RouterBoard411U / 411UHR
Quick Start Guide
M2M Connectivity Pty. Ltd
ABN 14 102 703 319, 1 Barrett Street, Kensington VIC 3031, AUSTRALIA.
Phone: +61 3 9696 3011 Fax: +61 3 9372 1588
Web: www.m2mconnectivity.com.au
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Contents
1. QUICK START GUIDE INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 3
2. ROUTERBOARD 411U OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................... 4
3. ROUTERBOARD CONFIGURATION..................................................................................................... 5
3.1 DOWNLOAD WINBOX CONFIGURATION TOOL ............................................................................................ 5
3.2 INSERTING SIM CARD .............................................................................................................................. 5
3.3 PHYSICAL CONNECTION........................................................................................................................... 6
3.4 COMPUTER PREPARATION ........................................................................................................................ 7
3.5 LOGIN TO WINBOX .................................................................................................................................. 9
3.6 CONFIGURING DHCP SERVER ................................................................................................................ 10
3.7 CONFIGURING PPP-CLIENT .................................................................................................................... 12
3.8 CONFIGURING NAT ............................................................................................................................... 14
3.9 ENABLE PPP-CLIENT ............................................................................................................................. 16
3.10 CONFIGURING DYNAMIC DNS ............................................................................................................. 17
3.11 PORT FORWARDING ............................................................................................................................. 19
3.12 CONFIGURING PPTP T UNNEL ............................................................................................................... 20
PPTP Server Configurations................................................................................................................... 21
PPTP Client configurations .................................................................................................................... 22
4.0 APPENDIX ............................................................................................................................................. 24
4.1 DYNAMIC DNS TOOL............................................................................................................................. 24
Revisions
Date
Version
Author
Update details
11/06/2010
Document Creation
AZ
Initial Documentation
08/07/2010
Release 1.0
AD
First version Release
14/07/2010
Release 2.0
AZ
Port Forwarding and DynDNS Added
23/08/2010
Release 3.0
AZ
PPTP Added
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1. QUICK START GUIDE INTRODUCTION
Thank you for choosing the RouterBoard 411u from M2M Connectivity. This user guide will provide a
series of step by step instructions to ensure the configurations of Router goes as smooth as possible.
M2M Connectivity recommends the following accessories for use with the RB411U and RB411UHR
routers.
Order #
18PSU18 P OWER
S UPPLY
Product Name
Power Adapter
AMP DCA8417
Serial Cable
WS P ENTA RA SMA
Penta-band right-angle
antenna
Description
18V 1000mA capacity
provides 18Watts making
this an ideal choice for
Mikrotik Devices such as
RB411U and RB411 UAHR.
A serial cable required to
configure the Router with
configuration tools other
than Winbox and Webbox.
Penta-band right-angle
antenna with SMA connector for GSM/GPRS and
3G/HSPA connectivity
[1]
R52N
R52N Wireless miniPCI card
The dual band RouterBOARD 802.11a/b/g/n
R52N is a wireless miniPCI
card with MIMO support.
It supports 2.3-2.5Ghz
frequency.
[2]
[1]- For router RB411U with MC87xx, two antennas are required for Rx Diversity support.
[2]- For router RB411UHR with integrated WiFi, then the R52N is not required.
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2. ROUTERBOARD 411U OVERVIEW
Power Jack
LED
(LD302)
Power LED
RESET
Ethernet Port
RS232 Serial Port
USB Port
P OWER J ACK - Plug in the power supply (10-28V DC) here.
P OWER LED - Power LED is on when the Router is powered.
E THERNET P ORT - Window computer is connected to the Router with Ethernet cable through this
port.
RS232 S ERIAL P ORT - Router can be connected to the Window computer if someone wants to configure it by using tool other than winbox and webbox.
USB P ORT - USB 2.0 port is used to connect an external device such as memory stick or a USB 3G
modem.
RESET - It is used to give the router a full reboot.
LED (LD302) - Indicates status of modem.
OFF - Not powered.
ON - Powered, associated, and authenticated but not transmitting and Receiving.
Slow Blink - Powered but not associated or authenticated.
Intermittent Blink - Transmitting and receiving data.
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3. ROUTERBOARD CONFIGURATION
This Router can be configured by using different tools. Following are some tools which are supported
by RouterOS for configurations:
Winbox GUI over IP and MAC
CLI with Telnet, SSH, Local console and Serial console
API for programming your own tools
Web interface
In this Quick Start Guide, Winbox is used to configure the router to support different features.
3.1 DOWNLOAD WINBOX CONFIGURATION TOOL
Winbox can be downloaded from the following website:
http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html
3.2 INSERTING SIM CARD
The SIM card needs to be inserted correctly. Following diagram represents how to insert the SIM
card.
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3.3 PHYSICAL CONNECTION
Connect antennas to the MC8790/MC8790V/MC8795V modems Main UFL and/or AUX UFL
antenna connecting points shown below in diagram.
UFL Antenna connecting points
Connect the Router to your computer with Ethernet cable.
Power up the Router by connecting input of the power adopter to the mains and its output
to the Power Jack slot of Router.
Please do not power on the router before the antennas cables are connected.
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3.4 COMPUTER PREPARATION
In order for your PC to get an IP address automatically from a DHCP server on your router, you need
to change some network setting of your PC.
Following procedure can be used by Windows XP users to change the network setting of their computers.
Follow the path start -> Control Panel -> Network Connections on your computer. Right click
Local Area Connection and select Properties to open the configurations dialog box.
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Click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and then a pop up window will appear. Make changes as given below in the diagram and then press OK button to close this pop up window.
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3.5 LOGIN TO WINBOX
Click Winbox icon on PC connected to Ethernet port of Router through cable and click the
button labeled “--- “situated to the left of the connect button.
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Select IP address 192.168.88.1 or MAC address appeared and then click connect button.
The default access credentials are username admin and a blank password.
After you logged in, following window will pop up:
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3.6 CONFIGURING DHCP SERVER
In order to get an IP address automatically, you need to configure DHCP server on your Router.
DHCP server can be configured by following the steps by step instructions given below:
Note: In the following configuration example, a
DHCP server is configured that will assign an address
range 192.168.88.2 - 192.168.88.254.
Follow the path IP->DHCP server on Winbox and run DHCP server wizard.
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Step 1. DHCP Server Interface
Step 2. DHCP Server address
Step 3. Addresses to give out
Step 4. Gateway for DHCP Network
Step 5. DNS Servers.
Note: In this example we use Telstra’s Primary DNS
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As the above wizard finishes, following window will pop up verifying your successful configuration of
DHCP server.
3.7 CONFIGURING PPP-CLIENT
Now you are required to create a PPP-client profile in order to connect to an ISP. Following procedure can be used to create a PPP-client profile for a particular ISP:
Run the command at+cgdcond? to see which APN profiles are already configured in the modem. Following is an example where three APNs are already configured.
In the following configuration example of PPPclient, an APN telstra.internet and Phone *99***3#
will be entered according to the above entry in the
modem.
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In the following configuration example a PPP-client is configured for APN telstra.internet with dialed
number as *99***3#
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Now if you want to configure another APN in the modem, you will be required to issue command
at+cgdcont=<context ID>“IP”,”<APN>”. Following is an example where APN internet.au is configured
in modem.
3.8 CONFIGURING NAT
Follow the path IP->Firewall->NAT.
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Click on General tab and set Chain option to srcnat and Out. Interface to the ppp-client interface that has been configured in the previous step.
Click Action tab and select masquerade as an action.
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3.9 ENABLE PPP-CLIENT
After configuring NAT you are required to enable PPP-client that is configured in step---.
You can configure it as described in following diagram.
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After enable you should get following result.
R sign representing that PPP-client is
enabled and working.
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Now you should be able to browse internet through PPP connection to MC8790/V or MC8795v
modem.
You can check modem status, signal strength and network in use by clicking the info button on PPPclient configuration page.
3.10 CONFIGURING DYNAMIC DNS
Dynamic DNS can be configured by writing a script or you can refer to Appendix 4.1 for this script.
You can configure Dynamic DNS on RouterBoard by uploading this script (from Appendix 4.1) and
then follow the steps described below:
Follow the path system->scripts.
Click on (+) to add a script.
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Write/upload the script and then click OK.
Note: If you download the Dynamic DNS script from
our website, then the name of the script should be
“dynDNS”.
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Add a scheduler to run the script after specific intervals. It can be done by running the following command
/system scheduler add name=dynDNS policy=read,test interval=1m on-event=dynDNS
In the above configuration command, a scheduler is set to run the script dynDNS after every 2 minutes.
3.11 PORT FORWARDING
Port forwarding can be done as described in the following snapshots:
Follow the path IP->Firewall.
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Note: In this example, a TCP port 134 is forwarded
from external IP a.b.c.d to TCP port 134 of an internal IP 192.168.88.254.
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3.12 CONFIGURING PPTP TUNNEL
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PPTP SERVER CONFIGURATIONS
Follow the path PPP -> Secret on the winbox to create a user on the server.
Now create and enable a PPTP Server by following the procedure explained in the following
diagram.
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PPTP Client configurations
Follow the path Interface -> (+) ->PPTP-Client on the winbox to create a client and here necessary credentials will be entered to connect to the server .
Static Routes on both Client & Server
Add static routes to the network attached to the routers as described in the following snapshots.
Follow the path IP->Routes-> (+) on the client to create a static route to the network
192.168.90.0/24 with 10.0.0.1 (local/server end address of the PPTP tunnel) as a default gateway.
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Follow the path IP->Routes-> (+) on the Server to create a static route to the network
192.168.88.0/24 with 10.0.0.2 ( Remote/Client end address of the PPTP tunnel) as a default
gateway.
Now you should be able to PING the Client network from server side and vise-versa.
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4.0 APPENDIX
4.1 DYNAMIC DNS TOOL
#Dynamic DNS Script
# set only these three variables
:global username "username"
:global password "password"
:global hostname "complete_hostname"
:global dyndnsForce
:global previousIP
# print some debug info
:log info ("dyndns-update: username = $username")
:log info ("dyndns-update: password = $password")
:log info ("dyndns-update: hostname = $hostname")
:log info ("dyndns-update: previousIP = $previousIP")
# get the current IP address from the internet (in case of double-nat)
/tool fetch mode=http address="checkip.dyndns.org" src-path="/" dst-path="/dyndns.checkip.html"
:global result [/file get dyndns.checkip.html contents]
# parse the current IP result
:global resultLen [:len $result]
:global startLoc [:find $result ": " -1]
:set startLoc ($startLoc + 2)
:global endLoc [:find $result "</body>" -1]
:global currentIP [:pick $result $startLoc $endLoc]
:log info "dyndns-update: currentIP = $currentIP"
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# Determine if dyndns update is needed
#
more
dyndns
updater
request
http://www.dyndns.com/developers/specs/syntax.html
details
available
at
:if (($currentIP != $previousIP) || ($dyndnsForce = true)) do={
:set dyndnsForce false
:set previousIP $currentIP
/tool fetch user=$username password=$password mode=http address="members.dyndns.org"
srcpath="/nic/update\?hostname=$hostname&myip=$currentIP&wildcard=NOCHG&mx=NOCHG&back
mx=NOCHG" dst-path="/dyndns.txt"
:global result [/file get dyndns.txt contents]
:log info ("dyndns-update: Dyndns update needed")
:log info ("dyndns-update: Dyndns Update Result: ".$result)
:put ("Dyndns Update Result: ".$result)
} else={
:log info ("dyndns-update: No dyndns update needed")
}
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