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Maintenance 5-1

April 2006

Chapter 5

Maintenance

This chapter describes how to use the maintenance features of your 54 Mbps Wireless Router

WGR614v7. These features can be found by clicking on the Maintenance heading in the Main

Menu of the browser interface.

Viewing Wireless Router Status Information

The Router Status menu provides status and usage information. From the Main Menu of the

browser interface, click on Maintenance, then select Router Status to view the System Status

screen, shown below.

Figure 5-1: Router Status screen

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54 Mbps Wireless Router 1
WGR614v7 Reference 1
Statement of Conditions 2
Frequency Notice 2
Customer Support 3
Contents 5
April 2006 10
Chapter 1 11
About This Manual 11
How to Use This Manual 12
How to Print this Manual 13
1-4 About This Manual 14
Chapter 2 15
Introduction 15
802.11g Wireless Networking 16
Security 17
Extensive Protocol Support 17
2-4 Introduction 18
Package Contents 19
The Router’s Front Panel 20
The Router’s Rear Panel 21
2-8 Introduction 22
Chapter 3 23
Logging Into Your Router 24
Figure 3-3: Login result 25
Changing Your Configuration 26
Wireless Settings 30
Default Factory Settings 32
Chapter 4 35
Content Filtering 35
4-2 Content Filtering 36
Figure 4-1: Block Sites menu 36
Content Filtering 4-3 37
4-4 Content Filtering 38
Content Filtering 4-5 39
Figure 4-4: Schedule menu 39
4-6 Content Filtering 40
Figure 4-5: Logs menu 40
Content Filtering 4-7 41
Figure 4-6: Email menu 41
Table 4-2. Log action buttons 41
4-8 Content Filtering 42
Chapter 5 43
Maintenance 43
5-2 Maintenance 44
Configuration File Management 47
5-6 Maintenance 48
Upgrading the Router Software 49
Maintenance 5-9 51
5-10 Maintenance 52
Chapter 6 53
Adding a Custom Service 57
Figure 6-5: WAN Setup menu 59
Disabling the SPI Firewall 60
Setting the MTU Size 61
Using Address Reservation 64
Using a Dynamic DNS Service 65
Configuring Static Routes 66
Figure 6-12. UPnP Menu 70
Troubleshooting 73
Chapter 7 73
Lights Never Turn Off 74
LAN or WAN Port Lights Not On 74
Troubleshooting 7-3 75
Troubleshooting 7-5 77
7-6 Troubleshooting 78
Problems with Date and Time 79
7-8 Troubleshooting 80
Appendix A 81
Technical Specifications 81
A-2 Technical Specifications 82
Appendix B 83
IP Addresses and the Internet 84
Subnet Addressing 86
Table 7-2. Netmask Formats 88
Private IP Addresses 89
Related Documents 91
Domain Name Server 91
IP Configuration by DHCP 92
Ethernet Cabling 93
Category 5 Cable Quality 94
Inside Twisted Pair Cables 94
Appendix C 99
Preparing Your Network 99
C-2 Preparing Your Network 100
C-4 Preparing Your Network 102
Windows 95B, 98, and Me 104
Preparing Your Network C-7 105
Verifying TCP/IP Properties 106
C-10 Preparing Your Network 108
Preparing Your Network C-11 109
C-12 Preparing Your Network 110
Preparing Your Network C-13 111
C-14 Preparing Your Network 112
Preparing Your Network C-15 113
Properties button 114
MacOS 8.6 or 9.x 116
Are Login Protocols Used? 118
Computers 120
Restarting the Network 121
C-24 Preparing Your Network 122
Appendix D 123
Wireless Networking Basics 123
802.11 Authentication 125
Open System Authentication 125
Shared Key Authentication 126
Overview of WEP Parameters 127
Key Size 128
Wireless Channels 129
How Does WPA Compare to WEP? 131
Wired Network with Optional 134
802.1x Port Based Network 134
Access Control 134
Wireless LAN 134
Is WPA/WPA2 Perfect? 138
Product Support for WPA/WPA2 138
Glossary 141
ISO Network Model 147
MAC (Media Access Control) 147
Mesh Networks 147
War Driving 152
Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) 152
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) 153

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