Typical ADSL Installation

The ADSL Card is primarily installed to provide fast internet access to subscribers of
IRIS system. Each ADSL card can cater to 16 ADSL subscribers. Each card has an uplink
Ethernet port, which can be used for connecting to the ISP. There is also a downlink
Ethernet port, which is currently not activated. In future, this port can be used for daisy
chaining multiple ADSL cards, so that from the IRIS system, there will be a common
single uplink port. Another alternative would be to provide an external Ethernet switch
for aggregating traffic from all the ADSL line cards and then taking a common uplink
from the Ethernet switch to the ISP side.
In many cases, the bandwidth from the ISP is taken in the form of ADSL line from the
ISP. Here, the ISP will terminate the bandwidth using an ADSL modem, which will
typically have an Ethernet port, which can be used for further distribution of bandwidth.
The setup would be as shown below:

IRIS IVDX with

ADSL Line cards
ADSL Line to
subscribers of
IRIS

ISP

ADSL Line
from ISP

Ethernet Cable
to uplink port of
ADSL Line cards
ADSL modem
with POTS
splitter

ADSL
Modem

Ethernet
Cable to PC

Ethernet Switch
Ethernet Cable

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In some cases, a bandwidth manager and a billing system might also be required. In these
scenarios, the setup will be as shown below:

IRIS IVDX with ADSL

Line cards
ADSL Line to
subscribers of
IRIS

ISP

ADSL Line
from ISP

Ethernet Cable
to uplink port of ADSL
Line cards
ADSL modem
with POTS
splitter

ADSL
Modem

Ethernet Cable

Ethernet Cable to
PC

Ethernet Switch

Ethernet Cable

Bandwidth Manager &

Billing System

PC with two LAN

cards

In both the above cases, the ADSL subscribers of IRIS have to be allotted unique private
IP numbers. The IP address allocated to the ADSL subscribers of IRIS have to be
necessarily from the Private IP bank and they must be unique to the site. For example, IP
address range 192.168.1.x is a private IP bank So subscribers can be allotted IP addresses
192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.3 and so on.
Configurations required at the subscriber end
At the subscriber end, the PC will be connected to the ADSL modem. If the ADSL
modem has an inbuilt splitter, then there would be an RJ11 jack in the modem, for
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connecting the telephone instrument for voice communication. In case of external

splitters, the ADSL line from the IRIS ADSL line card will first enter the POTS splitter.
The POTS splitter will have two outputs one will go to the ADSL modem and the other
for connecting the telephone instrument.
In the subscribers PC, the following parameters are to be configured:
a) IP Address of the PC
b) Gateway IP address for the PC
c) DNS server address
The IP address of the PC should be allocated by the system administrator of the IRIS
installation site. This IP Address must be a private IP address and it should be unique for
the installations site.
The gateway IP Address to be defined, depends on the type of installation. If the
installation is of simple type where no bandwidth managers or billing system are used,
then the gateway ip address should be the IP address of the ADSL modem, which is
provided by the ISP. It should be noted that this IP address is that of the ISPs ADSL
modem and not the local ADSL modem. This entry will be the same in all the subscriber
PCs
In case bandwidth managers and billing systems are used,
The DNS server address will be provided by the ISP. This entry will be the same in all the
subscriber PCs
The ADSL modem at the subscriber end should be configured in the bridge mode. The IP
address of the subscriber modem should be different from the IP Address of the ISP
modem. Although IP address is allocated for each subscriber modem, this will be used
only for configuring the modem. Hence all the subscriber modem in an installation site
can have the same IP address.
The following section gives more details of how to configure the subscriber ADSL
modem.

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The default IP address of most of the types of ADSL modem is 192.168.1.1. However,
pls. Consult the user manual of the modem to find the exact default IP address. All the
modems can be configured using a web browser. In the web browser, enter the IP address
of the modem. Make sure that the network address of the PC matches with the network
address of the ADSL modem. For example, if the IP address of the modem is
192.168.1.1, then make sure that the PCs IP address is 192.168.1.x.
Tip: To ensure that the Ethernet link between the ADSL modem and the PC is correct, run
ping test between the PC and the ADSL modem.
On entering the IP address of the modem in the web browser, a window opens up,
prompting the user to enter user name and password. Enter a valid user name and
password. After this, the home page of the modem opens up. The home page will be as
shown below.
Please note that the home page view may be different for different types of modems.
Home Page of modem

The home page gives the current status of the modem, including the status of the ADSL
link and the various interfaces in the modem.

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The first step for configuration would be to configure the IP address of the modem. This
can be done by going to the LAN configuration page . In this page, the IP address of the
modem can be modified. Make sure that the IP Address of the subscriber modem is
different from that of the ISP modem.
Once the IP address is modified, the browser has to be shut down and reopened with the
new defined IP address of the modem.
The LAN configuration table will be as shown below:
LAN Configuration page

The next step is to configure the WAN interface of the modem. The WAN configuration
page will have options to configure the various WAN protocols and interfaces, supported
by the modem.

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The WAN configuration page will also have an option to view the DSL status.
A sample view of the WAN configuration page is shown below:
WAN configuration

As shown above, the WAN configuration page has options to configure or view the
various WAN interfaces like ATM VC, PPP, EOA and IpoA.
Select the ATM VC option to configure the ATM Virtual Channel of the modem. Each
modem can have a maximum of 8 Virtual Channels configured. But for all practical
purposes, only one Virtual Channel is required to be configured. This is because, the
modem is operated in bridge mode and LLC mux mode.
The ATM VC configuration page will be as shown below:

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ATM VC Configuration

Since only one ATM VC interface is required, only AAL5-0 has to be configured. The
rest of the ATM VCs are not required. For AAL5-0, the VPI and VCI has to be defined.
These are fixed values the value of VPI has to be 0 and the value of VCI has to be 35.
Make sure these values are configured for AAL5-0, otherwise the data connectivity
between the subscriber PC and the ISP will not happen.
Tip: If the VPI/VCI values are not configured properly, the ADSL link will be active but
the data transfer will not take place.
After configuring the ATM VC interface, the next step would be to configure the EOA
interface. EOA is Ethernet over ATM. This is required for packetizing the Ethernet
packets received from the subscribers PC to ATM frames and transporting them over the
ADSL link.
The EOA configuration page will be as shown below:

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Adding an EOA interface

For configuration, use eoa-0 interface and select aal5-0 as the lower interface for this eoa
interface. Do not enter any IP address or net mask. Also disable the DHCP and default
route.
After adding the eoa-0 interface, the screen will be as shown below:

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After Adding an EOA interface

With this, the WAN interfaces, which will be used by our configuration has been fully
configured. The next step would be to configure the modem in the bridging mode, so that
it starts to bridge the traffic from the LAN interface to the WAN interface.
For configuring the bridging mode of the ADSL modem, select the bridging page. The
display will be as shown below:

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Configuring for Bridging

In this page, select the eth-0 and eoa-0 as the interfaces, which have to be bridged. Then
select the bridging, after which a screen as shown below will be displayed:
Configuring Bridging mode

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In this option, enable the bridging and WAN to WAN bridging.

After the above configuration, the subscriber PC must start getting ping responses from
the ISP modem (which is also configured as the Gateway for the PC). If the ping
responses are not received, then check up the ADSL link status and then the configuration
parameters of the ADSL modem.
After completing the configuration process, the changes made in the configuration of the
modem have to be stored. This is very important, as unless the changes made are
committed in the modem, all the parameters will be changed to default modem, when the
modem is powered down and switched on again.
For committing the changes made, select the Admin page. A sample of the admin page is
shown below:
Commit & Reboot

In this page select the commit button to save all the changes made in the configuration of
the modem.
With this, the configuration of the modem is complete and it is ready for accessing the
net.
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