2. Getting started

Your SnapGear appliance provides a secure, simple gateway to connect PCs and other devices on your local network to the outside world. This chapter provides step-by-step instructions for connecting the SnapGear appliance to your LAN. The procedures in this section expand on the steps in the SnapGear Quick Install Guide, which you may prefer to use if you are in a hurry.

If you are connecting the SnapGear appliance to an established LAN, use a standard Ethernet cable to connect the SnapGear LAN port to a spare port on the network’s hub. If you are connecting your SnapGear appliance to a single PC, use the provided Ethernet crossover cable to interconnect them directly. In the case of the SnapGear LITE+ and LITE2+, use a standard Ethernet cable to connect any one of its four LAN switch ports to a single PC, or an Ethernet crossover cable to connect to another hub.

The SnapGear appliance comes with an in-built DHCP server that can automatically assign IP addresses to other devices on the network. If you have an existing network, you may already have an active DHCP server and the PCs and devices on the network may already have IP addresses assigned. To simplify the installation in existing networks, the SnapGear appliance ships without an initial IP address and without the DHCP server activated by default.

If your network does not have an active DHCP server, it is recommended that you take advantage of using the SnapGear appliance as a DHCP server and setup the PCs on your network to dynamically receive TCP/IP configuration information.

Static IP reset

Although it is not the default behaviour, it is also possible to boot the SnapGear appliance with an initial, static IP address of 192.168.0.1 (netmask 255.255.255.0). While the SnapGear appliance is running (i.e. System/TST/Heart Beat is blinking), press the black RESET button twice within 3 seconds.

Note that this will reset any existing configuration options back to their factory defaults. Additionally, your network must (at least initially) be on the 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 subnet, as per step 6 of New Networks.

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SnapGear 1.7.8 manual Getting started, Static IP reset