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Table of Contents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Chapter1 Quick Start

At the first time using the product of BR-6641, you may confronted with

complicated settings which prevents you from starting well. This chapter will

explain the basic functionalities of BR-6641 and how to operate and configure the

system.It will also cover related subjects in network structures and hardware

installation which will help you during your setup of BR-6641.

1.1 Preparation

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

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

LAN Port which is marked on the machine.

 The default IP address for LAN interface is 192.168.2.1

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

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

port.

 Connect your computers in the LAN to the BR-6641 with a cross-over cable,

which is a standard attachment.

 To access the web-based administration UI, open http://192.168.2.1/

in your

Internet Explorer 6.0.

 The default password for the administrator account is “1234”, and “5678” for

the monitor account. We strongly recommend you to modify the passwords at

the first time you log into the web-based UI. It is also a wise idea to write

down your changed passwords and keep them in a safe place in case you

forget them.

 Check your network environment carefully before installing BR-6641. A

well-designed network environment with the necessary information such as

your network structure, IP addresses, and network segments information will

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help you complete the setup of BR-6641 parameters.

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

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

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

800x600 or higher is recommended.

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

BR-6641 is shipped with two types of network cable in the box; one is a

cross-over and the other is a straight cable. Please use the cross-over cable

to connect to the computer and LAN port of BR-6641, the LED of the plugged

in port will turn on when properly connected.

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1.2 Access to the Web-based UI

The Web-based UI enables you to easily perform every configuration task. Follow

the steps below to access the Web-based UI.

1. Connect your PC Ethernet LAN interface to LAN port of BR-6641 with a

cross-over cable. The default management LAN port of BR-6641

is LAN port.

2. After powering on BR-6641, the LED of LAN port will turn to orange. This

indicates that it is on-line.

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

255.255.255.0.

4. Check that the proxy setting of your IE browser is turned off, no proxy server

is required in order to access BR-6641 ’s Web-based UI. Open MS IE 6.0,

select Internet Option on the menu bar of Tools, click the Connection tab,

and then click LAN settings to open Local Area Network Settings dialog

box, under Proxy server, make sure proxy server is not selected.

5. In the URL of IE 6.0, type in http://192.168.2.1 to access the Web-based UI.

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

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

 Monitor - Has privileges to monitor only.

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

Default password for Administrator and Monitor are 1234 and 5678,

respectively. Please have your password change the first time you log in.

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Cancel the Proxy Setting

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1.3 BR-6641 Web-based UI Overview

After logging in, you will be able to start configuring or monitoring BR-6641

through the Web-based UI.

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

follows:

The Web-based UI tasks are grouped into four categories. The categories are

located at the upper left-hand corner of Web-based UI task bar. These categories

cover all the configuration possibilities in BR-6641. The four categories are:

 System

 Network

 Service

 Log

In the later chapters, we will introduce the functions of these four categories. On

the first stage,you can login as Administrator in the Web-based UI and modify the

Administrator or Monitor password by performing the following: (1)Click System

and select Administration on task bar, (2) enter your new Administrator password

or Monitor password, after the system confirmation, using the new password next

time you log in.

What shall we do if we forget the new password?

If you forget your administrator password, use a Terminal (VT-100 compatible) to

establish the connection between PC RS - 232 series port and BR-6641 Console

interface, execute system reset to default.

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

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second: 9600, Data bits: 8, Parity: None, Stop bits: 8, Flow control: None. The

serial console and Web-based UI use the same username and password pairs.

By default, the password of “Administrator” is 1234, and the password of “Monitor”

is 5678. If the password is changed via the Web-based UI, it will also be changed

in the serial console. In case you lose your password, you can use the username

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

system to default.

Open the IE browser to access the Web-based UI

Note: Please remember the changed password , otherwise it is not possible to

access the BR-6641 management interface.

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1.4 How to use BR-6641 Web-based UI

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

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

BR-6641 Web Based UI Operating Menu Items

1.4.1 BR-6641 Operating Menu

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

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

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

“Administrator 192.168.2.1” indicates login account is Administrator at system

name of 192.168.2.1.

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

Apply, Reload, Help/Hide Help buttons are always displayed on the operating

menu, the functions are as described below:

Button Function

After modifying the parameters of specific menu

page, click this button to save your changes to

memory, the old settings will also be saved.

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Click this button to recover the old settings

which apply has saved.

Click the Help button to display the on-line help

of the current page, the on-line help information

will automatically swap when you change the

function page or language.

Click Hide Help to hide the on-line help

information.

Table 5.0 Buttons

Note: The Apply and Reload buttons here are active only on certain pages, any

parameters modified without click Apply will not be saved to the memory.

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

or logout.

1.4.2 BR-6641 Rule/Filter/Policy Table

Orders of Rules/Filters/Policies

BR-6641 provides a rule table for you to perform the tasks like system parameter

or service policies. Often you are required to add or delete rules of your own. In

general, when you have multiple rules in a table, BR-6641 matches these rules

from top to bottom. That is, the rules at the top of the table are given a higher

precedence. Thus, to achieve the outcome of your desire, the more specific rules

should be placed on top of the less specific rules.

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

Add a new rule below the current rule.

Move the current rule one row down.

Move the current rule one row up.

Delete the current rule.

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Write a note for the current rule.

Table 5.1 Operating Rules

When you add a new rule, the newly added rule will be placed right below the

current rule. Moving the rule up or down will swap positions between the upper and

lower rules.

Checkbox

It is quite common that you see the following checkboxes in some tables. These

checkboxes indicate whether certain functions are enabled or not. A red check sign

inside a checkbox stands for “enabled”, and an empty checkbox means “disabled”.

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

table.

The function is disabled.

The function is enabled.

Table 5.2 Check Box

So far, we have only mentioned the basic operations of the Web-based UI. In the

next section, we will talk more on how to integrate BR-6641 into your present

network environment.

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Chapter 2 System

In this chapter, you will learn how to configure system settings. System settings are

the fundamental configurations of the BR-6641 system. They have to be specific in

order for the system to work properly. Examples are provided here to help you to

fulfill the configuration.

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

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2.1 Summary

[Summary] is in the submenu of [System], which helps the Administrator to know

the system information. While logging in the Web UI, System/Summary is the first

page you see when you log into BR-6641’s web-based UI.

[Summary] provide the following information:

System Information

Category Field Description

Version The Firmware Version.

Serial Number The Serial number.

Up Time Time since the last reboot.

Connections Number of total connections.

CPU Usage % CPU usage in percentage.

System Information

Packets/Second Number of packets served per

second.

Table 3.1 System Information

Note: Connections may jump up to over 100 when BR-6641 is starting up. This is

due to many ICMP packets sent out by BR-6641 to test the network. It will drop

back to normal there after.

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WAN Link State

The section on WAN Link State shows the current status of each and every WAN

link. Each WAN link is represented as a color-coded block with the following color

coding scheme to indicate its status. The allowed number of WAN Link is also

shown here.

y Green: Active WAN link.

y Red: Broken WAN link.

y Black: WAN link not in use.

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2.2 Traffic Statistics

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

In the traffic statistics page, you can inspect real-time traffic information sorted by

traffic class over each WAN link. The statistics of traffic classes in the table is

adjusted accordingly by your selection of traffic type - either inbound or outbound

traffic.

Field Value Descriptions

Traffic Type

Inbound

Outbound

The direction of traffic flow – either inbound traffic

or outbound traffic.

Traffic Class

The names of the traffic classes defined on the

QoS page. The rest of unclassified information is

labelled as “Default Class”.

WAN Link 1, 2… The total number of WAN links you want to inspect.

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

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2.3 Diagnostic Tools

System

Traffic Statistics

Summary

Diagnostic Tools

Administration

Date & Time

Network Service Log

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

ARP Enforcement: ARP Enforcement updates ARP tables of servers and

network devices around BR-6641.

When the Enforce button is pushed, BR-6641 sends out ARP packets to the

surrounding servers or network devices to update their ARP tables. This is

necessary only if certain equipments in DMZ cannot connect to the Internet

properly after initial setup.

IP Conflict Test:IP Conflict Test helps you to detect if the location of any

machines on the network conflicts with the DMZ/WAN settings

of Network Setting category on BR-6641.

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

 Everything is ok.

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

BR-6641. For example, a public IP address should be in WAN but is used by

a machine in DMZ. An error message with the conflicting IP address and

MAC address of the machine will be displayed.

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

BR-6641. For example, a public IP address should be in DMZ but is used by a

machine in WAN. An error message with the conflicting IP address and MAC

address of the machine will be displayed.

Ping: Ping is used to detect network condition by sending ICMP packets to a

target device.

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

address or a host name. Select a network interface, WAN or LAN. If it is WAN,

select WAN link number in Index field. As to the error message about ICMP, please

refer to the concerned document.

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

Names].

Trace Route: Trace route is used to detect network condition by showing the

routing path from BR-6641 to the target device.

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

address or a host name. Select a network interface, WAN or LAN. If it is WAN,

select WAN link number in Index field. For ICMP related error messages, please

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refer other materials.

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

address or a host name.

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

address or FQDN. Select a network interface, WAN or LAN. If it is WAN, select

WAN link number in Index field.

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

→[Host Names].

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

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

address or a host name. Select a network interface (WAN, LAN). If it is WAN,

select WAN link number in Index field. For ARP related error messages, please

refer other materials.

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

[Network ]→[Host Names].

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