Black Box LRS002A-R2, LRA005A-R2, LRA001A-R2 manual LAN Parameters

ASYNC ROUTER AR-P, AR-5, AND SYNC ROUTER USER’S MANUAL

5.4.1LAN PARAMETERS

Record all parameters in the Installation Reference (see Appendix F), and store the it in a secure place.

•Name—Enter the system name of the Router you are configuring. The system name may contain a 1 to 31 characters, but must not contain periods. Do not use the default name of “Router.” Each Router must have a unique system name. When referencing this Router on other systems, use the system name exactly as entered on your Router, for their remote system name.

Commonly the system name is a location or description that distinguishes the Router from other nodes in your network.The Router uses its system name when establishing a WAN connection. The system name is used by all other systems that are connected to this Router.

•Root password—Enter the password required to log in to the Router as a root user. A unique password is required. Null passwords are not secure, and are not accepted. The root password must have 6 to 15 alphanumeric characters, and is case-sensitive.

The system administrator uses the root password to log into this Router through a telnet or RouterVu session, or by pp, or from a serial terminal.

•Link password—Enter the password that remote Routers (or other systems) must use to access this Router. The link password must be entered twice and will not be displayed on the screen. The link password must be identical to the remote system’s link password on all other Routers (or other systems).

•Date/time—Enter the date and time in the format yymmddhhmm[.ss], where yy is the last two digits of the year, mm is the month number, dd is the day (with leading zero), hh is the hour (24 hour format), and mm is the minute. The seconds parameter .ss is optional. The default shown is the system clock, which is preset at the factory.

•Enable IPX routing?—Enter yes, if you are using Novell® NetWare on your LANs.

•Enable IP routing?—Enter yes, if you are using TCP/IP on your LANs.

•IPX: network numbers ()—(If IPX protocol is used) Enter the IPX (NetWare) network numbers (in hexadecimal) for each Ethernet frame type activated on the local Ethernet. You must enter an IPX network number for at least one frame type, although it is not necessary to enter an IPX network number for each frame type. Only enter network numbers for the frame types that you are using on your local Ethernet. If you are not using a frame type, enter a “0” for the network number for that frame type.

These IPX network numbers are the same as the network numbers configured on your NetWare servers.

Before configuring and operating the Router, configure your local and remote NetWare LANs with unique (different) IPX network numbers. This includes all IPX network numbers for all frame types. These numbers are set in the AUTOEXEC.NCF files of your NetWare file servers, with the “BIND IPX TO lan_driver NET= net number” statements.

•IP address (If TCP/IP protocol is used...)—Enter the IP address for the local Router. Use dotted-quad notation for your IP address: d.d.d.d, where d is a decimal number. A 32-bit IP address consists of four 8-bit decimal numbers separated by periods, for example, 128.66.16.100. Do not use any other format for your IP address.

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