HP 445 Create or Modify a Router Configuration, Shortest Path to a Functioning Configuration

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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