This tutorial will show you how to upgrade the router’s firmware. This includes researching, downloading, and installing the router’s firmware. This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to upgrade the Linksys wireless router’s firmware. Upgrading the router’s firmware is the last solution whenever you experience problems using your Linksys router. For example, if you have configured the Internet connection and you network devices properly, but hosts on your network cannot access the Internet. Then you can choose to upgrade the router...

This tutorial will show you how to use the router’s Factory Defaults feature. This includes resetting the router’s configuration settings to their default values. This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to reset the Linksys wireless router’s configuration to the factory defaults. When purchasing a used Linksys router, it is recommended to reset the router’s configuration settings to their default values and then start configuring the router according to your needs. Upon restoring the router’s factory defaults, any...

This tutorial will show you how to configure dynamic IP routing on your Linksys router. This includes configuring RIP routing protocol in order to share routing information between routers on your network. This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to deploy the RIP routing protocol. Dynamic IP routing is a great tool to share routing information between your network routers. This means that instead of entering your network routing information in each router manually, you can configure your network routers to exchange their routing information between each...

This tutorial will show you how to use the router’s DMZ feature. This includes configuring the router to forward incoming traffic from the Internet to a specific host on your network in order to share internal applications and files. This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to expose an internal host to the Internet using the Linksys wireless router. The single Port Forwarding and Port Range Forwarding features allow you to access you internal application and files from the internet. Suppose that you want to access a large number of internal...

This tutorial will show you how to configure an Internet access Policy in order to restrict Internet access for your network computers. This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to use Internet access Policies on a Linksys wireless router. Linksys router allows customizing the activity of your network devices on the Internet. This includes: Limit online time. Limit online activity such as email, VPN, web surfing, downloading files… Block websites per keyword basis or per URL basis. To accomplish this, use the Linksys built-in Internet Access Policies. By...

This tutorial will show you how to manage the router’s configuration file. This includes backing up and restoring the router’s configuration settings. This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to manage the Linksys wireless router’s configuration file. The Linksys wireless router allows you to backup and restore your configuration. Therefore, this saves you time when the router’s configuration file is corrupted, or when you want to copy the router’s configuration settings into another Linksys router. Read the following...

This tutorial will show you how to use the router’s Diagnostics feature. This includes configuring the router to send Ping messages to an internal host in order to test IP connectivity. This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to test Linksys wireless router’s connectivity to internal/remote devices. The Diagnostics feature allows you to test the router’s connectivity to your internal network and to the Internet. The router accomplishes this by send Ping messages to the specified device. If the router receives a response from the remote...

This tutorial will show you how to configure the Linksys router’s management settings. This includes configuring router access, management through SNMP, UPnP feature, IGMP-Proxy feature, and management via WLAN. This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to Linksys router management. This article falls under the CCNA syllabus’s objective “Explain and select the appropriate administrative tasks required for a WLAN”. The Linksys router’s web-based interface allows you to: Change the username and the password of the router’s...

This tutorial will show you how to perform basic wireless setup in order to enable wireless communication between your wireless computers located on your home/office network. This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to do basic wireless setup on a Linksys router. This article falls under the CCNA syllabus’s objective “Explain and select the appropriate administrative tasks required for a WLAN”. To start configuring wireless settings, you can open the Basic Wireless Settings screen, which is located under the Wireless tab. This screen allows...

This tutorial will show you how to configure PPP using Cisco SDM in order to enable communication between two routers connected through a serial link. This tutorial includes how to enable PPP encapsulation, and configure CHAP authentication. This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to configure PPP using Cisco SDM (Cisco SDM is part of the CCNA syllabus). The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a standard method for transporting multi-protocol datagrams between two peers. PPP is comprised of three main components: A method for encapsulating multi-protocol...