® ® Table of Contents Introduction ........................... 4 Configuring the WiFi/Router ....................6 Connecting to the WiFi/Router ................. 6 Adding an IPG100 to the Network................9 ® Adding a PC based N2KServer to the Network.
Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide Introduction ® Thank you for purchasing the Maretron preconfigured Linksys E2000 Wireless-N Router (from here on referred to as WiFi/Router). The WiFi/Router is used to interconnect one or more wired ® or wireless devices running Maretron’s N2KView vessel monitoring and control software with ®...
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® ® Although the WiFi/Router is mostly pre-configured by Maretron, there are a few steps that must ® be performed to establish the connection between Maretron’s N2KView vessel monitoring ® and control software (client) and Maretron’s N2KServer (server). If you are installing a system ®...
Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide Configuring the WiFi/Router The settings in the WiFi/Router are changed using a web browser such as Internet Explorer, Safari, or Mozilla Firefox. Connecting to the WiFi/Router Connect the WiFi/Router to your PC using the blue Ethernet cable supplied in the box. Use the supplied AC adapter to power the WiFi/Router.
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® ® From now on, we will just show the screens from Firefox – the screens from other browsers will be very similar. Leave the User name blank, and enter the default Password, which is admin and press the OK button. You may see the following message: Cisco connect is a utility that comes with the router.
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Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide You are now connected to the WiFi/Router, and should see the following basic setup screen. Page 8 Revision 1.1...
® ® Whenever you make a change to the configuration, you will see the following message: You can press Continue whenever this message is displayed to get back to the configuration screens. Adding an IPG100 to the Network. Connect Maretron’s Internet Protocol Gateway (IPG100) to the WiFi/Router using an Ethernet Cable.
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Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide From the Basic Setup page, open the DHCP Reservation Table by pressing the DHCP Reservation button. The DHCP Reservation table is displayed as shown below: If you do not see an IPG100 in the top part of the table, then it has not requested an address from the DHCP Server.
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® ® Carefully copy the Client Name and MAC Address for the IPG100 from the top table to the second table. Set the assigned IP Address for the IPG100 to 192.168.1.3. Press Add Clients to add the IPG100 to the table: Press Save Settings and then Close.
Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide To make these settings take effect, reset the IPG100 by disconnecting the NMEA2000 cable, and then re-connecting. ® Adding a PC based N2KServer to the Network. In addition to the PC connected to the WiFi/Router used to configure the WiFi/Router, also ®...
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® ® The DHCP Reservation table is displayed as shown below: Carefully copy the Client Name and MAC Address for the PC from the top table to the second table. Set the assigned IP Address for the PC to 192.168.1.3. Revision 1.1 Page 13...
Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide Press Add Client to add the PC to the table. Press Save Settings and then Close. To make these settings take effect, disconnect and then reconnect the Ethernet cable to the ® Note that if the PC containing N2KServer is the same PC that you are working on, your session will be disconnected as the PC is given its new address.
® ® If the default values are used this should be 192.168.1.3. A message should be displayed at the bottom left of the section stating that an IPG100 or N2KServer has been found, and giving its IP Address. Press the Connect button to establish the connection. Adding a DSM800 N2KView Client to the Network Connect the DSM800 to the WiFi/Router using an Ethernet Cable.
Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide Adding a Wireless PC N2KView Client to the Network Using the Wireless Configuration programs supplied with the PC, connect to the Wireless Network identified by the SSID written on the label affixed to the bottom of your router. When prompted to enter the passphrase, enter the passphrase from the same label.
® ® Resetting the WiFi/Router to Maretron Configuration In addition to the parameters that must be set by the user described in paragraph 2, several parameters are set by Maretron at the factory. If the factory settings are ever lost, then you can reset the WiFi/Router and program the factory setting by following the instructions outlined in the following paragraphs.
Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide In the Network Name (SSID) field, replace the word Cisco with Maretron, leaving the 5 digits from the serial number intact. Programming network security This section details the programming of WiFi/Router to ensure that wireless messages to and from the router are encrypted against eavesdropping.
® ® Appendix A- Client/Server Architecture ® The N2KView Vessel Monitoring and Control System is based on a client/server architecture. In this context, a server is defined as a component that provides services over a network and a client is defined as a station that requests and uses those services. ®...
Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide A.1 Examples of NMEA 2000® Client/Server Architectures ® N2KServer may run on a Windows PC (using Maretron’s USB100 gateway - see and ) or ® N2KServer may run directly on an IPG100 (see Figure 2).
® ® Figure 3 extends the example shown in by adding an external internet access point across a Wide Area Network (WAN). Although it is possible to setup the network as shown in , ensuring ® ® that the remote N2KView clients can find the IP Address of the N2KServer at the correct port (6543 or 6544) requires considerable IT expertise.
Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide typically found as part of a router. The router can be configured to reserve a specific address for the computer and then assign that same address each time at startup. If the router chooses a different address each time, then the computer may be difficult to find on the network.
® ® ® N2KView must then be set up to request a connection to the WAN IP Address of the router and the new port number. A.5 Static and Dynamic IP Addressing ® ® If you wish to use N2KView to view data from an N2KServer on a WAN through an Internet ®...
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Linksys® E2000 Wireless-N Router Configuration Guide ® The N2KView system protects your vessel’s data with multiple levels of protection. ® ® First, any data that passes between the N2KServer server component and any N2KView station components is protected using industry-standard SSL encryption. This encryption standard is widely used to protect financial information on the internet.
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