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Chapter 4

Configuring the Router

This chapter introduces the software tools available for configuring your GT900 Series router. It also provides a procedure for testing the results of your configuration. It includes the following topics:

Configuration Tools

Using Quick Config and the Command Line Interface

Accessing the GT900 Series Documentation Set

Testing Your Connections

Configuration Tools

Configure your router with one of the following tools:

Quick Configuration (Quick Config)

A question and answer script that lets you configure basic information. It is part of the Command Line Interface already installed on your router when you receive it.
See Using Quick Config and the Command Line Interface on page 25.
Command Line Interface (CLI)

Provides a series of processes that let you customize your router's configuration.
See Using Quick Config and the Command Line Interface on page 25.

Using Quick Config and the Command Line Interface

Your router comes with a preconfigured IP address (192.168.1.1) set to the ETH1 interface.

There are two ways to configure the router:

To use a PC connected to the router's ETH1 port, run Telnet from your PC to your router.
To use a PC connected to the router's Console port, the PC must be running a terminal emulation program. See Using a Terminal Emulator on page 8.

Using Quick Config

To run Quick Config, follow these steps.

: 1. At the * prompt, enter config to display the Config> prompt.
* config
Config>
: 2. Enter qconfig at the Config> prompt to begin Quick Config.
: 3. Proceed through the Quick Config questions to set (or change) the parameters you need for your particular configuration.

To exit Quick Config, type r for restart at any prompt and follow the queries until you type no and then q for quit. The router returns to the Config (only)> prompt or the Config> prompt.

Using the Command Line Interface

If you choose to use the Command Line Interface (CLI), you can get extensive documentation on the OpenROUTE software that runs on the router. This documentation is available on the CD included in your router's package (OpenROUTE Online Library) and also on the OpenROUTE Networks Web site at www.openroute.com. See Accessing the GT900 Series Documentation Set on page 26.

Accessing the GT900 Series Documentation Set

On the OpenROUTE Networks Web site (www.openroute.com),

1. Click Support Services.

2. Click User Documentation.

3. Click User Guides.

4. Click GT900 Series.

You now have access to an online version of this manual and also to the complete set of OpenROUTE software documentation.

Testing Your Connections

After you configure your router and link it to the Internet, you can test the connections.

: 1. Run your Internet browser (Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer).
: 2. Enter the following in the URL or Location box:
http://www.openroute.com
: 3. Press Enter.

If you access the OpenROUTE Networks Web site, your connections are working properly.

Congratulations!

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