Edimax BR-6624 - Manual

Rear Panel Figure 1-2: Rear Panel DC 5V Connect the supplied power adapter here. WAN 2 Connect the 2 nd Broadband Modem here, if available. Reset Button When pressed and released, The Load Balancer will reboot (restart) within 1 second. It resets to default over 3 seconds. LAN Ports Connect the PCs ...

Page 8 2: Basic Setup Overview Basic Setup of your Load Balancer involves the following steps: 1. Attach The Load Balancer to one (1) PC, and configure it for your LAN. 2. Install your Load Balancer in your LAN, and connect the Broadband Modem or Modems. 3. Configure your Load Balancer for Internet ...

9. Select LAN & DHCP from the menu. You will see a screen like the example below. Figure 2-3: LAN & DHCP 10. Ensure these settings are suitable for your LAN: • The default settings are suitable for many situations. • See the following table for details of each setting. 11. Save your data, th...

2. Installing The Load Balancer in your LAN Figure 2-4: Installation Diagram 1. Ensure The Load Balancer and the DSL/Cable modem are powered OFF. Leave the modem or modems connected to their data line. 2. Connect the Broadband modem or modems to The Load Balancer. • If using only one (1) Broadband m...

• For each PC connected to the LAN ports, the corresponding LAN LED (either 10 or 100 ) should be ON. 3. Configuring The Load Balancer for Internet Access Select Primary Setup from the menu, to see a screen like the example below. • Configure WAN 1 and/or WAN 2 as required. • For any of the followin...

Settings – Primary Setup Connection • Interface – Select which WAN (WAN1 or WAN2) to be setup. • Connection Mode Select the appropriate setting: • Enable – Select this if you have connected a broadband modem to this port. • Disable – Select this if there is no broadband modem connected to this port....

4: Configure PCs on your LAN Overview For each PC, the following may need to be configured: • TCP/IP network settings • Internet Access configuration TCP/IP Settings If using the default Load Balancer settings, and the default Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP TCP/IP settings, no changes need to be made. Jus...

7. Select "Set up my connection manually" and click “ Next” . 8. Check "Connect using a broadband connection that is always on" and click Next . 9. Click Finish to close the New Connection Wizard. Setup is now completed. Accessing AOL To access AOL (America On Line) through The Load ...

Page 19 3: Advanced Port Setup Overview • Port Options contains some options, which can be set on either or both WAN ports. For most situations, the default values are satisfactory. • Load Balance screen is only functional if you are using both WAN ports. It allows you to determine the proportion of...

Settings – Port Options Interface • WAN Ports – To select the WAN port for option settings • MTU –The largest amount of data that can be transferred across a given physical network. Ethernet limits transfers to 1500 octets of data. Normally, you should leave this value at its default value. Change i...

Load Balance This screen is only operational if using Internet connections on both WAN ports. Figure 3-2: Load Balance These settings are only functional if using both WAN ports. If using both WAN ports, these settings determine the proportion of traffic sent over each port. Page 22

Settings – Load Balance Load Balance Configuration • Enable – This will allow you enable or disable the load-balancing feature. • Load Balancing Base On – Select the desired option to measure the traffic load. 1. Bytes Tx + Rx : The link with the least number of bytes transmitted through the WAN por...

Advanced PPPoE The screen is required in order to use multiple PPPoE sessions on the same WAN port. It can also be used to manually connect or disconnect a PPPoE session. Figure 3-3: Advanced PPPoE Page 24

Settings – Advanced PPPoE Select WAN Port & Session • Select WAN Port & PPPoE Session – Select the desired WAN port and PPPoE session from the pull-down menu and click the Select button. The screen will then show the data for the selected Port/Session. Input the required data and click Updat...

Advanced PPTP This screen is only useful if using the PPTP connection method. Figure 3-4: Advanced PPTP Settings – Advanced PPTP WAN Port Used if you choose PPTP on Static/Dynamic IP as your connection setup from primary setup. You may use PPTP manual dialup in this page or use Port Options for auto...

Page 28 4: Advanced Configuration Overview The following advanced features are provided. • Host IP Setup • Routing • Virtual Servers • Special Applications • Dynamic DNS • Multi DMZ • UpnP • NAT Setup • ARP Statp • Advanced Features This chapter contains details of the configuration and use of each ...

Figure 4-1: Host IP Setup Settings – Host IP Setup Host Network Identity This section identifies each Host (PC) • Host name – Enter a suitable name. Generally, you should use the "Hostname" (computer name) defined on the Host itself. • MAC Address – Also called Physical Address or Network Ad...

Host Network Binding • Bind WAN port/Session – Select Enable if you wish to associate this PC with a particular PPPoE Session. All traffic for that PC will then use the selected PPPoE port and session. • Binding Method – Suppose your PC is bound to WAN1 port, now you are selecting “Strict Binding”. ...

Note: If there is an entry or entries in the Routing table with an Index of zero (0), these are System entries. You cannot modify or delete these entries. Settings – Routing Dynamic Routing • RIP v2 – RIP is a dynamic routing protocol which is used to direct traffic over the network. Disable it if y...

Static Routing - Example Router B (192.168.2.90) (192.168.3.70) Router A Segment 0 Segment 2 Segment 1 (192.168.1.xx) (192.168.2.xx) (192.168.1.100) (192.168.1.1) (192.168.3.xx) (192.168.2.80) Figure 4-3: Routing Example For The Load Balancer Gateway's Routing Table For the LAN shown above, with 2 r...

For Router B's Default Route Destination IP Address 0.0.0.0 Network Mask 0.0.0.0 Gateway IP Address 192.168.2.80 Interface LAN Metric 3 Virtual Servers This feature allows you to make Servers on your LAN accessible to Internet users. Normally, Internet users would not be able to access a server on y...

Connecting to the Virtual Servers Once configured, anyone on the Internet can connect to your Virtual Servers. They must use The Load Balancer's Internet IP Address (the IP Address allocated by your ISP). e.g. http://205.20.45.34 ftp://205.20.45.34 • To Internet users, all virtual Servers on your LA...

Settings – Virtual Server Virtual Server Configuration • Enable – To activate or deactivate the current entry. • Server Name – A unique name for identifying the virtual server. • Protocol – Select the protocol (either TCP or UDP) used by the server software. • IP Address – LAN: Enter the IP address ...

Special Applications If you use Internet applications, which have non-standard connections or port numbers, you may find that they do not function correctly because they are blocked by the firewall in The Load Balancer. In this case, you can define the application as a "Special Application" ...

Settings – Special Applications Special Application Configuration • Enable – Use this to Enable or Disable this Special Application as required. • Name – Enter a descriptive name to identify this Special Application. • Outgoing Protocol –Select the protocol used by this application, when sending dat...

Dynamic DNS Dynamic DNS is very useful when combined with the Virtual Server feature. It allows Internet users to connect to your Virtual Servers using a URL, rather than an IP Address. This also solves the problem of having a dynamic IP address. With a dynamic IP address, your IP address may change...

Settings – Dynamic DNS Dynamic DNS Service Use this to Enable/Disable the Dynamic DNS feature, and select the required service provider. • Disable – Dynamic DNS is not used. • TZO – Select this to use the TZO service (www.tzo.com). You must configure the TZO section of this screen. • Standard Client...

Multi DMZ This feature allows each WAN port IP address to be associated with one (1) computer on your LAN. All outgoing traffic from that PC will be associated with that WAN port IP address. Any traffic sent to that IP address will be forwarded to the specified PC, allowing unrestricted 2-way commun...

Settings – Multi DMZ Multi DMZ Edit • Enable – To activate or deactivate the current DMZ entry. • WAN – The WAN (WAN1, WAN2) port applied to the current DMZ entry. • Name – To identify the current DMZ entry. • Public IP –The public IP (or PPPoE session) that the current DMZ entry is bound on. • Priv...

UPnP With UPNP (Universal Plug & Play) function, it can easily setup and configure an entire network, enable discovery and control of networked devices and services. Figure 4-9: UPnP Settings – UPnP UPnP Option • UpnP (Univeral Plug & Play) can be enabled or disabled for automatic device con...

NAT NAT (Network Address Translation) is the technology which allows one (1) WAN (Internet) IP address to be used by many LAN users. Figure 4-10: NAT Settings – NAT NAT Configuration • NAT Routing –Enables or disables NAT routing by checking or un-checking the checkbox. If you disable NAT routing, t...

ARP Status ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) – This is web page is regarding LAN & WAN ARP statistics and information, Figure 4-11: ARP Table Arp Statistics • Requests ( In / Out ) – The numbers of system ARP sent to requests. • Reply ( In / Out ) –The numbers of system ARP reply to. • System Ti...

Advanced Features • External Filters Configuration –To limit the packets passing through the device from WAN side to LAN side • DNS Loopback – If there is any domain in your private network you can setup the Domain Name & Private IP mapping table for DNS query. • Protocol & Port Binding – It...

Settings – Advanced Features External Filters Configuration • Block Selected ICMP Types –This acts as "master" switch. If checked, the selected packet types are blocked. Otherwise, they are accepted. DNS Loopback When you have some servers on LAN and their domain names have already registere...

5: Security Management Overview • URL Filter It can block specific website by configure IP address, URL or Key words • Access filter You can block all Internet access or select block well-known port or block user define ports by groups. • Session Limit It can eliminate users access Internet, and sen...

Settings – URL Filter Access Group • Select Group – A group that current rule is applied for • URL Filter Type –The Filter type (Block/Allow) that current group is set to use. Block Internet Access: All the web page accesses will be blocked if the target is found in the packets. Allow Internet Acces...

Settings – Access Filter Access Group The Group that the current rule is applied for. To apply restrictions to everyone, select the Default group. All users (Hosts) are in the default group unless moved to another group on the Host IP screen Filter Setting • No Filtering –To allow all Internet acces...

Session Limit This new feature allows to drop the new sessions from both WAN and LAN side. If the new sessions number are exceed the maximum sessions in a sampling time. Figure 5-3: Session Limit Session Limit Outgoing New Session • Session Limit – Check this to enable limiting sessions. • Sampling ...

SysFilter Exception System Filter Exception Rules: Any unrecognized packet to the device itself will be rejected. If you want the device to accept the specific packets, you should build the corresponding exception rules here. Figure 5-4: SysFilter Exception Firewall Exception System Filter Exception...

6: QoS Configuration Overview The Load Balancer provides QoS, which supports the high quality of network service. Because it will classify outgoing packets based on some policies defined by users, make some real-time applications to get better response or performance. QoS Setup The following web pag...

IP TOS ( Type of Service) Feature • Process TOS Field –An 8 bits field in the IP packet header designed to contain values indicating how each packet should be handled in the network. If you choose "enable" then it will enable this function to process IP Type of Service field. • Overwrite pol...

Data – Policy Configuration. Policy Priority • Policy Name –The name of a policy which is used to classify the received packets based on the following types for your memory. • Source/Destination Address, Port – Specify a packet based on source/destination address or port. Address has two types: IP a...

7: Management Assistant Overview The following advanced features are provided. • Admin Setup • Email Alert • SNMP • Syslog • Upgrade Firmware This chapter contains details of the configuration and use of each of these features. Page 58

Admin Setup The password screen allows you to assign a password to The Load Balancer, and enable /disable the remote access mechanism. Figure 7-1: Admin Password Enter the desired password, re-enter it in the Verify Password field, then save it. When you connect to The Load Balancer with your Browse...

Email Alert This feature will send an warning Email, inform system administrator that one of the WAN ports was disconnected. Email Alert – You can choose to enable or disable it to send a warning email. Email Sender Address – It is an email address, which will send the warning email. Email (SMTP) Se...

Email Alert Configuration The purpose of email alert is in the event a WAN port is disconnected or mal-functions, it will send an email message to inform the recipient. • Email (SMTP) Server Address – The e-mail server address. (ex: mail.yourdomain.com) • User Name –The user name of an e-mail sender...

Settings – SNMP System Information This is the system information which will identify this device. Community A relationship between a SNMP agent and a set of SNMP managers that defines authentication, access control and proxy characteristics. Trap Targets Up to three IP addresses can be entered. Tra...

Syslog This feature can send real time system information on the web page or to the specified PC. Syslog Configuration – Syslog Configuration allow you where to send system information to other machine or not. There are up to three machines you can choose to send your system log. Message Status– Mes...

Syslog Configuration Syslog Delivery • Sending Out – If checked, the device will send syslog messages to other machines (log servers). • Keep Sent Message – If checked, the sent messages will be kept on the device, otherwise they will be deleted • Syslog Servers – • IP Address: Up to 3 syslog server...

Restore Factory Defaults When the "Restore Factory Defaults" button on the upgrade Firmware screen above is clicked, the following screen is displayed. Figure 7-7: Restore Factory Defaults If the "Restore Default Value" button on this screen is clicked: • ALL of your settings will be...

Page 68 8: Operation and Status Operation Once both The Load Balancer and the PCs are configured, operation is automatic. However, there are some situations where additional Internet configuration may be required: Refer to Chapter 4 - Advanced Features for further details. System Status Use the Syst...

Data – System Status Interface Information • Connection Type – The type of connection used – DHCP, Fixed IP, PPPoE, or PPTP. • Connection Status – Current status – either "Connected" or "Not connected". • "Force Renew" button– Only available if using a dynamic IP address (DHC...

Buttons • Refresh – Update the data on screen. • Restart – Restart (reboot) the Load Balancer. • Restore Factory Defaults – This will delete all existing settings, and restore the factory default settings. See below for details. WAN Status Use the WAN Status link on the main menu to view this screen...

Page 72 Appendix A Specifications Model Load Balancer Dimensions 245mm (W) x 137mm (D) x 30mm (H) Operating Temperature 0 ° C to 40 ° C Storage Temperature -10 ° C to 70 ° C Network Protocol: TCP/IP Network Interface: 6 Ethernet: 4 * 10/100BaseT (RJ45) auto-Switching Hub ports for LAN devices 2 * 10...

Appendix B Windows TCP/IP Setup Overview TCP/IP Settings If using the default Load Balancer settings, and the default Windows 95/98/ME/2000 TCP/IP settings, no changes need to be made. • By default, The Load Balancer will act as a DHCP Server, automatically providing a suitable IP Address (and relat...

Figure B-2: IP Address (Win 95) Ensure your TCP/IP settings are correct, as follows: Using DHCP To use DHCP, select the radio button Obtain an IP Address automatically . This is the default Windows settings. Restart your PC to ensure it obtains an IP Address from The Load Balancer. Using "Specif...

Page 79 Appendix C Troubleshooting Overview This chapter covers some common problems that may be encountered while using The Load Balancer and some possible solutions to them. If you follow the suggested steps and The Load Balancer still does not function properly, contact your dealer for further ad...