This guide was written for the SMC Barricade 7004ABR (eu) Firmware: V.1.40.02.
I assume that the configuration is the same or similar in other SMC Router Products.
This guide is usable for:

SMC Barricade 7004 ABR

SMC Barricade 7004 VBR (Thx to Ulf for reporting this)

SMC Barricade 7004 BR (Thx to RenΘ for reporting this) See the note in the 3.2 - Configuring of the Ports

If your router has the same configuration, please contact me so that this guide can be updated.

This guide was written on a german OS, so the screen shots show german words. Everything else should be the same.

This guide uses special formatted graphics, so that you can move your mouse over them and see some hints about the thing your cursor is on. The cursor has to rest approximately 1 sec until the hint pops up.

If you have any comments, additions or questions concerning this guide, feel free to contact me. (If you want to in german)

There, a windows should appear that looks like this:

Enter your password into the Password-field and click the [Login] button to enter the main menu of your router configuration.

If you know your network IP, proceed with Step 3. - Configure your Router to avoid LowID.
If not, continue with Step 2. - How to find out your network IP.

Finding out your IP is easy. Just open a DOS-shell when you're connected to your router and run "ipconfig". Windows 2000:

Open your "Startmenu" and choose "run". In the window that pops up, type "cmd" and click [OK]. A DOS-shell will open. There you have to type "ipconfig" and hit [enter]. You should now see something like this:

Write down your IP on a piece of paper. You'll need it afterwards.

Open your "Startmenu" and choose "run". In the window that pops up, type "command" and click [OK]. A DOS-shell will open. There you have to type "ipconfig" and hit [enter]. You should now see something like this:

Write down your IP on a piece of paper. You'll need it afterwards.

Step 3. - Configure your Router to avoid LowID

Now, as you know your IP, you can go on to the configuration. When you've followed the instructions of Step 1. you should now be in the main menu. Here you have to click on Setup.
On the left border of your browser-window appears a list of links. Under the Advanced Settings you have to click on Virtual Server.

To open and forward the needed ports you have to do the following things:

• Insert the last part of your IP into the according fields (the first one in the first 2 rows), so that it's 'complete'.
• In the first row, insert your eMule Client port (default: 4662) into the Public port and Private port fields.
• In the second row, insert your eMule UDP-Port (default: 4672) into the Public port and Private port fields.
• In the second row, set the dot on UDP to make the usage of the UDP-Protocol over this port possible.

Now start your eMule and connect to a server. When you are connected go here, check if the number in the field is the same as your client port and then click [test].
You should get a message like this: "success ... your id should be 1808631120 ". If not, recheck if you inserted the right client port and IP in the Virtual Server configuration and that you are were connected with a server during the test. If this doesn't help, you may contact me.

If everything works, you just configured your SMC Barricade for eMule usage!

Misc. - Some useful things to know

M.1 - How to configure the router for two PCs:
At first, I want to tell you, that using two eMules over the same connection makes only sense if you have an upload capacity higher than 20kb/sec because the two eMules would have to share the upload capacity and if an eMule can only give less than 10kb/sec he only may download with your upload x 3.
If you have enough upload or you don't need much download, here is a little guide for you how you can configure your router for two eMules.:

If you want to avoid a LowID but use two eMules (either on the same PC or on two different ones), you only have to choose different ports for these two or more eMules.
For example:

	PC 1	PC 2
Client port:	4662	3662
UDP-Port:	4672	3672

Then you only have to forward the different ports to the PC the eMule is running on. In the example Port 4662 (TCP) and Port 4672 (UDP) have to be forwarded to the IP of PC 1, while Port 3662 (TCP) and Port 3672 (UDP) have to be forwarded to the IP of PC 2.
It's exactly the same as explained in the guide, you just have to do it twice with different ports and IPs.
If you want to use two eMules on ONE PC, you have to forward all 4 Ports to the IP of this PC (and don't forget to use two different temporary folders!)

M.2 - Help for users with a crashing router:
I received some mails that users have problems with a crashing router. So I'll explain what you can do to avoid the router crashing

1.	Your router crashes because he is unable to handle so many connections.
	First, I would recommend a Firmware Update because I may improve the Router software so I can handle more connections. (You can get them here: EU and US.) If this doesn't help, you should reduce the Max. Connections and Max. Connections in 5 sec. until the router works stable.
2.	Your router is crashed by a stupid script-kiddy with a DoS, DDoS etc. attack (very unlikely).
	You can't do anything to protect you from these attacks. Perhaps a Firmware Update fixes some security holes in the router's software. The only other possibility is to get another IP address (with reconnection if you have a dynamic IP) an reduce the possibilities for the script kiddy to get your new one by closing instant-messengers like ICQ, IRC and stopping to surf on his/her homepage.
3.	Your router overheats.
	Like every other Computer, your router can overheat. Make sure it's not covered with junk, paper or socks to let it "breath".
4.	A bug in the routers software crashes it.
	The only thing you can do here is a Firmware Update(You can get them here: EU and US.) and to hope that it fixes the bug.

Last but not least I want to thank the following persons:

The whole eMule-Developers team (especially Monk for updating this guide ;-) ) and everyone who supports them with code, ideas.. (especially the modders) Sourceforge.net for hosting the eMule Project. Jed aka Swamp for inventing the ed2k-Network Stillman and ocbMaurice for their test-script and especially Maurice for his great server lists. Stefan Mⁿnz for his SelfHTML. Without it, this guide wouldn't exist. Ulrich for his SMC Barricade 7004 BR screen shots. Many others I forgot to mention (hey, its 0:05 in the morning here :D)

Big thanks to URMEL for this comprehensive guide.
Last update on: 2003-21-02 by Monk