Linksys BEFSR41 - Manuals

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 6 Instant Broadband ™ Series 5 4-Port Router’s Front Panel LEDs The LAN Indicators Power Green. The Power LED lights up when the Router is poweredon. Link/Act Green. The Link/Act LED serves two purposes. If the LEDis continuously lit, the Router is successfully connecte...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 8 Instant Broadband ™ Series 7 G e t t i n g t o K n o w t h e 1 - P o rt E t h e r F a s t C a b l e / D S L R o u t e r The One-Port Router’s Rear Panel The rear panel of the Router is where all of the Router’s cabling connectionsare made, and where you can reset or c...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers is continuously lit, the Router is successfully connected to adevice through the LAN port. If the LED is flickering, theRouter is actively sending or receiving data through the LANport. Full/Col Green. The Full/Col LED also serves two purposes. If thisLED remains lit, a...

This USB icon denotes the presence of a USB port or connector. Your 3-Port Router comes with a USB cable that has two different types of con-nectors. Type A, the master connector, is shaped like a rectangle and plugs intoyour PC’s USB port. Type B, the slave connector, resembles a square and con-nec...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers USB The USB LED lights up when the USB port is successfully connected to a PC, USB hub, or other USB device. The WAN Indicators Link Green. The Link LED lights up when a successful connec-tion is made between the Router and your broadband deviceor network. Act Green. Th...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 16 Instant Broadband ™ Series 15 Your Router’s f irewall (NAT) protects your network of PCs with security sousers on the public, Internet side cannot “see” your PCs. This is how yourinternal LAN, or network, remains private. Remember that your Router’s ports connect to ...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers Connecting Your Hardware Together and Booting Up 1. Before you begin, make sure that all of your hardware is powered off, including your Router, PCs, hubs, switches, and the cable or DSL modem. 2. A. If you have the 4-Port Cable/DSL Router, connect one end of a network ...

3. Connect the network cable from your cable or DSL modem to the WAN port on your Router’s rear panel. This is the only port that will work for yourmodem connection. 4. Connect the power adapter to the Power port on the rear panel of the Router, and then plug the power adapter into a power outlet. •...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 3. Select “Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended).” Click the Next button. 4. Select “Floppy disk drives” and click the Next button to start the search for your driver. 22 Instant Broadband ™ Series Installing the BEFSRU31’s U S B P o rt Drivers Use th...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 7. Windows will notify you that it has completed copying the driver f iles to your PC. Click the Finish button. 8. Windows will ask you if you want to restart your PC. Click the Yes button so your new installation will take effect. If it does not ask you, click the Star...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 26 Instant Broadband ™ Series 25 3. When Windows asks you where to search for driver f iles, select “Floppy disk drives” and click the Next button. 4. Windows will show a message saying that it has found the driver f iles. Click the Next button. Installing the Windows 2...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 30 Instant Broadband ™ Series 29 Installing the Windows Millennium Driver 1. With the router connected to your PC’s USB port, start up your PC in Windows Millennium, and insert your driver disk. 2. Windows will notify you that new hardware has been detected (shown above...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 32 Instant Broadband ™ Series 31 Installing the Windows XP Driver 1. With the router connected to your PC’s USB port, start up your PC in Windows XP, and insert your driver disk. 2. Windows will notify you that new hardware has been detected (shown above). Select “Insta...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 34 Instant Broadband ™ Series 33 4. Click the Properties button, and then choose the IP Address tab. Select Obtain an IP address automatically. Click the OK button. You have now completed the PC’s client settings, so it can connect to the Router. 5. Click the OK button....

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 36 Instant Broadband ™ Series 35 3. The Cable/DSL Router’s Setup page will appear. 4. Configure the following values: Host Name & Domain Name These f ields allow you to give the Router aHost and Domain name. Some ISPs require these names as identif ication.You may h...

Instant Broadband ™ Series WAN IP Address These values refer to the external network (the Internet)you connect to every time you access your Internet connection. Most broadband ISPs assign their clients to a different IP address each timethey log on. If this is the case with your ISP, select Obtain ...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 40 Instant Broadband ™ Series 39 • WAN IP Address This is the IP address that your Router has, when seen from the external WAN, or the Internet. • Subnet Mask This is the Router’s Subnet Mask, as seen by external users on the Internet (including your ISP). If you select...

Password It is strongly recommended that you set a password for the Router. When youf irst power up the Router, there is no default Password setting assigned. If you leave the password f ield blank, all users on your network will be able toaccess the Router simply by entering the unit’s IP address i...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 44 not be greater than 253. In order to determine the DHCP IP Address range,add the starting IP address (e.g. 100) to the number of DHCP users. Bydefault as shown, add 100 to 50, and the range is 192.168.1.100 to192.168.1.150. • DHCP Clients Table Click the DHCP Clients...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 46 Instant Broadband ™ Series 45 The Security tab enables conf iguration of your router to provide enhanced net-work security using ZoneAlarm Pro and PC-cillin (sold separately). The Routerprovides a built-in Internet NAT f irewall. ZoneAlarm Pro enhances theRouter’s se...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers To upgrade the Router’s f irmware: 1. Select the Help tab (shown on the previous page). 2. Click on Upgrade Firmware to display a new window (shown below): 3. Enter your Router’s administration password into the Password Confirm f ield. 4. Click the Browse button to f i...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers Instant Broadband ™ Series 50 in the command prompt. To set the MAC f ilter, click the Edit MAC FilterSetting button. When a second window appears, select the range in the drop-down box, and at the MAC number prompt, enter the 12-digit MAC addressyou want to f ilter. Cl...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers To add a server using Forwarding: 1. Enter the port number or range of ports used by the server. On the same line, select the protocol UDP, TCP, or Both, and enter the LAN IP addressof the server that you want the Internet user(s) to access. 2. Conf igure as many entrie...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 54 Instant Broadband ™ Series 53 If your Cable/DSL Router is connected to more than one network, you mayhave to set up a static route between the two networks. A static route is a pre-determined pathway that network data packets must travel to reach a specif ichost or n...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 56 Instant Broadband ™ Series 55 DMZ Hosting The DMZ Hosting feature allows one local user to be exposed to the Internetfor use of a special-purpose service such as Internet gaming and video-confer-encing. Whereas IP Forwarding can only forward a maximum of 10 ranges of...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 58 Instant Broadband ™ Series 57 T r o u b l e s h o o t i n g Common Problems and Solutions This section provides possible solutions to problems regarding the installationand operation of the Cable/DSL Router. If your situation is described here,the problem should be s...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 60 Instant Broadband ™ Series 59 Frequently Asked Questions How do I remove my DUN prompt for PPPoE? For Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x or above, perform the following steps: 1. Right-click on the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop, and click Properties. 2. Click th...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers G l o s s a ry 10BaseT - An Ethernet standard that uses twisted wire pairs. 100BaseTX - IEEE physical layer specif ication for 100 Mbps over two pairs ofCategory 5 UTP or STP wire. 1000BASE-T - Provides half-duplex (CSMA/CD) and full-duplex 1000 MbpsEthernet service ove...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers Partitioning - To divide a resource or application into smaller pieces. PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) - A peripheral bus commonly usedin PCs, Macintoshes and workstations. It was designed primarily by Intel andf irst appeared on PCs in late 1993. PCI provides ...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers VLAN (Virtual LAN) - A logical association that allows users to communi-cate as if they were physically connected to a single LAN, independent of theactual physical conf iguration of the network. Virtual Server - Multiple servers that appear as one server, or one system...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 78 Instant Broadband ™ Series 77 Step One: Pinging an IP Address The f irst step to determining your ISP’s web and e-mail server address is toping its IP address. 1. Power on the computer and the cable or DSL modem, and restore the network conf iguration set by your ISP...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers Instant Broadband ™ Series 79 Installing the TCP/IP Protocol Follow these instructions to install the TCP/IP protocol on one of your PCsonly after a network card has been successfully installed inside the PC. Theseinstructions are for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers Instant Broadband ™ Series 81 Twisted-Pair Cabling There are different grades, or “categories,” of twisted-pair cabling. Category 5is the most reliable and most highly recommended. Category 3 is a good sec-ond choice. Straight-through cables are used for connecting comp...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers Instant Broadband ™ Series 83 4-Port Router Specifications Model Number BEFSR41 v2 Standards IEEE 802.3 (10BaseT), IEEE 802.3u (100BaseTX) Protocol CSMA/CD Ports LAN: Four 10/100 RJ-45 switched ports WAN: One 10Base-T Ethernet RJ-45 port for the cable orDSL modem Speed ...

EtherFast ® Cable/DSL Routers 86 Instant Broadband ™ Series 85 3-Port Router Specifications Model Number BEFSRU31 Standards IEEE 802.3 (10BaseT), IEEE 802.3u(100BaseTX) Protocol CSMA/CD Ports LAN: Three 10/100 RJ-45 Switched ports WAN: One 10Base-T Ethernet RJ-45 port for the cable orDSL modem Speed...

Instant Broadband ™ Series 87 © Copyright 2002 Linksys, All Rights Reserved. www.linksys.com Customer Support For help with the installation or operation of your Instant BroadbandEtherFast Cable/DSL Router, contact Linksys Customer Support at one of thephone numbers or Internet addresses below. Sale...