Allied Telesis AR400 Series Router User Manual

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AR400 Series Router User Guide

Software Release 2.5.2
C613-02034-00 REV A

Only one person can configure a particular router with the GUI at a time, to avoid
clashes between configurations. Monitoring and diagnostics pages can be viewed by
more than one user at a time.

The following software features can be configured through the GUI. The
position of each set of features in the GUI’s sidebar menu is also given.

Use the menus and buttons on the GUI pages to navigate, not your browser’s buttons,
to ensure that the configuration settings are saved correctly.

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Your WAN connection to an ISP (Quick Start > WAN)

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The IP address of the LAN interface (Quick Start > LAN)

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System identity, time configuration and NTP, Triggers to automatically run
scripts, and SNMP (Configuration > General)

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Ethernet and switch port configuration, including Quality of Service
(Configuration > Port)

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VLAN configuration (Configuration > Layer 2 > VLANs)

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PPPoE (Configuration > Layer 2 > PPPoE)

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Internet Protocol: interfaces, static routes, RIP, multicasting, and OSPF
(Configuration > Internet Protocol)

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DHCP server (Configuration > DHCP Server)

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Firewall, including options for logging and alerts (Configuration >
Firewall)

The following router functionality can be managed through the GUI:

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User accounts and enabling system security (Management > Users)

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File creation, editing, and back-up (Management > Configuration Files)

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Restoring the router’s configuration from backup (Management >
Configuration Files > Restore)

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Setting the files the router uses on bootup, and a display of the current
configuration files (Management > Software > Boot Setup)

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Enabling software release and feature licences (Management > Software >
Licences)

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Software upgrades (Management > Software > Upgrade)

The router automatically generates log messages. Messages can be viewed
through the GUI, and filters can be set up to determine where messages are
saved to and which messages are saved (Monitoring > Log).

The following router functionality can be monitored through the GUI:

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System status and hardware details (Monitoring > System)

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Layer 2 forwarding database, which shows the MAC addresses that the
router’s switch ports have learned, and out which port the router will
switch traffic to each MAC address (Monitoring > L2 Fwding Database)

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ARP table, which shows information about Address Resolution Protocol
(ARP) entries (Monitoring > ARP Table)