D-Link DWC-1000 User manual

Wireless Controller
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DWC-1000
Ver. 1.01
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User Manual
DWC-1000
Wireless Controller
Version 1.01
Copyright © 2011
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction..........................................................................................................................................13
1.1 About this User Manual ....................................................................................................14
1.2 Typographical Conventions............................................................................................. 15
Chapter 2. Configuring Your Network ..............................................................................................................17
2.1 LAN Configuration ..............................................................................................................17
2.1.1 LAN DHCP Reserved IPs ................................................................................................21
2.1.2 LAN DHCP Leased Clients.............................................................................................. 22
2.1.3 LAN Configuration in an IPv6 Network........................................................................23
2.1.4 DHCPv6 Leased Clients...................................................................................................26
2.1.5 Configuring IPv6 Router Advertisements ...................................................................27
2.2 LAN QoS................................................................................................................................30
2.2.1 Port Queue Scheduling.....................................................................................................30
2.2.2 Port Queue Status ..............................................................................................................31
2.2.3 Option QoS Configuration................................................................................................32
2.2.4 Traffic Selector Configuration.........................................................................................34
2.2.5 LAN QoS Configuration ....................................................................................................36
2.2.6 801.p Configuration............................................................................................................36
2.2.7 DSCP Configuration...........................................................................................................37
2.2.8 Remark CoS to DSCP.......................................................................................................39
2.3 VLAN Configuration ...........................................................................................................40
2.3.1 Associating VLANs to ports.............................................................................................41
2.3.2 Multiple VLAN Subnets.....................................................................................................43
2.4 Configurable Port: DMZ Setup.......................................................................................44
2.5 Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)....................................................................................45
2.6 Captive Portal....................................................................................................................... 48
2.6.1 Captive Portal Setup..........................................................................................................48
2.6.2 Captive Portal Session......................................................................................................53
2.6.3 WLAN CP Interface Association....................................................................................54
2.7 WLAN global configuration..............................................................................................56
2.8 Wireless Discovery configuration ..................................................................................59
2.8.1 Wireless Discovery Status............................................................................................... 61
2.8.2 AP Profile Global Configuration.....................................................................................62
Chapter 3. Configuring Wireless LAN..............................................................................................................83
3.1 WLAN Setup Wizard..........................................................................................................83
Chapter 4. Monitoring Status and Statistics...................................................................................................84
4.1 System Overview................................................................................................................84
4.1.1 Dashboard.............................................................................................................................84
4.1.2 Device Status.......................................................................................................................86
4.1.3 Wireless LAN AP information .........................................................................................88
4.1.4 Cluster information .............................................................................................................90
4.1.5 Resource Utilization...........................................................................................................92
4.2 Traffic Statistics...................................................................................................................95
4.2.1 Wired Port Statistics...........................................................................................................95
4.3 Managed AP and Associated Clients Statistics.......................................................96
4.3.1 Managed AP Statistics......................................................................................................96

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4.3.2 LAN Assoicated Clients ....................................................................................................97
4.3.3 WLAN Assoicated Clients................................................................................................ 98
4.4 Active Connections.............................................................................................................99
4.4.1 Sessions through the Controller ....................................................................................99
4.5 LAN Client Info...................................................................................................................100
4.5.1 Associated Clients ............................................................................................................100
4.5.2 LAN Clients.........................................................................................................................102
4.5.3 Detected Clients ................................................................................................................103
4.6 Access Point.......................................................................................................................105
4.6.1 Access Point Status.........................................................................................................105
4.6.2 AP Summary ...................................................................................................................... 108
4.6.3 Managed AP Status.........................................................................................................110
4.6.4 Authentication Failure Status........................................................................................ 111
4.6.5 AP RF Scan Status ..........................................................................................................113
4.7 Global Info...........................................................................................................................115
4.7.1 Global status.......................................................................................................................115
4.7.2 Peer Contorller Status.....................................................................................................121
4.7.3 Peer Controller Configuration Status .........................................................................122
4.7.4 Peer Controller Managed AP Status..........................................................................123
4.7.5 IP Discovery........................................................................................................................124
4.7.6 Configuration Receive Status .......................................................................................125
4.7.7 AP Hardware Capability .................................................................................................127
4.8 Wireless Client Status .....................................................................................................128
4.8.1 Client Status .......................................................................................................................128
4.8.2 Assocaited Client Status ................................................................................................130
4.8.3 Associated Client SSID Status.....................................................................................132
4.8.4 Associated Client VAP Status ......................................................................................133
4.8.5 Controller Associated Client Status............................................................................134
4.8.6 Detected Client Status ....................................................................................................135
4.8.7 Pre-Authorization History ............................................................................................... 136
4.8.8 Detected Client Roam History ......................................................................................138
Chapter 5. AP Management..............................................................................................................................140
5.1 Valid Access Point Configuration................................................................................140
5.2 RF Management................................................................................................................144
5.2.1 RF Configuration...............................................................................................................144
5.2.2 Channel Plan History.......................................................................................................147
5.2.3 Manual Channel Plan......................................................................................................148
5.2.4 Manual Power Adjustment Plan...................................................................................151
5.3 Access Point Software Download ...............................................................................152
5.4 Local OUI Database Summary ....................................................................................154
5.5 AP Provisioning Summary .............................................................................................155
5.6 Manual Management.......................................................................................................157
Chapter 6. Connecting to the Internet: Option Setup ...............................................................................160
6.1 Internet Connection Setup Wizard..............................................................................160
6.2 Option Configuration........................................................................................................161
6.2.1 Option Port IP address....................................................................................................162
6.2.2 Option DNS Servers ........................................................................................................163
6.2.3 DHCP Option......................................................................................................................163
6.2.4 PPPoE..................................................................................................................................164

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6.2.5 Russia L2TP and PPTP Option ...................................................................................167
6.2.6 Option Configuration in an IPv6 Network .................................................................169
6.2.7 Checking Option Status..................................................................................................172
6.3 Features with Multiple Option Links ...........................................................................175
6.3.1 Auto Failover ...................................................................................................................... 175
6.3.2 Load Balancing.................................................................................................................. 176
6.3.3 Protocol Bindings ..............................................................................................................178
6.4 Routing Configuration......................................................................................................180
6.4.1 Routing Mode..................................................................................................................... 180
6.4.2 Dynamic Routing (RIP) ...................................................................................................183
6.4.3 Static Routing.....................................................................................................................184
6.5 OSPF.....................................................................................................................................185
6.6 6to4 Tunneling ...................................................................................................................188
6.7 IGMP Setup ........................................................................................................................190
6.8 Option Port Settings.........................................................................................................191
6.9 IP Aliases.............................................................................................................................193
Chapter 7. Securing the Private Network .....................................................................................................194
7.1 Firewall Rules.....................................................................................................................195
7.2 Defining Rule Schedules ................................................................................................196
7.3 Configuring Firewall Rules.............................................................................................197
7.3.1 Firewall Rule Configuration Examples.......................................................................202
7.4 Security on Custom Services........................................................................................206
7.5 ALG support........................................................................................................................207
7.6 VPN Passthrough for Firewall ......................................................................................208
7.7 Client .....................................................................................................................................209
7.8 Application Rules ..............................................................................................................210
7.9 Application Rules Status ................................................................................................212
7.10 Web Content Filtering......................................................................................................212
7.10.1 Content Filtering................................................................................................................213
7.10.2 Approved URLs .................................................................................................................214
7.10.3 Blocked Keywords ............................................................................................................215
7.10.4 Export Web Filter ..............................................................................................................216
7.11 IP/MAC Binding .................................................................................................................217
7.12 RADIUS Settings...............................................................................................................218
7.13 Switch Settings .................................................................................................................. 220
7.14 Protecting from Internet Attacks..................................................................................221
Chapter 8. IPsec / PPTP / L2TP VPN............................................................................................................223
8.1 VPN Wizard ........................................................................................................................226
8.2 Configuring IPsec Policies.............................................................................................228
8.2.1 Extended Authentication (XAUTH) .............................................................................232
8.2.2 Internet over IPSec tunnel .............................................................................................233
8.3 Configuring VPN clients..................................................................................................233
8.4 PPTP / L2TP Tunnels......................................................................................................234
8.4.1 PPTP Tunnel Support .....................................................................................................234
8.4.2 L2TP Tunnel Support ......................................................................................................236
8.4.3 OpenVPN Support............................................................................................................237

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Chapter 9. SSL VPN............................................................................................................................................241
9.1 Groups and Users.............................................................................................................243
9.1.1 Users and Passwords .....................................................................................................251
9.2 Using SSL VPN Policies.................................................................................................253
9.2.1 Using Network Resources ............................................................................................. 256
9.3 Application Port Forwarding..........................................................................................257
9.4 SSL VPN Client Configuration......................................................................................260
9.4.1 Creating Portal Layouts ..................................................................................................263
9.5 Active VPN Tunnels .........................................................................................................265
Chapter 10. Advanced System Functionalities.............................................................................................. 268
10.1 USB Device Setup............................................................................................................268
10.2 USB Share Port.................................................................................................................269
10.3 Authentication Certificates .............................................................................................270
10.4 Intet ®AMT...........................................................................................................................272
Chapter 11. Advanced Wireless Controller Features..................................................................................275
11.1 Advanced Global Wireless Controller Configuration ............................................275
11.2 Distributed Tunneling.......................................................................................................278
11.3 Distributed Tunneling Status.........................................................................................279
11.4 Peer Controller Configuration.......................................................................................281
11.4.1 Peer Controller Configuraiton Request Status .......................................................281
11.4.2 Peer Controller Configuration.......................................................................................282
11.5 WIDS Configuration .........................................................................................................284
11.5.1 WIDS AP configration......................................................................................................284
11.5.2 WIDS Client Configuration.............................................................................................288
Chapter 12. Administration & Management ...................................................................................................292
12.1 Remote Management......................................................................................................292
12.2 CLI Access..........................................................................................................................292
12.3 SNMP Configuration........................................................................................................293
12.4 SNMP Traps .......................................................................................................................295
12.5 Configuring Time Zone and NTP.................................................................................298
12.6 Log Configuration..............................................................................................................299
12.6.1 Defining What to Log.......................................................................................................300
12.6.2 Sending Logs to E-mail or Syslog...............................................................................303
12.6.3 Event Log Viewer in GUI................................................................................................ 306
12.7 Backing up and Restoring Configuration Settings.................................................308
12.8 Upgrading Wirelesss Controller Firmware ............................................................... 310
12.9 Dynamic DNS Setup........................................................................................................311
12.9.1 Using Diagnostic Tools ...................................................................................................313
12.9.2 Ping........................................................................................................................................314
12.9.3 Trace Route ........................................................................................................................314
12.9.4 DNS Lookup .......................................................................................................................315
12.9.5 Router Options...................................................................................................................315
Chapter 13. License Activation...........................................................................................................................316

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Appendix A. Glossary .............................................................................................................................................318
Appendix B. Factory Default Settings................................................................................................................321

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List of Figures
Figure 1: Setup page for LAN TCP/IP settings (DHCP server) ..................................................................20
Figure 2: Setup page for LAN TCP/IP settings (DHCP Relay) ...................................................................21
Figure 3: LAN DHCP Reserved IPs .....................................................................................................................22
Figure 4: LAN DHCP Leased Clients...................................................................................................................23
Figure 5: IPv6 LAN and DHCPv6 configuration ...............................................................................................24
Figure 6: DHCPv6 Leased Clients........................................................................................................................26
Figure 7: Configuring the Router Advertisement Daemon ...........................................................................29
Figure 8: IPv6 Advertisement Prefix settings ....................................................................................................30
Figure 9: Port Queue Scheduling..........................................................................................................................31
Figure 10: Port Queue Status.................................................................................................................................32
Figure 11: Option QoS Configuration...................................................................................................................33
Figure 12: Bandwidth Profile Configuration.......................................................................................................34
Figure 13: Traffic Selector Configuration............................................................................................................35
Figure 14: LAN QoS Configuration.......................................................................................................................36
Figure 15: 801.p Configuration...............................................................................................................................37
Figure 16: DSCP Configuration .............................................................................................................................38
Figure 17: Remark CoS to DSCP .........................................................................................................................39
Figure 18: Adding VLAN memberships to the LAN.........................................................................................41
Figure 19: Port VLAN list..........................................................................................................................................42
Figure 20: Configuring VLAN membership for a port .....................................................................................43
Figure 21: Multiple VLAN Subnets........................................................................................................................44
Figure 22: DMZ configuration.................................................................................................................................45
Figure 23: UPnP Configuration..............................................................................................................................47
Figure 24: Captive Portal Setup.............................................................................................................................49
Figure 25: Configuring a captive portal policy...................................................................................................50
Figure 26: Captive Portal Configuration (Part-1)..............................................................................................51
Figure 27: Captive Portal Configuration (Part-2)..............................................................................................52
Figure 28: Active Runtime sessions .....................................................................................................................54
Figure 29: WLAN CP Interface Association.......................................................................................................55
Figure 30: WLAN global configuration.................................................................................................................57
Figure 31: Configuring the Wireless Discovery ................................................................................................60
Figure 32: Wireless Discovery status...................................................................................................................62
Figure 33: AP Profile Global Configuration........................................................................................................63
Figure 34: AP Profile List .........................................................................................................................................64

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Figure 35: AP Pofile - Radio configuration (Part-1).........................................................................................71
Figure 36: AP Pofile - Radio configuration (Part-2).........................................................................................73
Figure 37: AP Pofile - SSID configuration..........................................................................................................75
Figure 39: AP Pofile - QoS configuration (Part-2) ...........................................................................................82
Figure 40: WLAN Setup Wizard.............................................................................................................................83
Figure 41: Dashboard................................................................................................................................................85
Figure 42: Device Status display...........................................................................................................................87
Figure 43: Device Status display (continued) ...................................................................................................88
Figure 44: Wireless LAN AP information............................................................................................................89
Figure 45: Cluster information................................................................................................................................91
Figure 46: Resource Utilization statistics............................................................................................................93
Figure 47: Resource Utilization data (continued).............................................................................................94
Figure 48: Physical port statistics..........................................................................................................................95
Figure 49: Managed AP Statistics ..........................................................................................................97
Figure 50: LAN Associated Clients.......................................................................................................................98
Figure 51: WLAN Associated Clients...................................................................................................................99
Figure 52: List of current Active Firewall Sessions .......................................................................................100
Figure 53: Associated Clients...............................................................................................................................101
Figure 54: List of LAN hosts..................................................................................................................................103
Figure 55: Detected Clients...................................................................................................................................104
Figure 57: AP status ................................................................................................................................................108
Figure 58: Managed AP status............................................................................................................................. 110
Figure 59: Authentication Failure Status...........................................................................................................112
Figure 60: AP RF Scan Status ............................................................................................................................. 115
Figure 61: Global Status (Part 1).........................................................................................................................116
Figure 62: Global Status (Part 2).........................................................................................................................117
Figure 63: Peer Controller Status........................................................................................................................122
Figure 64: Peer Controller Configuration Status ............................................................................................ 123
Figure 65: Peer Controller Managed AP Status............................................................................................. 124
Figure 66: IP Discovery ..........................................................................................................................................125
Figure 67: Configuration Receive Status.......................................................................................................... 127
Figure 68: AP Hardware Capability ....................................................................................................................128
Figure 69: Client Status ..........................................................................................................................................129
Figure 70: Associated Client Status...................................................................................................................131
Figure 71: Associated Client SSID Status........................................................................................................132
Figure 72: Associated Client VAP Status.........................................................................................................133

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Figure 73: Controller Associated Client Status...............................................................................................134
Figure 74: Detected Client Status .......................................................................................................................136
Figure 75: Pre-Auth History...................................................................................................................................137
Figure 76: Detected Client Roam History.........................................................................................................139
Figure 77: Valid Access Point Configuration...................................................................................................141
Figure 78: Add a Valid Access Point..................................................................................................................142
Figure 79: RF configuration...................................................................................................................................146
Figure 80: Channel Plan History. ........................................................................................................................148
Figure 81: Manual Channel Plan.........................................................................................................................150
Figure 82: Manual Power Adjustment Plan .....................................................................................................152
Figure 83: Access Point Software Download..................................................................................................154
Figure 84: Local OUI Database ...........................................................................................................................155
Figure 85: AP Provisioning Summary Status..................................................................................................157
Figure 86: Manual Management..........................................................................................................................158
Figure 87: Internet Connection Setup Wizard.................................................................................................161
Figure 88: Manual Option1 configuration .........................................................................................................164
Figure 89: PPPoE configuration for standard ISPs.......................................................................................165
Figure 90: Option1 configuration for Japanese Multiple PPPoE (part 1)...............................................166
Figure 91: Option1 configuration for Multiple PPPoE (part 2)...................................................................167
Figure 92: Russia L2TP ISP configuration.......................................................................................................169
Figure 93: IPv6 Option1 Setup page..................................................................................................................171
Figure 94: Connection Status information of Option1..................................................................................174
Figure 95: Load Balancing is available when multiple Option ports are configured and Protocol
Bindings have been defined.............................................................................................................178
Figure 96: Protocol binding setup to associate a service and/or LAN source to an Option and/or
destination network..............................................................................................................................179
Figure 97: Routing Mode is used to configure traffic routing between Option and LAN, as well as
Dynamic routing (RIP) ........................................................................................................................ 182
Figure 98: Static route configuration fields.......................................................................................................185
Figure 99: OSPFv2 status –IPv4........................................................................................................................186
Figure 100: OSPFv3 status –IPv6 .....................................................................................................................186
Figure 101: OSPFv2 Configuration ....................................................................................................................187
Figure 102: 6to4 Tunneling....................................................................................................................................189
Figure 103: IGMP Setup.........................................................................................................................................190
Figure 104: Physical Option port settings.........................................................................................................192
Figure 105: IP Aliases .............................................................................................................................................193
Figure 106: List of Available Firewall Rules.....................................................................................................196

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Figure 107: List of Available Schedules to bind to a firewall rule.............................................................197
Figure 108: Example where an outbound SNAT rule is used to map an external IP address
(209.156.200.225) to a private DMZ IP address (10.30.30.30) ...........................................200
Figure 109: The firewall rule configuration page allows you to define the To/From zone, service,
action, schedules, and specify source/destination IP addresses as needed. .................201
Figure 110: Schedule configuration for the above example. .....................................................................205
Figure 111: List of user defined services..........................................................................................................207
Figure 112: Available ALG support on the controller. ..................................................................................208
Figure 113: Passthrough options for VPN tunnels ........................................................................................209
Figure 114: List of Known Clients .......................................................................................................................210
Figure 115: List of Available Application Rules showing 4 unique rules................................................211
Figure 116: List of Available Application Rules and corresponding status...........................................212
Figure 117: Content Filtering used to block access to proxy servers and prevent ActiveX controls
from being downloaded......................................................................................................................214
Figure 118: Two trusted domains added to the Approved URLs List.....................................................215
Figure 119: One keyword added to the block list...........................................................................................216
Figure 120: Export Approved URL list...............................................................................................................217
Figure 121: Example binding a LAN host’s MAC Address to a served IP address ...........................218
Figure 122: RADIUS Server Configuration......................................................................................................219
Figure 123: Switch settings...................................................................................................................................220
Figure 124: Protecting the controller and LAN from internet attacks......................................................222
Figure 125: Example of Gateway-to-Gateway IPsec VPN tunnel using two DWC controllers
connected to the Internet...................................................................................................................224
Figure 126: Example of three IPsec client connections to the internal network through the DWC
IPsec gateway.......................................................................................................................................225
Figure 127: VPN Wizard launch screen............................................................................................................226
Figure 128: IPsec policy configuration...............................................................................................................229
Figure 129: IPsec policy configuration continued (Auto policy via IKE).................................................231
Figure 130: IPsec policy configuration continued (Auto / Manual Phase 2).........................................232
Figure 131: PPTP tunnel configuration –PPTP Client................................................................................235
Figure 132: PPTP VPN connection status .......................................................................................................235
Figure 133: PPTP tunnel configuration –PPTP Server ..............................................................................236
Figure 134: L2TP tunnel configuration –L2TP Server ................................................................................237
Figure 135: OpenVPN configuration ..................................................................................................................239
Figure 136: Example of clientless SSL VPN connections to the DWC-1000.......................................242
Figure 137: List of groups......................................................................................................................................243
Figure 138: User group configuration................................................................................................................245

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Figure 139: SSLVPN Settings ..............................................................................................................................247
Figure 140: Group login policies options ..........................................................................................................248
Figure 141: Browser policies options .................................................................................................................249
Figure 142: IP policies options.............................................................................................................................250
Figure 143: Available Users with login status and associated Group ....................................................251
Figure 144: User Configuration options ............................................................................................................253
Figure 145: List of SSL VPN polices (Global filter) .......................................................................................254
Figure 146: SSL VPN policy configuration.......................................................................................................255
Figure 147: List of configured resources, which are available to assign to SSL VPN policies......257
Figure 148: List of Available Applications for SSL Port Forwarding........................................................ 260
Figure 149: SSL VPN client adapter and access configuration................................................................261
Figure 150: Configured client routes only apply in split tunnel mode .....................................................263
Figure 151: SSL VPN Portal configuration.......................................................................................................265
Figure 152: List of current Active VPN Sessions ...........................................................................................266
Figure 153: USB Device Detection.....................................................................................................................269
Figure 154: USB Share Port .................................................................................................................................270
Figure 155: Certificate summary for IPsec and HTTPS management ...................................................272
Figure 156: Intet ®AMT............................................................................................................................................273
Figure 157: Wireless Configuration .....................................................................................................276
Figure 158: Distributed Tunneling ........................................................................................................279
Figure 159: Distributed Tunneling Clients ......................................................................................280
Figure 160: Peer Controller Configuration Request Status ...............................................281
Figure 161: Peer Controller Configuraiton ..................................................................................... 283
Figure 162: W IDS AP Configuration....................................................................................................288
Figure 163: WIDS Client Configuration.............................................................................................................291
Figure 164: Remote Management......................................................................................................................292
Figure 165: SNMP Users, Traps, and Access Control ................................................................................294
Figure 166: SNMP system information for this controller ...........................................................................295
Figure 167: SNMP Traps .......................................................................................................................................296
Figure 168: Date, Time, and NTP server setup .............................................................................................299
Figure 169: Facility settings for Logging...........................................................................................................301
Figure 170: Log configuration options for traffic through controller.........................................................303
Figure 171: E-mail configuration as a Remote Logging option.................................................................305
Figure 172: Syslog server configuration for Remote Logging (continued)............................................306
Figure 173: VPN logs displayed in GUI event viewer ..................................................................................307
Figure 174: SSL VPN logs displayed in GUI event viewer.........................................................................308

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Figure 175: Restoring configuration from a saved file will result in the current configuration being
overwritten and a reboot....................................................................................................................310
Figure 176: Firmware version information and upgrade option ................................................................311
Figure 178: Controller diagnostics tools available in the GUI....................................................................314
Figure 179: Installing a License...........................................................................................................................317

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Chapter 1. Introduction
D-Link Wireless Controller (DWC), DWC-1000, is a full-featured wireless LAN
controller designing for small network environment. The centralized control function
contains various access point management functions, such as fast -roaming, inter-subnet
roaming, automatic channel and power adjustment, self-healing etc. The advanced
wireless security function, including rouge AP detection, captive portal, wireless
intrusion detection system (WIDS), offers a strong wireless network protection
avoiding attacks from hackers . After license upgrade optimal network security is
provided via features such as virtual private network (VPN) tunnels, IP Security
(IPsec), Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP),
and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Empower your road warriors with clientless remote
access anywhere and anytime using SSL VPN tunnels.
There are two types of licenses available to activate increased functionality for the
DWC. These licenses are not activated by default.
1. VPN license upgrade enables the following features: ISP Connection types
(PPPoE, PPTP, L2TP, NAT/Transparent mode), Option2/DMZ port, IP
Aliasing, Dynamic Routing (RIP), VPN (PPTP client/server, L2TP client
/server , SSLVPN, OpenVPN) , Intel AMT, Dynamic DNS, Website Filter,
Application Rules, Firewall Rules, UPNP, IGMP proxy, and ALG/SMTP-
ALG
2. AP license upgrades the number of APs controller can manage. You can
upgrade upto 3 AP licenses. By default DWC-1000 can manage upto 6
AP's. You increase the number by 6 upon each AP license.

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1.1 About this User Manual
This document is a high level manual to allow new D-Link Wireless Controller users
to configure connectivity, WLAN configuration, setup VPN tunnels, establish firewall
rules and AP management and perform general administrative tasks. Typical
deployment and use case scenarios are described in each section. For more detailed
setup instructions and explanations of each configuration parameter, refer to the
online help that can be accessed from each page in the controller GUI.
For this user manual all screenshots are taken with an activated VPN
license which enables VPN / Firewall features.

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1.2 Typographical Conventions
The following is a list of the various terms, followed by an example of how that term
is represented in this document:
Product Name: D-Link Wireless Controller
oModel number: DWC-1000
GUI Menu Path/GUI Navigation –Monitoring > Controller Status
Important note –

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Chapter 2. Configuring Your Network
To enable management access for the browser based web GUI access or SNMP
manager, you must connect the controller to the network. The default IP address/subnet
mask of the controller management interface is 192.168.10.1 / 255.255.255.0 and
DHCP server on the LAN is disabled by default on the controller. You must connect the
controller to a 192.168.10.0 network.
After you configure network information, such as the IP address and subnet mask, and
the controller is physically and logically connected to the network, you can manage and
monitor the controller remotely through Web browser, or an SNMP-based network
management system.Once the initial setup is complete, the DWC-1000 can be managed
through wired interface connected to controller.
Access the co n t ro ller‟s GUI for management by using any web browser,
such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
Go to http://192.168.10.1 (default IP address) to display the controller‟s
management login screen.
Default login credentials for the management GUI:
Username: admin
Password: admin
If the controller‟s LAN IP ad d ress was ch anged, u s e th at IP address in the
navigation bar of the browser to access the controller‟s managemen t UI.
2.1 LAN Configuration
Setup > Network Settings > LAN Setup Configuration
By default, in the controller the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) mode
is s et t o “No n e” . Th e DHCP mo d e can be s et as a DHCP s erv er o r DHCP rela y . W h en
DHCP mode is set as DHCP server, the controller funtions as a DHCP server for
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other LAN devices can be assigned IP addresses, the default gateway, as well as
addresses for DNS servers, Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) servers . The PCs
in the LAN are assigned IP addresses from a pool of addresses specified in this
procedure. Each pool address is tested before it is assigned to avoid duplicate
addresses on the LAN.
For most applications the default DHCP and TCP/IP settings are satisfactory. If you
want another PC on your network to be the DHCP server or if you are manually
configuring the network settings of all of your PCs, s et th e DHCP mod e to „n o n e‟.
DHCP relay can be used to forward DHCP lease information from another LAN
d evice that is th e n e t work‟s DHCP s e rv er; t h is is p art ic u larly us efu l fo r wirele s s
clients.
Instead of using a DNS server, you can use a Windows Internet Naming Service
(WINS) server. A WINS server is the equivalent of a DNS server but uses the
NetBIOS protocol to resolve hostnames. The controller includes the WINS server IP
address in the DHCP configuration when acknowledgin g a DHCP request from a
DHCP client.
You can also enable DNS proxy for the LAN. When this is enabled the controller then
as a pro xy fo r all DNS re q u es ts an d communicat es with th e ISP‟s DNS s ervers . W hen
disabled all DHCP clients receive the DNS IP addresse s of the ISP.
To configure LAN Connectivity, please follow the steps below:
1. In the LAN Setup page,enter the following information for your controller:
IP address: (factory default: 192.168.10.1).
If you change the IP address and click Save Settings, the GUI will not
respond. Open a new connection to the new IP address and log in again. Be
sure the LAN host (the machine used to manage the controller) has obtained
IP address from newly assigned pool (or has a static IP address in the
controller‟s LA N s u b n et ) before accessing the controller via changed IP
address.
Subnet mask: (factory default: 255.255.255.0).
2. In the DHCP section,select the DHCP mode:
None: the controller‟s DHCP s erv er is dis ab led fo r t h e LA N