System information

VPN Concentrator Conﬁguration 137

The Quick Conﬁguration can be accomplished from the CLI, but the HTML version of the

concentrator manager provides a more intuitive tool for performing the essential conﬁguration

of the concentrator. The Quick Conﬁguration steps are as follows:

Step 1 CLI: Set the system time, date, and time zone.

Step 2 CLI: Enable network access for your web browser by setting the Private

interface’s IP address, subnet mask, speed, and duplex mode.

Step 3 Browser: Conﬁgure the Public interface and any other Ethernet or WAN

interfaces of the concentrator. To do that, you need to set the IP address,

subnet mask, speed, and duplex mode for each of these interfaces.

Step 4 Browser: Identify the system by supplying system name, date, time, DNS,

domain name, and default gateway.

Step 5 Browser: Select the tunneling protocol to use and the encryption options.

Step 6 Browser: Identify the method the concentrator is to use for assigning IP

addresses to clients as a tunnel is established.

Step 7 Browser: Select the type of user authentication to use, and provide the

identity of the authentication server. You can choose to authenticate from the

internal server, RADIUS, NT Domain, or SDI.

Step 8 (Optional) Browser: When using the internal authentication server, populate

the internal user database with group and user identities.

Step 9 (Optional) Browser: When using IPSec as the tunneling protocol, assign a

name and password to the IPSec tunnel group.

Step 10 (Optional, but recommended) Browser: Change the admin password for

security.

Step 11 Browser: Save the conﬁguration settings.

Quick Conﬁguration Using the CLI

The VPN 3000 Concentrator enters into Quick Conﬁguration mode the ﬁrst time it is powered

up. Quick Conﬁguration is a conﬁguration wizard that guides you through the initial conﬁguration

settings. To begin performing the 11 steps outlined above from the CLI, connect your console

to the concentrator and power on the concentrator. As the system boots, various information is

displayed on the console screen. After the system has performed the boot functions, you should

see the login prompt. When prompted, supply the default administrator login name of admin

and the default password, which is also admin. Note that the password is not displayed on the

console screen as you type it, as shown in the following CLI output.

Password:

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