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3 Configuring Equalizer Hardware
After you install the Equalizer hardware as shown in Chapter 2, “Installing Equalizer”, use the
procedures in this chapter to perform basic hardware and network configuration. This chapter
contains:
• “Setting Up a Terminal or Terminal Emulator for Equalizer” on page 21
• “Performing Basic Equalizer Configuration” on page 22
• “Managing Remote Access to the Equalizer” on page 27
• “Configuring DNS and Firewalls for Geographic Load Balancing” on page 29
• “Configuring Routing on Servers” on page 29
• “Configuring a Second Equalizer As a Backup (Failover)” on page 29
• “Testing Your Basic Configuration” on page 30
Setting Up a Terminal or Terminal Emulator for Equalizer
After the installation of the Equalizer hardware, you need to use a terminal or terminal emulator to
complete the hardware configuration.
Serial Connection
When you set up Equalizer for the first time, you must use a serial connection in order to configure
Equalizer’s network with the eqadmin interface. Connect the serial port on the Equalizer (see
Figure 6) to the serial port on a terminal, or any system (such as a Windows or Unix PC) running
terminal emulation software.
Configure your terminal or terminal emulator software to use the following settings:
• 9600 baud
•8 data bits
• no parity
• one stop bit
• VT100 terminal emulation
• ignore hang-ups (if supported); this allows a single terminal session to continue running even
if Equalizer restarts
On Windows systems, you can use the Windows built-in terminal emulator, HyperTerminal, or the
Tera Term Pro terminal emulator to log in to Equalizer over the serial port. On Unix systems, you
can use the cu(1) command or any other Unix serial communication program.