Asus Router RX3042H User Manual

RX3042H
User's Manual
Revision 0.8
May 12, 2005 

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Table of Contents
1  Introduction ............................................................1
1.1  Features ....................................................................1
1.2  System Requirements  ...............................................1
1.3  Using this Document .................................................2
1.3.1  Notational conventions  ...............................................2
1.3.2  Typographical conventions  .........................................
2
1.3.3  Special...

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3.1  Part 1 — Connecting the Hardware ........................11
3.1.1  Step 1. Connect an ADSL or a cable modem  ............11
3.1.2  Step 2. Connect computers or a Network  ................12
3.1.3  Step 3. Attach the AC adapter ..................................
12
3.1.4  Step 4. Power on RX3042H, the ADSL or cable 
modem and power up your computers  ....................12
3.2  Part 2 — Configuring Your Computers  ....................13
3.2.1  Before you begin...

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5.2.1  WAN Connection Mode ............................................29
5.2.2  PPPoE ......................................................................30
5.2.2.1  WAN PPPoE Configuration Parameters  ...........
31
5.2.2.2  Configuring PPPoE for WAN ............................
32
5.2.3  PPPoE Unnumbered  ................................................33
5.2.3.1  WAN PPPoE Unnumbered Configuration 
Parameters .......................................................34
5.2.3.2  Configuring PPPoE...

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6.1.5.2  Add a Fixed DHCP Lease .................................49
6.1.5.3  Delete a Fixed DHCP Lease .............................
49
6.1.5.4  Viewing Fixed DHCP Lease Table  ....................
49
6.2  DNS .........................................................................50
6.2.1  About DNS  ..............................................................50
6.2.2  Assigning DNS Addresses  .......................................
50
6.2.3  Configuring DNS Relay...

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9.1.4  Default ACL Rules ....................................................64
9.2  NAT Overview ..........................................................65
9.2.1  NAPT (Network Address and Port Translation)  or PAT  
(Port Address Translation)
   ......................................... 65
9.2.2  Reverse NAPT / Virtual Server  .................................
67
9.3  Firewall Settings – (Firewall/NAT ->Settings) ..........67
9.3.1  Firewall Options...

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9.8.2  Special Application Example ....................................87
10  System Management .........................................89
10.1  Configure System Services  ...................................89
10.2  Login Password and System Settings  ...................90
10.2.1  Changing Password ...............................................90
10.2.2  Configure System Settings .....................................
91
10.3  Viewing System Information  ..................................91
10.4...

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12  Troubleshooting ..............................................109
12.1  Diagnosing Problem using IP Utilities ................. 111
12.1.1  ping .......................................................................111
12.1.2  nslookup  ................................................................112
13  Index .................................................................115
List of Figures
Figure 2.1 Front Panel LEDs  ..........................................................7
Figure...

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Figure 7.1  RIP Configuration Page ..............................................54
Figure 7.2  Static Route Configuration Page  ................................
56
Figure 7.3  Static Route Configuration  .........................................
57
Figure 7.4  Sample Routing Table  ................................................
58
Figure 8.1 Network Diagram for HTTP DDNS ..............................
59
Figure 8.2 HTTP DDNS Configuration Page  ................................
60
Figure 9.1 NAPT –...