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GWN7000 Command Line Guide

 Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 3

CONNECTING AND ACCESSING THE GWN7XXX ....................................................... 4

Connecting the GWN7000 ....................................................................................................... 4

SSH Access ............................................................................................................................. 5
USING THE CLI MENU ................................................................................................... 6

Menu Structure And Navigation ................................................................................................ 6

Selecting Options and Configuration ........................................................................................ 9
Saving The Changes .............................................................................................................. 10

Table of Tables
Table 1: GWN7000 CLI Main Menu .............................................................................................................. 7

Table of Figures
Figure 1: System Installation & Deployment ................................................................................................. 4
Figure 2: SSH Access Using Putty ............................................................................................................... 5
Figure 3: GWN7000 CLI Main Menu ............................................................................................................ 6
Figure 4: SSH Menu Tree ............................................................................................................................. 8
Figure 5: Change Admin Password .............................................................................................................. 9
Figure 6: Saving changes via CLI ............................................................................................................... 10

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INTRODUCTION
The GWN7000 is a powerful enterprise-grade router. Ideal for enterprises, office buildings, retail stores,
shopping centers, hotels, hospitals, convention centers and more, the GWN7000 allows businesses to build
comprehensive Wi-Fi or VPN Networks via many wireless access points that can be shared across many
different physical locations.

Along to its built-in web GUI, the GWN7000 does support configuration via command line interface using
secure SSH connection.

This guide contains necessary steps to connect and configure GWN7000 using CLI command line interface.

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CONNECTING AND ACCESSING THE GWN7XXX
Connecting the GWN7000
To set up the GWN7000, follow the steps below:

1. Connect one end of an RJ-45 Ethernet cable into the WAN1 or/and WAN2 port(s) of the GWN7000.

2. Connect the other end of the Ethernet cable(s) into a DSL modem or router(s).

3. Connect the 12V DC power adapter into the power jack on the back of the GWN7000. Insert the
main plug of the power adapter into a surge-protected power outlet.

4. Wait for the GWN7000 to boot up and connect to internet/network. In the front of the GWN7000 the
Power LED will be in solid green, and the WAN LED will flash in green.

5. Connect one of the LAN ports to your computer, the associated LED ports will flash in green.

192.168.1.0/24

Figure 1: System Installation & Deployment

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SSH Access
By default, secure SSH access is enabled on the GWN7000, the following steps illustrate the SSH access
using Putty.

Figure 2: SSH Access Using Putty

1. Connect a computer to a LAN Port of the GWN7000.

2. Ensure the device is properly powered up, and the Power, LAN port LEDs light up in green.

3. Open your SSH client (ex: Putty) on the computer and enter the IP address of the GWN7000 router
(192.168.1.1).

4. Enter the administrator’s login and password to access the CLI Menu. The default administrator's
username and password are "admin" and "admin".

Note: At first boot or after factory reset, users will be asked to change the default administrator password.

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USING THE CLI MENU
This section contains the commands line interface menu and the steps to navigate, change and save
settings.

Menu Structure And Navigation

After successfully login, users are directed to the CLI main menu which is structured on a tree form for
convivial and easy navigation, following screenshot shows the main menu:

Figure 3: GWN7000 CLI Main Menu

As shown on the help notice, the user can simply press the number (ex: 33 to access to Static Routes) to
enter the sub-menu in order to see the available options and change their values, also users can press the
corresponding letter to apply the required operation(s) (ex: press [b] to ban clients when you access the
menu showing the list of connected Clients to the managed WiFi network by the router, or pressing [f] to
factory reset the router when you access to the maintenance men).

The following table gives an overview about the available menus:

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 Table 1: GWN7000 CLI Main Menu

Displays the status of the router with related information such as MAC
Status
address, firmware version…..
Lists the paired GWN access points and gives the ability to ban some of
Access Points
APs.

Network groups Lists, adds and manages the available network groups.

Additional SSIDs Lists, adds and manages the available SSIDs from this menu.
Clients Displays the list of clients connected to the router under.
Displays the list of the banned clients connected to the router under this
Banned Clients
section.
Creates, edits and manages the VPN connections and certificate files from
VPNs this menu.
Note: GWN does support OpenVPN, L2TP and PPTP.
Configures the firewall parameters including port forwarding, DMS, inter-
Firewall
group routing, Traffic rules and advanced settings.
Configures maintenance settings such as upgrade and provisioning,
reboot, factory reset and setting/changing passwords can be done from this
Maintenance
menu.
Note: Make sure to save changes by pressing [s].
Configures the WAN and LAN ports by enabling and configuring the IP
Ports mode for the port.
Note: Port mirroring can be enabled and set from this menu.
Tunnels Lists, adds and manages the tunnels.
Configures the static routes, first the user should choose either [1] to set
Static Routes
IPv4 Static routes or press [2] to set IPv6 Static routes.
Manages Quality of Service.
QoS
Note: For QoS, GWN support traffic shaping and policer.

Configures dynamic DNS options.

DDNS
Note: Make sure to save changes by pressing [s].

SNMP Configures SNMP options for monitoring purposes.

Access to this menu to list, add and manage users (requested for
Users
certificate files creation).

Performs debugging operations from this menu, including packet captures,

Debug
ping and traceroute utilities as well as checking routing and NAT tables.

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Status System Status

Paired devices
Access Points
Discovered devices

Network Groups List of Network Groups

Additional SSIDs List of additional SSIDs

List of Clients Change Name

Clients Ban

List of banned Clients

Banned Clients
OpenVPN
L2TP/IPSec
PPTP
VPNs Cas
Certificates

Status
General Settings
Preferred DNS
Firewall Traffic Rules (IN/OUT)
VLAN Tagging
Advanced Settings
Type (DHCP, Static)
Load-Balance
Change user password(s)
Failover
Syslog
Maintenance Enable Net Port
Upgrade & Provisioning
Reset/Reboot
Name
Ports WAN1/WAN2
Status
Multi-WAN
Group
Port Mirroring
Target
Tunnels List of Tunnels
Netmask
Gateway
Metric
Add IPv4 Static routes
Static Routes Add IPv6 Static routes
WAN1/2
Traffic Classes Status
QoS Traffic filter Upstream bandwidth
Policer Downstream bandwidth

DDNS DDNS Settings (user, pass ……)

SNMP Settings
SNMP

List of Users
Users
File settings
Packet capture
Run/Stop Capture
Ping/Traceroute
Debug Filtering options
Routing table
Ping/Traceroute target
NAT table
Run/Stop

Figure 4: SSH Menu Tree

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Selecting Options and Configuration
For selecting an option to configure it, users could follow the steps mentioned on the previous section in
order to navigate through the sub-menus and find the correct option to set, once found they can choose it
by typing its corresponding number and set the required value, (sometime users will be prompted with more
menu choices or can enter the value manually).

For example: in order to change the administrator password, users could press 9 to access the
Maintenance Menu, then press 1 to change the admin password then re-enter the same password for
confirmation as shown on the following screenshot.

Figure 5: Change Admin Password

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Saving The Changes
After changing any option or parameter, users need to save the changes by entering [s], otherwise the
change will not take effect. Users could also revert the changes by entering [v] command.

Press ‘s’ to save changes Press ‘v’ to revert changes

Figure 6: Saving changes via CLI

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