Setting Up 1:1 NAT Routing with a TL-R605

NAT 1:1 Routing using a TL-R605

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TL-R605

NAT 1:1 Routing using a TL-R605

The purpose of using the TL-R605 router is to connect a machine or cell controller LAN to your network. These are often used on Makino machines, Mazak robot cells and other robot cells.

You can download the product manual here.

What you need in advance:
  1. TL-R605 or ER605
  2. 2 static company network IP addresses (1 for the router WAN port and one to use for the CNC forwarding)
  3. Ethernet patch cable to connect the router the machine / cell switch

On the CNC control:
  1. Find the IP address of the CNC you want to connect to monitoring and make a note.
  2. Make sure the required settings are set for this machine type. See the "Add machine" documents for support on this.
  3. Whilst here, find a spare unused IP address for the router to use.
Accessing the router:
  1. Connect a computer to a LAN port of the router with an RJ45 cable properly. If your computer is configured with a fixed IP, change it to Obtain an IP address automatically.
  2. Open a web browser and type the default management address 192.168.0.1 in the address field of the browser, then press the Enter key.
  3. Create a username and a password for subsequent login attempts and for security.
  4. Use the username and password set above to log in to the webpage
Configuring the Router:
  1. Open the webpage from above
  2. Click Network > LAN and set the static IP and subnet of the LAN port (this is the spare IP you found on the machine LAN). Save.
  3. Disable the DCHP for LAN so it doesn't conflict with the CNC LAN devices.
    1. You will need to set a static IP of your laptop to the same range of the LAN port you just set if you cannot reconnect to the device.
  4. Click Network > WAN, set the static WAN IP and subnet to the IP company range (get this from IT). Save.
  5. Connect the company network to the WAN port.
  6. Connect the CNC to the LAN port.
  7. Check you can pin the CNC.
  8. Click Transmission > NAT and click ADD
    1. The original IP should be the LAN IP of the CNC (get this from IT, it is not the same as the LAN IP above)
    2. The translated IP is the WAN IP of the CNC IP. 
    3. disable DMZ.
    4. Set the description as the machine name.
  9. Select "allow ping from WAN"
  10. Restart the router.

Alert
Some Fanuc CNC's require you to set the LAN IP of the router as the gateway / router address on the CNC IP screen.

The IP address you use to connect to the machine in FactoryWiz is the one set in the NAT forward (set in 8.1).