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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
14/07/2010
Release 2.0
AZ
23/08/2010
Release 3.0
AZ
PPTP Added
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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.
Penta-band right-angle
antenna with SMA connector for GSM/GPRS and
3G/HSPA connectivity
[1]
R52N
[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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Power Jack
LED
(LD302)
Power LED
RESET
Ethernet Port
USB Port
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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:
Web interface
In this Quick Start Guide, Winbox is used to configure the router to support different features.
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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.
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:
Follow the path IP->DHCP server on Winbox and run DHCP server wizard.
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As the above wizard finishes, following window will pop up verifying your successful configuration of
DHCP server.
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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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 .
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
# 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]
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