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Device Status: Dell™ TrueMobile™ 2300 Wireless Broadband
Router User's Guide
The Device Status screen displays the basic network settings for your Dell TrueMobile 2300 Wireless Broadband Router.
When changes are made to the network settings, those changes are updated on this screen. In addition, it graphically displays
the current connection status for the Wireless Broadband Router and other devices in your network. Connections between
network devices are shown with a yellow arrow. Inoperative connections are represented by one red cross through the yellow
connection line (see Figure 1).
NOTE: The TrueMobile 2300 router offers 2 ways to check the status of your network. One is Device Status feature in
web configuration tool mentioned here. The other is through the Windows-based software program -
control utility
. To
learn more about this utility, click on the aforementioned link.
Figure 1. Device Status page
Device Status
The following connections are displayed on the Device Status page:
Device
Indication
An inactive cable/DSL connection indicates that either the cable is unplugged or
the Wireless Broadband Router has not received an IP address.
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Internet
An active connection indicates the WAN interface of the router has a valid IP
address and your computers can connect to the Internet via the router.
Wired Client (LAN)
Shown as an active connection when a wired client is configured and physically
connected to your network; inactive when the Ethernet cable is disconnected from
the PC.
Wireless Client
Shown as an active connection when a wireless client is configured for your
network; inactive when there is no wireless client connected to your router.
When the Wireless Broadband Router acts as a DHCP server, it assigns IP addresses to the clients on the network. These IP
addresses are displayed in the
DHCP Log
below the Device Status figure.
WAN Ethernet Settings
Refer to the left-side of the screen for the following WAN Ethernet Settings, and the Internet protocol (IP) settings for the
Wireless Broadband Router:
Setting/Device
Information Displayed
Internet
the connection to the Internet is Active/Not Active
Router IP
IP address assigned to the Wireless Broadband Router
LAN MAC
MAC address for the LAN and Wireless interfaces
WAN MAC
MAC address for the WAN interface
Router Name
the name for the Wireless Broadband Router (the default is TrueMobile 2300)
Firmware Version
Version number of the firmware currently installed on the Wireless Broadband
Router and the release date of the firmware
Wireless Channel
radio channel on which the Wireless Broadband Router is communicating on the
air
Network Name
a unique network name that identifies the network. It is also known as SSID
(Service Set Identifer). When a client station tries to connect to the router, the user
must know the router's SSID first.
The following buttons appear on the left navigation bar:
Button
Action
RELEASE
Clicking this button to release the IP address that the Wireless Broadband Router
has been assigned from your ISP. If the Wireless Broadband Router has been
configured to receive a static IP address, clicking
Release
does not release this IP
address.
RENEW
Clicking this button to renew the IP address with a DHCP server provided by your
ISP. If the Wireless Broadband Router has been configured to receive a static IP
address, clicking
Renew
does not renew the IP address.
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System Tools: Dell™ TrueMobile™ 2300 Wireless Broadband
Router User's Guide
Use the System Tools section to view the intruder detection log, routing tables, and system diagnostics regarding the device
settings and status. These three pages are for your information only. The System Tools section also includes features to reload
the default settings, upgrade the firmware for the Wireless Broadband Router, and reset the unit.
Use the following pages in the web-based configuration tool to access the System Tools:
Intruder Detection Log
Display Routing Table
System Diagnostic
Load Default Settings
Upgrade Firmware
Reset Device
Intruder Detection Log
Indicator
Description
Event
Type of attack that the router detects
Time
Based on the timestamp of the IP packet, plus or minus the time offset
Source
IP address that the packet came from
Dest (=Destination)
Usually the IP address for the Wireless Broadband Router
Port
Port number
The figure below shows an example of an entry of an Intrusion attempt (INT_ATEMPT) event from a computer with IP address
192.168.2.60 (Source) targeted at the router's port number 80 at time 12 AM:1 Min: 5 Sec.
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Display Routing Table
Indicator
Description
Type
The type of routing. This can be either:
LAN or WAN interface (INTF)
Static routing
Destination LAN IP
Address
Either an entire network or a specific IP address. An IP address ending in .0 refers to a
network.
Subnet Mask
Must follow the subnet mask rules
Gateway IP Address
To communicate with an IP address matching the destination IP Address, the Wireless
Broadband Router sends all traffic through the gateway IP address listed here.
Hop Count
The number of routers the packet has passed through to its destination. Hop count is used to
measure the distance between a source and a destination. If there are 3 routers between the
source and the destination nodes, the hop count for the packet will be 3 when it arrives at its
destination node.
The figure below shows three network routes that your router currently possesses. 192.168.2.0 is the destination network
connected to one of your router's interface port (LAN or WAN) and the IP address and Subnet Mask for this interface is
192.168.2.1 and 255.255.255.0, respectively. The number of routers (Hop Count) the packet passed through is 1. Also in the
same example, the destination with 0.0.0.0 network and 0.0.0.0 Subnet Mask is the default route for your router, where every
packet that left unmapped to any other route will be mapped to this route. The outgoing default gateway IP address is
192.168.1.254.
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System Diagnostic
The Systems Diagnostics page is for your information only. This page displays both the configuration settings and diagnostics
for the Wireless Broadband Router. Configuration settings include firmware version, the ISP and device settings that have been
configured for your network.
The Diagnostics section shows the current connections for your network. Diagnostic settings include the ISP status, link status,
current WAN connection, LAN MAC table, and WAN MAC table.
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Load Default Settings
The Load Default Settings page allows you to reload the factory default configurations that came with the device. When this
option is used, the default IP address is reset to the factory default value (192.168.2.1). This is equivalent to pressing and
holding the
Reset
button on the back panel of the device for more than 3 seconds (for more details, please refer to
A Look at
the Hardware
).
CAUTION: Loading the default settings option will cause the current settings for your Wireless Broadband
Router to be lost.
Click the
START
button to reload the default settings.
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Upgrade Firmware
Dell periodically releases firmware updates to provide improved performance or capabilities. Use the firmware upgrade feature
to easily upgrade the firmware on your Wireless Broadband Router. You can check Dell support website,
support.dell.com
, to
see if there are any new upgrades. Download the new firmware first before upgrade, and save it to one of the clients in your
network. To upgrade the firmware, enter the firmware file path into the box, or click the
Browse
button to choose a firmware
file to upgrade to.

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