Global Technology Associates GBWA200501-01 manual Physically Connecting Your GB-Ware Firewall

20 GB-Ware Firewall Product Guide

During installation, you chose the video or the serial console version of the GNAT Box runtime. These methods can be used during setup, or when you have direct physical access to the firewall, or as a failsafe if the network is down and you can no longer administer your firewall remotely. Addition- ally, you may choose to set up your firewall over a peer Ethernet connection using GBAdmin or a web user interface.

Note

You do not have to install separate GNAT Box runtimes to activate the GBAdmin or web user interfaces; they are included with the installation of a video or serial console runtime version. However, if you installed GB-Ware’s video runtime version, you will have to use the video console’s Setup Wizard before your firewall will allow you to connect any other way.

Note

If you installed the serial console version of the GB-Ware runtime, the video console connection mode may not be available. Conversely, if you installed the video console version of GB-Ware, the serial console version may not be available to you.

User Interface Name	Style
web	browser-contained HTML GUI appli-
	cation over Ethernet connection to a
	computer
GBAdmin	Windows-only GUI application over
	Ethernet connection to a computer
serial console	DOS-like text menus with keyboard
	commands over DB-9 serial con-
	nection to a computer
video console	DOS-like text menus with keyboard
	commands only using a monitor and
	keyboard connected directly to your
	firewall

Each style of user interface has unique requirements for physical setup before they can be used for firewall configuration.

Physically Connecting Your GB-Ware Firewall

Depending upon which user interface (UI) you choose to use for initial firewall configuration, you may need to attach different hardware to your GB-Ware firewall.