Specifications

Chapter 3: Configuring Equalizer Hardware
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The interfaces shown in the screen above are examples only; the interfaces displayed for your
system depend on your hardware configuration.
3. Press one or more arrow keys until you highlight External Ethernet interface; then press
Enter. The Equalizer Configuration Utility displays the Network Configuration window (see
Figure 14).
Figure14 EqualizerConfigurationUtility:NetworkConfiguration
4. In the Host field (required), enter the name for the Equalizer on your network. This can be the
system node name (such as “eq-ext”), or the fully qualified domain name (FQDN, such as
“eq-ext.customer.com”). If you supply the FQDN in the Host field, the Domain field will
automatically be filled in using the domain of the FQDN.
5. In the Domain field (required), enter the domain name for the Equalizer. (For example, for the
fully qualified domain name,
eq-ext.customer.com, you would enter “customer.com” in
the Domain field.
6. In the Gateway field (required), enter the IP address of the router on the external network. This
router is the gateway for all the packets Equalizer sends to the outside world through the
external network. For example, if your external network router is located at IP address
192.22.33.1, enter “192.22.33.1” in the Gateway field.
7. In the Name Server field, enter the IP address of the domain name server that Equalizer will
use. To indicate that no name server is available, leave the field blank (or, on the Equalizer 450
only, type
NONE).
8. If you will be using the external port (that is, using either a dual-network configuration for a
switch-based Equalizer or any configuration on a two-port Equalizer) you need to assign an IP
address to the external interface. In the IP address and Netmask fields, respectively, specify