This procedure is for D-Link router DIR320

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1 This procedure is for D-Link router DIR320 Contents Firmware Installation... 2 Windows XP/Vista TFTP Client Instructions... 2 Router Registration... 5 Router Configuration... 7 Setting your timezone... 7 Define a Walled Garden... 7 Define your custom splash page / homepage... 8 Switch on detailed hotspot user traffic tracking... 8 Change your router s password... 9 Change your router s SSID (name of the hotspot the end user will see)... 9 Add devices to the Whitelist to bypass hotspot authentication... 9 Change the wireless channel the Hotspot is sending on Assign the Ethernet LAN connections to either Hotspot or Free Access Change the Hotspot settings Change wireless transmission settings Establish Quality of Service (QoS) and establish maximum throughput rates Set additional Tweaks Revert back to Linksys Firmware How to connect to a shared USB printer connected to the router Windows clients (XP/Vista) MAC OS X Version Linux clients Appendix: LINUX TFTP Client Instructions for TFTP MAC OS X Client Instructions for TFTP... 18

2 Firmware Installation Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version This model has to be loaded using a TFTP client. Before proceeding with the installation, download the latest software version for the install from the site or You are looking for a file with dir320 in the name, like chillifire dir320 squashfs.trx. Once you have successfully downloaded the software, connect the router to your computer through the port marked LAN1 at the back of the router as shown in the diagram. Do not connect the router to the internet. Windows XP/Vista TFTP Client Instructions Windows Vista does not come with the TFTP client installed/activated in standard. Check that TFTP client is activated by going Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows Features On or Off -> Make sure TFTP Client is clicked, Press OK Set your computer s IP address to static IP The option Obtain IP address automatically MUST be switched off!

3 Make sure the router is powered off. Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version Open two command windows (XP: Start-Run-Enter "cmd", Vista: Start-All Programs-Accessories- Command Prompt) In one window, type ping -t -w and press enter is the router IP. Ping will continuously try to contact the router with 10 ms timeout instead of default 4000ms. In the ping window it will start saying Request Timed out, Destination host unreachable or Hardware error or General failure. Keep this running In the other window, prepare the tftp command: tftp -i PUT chillifire-dir320-squashfs.bin Do not press enter yet! Now you can plug in the router (unplug it first if it was plugged in). Return to the tftp window. As soon as the ping window shows a successful reply (something like Reply from : 32 bytes, time=2ms TTL=100 ), press enter in the tftp window. The image should now be flashed without multiple tries. If the transfer was successful, the system will let you know. The transfer takes between 7 and 20 seconds. Allow the router to do its thing. It will process the new image, reboot and configure itself. This will easily take 5-10 minutes. Now set your computer back to receiving an IP address through DHCP again (setting Obtain IP address automatically )

4 Open a new browser window. Type in the address into the address bar of your browser and press Enter. You will be presented with the firmware s logon screen. Enter admin as user and shae-4 as password. (You can change the password later to anything you like.) You will see the initial System Info screen, giving you details about version and status of the firmware. You were Successful! Next Step is to register the router. Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version 09.07

5 Router Registration Please note: For the registration process to work your router MUST be connected to the internet and have a valid connection. If you cannot access the internet from the computer connected to the router, you are most likely not connected to the internet and this registration process will fail. 1. Log in to your router. On the menu press Chillifire, then Registration. You now need to press the Register this Router button. 2. Next you will see the Chillifire login screen. If you already have an account created on our website or you are adding another router to your existing account, please type in your account name and password and press the Login button. If you do not have an account yet, please press the Signup Now button and create a new account (see step 3). 3. If you pressed the Sign up now button, you will the Chillifire Control Panel Login screen. Choose an account name (up to 10 characters), enter the billing address details of your account (can be different to the physical address of the router(s), choose the default currency for your router(s) and finally, enter an affiliate code, if you have been given one (otherwise, leave empty). Press the Register button on the screen and you will see a success message.

6 4. The system will direct you automatically to a screen that allows you to register the router against your account (regardless whether you pressed the Login or the Sign up now button in step 3. IMPORTANT: If you just Signed Up Now as described in step 8 be sure you activate your account first via the activation you will receive. You cannot logon before you activated the account! Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version Enter the router location and press Insert. The system will return a message to confirm the successful registration of the router. DONE! FAQ: Why do I have to enter an address twice? The address you enter with the account is like your billing address. It is not necessarily the address the router is located at. Consider also that over time you may implement more than one router in different locations. Then you need to be able to store different addresses with your different routers. Storing each router address individually will also allow us to show to potential customers where to find your router on an online street map.

7 Router Configuration This section describes how to change some configuration settings of the Chillifire Hotspot. While this list of configuration options is by no means exhaustive, it gives guidance to the most popular configuration options. All the configuration options described in this guide occur on the router. Please open your favorite browser, type into the browser s address bar and press enter. You will need to log in with your user name admin and the password. The standard password is shae-4. Setting your timezone Please select the timezone that is relevant for you or the one closest to you. Selecting the timezone will automatically reschedule the daily reboot to between 3-4am of your local time. It will also determine the most appropriate Chillifire server to connect to so that your users have the fastest possible online connection facility. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings Define a Walled Garden A walled garden is a facility that allows hotspot users access to selected sites without having to be logged on. This makes sense if you want to give access to your own website, i.e. your hotel s or café s information pages. The sites the users are allowed to have access to can be defined by entering them into the allowed sites filed and pressing the Add Allowed button. You can remove allowed sites by pressing the remove it lkink next to the allowed site. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings

8 Define your custom splash page / homepage In standard mode the Chillifire system will bring up a login page for users who have connected to the hotspot, open a browser, but are not yet logged in. However, this behavior can be over written with the Home Page setting. Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version Change the Home Page field to Your Own Homepage and press the Save Settings button in the bottom right corner. This will open a new field Home page in the Captive Portal section. Enter your home page with the leading protocol or for example or You MUST include a link into your home page. This link leads to the Login Page (if the user is connected to the hotspot network) so the hotspot user can buy tickets and can login. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings Switch on detailed hotspot user traffic tracking If your jurisdiction demands it, you can track the surfing of the hotspot users on IP address level. We do not recommend to switch on this facility without an explicit legal requirement to track this information, as it increases the overhead of each connection considerably. In consequence the throughput and speed of the connection will be negatively impacted, as well as any data limits you have agree with your ISP will be reached faster. To switch on the hotspot usage tracking set the indicator Logging of Hotspot activity to On. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings

9 Change your router s password Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version Go to System->Status Enter the new password (twice identical) Press Save Settings The system will prompt you to enter the user name admin and the new password to continue. Change your router s SSID (name of the hotspot the end user will see) Go to Network->Wireless Change the SSID to any value you like. Allowed characters are large and small letters [A Z], [a z], [numbers [1 9], underscores and dashes [_-]. Please do use not any other characters, as this could cause issues. We recommend leaving all other settings as is, unless you really know what you are doing. To change channels, please see point 2 below. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings Add devices to the Whitelist to bypass hotspot authentication Devices that have been put on the whitelist will bypass the login procedure completely and have straight and unlimited access to the internet. The devices that are on the whitelist are defined by their MAC Address, which can be entered on the Chillifire Configuration Screen. Note: The MAC address can be found on the bottom of the Chillifire login screen. Just enter the MAC address in the field and press Add Allowed Device button. Confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings. To remove a device press the remove it link next to it.

10 Change the wireless channel the Hotspot is sending on In an area with a number of wireless networks present it can be beneficial not to allow the router to select a channel by itself, but to look for other networks present in the area, and to select a channel that is not yet used. This will avoid interference and improve signal range and clarity for the receiving clients. In a wireless extender scenario, sending and receiving on the same channels between routers is essential. Go to Status->Wireless Press the Scan button After scanning the environment for other networks the system will give you all the other networks it found and their channels. Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version You can now go to Network->Wireless and select a channel that is not yet used in your specific environment. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings

11 Assign the Ethernet LAN connections to either Hotspot or Free Access Go to Network->VLAN You can now assign the 4 LAN ports at the back of the router either to free internet access (VLAN0) or to Hotspot controlled paid internet access (VLAN2). The standard configuration has the inner two ports 2 and 3 assigned to the Hotspot, while ports 1 and 4 are guaranteed free internet access. We strongly recommend granting always free internet access to at least one port, preferably port 1, in case more significant repairs are required. Please observer the following rules, or you may break either specific ports or even the entire Hotspot configuration. The Internet port must always be assigned to VLAN1 Do not assign ports 1 through to 4 to VLAN1 All VLANs must have the Internal column ticked A LAN must be assigned to one VLAN at a time only Violating any of these rules may cause the router to stop functioning. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings We recommend you reboot your router and also unplug the connected devices for at least 10 seconds before plugging them in again. This will enforce that the lease for a new IP address is enforced and that the tunnel for the chillispot connection is built up. Change the Hotspot settings Go to Chillifire->Chillifire Hotspot Settings In the field UAM Homepage you can enter a webpage of your choice, to which unauthenticated users will be redirected to. The value you enter must have a or in front of the specific website you wish to define as homepage. This website must contain a link to so users can authenticate. After applying changes to this field you have to reboot the router for them to take effect. This setting makes sense if you have a company website and you want customers first to reach your website, receive information and importantly, see your branding. In the field UAM Allowed you can enter a list of comma [,] separated URLs, to which a user has access to without authentication. The value you enter must NOT have a or in front of the specific website or page. This could be a section of your company s website or the complete site or whatever else you wish to grant to the

12 customer without having to log on and pay. This feature is also known as Walled Garden. The rest of the fields are set to display only and cannot be manipulated. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings We recommend you reboot your router. Change wireless transmission settings Go to Network-> Wireless Recommended standard transmission power is 20dB equating to 100mW. Please take local health and transmission regulations into account when setting this value. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings

13 Establish Quality of Service (QoS) and establish maximum throughput rates Go to Network->QoS You can set Q0S to 'Enabled' at the top of the Options section. Once that is done you have the option to set a maximum WAN upload and download speed. This will limit the speed for any connection regardless of settings you may choose as part of the Hotspot package setup. We do not recommend you manipulate the QoS firewall settings unless you have a thorough understanding of IP networking. The standard is configured to favor basic services like DNS traffic and SSH, treat web traffic as Normal use, and treat P2P and other data intensive services as least priority. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings Set additional Tweaks Go to Network->Tweaks These settings should usually not be touched, but it can be useful to increase some of the timeout values, if you are in a slow or remote location with a lot of lag. Please only touch these, if you really know what you are doing, as you may render your router and hotspot unusable. Press the Save Settings button and confirm your settings by pressing Apply Settings

14 Revert back to Linksys Firmware To revert back to the original firmware of D-Link you need to first go to the D-Link support site and download the appropriate firmware. Then you can either upload the firmware via tftp (analogous to the tftp Method 2 for loading the Chillifire firmware but to IP address instead of ). Alternatively if you prefer an upload through the webgui without tftp, you can download the appropriate DD-WRT firmware version for the DIR-320 from DD-WRT on Download the mini version oif that firmware and once you have loaded the DD-WRT firmware, you can downgrade from DD-WRT to the D-Link firmware you downloaded from the D-Link support site.

15 How to connect to a shared USB printer connected to the router The Chillifire firmware comes with USB kernel modules preloaded that allow you to connect a USB printer and share it on those LAN ports, which are NOT controlled by the Chillifire Hotspot (free access ports). Connected printers are not advertised through the network and can therefore not be discovered by operating systems like Vista, which try to automate the process. The connection needs to be created manually. How that is done on the clients (PC, desktop, laptop) is described in the following steps for different operating systems. If you do not plan to use USB printers, these steps are not required. In some Asustek routers with 8MB flash memory (i.e. WL-500gPremium, WL-500gW etc.) there is enough space to also install storage modules to be able to connect USB memory sticks or external drives. This is not preinstalled as there is an large number of possible configuration options and combinations. If that is something you wish to give a try please turn to for advice and a HowTo. Windows clients (XP/Vista) The following instructions should work on all versions of windows from Windows 2000 onwards, and have been tested in both Windows 2000 and Windows Vista. Install your printer software as you would if it were a local printer. Go to your printer properties in the control panel/printer settings. Select the tab "Ports". Select "Add Port". Select "Standard TCP/IP Port" and click on "New Port...". Follow the wizard. In the field "Printer Name or IP Address", enter the IP address of your router: Windows will send a couple of UDP packets to port 161 of the Router. You can safely discard them. You will need to select a Device Type. Select Generic Network Card or "Custom" and click "Settings...". Be sure the protocol is "Raw" and the port number is correct (i.e. 9100). Finish the Settings wizard and close the Add Port window. The newly created Port should now be selected. Cliekc OK You printer should be configured now. Be sure that your firewall allows communication to the chosen port.the firewall on the router is configured to allow incoining LAN traffic on all ports. You may print a test page to see if all went well. MAC OS X Version select system preferences Print & Fax Click on + button Click on IP Printer set Protocol: HP Jet Direct - Socket, Address: :9100 and then select brand and printer. Type a name if you don't want the IP address for a name. close the Printer Browser.

16 Linux clients CUPS Assuming the printer driver is installed locally, it's a simple matter of entering in your favorite web-browser, and pressing add printer under the "Printers" pane. Then: Enter something into the information fields and press continue. Select "Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)" and press continue. Write "socket:// :9100. Press continue. Select the appropriate manufacturer and press continue. Select the appropriate printer and press continue. Voila...Then you use your new printer like you would a local one. kprinter (KDE) Start kprinter Select 'Add printer' Select Network printer (TCP) Use (the router's IP address) as the printer's IP Fill in the port you want to use (normally defaults to 9100) Pick manufacturer and model Pick the recommended driver Then you can new print a test page or change the settings of the printer further Gnome Select System -> Administration -> Printing Select New Printer Select Network Printer and "HP JetDirect" Enter your IP address (the router's IP address) as and port Select your printer's make and model. Continue forward and apply settings. Check the properties to ensure you are using A4 or US Letter size as appropriate.

17 Appendix: LINUX TFTP Client Instructions for TFTP First you need to make sure that you can reach the router on your network, and that it can reach you. If you are using an existing machine which is not on x, you can temporarily add an interface alias (on most modern Linux distributions). Presuming that the correct network interface is eth0 (if you don't know, assume that it's eth0), run this as root: ifconfig eth0: netmask When you're done configuring the router, run this (as root again) to take the alias down ifconfig eth0:1 down netkit's tftp commands: tftp binary rexmt 1 timeout 60 trace Packet tracing on. tftp> put chillifire wl520gu-squashfs.trx Or, for a single command, so you don't have to retype each time: echo -e "binary\nrexmt 1\ntimeout 60\ntrace\nput chillifire wl520gu-squashfs.trx \n" tftp Setting "rexmt 1" will cause the tftp client to constantly retry to send the file to the given address. As advised above, plug in your box after typing the commands, and as soon as the bootloader starts to listen, your client will successfully connect and send the firmware. You can try to run "ping -f " (as root) in a separate window and enter the line "put chillifire wl520gu-squashfs.trx " 1 as the colons stop running over your terminal when you power-recycle your router. If you get an ACK from your router but don't send any data, try a different tftp client. atftp works well. This occurs with some netkit tftp packages. ATFTP (Advanced TFTP) commands: atftp connect mode octet trace timeout 1 put chillifire wl520gu-squashfs.trx Or use the command-line: atftp --trace --option "timeout 1" --option "mode octet" --put --local-file chillifire wl520gU-squashfs.trx (atftp source code: 1 Replace chillifire wl520gu-squashfs.trx with the correct file for your Asustek router model

18 MAC OS X Client Instructions for TFTP On Mac OS X, you should be able to flash the router with the command line tftp client, which behaves identically to netkit's tftp above. Some people have had problems with the command line tftp client, however, and recommend using MacTFTP instead: Download, install, and open MacTFTP Choose Send Address: Choose the chillifire wl520gu-squashfs.trx file Click on start while applying power to the WL520gU Many Macs will disable the Ethernet card when the router is powered off and will take too long to reenable the card, causing the TFTP transfer to fail with an "Invalid Password" error. Many people have had success if they manually configure their network card (in the "Ethernet" tab of "Built-in Ethernet" in System Preferences' Network panel) to: Configure: Manual (Advanced) Speed: 10 BaseT/UTP Duplex: full-duplex