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Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring Equalizer Hardware
Starting to Configure Equalizer
As Equalizer boots, the terminal displays a series of device probe and startup messages. Normally, you can ignore
these diagnostic messages. However, if you do not configure the terminal emulation software to ignore hang-ups, the
terminal session might exit twice during the boot process. If this happens, restart the terminal session.
To begin configuration, follow these steps:
1.
When the boot process is complete, press
2.
When the login prompt appears, type
3.
When the password prompt appears, enter the
launches the
Equalizer Configuration Utility
changing Equalizer configuration parameters.
4.
Do one of the following:
•
On an E250GX system, continue with "Configuring External and Internal Interfaces on E250GX" on
page 42.
•
On an E350GX, E450GX, and E650GX system, continue with "Configuring the Default VLAN on
E350/450/650GX" on page 43.
If the terminal display is not readable or not formatted properly, press
emulator is set for VT100 emulation. Start over at Step 2.
To select a menu item within the configuration utility, press one or more arrow keys until you highlight the desired
item. If the arrow keys do not operate within your terminal emulator, you can use
or
to select the previous menu item. Press the
Ctrl-p
Cancel) displayed at the bottom of the window. Then press
Configuring External and Internal Interfaces on E250GX
On an E250GX, Equalizer has two front panel ports. To configure the Hostname, Network Interfaces, Default
Router, and DNS on an E250GX, use the following steps. Even if you are using the E250GX in a single network
configuration, you need to enter information for both the external and internal (server) interfaces. See "Equalizer
E250GX Network Configuration" on page 29 for an overview of the network configurations supported on the
E250GX.
5.
In the Equalizer Configuration Menu window, select option 1,
the
Configure network interfaces
6.
Press one or more arrow keys until you highlight
Configuration Utility displays the Network Configuration window.
a.
In the
field (required), enter the name for the Equalizer on your network. This can be the system node
Host
name (such as "eq-ext"), or the fully qualified domain name (FQDN, such as
"eq-ext.customer.com"). If you supply the FQDN in the
filled in using the domain of the FQDN.
b.
In the
field (required), enter the domain name for the Equalizer. (For example, for the fully
Domain
qualified domain name,
c.
In the
field (required), enter the IP address of the router on the external network. This router is the
Gateway
gateway for all the packets Equalizer sends to the outside world through the external network. For example,
if your external network router is located at IP address
Gateway field.
d.
In the
Name Server
indicate that no name server is available, you can enter "
"
", which will disable DNS lookups on Equalizer.
0.0.0.0
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on the terminal keyboard to display the login prompt.
Enter
and press
eqadmin
eqadmin
, which provides a character-based interface for setting and
Tab
window:
External Ethernet interface
eq-ext.customer.com
field, enter the IP address of the domain name server that Equalizer will use. To
.
Enter
password and press
Enter
and make sure that your terminal
Esc
Ctrl-n
key to highlight one of the menu actions (such as Select or
to continue.
Enter
, and press
Interfaces
; then press
field, the
Host
Domain
, you would enter "customer.com" in the
, enter "
192.22.33.1
" or "
NONE
0.0.0.0
Equalizer Installation and Administration Guide
. Equalizer automatically
to select the next menu item
. Equalizer displays
Enter
. The Equalizer
Enter
field will automatically be
field.
Domain
" in the
192.22.33.1
"; we recommend you use
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