Installation

Phase 3: Prepare the Router Hardware

D. Plug In and Verify the Router Hardware

When you power up a router that is in the factory default state1 (or if you clear it by using the Clear/Reset button combination--page 2-17), the router sends Bootp requests over all active ports for one minute. Depending on the response from the network, the router then does one of the following:

 

 

 

If the router does not receive a response from either a Quick Remote

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or Bootp source within approximately one minute of receiving

 

 

 

power or being cleared, it configures itself as a bridge and begins

 

 

 

bridging operations.

 

 

 

If the router receives a minimal configuration over a WAN link from

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a Quick Remote source, it boots itself with this configuration and

 

 

 

begins routing and bridging operation accordingly. (For information

 

 

 

on Quick Remote set-up and operation, refer to the User’s Guide

 

 

 

shipped with your router.)

 

 

 

If the router receives a reply from a Bootp server, it configures itself

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

with the intermediate configuration contained in the reply. The

 

 

 

router then attempts to download a full configuration from the TFTP

 

 

 

server indicated in the Bootp reply message. Following download of

 

 

 

the full configuration, the router then reboots itself and begins

 

 

 

routing and bridging in accord with the full configuration. (For

 

 

 

information on set-up and operation with a Bootp server, refer to the

 

 

 

User’s Guide shipped with your router.)

 

 

 

N o t e

When powered up in the factory default, the router, by default, begins

 

 

bridging on all ports if Smartboot does not elicit a configuration from a

 

 

remote source (described above). Thus, if the router is expected to use

 

 

Smartboot for configuration, but instead begins operating in the default

 

 

bridging mode due to some unforseen problem, there may be

 

 

unexpected effects on the adjacent networks. For this reason, it is

 

 

recommended that you attempt to identify potential network responses

 

 

to (unexpected) default bridging before powering up the router for the

 

 

first time (or clearing the router to the factory default).

 

 

 

 

 

1The router is shipped from Hewlett-Packard in the ‘‘factory default’’ configuration. Chang-

 

 

ing the configuration in any way and then rebooting the router replaces the factory default

 

 

with the new configuration. To return the router to its factory default, clear it by using the

 

 

Clear/Reset button combination described on page 2-17.

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