Connecting The Steelhead To Your Network - Riverbed SteelHead Manual De Instrucciones

Installing the SteelHead
Make sure the Console port settings are 9600, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, no flow control.
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Start your terminal emulation program (for example, HyperTerminal or Tera Term Pro).
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At the login prompt, type admin. The default password is password.
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The configuration wizard automatically starts when you log in to the SteelHead command-line
interface for the first time.
Follow the prompts to configure network and in-path interface settings for the SteelHead.
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Confirm your settings; then type exit to log out of the system.
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5. Connecting the SteelHead to Your Network

Make sure you use the correct cables to connect to your network:
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– Straight-through cables: Primary and LAN ports to LAN switch.
– Crossover cable: WAN port to WAN router.
Plug the straight-through cable into the Primary port of the SteelHead and the LAN switch. This can be
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any port on your LAN switch that is configured to connect to a host.
Identify the straight-through cable that connects your LAN switch to your WAN router; unplug the
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end connected to the WAN router.
Plug the straight-through cable that you disconnected from the WAN router into the LAN port of the
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SteelHead.
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