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Table of Contents
Chapter1 Quick Start ....................................................................................................4
1.1 Preparation ...............................................................................................................4
1.2 Access to the Web-based UI ....................................................................................6
1.3 BR-6641 Web-based UI Overview............................................................................8
1.4 How to use BR-6641 Web-based UI.......................................................................10
1.4.1 BR-6641 Operating Menu..........................................................................10
1.4.2 BR-6641 Rule/Filter/Policy Table............................................................... 11
Chapter 2 System........................................................................................................13
2.1 Summary.................................................................................................................14
2.2 Traffic Statistics .......................................................................................................16
2.3 Diagnostic Tools......................................................................................................17
2.4 Date&Time ..............................................................................................................20
2.4.1 Date&Time Setting.....................................................................................20
2.4.2 Busyhour Setting .......................................................................................21
2.5 Administration .........................................................................................................22
Chapter3 Network .......................................................................................................25
3.1 WAN Setting............................................................................................................26
3.1.1 Standard Mode ..........................................................................................28
3.1.2 DHCP Mode...............................................................................................31
3.1.3 PPPoE Mode .............................................................................................33
3.1.4 PPTP Mode ...............................................................................................35
3.1.5 Advanced Mode.........................................................................................37
3.2 LAN Setting.............................................................................................................39
3.3 DHCP Setting..........................................................................................................42
3.4 Host Names ............................................................................................................45
3.5 Service Names........................................................................................................47
3.6 IP Grouping.............................................................................................................49
3.7 Service Grouping ....................................................................................................51
Chapter 4 Service........................................................................................................53
4.1 Firewall....................................................................................................................54
4.2 Auto Routing ...........................................................................................................57
4.3 Virtual Server ..........................................................................................................60

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4.4 QoS.........................................................................................................................62
4.5 Per IP Max Connection ...........................................................................................66
4.6 Per IP Max Rate Control .........................................................................................68
4.7 Multihoming.............................................................................................................70
4.8 Internal DNS ...........................................................................................................75
4.9 SNMP......................................................................................................................77
4.10 UPnP.....................................................................................................................78
Chapter 5 Log..............................................................................................................79
5.1 View ........................................................................................................................80
5.2 Control ....................................................................................................................81
5.3 Notification ..............................................................................................................84

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Chapter1 Quick Start
At the first time using the product of BR-6641, you may confronted with
complicated settings which prevents you from starting well. This chapter will
explain the basic functionalities of BR-6641 and how to operate and configure the
system.It will also cover related subjects in network structures and hardware
installation which will help you during your setup of BR-6641.
1.1 Preparation
Before you get started, there are few things you need to know:
The position of the BR-6641 LAN Port: It has five network interfaces, the last port is
LAN Port which is marked on the machine.
The default IP address for LAN interface is 192.168.2.1
Your IP addresses for computers in the LAN should be changed to
192.168.2.2 (or 192.168.2.x) in order to avoid conflicts with the default LAN
port.
Connect your computers in the LAN to the BR-6641 with a cross-over cable,
which is a standard attachment.
To access the web-based administration UI, open http://192.168.2.1/ in your
Internet Explorer 6.0.
The default password for the administrator account is “1234”, and “5678” for
the monitor account. We strongly recommend you to modify the passwords at
the first time you log into the web-based UI. It is also a wise idea to write
down your changed passwords and keep them in a safe place in case you
forget them.
Check your network environment carefully before installing BR-6641. A
well-designed network environment with the necessary information such as
your network structure, IP addresses, and network segments information will

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help you complete the setup of BR-6641 parameters.
BR-6641 uses a web-based management user interface (Web-based UI).
Due to internal design constraints, you have to use MS Internet Explorer 6.0
(IE 6.0), or higher to access the Web-based UI. A screen resolution of
800x600 or higher is recommended.
Use a cross-over cable to access BR-6641 Web-based UI from the LAN port.
BR-6641 is shipped with two types of network cable in the box; one is a
cross-over and the other is a straight cable. Please use the cross-over cable
to connect to the computer and LAN port of BR-6641, the LED of the plugged
in port will turn on when properly connected.

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1.2 Access to the Web-based UI
The Web-based UI enables you to easily perform every configuration task. Follow
the steps below to access the Web-based UI.
1. Connect your PC Ethernet LAN interface to LAN port of BR-6641 with a
cross-over cable. The default management LAN port of BR-6641 is LAN port.
2. After powering on BR-6641, the LED of LAN port will turn to orange. This
indicates that it is on-line.
3. Assign your PC Ethernet LAN interface with IP 192.168.2.2, subnet mask
255.255.255.0.
4. Check that the proxy setting of your IE browser is turned off, no proxy server
is required in order to access BR-6641 ’s Web-based UI. Open MS IE 6.0,
select Internet Option on the menu bar of Tools, click the Connection tab,
and then click LAN settings to open Local Area Network Settings dialog
box, under Proxy server, make sure proxy server is not selected.
5. In the URL of IE 6.0, type in http://192.168.2.1 to access the Web-based UI.
6. BR-6641 provides two types of user accounts:
Administrator - Has privileges to monitor and modify system parameters.
Monitor - Has privileges to monitor only.
BR-6641 allows up to 1 administrator and 1 monitor to access concurrently.
Default password for Administrator and Monitor are 1234 and 5678,
respectively. Please have your password change the first time you log in.

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Cancel the Proxy Setting

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1.3 BR-6641 Web-based UI Overview
After logging in, you will be able to start configuring or monitoring BR-6641
through the Web-based UI.
In order to help you to familiar with the basic operations, the explanations are as
follows:
The Web-based UI tasks are grouped into four categories. The categories are
located at the upper left-hand corner of Web-based UI task bar. These categories
cover all the configuration possibilities in BR-6641. The four categories are:
System
Network
Service
Log
In the later chapters, we will introduce the functions of these four categories. On
the first stage,you can login as Administrator in the Web-based UI and modify the
Administrator or Monitor password by performing the following: (1)Click System
and select Administration on task bar, (2) enter your new Administrator password
or Monitor password, after the system confirmation, using the new password next
time you log in.
What shall we do if we forget the new password?
If you forget your administrator password, use a Terminal (VT-100 compatible) to
establish the connection between PC RS - 232 series port and BR-6641 Console
interface, execute system reset to default.
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second: 9600, Data bits: 8, Parity: None, Stop bits: 8, Flow control: None. The
serial console and Web-based UI use the same username and password pairs.
By default, the password of “Administrator” is 1234, and the password of “Monitor”
is 5678. If the password is changed via the Web-based UI, it will also be changed
in the serial console. In case you lose your password, you can use the username
“reset” and password “BR-6641_edimax” to log into serial console and reset the
system to default.
Open the IE browser to access the Web-based UI
Note: Please remember the changed password , otherwise it is not possible to
access the BR-6641 management interface.

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1.4 How to use BR-6641 Web-based UI
This section describes the operations and arrangement of Web Based UI, figure
1-2 displays the operating menu of BR-6641 Web-based UI system.
BR-6641 Web Based UI Operating Menu Items
1.4.1 BR-6641 Operating Menu
The task bar of operating menu contains five categories, which are System,
Service, Network, Log, each category has these own menu, “System /
Summary” in figure 1-2 indicates the current working menu, while
“Administrator 192.168.2.1” indicates login account is Administrator at system
name of 192.168.2.1.
Select the “Logout” from up right corner to exit the system.
Apply, Reload, Help/Hide Help buttons are always displayed on the operating
menu, the functions are as described below:
Button Function
After modifying the parameters of specific menu
page, click this button to save your changes to
memory, the old settings will also be saved.

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Click this button to recover the old settings
which apply has saved.
Click the Help button to display the on-line help
of the current page, the on-line help information
will automatically swap when you change the
function page or language.
Click Hide Help to hide the on-line help
information.
Table 5.0 Buttons
Note: The Apply and Reload buttons here are active only on certain pages, any
parameters modified without click Apply will not be saved to the memory.
Remember to click Apply when you are ready to move to the next page menu
or logout.
1.4.2 BR-6641 Rule/Filter/Policy Table
Orders of Rules/Filters/Policies
BR-6641 provides a rule table for you to perform the tasks like system parameter
or service policies. Often you are required to add or delete rules of your own. In
general, when you have multiple rules in a table, BR-6641 matches these rules
from top to bottom. That is, the rules at the top of the table are given a higher
precedence. Thus, to achieve the outcome of your desire, the more specific rules
should be placed on top of the less specific rules.
You will see in this table a few icons and their meanings:
Add a new rule below the current rule.
Move the current rule one row down.
Move the current rule one row up.
Delete the current rule.

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Write a note for the current rule.
Table 5.1 Operating Rules
When you add a new rule, the newly added rule will be placed right below the
current rule. Moving the rule up or down will swap positions between the upper and
lower rules.
Checkbox
It is quite common that you see the following checkboxes in some tables. These
checkboxes indicate whether certain functions are enabled or not. A red check sign
inside a checkbox stands for “enabled”, and an empty checkbox means “disabled”.
For example, you can enable logging for a rule by checking its checkbox in the rule
table.
The function is disabled.
The function is enabled.
Table 5.2 Check Box
So far, we have only mentioned the basic operations of the Web-based UI. In the
next section, we will talk more on how to integrate BR-6641 into your present
network environment.

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Chapter 2 System
In this chapter, you will learn how to configure system settings. System settings are
the fundamental configurations of the BR-6641 system. They have to be specific in
order for the system to work properly. Examples are provided here to help you to
fulfill the configuration.
Figure 3.1 The Location of “System/Summary” on the Menu Bar

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2.1 Summary
[Summary] is in the submenu of [System], which helps the Administrator to know
the system information. While logging in the Web UI, System/Summary is the first
page you see when you log into BR-6641’s web-based UI.
[Summary] provide the following information:
System Information
Category Field Description
Version The Firmware Version.
Serial Number The Serial number.
Up Time Time since the last reboot.
Connections Number of total connections.
CPU Usage % CPU usage in percentage.
System Information
Packets/Second Number of packets served per
second.
Table 3.1 System Information
Note: Connections may jump up to over 100 when BR-6641 is starting up. This is
due to many ICMP packets sent out by BR-6641 to test the network. It will drop
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WAN Link State
The section on WAN Link State shows the current status of each and every WAN
link. Each WAN link is represented as a color-coded block with the following color
coding scheme to indicate its status. The allowed number of WAN Link is also
shown here.
yGreen: Active WAN link.
yRed: Broken WAN link.
yBlack: WAN link not in use.

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2.2 Traffic Statistics
Figure 3.2 The Location of “System/Traffic Statistics” on the Menu Bar
In the traffic statistics page, you can inspect real-time traffic information sorted by
traffic class over each WAN link. The statistics of traffic classes in the table is
adjusted accordingly by your selection of traffic type - either inbound or outbound
traffic.
Field Value Descriptions
Traffic Type Inbound
Outbound
The direction of traffic flow – either inbound traffic
or outbound traffic.
Traffic Class The names of the traffic classes defined on the
QoS page. The rest of unclassified information is
labelled as “Default Class”.
WAN Link 1, 2… The total number of WAN links you want to inspect.
Table 3.2 The Description of the fields on the Statistics/Traffic Page

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2.3 Diagnostic Tools
System
Traffic Statistics
Summary
Diagnostic Tools
Administration
Date & Time
Network Service Log
Figure 3.3 The Location of “System/Diagnostic Tools” on the Menu Bar
ARP Enforcement: ARP Enforcement updates ARP tables of servers and
network devices around BR-6641.
When the Enforce button is pushed, BR-6641 sends out ARP packets to the
surrounding servers or network devices to update their ARP tables. This is
necessary only if certain equipments in DMZ cannot connect to the Internet
properly after initial setup.
IP Conflict Test:IP Conflict Test helps you to detect if the location of any
machines on the network conflicts with the DMZ/WAN settings
of Network Setting category on BR-6641.

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Push Test button to begin the test. The result of the test is one of the following:
Everything is ok.
BR-6641 discovers that a machine in DMZ conflicts with Network Setting on
BR-6641. For example, a public IP address should be in WAN but is used by
a machine in DMZ. An error message with the conflicting IP address and
MAC address of the machine will be displayed.
BR-6641 discovers that a machine in WAN conflicts with Network Setting on
BR-6641. For example, a public IP address should be in DMZ but is used by a
machine in WAN. An error message with the conflicting IP address and MAC
address of the machine will be displayed.
Ping: Ping is used to detect network condition by sending ICMP packets to a
target device.
You may specify a target device in the Target IP field. It accepts either an IP
address or a host name. Select a network interface, WAN or LAN. If it is WAN,
select WAN link number in Index field. As to the error message about ICMP, please
refer to the concerned document.
Note: If a domain name is used to ping, a DNS server has to be specified in [Network ]→[Host
Names].
Trace Route: Trace route is used to detect network condition by showing the
routing path from BR-6641 to the target device.
You may specify a target device in the Target IP field. It accepts either an IP
address or a host name. Select a network interface, WAN or LAN. If it is WAN,
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refer other materials.
You may specify a target device in the Target IP field. It accepts either an IP
address or a host name.
You may specify a target device in the Target IP field. It accepts either an IP
address or FQDN. Select a network interface, WAN or LAN. If it is WAN, select
WAN link number in Index field.
Note: If a domain name is used to traceroute, a DNS server has to be specified in [Network ]
→[Host Names].
Arping: Arping is used to detect the MAC address of a computer.
You may specify a target device in the Target IP field. It accepts either an IP
address or a host name. Select a network interface (WAN, LAN). If it is WAN,
select WAN link number in Index field. For ARP related error messages, please
refer other materials.
Note: If a host name is used in Target IP field, then a DNS server has to be specified in
[Network ]→[Host Names].