Paradyne Hotwire 6211, User Manual

Page 1: ...Hotwire 6210 6211 and 6381 User s Guide Document Number 6210 A2 GB21 00 April 2004...

Page 2: ...stallation documentation training distributor locations or Paradyne worldwide office locations use one of the following methods Internet Visit the Paradyne World Wide Web site at www paradyne com Be s...

Page 3: ...r more buildings If products installed in separate buildings are interconnected the voltage potential may cause a hazardous condition Consult a qualified electrical consultant to determine whether or...

Page 4: ...bottom side of this equipment is a label that contains among other information a product identifier in the format US AAAEQ TXXXX If requested this number must be provided to the Telephone Company Thi...

Page 5: ...ration of Conformity Place of Issue Paradyne Corporation 8545 126th Avenue North Largo FL 33773 1502 USA Date of Issue 4 2 2004 Paradyne Corporation located at the above address hereby certifies that...

Page 6: ...n the equipment The REN assigned to each terminal equipment provides an indication of the maximum number of terminals allowed to be connected to a telephone interface The termination on an interface m...

Page 7: ...Configuring Your PC 13 4 Using the Web Interface 21 4 1 Log Into Your Modem 21 4 2 Home screen 22 4 3 Setup 23 4 4 Configuring the WAN 24 4 5 Configuring the LAN 30 4 6 Advanced 33 4 7 Tools 39 4 8 S...

Page 8: ...net to your PC downstream than it does for information going to the Internet from your PC upstream ADSL R is technology that combines ADSL and ReachDSL in one device ReachDSL is a version of DSL that...

Page 9: ...r Version 5 5 or later 2 Your Modem at a Glance 2 1 Ports and buttons Back panel POWER is where you connect the power supply RESET Button The RESET button is used to reset the modem to factory default...

Page 10: ...ED is green a PPPoE connection is established LAN LED The LAN LED serves two purposes If the LED is continuously lit the Ethernet interface is successfully connected to a device through the LAN port I...

Page 11: ...n your computer It is assumed that you have already subscribed to DSL service with your telephone company or other Internet service provider ISP These instructions provide a basic configuration that s...

Page 12: ...he new hardware and initiate the Found New Hardware Wizard Follow the instructions in Section 3 2 1 Using the LAN Port You can use the included Ethernet cable to connect your computer directly to the...

Page 13: ...l the provided USB driver Windows 95 and Windows NT 4 0 do not support USB without additional software not included with your modem If USB driver installation fails under those operating systems conta...

Page 14: ...ons Figure 3 3 Browse for Folder C The Wizard will ask you to confirm the hardware installation Choose Continue Anyway Windows will then install the supplied USB driver on your PC Figure 3 4 and Figur...

Page 15: ...ween 3 and 254 The subnet mask is 255 255 255 0 Your modem s default IP address is 192 168 1 1 3 2 2 Windows XP 1 In the Windows task bar click on the Start button and then click on Control Panel 2 Do...

Page 16: ...rk Connections in Windows XP Figure 3 8 Local Area Connection Properties in Windows XP 5 In the Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties dialog box click in the radio button labeled Use the following IP ad...

Page 17: ...d in which case you can skip to Step 10 4 If Internet Protocol TCP IP does not appear as an installed component click on 5 In the Select Network Component Type dialog box select Protocol and then clic...

Page 18: ...ou may be prompted to install files from your Windows Me installation CD or other media Follow the instructions to install the files 8 If prompted click on to restart your computer with the new settin...

Page 19: ...Panel 2 In the Control Panel window double click on the Network icon 3 In the Network dialog box click on the Protocols tab The Protocols tab displays a list of currently installed network protocols...

Page 20: ...dio button labeled Obtain an IP address automatically instead of Use the following IP address in the above procedures By default the LAN port IP address of the CPE is 192 168 1 1 You can change this a...

Page 21: ...on Type the default IP address 192 168 1 1 into the Location field of your browser and press the Enter key The following screen appears The default user name is Admin case sensitive and the password i...

Page 22: ...s security routing and filtering access debugging tools obtain the status of the modem and view the online help The basic layout of the Home page consists of a page selection list across the top of th...

Page 23: ...to as a broadband connection The requirements for the WAN connection depend on your Internet Service Provider ISP Most of the configuration you will perform will be in this area 4 3 2 Local Area Netw...

Page 24: ...connection is basically a virtual connection Your modem can support up to 8 different virtual connections If you have multiple different virtual connections you man need to utilize the static and dyn...

Page 25: ...act as the termination point for the PPPoA connection This frees up your PC resources and allows multiple users to utilize the PPPoA connection To configure the modem for PPPoA 1 Click on Setup and t...

Page 26: ...lue The minimum MRU value is 128 Debug Enables PPPoA connection debugging facilities Debugging is talked about later Figure 4 5 PPPoA Connection Setup To complete the connection you must now click the...

Page 27: ...ture enter a zero in this field Keep Alive When the On Demand option is not enabled this value specifies the length of time to keep the connection from being shut down for inactivity by sending PPP LC...

Page 28: ...e encapsulation type LLC or VC If you are not sure which to use just use the default mode 5 Specify the VPI and VCI settings Your DSL service provider or your ISP will supply these In this case the DS...

Page 29: ...case the unique name is STATIC1 4 Optionally enable Network Address Translation NAT and the Firewall options 5 Select the encapsulation type LLC or VC If you are not sure which to use just use the def...

Page 30: ...mally 4 5 1 Enable Disable DHCP To enable or disable DHCP 1 From the Home screen click on Setup 2 Under LAN Setup select DHCP Configuration This will bring up the screen shown in Figure 4 10 3 Specify...

Page 31: ...e DHCP clients and the server See Figure 4 11 Figure 4 11 Example of a DHCP Relay Configuration If the DHCP server and relay are turned off you must configure the IP address subnet mask and DNS settin...

Page 32: ...tion within the local subnet Your ISP will provide you with the default gateway address Figure 4 12 shows a default gateway address of 10 247 16 1 because this was the default gateway defined when the...

Page 33: ...rotocol This feature requires one active DSL connection In the presence of multiple DSL connections select the one over which the incoming traffic will be present such as the default Internet connecti...

Page 34: ...all rule 4 If you want to add a custom application select the User category click on New and fill in the port protocols and description for your application For example if you want to host a Netmeetin...

Page 35: ...rmed The bridge filter will only examine frames from interfaces which are part of the bridge itself Twenty filter rules are supported with bridge filtering To enable Bridge Filters 1 From the Home scr...

Page 36: ...IGMP Snooping Multicasting is a form of limited broadcast UDP is used to send datagrams to all hosts that belong to what is called a host group A host group is a set of hosts identified by the same d...

Page 37: ...e change permanent click on Tools at the top of the page and select System Commands At the System Commands page click on Save All To enable IGMP Snooping click Advanced and under Advanced select IGMP...

Page 38: ...d Class C IP domain the network address is the first three fields of the New Destination IP while the last field should be 0 The Subnet Mask identifies which portion of an IP address is the network po...

Page 39: ...uting data will be sent in RIP v2 format using subnet broadcasting If Rip V1 Compatible is selected routing data will be sent in RIP v2 format using multicasting 4 Specify the Direction This determine...

Page 40: ...formation to the remote PC The type of information forwarded to the remote PC depends upon the log level Each log message is assigned a severity level which indicates how seriously the triggering even...

Page 41: ...the firmware upgrade procedure Figure 4 20 Update Gateway 4 7 5 Ping Test Once you have your modem configured it is a good idea to make sure you can ping the network To run a ping test 1 From the Hom...

Page 42: ...connected this test will always fail Also the DSLAM must support this feature Not all DSLAMs have F4 and F5 support 4 8 Status The Status section allows you to view the Status Statistics of different...

Page 43: ...on Figure 4 22 illustrates the typical product information Figure 4 22 Product Information 4 8 6 System Log You can display the modem s log by going to the Home screen then clicking on System Log unde...

Page 44: ...lues 9 Make sure NAT is enabled if you are using private addresses on the LAN ports 5 2 I can t connect to the modem 1 Check to see that the power LED is green and that the network cables are installe...

Page 45: ...rvice is installed by listening to the phone line you will hear some high pitched noise If you do not hear high pitched noise contact your ISP 2 Verify that the phone line is connected directly to the...

Page 46: ...n a web server or a game server Normal servers like these are blocked from working by the NAT functionality The solution is to isolate the single local computer into a DMZ This makes the single comput...