SonicWALL manual Address Synchronization, 319

Address Synchronization

Address Synchronization

The SonicWALL should be fully operational at this time. The administrator is then prompted to provide an IP address for the SonicWALL:

•Any address may be set, regardless of the current IP address setting (i.e. the address may be set even if it is not currently at the default 192.168.168.168 setting, providing that only the LAN link on the SonicWALL security appliance is active).

•If the management workstation is statically or dynamically configured (with an existing lease) and the subnet is the same as that which was provided for the SonicWALL security appliance, no change will be made to the workstation’s IP settings.

•If the management workstation is statically or dynamically configured (with an existing lease) and the subnet is different from the SonicWALL security appliance's subnet, an IP address matching the subnet just assigned to the SonicWALL is bound as a secondary address to the workstation. For example, if the management workstation has a dynamically assigned IP address of 10.50.165.13, and the SonicWALL security appliance was configured to 11.1.1.1, SonicSetup binds the additional address of 11.1.1.254 to the management workstation. Management workstation IP address synchronization is performed by SonicSetup decrements (or increments, as needed) of the last octet assigned to the SonicWALL security appliance, and assigns the first available address to the management workstation; upon reboot or network card re-initialization, this additional binding is cleared:

Ethernet adapter intel:

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 08-00-46-A2-EB-4D

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 11.1.1.254

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.50.165.13

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.224

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.50.165.1

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.50.165.2

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.50.165.2 10.50.128.52

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, November 03, 1402 9:59:42 PM

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, November 04, 1402 5:59:42 AM

•A web-browser will be launched on the management workstation, and targets the management IP of the SonicWALL security appliance.

•The administrator can then log into, and configure the operational SonicWALL security appliance.

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