Netopia R2121 manual Chapter Console-based Management

Console-based Management 6-1

Chapter 6

Console-based Management

Console-based management is a menu-driven interface for the capabilities built in to the Netopia R2121. Console-based management provides access to a wide variety of features that the router supports. You can customize these features for your individual setup. This chapter describes how to access and navigate the console-based management screens.

This section covers the following topics:

■“Connecting through a Telnet session” on page 6-2

■“Connecting a local terminal console cable to your router” on page 6-3

■“Navigating through the console screens” on page 6-4

Console-based management screens contain seven entry points to the Netopia Router configuration and monitoring features. The entry points are displayed in the Main Menu shown below:

Netopia R2121 v4.3

Easy Setup...

WAN Configuration...

System Configuration...

Utilities & Diagnostics...

Statistics & Logs...

Quick Menus...

Quick View...

You always start from this main screen.

■The Easy Setup menus display and permit changing the values contained in the default Connection Profile you created when you ran the SmartStart Wizard for initial configuration. Experienced users can also use Easy Setup to initially configure the router directly through a console session without using SmartStart.

Easy Setup menus contain up to five descendant screens for viewing or altering these values. The number of screens depends on whether you have optional features installed.

■The WAN Configuration menu displays and permits changing your Connection Profile(s), creating or deleting additional Connection Profiles, and configuring or reconfiguring the manner in which you may be