 22

Figure 9: Apply Changes ............................................................................................................................. 23

Figure 10: Router's Status .......................................................................................................................... 24

Figure 11: QoS ............................................................................................................................................ 29

Figure 12: DPI Status .................................................................................................................................. 34

Figure 13: Discover AP ............................................................................................................................... 35

Figure 14: Discovered Devices ................................................................................................................... 36

Figure 15: GWN7610 online........................................................................................................................ 36

Figure 16: locating Access Points ............................................................................................................... 38

Figure 17: Network Group ........................................................................................................................... 39

Figure 18: Add a New Network Group ........................................................................................................ 39

Figure 19: Device Membership ................................................................................................................... 44

Figure 20: Wi-Fi Schedule ........................................................................................................................... 45

Figure 21: Add AP to Network Group from Access Points Page ................................................................. 46

Figure 22: Create an SSID .......................................................................................................................... 47

Figure 23: Additional SSID .......................................................................................................................... 48

Figure 24: Additional SSID Created ............................................................................................................ 48

Figure 25: Client Bridge .............................................................................................................................. 49

Figure 26: Clients ........................................................................................................................................ 50

Figure 27: Client's Status ............................................................................................................................ 51

Figure 28: Client's Configuration ................................................................................................................. 51

Figure 29: Client Bandwidth Rules .............................................................................................................. 52

Figure 30: Block a Client ............................................................................................................................. 52

Figure 31: Unban Client .............................................................................................................................. 52

Figure 32: Global Blacklist .......................................................................................................................... 53

Figure 33: Managing the Global Blacklist ................................................................................................... 53

Figure 34: Blacklist Access List ................................................................................................................... 53

Figure 35: Ban/Unban Client ....................................................................................................................... 54

Figure 36: Create CA Certificate ................................................................................................................. 56

Figure 37: CA Certificate ............................................................................................................................. 58

Figure 38: Generate Server Certificates ..................................................................................................... 59

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Figure 39: User Management ..................................................................................................................... 61

Figure 40: Client Certificate......................................................................................................................... 63

Figure 41: Create OpenVPN® Server ......................................................................................................... 66

Figure 42: OpenVPN® ................................................................................................................................ 68

Figure 43: OpenVPN® Client ...................................................................................................................... 69

Figure 44: OpenVPN® Client ...................................................................................................................... 72

Figure 45: L2TP Client Configuration .......................................................................................................... 73

Figure 46: L2TP Client ................................................................................................................................ 75

Figure 47: PPTP Client Configuration ......................................................................................................... 76

Figure 48: PPTP Client ............................................................................................................................... 77

Figure 49: PPTP Server Configuration ....................................................................................................... 78

Figure 50: BasicGeneral Settings ............................................................................................................ 80

Figure 51: Port Forward .............................................................................................................................. 81

Figure 52: DMZ ........................................................................................................................................... 82

Figure 53: Inter-group Traffic Forwarding ................................................................................................... 82

Figure 54: Enabling inter-group traffic ......................................................................................................... 83

Figure 55: Traffic Rules Settings ................................................................................................................. 84

Figure 56: portal_default.html page ............................................................................................................ 91

Figure 57: portal_pass.html page ............................................................................................................... 91

Figure 58: Files Settings Page .................................................................................................................... 92

Figure 59: Client Web Page ........................................................................................................................ 92

Figure 60: MAC Address Bandwidth rule .................................................................................................... 94

Figure 61: Bandwidth Rules ........................................................................................................................ 94

Figure 62: Logserver Configuration ............................................................................................................ 98

Figure 63: Capture Files .............................................................................................................................. 99

Figure 64: IP Ping ..................................................................................................................................... 100

Figure 65: Traceroute ................................................................................................................................ 101

Figure 66: Syslog ...................................................................................................................................... 102

Figure 67: NAT table ................................................................................................................................. 103

Figure 68: LED Schedule .......................................................................................................................... 105

Figure 69: Add a New File to Share .......................................................................................................... 106

Figure 70: File Share Actions .................................................................................................................... 106

Figure 71: Access File Share .................................................................................................................... 107

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DOCUMENT PURPOSE

This document describes how to configure the GWN7000 to manage wired and wireless networks via an intuitive WebGUI. The intended audiences of this document are network administrators. Please visit http://www.grandstream.com/support to download the latest “GWN7000 User Manual”.

This guide covers following topics:

•

Product Overview

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Installation

•

Getting Started

•

Router Configuration

•

Setting up a Wireless Network

•

Clients Configuration

•

VPN

•

Firewall

•

Captive Portal

•

Bandwidth Rules

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Maintenance and Troubleshooting

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Upgrading and Provisioning

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CHANGE LOG

This section documents significant changes from previous versions of the GWN7000 user manuals. Only major new features or major document updates are listed here. Minor updates for corrections or editing are not documented here.

Firmware Version 1.0.4.23

• Added support for enable/disable MPPE in both PPTP server and client. [MPPE]

Firmware Version 1.0.4.20

• Added support for Additional Routed Subnets. [Additional IPv4 Addresses][Additional IPv4 Static

Address][Destination IP]

• Added support for Timed Client Disconnect and Enhanced Client Blocking. [Clients Access]

• Added support for Client Bridge (GWN76xx Access Point is required for this feature.). [Client Bridge]

• Added support for OpenApp ID for Deep Packet Inspection. [DPI]

• Added support for Syslog Server. [Logserver]

• Added support for PPTP Server. [PPTP CONFIGURATION]

• Added support for Smart Queue QoS. [Smart Queue]

• Added support for Configurable web UI access port.[Web WAN Access][Web HTTP Access][Web

HTTPS Port]

• Added support for E-mail notifications. [Email/Notification]

Firmware Version 1.0.2.75

• Added support for Captive Portal [CAPTIVE PORTAL]

• Added support for Bandwidth Rules [BANDWIDTH RULES]

• Added support for Select Band per SSID [SSID Band]

• Added support for selectively enable 802.11b/g/n [Mode]

• Added option to enable/disable support for 802.11b devices [Allow Legacy Device(802.11b)]

• Added support for custom wireless power [Custom Wireless Power(dBm)]

• Added support for AP location using blinking LED [Access Point location]

• Added support for limit client count per SSID [Wireless Client Limit]

• Added support for better roaming decision [Enable Voice Enterprise]

• Added support for LEDs schedule [LED Schedule]

• Added support for Wi-Fi schedule [Wi-Fi Schedule]

• Added option to enable/disable DHCP option 66 & 43 override [Allow DHCP options 66 and 43 override]

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• This is the initial version.

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WELCOME

Thank you for purchasing Grandstream GWN7000 Enterprise Multi-WAN Gigabit VPN Router.

The GWN7000 is a powerful enterprise-grade multi-WAN Gigabit VPN router. Ideal for the enterprise, smallto-medium business, retail, education, hospitality and medical markets, the GWN7000 supports comprehensive Wi-Fi and VPN solutions that can be shared across one or many different physical locations.

It features high-performance routing and switching power and a hardware-accelerated VPN client/server for secure inter-office connectivity. To maximize network reliability, the GWN7000 supports traffic load balancing and failover. The GWN7000 features an integrated controller and automated provisioning master that can setup and manage up to 300+ in-network GWN series Wi-Fi Access Points. This can be easily operated through the product’s intuitive web browser user interface, which also offers a central panel to monitor and control the entire network.

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Caution:

Changes or modifications to this product not expressly approved by Grandstream, or operation of this product in any way other than as detailed by this User Manual, could void your manufacturer warranty.

Warning:

Please do not use a different power adaptor with the GWN7000 as it may cause damage to the products and void the manufacturer warranty.

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PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Technical Specifications

Network Interfaces

WAN

LAN

Auxiliary Ports

Routing Performance

USB

Network Protocols

VPN

LED

Mounting

QoS

Firewall

Auto Provisioning

Capability

Management

Table 1: GWN7000 Technical Specifications

• 2 x autosensing 10/100/1000 WAN Ports

• 1 x autosensing 10/100/1000 configurable as LAN, WAN or VoIP port

• 4 x autosensing 10/100/1000 LAN Ports

• DHCP

• Static IP

• PPPoE

• Load balance & failover

• Rule based routing

• DHCP server

• DNS Cache

• Multiple zones

• VLAN

• 2 x USB 3.0 ports

• 1 x Reset Pinhole

Up to 1 million packets/second with 64-byte packet size

• Printer sharing

• File sharing

• IPv4, IPv6, 802.1Q, 802.1p

• Protocols: PPTP, L2TP/IPSec, OpenVPN®

• Client, Server or pass through

8 green-color LEDs for device tracking and status indication

Indoor wall mount, Desktop

VLAN, TOS, supports multiple traffic classes, filter by port, IP address, DSCP, and policing

NAT, DMZ, Port Forwarding, SPI, UPnP

Embedded provisioning controller to manage up to 300+ GWN series Wi-Fi APs

Power

Web, CLI

• 802.3at PoE

• Included Power Supply: 12V/2A

• Max power consumption: 16W

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Environmental

Physical

Package Content

Compliance

• Operation: 0°C to 50°C

• Storage: -10°C to 60°C

• Humidity: 10% to 90% Non-condensing

Unit Dimensions: 200 x 136 x 37mm; Unit Weight: 570g

Entire Package Dimensions: 324 x 163.5 x 54mm; Entire Package Weight: 930g

• GWN7000 Enterprise Router

• 12V/2A Power Adapter

• Quick Installation Guide

• GPL License

FCC, CE, RCM, IC

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INSTALLATION

Before deploying and configuring the GWN7000, the device needs to be properly powered up and connected to the network. This section describes detailed information on installation, connection and warranty policy of the GWN7000.

Equipment Packaging

Table 2: GWN7000 Equipment Packaging

Main Case

Power adaptor

Quick Installation Guide

GPL License

Yes (1)

Yes (1)

Yes (1)

Yes (1)

Connect your GWN7000

Figure 1: GWN7000 Front View

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Figure 2: GWN7000 Back View

To set up the GWN7000, follow the steps below:

1. Connect one end of an RJ-45 Ethernet cable into the WAN1 or/and WAN2 port(s) of the GWN7000.

2. Connect the other end of the Ethernet cable(s) into a DSL modem or router(s).

3. Connect the 12V DC power adapter into the power jack on the back of the GWN7000. Insert the main plug of the power adapter into a surge-protected power outlet.

4. Wait for the GWN7000 to boot up and connect to internet/network. In the front of the GWN7000 the

Power LED will be in solid green, and the WAN LED will flash in green.

5. Connect one of the LAN ports to your computer, the associated LED ports will flash in green.

6. (Optional) Connect LAN ports to your GWN76xx access points or/and other devices, the associated

LED ports will flash in green.

Safety Compliances

The GWN7000 Enterprise Router complies with FCC/CE and various safety standards. The GWN7000 power adapter is compliant with the UL standard. Use the universal power adapter provided with the

GWN7000 package only. The manufacturer’s warranty does not cover damages to the device caused by unsupported power adapters.

Warranty

If the GWN7000 Enterprise Router was purchased from a reseller, please contact the company where the device was purchased for replacement, repair or refund. If the device was purchased directly from

Grandstream, contact our Technical Support Team for a RMA (Return Materials Authorization) number before the product is returned. Grandstream reserves the right to remedy warranty policy without prior notification.

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GETTING STARTED

The GWN7000 Enterprise Router provides an intuitive web GUI configuration interface for easy management to give users access to all the configurations and options for the GWN7000’s setup.

This section provides step-by-step instructions on how to read LED indicators and use Web GUI interface of the GWN7000.

LED Indicators

The front panel of the GWN7000 has LED indicators for power and interfaces activities, the table below describes the LED indicators status.

Table 3: LED Indicators

LED Status Indication

OFF GWN7000 is powered off or abnormal power supply.

POWER

WAN (1,2)

LAN (1,2,3,4,5)

Solid green

Flashing green

Solid green

Flashing green

Solid green

GWN7000 is powered on correctly.

GWN7000 is connected as a client to another network and data is transferring.

GWN7000 is connected as a client to another network and there is no activity.

A device is connected to the corresponding LAN port and data is transferring.

A device is connected to the corresponding LAN port and there is no activity.

Use the WEB GUI

Access WEB GUI

The GWN7000 embedded Web server responds to HTTPS GET/POST requests. Embedded HTML pages allow users to configure the device through a Web browser such as Microsoft IE, Mozilla Firefox, Google

Chrome.

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Figure 3: GWN7000 Web GUI Login Page

To access the Web GUI:

1. Connect a computer to a LAN Port of the GWN7000.

2. Ensure the device is properly powered up, and the Power, LAN port LEDs light up in green.

3. Open a Web browser on the computer and enter the web GUI URL in the following format: https://192.168.1.1

(Default IP address).

4. Enter the administrator’s login and password to access the Web Configuration Menu. The default administrator's username and password are "admin" and "admin".

Note: At first boot or after factory reset, users will be asked to change the default administrator and user passwords before accessing GWN7000 web interface.

The password field is case sensitive with a maximum length of 32 characters. Using strong password including letters, digits and special characters is recommended for security purposes.

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Figure 4: Change Password on first boot

At first login, a Setup Wizard tool will pop up to help going through the configuration setup, or exit to configure manually. Setup Wizard can be accessed anytime by clicking on while on the web interface.

Figure 5: Setup Wizard

WEB GUI Languages

Currently the GWN7000 series web GUI supports English and Simplified Chinese.

To change default language, select the displayed language at the upper right of the web GUI either before or after logging in.

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Figure 6: GWN7000 Web GUI Language

Figure 7: GWN7000 Web GUI Language

WEB GUI Configuration

GWN7000 web GUI includes 8 main sections to configure and manage the router and check connection status.

• Overview: Provides an overall view of the GWN7000’s information presented in a Dashboard style for easy monitoring.

• Router: Displays device’s status and used to configure ports settings such as IP configuration for WAN ports, load balancing, failover, static routes, port mirroring, QoS and DDNS.

• Access Points: To add, pair and manage discovered access points.

• Clients: Shows and manages the list of the clients connected to LAN ports of the GWN7000 and wireless clients connected via GWN76xx access points.

• VPN: Configures OpenVPN® Client/Server, PPTP and L2TP/IPSec client tunnels.

• Firewall: Basic and advanced Firewall configuration to securely manage router’s incoming/outgoing traffic.

• Captive Portal: Configuration settings for the captive portal feature.

• Bandwidth Rules: Configures the bandwidths rules that allows users to limit bandwidth utilization per

SSID or client (MAC address or IP address).

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• Network Group: To add and manage wireless network groups using paired access points via VLANs.

• System Settings: For Maintenance and debugging features, as well as generating certificates and file sharing.

Overview Page

Overview is the first page shown after successful login to the GWN7000’s Web Interface. It provides an overall view of the GWN7000’s information presented in a Dashboard style for easy monitoring.

Figure 8: Overview Page

It is used to show the status of the GWN7000 for different items, please refer to the following table for each item:

Table 4: Overview

AP

Shows the number of Access Points that are Discovered, Paired (Online) and Offline. Click on to go to Access Points’ page for basic and advanced configuration options for the APs

Clients

Shows the total number of connected clients, and a count for clients connected to each Channel. Click on more options.

to go to Clients page for

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AP Channel Distribution

Top AP

Top SSID

Top Clients

Shows the Channel used for all APs that are paired with this Access

Point.

Shows the Top APs list, assort the list by number of clients connected to each AP or data usage combining upload and download. Click on to go to Access Points page for basic and advanced configuration options for the APs.

Shows the Top SSIDs list, assort the list by number of clients connected to each SSID or data usage combining upload and download. Click on

to go to Network Group page for more options.

Shows the Top Clients list, assort the list of clients by their upload or download. Click on to go to Clients page for more options.

Traffic Shows the sent/received traffic data speeds on both WAN ports.

Note that Overview page in addition to other tabs can be updated each 15s, 1min, 2min, 5min or Never by clicking in the upper bar menu (Default is 15s).

Save and Apply Changes

When clicking on "Save" button after configuring or changing any option on the web GUI pages. A message mentioning the number of changes will appear on the upper menu.

Figure 9: Apply Changes

Click on button to apply changes, or to undo the changes.

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ROUTER CONFIGURATION

This section includes configuration pages for network WAN ports, static routes, QoS and DDNS and shows also the router status.

Status

Status page displays Device Status to check MAC address, Part Number, Firmware related information and Uptime for the GWN7000; and WAN Status showing general information about WAN Ports such as uptime, current throughput, aggregate usage, and IP address and also the application traffic.

Router’s Status page can be accessed from Web GUIRouterStatus.

Figure 10: Router's Status

Note: Once DPI is enabled under Router feature. Users will be able to see their application traffics under

Application Traffic section

Ports Configuration

Connect to GWN7000’s Web GUI from a computer connected to a LAN port and go to RouterPort page for Port configuration.

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WAN Ports Settings

Enabled

Name

IPv6 Address

Assignment

The GWN7000 has 2 WAN ports configured as DHCP clients by default. Each port can be connected with

DSL modem or routers. WAN ports support also setting static IPv4/IPv6 addresses, and configure PPPoE for each WAN port. Please refer to the following table for basic network configuration parameters on WAN ports for GWN7000.

WAN Address Type

Preferred IPv4 DNS

Alternate IPv4 DNS

Native IPv6

Table 5: GWN7000 WEB GUIRouterPortWAN Port (1,2)

Choose whether to enable or disable the WAN port.

Specify the port name.

Select "DHCP", "Static" or "PPPoE" mode on the WAN interfaces of GWN7000.

The default setting is "DHCP".

• DHCP

When selected, it will act as a DHCP client and acquire an IPv4 address automatically from the DHCP server.

• Static

When selected, the user should set a static IPv4 address, IPv4 Subnet Mask,

IPv4 Gateway and adding Additional IPv4 Addresses as well to communicate with the web interface, SSH, or other services running on the device.

• PPPoE

When selected, the user should set the PPPoE account and password, PPPoE

Keep alive interval and Inter-Key Timeout (in seconds).

Enter the preferred DNS server address (IPv4 address). If Preferred DNS is set,

GWN7000 will use it in priority.

Enter the Alternate DNS server address (IPv4 address). If Preferred DNS is set,

GWN7000 will use it in when the Preferred DNS fails.

Used to enable assigning IPv6 address to GWN7000. Once checked users will be able to configure following fields: “IPv6 Address Assignment”, “Preferred IPv6

DNS”, “Alternate IPv6 DNS” and “IPv6 Relay to LAN”.

This option is appearing when enabling “Native IPv6” option.

Select "Auto" to get an IPv6 address from DHCP server or "Static" to configure manually an IPv6 address. If set to Static, the following fields should be configured:

• IPv6 Address/Prefix Length

Used to set an IPv6 address/Prefix length when using Static IPv6 option

Example: fec0:470:28:5b2::1/64

• IPv6 Gateway

Used to define the Gateway’s IPv6 address.

• IPv6 Prefix/IPv6 Prefix Length

Enter the IPv6 prefix and IPv6 prefix length.

Example: ::1/64

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Preferred IPv6 DNS

Alternate IPv6 DNS

IPv6 Relay to LAN

Multi-WAN

VLAN Tagging

This option appears only when “Native IPv6” option is enabled.

It is used to set a preferred DNS server address (IPv6 address). If Preferred DNS is set, GWN7000 will use it in priority.

This option appears only when “Native IPv6” option is enabled.

It is used to set an Alternate DNS server address (IPv6 address). If Preferred DNS is set, GWN7000 will use it in when the Preferred DNS fails.

This option appears only when “Native IPv6” option is enabled.

When enabled the GWN7000 will relay IPv6 address to LAN clients

These options are used when both WAN ports are enabled and using Failover feature:

• Tracking IP

Configures the tracking IP(s). ICMP packets are being used to track the IP(s) address(es). When the tracking fails, the GWN7000 will use the secondary

WAN port as failover. Default IP used is 8.8.8.8.

• Tracking Timeout (sec)

Configures tracking timeout in seconds. Default value is 2.

• Tracking Interval (sec)

Configures the track interval in seconds. Default value is 5.

• Bandwidth

Specifies the bandwidth for the port, e.g: “100k”, “1M” or “100M”.

Used to enable VLAN tagging. If set to “0” the VLAN tagging will be disabled, otherwise set a VLAN value between 5 and 4093. Default is 0.

Tunnel

Tunnel ID

Username

Tunnel page is used to set IPv6 tunnels on WAN ports via IPv6 tunnel brokers service providers, this serves the purpose of transferring IPv6 packets over IPv4 Network. It supports creating 6in4, 6rd and AICCU tunnels. Please refer to below tables for each tunnel type.

Table 6: 6In4 Tunnels

WAN Interface

MTU

Choose the WAN port on which to setup the 6in4 tunnel.

Set the Maximum Transmission Unit value.

The valid range is 64-9000. Default value is 1500.

6in4 IPv4 Peer

Address

6in4 Tunnel Endpoint

IPv6 Address

Enter the IPv4 tunnel endpoint at the tunnel’s provider.

6in4 Routed Prefix

Enter the local IPv6 address delegated to the tunnel endpoint.

Example: 2001:db8:2222::2/64

Set the routable prefix given by the tunnel provider to allow LAN clients to get addresses from that prefix.

Specifies the tunnel’s ID.

Set the username used to login into the tunnel broker.

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Password

Update Key

WAN Interface

MTU

6rd IPv4 Peer

Address

6rd IPv6 Address

Prefix

IPv6 Prefix Length

Set the password (used for endpoint update).

Set the update key, it overrides the password used for endpoint update.

Table 7: 6rd Tunnels

Choose the WAN port on which to setup the 6rd tunnel.

Set the Maximum Transmission Unit value.

The valid range is 64-9000 and default value is 1500.

Enter the IPv4 Peer address.

Specifies the IPv6 prefix given by the provider.

Example: 2001:B000::/32

Specifies the IPv6 prefix length (Value between 1 and 128).

Example: 32

Specifies the prefix length of the IPv4 transport address.

(Value between 1 and 32).

IPv4 Prefix Length

WAN Interface

Username

Password

Table 8: AICCU Tunnels

Choose the WAN port on which to setup the aiccu tunnel.

Enter the Username (Provided by signing up with SixXS Tunnel Broker)

Enter the Username’s password

Global Settings

This section specifies operating mode for multi-WAN that will be used for enabling/disabling Failover and

Load Balancing on WAN ports, and banning MAC addresses.

The following table shows the configuration parameters for Multi-WAN settings

Table 9: GWN7000 WEB GUIRouterPortGlobal Settings

Multi-WAN

Disabled

Failover

Specifies the operating mode for multi -WAN. Three options are available:

• Disabled

• Failover: Automatically switch to the connected WAN after failure.

• Load Balance + Failover: Operating the load balance mode, at the same time automatically switch to the connected WAN after failure.

This will disable Multi-WAN feature

If chosen failover will be enabled on WAN ports, admins need to choose the

Primary WAN port to be used.

When selected, user can set Multi-WAN parameters on WAN ports.

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Load Balance +

Failover

Banned Client MAC

In addition to failover, load balance will be used on both ports to optimize the resource utilization. Please note that for this feature to work, WAN ports should be connected to different networks.

When selected, user can set Multi-WAN parameters on WAN ports.

Shows the list of banned clients MAC addresses, other MAC addresses could be also added by clicking on or removed by clicking on .

Port Mirroring

With port mirroring enabled, the GWN7000 will send a copy of all network packets seen on one LAN port to another port, where the packet can be analyzed. Refer to the below table for the available fields to configure.

Table 10: Port Mirroring

Enable Outgoing

Mirroring

Enable Incoming

Mirroring

Mirroring Port

Mirrored Port

Check to enable outgoing mirroring for a LAN port. Default is “Disabled”

Check to enable incoming mirroring for a LAN port. Default is “Disabled”

Select which LAN port that will be mirroring traffic. Default is “Disabled”

Select which LAN port that will act as mirrored port. Default is “Disabled”

Static Routes

GWN7000 supports setting manually static IPv4 and IPv6 routes as well as displaying routing table entries.

Static routes configuration page can be accessed from GWN7000 WebGUIRouterStatic Routes:

Three tabs are available:

- Routes to view routing table entries.

- IPv4 to create, edit or delete static IPv4 static routes.

- IPv6 to create, edit or delete static IPv6 static routes.

Following actions are available in both IPv4 and IPv6 tabs:

• To add a new static route, click on

• To edit a static route, click on

• To delete a static route, click on

Refer to the following tables when editing or creating IPv4/IPv6 static routes:

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Name

Enabled

Group

Target Network/Host

Netmask

NextHop

Metric

Table 11: IPv4 Static Routes

Enter the Name of the static route to be configured.

Select whether to enable or disable this static route.

Choose the LAN’s Network Group, which will be using this static route.

Enter the Network/Host IP address on which to route the traffic to.

Example: 192.168.5.0

Enter the Network/Host Netmask.

Example: 255.255.255.0

Enter the NextHop IP address.

Example: 192.168.5.1.

Set the metric value. The valid range is 0-255. Default value is 1.

Name

Enable

Group

Target Network/Host

NextHop

Metric

Table 12: IPv6 Static Routes

Enter the Name of the static route to be configured.

Select whether to enable or disable this static route.

Choose the LAN’s Network Group

Enter the Network/Host IP address on which to route the traffic to.

2001:db8:3c4d:4::/64

Enter the Gateway’s IP address. fec0:470:28:5b2::1/64

Set the metric value. The valid range is 0-255. Default value is 1.

QoS

The GWN7000 offers the possibility to enable and configure QoS on both WAN and LAN interfaces, this will help to manage in more depth the network traffic to define priority and classify different services and protocols in a scheduled manner.

Figure 11: QoS

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To activate QoS, check “Enable QoS”. Three tabs are available for configuration:

• Basic: Download and upload bandwidth speeds settings on each WAN interface.

• Upstream QoS: Upstream QoS allows creating Traffic Classes to prioritize traffic for specific resources on the network by controlling transmission/upload rate. Note that different classes can be created and assigned as Traffic filters by respecting following conditions:

✓ The total of Upstream bandwidth values of each created class should not exceed the upstream bandwidth value configured in Basic.

✓ The remaining bandwidth will be lent to the next priority level of class.

✓ All filter options are summed together.

• Policer: While Upstream QoS is dealing with traffic transmission, Policer is controlling the incoming traffic. Thus, allowing to create rules to specific targets to set priority and received traffic rate, giving the

GWN7000 the ability to drop the exceeding traffic when reaching the configured maximum rate.

• Smart Queue: The smart queue is an integrated network system that performs better per-packet/per flow network scheduling, reduces the buffer bloat and keeps latency at acceptable levels.

Refer to the following tables for each tab option:

Table 13: QoS Basic

Enabled

Upstream

Downstream

Check to enable upstream and downstream bandwidth speeds for the selected

WAN interface.

Set the Upstream value to specify the upload bandwidth for selected interface, the value should end with Mbit, Kbit or with no unit if the set value is referring to “bit” unit. Note that the set value will affect and limit the bandwidth values on created classes on QoS Upstream.

Examples: 500Mbit

100Kbit

500

Set the Downstream value to specify the download bandwidth speed for selected interface, the value should end with “Mbit”, “Kbit” or with no unit if the set value is referring to “bit” unit.

Examples: 1000Mbit

100Kbit

500

Name

Priority

Table 14: Upstream QoS

Traffic Class

Define a name for the traffic class.

Set the priority of the traffic class, the lower the value, the highest the priority. Valid range is between 1 and 64.

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Interface

Upstream

Class

Name

DSCP

Select the WAN interface from which the traffic will be classified, make sure to

enable the desired interface it from QoS Basic in order to appear.

Set Upstream bandwidth value. The value should end with “Mbit”, “Kbit” or with no unit if the set value is referring to “bit” unit.

Note that the sum of created classes should have upstream bandwidth speeds lower than the Upstream bandwidth value configured on QoS Basic.

Examples: 100Mbit

100Kbit

500

Traffic Filter

Select a class from created traffic classes using drop-down menu.

Define a Name for the traffic filter rule.

Choose the Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) value from drop-down list.

Default is 0.

IP Source Address

IP Destination

Address

Specify the Source IP address from which the traffic filter rule will be applied.

Specify the Destination IP address to which the traffic filter rule will be applied.

TCP Source Port Specify the TCP Source port from which the traffic filter rule will be applied.

TCP Destination Port Specify the TCP Source port to which the traffic filter rule will be applied.

UDP Source Port Specify the UDP Source port from which the traffic filter rule will be applied.

UDP Destination Port Specify the UDP Source port to which the traffic filter rule will be applied.

Group Source

Choose the LAN group of the specified Source IP address. If no Source IP address has been defined, the rule will be applied to all members of that LAN group.

Table 15: QoS Policer

Name

Interface

Priority

Rate

DSCP

Define a Name for the Policer rule.

Select an interface from which the traffic will be policed, make sure to enable the

desired interface it from QoS Basic in order to appear.

Set the priority of the traffic class, the lower the value, the highest the priority. Valid range is between 1 and 64.

Set a Rate value for download bandwidth when applying policer rule.

Choose the Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) value from drop-down list.

Default is 0.

IP Source Address

IP Destination

Address

Specify the Source IP address from which the policer rule will be applied.

Specify the Destination IP address to which the policer rule will be applied.

TCP Source Port Specify the TCP Source port from which the policer rule will be applied.

TCP Destination Port Specify the TCP Source port to which the policer rule will be applied.

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UDP Source Port Specify the UDP Source port from which the policer rule will be applied.

UDP Destination Port Specify the UDP Source port to which the policer rule will be applied.

Group Source

Choose the LAN group of the specified Source IP address.

If no Source IP address has been defined, the rule will be applied to all members of that LAN group.

Table 16: QoS Smart Queue

Enabled

Qdisc

Manager

Link -layer

Adaptation

Overhead

Check this option in order to enable the feature on the WAN interface.

Select which Queuing discipline method to use for QoS:

• fq_codel (Fair Queue with Controlled Delay)

• Cake

Choose the type of the smart queue management:

If fq_codel queuing discipline method is selected.

• simple: Three-tier prioritization system.

• simplest: HTB (Hierarchical Token Bucket) shaper with a single fq_codel queuing discipline.

• simplest_tbf: TBF (Token Bucket Filter) shaper with a single fq_codel queuing discipline.

If cake queuing discipline method is selected.

• layer_cake: Three-tier prioritization system with cake as a replacement for HTB rate limiting.

• piece_of_cake: Single queue with cake as a replacement for HTB rate limiting.

Select the link-layer type for the WAN connection. This can be used to compensate for the link-layer overhead of certain types of WAN connections.

• None (default).

• Ethernet (should be selected for VDSL connections).

• ATM (should be selected for ADSL connections).

If the link-layer is set to something other than “none”, then the link-layer overhead setting can be used to specify how many bytes of overhead there are.

Defaults are 8 for Ethernet, and 44 for ATM.

Advanced Qdisc

Options

Squash DSCP on ingress

Check this option in order to show advanced Qdisc options to be used.

Select whether to squash or not the DSCP on ingress packets. By default, this option is disabled.

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Ignore DSCP on ingress

ECN Status on

Inbound packets

Select whether to ignore DSCP on ingress packets or not. By default, this option is disabled.

Select whether to set or not ECN status on inbound packets.

DDNS

DDNS allows accessing GWN7000 via domain name instead of IP address, the GWN7000 supports following DDNS providers:

• Dyndns.org

• Changeip.com

• Zoneedit.com

• Free.editdns.net

• Freedns.afraid.org

• He.Net

• Dnsomatic.Com

• No-ip.pl

• Myonlineportal.net

Before configuring DDNS settings on the GWN7000, make sure first to create and confirm the DDNS account via supported providers.

Following steps illustrates how to configure the DDNS settings on your GWN7000:

1. Access to GWN7000 web GUI, and navigate to RouterDDNS, and enable DDNS service.

2. Fill in the domain name created with DDNS provider under Domain Name field.

3. Enter your account username and password under Username and Password fields.

4. Specify the WAN interface to which DDNS is applied under Network interface field.

5. (Optional) For advanced configuration, it is also possible log to Syslog and modify the values of refreshing fields so to check periodically the updated IP address.

DPI

DPI stands for Deep Packet Inspection which is an option that allows the GWN7000 to analyze the core of the packet to collect and report information at the Application-layer, such as traffic volume of an application used by the host.

Snort OpenApp ID allows the System Administrator to view the internet traffic of users. The GUI displays traffic data in a human-readable format, such as 'Streaming MP4 & Netflix - 31% of total traffic usage.' The data is accompanied by a graph.

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GWN7000 is using Snort for packet inspection and displays traffic status under StatusApplication

Traffic as shown on the figure below.

Figure 12: DPI Status

The following table contains the description of the DPI configuration settings.

Table 17: DPI Settings

Enable Application

Tracking

Enables the application tracking. By default, it’s disabled.

Interface

Select the interface on which the application tracking will be performed. By default, it’s WAN Port 1.

Note: A reboot is required after enabling Depp packet inspection in order for the feature to take effect.

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SETTING UP A WIRELESS NETWORK

The GWN7000 Enterprise Router provides the user with the capability to create a wireless network by adding multiple GWN76xx series access points, with connectivity over the most common wireless standards

(802.11b/g/n) operating in both 2.4GHz and 5GHz range.

The GWN7000 integrates multiple layers of security including the IEEE 802.1x port-based authentication protocol, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) and firewall and VPN tunnels.

This chapter will introduce how to discover, add the GWN76xx access points, create and manage Wi-Fi

Networks.

For more details about Grandstream GWN76xx Access points, refer to http://www.grandstream.com/products/networking-solutions/wifi-access-points

Discover and Pair GWN76xx Access Points

The GWN76xx are powerful access points, which are fully compatible with the GWN7000 and can be added with one click, provisioned and managed in an easy and intuitive way. Once a GWN76xx is successfully connected and has an IP from the GWN7000 router, user can then pair it to the GWN7000 and associate it with a Network Group.

To Pair a GWN76xx access point connected as LAN client to the GWN7000, follow the below steps:

1. Connect to the GWN7000 Web GUI and go to Access Points.

Figure 13: Discover AP

2. Click on page will appear.

to discover access points within GWN7000 ’s LAN Network, the following

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3. Click on Pair

Figure 14: Discovered Devices under Actions, to pair the discovered Access Point with the GWN7000.

4. The paired GWN76xx will appear Online, Click on to unpair it.

Figure 15: GWN7610 online

5. Click on next to paired access point to check device configuration for its status, users connected to it and configuration, or select multiple GWN76xx APs from the same model, and click on to apply same configuration on selected units.

6. Click on to configure client bridge on the selected access point. For more details about the

client bridge feature, please refer to Client Bridge.

Refer to below table for Device Configuration tabs.

Status

Clients

Configuration

Table 18: Device Configuration

Shows the device’s status information such as Firmware version, IP

Address, Link Speed, Uptime, and Users count via different Radio channels.

Shows the Clients connected to the GWN76xx access point.

• Device Name: Set GWN76xx’s name to identify it along with its

MAC address.

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• Fixed IP: Used to set a static IP for the GWN76xx, if checked, the following needs to be configured:

-IPv4 Address: Enter the IPv4 address to be set as static for the device

-IPv4 Subnet Mask: Enter the Subnet Mask.

-IPv4 Gateway: Enter the Network Gateway’s IPv4 Address.

-Preferred IPv4 DNS: Enter the Primary IPv4 DNS.

-Alternate IPv4 DNS: Enter the Alternate IPv4 DNS.

• Frequency: Set the GWN76xx’s frequency, it can be either

2.4GHz, 5GHz or Dual-band.

• Enable Band Steering: When Frequency is set to Dual-Band, check this option to enable Band Steering on the Access Point, this will help redirecting clients to a radio band accordingly for efficient use and to benefit from the maximum throughput supported by the client.

• Mode: Choose the mode for the frequency band, 802.11n/g/b for

2.4Ghz and 802.11ac for 5Ghz.

• Channel Width: Choose the Channel Width, note that wide channel will give better speed/throughput, and narrow channel will have less interference. 20Mhz is suggested in very highdensity environment.

• 40MHz Channel Location: Configure the 40MHz channel location when using 20MHz/40MHz in Channel Width, it can be set it to be “Secondary Below Primary”, “Primary Below

Secondary” or “Auto”.

• Channel: Select “Auto” or a specific channel. Default is “Auto”.

Note that the proposed channels depend on Country Settings under System Settings–>Maintenance.

• Enable Short Guard Interval: Check to activate this option to half the guard interval (from 800ns to 400ns) ensuring that distinct transmissions do not interfere with one another, this will help increasing throughput.

• Active Spatial Streams: Choose active spatial stream. Available options: “Auto”, “1 stream”, “2 streams” and “3 streams” (For

GWN7610).

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• Radio Power: Set the Radio Power depending on desired cell size to be broadcasted, three options are available: “Low”,

“Medium” or “High”. Default is “High”.

• Allow Legacy Device(802.11b): This feature appears when

“Mode” option is set to “802.11g” or “802.11n”, it allows legacy devices not supporting “802.11g/n” mode to connect using the

“802.11b” mode.

• Custom Wireless Power(dBm): allows users to set a custom wireless power for both 5GHz/2.4GHz band, the value of this field must be between 1 and 31.

Access Point location

GWN7000 router has an interesting feature to help users to locate different access points using blinking

LED, to do so go under the access points page then click on button as shown on the below figure and the corresponding LED will start blinking its LEDs. This can help ease locating the Access points on a multideployment site.

Figure 16: locating Access Points

Note: If a GWN76xx is not being paired, or the pair icon is grey color, make sure that it is not being paired with another GWN7000 Router or GWN76xx Access Point acting as Master Controller, if yes, it needs to be unpaired first, or reset to factory default settings to make it available for pairing.

Network Groups

GWN7000 supports creating up to 16 different Network groups separated by VLANs and adding paired

GWN76xx Access Points.

To access Network Groups configuration page, log in to the GWN7000 WebGUI and go to Network

GroupNetwork Group.

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Figure 17: Network Group

The GWN7000 will have a default network group named group0, click on

“Add” to add a new network group.

to edit it, or click on

Figure 18: Add a New Network Group

When editing or adding a new network group, following tabs will appear to configure a network group:

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• Basic: Used to name the network group, and set a VLAN ID if adding a new network group, and addressing plans, refer to below table for each field.

Table 19: Basic

Network Group Name Specifies the name for the network group.

Enabled Check to activate the newly created network group.

WAN Membership

LAN Membership

Select the WAN port membership. Or use Multi-WAN option if enabled under RouterPortGlobal Settings

Select the LAN port membership.

VLAN

VLAN ID

Check to enable VLAN. This field is appearing only when having more than a network group.

Set a VLAN ID. Valid range is between 2 and 4093.

Enable IPv4 Check to enable IPv4 addressing for this network group

IPv4 Static Address Set a static IPv4 address for the network group when enabling IPv4.

Additional IPv4 Static

Address

Set an additional static IPv4 address for the network group when enabling

IPv4.

IPv4 Subnet Mask Set the Subnet Mask.

DHCP Enabled for IPv4

DHCP Start Address

Check to enable DHCP using IPv4. This will allow clients connected to this network group to get IPv4 addresses automatically from GWN7000 acting as DHCP server.

Set the starting IPv4 address for this network group’s clients.

DHCP End Address Set the ending IPv4 address for this network group’s clients

DHCP Lease Time

DHCP Options

DHCP Gateway

Set the lease time for DHCP clients, the value can be defined in hours, minutes, or as “infinite”. Default lease time is “12h”.

Set the DHCP options. Click on to add another option, and to delete an option.

Example: 44,192.168.2.50 for DHCP option 44 and 192.168.2.50 is the

WINS server’s address. Please refer to the following link for DHCP options syntax: https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/dhcp.dnsmasq

Defines the IP address of the DHCP gateway.

DHCP Preferred DNS Set the preferred DNS Servers via DHCP.

DHCP Alternate DNS Set the alternate DNS Servers via DHCP.

DHCPv4 Relay Enabled

Enable this option, if you want the GWN7000 relays the DHCP requests from clients to another DHCP server(s). Once checked Click on to add another DHCPv4 Relay Target, and to delete a DHCPv4 Relay

Target.

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Enable IPv6

IPv6 Relay from WAN

DHCP Enabled for IPv6

IPv6 Prefix for Assignment

IPv6 Subnet Hint

IPv6 Uplink

Enable Landing Page

Landing Page URL

Check to enable IPv6 addressing for this network group.

Check to allow GWN7000 to relay IPv6 DHCP request from network group’s clients to WAN port.

Check weather to enable IPv6 DHCP server for this network group.

Set the prefix value to be assigned to the network group. Valid range is between 1 to 64. Example: 64 will assign /64 prefixes.

Set the subnet mask value.

Select the WAN port.

Check to enable landing page when connecting to this network group’s

Wi-Fi. This will allow setting a landing page URL where wireless users will be redirected automatically to the configured URL.

Set the landing page URL to which clients will be redirected once connected to the network group’s Wi-Fi.

• Wi-Fi: Please refer to the below table for Wi-Fi tab options

Enable Wi-Fi

SSID

SSID Band

SSID Hidden

Wireless Client Limit

Enable Captive Portal

Captive Portal Policy

Table 20: Wi-Fi

Check to enable Wi-Fi for the network group.

Set or modify the SSID name.

Select the Wi-Fi band the GWN will use, three options are available:

• Dual-Band

• 2.4GHz

• 5Ghz

Select to hide SSID. SSID will not be visible when scanning for Wi-Fi, to connect a device to hidden SSID, potential wireless clients will need to specify SSID name and authentication password manually.

Configure the limit for wireless client. If there’s an SSID per-radio on a network group, each SSID will have the same limit.

So, setting a limit of 50 will limit each SSID to 50 users independently. If set to 0 the limit is disabled.

Click on the checkbox to enable the captive portal feature.

Select the captive portal policy already created on the “Captive portal” web page to be used in the created SSID.

Set the security mode for encryption. 5 options are available:

Security Mode

• WEP 64-bit: Using a static WEP key. The characters can only be

0-9 or A-F with a length of 10, or printable ASCII characters with a length of 5.

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Client Bridge Support

Client Time Policy

Use MAC Filtering

Client Isolation

• WEP 128-bit: Using a static WEP key. The characters can only be

0-9 or A-F with a length of 26, or printable ASCII characters with a length of 13.

• WPA/WPA2: Using “PSK” or “802.1x” as WPA Key Mode, with

“AES” or “AES/TKIP” Encryption Type.

• WPA2: Using “PSK” or “802.1x” as WPA Key Mode, with “AES” or

“AES/TKIP” Encryption Type. Recommended configuration for authentication.

• Open: No password is required. Users will be connected without authentication. Not recommended for security reasons.

Configures the client bridge support to allows the access point to be configured as a client for bridging wired only clients wirelessly to the network. When an access point is configured in this way, it will share the

WiFi connection to the LAN ports transparently. Once a Network Group has an Client Bridge Support enabled, the AP adopted in this Network

Group can be turned in to Bridge Client mode by click the Bridge button.

Configures the client time policy. Default is None.

Choose Blacklist/Whitelist to specify MAC addresses to be excluded/included from connecting to the zone’s Wi-Fi. Default is

Disabled.

Client isolation feature blocks any TCP/IP connection between connected clients to GWN7000’s Wired or Wi-Fi access point. Client isolation can be helpful to increase security for Guest networks/Public Wi-Fi.

Three modes are available:

• Internet Mode: Wireless clients will be allowed to access only the internet services and they cannot access any of the management services, either on the router nor the access points.

• Gateway MAC Mode: Wireless clients can only communicate with the gateway, the communication between clients is blocked and they cannot access any of the management services on the access points.

• Radio Mode: Wireless clients can access to the internet services,

GWN7xxx router and the access points but they cannot communicate with each other.

The default value is “Disabled”.

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Gateway MAC Address

This field is required when using Client Isolation, so users will not lose access to the Network (usually Internet).

Type in the default LAN Gateway’s MAC address (router’s MAC address for instance) in hexadecimal separated by “:”.

Example: 00:0B:82:8B:4D:D8

RSSI Enabled

Minimum RSSI (dBm)

Enable Voice Enterprise

Check to enable RSSI function, this will lead the AP to disconnect users below the configured threshold in Minimum RSSI (dBm).

Enter the minimum RSSI value in dBm. If the signal value is lower than the configured minimum value, the client will be disconnected. The input range is from “-94” or “-1”.

Enable this feature to help clients of APs connected to the GWN7000 to perform better roaming decision.

• The 802.11k standard helps clients to speed up the search for nearby APs that are available as roaming targets by creating an optimized list of channels. When the signal strength of the current

AP weakens, your device will scan for target APs from this list.

Enable 11R

Enable 11K

Enable 11V

Upstream Rate

Downstream Rate

• When your client device roams from one AP to another on the same network, 802.11r uses a feature called Fast Basic Service

Set Transition (FT) to authenticate more quickly. FT works with both pre-shared key (PSK) and 802.1X authentication methods.

11R, 11V, 11K respectively represents the feature sets the three protocols

802.11r, 802.11v, 802.11k specifies, enterprise audio is a function based on these feature sets, and 11R is required, without this function, the enterprise audio will be unavailable.

Set a limitation of upload speed on the SSID.

Set a limitation of download speed on the SSID.

• Device Membership: Used to add or remove paired access points to the network group.

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Figure 19: Device Membership

Click on to add the GWN76xx to the network group, or click on to remove it.

• Wi-Fi Schedule: Used to schedule the times when the Wi-Fi is ON or OFF.

In the below example, the Wi-Fi is scheduled to be active Monday starting from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM.

Note: The hour field is in 24 format (from 0 to 23). Valid range for minutes is 0-59.

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Figure 20: Wi-Fi Schedule

Note:

The schedule feature is based on SSID and not network group, meaning that you can schedule the broadcasting of different SSID on different periods of the day.

Users can Also add a device to a Network Group from Access Points Page:

- Select the desired AP to add to a Network Group and click on .

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Figure 21: Add AP to Network Group from Access Points Page

- Check to select the desired Network, on which the selected APs will be added, as shown in the above figure.

Create an SSID under a Network Group

Under Network Group Page, click to edit a network group or create a new network group and go to Wi-Fi tab.

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Refer to [ Table 20: Wi-Fi ] for Wi-Fi options.

Figure 22: Create an SSID

Additional SSID under Same Network Group

GWN7000 provides the ability to create an additional SSID under the same group.

To create an additional SSID go to Network GroupAdditional SSID.

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Figure 23: Additional SSID

Select one of the available network groups from Network Group Membership dropdown menu; this will create an additional SSID with the same Device Membership configured when creating the main network group.

Figure 24: Additional SSID Created

Click on to delete the additional SSID, or to edit it.

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Client Bridge

The Client Bridge feature allows an access point to be configured as a client for bridging wired only clients wirelessly to the network. When an access point is configured in this way, it will share the WiFi connection to the LAN ports transparently. This is not to be confused with a mesh setup. The client will not accept wireless clients in this mode.

Once a Network Group has an Client Bridge Support enabled, the AP adopted in this Network Group can be turned in to Bridge Client mode by click the Bridge button .

Please be noted that once an AP it turned into Client Bridge mode, it cannot be controlled by a Master anymore, and a factory reset is required to turn it back into normal AP mode.

Figure 25: Client Bridge

Important Notes:

• The access point that will be operating on bridge mode, must be set with a fixed IP address before activating the bridge mode on the access point.

• Users must enable client bridge support option under network group or SSID WiFi settings in order

to have it fully functional. See [Client Bridge Support]

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CLIENTS CONFIGURATION

Clients

Connected clients to different network groups can be shown and managed from a single interface.

Clients list can be accessed from GWN7000’s Web GUIClients to perform different actions to wired and wireless clients.

GWN7000 Enterprise Router with its DHCP server enabled on LAN ports level, will assign automatically an

IP address to the devices connected to its LAN ports like a computer or GWN76xx access points and to wireless clients connected to paired GWN76xx access points.

Figure 26: Clients

Click on

Status

under Actions to check a client’s status and modify its configuration.

Used to check user’s basic information such as MAC address, IP address, which Network group does it belong to, and to which access point if it is a wireless client, as well as Throughput and Aggregate usage.

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Figure 27: Client's Status

Edit IP and Name

Configuration tab allowing to set a name for a client and set a static IP.

Figure 28: Client's Configuration

Bandwidth Rules

As mentioned on the BANDWIDTH RULES section, users can set bandwidth rules for upstream and

downstream links per SSID, or per Client. For Clients users can set bandwidth rules by navigating to the menu ClientEditBandwidth Rules then click add new item.

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The following figure shows the settings:

Figure 29: Client Bandwidth Rules

Block a client

To block a client, click on under actions, this will add automatically the blocked client to Banned Client

MAC list under RouterPortGlobal Settings.

Figure 30: Block a Client

To unban a client, go to RouterPortGlobal Settings. Click on to remove it from the banned list.

Figure 31: Unban Client

Clients Access

From this menu, users can manage in global and way the blacklist of clients that will be blocked from accessing the WiFi network, click on global blacklist.

to add or remove MAC addresses of client from

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Figure 32: Global Blacklist

Figure 33: Managing the Global Blacklist

A second option, is to add custom access lists that will be used as matching mechanism for MAC address filtering option under network groups and SSIDs to allow (whitelist) or disallow (blacklist) clients access to the WiFi network. Click on in order to create new access list, then fill it with all MAC addresses to be matched. Once this is done, this access list can be used under network group or SSID WiFi settings to filter clients either using whitelist or blacklist mode.

Figure 34: Blacklist Access List

Time Policy

The timed client disconnect feature allows the system administrator to set a fixed time for which clients should be allowed to connect to the access point, after which the client will no longer be allowed to connect for a user configurable cool-down period. The configuration is based on a policy where the administrator can set the amount of time for which clients are allowed to connect to the WiFi and reconnect type and value after which they will be allowed to connect back after they have been disconnected.

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In order to create a new policy, go under ClientsTime Policy and add new one., then the following parameters:

Table 21: Time Policy Parameters

Option Description

Name

Enabled

Enter the name of the policy

Check the box to enable the policy

Limit Client Connection Time Sets amount of time a client may be connected.

Client Reconnect Timeout Type

Client Reconnect Timeout

Select the method with which we will reset a client’s connection timer so they may reconnect again. Options are:

• Reset Daily.

• Reset Weekly.

• Reset Hourly.

• Timed Reset.

If ‘Timed Reset’ is selected, this is the period for which the client will have to wait before reconnecting.

Reset Day

Reset Hour

If Reset Weekly is selected, this is the day the reset will be applied.

If Reset Weekly or Reset Daily is select, this is the hour and day the reset will be applied.

Note: Time tracking shall be accounted for on a per-policy basis, such that a client connected to any SSID assigned the time tracking policy will accrue a common counter, regardless of which SSID they are connected to (as long as those SSIDs all share the same time tracking policy).

Banned Clients

Click on to view the list of the clients that have been banned after time disconnect feature has taken effect, these clients will not be allowed to connect back until timeout reset or you can unblock a client by clicking on the icon .

Figure 35: Ban/Unban Client

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VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK)

Overview

VPN allows the GWN7000 to be connected to a remote VPN server using PPTP, L2TP/IPSec and

OpenVPN® protocols, or configure an OpenVPN® server and generate certificates and keys for clients,

VPN page can be accessed from the GWN7000 Web GUIVPN.

OpenVPN® Server Configuration

To use the GWN7000 as an OpenVPN® server, you will need to start creating OpenVPN® certificates and client certificates. Before generating server/client certificates, it is requested to generate first the Certificate

Authority (CA), which will help to issue server/clients certificates.

GWN7000 certificates can be managed from WebGUISystem SettingsCert. Manager.

Generate Self-Issued Certificate Authority (CA)

A certificate authority (CA) is a trusted entity that issues electronic documents that verify a digital entity's identity on the Internet. The electronic documents (a.k.a. digital certificates) are an essential part of secure communication and play an important part in the public key infrastructure (PKI).

To create a Certification Authority (CA), follow below steps:

1. Navigate to “System SettingsCert. ManagerCAs” on the GWN7000 web GUI.

2. Click on button. A popup window will appear.

3. Enter the CA values including CN, Key Length, and Digest algorithm… depending on your needs.

Refer to below figure showing an example of configuration and below table showing all available options with their respective description.

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Field

Common Name

Key Length

Figure 36: Create CA Certificate

Table 22: CA Certificate

Description

Enter the common name for the CA.

It could be any name to identify this certificate.

Example: “CATest”.

Choose the key length for generating the CA certificate.

Following values are available:

• 1024: 1024-bit keys are no longer sufficient to protect against attacks.

• 2048: 2048-bit keys are a good minimum.

(Recommended).

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Digest Algorithm

Lifetime (days)

Country Code

State or Province

City

Organization

Organization Unit

• 4096: 4096-bit keys are accepted by nearly all RSA systems. Using 4096-bit keys will dramatically increase generation time, TLS handshake delays, and CPU usage for TLS operations.

Choose the digest algorithm:

• SHA1: This digest algorithm provides a 160-bit fingerprint output based on arbitrary length input.

• SHA-256: This digest algorithm generates an almostunique, fixed size 256-bit (32-byte) hash. Hash is a one-way function – it cannot be decrypted back.

Enter the validity date for the CA certificate in days.

In our example, set to “120”.

Select a country code from the dropdown list.

Example: “MA”.

Enter a state name or province.

Example: “Casablanca”.

Enter a city name.

Example: “Casablanca”.

Enter the organization name.

Example: “GS”.

Enter the organization unit name.

Example: “Gs”.

Enter an email address.

Example: “[email protected]”

Email Address

4. Click on button after completing all the fields for the CA certificate.

5. Click on button to export the CA to local computer. The CA file has extension “.crt”.

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Figure 37: CA Certificate

Generate Server/Client Certificates

Create both server and client certificates for encrypted communication between clients and GWN7000 acting as an OpenVPN® server.

❖ Creating Server Certificate

To create server certificate, follow below steps:

1. Navigate to “System SettingsCert. ManagerCertificates”.

2. Click on button. A popup window will appear.

Refer to below figure showing an example of configuration and below table showing all available options with their respective description.

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Field

Common Name

CA Certificate

Figure 38: Generate Server Certificates

Table 23: Server Certificate

Description

Enter the common name for the server certificate.

It could be any name to identify this certificate.

Example: “ServerCertificate”.

Select CA certificate previously generated from the drop-down list.

Example: “CATest”.

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Certificate Type

Key Length

Digest Algorithm

Lifetime (days)

Country Code

State or Province

City

Organization

Email Address

3. Click on

Choose the certificate type from the drop-down list. It can be either a client or a server certificate.

Choose “Server” to generate server certificate.

Choose the key length for generating the server certificate.

Following values are available:

• 1024: 1024-bit keys are no longer sufficient to protect against attacks. Not recommended.

• 2048: 2048-bit keys are a good minimum. Recommended.

• 4096: 4096-bit keys are accepted by nearly all RSA systems. Using 4096-bit keys will dramatically increase generation time, TLS handshake delays, and CPU usage for TLS operations.

Choose the digest algorithm:

• SHA1: This digest algorithm provides a 160-bit fingerprint output based on arbitrary length input.

• SHA-256: This digest algorithm generates an almostunique, fixed size 256-bit (32-byte) hash. Hash is a one-way function – it cannot be decrypted back

Enter the validity date for the server certificate in days.

In our example, set to “120”.

Select a country code from the dropdown list.

Example: “MA”.

Enter a state name or province.

Example: “Casablanca”.

Enter a city name.

Example: “Casablanca”.

Enter the organization name.

Example: “GS”.

Enter an email address.

Example: “[email protected]”.

button after completing all the fields for the server certificate.

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Click on button to export the server certificate file in “.crt” format.

Click on button to export the server key file in “. key” format.

Click on button to revoke the server certificate if no longer needed.

Notes:

• The server certificates (.crt and .key) will be used by the GWN7000 when acting as a server.

• The server certificates (.crt and .key) can be exported and used on another OpenVPN® server.

❖ Creating Client Certificate

To create client certificate, follow below steps:

1- Create Users a. Navigate to “System SettingsUser Manager”. b. Click on button. The following window will pop up.

Figure 39: User Management c. Enter User information based on below descriptions.

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Field

Enabled

Full Name

Username

Password

IPSec Pre-Shared Key

Description

Check to enable the user.

Choose full name to identify the users.

Choose username to distinguish client’s certificate.

Enter user password for each username.

Enter the pre-shared key to connect to VPN server.

This field is used when clients are using pre-shared key. d. Repeat above steps for each user.

2- Create Client Certificate a. Navigate under “System SettingsCert. ManagerCertificates”. b. Click on button. The following window will pop up. c. Enter client certificate information based on below descriptions.

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Field

Common Name

CA Certificate

Certificate Type

Figure 40: Client Certificate

Table 24: Client Certificate

Description

Enter the common name for the client certificate.

It could be any name to identify this certificate.

Example: “ClientCertificate”.

Select the generated CA certificate from the drop-down list.

Choose the certificate type from the drop-down list.

It can be either a client or server certificate.

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Username

Key Length

Digest Algorithm

Lifetime (days)

Country Code

State or Province

City

Organization

Select created user to generate his certificate.

Choose the key length for generating the client certificate.

Following values are available:

• 1024: 1024-bit keys are no longer sufficient to protect against attacks. Not recommended.

• 2048: 2048-bit keys are a good minimum. Recommended.

• 4096: 4096-bit keys are accepted by nearly all RSA systems. Using 4096-bit keys will dramatically increase generation time, TLS handshake delays, and CPU usage for TLS operations.

Choose the digest algorithm:

• SHA1: This digest algorithm provides a 160-bit fingerprint output based on arbitrary length input.

• SHA-256: This digest algorithm generates an almostunique, fixed size 256-bit (32-byte) hash. Hash is a one-way function – it cannot be decrypted back

Enter the validity date for the client certificate in days.

Example: “120”.

Select a country code from the dropdown list.

Example: “MA”.

Enter a state name or province.

Example: “Casablanca”.

Enter a city name.

Example: “Casablanca”.

Enter the organization name.

Example: “GS”.

Enter an email address.

Example: “[email protected]”.

Email Address d. Click on after completing all the fields for the client certificate. e. Click on to export the client certificate file in “.crt” format. f. Click on to export the client key file in “.key” format.

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Click on to revoke the client certificate if no longer needed.

The client certificates (“.crt” and “.key”) will be used by clients connected to the GWN7000 in order to establish TLS handshake.

Notes:

• Client certificates generated from the GWN7000 need to be uploaded to the clients.

• For security improvement, each client needs to have his own username and certificate, this way even if a user is compromised, other users will not be affected.

Create OpenVPN® Server

Once client and server certificates are successfully created, you can create a new server, so that clients can be connected to it, by navigating under “VPNOpenVPN®Server”.

To create a new VPN server, follow below steps:

1. Click on and the following window will pop up.

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Field

Enable

VPN Name

Server Mode

Figure 41: Create OpenVPN® Server

Table 25: OpenVPN® Server

Description

Click on the checkbox in order to enable the OpenVPN® server feature.

Enter a name for the OpenVPN® server.

Choose the server mode the OpenVPN® server will operate with.

4 modes are available:

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Protocol

Interface

Local Port

Encryption Algorithm

Digest Algorithm

• PSK: used to establish a point-to-point OpenVPN® configuration. A VPN tunnel will be created with a server endpoint of a specified IP and a client endpoint of specified

IP. Encrypted communication between client and server will occur over UDP port 1194, the default OpenVPN® port.

• SSL: Authentication is made using certificates only (no user/pass authentication). Each user has a unique client configuration that includes their personal certificate and key.

This is useful if clients should not be prompted to enter a username and password, but it is less secure as it relies only on something the user has (TLS key and certificate).

• User Auth: Authentication is made using only CA, user and password, no certificates. Useful if the clients should not have individual certificates.

Less secure as it relies on a shared TLS key plus only something the user knows (Username/password).

• SSL + User Auth: Requires both certificate and username

/ password. Each user has a unique client configuration that includes their personal certificate and key.

Most secure, as there are multiple factors of authentication

(TLS Key and Certificate that the user has, and the username/password they know).

Choose the Transport protocol from the dropdown list, either TCP or

UDP. The default protocol is UDP.

Select the interface used to connect the GWN7000 to the uplink, either WAN1, WAN2 or All.

Configure the listening port for OpenVPN® server.

The default value is 1194.

Choose the encryption algorithm from the drop-down list, in order to encrypt data so that the receiver can decrypt it using same algorithm.

Choose the digest algorithm from the drop-down list, which will uniquely identify the data to provide data integrity and ensure that the receiver has an unmodified data from the one sent by the original host.

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TLS Authentication

TLS Pre-Shared Key

Certificate Authority

Server Certificate

IPv4 Tunnel Network

Redirect Gateway

Automatic Firewall Rule

Auto Forward Group Traffic

LZO Compression

Allow Peer to Change IP

2. Click

This option uses a static Pre-Shared Key (PSK) that must be generated in advance and shared among all peers. This feature adds extra protection to the TLS channel by requiring that incoming packets have a valid signature generated using the PSK key.

Enter the generated TLS Pre-Shared Key when using TLS

Authentication.

Select a generated CA from the drop-down list.

Select a generated Server Certificate from the drop-down list.

Enter the network range that the GWN7000 will be serving from to the OpenVPN® client.

Note: The network format should be the following 10.0.10.0/16.

The mask should be at least 16 bits.

When redirect-gateway is used, OpenVPN® clients will route DNS queries through the VPN, and the VPN server will need to handle them.

Enable automatic firewall rule.

If enabled, choose which groups you want to forward, if not, you can manually configure the forward rules under firewall settings.

Select whether to activate LZO compression or no, if set to

“Adaptive”, the server will make the decision whether this option will be enabled or no.

Allow remote change the IP and/or Port, often applicable to the situation when the remote IP address changes frequently.

after completing all the fields.

3. Click on top of the WebGUI in order to apply changes.

Figure 42: OpenVPN®

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OpenVPN® Client configuration

The GWN7000 act as both, an OpenVPN® client and server, once users and client certificate created,

navigate under “VPNOpenVPN®Client” and follow steps below:

1. Click on and the following window will pop up.

Figure 43: OpenVPN® Client

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Field

Enable

VPN Name

Protocol

Interface

Local Port

Remote OpenVPN® Server

Remote OpenVPN® Server

Port

Auth Mode

Table 26: OpenVPN® Client

Description

Click on the checkbox to enable the OpenVPN® client feature.

Enter a name for the OpenVPN® client.

Choose the Transport protocol from the dropdown list, either TCP or

UDP. The default protocol is UDP.

Select the interface used to connect the GWN7000 to the uplink, either WAN1, WAN2 or All.

Configure the listening port for OpenVPN® server. Default is 1194.

Configure the remote OpenVPN® server IP address.

Configure the remote OpenVPN® server port.

Choose the server mode the OpenVPN® server will operate with, 4 modes are available:

• PSK: used to establish a point-to-point OpenVPN® configuration. A VPN tunnel will be created with a server endpoint of a specified IP and a client endpoint of specified

IP. Encrypted communication between client and server will occur over UDP port 1194, the default OpenVPN® port.

• SSL: Authentication is made using certificates only (no user/pass authentication). Each user has a unique client configuration that includes their personal certificate and key.

This is useful if clients should not be prompted to enter a username and password, but it is less secure as it relies only on something the user has (TLS key and certificate).

• User Auth: Authentication is made using only CA, user and password, no certificates. Useful if the clients should not have individual certificates.

Less secure as it relies on a shared TLS key plus only something the user knows (Username/password).

• SSL + User Auth: Requires both certificate and username

/ password. Each user has a unique client configuration that includes their personal certificate and key.

Most secure, as there are multiple factors of authentication

(TLS Key and Certificate that the user has, and the username/password they know).

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Encryption Algorithm

Digest Algorithm

TLS Authentication

TLS Pre-Shared Key

Choose the encryption algorithm from the drop-down list, in order to encrypt data so that the receiver can decrypt it using the same algorithm.

Choose the digest algorithm from the drop-down list, which will uniquely identify the data to provide data integrity and ensure that the receiver has an unmodified data from the one sent by the original host.

This option uses a static Pre-Shared Key (PSK) that must be generated in advance and shared among all peers.

This feature adds extra protection to the TLS channel by requiring that incoming packets have a valid signature generated using the

PSK key.

Enter the generated TLS Pre-Shared Key when using TLS

Authentication.

Auto Forward Group Traffic

Network Group

Routes

Don’t Pull Routes

Client Certificate

If enabled, choose which groups you want to forward, if not, you can manually configure the forward rules under firewall settings.

Select the Network group to which the client belongs, or select All

Network Groups.

This feature allows specifying and adding custom routes.

If enabled, client will ignore routes pushed by the server.

Force Default Route through

Server

Force a default route to the server.

IP Masquerading

LZO Compression

Allow Peer to Change IP

This feature is a form of network address translation (NAT) which allows internal computers with no known address outside their network, to communicate to the outside. It allows one machine to act on behalf of other machines.

LZO encoding provides a very high compression ratio with good performance. LZO encoding works especially well for CHAR and

VARCHAR columns that store very long character strings.

Allow remote change the IP and/or Port, often applicable to the situation when the remote IP address changes frequently.

CA Certificate

Click on “Upload” and select the “CA” certificate generated previously on this guide.

Click on “Upload” and select the “Client Certificate” generated previously on this guide.

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Client Private Key

Click on “Upload” and select the “Client Private Key” generated previously on this guide.

Enter the client private key password Client Private Key Password

2. Click after completing all the fields.

3. Click on top of the webGUI in order to apply changes.

Figure 44: OpenVPN® Client

L2TP/IPSEC Configuration

Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) is a tunneling protocol used to support virtual private networks (VPNs) or as part of the delivery of services by ISPs. It does not provide any encryption or confidentiality by itself.

Rather, it relies on an encryption protocol that it passes within the tunnel to provide privacy.

GWN7000 L2TP/IPSec Client Configuration

To configure L2TP client on the GWN7000, navigate under “VPNL2TP/IPSec” and set the following:

1- Click on and the following window will pop up.

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Field

Enable

VPN Name

WAN Port

Remote L2TP Server

Username

Password

Figure 45: L2TP Client Configuration

Table 27: L2TP Configuration

Description

Click on the checkbox in order to enable the L2TP client feature.

Enter a name for the L2TP client.

Select which WAN port is connected to the uplink, either WAN1 or

WAN2.

Enter the IP/Domain of the remote L2TP Server.

Enter the Username for authentication against the VPN Server.

Enter the Password for authentication against the VPN Server.

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Connection Type

Select either Transport mode or Tunnel mode:

• Transport mode is commonly used between end stations or between an end station and a gateway, if the gateway is being treated as a host.

• Tunnel mode is used between gateways, or at an end station to a gateway, the gateway acting as a proxy for the hosts behind it.

Pre-Shared Key

Auto Forward Group Traffic

Remote Subnet

Use Tunnel as Default Route

IP Masquerading

Enter the L2TP pre-shared key.

If enabled, choose which groups you want to forward, if not, you can manually configure the forward rules under firewall settings.

Configures the remote subnet for the VPN.

The format should be “IP/Mask” where IP could be either IPv4 or

IPv6 and mask is a number between 1 and 32.

For example: 192.168.5.0/24

Enable this option so that L2TP/IPSec VPN Tunnel will be used by default.

This feature is a form of network address translation (NAT) which allows internal computers with no known address outside their network, to communicate to the outside. It allows one machine to act on behalf of other machines.

Enable this option to retrieve DNS from the VPN server. Use DNS from Server

Number of Attempts to

Reconnect

Configures the number of attempts to reconnect the L2TP client, if this number is exceeded, the client will be disconnected from the

L2TP/IP Server.

Use Built-in IPv6 management Enable the IPv6 management for the VPN.

Port Forwarding Rules Enter the port-forwarding rule to be used for the VPN.

Port Trigger Rules Enter the port trigger rule to be used for the VPN.

2- Click after completing all the fields.

3- Click on top of the web GUI to apply changes.

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Figure 46: L2TP Client

PPTP CONFIGURATION

A data-link layer protocol for wide area networks (WANs) based on the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and developed by Microsoft that enables network traffic to be encapsulated and routed over an unsecured public network such as the Internet. Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) allows the creation of virtual private networks (VPNs), which tunnel TCP/IP traffic through the Internet.

GWN7000 Client Configuration

To configure PPTP client on the GWN7000, navigate under “VPNPPTP” and set the following:

1- Click on and the following window will pop up.

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Field

Enable

VPN Name

Remote PPTP Server

Figure 47: PPTP Client Configuration

Table 28: PPTP Configuration

Description

Click on the checkbox to enable the PPTP VPN client feature.

Enter a name for the PPTP client.

Enter the IP/Domain of the remote PPTP Server.

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Username

Password

Auto Forward Group Traffic

Subnet

Enter the Username for authentication against the VPN Server.

Enter the Password for authentication against the VPN Server.

If enabled, choose which groups you want to forward, if not, you can manually configure the forward rules under firewall settings.

Configures the remote subnet for the VPN.

The format should be “IP/Mask” where IP could be either IPv4 or

IPv6 and mask is a number between 1 and 32.

For example: 192.168.5.0/24

Use Tunnel as Default Route

IP Masquerading

Use DNS from Server

Enable this option so that PPTP VPN Tunnel will be used by default.

This feature is a form of network address translation (NAT) which allows internal computers with no known address outside their network, to communicate to the outside. It allows one machine to act on behalf of other machines.

Enable this option to retrieve DNS from the VPN server.

Number of Attempts to

Reconnect

Configures the number of attempts to reconnect the PPTP client, if this number is exceeded, the client will be disconnected from the

PPTP Server.

Use Built-in IPv6 management Enable the IPv6 management for the VPN.

MPPE

Port Forwarding Rules

Port Trigger Rules

Enable / disable the MPPE for data encryption. By default, it’s disabled.

Enter the port-forwarding rule to be used for the VPN.

Enter the port trigger rule to be used for the VPN.

2- Click after completing all the fields.

3- Click on top of the webGUI to apply changes.

Figure 48: PPTP Client

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GWN7000 PPTP Server Configuration

To configure PPTP server on the GWN7000, go to “VPNPPTPServer” and set the following:

1- Click on and the following window will pop up.

Field

Enable

VPN Name

PPTP Server Address

Figure 49: PPTP Server Configuration

Table 29: PPTP Server Configuration Parameters

Description

Click on the checkbox to enable the PPTP VPN Server.

Enter a name for the PPTP Server.

Configure the PPTP server local address (ex: 192.168.1.1).

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Client Start Address

Client End Address

Configure the remote client IP start address.

Note: this address should be in the same subnet as the end address and PPTP server address.

Configure the remote client IP end address.

Note: this address should be in the same subnet as the start address and PPTP server address.

Allow Forwarding between

Site-To-Site VPNs

This option allows forwarding between multiple site-to-site VPNs. i.e. if there are multiple PPTP users configured with client subnet enabled, then this option allows one PPTP client subnet to access another PPTP client subnet through the server.

Note: for this option to work more than one PPTP users with client subnet must be enabled.

MPPE

Auto Forward group traffic

Network Group

Enable / disable the MPPE for data encryption. By default, it’s disabled.

Configures if enable group traffic forwards to be automatic. If enabled, users should choose which groups they want to forward, if not, users can still do it manually via forwarding rules under firewall settings.

Note: if cancel check, the previous group settings will be cleared, user need to re-configure the groups.

Configure the network group to access VPN connection, you can choose more than one network group at the same time.

2- Click after completing all the fields.

3- Click on top of the web GUI to apply changes.

After this step, you need to create user accounts under web GUI  System Settings  User Manager in order to connected to the configured PPTP server.

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FIREWALL

GWN7000 supports firewall feature to control incoming and outgoing traffic by restricting or rejecting specific traffic, as well as preventing attacks to the GWN7000 networks for enhanced security.

The Firewall feature includes 3 menus:

• Basic Settings: Used to enable SYN Flood, setup port forwarding, DMZ, inter-group traffic forwarding and UPnP.

• Traffic Rules: Used to control incoming/outgoing traffic in customized scheduled times, and taking actions for specified rules such as Accept; Reject and Drop.

• Advanced: Used to setup SNAT and DNAT.

Basic Settings

General Settings

SYN Flood Protection is used to avoid DOS attacks.

SYN Flood Protection is enabled by default on GWN7000, you can edit the “SYN Flood Rate Limit”, “SYN

Flood Burst Limit” and whether to drop or no the invalid packets as shown in the below screenshot

Figure 50: BasicGeneral Settings

Port Forwarding

Port forwarding allows redirecting a communication request from one address and port number combination to another.

Below are different possible actions:

• To add a Port Forward rule, click on .

• To edit a Port Forward rule, click on

• To delete a Port Forward rule, click on

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Figure 51: Port Forward

Refer to following table for Port Forwarding option when editing or creating a port-forwarding rule:

Table 30: Port Forward

Name

Enabled

Protocol

Source Group

Source Port

Destination Group

Destination IP

Destination Port

Specify a name for the port forward rule.

Check to enable this port forward rule.

Select a protocol, users can select TCP, UDP or TCP/UDP.

Select the WAN Interface.

Set the Source Port number.

Select the LAN group.

Set the destination IP address.

Set the Destination Port number.

DMZ

GWN7000 support DMZ, where it is possible to specify a LAN client to be put on the DMZ.

• To add an IP into the DMZ, click on .

• To edit a DMZ entry, click on

• To delete a DMZ entry, click on

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Figure 52: DMZ

Refer to below table for DMZ fields:

Name

Enabled

Source Group

Destination Group

Destination IP

Table 31: DMZ

Specify a name for the DMZ entry.

Check to enable this DMZ entry.

Select the WAN interface

Select the LAN group.

Set the destination IP address.

Inter-Group Traffic Forwarding

GWN7000 offers the possibility to allow traffic between different groups and interfaces.

Users can select to edit a source group and add to it other network groups and WAN interfaces to allow inter-group traffic between the selected members.

Figure 53: Inter-group Traffic Forwarding

Click on click on next to source group, and click on to add groups and interfaces to selected groups, or

to remove members from selected groups as shown in below figure

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Figure 54: Enabling inter-group traffic

UPnP

GWN7000 supports UPnP that enables programs running on a host to configure automatically port forwarding.

UPnP allows a program to make the GWN7000 to open necessary ports, without any intervention from the user, without making any check.

UPnP settings can be accessed from GWN7000 WebGUIFirewallBasicUPnP Settings.

Refer to below Table for UPnP settings.

Table 32: UPnP Settings

Enable Daemon

External Interface

Internal Interface

Enable UPnP

Enable NAT-PMP

Secure Mode

Logging to Syslog

Download Speed

Upload Speed

Check to enable Daemon for UPnP.

Select the WAN interface to allow external connection to resources that enables UPnP.

Check the LAN network group on which to activate UPnP.

Check to Enable UPnP for the LAN clients on selected network group.

Check to enable automatic NAT Port Mapping (NAT-PMP).

Check to activate secure mode for devices that activate UPnP.

Choose whether to log activities for UPnP into Syslog.

Set the Download speed value in KB/s. Default is 2048

Set the Upload speed value in KB/s. Default is 1024.

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Traffic Rules Settings

GWN7000 offers the possibility to fully control incoming/outgoing traffic for different protocols in customized scheduled times, and taking actions for specified rules such as Accept; Reject and Drop.

Following actions are available to configure Input, output and forward rules for configured protocols

• To add new rule, Click on .

• To edit a rule, Click on .

• To delete a rule, Click on .

Figure 55: Traffic Rules Settings

Refer to below table for each tab, when editing or creating a traffic rule:

Name

Enabled

IP Family

Source Group

Protocol

Source IP Address

Table 33: Firewall Traffic Rules

Specify a name for the traffic rule.

Check to enable this rule.

Select the IP version, three options are available: IPv4, IPv6 or Any.

Select a WAN interface or a LAN group for Source Group, or select All.

Select one of the protocols from dropdown list or All, available options are: UDP, TCP, TCP/UCP, UDP-Lite, ICMP, AH, SCTP, IGMP and All.

Set the Source IP address, it can be an IPv4 or IPv6 address.

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Source MAC address

Destination IP

Destination Port(s)

Schedule Start Date

Set the Source MAC address.

Set the destination IP address, it can be an IPv4 or IPv6 address.

Set the destination’s port(s).

Click on icon to schedule a start date for this rule to be applied.

Schedule End Date

Click on icon to schedule an end date for this rule to cease effect.

Schedule Start Time

Click on icon to schedule a start time for this rule to be applied.

Schedule End Time

Schedule Weekdays List of

Weekdays

Schedule Days of the Month

Treat Time Values as UTC

Instead of Local Time

Firewall Action

Click on icon to schedule an end time for this rule to cease effect.

Select the days, on which the traffic rule will be applied, the unselected days will ignore this rule.

Enter the days of the months (separated by space) on which the traffic rule will be applied.

Example: 5 10 15

This will be applied only on 5 th , 10 th and 15 th day monthly.

Check to use UTC as time zone for the specified times, instead of using

GWN7000’s local time.

Select which action to perform for the given traffic rule, 3 options are available: Accept, Reject or Drop.

Firewall Advanced Settings

Firewall Advanced Settings page provides the ability to setup input/output policies for each WAN interface and LAN groups; as well as setting configuration for Static and Dynamic NAT.

General Settings

Click on next to a WAN interface or Network group to edit its input and output policies.

Refer to below table for general settings options

Table 34: Firewall-General Settings

Input Policy

Output Policy

IP Masquerading

Select which action to apply to all incoming traffic to this interface/LAN group, 3 actions are available: Accept, Reject and Drop.

Select which action to apply to all outgoing traffic from this interface/LAN group, 3 actions are available: Accept, Reject and Drop.

Check to enable IP Masquerading, this will allow internal computers with no known address outside their network, to communicate to the outside.

It allows one machine to act on behalf of other machines.

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MSS Clamping

Log Dropped and Reject

Traffic to Syslog

Limit for Dropped and

Rejected Traffic

Check to enable MSS Clamping. This will provide a method to prevent fragmentation when the MTU value on the communication path is lower than the MSS value.

Check to send all rejected and dropped traffic logs to configured Syslog

Server.

Specify the limit for dropped and reject traffic. The value format is N/unit, where N is a digit number, and unit can either be in second, minute, hour or day.

SNAT

Following actions are available for SNAT.

• To add new SNAT entry, click on .

• To edit a SNAT entry, click on .

• To delete a SNAT rule, click on .

Refer to below table when creating or editing an SNAT entry

Table 35: SNAT

Name

Enabled

IP Family

Source Group

Destination Group

Protocol

Source IP

Rewrite IP

Destination IP

Specify a name for the SNAT entry

Check to enable this SNAT entry.

Select the IP version, three options are available: IPv4, IPv6 or Any.

Select a WAN interface or a LAN group for Source Group, or select All.

Select a WAN interface or a LAN group for Destination Group, or select

All. Make sure that destination and source groups are different to avoid conflict.

Select one of the protocols from dropdown list or All, available options are: UDP, TCP, TCP/UCP and All.

Set the Source IP address.

Set the Rewrite IP. The source IP address of the data package from the source group will be updated to this configured IP.

Set the Destination IP address.

Schedule Start Date

Schedule End Date

Click on icon to schedule a start date for this SNAT entry to be applied.

Click on icon to schedule an end date for this SNAT entry to end.

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Schedule Start Time

Click on icon to schedule a start time for this SNAT entry to be applied.

Schedule End Time

Schedule Weekdays List of

Weekdays

Schedule Days of the Month

Click on icon to schedule an end time for this SNAT entry to end.

Select the days, on which the SNAT entry will be applied, the unselected days will ignore this rule.

Enter the days of the months (separated by space) on which the SNAT entry will be applied.

Example: 5 10 15

This will be applied only on 5 th , 10 th and 15 th day monthly.

Check to use UTC as time zone for the specified times, instead of using

GWN7000’s local time.

Treat Time Values as UTC

Instead of Local Time

DNAT

Following actions are available for DNAT:

• To add new DNAT entry, click on .

• To edit a DNAT entry, click on .

• To delete a DNAT rule, click on .

Refer to below table when creating or editing a DNAT entry:

Table 36: DNAT

Name

Enabled

IP Family

Source Group

Destination Group

Protocol

Source IP

Rewrite IP

Destination IP

Specify a name for the DNAT entry

Check to enable this DNAT entry.

Select the IP version, three options are available: IPv4, IPv6 or Any.

Select a WAN interface or a LAN group for Source Group, or select All.

Select a WAN interface or a LAN group for Destination Group, or select

All. Make sure that destination and source groups are different to avoid conflict.

Select one of the protocols from dropdown list or All, available options are: UDP, TCP, TCP/UCP and All.

Set the Source IP address.

Set the Rewrite IP. The source IP address of the data package from the source group will be updated to this configured IP.

Set the Destination IP address.

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Schedule Start Date

Schedule End Date

Click on icon to schedule a start date for this DNAT entry to be applied.

Click on icon to schedule an end date for this DNAT entry to end.

Schedule Start Time

Schedule End Time

Schedule Weekdays List of

Weekdays

Schedule Days of the Month

Treat Time Values as UTC

Instead of Local Time

Enable NAT Reflection

Click on icon to schedule a start time for this DNAT entry to be applied.

Click on icon to schedule an end time for this DNAT entry to end.

Select the days, on which the DNAT entry will be applied, the unselected days will ignore this rule.

Enter the days of the months (separated by space) on which the DNAT entry will be applied.

Example: 5 10 15

This will be applied only on 5 th , 10 th and 15 th day monthly.

Check to use UTC as time zone for the specified times, instead of using

GWN7000’s local time.

Check to enable NAT Reflection for this DNAT entry to allow the access of a service via the public IP address from inside the local network.

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CAPTIVE PORTAL

Captive Portal feature on GWN7000 Router allows to define a Landing Page (Web page) that will be displayed on Wi-Fi clients’ browsers when attempting to access Internet. Once connected to an Ethernet port or a GWN76xx AP connected to the router, Wired or Wi-Fi clients will be forced to view and interact with that landing page before Internet access is granted.

The Captive Portal feature can be configured from the GWN7000 Web page, by navigating to “Captive

Portal”.

The page contains three tabs: Policy, Files and Clients.

Policy Configuration Page

The policy configuration page contains options for authentication type used when enabling the captive portal feature. The following table describes all the settings on this page:

Field

Name

Expiration

Authentication Type

RADIUS Server Address

RADIUS Server Port

Table 37: Basic Configuration Page

Description

Enter a name to identify the created landing page.

Enter the expiration time for the landing page, this field must contain an integer between from 60 to 604800 (in minutes).

If this field is set to 0 the landing page will never expire.

Choose the authentication type from dropdown list, three types of authentication are available:

• No Authentication: when choosing this option, the landing page feature will not provide any type of authentication, it will instead prompt users to accept the license agreement to gain access to internet.

• RADIUS Server: choosing this option will allow users to set a RADIUS server to authenticate clients connected to the router.

• WeChat: choosing this option will allow users to log in using

WeChat app.

Enter the IP address or the FQDN of the RADIUS server used for authenticating clients.

Enter the RADIUS server port, by default tis 1812.

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RADIUS Server Secret

ShopId

AppId

SecretKey

Portal Page Customization

Enter the shared key between authenticator and RADIUS server.

Enter the ShopId for WeChat.

Enter the AppId for WeChat.

Enter the SecretKey for WeChat authentication.

This option provides users to choose the landing page that will be shown once a client tries to connect to the GWN, two pages are available:

• Portal Default: This page is used when no authentication is specified, users will only need to accept license agreement to gain access to internet.

• Portal Pass: This option provides authentication textbox when using RADIUS authentication mode, in order to enter username and identity stored in RADIUS database.

Files Configuration Page

Files configuration page allows users to view and upload HTML pages and related files (images…).

The captive portal uses two HTML pages using authentication scenarios, either portal_default.html which doesn’t provide authentication and is only accepting license agreement, while portal_pass.html provides textboxes for authentication, Wired or Wi-Fi clients will be redirected to one of these pages before accessing

Internet.

The following figure shows portal_default.html page:

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Figure 56: portal_default.html page

The following figure shows portal_pass.html page:

Figure 57: portal_pass.html page

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The following figure shows default files used for Captive Portal:

Figure 58: Files Settings Page

• Click to upload a new Web page.

• Click to add a new folder.

• Click to upload files to the selected folder.

• Folder can be selected from the dropdown list

Clients Page

Clients page lists MAC addresses of authenticated devices using captive portal.

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Figure 59: Client Web Page

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BANDWIDTH RULES

The bandwidth rule is a GWN7000 feature that allows users to limit bandwidth utilization per SSID, MAC address or IP address.

This option can be configured from the GWN7000 WebGUI under “Bandwidth Rules”.

Click to add a new rule, the following table provides an explanation about different options for bandwidth rules.

Table 38: Bandwidth Rules

Field Description

Type

Choose the type of rules to apply for bandwidth utilization from the dropdown list, three options are available:

• SSID: Set a bandwidth limitation on the SSID level.

• MAC: Set a bandwidth limitation per MAC address.

• IP Address: Set a bandwidth limitation per IP address.

SSID

MAC

Select the SSID to which the limitation will be applied, this option appears only when SSID type is selected.

Enter the MAC address of the device to which the limitation will be applied, this option appears only when MAC type is selected.

IP address

Enter the IP address of the device to which the limitation will be applied, this option appears only when IP Address type is selected.

Network Group

Choose the network group to which belongs the device, this option is available when choosing either MAC or IP address type.

Upstream Rate Specify the limit for the upload bandwidth using Kbps or Mbps.

Downstream Rate Specify the limit for the download bandwidth using Kbps or Mbps.

The following figure shows an example of MAC address rule limitation.

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Figure 60: MAC Address Bandwidth rule

The following figure shows examples of bandwidth rules:

Figure 61: Bandwidth Rules

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MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING

GWN7000 offers multiple tools and options for maintenance and debugging to help further troubleshooting and monitoring the GWN7000 resources.

Maintenance

Maintenance page can be accessed from GWN7000 WebGUISystem SettingsMaintenance.

Refer to below table for maintenance tabs and fields.

Table 39: Maintenance

Web WAN Access

Web HTTP Access

Web HTTPS Port

Country

Time Zone

NTP Server

Date Display Format

Basic

Enable the web WAN access. By default, it’s disabled

Enable the web HTTP Access. By default, it’s disabled.

Specifies the HTTPS port. By default, is 443.

Select the country from the drop-down list.

Configure time zone for the GWN7000. Please reboot the device to take effect.

Configure the IP address or URL of the NTP server, the device will obtain the date and time from the configured server.

Change the Date Display Format, three options are possible YYYY/MM/DD,

MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY

Upgrade

Authenticate Config File Authenticate configuration file before acceptance. Default is disabled.

XML Config File Password

Enter the password for encrypting the XML configuration file using OpenSSL.

The password is used to decrypt the XML configuration file if it is encrypted via OpenSSL.

Upgrade Via

Specify uploading method for firmware and configuration. 3 options are available: HTTP, HTTPS and TFTP.

Firmware Server

Config Server

Check Update on Boot

Configure the IP address or URL for the firmware upgrade server.

Configure the IP address or URL for the configuration file server.

Choose whether to enable or disable automatic upgrade and provisioning after reboot.

Default is disabled.

Automatic Upgrade Check

Interval(m)

Reboot

Download Configuration

Specify the time period to check for firmware upgrade (in minutes).

Click on Reboot button to reboot the device

Click on Download to download the device’s configuration file.

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Upgrade Now

Factory Reset

Click on Upgrade, to launch firmware/config file provisioning.

Please make sure to Save and Apply changes before clicking on Upgrade.

Click on Reset to restore the GWN7000 as well as all online GWN76xx units to factory default settings

Access

Current Administrator

Password

New Administrator

Password

Confirm New

Administrator Password

Enter the current administrator password

Change the current password. This field is case sensitive with a maximum length of 32 characters.

Enter the new administrator password one more time to confirm.

User Password

Configure the password for user-level Web GUI access. This field is case sensitive with a maximum length of 32 characters.

User Password

Confirmation

Enter the new User password again to confirm.

Syslog Server

Syslog Level

Syslog

Enter the IP address or URL of Syslog server. Please reboot the GWN7000 to take effect.

Select the level of Syslog, 5 levels are available: None, Debug, Info,

Warning and Error. Please reboot the GWN7000 to take effect.

Logserver

The logserver page allows the user to configure syslog server on GWN7000 in order to save log messages on connected external USB drive.

First connect a USB drive to the Access point, then configure the parameters and make sure to start the server in order to collect messages from devices sending syslog to GWN.

Following table gives description for configuration parameters of GWN Logserver:

Option Description

Enable WAN Firewall Rule Enable WAN Firewall rules to allow incoming syslog messages to the router.

Logrotate File Size

Logrotate File Count

Select the size of file to trigger rotation, if left empty, then the router will use only the Logrotate frequency rules to trigger rotation.

Select the Maximum number of rotates files to keep. Default is 56 files.

Logrotate Mode

Choose the time rotation frequency mode (default every 3 hours).

• Every X hours (0-23)

• Every X Minutes (0-59).

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Hours

Minutes

Hour of the day

Day of the week

• X hour of day (0-23).

• X day of week (Sunday-Saturday) + X hour of day (0-23).

Enter the number of hours period after which trigger file rotation.

Enter the number of Minutes period after which trigger file rotation.

Enter the hour of day at which trigger file rotation.

Enter Day of the week + hour of day, at which trigger file rotation.

Devices Select the path (a USB partition) to store collected logs. Required.

Enable Logserver Enables the logserver

After settings up the logserver and saving the settings, users need to connect a USB external storage and press Start button in order to start collecting logs.

All log messages from all devices will be put on one single file, and the router will keep rotating and creating new files based on the configured rotation policy.

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Figure 62: Logserver Configuration

Debug

Many debugging tools are available on GWN7000’s WebGUI to check the status and troubleshoot

GWN7000’s services and networks.

Debug page offers 4 tabs: Capture, Ping/Traceroute, Syslog and Nat Table.

Capture

This section is used to capture packet traces from the GWN7000 interfaces (WAN ports and network groups) for troubleshooting purpose or monitoring...

It is needed to plug an USB storage device to one of the USB ports on the back of the GWN7000.

Click on to start capturing on a certain device plugged to the USB port.

Click on to stop the capture.

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Click on to show the captured files on a chosen device, and the capture files details will appear, click on folder, or click on

to delete all files, click on next to a capture file to download it on a local to delete it.

Figure 63: Capture Files

The below table will show different fields used on capture page

File Name

Interface

Device

File Size

Rotate Count

Direction

Source Port

Destination Port

Source IP

Dest IP

Protocol

Table 40: Debug-Capture

Enter the name of the capture file that will be generated.

Choose an Interface (WAN port1 or 2, or a network group) from where to begin the capture.

Choose a device plugged to USB port to save the capture once started.

Set a File size that the capture will not exceed (Optional field).

Set a value for rotating captures (Optional Field).

Choose if you want to get all traffic or only outgoing or incoming to the choses interface.

Set the Source Port to filter capture traffic coming from the defined source port.

Set the Destination Port to filter capture traffic coming from the defined port.

Set the Source IP to filter capture traffic coming from the defined source IP.

Set the Destination IP to filter capture traffic coming from the defined destination

IP.

Choose ALL or a specific protocol to capture (IP, ARP, RARP, TCP, UDP, ICMP,

IPv6)

Ping/Traceroute

Ping and Traceroute are useful debugging tools to verify reachability with other clients across the network

(WAN or LAN). The GWN7000 offers both Ping and Traceroute tools for IPv4 and IPv6 protocols.

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To use these tools, go to GWN7000 WebGUISystem SettingsDebug and click on Ping/Traceroute.

Figure 64: IP Ping

• Next to Tool choose from the dropdown menu:

- IPv4 Ping for an IPv4 Ping test to Target

- IPv6 Ping for an IPv6 Ping test to Target

- IPv4 Traceroute for an IPv4 Traceroute to Target

- IPv6 Traceroute for an IPv6 Traceroute to Target

• Type in the destination’s IP address/domain name in Target field.

• Click on Run.

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Figure 65: Traceroute

Syslog

GWN7000 supports dumping the syslog information to a remote server under Web GUISystem

SettingsMaintenanceSyslog.

Enter the syslog server hostname or IP address and select the level for the syslog information. Five levels of syslog are available: None, Debug, Info, Warning, and Error.

Syslog messages are also displayed in real time under Web GUISystem SettingsDebugSyslog.

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Figure 66: Syslog

NAT Table

NAT table is updated dynamically on GWN7000’s WebGUI, to check the NAT table go to System

SettingsDebugNAT Table.

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Figure 67: NAT table

Email/Notification

The Email/Notification page allows the administrator to select a predefined set of system events and to send notifications upon the change of the set events.

Note: A reboot is required in order to activate email notification feature.

Filed

Enabled

Host

Port

Username

Password

Email Address

Table 41: Email Setting

Description

Enable/disable the email settings. By default, it’s disabled

Configures the SMTP Email Server IP or Domain Name.

Specifies the Port number used by server to send email.

Specifies sender’s User ID or account ID in the email system used.

Specifies sender’s password of the email account.

Specifies the email address of the administer where to receive notifications.

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The following table describe the notifications configuration settings.

Filed

Enabled

Memory Usage

Table 42: Email Events

Description

Enable/disable the notification. By default, it’s disabled

Configures whether to send notification if memory usage is greater than the configured threshold. By default, it’s disabled.

Memory Usage

Threshold (%)

Specifies the Memory Usage Threshold (%). Must be integer between 1 and 100.

CPU Usage

Configures whether to send notification if CPU usage is greater than the configured threshold. By default, it’s disabled.

CPU Usage

Threshold (%)

Firmware upgrade

Add/Remove

Network Group

Specifies the CPU Usage Threshold (%). Must be integer between 1 and 100.

Additional SSID

Time Zone Change

Administrator

Password Change

AP Offline

Configures whether to send notification on firmware upgrade. Default is disabled.

Configures whether to send notification when network groups has been added/removed.

Configures whether to send notification if any additional SSID is enabled. Default is disabled.

Configures whether to send notification on time zone change. Default is disabled.

Configures whether to send notification on admin password change. Default is disabled.

Configures whether to send notification when AP going offline. Default is disabled.

LED Schedule

GWN7000 supports the LED schedule feature. This feature is used to set the timing of the LEDs to stay

ON and when they will go OFF at customer’s convenience. This can be useful for example when the LEDs become disturbing during some periods of the day. This way with the LED schedule, you can set the timing so that the LEDs turn off at night after specific hours and maintain the Wi-Fi service for other clients without shutting down the AP.

To configure LED schedule, on the GWN7000 WebGUI navigate to “System SettingsLEDs”.

Following options are available:

Table 43: LED Schedule settings

Option Description

LEDs Always off Turn off completely the LEDs.

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Schedule Start Hour

Schedule Start Minute

Schedule Stop Hour

Schedule Stop Minute

Schedule weekdays list

Configure the hour when LEDs will be automatically turned on.

Configure the minute when LEDs will be automatically turned on.

Configure the hour when LEDs will be automatically turned off.

Configure the minute when LEDs will be automatically turned off.

Choose the days for which you want to schedule the LEDs.

Following example set the LEDs to be turned on from 8am till 8pm every day:

Figure 68: LED Schedule

File Sharing

The GWN7000 has 2 USB ports that can be also used for file sharing, to enable file sharing on devices plugged on the USB ports, go to System SettingsFile Sharing.

Click on to share a directory and its contents on a device connected to one of the USB ports of the GWN7000, the following figure will pop up.

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Figure 69: Add a New File to Share

Share Name

Path to Share

Access to Share

Comment

Share Accessible by

Network Groups

Table 44: Add a New File to Share

Enter the share name

Choose from the drop menu the path to share.

Choose whether to allow users to Read/Write or Read Only on the shared path.

Enter a comment for the added shared file.

Choose whether to allow All LAN network groups to access the shared path, restrict access by selecting only some groups or None.

Edit a Shared Folder by clicking on or delete it by clicking on .

Figure 70: File Share Actions

A device connected to one of the allowed network groups to the shared files can use the following path for access: \\GWN_Address\Share_Name\ Where GWN_Address is the GWN7000 IP address, and

Share_Name is the Share Name created for the File Share. It is also possible to map a network drive on

Windows, or use a Samba client on Linux machine.

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Figure 71: Access File Share

SNMP

GWN7000 supports SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) which is widely used in network management for network monitoring for collecting information about monitored devices.

To configure SNMP settings, go to GWN7000 Web GUISystem SettingsSNMP, this page has two tabs: Basic and Advanced, refer to the below tables for each tab.

System Location

System Contact

System Name

Table 45: SNMP Basic Page

Set the System Location information, for example: SNMP-Server Lobby GWN.

Set the System Contact information, for example: Contact Supervisor_GWN via

extension is 1000.

Set the System Name information, for example: Supervisor_GWN.

Read-Only

Community for IPv4

Gives the permission for the set community to access and read only to devices in management information base via IPv4 Protocol.

Read-Write

Community for IPv4

Read-Only

Community for IPv6

Gives the permission for the set community to access and read/write to devices in management information base via IPv4 Protocol.

Gives the permission for the set community to access and read only to devices in management information base via IPv6 Protocol.

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Read-Write

Community for IPv6

Trap Type

Gives the permission for the set community to access and read/write to devices in management information base via IPv6 Protocol.

Choose the Trap Type from drop-down menu, 4 options are available: None,

SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv2cInforms.

Monitoring Host

Enter the Monitoring Host’s IP/Domain Name (Network Management System

“NMS”)

Monitoring Host Port Enter the Monitoring Host’s Port (Network Management System “NMS”)

Trap Community Enter the Trap Community string to authenticate the client against the server.

Table 46: SNMP Advanced Page

SNMP Service

Listening on

Click on to add an SNMP Service Listening on:

• Set the Transport Type: UDPv4, UDPv6, TCPv4 or TCPv6.

• Choose the IP Address from drop-down menu list.

• Set the Port number on which the GWN7000 will listen on.

SNMPv3 Users

Click on to add an SNMPv3 User:

• Set the Username for authentication.

• Choose the Authentication type, 2 options are available: SHA and MD5.

• Set the Authentication Password from Authentication Passphrase.

• Enter the Password again to confirm from Authentication Passphrase

Confirmation.

• Choose the Privacy Protocol, 3 options are available: None, DES and

AES.

• Set the Privacy Passphrase.

• Enter the Privacy Passphrase in Privacy Passphrase Confirmation field.

User Manager

Under this section, administrator can generate or create user accounts that will be used for VPN connection authentication, click on in order to create a new user account.

The following table summarizes the configuration parameters:

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Option

Enabled

PPTP Server

Table 47: VPN User Parameters

Description

Check this option to enable/disable the user account.

Check this option to enable the user connection to the PPTP server.

Enter user full name. When using PPTP it defaults to pptpd. Full Name

Username

OpenVPN Subnet

Enter user Username.

Password Enter user password.

IPSec Pre-Shared

Key

Enabled PPTP Client

Subnet

Set user pre-shared key for authentication.

Check this option when using PPTP, and enter the client subnet.

Client Subnet Configured to which subnet this client belongs to (ex: 192.168.1.0/24).

Configures OpenVPN user subnet (ex: 192.168.1.0/24).

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UPGRADING AND PROVISIONING

Upgrading Firmware

The GWN7000 can be upgraded to a new firmware version remotely or locally. This section describes how to upgrade your GWN7000.

Upgrading via WEB GUI

The GWN7000 can be upgraded via TFTP/HTTP/HTTPS by configuring the URL/IP Address for the

TFTP/HTTP/HTTPS server and selecting a download method. Configure a valid URL for TFTP, HTTP or

HTTPS; the server name can be FQDN or IP address.

Examples of valid URLs: firmware.grandstream.com/BETA

192.168.5.87

The upgrading configuration can be accessed via Web GUIRouterMaintenanceUpgrade.

Table 48: Network Upgrade Configuration

Upgrade Via

Firmware Server

Check/Download New Firmware and Config at Boot

Allow DHCP options 66 and 43 override

Automatic Upgrade

Upgrade Now

Choose the firmware upgrade method: TFTP, HTTP or HTTPS.

Define the server path for the firmware server.

Allows the device to check if there is a firmware from the configured firmware server at boot.

Configure whether to allow DHCP options 66 and 43 to override upgrade and provisioning settings.

Specify the time to check for firmware upgrade (in minutes).

Click on button to begin the upgrade. Note that the device will reboot after downloading the firmware.

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Please do not interrupt or power cycle the GWN7000 during upgrading process.

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Service providers should maintain their own firmware upgrade servers. For users who do not have

TFTP/HTTP/HTTPS server, some free windows version TFTP servers are available for download from http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/free_tftp_server.aspx

http://tftpd32.jounin.net

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Please check our website at http://www.grandstream.com/support/firmware for latest firmware.

Instructions for local firmware upgrade via TFTP:

1. Unzip the firmware files and put all of them in the root directory of the TFTP server;

2. Connect the PC running the TFTP server and the GWN7000 to the same LAN segment;

3. Launch the TFTP server and go to the File menuConfigureSecurity to change the TFTP server's default setting from "Receive Only" to "Transmit Only" for the firmware upgrade;

4. Start the TFTP server and configure the TFTP server in the GWN7000 web configuration interface;

5. Configure the Firmware Server to the IP address of the PC;

6. Update the changes and reboot the GWN7000.

End users can also choose to download a free HTTP server from http://httpd.apache.org/ or use

Microsoft IIS web server.

Provisioning and backup

The GWN7000 configuration can be backed up locally or via network. The backup file will be used to restore the configuration on GWN7000 when necessary.

Download Configuration

Download the GWN7000 configurations for restore purpose under Web GUI  Router  Maintenance 

Upgrade

Click on to download locally the configuration file.

Configuration Server

Configuration Server Page allows to provision the GWN7000 by putting the config file on a TFTP/HTTP or

HTTPS server, and set Config Server to the TFTP/HTTP or HTTPS server used in order for the GWN7000 to be provisioned with that config server file.

Reset and reboot

Used to reboot and reset the device to factory functions under Web GUI

RouterMaintenanceUpgrade by clicking on button.

Will restore all the online GWN76xx as well as well as the GWN7000 itself to factory settings.

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EXPERIENCING THE GWN7000 ENTERPRISE ROUTER

Please visit our website: http://www.grandstream.com

to receive the most up- to-date updates on firmware releases, additional features, FAQs, documentation and news on new products.

We encourage you to browse our product related documentation , FAQs and User and Developer Forum for answers to your general questions. If you have purchased our products through a Grandstream

Certified Partner or Reseller, please contact them directly for immediate support.

Our technical support staff is trained and ready to answer all of your questions. Contact a technical support member or submit a trouble ticket online to receive in-depth support.

Thank you again for purchasing Grandstream GWN7000 Enterprise Multi-WAN Gigabit VPN Router, it will be sure to bring convenience and color to both your business and personal life

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