C613-16094-00 REV B

www.alliedtelesis.com

How To |

This How To Note describes how to customise an Allied Telesis router and configure its

basic LAN and WAN interfaces, using the web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI).

The LAN interface is the router’s connection to the PCs and other devices in your private

network. The GUI’s Basic Setup wizard makes this configuration simple.

The WAN interface is the router’s connection to your ISP and therefore to the public

Internet. The GUI lets you choose from a number of different WAN connection types and

set up the most common features of each.

What information will you find in this document?

This How To Note begins with the following information:

z "Related How To Notes" on page 2

z "Which products and software version does it apply to?" on page 2

Then it gives the details for setting up a LAN interface with the Basic Setup wizard, in the

following sections:

z "The network" on page 3

z "How to connect to the router" on page 3

z "How to customise the router and configure the LAN interface" on page 6

Then it describes how to use the GUI to configure the following popular types of WAN

connection:

z "An xDSL connection" on page 15 (a brief overview)

z "A connection over an Eth port" on page 17

z "A PPPoE connection with a dynamically-assigned IP address" on page 22

Then it gives more information, in the appendixes:

z "Appendix

: Router commands for dynamic PPPoE configuration" on page 30

z "Appendix 2: How to set the IP address on a PC" on page 31

Use The Allied Telesis GUI To Customise The

Router And Set Up An Internet Connection

Use The Allied Telesis GUI To Customise The Router And Set Up An Internet Connection 2

Related How To Notes

Other How To Notes that describe basic configuration include:

z How To Set Up Your ADSL Router For Typical Network Scenarios

z How To Configure Some Basic Firewall And VPN Scenarios

This How To Note is the first in a series of Notes about using the GUI to configure VPNs on

the router. The other Notes in the series are:

z How To Use The Allied Telesis GUI Wizard To Create A Site-to-Site VPN Through A NAT Gateway

Device

z How To Use The Allied Telesis GUI Wizard To Create A Site-to-Site VPN

Use this Note when the VPN does not go through a NAT gateway device

How To Create A VPN Between An Allied Telesis And A NetScreen Router

z How To Create A VPN Between An Allied Telesis And A SonicWALL Router, With NAT-T

z How To Troubleshoot A Virtual Private Network (VPN)

All the above How To Notes are available from www.alliedtelesis.com/resources/literature/

howto.aspx.

Which products and software version does it apply to?

This configuration applies to the following Allied Telesis routers, running Software Version

2.9.

or later:

z AR4

z AR440S

z AR44

z AR442S

The screenshots in this Note are from an Internet Explorer 6.0 browser running on

Windows XP

. In some steps, the Note also describes how to configure Mozilla Firefox

1. Internet Explorer and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States

and other countries.

2. Firefox is a trademark of the Mozilla Foundation.