TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router Rev: 1.0.
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FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
Package Contents The following contents should be found in your package: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ One TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router One AC power Adapter for TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router Quick Installation Guide One Resource CD for TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router, including: • This Guide • Other Helpful Information ) Note: Make sure that the package contains the above items. If any of the listed items are damaged or missing, please contact with your distributor.
CONTENTS Chapter 1. Introduction .................................................................................1 1.1 Overview of the Router ................................................................................... 1 1.2 Features .......................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Panel Layout ................................................................................................... 2 1.3.1 1.3.2 The Front Panel.........
4.9 IP & MAC Binding Setting ............................................................................. 35 4.9.1 4.9.2 4.10 DDNS ............................................................................................................ 38 4.10.1 4.10.2 4.10.3 4.11 Binding Setting ................................................................................... 36 ARP List.............................................................................................. 37 Dyndns.org DDNS ............
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Overview of the Router The TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router integrates an 8-port switch, firewall, and NAT-router. Its design is dedicated to Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network solutions. The TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router will allow you to connect your network better than ever, sharing Internet Access, files and fun, easily and securely.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide 1.3 Panel Layout 1.3.1 The Front Panel The front panel of the TL-R860 consists of several LED indicators, which is designed to indicate connections. Viewed from left to right. Table 1-1 describes the LEDs on the front panel of the router.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 2. Connecting the Router 2.1 System Requirements ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ Broadband Internet Access Service (DSL/Cable/Ethernet) One DSL/Cable modem that has an RJ45 connector (It’s not necessary if you connect the router to Ethernet) Each PC on the LAN needs a working Ethernet Adapter and an Ethernet cable with RJ45 connectors TCP/IP protocol must be installed on each PC Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, Netscape Navigator 6.0 or later 2.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 2-1 Hardware Installation of the TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router -4-
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 3. Quick Installation Guide After connecting the TL-R860 router into your network, you should configure it. This chapter describes how to configure the basic functions of your TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router. These procedures may take you only a few minutes. You can access the Internet via the router immediately after it has been successfully configured. 3.1 TCP/IP configuration The default IP address of the TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router is 192.168.1.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 3-1 Successful result of Ping command If the result displayed is similar to what is shown in Figure 3-1, the connection between your PC and the router has been established. Figure 3-2 Failed result of Ping command If the result displayed is similar to what is shown in Figure 3-2, it means that your PC has not connected to the router. If so, refer to the following steps for a solution: 1.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide After a moment, a login window will appear similar to that shown in Figure 3-4. Enter admin for the User Name and Password, both in lower case letters. Then click the OK button or press the Enter key. Figure 3-4 Login Windows ) Note: If the above screen does not prompt, it means that your web-browser has been set to a proxy.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide The router supports three popular ways to connect to Internet. Please select one compatible with your ISP, if you are given another way not listed here, refer to Network→ WAN for detailed list. Click Next to enter the necessary network parameters. If you choose "PPPoE", you will see this page shown in Figure 3-7: Figure 3-7 Quick Setup - PPPoE ¾ User Name and Password - Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP. These fields are case sensitive.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 3-9 Quick Setup - Finish After finishing all configurations of basic network parameters, please click Finish button to exit this Quick Setup.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 4. Configuring the Router This chapter describes each web page's key functions. 4.1 login After your successful login, you can configure and manage the router. There are nine main menus on the left of the web-based utility. Submenus will be available after you click one of the main menus. The nine main menus are: Status, Quick Setup, Network, DHCP, Forwarding, Security, Static Routing, DDNS and System Tools.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-1 Router Status 4.3 Quick Setup Please refer to Section 4.2: "Quick Installation Guide." 4.4 Network Figure 4-2 the Network menu There are three submenus under the Network menu (shown in Figure 4-2): LAN, WAN and MAC Clone. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 4.4.1 LAN You can configure the IP parameters of the LAN on this page.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-3 LAN ¾ MAC Address - The physical address of the router, as seen from the LAN. The value can't be changed. ¾ IP Address - Enter the IP address of your router (factory default: 192.168.1.1). Subnet Mask - An address code that determines the size of the network. Normally use 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask. ¾ ) Note: a. b. c. If you change the IP address of the LAN, you must use the new IP address to login to the router.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-4 WAN - Dynamic IP This page displays the WAN IP parameters assigned dynamically by your ISP, including IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, etc. Click the Renew button to renew the IP parameters from your ISP. Click the Release button to release the IP parameters. ¾ MTU Size: The normal MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) value for most Ethernet networks is 1500 Bytes. For some ISPs you need to reduce the MTU.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-5 WAN - 802.1X + Dynamic IP ¾ ¾ 2. User Name - Enter the user name for 802.1x authentication provided by your ISP Password - Enter the password for 802.1x authentication provided by your ISP. Click the Login button to start 802.1x authentication. Click the Logout button to end 802.1x authentication. If you choose Static IP, you should have fixed IP parameters specified by your ISP.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-7 WAN - 802.1X + Static IP ¾ ¾ 3. User Name - Enter the user name for 802.1x authentication provided by your ISP Password - Enter the password for 802.1x authentication provided by your ISP. Click Login to start 802.1x authentication. Click Logout to end 802.1x authentication. If you choose PPPoE, you should enter the following parameters (Figure 4-8): Figure 4-8 WAN - PPPoE ¾ User Name/Password - Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide disconnect based on time. Enter the start time in HH:MM for connecting and end time in HH:MM for disconnecting in the Period of Time fields. ) Note: Only you have set the system time on System Tools -> Time page, will the Time-based Connecting function take effect. ¾ Connect Manually - You can configure the router to make it connect or disconnect manually.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide ¾ Detect Online Interval - The default value is 0, you can input the value between 0 and 120. The router will detect Access Concentrator online at every interval between seconds. If the value is 0, it means do not detect. ¾ DNS IP Address - If you know that your ISP does not automatically transmit DNS addresses to the router during login, click “Use the following DNS servers” checkbox and enter the IP address of your ISP’s primary DNS server.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide 4.5 DHCP Figure 4-11 the DHCP menu There are three submenus under the DHCP menu (shown in Figure 4-11): DHCP Settings, DHCP Clients List and Address Reservation. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 4.5.
TL-R860 ¾ ¾ ¾ Cable/DSL Router User Guide Default Domain - (Optional.) Input the domain name of your network. Primary DNS - (Optional.) Input the DNS IP address provided by your ISP. Or consult your ISP. Secondary DNS - (Optional.) Input the IP address of another DNS server if your ISP provides two DNS servers. ) Note: To use the DHCP server function of the router, you must configure all computers on the LAN as "Obtain an IP Address automatically" mode.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-14 Address Reservation ¾ MAC Address - The MAC address of the PC of which you want to reserve IP address. ¾ Assigned IP Address - The IP address of the router reserved. Status - The status of this entry either Enabled or Disabled. ¾ To Reserve IP addresses: 1. Click the Add New button. (Pop-up Figure 4-15) 2. Enter the MAC address (The format for the MAC Address is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX.) and IP address of the computer you wish to add. 3.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide 4.6 Forwarding Figure 4-16 the Forwarding menu There are four submenus under the Forwarding menu (shown in Figure 4-16): Virtual Servers, Port Triggering, DMZ and UPnP. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 4.6.1 Virtual Servers Virtual servers can be used for setting up public services on your LAN, such as DNS, Email and FTP.
TL-R860 4. 5. 6. Cable/DSL Router User Guide Select the protocol used for this application, either TCP or UDP, or All. Select the Enable checkbox to enable the virtual server. Click the Save button. Figure 4-18 Add or Modify a Virtual Server Entry ) Note: It is possible that you have a computer or server that has more than one type of available service. If so, select another service, and enter the same IP Address for that computer or server. To modify or delete an existing entry: 1. 2.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-19 Port Triggering Once configured, operation is as follows: 1. A local host makes an outgoing connection using a destination port number defined in the Trigger Port field. 2. The router records this connection, opens the incoming port or ports associated with this entry in the Port Triggering table, and associates them with the local host. 3.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-20 Add or Modify a Triggering Entry There are many popular applications in the Popular Application list. You can select it, and the application will fill in the Trigger Port, incoming Ports Range boxes and select the Enable checkbox. It has the same effect as adding a new rule. To modify or delete an existing entry: 1. 2. Click the Modify in the entry you want to modify. If you want to delete the entry, click the Delete. Modify the information. 3.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-21 DMZ To assign a computer or server to be a DMZ server: 1. 2. 3. Click the Enable radio button Enter the local host IP Address in the DMZ Host IP Address field Click the Save button. ) Note: After you set the DMZ host, the firewall related to the host will not work. 4.6.4 UPnP The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) feature allows the devices, such as Internet computers, to access the local host resources or devices as needed.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Click Refresh to update the Current UPnP Settings List. 4.7 Security Figure 4-23 the Security menu There are six submenus under the Security menu (shown in Figure 4-23): Firewall, IP Address Filtering, Domain Filtering, MAC Filtering, Remote Management and Advanced Security. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 4.7.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide There are two default filtering rules of IP Address Filtering, either Allow or Reny passing through the router. ¾ ¾ Enable Domain Filtering - Set Domain Filtering as enabled or disabled. Enable MAC Filtering - Set MAC Address Filtering is enabled or disabled. You can select the default filtering rules of MAC Address Filtering, either Allow or Reny accessing the router. 4.7.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide 2. LAN IP Address - Type a LAN IP address or a range of LAN IP addresses in the field. For example, 192.168.1.20 - 192.168.1.30. Keep the field open, which means all LAN IP addresses have been put into the field. 3. LAN Port - Type a LAN Port or a range of LAN ports in the field. For example, 1030 - 2000. Keep the field open, which means all LAN ports have been put into the field. 4.
TL-R860 4.7.3 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Domain Filtering The Domain Filtering page (shown in Figure 4-27) allows you to control access to certain websites on the Internet by specifying their domains or key words. Figure 4-27 Domain Filtering Before adding a Domain Filtering entry, you must ensure that Enable Firewall and Enable Domain Filtering have been selected on the Firewall page. To Add a Domain filtering entry, click the Add New… button.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Click the Enabled All button to enable all entries. Click the Disable All button disable all entries. Click the Delete All button to delete all entries Click the Next button to go to the next page and the Previous button to return to the previous page. For example: if you want to block the PCs on your LAN from accessing websites www.xxyy.com.cn, www.aabbcc.com and websites with .net in the end on the Internet while no limit for other websites.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-30 Add or Modify a MAC Address Filtering entry To add or modify a MAC Address Filtering entry, follow these instructions: 1. Enter the appropriate MAC address into the MAC Address field. The format of the MAC address is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX (X is any hexadecimal digit). For example: 00-0E-AE-B0-00-0B. 2. Type the description of the PC in the Description field. Fox example: John’s PC. 3.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-31 Remote Management ¾ Web Management Port - Web browser access normally uses the standard HTTP service port 80. This router’s default remote management web port number is 80. For greater security, you can change the remote management web interface to a custom port by entering that number in the box provided. Choose a number between 1024 and 65534, but do not use the number of any common service port.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-32 Advanced Security settings ¾ ¾ Packets Statistic interval (5 ~ 60) - The default value is 10. Select a value between 5 and 60 seconds in the pull-down list. The Packets Statistic interval value indicates the time section of the packets statistic. The result of the statistic used for analysis by SYN Flood, UDP Flood and ICMP-Flood. DoS protection - Enable or Disable the DoS protection function. Only when it is enabled, will the flood filters be effective.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide WAN port. The default is disabled. If enabled, the ping packet from the Internet cannot access the router. ¾ Forbid Ping Packet from LAN Port - Enable or Disable forbidding Ping Packet to access the router from the LAN port. The default value is disabled. If enabled, the ping packet from the LAN port cannot access the router. (Defends against some viruses) Click the Save button to save the settings.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide To add static routing entries: 1. Click the Add New button. (pop-up Figure 4-35) 2. Enter the following data: ¾ Destination IP Address - The Destination IP Address is the address of the network or host that you want to assign to a static route. ¾ Subnet Mask - The Subnet Mask determines which portion of an IP Address is the network portion, and which portion is the host portion.
TL-R860 4.9.1 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Binding Setting This page displays the IP & MAC Binding Setting table, you can operate it in accord with your desire. (shown in Figure 4-37). Figure 4-37 IP & MAC Binding Setting • MAC Address - The MAC address of the controlled computer(s) in the LAN. • IP Address - The assigned IP address of the controlled computer(s) in the LAN. • Bind – Enable or disable the arp binding. • Modify - Edit or delete item.
TL-R860 1. Cable/DSL Router User Guide Find the desired entry in the table. 2. Click Modify or Delete as desired on the Modify column. To find an existing entry: 1. Click the Find button (shown in Figure 4-37). 2. Enter the MAC Address or IP Address. 3. Click the Find button in the next page (shown in Figure 4-39). Figure 4-39 Find IP & MAC Binding Entry Click the Enable All button to make all entries enabled. Click the Delete All button to delete all entries. 4.9.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide • Status - To show the MAC address and IP address binding is enabled or not. • Configure - Load or delete item. • Load - Load the item to the IP & MAC Binding list. • Delete - Delete the item. Click the Bind All button to bind all the current items, available after enable. Click the Load All button to load all items to the IP & MAC Binding list. Click the Refresh button to refresh all items.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide To set up for DDNS, follow these instructions: 1. 2. 3. 4. ¾ Type the domain name your dynamic DNS service provider gave. Type the User Name for your DDNS account. Type the Password for your DDNS account. Click the Login button to login to the DDNS service. Connection Status -The status of the DDNS service connection is displayed here. Click Logout to logout of the DDNS service. 4.10.2 Oray.net DDNS If your selected dynamic DNS Service Provider is www.oray.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-43 Comexe.cn DDNS Settings To set up for DDNS, follow these instructions: 1. 2. 3. 4. Type the domain names your dynamic DNS service provider gave. Type the User Name for your DDNS account. Type the Password for your DDNS account. Click the Login button to login to the DDNS service. ¾ Connection Status -The status of the DDNS service connection is displayed here. Click Logout to logout of the DDNS service. 4.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 4.11.1 Time You can set the time manually or get GMT from the Internet for the router on this page (shown in Figure 4-45): Figure 4-45 Time settings ¾ ¾ ¾ Time Zone - Select your local time zone from this pull down list. Date - Enter your local date in MM/DD/YY into the right blanks. Time - Enter your local time in HH/MM/SS into the right blanks. Time setting follows these steps below: 1.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-46 Firmware Upgrade New firmware versions are posted at www.tp-link.com and can be downloaded for free. If the router is not experiencing difficulties, there is no need to download a more recent firmware version, unless the version has a new feature that you want to use. ) Note: When you upgrade the router's firmware, you may lose its configuration settings, so make sure you write down the router settings before you upgrade its firmware.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Click the Restore button to reset all configuration settings to their default values. • The default User Name: admin • The default Password: admin • The default IP Address: 192.168.1.1 • The default Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 ) Note: Any settings you have saved will be lost when the default settings are restored. 4.11.
TL-R860 • • • • • • Cable/DSL Router User Guide MAC Clone (system will reboot automatically) DHCP service function. Static address assignment of DHCP server. Web Service Port of the router. Upgrade the firmware of the router (system will reboot automatically). Restore the router's settings to factory default (system will reboot automatically). 4.11.6 Password This page (shown in Figure 4-50) allows you to change the user name and password of the router.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-51 System Log The router can keep logs of all traffic. You can query the logs to find what happened to the router. Click the Refresh button to refresh the logs. Click the Clear Log button to clear all the logs. 4.11.8 Statistics The Statistics page (shown in Figure 4-52) displays the network traffic of each PC on LAN, including total traffic and traffic of the last Packets Statistic interval seconds.
TL-R860 Packets Bytes Current ICMP Tx UDP Tx Cable/DSL Router User Guide The total amount of packets received and transmitted in the last Packets Statistic interval seconds. The total amount of bytes received and transmitted in the last Packets Statistic interval seconds. The total amount of the ICMP packets transmitted to WAN in the last Packets Statistic interval seconds. The total amount of the UDP packets transmitted to WAN in the last Packets Statistic interval seconds.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix A: FAQ 1. How do I configure the router to access Internet by ADSL users? 1) 2) First, configure the ADSL modem configured in RFC1483 bridge model. Connect the Ethernet cable from your ADSL modem to the WAN port on the router. The telephone cord plugs into the Line port of the ADSL modem. Login to the router, click the “Network” menu on the left of your browser, and click "WAN" submenu. On the WAN page, select “PPPoE” for WAN Connection Type.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide MAC register, login to the router and click the "Network" menu link on the left of your browser, and then click "MAC Clone" submenu link. On the "MAC Clone" page, if your PC’s MAC address is a proper MAC address, click the "Clone MAC Address" button and your PC’s MAC address will fill in the "WAN MAC Address" field. Or else, type the MAC address into the " WAN MAC Address" field. The format for the MAC address is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX. Then click the "Save" button.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide ) Note: Your opposite side should call your WAN IP, which is displayed on the “Status” page. 4) How to enable DMZ Host: Login to the router, click the “Forwarding” menu on the left of your browser, and click " DMZ" submenu. On the "DMZ" page, click “Enable” radio and type your IP address into the “DMZ Host IP Address” field, using 192.168.1.169 as an example, remember to click the "Save” button. Figure A-6 4.
TL-R860 Figure A-8 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Virtual Server - 50 -
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix B: Configuring the PCs In this section, we’ll introduce how to install and configure the TCP/IP correctly in Windows XP. First make sure your Ethernet Adapter is working, refer to the adapter’s manual if needed. 1. Install TCP/IP component 1) On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure B-54 5) The following TCP/IP Properties window will display and the IP Address tab is open on this window by default.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure B-55 ¾ Setting IP address manually 1 Select Use the following IP address radio button. And the following items available 2 If the router's LAN IP address is 192.168.1.1, type IP address is 192.168.1.x (x is from 2 to 254), and Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. 3 Type the router’s LAN IP address (the default IP is 192.168.1.1) into the Default gateway field. 4 Select Use the following DNS server addresses radio button.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure B-4 Now: All the configurations are finished; it will take effect after reboot your computer.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix C: Specifications General Standards IEEE 802.3, 802.3u Protocols TCP/IP, PPPoE, DHCP, ICMP, NAT, SNTP Ports One 10/100M Auto-Negotiation WAN RJ45 port.
TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix D: Glossary ¾ DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) - The capability of assigning a fixed host and domain name to a dynamic Internet IP address. ¾ DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) - A protocol that automatically configure the TCP/IP parameters for the all the PCs that are connected to a DHCP server.
