Setting up ADSL2MUE 2.18-AU firmware for Bridge Mode

Rhod Brown

Systems Engineer

Cisco-Linksys ANZ

Preface

A small number of ADSL2MUEs shipped in Australia and New Zealand with a

non standard Linksys interface. An alternate version of firmware providing the standard

Linksys interface will be available from the www.linksys.com.au site at:

http://www.linksys.com/international/firmware.asp?intfwid=68&coid=19

Please note the current version of firmware there (1.00.6) is an older version of code, the

correct version should be posted by Tuesday 7/6/05.

For those users who are waiting on that code, this document demonstrates how to

configure the ADSL2MUE with the non standard interface (2.18-AU) in Bridge Mode.

Step 1

Power on the ADSL2MUE, and connect your PC into the yellow port labeled

“Ethernet” on the back of the ADSL2MUE. Please ensure that your network card is set to

DHCP before you do this, as the ADSL2MUE has an inbuilt DHCP server which is

enabled by default, and will assign an IP Address to your PC.

Step 2

You can confirm your PC has been assigned an IP Address by going to

Start->Run and typing “cmd” – this will bring up a command window. At the prompt

below type in “ipconfig” and hit Enter – you should see output as per below:

In this case my PC has been assigned the address 192.168.1.95 – in most cases

192.168.1.2 will be assigned. You can also see the default IP Address of the ADSL2MUE

here which we will use to access its web interface, namely 192.168.1.1.

Step 3

Open up a web browser, remove the default homepage address, and replace it

with “192.168.1.1” and hit Enter as per below:

Figure 2

Step 4

Once you have completed Step 3, the login screen in Figure 3 should be

displayed. The default username is admin, and the default password is admin – once these

are entered, hit Enter.

Figure 3

Step 5

The Screen in Figure 4 should be displayed – from the menu options in the top bar

Select the “SETUP” option:

Figure 4

Step 6

From here we wish to select the “New Connection” option on the Left Hand Side

Menu as seen on Figure 5:

Figure 5

Step 7

You should now be presented with the screen in Figure 6.

Figure 6

From here we wish to change a number of options to configure Bridge mode –the first is

to choose the “Bridge” option from the “Type” dropdown menu as shown in Figure 7

Figure 7

Step 8

Once the Bridge drop down is selected, you should see the screen in Figure 8

Figure 8

We want to change 3 parameters on this screen – give the connection a name, change the

VPI to 8, and the VCI to 35 – after this is done we hit “Apply”. NOTE: Make sure no

spaces are used in the “Name” field.

Step 9

The screen in Figure 9 should now be displayed – this is all we have to do as far

as DSL settings are concerned.

Figure 9

Step 10

As we are going to be running the ADSL2MUe in bridge mode, we want our

Router to be functioning as the DHCP server, not the modem. If a Linksys router is being

used, there is also a probability its default address will be 192.168.1.1 as well – for these

reasons we are going to disable the DHCP server on the ADSL2MUE, and change its

default IP Address. To get to these options we choose “LAN Configuration” from the

LHS menu, and Figure 10 will be displayed

Figure 10

We have a number of options here – for these purposes we want to select “Ethernet” and

then hit the “Configure” link.

Step 11

We will now see the screen shown in Figure 11:

Figure 11b

Of these options we would like to change 2 things – the IP Address Field under “Use the

following Static IP address” (in this case to 192.168.1.2), and select the “Server and

Relay Off” radio button at the bottom of the page. We then hit “Apply” – the screen in

Figure 12 will then pop up – hit OK, and we will then login to the new address at

192.169.1.2.

Figure 12

Step 13

Nearly there! We now want to commit all these changes we have made to

memory – to do this we browse to the “TOOLS” menu, and then follow that to the

“System Commands” option on the LHS menu

Figure 13

Step 14

Select the “Save All” button – the settings will now be maintained through a

reboot of the device.

All done! We can now disconnect the LAN cable from the PC and plug it into the

Internet port of the Router being used. We also now plug in the RJ-11 connector running

from the phone line outlet into the ADSL port on the ADSL2MUE. The DSL LED on the

front of the ADSL2MUE should flash green for a while it gets line sync, and then go hard

green. The Internet light should also go green.

I’ll now quickly show an example of how to configure the WAN router using a

WRT54GX

Step 1a

Open a web browser and login to the default IP Address of 192.168.1.1. We then

wish to select PPPoE as the “Internet Connection” option, and enter the username and

password as provide by your ISP. Then scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the “Save

Settings” button. – see Figure 14 below:

Figure 14

Step 2a

We can then browse to the “Status” tab, and the WRT54GX should have already

initiated the connection as the settings above were saved – a screen like Figure 15 should

be shown

You are now online and ready to go!