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Chapter 1

Introducing the GT900 Series

Your GT900 Series router is a fast, simple-to-use, and secure remote access router that lets PCs on your Ethernet local area network (LAN) access the Internet or another wide area network (WAN). It provides both dialup and leased line capability. It is an internetworking router that forwards (or routes) data along the most efficient network-to-network paths.

This chapter includes the following topics:

Hardware Capabilities

Software Capabilities

Hardware Capabilities

 Your remote access router has two LAN connectors that let you connect to two Ethernet LANs simultaneously.

It also has a universal WAN connector that lets you connect to the Internet or another wide area network (WAN). You can connect your router to a WAN using either

The following figures show how to use your router to connect your Ethernet LAN to the Internet or another WAN.

Note: If you need dialup ISDN services, consider one of the GT70 Series routers from OpenROUTE Networks.

Software Capabilities

 The software that comes with your router depends on the software package that you order. For example, the Enterprise set of software includes IP, IPX, and AppleTalk.

The basic software package that the router supports is the Internet Protocol (IP) set, which gives you the capability of communicating over LANs and WANs, including the Internet.

To use IP, you need IP network addresses. Your router comes with a preconfigured LAN IP address of 192.168.1.1 set to its ETH1 interface. If your Internet Service Provider (ISP) offers dynamic IP addressing, you can set up your router so that each time you dial into your ISP, the ISP assigns an IP address that is valid for that session. If your ISP does not provide dynamic IP addressing, you need a fixed IP address for your router. If there is a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server on your network, your router receives its IP address dynamically from the server.

Your ISP or network manager can supply you with IP network addresses and other information that you need, such as static routes or filters to be enabled. See Worksheets on page 37 for a listing of the information you need to configure your router.

You configure the router by using a command line interface, which includes a question and answer script called Quick Config.


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