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
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| If the router does not receive a response from either a Quick Remote |
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| power or being cleared, it configures itself as a bridge and begins |
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| bridging operations. |
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| If the router receives a minimal configuration over a WAN link from |
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| a Quick Remote source, it boots itself with this configuration and |
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| begins routing and bridging operation accordingly. (For information |
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| on Quick Remote |
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| shipped with your router.) |
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| If the router receives a reply from a Bootp server, it configures itself |
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| with the intermediate configuration contained in the reply. The |
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| router then attempts to download a full configuration from the TFTP |
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| server indicated in the Bootp reply message. Following download of |
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| the full configuration, the router then reboots itself and begins |
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| routing and bridging in accord with the full configuration. (For |
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| information on |
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| User’s Guide shipped with your router.) |
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N o t e | When powered up in the factory default, the router, by default, begins | ||
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| bridging on all ports if Smartboot does not elicit a configuration from a | |
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| remote source (described above). Thus, if the router is expected to use | |
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| Smartboot for configuration, but instead begins operating in the default | |
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| bridging mode due to some unforseen problem, there may be | |
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| unexpected effects on the adjacent networks. For this reason, it is | |
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| recommended that you attempt to identify potential network responses | |
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| to (unexpected) default bridging before powering up the router for the | |
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| first time (or clearing the router to the factory default). | |
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| ing the configuration in any way and then rebooting the router replaces the factory default | |
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| with the new configuration. To return the router to its factory default, clear it by using the | |
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| Clear/Reset button combination described on page |