HP 480 D. Plug In and Verify the Router Hardware, N o t e, Phase 3 Prepare the Router Hardware

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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