Quick Configuration to Internet Before you can connect your LAN to the Internet you must obtain an ISDN internet account from your local Internet Service Provider (ISP). Your local ISP should provide you the following information when you register with them: 1. Account user ID and password 2. Dial in telephone number, you may need to have two phone numbers if you wish to run Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol (ie. MLPPP). When the above information is ready, you can configure the router with it to connect your LAN to the internet. Configuring the router is very easy with the quick config "qconfig" command. The router will prompt you to enter the ethernet IP address for the router, the ISP user ID, password, and the ISP phone number. When you're done typing the information, the router will return you to the CLI prompt. At this point we recommend you to save all your configuration > config save Now you are ready to launch the connection to the internet. To do this please use the connect command: > connect The router shall attempt to connect you with your local ISP. If succeed you should see a message indicating that connection with the internet is successful. At this point, depending on weather your LAN has private IP addresses or not, you may want to configure NAT (Network Address Translation) to translate all of your private IP addresses to the public IP address. This can be done with the this command: > config ip nat add isdn Simple as that! Now you can start surfing. by entering the command: Quick configuration is designed to help users with limited network knowledge to setup the SOHO router and connect to the internet with ease within the least amount of time. To start quick configuration for the internet, enter qconfig at the command prompt. An example of the quick configuration screen is displayed as shown below. Quick Configuration Setup -------------------------------IP address of this unit's LAN port : IP mask of this unit's LAN port Switch Type (etsi, ni1, ntt) DN1 DN2 SPID1 SPID2 : : : : 3930219 3930237 50839302190101 50839302370101 : : 8398111 john master 123.97.35.7 : 255.255.255.0 : ni1 (ESC, ESC to exit) Phone number of the remote unit User's ID to log into remote site User's password to log into remote site : AtCLI> config save unit is configured. It is suggested to save the configuration this point the immediately to keep it in the EPROM. The user can connect and start surfing the internet by entering the following command. CLI> connect john (user entered) CLI> B1 channel up (automatic display by router) CLI> add net (automatic display by router) CLI> config ip nat add isdn (user entered) By using qconfig you can change the telephone number and connect to any specified destination or ISP manually. For detailed significance of the above command, please see the following command set. Note: The quick configuration can only be executed in CLI mode. ...