Setting the Date and Time

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 19

Management port autoneg command description

 

 

 

 

 

Attribute

 

Description

 

 

enable

 

Enables auto-negotiation on the management port. This is the default

 

 

 

 

setting.

 

 

disable

 

Disables auto-negotiation on the management port. Use this setting to

 

 

 

 

manually configure link speed and flow control.

 

 

speed

 

[100m-full 10m-full 100m-half 10m-half]

 

 

 

 

When auto-negotiation is disabled, the speed attribute specifies the link

 

 

 

 

speed and duplex setting. The speed defaults to 100m-full.

 

 

flow control

 

[on off]

 

 

 

 

When auto-negotiation is disabled, this attribute configures the flow control

 

 

 

 

setting to be on or off. The flow control setting defaults to on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example

The following example sets the management port IPv4 address, subnet mask, and gateway for the ETEP as shown in Figure 34. Auto-negotiation is left at its default setting of enabled.

admin> configure

config> management-interface

man-if>ip 192.168.10.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.10.1 man-if>exit

The next example sets the management IPv4 address and subnet mask, and omits the default gateway. The default gateway can be omitted when the management station and the ETEP management port and are wired directly to each other on the same subnet. Auto-negotiation is disabled. The link speed is set to 100 Mbps full-duplex and flow control is turned on.

admin> configure

config> management-interface

man-if>ip 192.168.10.10 255.255.255.255 man-if>autoneg disable 100m-full on man-if>exit

The following example sets an IPv6 address, prefix length, and default gateway on the management port.

admin> configure

config> management-interface

man-if>ip6 2001:DB8::211:11FF:FE58:743/64 2001:DB8::20F:F7FF:FE84:BFC2 man-if>exit

config>

Setting the Date and Time

Setting the date and time on the ETEP helps ensure that the appliance’s time can be synchronized properly with other ETEPs or components in the EncrypTight system.

The time zone on the ETEP is set to UTC 0 (Coordinated Universal Time), and is not user configurable. Enter the date and time relative to UTC 0, also referred to as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). To calculate

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