EMC CX300, CX500, CX700 manual Setting Up the Service Laptop, Physical Modem

Setting Up the Service Laptop

Setting Up the Service Laptop

The PPP-capable (Point-to-Point Protocol) service laptop can be any computer that satisfies the requirements described on the previous page.

The service laptop COM port modem type must be set to Dial-Up Networking Serial Cable between 2 PCs. This is the most flexible modem type, and allows either a NULL modem cable or actual modem to connect to the laptop and SP.

Physical Modem	If the laptop uses a physical modem, configure the modem for the
	line characteristics of the SP, as shown in Table 1.
Table 1	Modem Line Characteristics
	Line Characteristic	Setting
	Data bits	8
	Parity bits	None
	Stop bits	1
	Baud rate	115200 baud
	The selected baud rate should be the highest speed at which the
	service laptop can reliably connect to the SPs.
What Next?	Depending on what operating system your service laptop is running,
	do one of the following:

For Windows 2000 systems - Refer to Setting Up the Dial-Up PPP

Support (Windows 2000 Environment) on page 6 and then, Setting Up

Dial-Up Networking (Windows 2000 Environment) on page 7.

For Windows NT® systems - Refer to the next two sections, Setting Up the Dial-Up PPP Support (Windows NT 4.0 Environment) on page 9 and then, Setting Up Dial-Up Networking (Windows NT 4.0 Environment) on page 10.

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