Installation

Phase 4: Initialize and Verify the Router

A. Create or Modify a Router Configuration

 

The Shortest Path to a Functioning Configuration

 

Configuring the router assigns values to the parameters that control its

 

networking operation. The router is shipped from the factory with

 

default configuration values. However, even this default state requires

 

you to provide additional values before the router can begin to function

 

in the network. Unless you are using Quick Remote or a Bootp server to

 

configure the router from the factory default, Hewlett-Packard recom-

 

mends that you use the Quick Configuration utility to enter as many of

 

these additional values as as you need. (In some cases, using Quick

 

Configuration may be all that you need to do for minimal operation.)

 

Then you can use the Configuration Editor, if necessary, to enter any

 

other values that may be needed or desirable.

 

For more information on configuration tools, refer to the following

 

overview.

 

 

N o t e

If any port has no network attached, the port’s Net Fail LED goes on

 

after the router starts. Remember to disable that port when you

 

configure the router. (For instructions, refer to “Interpreting LED Error

 

Patterns” on page 3-4).

 

Any configuration you create or modify will not be activated in the

 

router until you boot the router. The next subsection, ‘‘2. Boot the

 

Router’’ (page 1-30) describes this process.

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