D-Link DIR-857 Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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Section 3 - Conﬁguration

Administrator Settings

This page will allow you to change the Administrator and User passwords. You can also enable Remote Management. There are two accounts that

can access the management interface through the web browser. The accounts are admin and user. Admin has read/write access while user has

read-only access. User can only view the settings but cannot make any changes. Only the admin account has the ability to change both admin and

user account passwords.

Enter a new password for the Administrator Login Name. The

administrator can make changes to the settings.

Enter the new password for the User login. If you login as the

User, you cannot change the settings (you can only view them).

Enter a name for the DIR-857 router.

Enter a name for the router.

Enables a challenge-response test to require users to type

letters or numbers from a distorted image displayed on the

screen to prevent online hackers and unauthorized users from

gaining access to your router’s network settings.

Check to enable HTTPS to connect to the router securely.

Remote management allows the DIR-857 to be conﬁgured

from the Internet by a web browser. A username and password

is still required to access the Web-Management interface.

In general, only a member of your network can browse the

built-in web pages to perform Administrator tasks. This feature

enables you to perform Administrator tasks from the remote

(Internet) host. The port number used to access the DIR-857.

Example: http://x.x.x.x:8080 whereas x.x.x.x is the Internet IP

address of the DIR-857 and 8080 is the port used for the Web

Management interface.

If you have enabled

HTTPS Server

and checked

Use HTTPS

,

you must enter

https://

as part of the URL to access the router

remotely.

This section will list any rules that are created. You may click the

Edit

icon to change the settings or enable/disable the rule, or

click the

Delete

icon to remove the rule.

Admin Password:

User Password:

Gateway Name:

Enable Graphical

Authentication:

Enable HTTPS

Server:

Enable Remote

Management:

Remote Admin

Inbound Filter:

Details:

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Time Settings

Select the Time Zone from the drop-down menu.

To select Daylight Saving time manually, select enabled or

disabled, and enter a start date and an end date for daylight

saving time.

NTP is short for Network Time Protocol. NTP synchronizes

computer clock times in a network of computers. Check this

box to use a NTP server. This will only connect to a server on

the Internet, not a local server.

Enter the NTP server or select one from the drop-down

menu.

To manually input the time, enter the values in these ﬁelds

for the Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, and Second and then

click

Set Time

. You can also click

Copy Your Computer’s

Time Settings

.

Time Zone:

Daylight Saving:

Enable NTP

Server:

NTP Server Used:

Manual:

The Time Conﬁguration option allows you to conﬁgure, update, and maintain the correct time on the internal system clock. From this section you can

set the time zone that you are in and set the Time Server. Daylight Saving can also be conﬁgured to automatically adjust the time when needed.

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Section 3 - Conﬁguration

SysLog

The Broadband Router keeps a running log of events and activities occurring on the Router. You may send these logs to a SysLog server on your

network.

Enable Logging to

SysLog Server:

SysLog Server IP

Address:

Check this box to send the router logs to a SysLog Server.

The address of the SysLog server that will be used to send

the logs. You may also select your computer from the

drop-down menu (only if receiving an IP address from

the router via DHCP).

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Section 3 - Conﬁguration

Email Settings

The Email feature can be used to send the system log ﬁles, router alert messages, and ﬁrmware update notiﬁcation to your email address.

Enable Email

Notiﬁcation:

From Email Address:

To Email Address:

SMTP Server

Address:

Enable

Authentication:

Account Name:

Password:

On Log Full:

On Schedule:

Schedule:

When this option is enabled, router activity logs are e-mailed to

a designated email address.

This email address will appear as the sender when you receive a

log ﬁle or ﬁrmware upgrade notiﬁcation via email.

Enter the email address where you want the email sent.

Enter the SMTP server address for sending email. If your SMTP

server requires authentication, select this option.

Check this box if your SMTP server requires authentication.

Enter your account for sending email.

Enter the password associated with the account. Re-type the

password associated with the account.

When this option is selected, logs will be sent via email when

the log is full.

Selecting this option will send the logs via email according to

schedule.

This option is enabled when On Schedule is selected. You can

select a schedule from the list of deﬁned schedules. To create a

schedule, go to

Tools > Schedules

.

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Section 3 - Conﬁguration

Use this option to save the current router conﬁguration

settings to a ﬁle on the hard disk of the computer you are

using. First, click the

Save

button. You will then see a ﬁle

dialog, where you can select a location and ﬁle name for

the settings.

Use this option to load previously saved router conﬁguration

settings. First, click the

Browse

button to locate a previously

saved conﬁguration ﬁle and then click the

Load

button to

transfer those settings to the router.

This option will restore all conﬁguration settings back to

the settings that were in eﬀect at the time the router was

shipped from the factory. Any settings that have not been

saved will be lost, including any rules that you have created.

If you want to save the current router conﬁguration settings,

use the Save button above.

Click to reboot the router.

Save Settings to

Local Hard Drive:

Load Settings

from Local Hard

Drive:

Restore to Factory

Default Settings:

Reboot Device:

System Settings

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