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Maintenance 5-1

202-10090-02 v 1.4, July 2005

Chapter 5

Maintenance

This chapter describes how to use the maintenance features of your WGT624 v3 108 Mbps

Wireless Firewall Router. 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 a limited amount of status and usage information. From the

Main Menu of the browser interface, click on Maintenance, then select System Status to view the

System Status screen, shown below.

Figure 5-1: Router Status screen

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Contents 5
202-10090-02 v 1.4, July 2005 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
Initial Configuration 24
Logging Into Your Router 25
Figure 3-4: Login result 26
Changing Your Configuration 28
Wireless Settings 32
Chapter 4 35
Content Filtering 35
4-2 Content Filtering 36
Content Filtering 4-3 37
4-4 Content Filtering 38
Figure 4-4: Schedule menu 38
Content Filtering 4-5 39
Figure 4-5: Email menu 39
4-6 Content Filtering 40
Content Filtering 4-7 41
Figure 4-6: Logs menu 41
4-8 Content Filtering 42
Table 4-2. Log action buttons 42
Chapter 5 43
Maintenance 43
5-2 Maintenance 44
5-4 Maintenance 46
Upgrading the Router Software 47
Configuration File Management 49
Erasing the Configuration 50
Chapter 6 51
Advanced Configuration 51
Using Port Triggering 54
Port Triggering Rules Menu 55
6-6 Advanced Configuration 56
Configuring WAN Setup Options 57
Using a Dynamic DNS Service 59
Using LAN IP Setup Options 61
6-12 Advanced Configuration 62
Using Address Reservation 63
Advanced Configuration 6-19 69
Figure 6-10. UPnP Menu 69
6-20 Advanced Configuration 70
Chapter 7 71
Troubleshooting 71
LEDs Never Turn Off 72
Troubleshooting 7-3 73
7-6 Troubleshooting 76
Problems with Date and Time 77
7-8 Troubleshooting 78
Appendix A 79
Technical Specifications 79
A-2 Technical Specifications 80
Electromagnetic Emissions 80
Interface Specifications 80
Appendix B 81
IP Addresses and the Internet 82
Subnet Addressing 84
Table 7-2. Netmask Formats 86
Private IP Addresses 87
Related Documents 89
Domain Name Server 89
IP Configuration by DHCP 90
Ethernet Cabling 91
Category 5 Cable Quality 92
Inside Twisted Pair Cables 92
Appendix C 95
Preparing Your Network 95
C-2 Preparing Your Network 96
Preparing Your Network C-5 99
Verifying TCP/IP Properties 100
C-8 Preparing Your Network 102
Preparing Your Network C-9 103
C-10 Preparing Your Network 104
Preparing Your Network C-11 105
C-12 Preparing Your Network 106
Preparing Your Network C-13 107
Properties button 108
MacOS 8.6 or 9.x 110
Are Login Protocols Used? 112
Computers 114
Restarting the Network 115
C-22 Preparing Your Network 116
Appendix D 117
Wireless Networking Basics 117
802.11 Authentication 119
Open System Authentication 119
Shared Key Authentication 120
Overview of WEP Parameters 121
Key Size 122
Wireless Channels 123
How Does WPA Compare to WEP? 125
Wired Network with Optional 128
802.1x Port Based Network 128
Access Control 128
Wireless LAN 128
Is WPA/WPA2 Perfect? 132
Product Support for WPA/WPA2 132
Glossary 135
ISO Network Model 141
MAC (Media Access Control) 141
Mesh Networks 141
War Driving 146
Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) 146
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) 146
Wireless Multimedia (WMM) 148
Wireless Networking 148
WLAN (Wireless LAN) 148

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