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Chapter 2. Installing 3Com VCX IP Telecommuting Module

•Connect the Telecommuting Module to your workstation with the enclosed serial cable.

•Plug in the power cord and turn the Telecommuting Module on.

•Wait while the Telecommuting Module boots up.

•Log on from your workstation.

•Run the installation program (see following instructions).

•Connect the network cables to the network interfaces.

•Conﬁgure the rest through a web browser.

Connect the Telecommuting Module to your workstation with the enclosed serial cable, plug in the power cord and turn the Telecommuting Module on. You will have to wait a few minutes while it boots up.

•If you use a Windows workstation, connect like this: Start Hyperterm. A Location dia- logue will show, asking for your telephone number and area. Click Cancel followed by Yes. Then you will be asked to make a new connection. Type a name for this connec- tion, select an icon and click OK. The Location dialogue will show again, so click Cancel followed by Yes.

Now you can select Connect using COM1 and click OK. A Port settings dialogue will show, where you select 19200 as Bits per second. Use the default conﬁguration for all other settings. Click OK and wait for a login prompt. (In some cases you have to press Return to get the login prompt.)

•If you use a Linux workstation, connect like this: Make sure that there is a symbolic link named /dev/modem which points to the serial port you connected the Telecommuting Module to. Connect using minicom with the bit rate 19200 bits/s, and wait for a login prompt.

Log on as the user admin. The ﬁrst time you log on, no password is required. You set the password when you run the installation script, which starts automatically when you have logged on.

Each network interface is marked with a name (1 and 2), which corresponds to a tab under Network Conﬁguration. All eth interfaces belong to ethernet cards and should only be connected using ethernet cables.

Decide which computer(s) are allowed to conﬁgure 3Com VCX IP Telecommuting Module and enter the name of the network interface to which they are connected, for example, eth0. You must use the physical device name (eth0 and eth1).

Enter the IP address of the Telecommuting Module on this interface and the network mask for the network.

A network mask can be written in two ways in 3Com VCX IP Telecommuting Module:

•The ﬁrst looks just like an IP address, for example 255.255.192.0 or 255.255.254.0.