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How to configure my eWON 2005CD or 4005CD as a pure router?

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To use your eWON as a pure router you need to:

  1. Configure the eWON as router
  2. Activate the Internet connection
  3. Fulfill routing rules

 

Configure the eWON as router  

Under the menu SystemSetup->Communication->NetworkingConfig->Routing, activate the "NAT and TF on WAN".
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Note: These changes will only be effective from the next WAN connection. So if the Internet connection on the eWON was already opened, then you need to close and reopen the Internet connection. 

 

Activate the Internet connection

Under the menu SystemSetup->Communication->NetworkingConfig->InternetConnection, select the Internet connection you want to use:

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Choose for example the "Ethernet WAN connection", to use the second Ethernet card (Ethernet WAN) of the eWON for the Internet connection.

 

Fulfill routing rules  

Two important rules must be fulfilled to be able to use the eWON as router:

  1. The device behind the eWON, which will use the eWON as router, must have the eWON LAN IP address specified as default gateway.
  2. The eWON WAN IP address must not be compatible with its LAN IP address. This is automatically the case if the Internet connection is done using the modem. But if you use the second Ethernet interface of the eWON (Ethernet WAN) then make sure that both networks LAN and WAN are not compatible.
    For example:
             LAN = 192.168.1.50 and WAN=10.0.0.50                 => OK
             LAN = 10.0.0.53, MASK 255.255.255.0 and WAN 10.0.50.2, MASK 255.255.0.0     => NOT OK