ZyXEL Communications P-312 Housing, Power Up Your Prestige, Initial Screen, Entering Password

P312 Broadband Security Gateway

♦9600 Baud.

♦No parity, 8 Data bits, 1 Stop bit, Flow Control set to None.

3.A cable/xDSL modem and an ISP account.

After the Prestige is properly set up, you can make future changes to the configuration through telnet connections.

2.4Housing

Your Prestige's ventilated housing has clip-out legs that fit snugly into grooves, enabling compact, sturdy stacking with airflow between routers. You should not stack more than 4 routers for maximum stability.

2.5Power Up Your Prestige

At this point, you should have connected the console port, the LAN port, the WAN port and the power port to the appropriate devices or lines. Plug the power adapter into a wall outlet. The Power LED should be on. The SYS LED will come on after the system tests are complete. The WAN LED and one of the LAN LEDs come on immediately after the SYS LED comes on, if connections have been made to the LAN and WAN ports.

Initial Screen

When you power on your Prestige, it performs several internal tests as well as line initialization. After the tests, the Prestige asks you to press [Enter] to continue, as shown.

Copyright (c) 1994 - 2000 ZyXEL Communications Corp. initialize ch =0, ethernet address: 00:a0:c5:41:51:61 initialize ch =1, ethernet address: 00:a0:c5:41:51:62 Press ENTER to continue...

Figure 2-3 Initial Screen

Entering Password

The login screen appears after you press [Enter], prompting you to enter the password, as shown below. For your first login, enter the default password 1234. As you type the password, the screen displays an (X) for each character you type.

Please note that if there is no activity for longer than 5 minutes after you log in, your Prestige will automatically log you out and will display a blank screen. If you see a blank screen, press [Enter] to bring up the login screen again.

2-4 Hardware Installation & Initial Setup