RuggedCom RX1100, RX1000 Setting Up And Administering The Router, Introduction, Access Methods

Chapter 1 – Setting Up And Administering The Router

Chapter 1 – Setting Up And Administering The Router

Introduction

This chapter familiarizes the user with the RuggedCom Serial Console interface, the RuggedRouter™ Setup script and signing on to the Web interface. This chapter describes the following procedures:

∙Running the Setup Script

∙Signing on the Web Interface

∙Signing on to the Command Prompt

∙Restoring the default configuration

Access Methods

You can access the router through the console, Ethernet ports, WAN ports and the modem port.

Accounts And Password Management

The router provides an “rrsetup” account which provides a shell that quickly configures such items as passwords, addresses, date/time and services offered by the router. It is very useful to sign-in to this shell first, harden the router, and configure network addresses in order that the router be reachable from the network through Web Management. The rrsetup password should be changed, recorded securely and restricted to qualified personnel.

The root account provides a superuser capability for SSH shell access and the Web server. The password should be changed, recorded securely and restricted to qualified personnel.

The root and rrsetup accounts may be also be managed through radius authentication.

The Web management agent can be accessed through the root account. It may also be accessed through a number of radius accounts via radius authentication. This offers the advantage of attributing actions in logs to the specific user, as opposed to the root user.

Default Configuration

Your RuggedRouter™ is shipped from the factory with the following defaults:

∙Ethernet ports are enabled and have an address of 192.168.X.1 where X is the port number,

∙WAN and modem ports are disabled,

∙IRIG-B output ports are disabled,

∙Setup account “rrsetup”, password “admin”,

∙Superuser account “root”, password “admin”,

∙SSH and Web Management interfaces are enabled by default. All other services (including Serial Protocol Server, DHCP server, NTP server, End to

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