TP-LINK TL-R480T+ Specifications

TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router Rev: 5.0.0 1910010619

-6- Security ¾ Built-in firewall supporting URL/MAC Filtering ¾ Supports Access Control ¾ Supports App Control ¾ Supports Attack Defense ¾ Supports

-96- Account Name: Enter the Account Name of your DDNS account. If you have not registered, click <Go to register> to go to the website of Dynd

-97- Figure 4-65 NO-IP DDNS The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ No-IP DDNS Account Name: Enter the Account Name of your DDNS accoun

-98- 4.7.3.3 PeanutHull On this page you can configure PeanutHull DDNS client. Choose the menu Services→Dynamic DNS→PeanutHull to load the following

-99- DDNS Status: Displays the current status of DDNS service z Offline: DDNS service is disabled. z Connecting: client is connecting to the server

-100- Account Name: Enter the Account Name of your DDNS account. If you have not registered, click <Go to register> to go to the website of Com

-101- If UPnP groupware are installed in the host in LAN and UPnP function is enabled for the Router, the host in LAN can automatically open the corr

-102- 4.8 Maintenance 4.8.1 Admin Setup 4.8.1.1 Administrator On this page, you can modify the factory default user name and password of the Router

-103- 4.8.1.2 Login Parameter On this page, you can configure and modify the Web and Telnet port. Choose the menu Maintenance→Admin Setup→Login Param

-104- Type 210.10.10.0/24 in the Subnet/Mask field on Remote Management page and enable the entry as the following figure shows. Then type the corre

-105- ¾ List of Subnet In this list, you can view the Remote Management entries and edit them by the Action buttons. The first entry in Figure 4-71

-7- z Interface Description Interface Port Description WAN 1~4 The WAN port is for connecting the Router to a DSL/Cable modem or Ethernet by the RJ

-106- ¾ Export Click the <Export> button to save the current configuration as a file to your computer. You are suggested to take this measure

-107- Type the path and file name of the update file into the “File” field. Or click the <Browse> button to locate the update file. Then click

-108- Interface: Displays the interface. IP Fragment Rx: Displays the amount of IP Fragments received by WAN port. Abnormal IP Packets Rx: Display

-109- Choose the menu Maintenance→Diagnostics→Diagnostics to load the following page. Figure 4-78 Diagnostics The following items are displayed on t

-110- Destination IP/Domain: Enter destination IP address or Domain name here. Then select a port for testing, if Auto is selected, the Router will

-111- Port: Displays the detected WAN port. Detection: Displays whether the Online Detection is enabled. WAN Status: Display the detecting resul

-112- Manual: With this option selected, you can set the date and time manually. Synchronize with PC’S Clock: With this option selected, the adminis

-113- Severity Level Description emergencies 0 The system is unusable. alerts 1 Action must be taken immediately. critical 2 Critical conditions er

-114- Appendix A Hardware Specifications Standards and ProtocolsIEEE 802.3, 802.3u TCP/IP, PPPoE, DHCP, ICMP, NAT, SNTP,HTTP,DNS One 10/100 Auto-Nego

-115- Appendix B FAQ Q1. What can I do if I cannot access the web-based configuration page? 1. For the first login, please try the following steps:

-8- Chapter 3 Quick Installation Guide After connecting the TL-R480T+ router into your network, you should configure it. This chapter describes how

-116- Q3: What can I do if the Router with the remote management function enabled cannot be accessed by the remote computer? 1. Make sure that t

-117- Appendix C Glossary Glossary Description DSL(Digital Subscriber Line) A technology that allows data to be sent or received over existing tra

-118- Glossary Description H.323 H.323 allows dissimilar communication devices to communicate with each other by using a standardized communicatio

-119- Glossary Description MAC address（Media Access Control address） Standardized data link layer address that is required for every port or devic

-120- Glossary Description Telnet（Telecommunication Network protocol） Telnet is used for remote terminal connection, enabling users to log in to r

-9- Step 2: In the next screen, right click Local Area Connection (LAN), and then select Properties. Figure 3-2 Step 3: In the next screen, select

-10- Step 4: Configure the IP address as shown in Figure 3-4. After that, click OK. Figure 3-4 Note: You can configure the PC to get an IP address

-11- Figure 3-6 You can check it by following the steps below: Note: ● Is the connection between your PC and the Router correct? The LEDs of LAN p

-12- Figure 3-7 Note: If the above screen (Figure 3-7) does not prompt, it means that your web-browser may be set to a proxy. Choose Tools menu→Int

-13- Figure 3-9 WAN Mode Select the WAN port you want to use as the Figure 3-10 shown, and then click <Next> to load the WAN Connection Type

-14- Figure 3-11 WAN Connection Type 1) If you choose PPPoE, you will see the screen as the Figure 3-12 shown. Enter the Account Name and Password

-15- Figure 3-13 WAN Connection Type – PPPoE Connecting 2) If your ISP assigns the IP address automatically, please choose the Dynamic IP connectio

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-16- Figure 3-15 WAN Connection Type - Static IP Then click <Next>. The process for configuring the network parameters is shown as Figure 3-16

-17- Figure 3-17 Configuration Completed

-18- Chapter 4 Configuration 4.1 Status The Status page shows the system information, the port connection status and other information related to t

-19- 4.3 Network 4.3.1 WAN 4.3.1.1 WAN Mode TL-R480T+ provides four available WAN ports. You can set the number of WAN ports on this page. Choose t

-20- Tips: ● It’s allowed to set the IP addresses of multiple WAN ports within the same subnet. However, to guarantee a normal communication, make s

-21- Default Gateway: Optional. Enter the Gateway assigned by your ISP. MTU: MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) is the maximum data unit transmitted by

-22- Figure 4-8 WAN – Dynamic IP The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ Dynamic IP Connection Type: Select Dynamic IP if your ISP as

-23- Get IP Address by Unicast: The broadcast requirement may not be supported by a few ISPs. Select this option if you can not get the IP address fr

-24- Primary DNS: Displays the IP address of your ISP’s Primary DNS. Secondary DNS: Displays the IP address of your ISP’s Secondary DNS. 3) PPPoE If

-25- Figure 4-9 WAN - PPPoE The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ PPPoE Settings

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-26- Connection Type: Select PPPoE if your ISP provides xDSL Virtual Dial-up connection. Click <Connect> to dial-up to the Internet and obtain

-27- Service Name: Optional. Enter the Service Name provided by your ISP. It's null by default. Primary DNS: Enter the IP address of your ISP’s

-28- manually terminated or the Router gets no response from your ISP. Please ensure that your settings are correct and your network is connected wel

-29- Figure 4-10 WAN - L2TP The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ L2TP Settings Connection Type: Select L2TP if your ISP provides a

-30- Account Name: Enter the Account Name provided by your ISP. If you are not clear, please consult your ISP. Password: Enter the Password provided

-31- Default Gateway: If Static IP is selected, configure the default gateway. If Dynamic IP is selected, the obtained default gateway is displayed.

-32- 5) PPTP If your ISP (Internet Service Provider) has provided the account information for the PPTP connection, please choose the PPTP connection

-33- address. Click <Disconnect> to disconnect the Internet and release the current IP address. Account Name: Enter the Account Name provided

-34- Default Gateway: If Static IP is selected, configure the default gateway. If Dynamic IP is selected, the obtained default gateway is displayed.

-35- 6) BigPond If your ISP (Internet Service Provider) has provided the account information for the BigPond connection, please choose the BigPond co

-III- 4.5.1 NAT...51 4.5.2 T

-36- Password: Enter the Password provided by your ISP. If you are not clear, please consult your ISP. Auth Server: Enter the address of authenticati

-37- network is connected well. Consult your ISP if this problem remains. IP Address: Displays the IP address assigned by your ISP. Subnet Mask: Disp

-38- Note: If the LAN IP address is changed, you must use the new IP address to login to the Router. To guarantee a normal communication, please be s

-39- Lease Time: Specify the length of time the DHCP server will reserve the IP address for each computer. After the IP address expired, the client w

-40- Figure 4-16 DHCP Reservation The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ DHCP Reservation MAC Address: Enter the MAC address of the

-41- 4.3.3 MAC Address The MAC (Media Access Control) address, as the unique identifier of the router in network, does not need to be changed common

-42- MAC Clone: It’s only available for WAN port. Click the <Restore Factory MAC> button to restore the MAC address to the factory default valu

-43- The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ Statistics Unicast: Displays the number of normal unicast packets received or transmitted o

-44- Figure 4-22 Port Mirror The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ General Enable Port Mirror:Check the box to enable the Port Mirror

-45- Tips: If both the mirrored port and the mirroring port are the LAN ports, these two LAN ports should be in the same Port VLAN. For example, if p

-1- Package Contents The following items should be found in your package: ¾ One TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router ¾ One Power cord ¾ One Con

-46- Figure 4-23 Rate Control The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ Rate Control Port: Displays the port number. Ingress Limit: S

-47- Figure 4-24 Port Config The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ Port Config Status: Specify whether to enable the port. The packet

-48- 4.3.4.6 Port VLAN A VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) is a network topology configured according to a logical scheme rather than the physical la

-49- 4.4.1 Group On this page you can define the group for management. Choose the menu User Group→Group to load the following page. Figure 4-27 G

-50- The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ User Config User Name: Specify a unique name for the user. IP Address: Enter the IP Address

-51- ¾ View Config View: Select the desired view for configuration. User Name: Select the name of the desired User. Available Group: Displays the

-52- Figure 4-30 NAT Setup The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ NAPT Source Port Range: Enter the source port range between 2049 and

-53- Figure 4-31 NAT Setup The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ One-to-One NAT Mapping IP Address:Enter the Original IP Address in t

-54- 4.5.1.3 Multi-Nets NAT Multi-Nets NAT functions to allow the IP under LAN within multiple subnets to access the Internet via NAT. Choose the men

-55- Application Example: Network Requirements The LAN subnet of TL-R480T+ is 192.168.0.0 /24, the subnet of VLAN2 under a three layer switch is 192.

-2- Chapter 1 About this Guide This User Guide contains information for setup and management of TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router. Please read

-56- 2. Then set the corresponding Static Route entry, enter the IP address of the interface connecting the Router and the three layer switch into

-57- Figure 4-33 Virtual Server The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ Virtual Server Name: Enter a name for Virtual Server entries.

-58- Note: ● The External port and Internal Port should be set in the range of 1-65535. ● The external ports of different entries should be diffe

-59- ¾ Port Triggering Name: Enter a name for Port Triggering entries. Up to 28 characters can be entered. Trigger Port: Enter the trigger port nu

-60- Choose the menu Advanced→NAT→ALG to load the following page. Figure 4-35 ALG The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ ALG FTP ALG:

-61- Figure 4-36 Configuration The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ General Disable Bandwidth Control: Select this option to disable

-62- ¾ Interface Bandwidth Interface: Displays the current enabled WAN port(s). The Total bandwidth is equal to the sum of bandwidth of the enabled

-63- ¾ Bandwidth Control Rule Direction: Select the data stream direction for the entry. The direction of arrowhead indicates the data stream direct

-64- Note: ● The premise for single rule taking effect is that the bandwidth of the interface for this rule is sufficient and not used up. ● It i

-65- ¾ Session Limit Group: Select a group to define the controlled user. Max. Sessions: Enter the max. Sessions for the users. Description: Give a

-3- Appendix B FAQ Provides the possible solutions to the problems that may occur during the installation and operation of the router. Appendix C Gl

-66- Figure 4-40 Configuration With the box before Enable Application Optimized Routing checked, the Router will consider the source IP address and

-67- The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ General Protocol: Select the protocol for the entry in the drop-down list. If the protocol

-68- On this page, you can configure the Link Backup function based on actual need to reduce the traffic burden of WAN port and improve the network e

-69- Timing: Link Backup will be enabled if the specified effective time is reached. All the traffic on the primary WAN will switch to the backup WAN

-70- Figure 4-43 Protocol The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ Protocol Name: Enter a name to indicate a protocol. The name will di

-71- Choose the menu Advanced→Routing→Static Route to load the following page. Figure 4-44 Static Route The following items are displayed on this sc

-72- The first entry in Figure 4-44 indicates: If there are packets being sent to a device with IP address of 211.162.1.0 and subnet mask of 255.255.

-73- 4.6 Firewall 4.6.1 Anti ARP Spoofing ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is used to analyze and map IP addresses to the corresponding MAC addres

-74- ¾ General It is recommended to check all the options. You should import the IP and MAC address of the host to List of IP-MAC Binding and enable

-75- Figure 4-48 ARP Scanning Enter the start and the end IP addresses in the Scanning IP Range field. Then click the <Scan> button, the Rou

-4- Chapter 2 Introduction Thanks for choosing the Load Balance Broadband Router TL-R480T+. 2.1 Overview of the Router The Load Balance Broadband R

-76- Figure 4-49 ARP List The configurations for the entries is the same as the configuration of List of Scanning Result on 4.4.1.2 ARP Scanning pag

-77- Figure 4-50 Attack Defense The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ General Flood Defense: Flood attack is a kind of commonly used

-78- Packet Anomaly Defense: Packet Anomaly refers to the abnormal packets. It is recommended to select all the Packet Anomaly Defense options. Enabl

-79- ¾ List of Rules You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons. 4.6.4 Access Control 4.6.4.1 URL Filtering

z Group: URL Filtering will take effect to all the users in group.Mode: Select the mode for URL Filtering. “Keyword’’ indicates that all the URL add

-81- 4.6.4.2 Web Filtering On this page, you can filter the desired web components. Choose the menu Firewall→Access Control→Web Filtering to load the

-82- Policy: Select a policy for the entry: z Block: When this option is selected, the packets obeyed the rule will not be allowed to pass through t

-83- ¾ List of Rules You can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons. The smaller the value is, the higher the prior

-84- ¾ Service Name: Enter a name for the service. The name should not be more than 28 characters. The name will display in the drop-down list of P

-85- Figure 4-56 Application Rules The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ General Check the box before Enable Application Control to m

-5- + Featured Link Backup to switch all the new sessions from dropped line automatically to another for keeping an always on-line network. z Easy-t

-86- Effective Time: Specify the time for the entry to take effect. Description: Give a description for the entry. Status: Activate or inactivate the

-87- 4.7.1.1 General On this page, you can configure PPPoE function globally. Choose the menu Services→PPPoE Server→General to load the following p

-88- Max Echo-Requests: Specify the maximum number of Echo-Requests sent by the server to wait for response. The default is 10. The link will be drop

-89- Figure 4-59 IP Address Pool The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ IP Address Pool Pool Name: Specify a unique name to the IP Add

-90- Figure 4-60 Account The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ Account Account Name: Enter the account name. This name should not be

-91- Description: Enter the description for management and search purposes. Up to 28 characters can be entered. Status: Activate or inactivate the en

-92- Figure 4-61 Exceptional IP The following items are displayed on this screen: ¾ Exceptional IP IP Address Range: Specify the start and the end

-93- 4.7.2 E-Bulletin With E-Bulletin function, bulletin information can be released to the specified users. On this page you can edit the bulletin

-94- Enable Logs: Specify whether to log the E-Bulletin. ¾ E-Bulletin Title: Enter a title for the bulletin. Content: Enter the content of the bulle

-95- As many ISPs use DHCP to assign public IP addresses in WAN, the public IP address assigned to the client is unfixed. In this way, it’s very diff