Chapter 1 Product Overview

Router Overview

Table 1-1 Feature Summary for Cisco 837 and SOHO 97 Routers (continued)

Feature

Description

 

 

Wall-mounting feature

Brackets on the router bottom provide for mounting the router on a wall

 

or vertical surface.

 

 

IPSec Hardware

Only the Cisco 837 router supports this feature. The Hifn 7902 security

Accelerator

processor implements symmetric key encryption, public key

 

encryption, authentication, and data compression in hardware.

 

Algorithms implemented by the processor include Data Encryption

 

Standard (DES) and Triple DES (3DES); Secure Hash Algorithm

 

(SHA-1), Message Digest 5 (MD5), Hash-based Message

 

Authentication Code (HMAC); and Lempel-Ziv-Stac (LZS)

 

compression and Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression (MPPC).

 

 

Router Overview

The following section shows the front and back panels of the Cisco 837 router and the SOHO 97 router. The Cisco 837 router and the SOHO 97 router each have four Ethernet ports.

 

 

Cisco 837 Router and SOHO 97 Router Hardware Installation Guide

 

 

 

 

 

 

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