Networking — Settings Tab

This is where you configure everything network-related on the Abilis: IP addresses, internet connections, the firewall, DHCP, DNS, and more. Most of these settings are configured once during installation and rarely revisited.

Click Networking > Settings. A row of sub-tabs appears: Ports, Routings, NAT, ACL, IP Shaping, DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP.

Ports

Lists every network connection the Abilis has — both the physical sockets you plug a cable into (Ethernet, PoE) and the software connections built on top of them (PPP/PPPoE dial-ups, LTE modems, virtual links). Each row is one connection that carries IP traffic, and the table records, for each one, its address, whether it faces your local network (INSIDE) or the internet (OUTSIDE), and the physical interface it runs over.

Each port represents a network interface on the Abilis. The table columns:

Column	Example	What It Means
Status		Green = active, red = inactive.
Port	Ip-1	Internal port identifier.
Subtype	LAN / PPP	LAN = local network, PPP = point-to-point (modem/WAN).
Over	Eth-1, EthLte-1, PoeCli-1, CELLKEY-1	Which underlying physical interface this logical port uses — an Ethernet socket, an LTE modem, a PoE port, or a USB cellular dongle.
IP Address	192.168.001.001/24, DHCP, RETRIEVE	How the port gets its address: a fixed IP you typed in, DHCP (the port asks a DHCP server), or RETRIEVE (the address is negotiated with the WAN provider during a PPP/PPPoE login).
Direction	INSIDE / OUTSIDE	INSIDE = your local network. OUTSIDE = the internet/WAN side.
Description	LAN, WAN DHCP, WAN ETHMOD, WAN ETHLTE	Human-readable label.

Filters (dropdown and search) are available on most columns. Click New + to add a port.

Routings

Tells the Abilis where to send traffic for each destination — like a signpost that says "to reach this network, go out through that connection." Most entries are created automatically from your ports; you only add entries by hand when you have more than one internet link, or want a backup path that takes over if the main one fails.

A dropdown at the top lets you filter: Show all routes, or filter by type.

Columns:

Column	Example	Meaning
Type	CONNECTED	CONNECTED = auto-defined by the port. STATIC = manually defined.
Destination	127.000.000.001/32, 192.168.001.000/24, any	Where the traffic is going.
Source	any	Where the traffic comes from. Almost all rules use any — the rule applies regardless of source. A specific source lets you route different LANs to different exits, only needed for multi-WAN setups.
Gateway	OUT-IP, 192.168.1.254	The IP of the next router that should receive the packet — usually your upstream provider's gateway. The pseudo-value OUT-IP means "whichever IP the outbound port currently has" — used for routes whose gateway is dynamic (PPPoE/DHCP-assigned).
Output port	LOOP, R-ID, Ip-1, Ip-5, Ip-3	Which port to send traffic through. = port is up, = port is down.
AD (Priority)	5, 10, 100, 180	Administrative distance — see callout below.
Description	(blank)	Optional label.

NAT

Rewrites IP addresses (and optionally ports) on packets as they cross between the inside and outside of your network. The most common use is letting many internal devices share one public IP — but the same machinery can also redirect a specific port to an internal server (port forwarding) or send DNS queries through Abilis.

The columns:

In the screenshot, two default rules exist:

• PR 0 — Destination NAT. Redirects DNS queries (port 53/UDP) from INSIDE → OUTSIDE through the ToDNS list, ensuring all DNS traffic flows through Abilis.
• PR 1 — Source NAT. Translates all outgoing traffic from INSIDE → OUTSIDE through Ip-1, replacing the source with the outgoing IP (OUT-IP, auto-selected). This is the standard "share one internet connection" rule.

ACL (Firewall)

Checks every piece of traffic passing through the Abilis and decides whether to allow it or block it, working down a numbered list of rules from top to bottom and acting on the first one that matches. The most common use is blocking known-bad addresses with the built-in blocklist — but you can also write your own rules to allow or block traffic by who sent it, where it is going, or which service it uses.

The columns:

The two default rules in the screenshot:

• PR 0 — Deny traffic whose source matches the 'Firewall' list (any destination, any protocol, Port Selection = PO).
• PR 1 — Deny traffic whose destination matches the 'Firewall' list (any source, any protocol, Port Selection = PO).

Together these block any traffic to or from an IP address in the 'Firewall' list (a built-in blacklist managed in Tools → Lists). Click New + to add your own rules above or below.

IP Shaping (Settings)

Keeps an eye on the few devices using the most bandwidth and slows them down so one heavy user can't make the internet feel slow for everyone else. The typical case is a single computer running a large, steady download — the settings let you target that kind of sustained transfer while leaving normal web browsing alone.

The IP Shaping Configuration (IPSH) panel with Apply Changes button:

DHCP

Gives devices on your network their IP address automatically, so nobody has to set one by hand. The Abilis can either hand out the addresses itself (DHCP Server mode) or pass the requests along to another device that does (Relay mode); it can also reserve a fixed address for specific devices such as printers or cameras.

The main page shows two tables:

• DHCP protocol table — lists configured DHCP services. Columns: Ip-res (the IP resource — the port this DHCP service runs on), Name, IP Address, DHCP Mode (Server or Relay). The ✓ Enabled checkbox activates the service.
• Manual DHCP protocol table — for static assignments outside the DHCP protocol table. Click Add manual DHCP record + to add one.

Click on a DHCP entry (e.g. Ip-1 | Lan_for_Ip-1) to open the detail panel with three sub-tabs:

Settings

The Profile section below defines what settings DHCP clients receive:

Manually assigned addresses

Reservations that tie a specific IP to a specific MAC address — click New + to add one. Use this for printers, cameras, servers, anything that needs a fixed address that never changes.

Automatically assigned addresses

Devices that received an IP from the pool. This is a live view, not a configuration table — entries appear and disappear as devices join, renew, and leave. Columns:

Buttons on each row: delete the assignment, + convert it to a manual (permanent) reservation.

Click Save after any changes, or Close to return to the DHCP main page.

HTTP Settings

Controls the built-in web server — the same one serving the screens you are using right now to manage the Abilis. Here you set which port it listens on, whether connections must be encrypted (HTTPS), and how long you can stay logged in before being signed out for inactivity.