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Chapter 4

Configuring the GT 50

This chapter introduces the software tools available for configuring your
GT 50. It also briefly discusses the basic configuration of your GT 50 using the GT Setup Utility and provides a procedure for returning to your router's original default settings. It includes the following topics:

Configuration Tools

Installing the GT Setup Utility

Using the GT Setup Utility

Using Quick Config and the Command Line Interface

Returning to the Default Configuration

Configuration Tools

 Configure your GT 50 with one of the following tools:

Installing the GT Setup Utility

 To configure your GT 50 using the GT Setup Utility, you need to install the utility on your PC.

Requirements

To run the GT Setup Utility, you need a PC running either Microsoft® Windows(TM) 95 or Windows NT 4.0.

To install the GT Setup Utility . . .

1. Insert the CD that you received with your GT 50 into your PC's CD-ROM drive.
2. Select online_library.htm.
3. Select Product Library.
4. Select GT 50.
5. Select GT Setup.
6. In the Save As ... dialogue, select the location on your local (C:) drive where you want to save the Setup file (setup.exe).
7. Run the setup.exe file to install the GT Setup Utility. Setup.exe is a self-extracting file; it places the GT Setup Utility files in a folder that you choose.

8. Follow the instructions on the screens.
Note: If you select the Shortcut option, an icon is installed on your desktop. You may also choose to have the Setup Utility run when the installation finishes.

Using the GT Setup Utility

To use GT Setup Utility to configure your GT 50 . . .

1. Select the Setup Utility icon on your desktop.
2. On the opening screen, select Basic Configuration and click the Next button (at the bottom of the screen).
3. On the Router Type screen, select GT 50.
4. Proceed through the screens in the utility and set the parameters and options you need for your particular configuration.

Basic Configuration

 Allows you to set the basic parameters and options for an IP configuration.

The Basic Configuration allows you to set parameters and options for the following:

On each of the Basic Configuration screens, GT Setup Utility provides Help immediately when you select a particular parameter or option. On each screen, default settings are already set when appropriate. If you have no reason to change these preconfigured settings, OpenROUTE Networks recommends that you accept them.

When you get to the Configuration Finished screen, you have the option of stopping and saving the configuration you created or proceeding to set additional parameters and options in the Advanced Configuration.

Saving Your GT 50 Configuration . . .

You can save the configuration directly to your GT 50 or to a data file on your PC.

Using Quick Config and the Command Line Interface

You can use Telnet to communicate with your GT 50. Telnet is a protocol in the TCP/IP protocol suite that allows remote access and control of one host from another host.

Using Quick Config

To run Quick Config, follow these steps:

1. Run Telnet from your PC to the GT 50.
2. At the * prompt, enter config to display the Config> prompt. 
* config
Config>
3. Enter qconfig at the Config> prompt to begin Quick Config.
4. 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 GT 50. This documentation is available on the CD included in your GT 50 package (OpenROUTE Online Library) and also on the OpenROUTE Networks Web site at www.openroute.com.

For the procedure for accessing the documentation set on the OpenROUTE Networks Web site, see The GT 50 Documentation Set on page 24.

The GT 50 Documentation Set

The CD that you received with your GT 50 contains the full GT 50 documentation set in the OpenROUTE Online Library.

If you misplace your CD, you can get the full documentation set on the OpenROUTE Networks Web site (www.openroute.com). Do the following:

1. Select Support Services.
2. Select OpenROUTE Online Library.
3. Select Product Library.
4. Select GT 50. You now have access to an online version of this user guide, to the complete set of OpenROUTE software documentation, and also to the
GT Setup Utility.

Returning to the Default Configuration

 If you forget your GT 50 IP address and thus cannot communicate with your router, you can return your router to its original default configuration (including its preconfigured IP address of 192.168.1.1) by carrying out the following steps:

1. If your GT 50 is not already powered on, power it on. The router boots up and the LAN light on the front of the router should be on. If the LAN light is not on, go to Step 2. If it is on, go to Step 3.

2. If the LAN light is not on, check that your router is connected to your Ethernet Hub or PC. If the connection is OK, move the router's crossover switch on the router's back panel to the opposite position. The LAN light should come on. This indicates a valid Ethernet connection. Go to Step 3.

3. Turn the LAN light off and on three times by switching the crossover switch on the router's back panel. Do this as quickly as you can. (It takes about eight seconds for each transition.) You need to move the switch within four seconds after each LAN light transition. Move the switch again each time the LAN light changes. Step 3 takes about sixty seconds to complete.

Note: During Step 3, the WAN light on the front of the router blinks twice as you complete each LAN light transition successfully. If you do not see the WAN light blink, then you know you missed some timing and need to start over again. At the end of Step 3, after you have turned the LAN light off and on three times, the OK/LAN/WAN lights on the front of the router blink together in unison for 2-4 seconds as a final acknowledgement that you successfully reset the router back to factory defaults.

When you have completed this procedure successfully, the router restarts and is configured only with the factory defaults. It is now ready to be configured with the GT Setup Utility or the Command Line Interface (via Telnet).


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