User manual

- BaseWall VPN 6000 user manual -
settings. However, for a first install, we do not consider this a problem.
➔ Click “next”.
1.6.1 Setting up your LAN connection
The first step after starting the wizard is to set up your LAN (Local Area
Network) connection. This is the connection between the firewall and your local
network. As a firewall, the BaseWall VPN 6000 should serve as a buffer
between your Internet connections (WAN or Wide Area Network connections)
and your local network (or LAN).
The “First Install” wizard will allow you to enter network settings specific to
your local network. First we enter a label to use for the local network. Default
setting is “lan”, which seems sensible. In more complex network environments,
with more than one LAN you may opt to use a more descriptive name (like
“public lan” or “accounting lan” instead). In any case, make sure the names
you use are unique throughout your organization, to avoid confusion arising
from identical network names for different networks.
➔ Enter a network name for your local network
The next values to enter are an internal IP Address for the firewall (in the
context of the LAN) and a net mask. Together, the IP Address and the net mask
define a network address for the local network. In our example we use an IP
Address of 192.168.0.1, with a net mask of 24 (bits). A net mask of 24 (=3*8)
means that the first three numbers from the IP Address will be part of the
network address, so all addresses in the network start with 192.168.0. If you
Page 18 / 79