operation of the front panel leds is as follows:
lan
link/act
on – physical connection or data in/out.
off – no physical connection.
10m/100m
on – the corresponding lan port is using 100baset.
off – 10baset connection on the corresponding lan port or no connection. wan
link/act
10m/100m
on – physical connection to the broadband modem on wan port 1/2 established.
off – no physical connection on wan port 1/2.
on – physical connection using 100baset on wan port 1/2 established.
off – 10baset connection or no connection on wan port 1/2. system
power
status
off – no power.
on – normal operation
off – normal operation.
on – firmware not loaded or hardware error.
blinking – data in/out
also, some status and error conditions are indicated by combinations of leds, as shown below
dc 5v connect the supplied power adapter here.
wan 2 connect the 2 broadband modem here, if available.
reset button when pressed and released, the load balancer will reboot (restart) within 1 second. it resets to default over 3 seconds.
lan ports connect the pcs to these ports. both 10baset and 100baset connections can be used simultaneously.
any port will automatically operate as an "uplink" port if required. just use a normal lan cable to connect to a normal port on another hub.
wan 1 connect the primary broadband modem here.
default settings
when the load balancer has finished booting, all configuration settings will be set to the factory defaults, including:
1 ip address set to its default value of 192.168.1.1, with a network mask of 255.255.255.0
2 dhcp server is enabled
3 user name: admin
4 password cleared (no password)
tftp download
this setting should be used only if your load balancer is unusable, and you wish to restore it by downloading new firmware. follow this procedure:
1. power on the load balancer.
2. use the supplied windows utility or a tftp client program applies the new firmware. if using the supplied windows tftp program, the screen will look like the following example.
(1)enter the name of the firmware upgrade file on your pc, or click the "browse" button to locate the file.
(2)enter the lan ip address of the load balancer in the "server ip" field.
(3)click "download" to send the file to the load balancer.
3. when downloading is finished. it should then work normally, using the default settings.
the supplied windows tftp utility also allows you to perform three (3) other operations:
1 save the current configuration settings to your pc (use the "upload" button).
2 restore a previously-saved configuration file to the load balancer (use the "download" button).
3 set the load balancer to its default values (use the "set to default" button).