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Chapter 2

Configuring Your Router

This chapter introduces the software tools available for configuring your GTX Series router. It includes the following topics.

Configuration Tools

Before Starting

Using QuickWeb

Using Quick Config and the Command Line Interface

Testing Your Connections

Configuration Tools

 You receive your GTX Series router with software already installed. The actual software installed depends on whether the software package that you purchased.

Your router comes with a preconfigured LAN IP address of 192.168.1.1 set to its fixed Ethernet port. 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.

You can use one of the following tools to configure your router:

Before Starting

 To configure your router for the first time, you need to ask your Internet Service Provider (ISP), your ISDN or Frame Relay provider, or your network administrator for the information that you need for your router's configuration. The following worksheets, found in Appendix D, help to identify the basic information you need for configuring your router.
Worksheet When needed? Information provided by . . .
IP Addressing

 Always

 Network administrator or ISP

Dialup PPP

 When using PPP over your WAN connection

 Network administrator or ISP

Frame Relay

 When using Frame Relay over your WAN connection

 Frame Relay provider

ISDN

 When using ISDN

 ISDN provider

Note: If you have the Office Plus software package on your router, you can also use IPX and AppleTalk networking protocols (either in addition to or instead of IP).

Using QuickWeb

 You can use QuickWeb, the configuration tool that comes as part of your router's software, to configure your router.

To run QuickWeb . . .

1. Launch your World Wide Web browser.

OpenROUTE Networks recommends that you use Internet Explorer 4.0 or later. (If you are using Nescape Navigator, use version 4.0 or later.)

2. Enter your router's preconfigured IP address 192.168.1.1 in the Location (URL) text box on your browser.

Note: 192.168.1.1 is the default IP address of your router's Ethernet interface. If you change the IP address of the Ethernet interface, you will need to use that new address to run QuickWeb in the future.

3. Press Enter to access the router and run Quick Web.

4. Proceed through the QuickWeb screens configuring whatever you need to for your router.

If you need any information on any of the router's parameters or options, check the Help available with QuickWeb.

5. When you finish configuring your router, restart the router for the configuration settings to take effect.

Using Quick Config and the Command Line Interface

 You can use a PC connected to the router's Console port to configure your router. The PC must be running a terminal emulation program.

Using a Terminal Emulator

If you are running Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, you can use the HyperTerminal application.

To set up HyperTerminal . . .

1. Click the Start button and select Programs, Accessories, and HyperTerminal.

2. In the HyperTerminal window, select HyperTerminal.

3. In the Connection description window, enter gt in the Name field and select any icon to represent your terminal emulation.

4. In the Connect to dialog screen, in the Connect using field, select the appropriate COM port to use, for example, COM1.

5. In the COM1 Properties screen, select the following settings:

a. Bits per second: 9600
b. Data bits: 8
c. Parity: None
d. Stop bits: 1
e. Flow control: None

Using Quick Config

 Quick Config presents a series of parameters for you to configure. You can either enter your own responses or accept the default settings.

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 GTX Series package (OpenROUTE Online Library) and also on the OpenROUTE Networks Web site at www.openroute.com.

Accessing the GTX Series Documentation Set

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

1. Click Support Services.

2. Click User Documentation.

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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