PePLink Balance Series v4.0 User Manual
Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE ......................................................................................................... 4
2 GLOSSARY ....................................................................................................................................... 4
3 PRODUCT FEATURES ........................................................................................................................ 5
3.1 SUPPORTED NETWORK FEATURES ................................................................................................................. 5
3.2 OTHER SUPPORTED FEATURES ...................................................................................................................... 5
4 PACKAGE CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................... 6
4.1 PEPLINK BALANCE 30 / 200 / 300 ............................................................................................................ 6
4.2 PEPLINK BALANCE 380 / 700 .................................................................................................................... 6
5 PEPLINK BALANCE OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................... 7
5.1 PEPLINK BALANCE 200 .............................................................................................................................. 7
5.2 PEPLINK BALANCE 30 / 300 ...................................................................................................................... 9
5.3 PEPLINK BALANCE 380 ............................................................................................................................ 11
5.4 PEPLINK BALANCE 700 ............................................................................................................................ 14
6 INSTALLATION ............................................................................................................................... 17
6.1 CONNECTING THE NETWORK WITH PEPLINK BALANCE ............................................................................... 17
6.2 CONFIGURING COMPUTERS ON THE LAN ................................................................................................. 18
7 BASIC CONFIGURATION .............................................................................................................. 21
7.1 CONNECTING TO WEB ADMINISTRATION INTERFACE .................................................................................. 21
7.2 CONFIGURATION WITH SETUP WIZARD ....................................................................................................... 22
7.3 ADVANCED SETUP ................................................................................................................................... 23
8 CONFIGURATION OF LAN INTERFACE(S) .................................................................................... 24
9 DROP-IN MODE ............................................................................................................................. 27
10 CONFIGURATION OF WAN INTERFACE(S) .................................................................................. 30
10.1 DHCP CONNECTION .............................................................................................................................. 30
10.2 STATIC IP CONNECTION ........................................................................................................................... 33
10.3 PPPOE CONNECTION ............................................................................................................................. 36
10.4 GRE CONNECTION ................................................................................................................................. 38
10.5 SMTP FORWARDING ............................................................................................................................... 43
10.6 DYNAMIC DNS SETTINGS ......................................................................................................................... 43
10.7 WAN HEALTH CHECK ............................................................................................................................. 44
11 FIREWALL CONFIGURATION ......................................................................................................... 47
12 MANAGEMENT OF OUTBOUND TRAFFIC TO WAN ...................................................................... 51
12.1 OUTBOUND TRAFFIC POLICY..................................................................................................................... 51
12.2 FINE TUNING LOAD DISTRIBUTION FOR INDIVIDUAL SERVICES ....................................................................... 52
13 MANAGEMENT OF INBOUND ACCESS FROM WAN ................................................................... 57
13.1 DEFINITION OF SERVERS ON LAN .............................................................................................................. 57
13.2 DEFINITION OF SERVICES ........................................................................................................................... 58
13.3 DEFINITION OF PORTING FORWARDING ..................................................................................................... 62
13.4 DEFINITION OF DNS RECORDS ................................................................................................................. 64
14 CONFIGURATION OF NAT MAPPINGS ........................................................................................ 75
15 MISCELLANEOUS SETTINGS .......................................................................................................... 77
15.1 HIGH AVAILABILITY ................................................................................................................................... 77
15.2 TRAFFIC PRIORITIZATION............................................................................................................................ 79
16 SYSTEM SETTINGS .......................................................................................................................... 79