Freeway® 3600 Hardware Installation Guide DC 900-2005C Protogate, Inc. 12225 World Trade Drive Suite R San Diego, CA 92128 USA Web: www.protogate.com Email: sales@protogate.
Freeway® 3600 Hardware Installation Guide: DC 900-2005C by Protogate, Inc. Published July 2003 Copyright © 2002, 2003 by Protogate, Inc. This Installation Guide covers the installation and configuration of the Freeway® 3600. The Freeway 3600 is a 6U-chassis version of the Freeway. The latest version of this document is always available, in a variety of formats and compression options, from the Protogate World Wide Web server (http://www.protogate.com/support/manuals).
Table of Contents Preface............................................................................................................................................................................5 Purpose of Document ............................................................................................................................................5 Intended Audience......................................................................................................................................
List of Tables 1. Revision History .........................................................................................................................................................8 4-1. Freeway System Boot Parameters .........................................................................................................................21 4-2. Flags for Freeway Reset Action ............................................................................................................................
Preface Purpose of Document This document describes the hardware installation procedures for Protogate’s Freeway 3600 communications server. It is used in conjunction with the Freeway User’s Guide, which describes the software installation procedure. Intended Audience This document should be read by computer technicians who will be installing the Freeway communications server. System administrators and system integrators may also find it useful.
Preface Appendix B describes the LEDs on the Freeway 3600 front panel. Protogate References The following general product documentation list is provided to familiarize you with the available Protogate Freeway and embedded ICP products. Most of these documents are available on-line at Protogate’s web site (http://www.protogate.com/).
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Preface Revision Release Date Description DC 900-2005PRELIM-A January 2002 Initial Release (Preliminary) DC 900-2005B May 2003 Minor formatting changes DC 900-2005C July 2003 Updated Chapter 4 Customer Support If you are having trouble with any Protogate product, call us at 1-858-451-0865 (U.S.) Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific time. You can also fax your questions to us at (858) 451-2865 or (877) 473-0190 any time.
Chapter 1. Safety Precautions 1.1. English -- Safety Precautions Be sure to take the following safety precautions during installation and maintenance of the Freeway communications server: • Observe the warnings and directions printed on the Freeway server and its associated equipment. • Check the electrical rating label on the Freeway chassis. Be sure that the voltage and frequency of your power source match this rating. • The Freeway server must be plugged into a grounded, three-wire power outlet.
Chapter 1. Safety Precautions • N’utiliser des rallonges, fils électriques ou parasurtenseurs qu’aux normes appropriées. • Afin de refroidir correctement le serveur Freeway, utiliser seulement celui-ci avec la housse en place. Ne pas couvrir ou bloquer les ouvertures du châssis Freeway. Ne pas placer l’appareil Freeway près d’une source de chaleur. • Ne pas insérer d’objets par les ouvertures du châssis Freeway. Ceci risquerait de provoquer un court-circuit résultant à une décharge ou un incendie.
Chapter 1. Safety Precautions • Entfernen Sie immer das Freeway Stromkabel von der Stromquelle, bevor Sie die oberen oder unteren Deckel zur Wartung abnehmen. 1.4.
Chapter 2. Getting Started This manual describes how to install the Freeway 3600 hardware and configure the boot parameters. The following is a summary of the complete installation procedure: 1. Install the hardware as described in Chapter 3 of this manual. 2. Install the software onto the boot server as described in the Freeway User’s Guide. 3. If you are using the boot parameter initialization disk, configure the boot parameters as described in Chapter 4 of this manual. 4.
Chapter 3. Hardware Installation 3.1. Overview This chapter describes how to set up the Freeway communications server and connect it to the network. 1. Review the safety guidelines in the "Safety Precautions" section in Chapter 1. 2. Place your Freeway in the selected location. It can be installed in any standard 19-inch rack. It can also be set on a table top where it will occupy about three square feet.
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Chapter 3. Hardware Installation Figure 3-1. Front View, Freeway 3600 (full-width door not shown) 6. Familiarize yourself with the Freeway’s back panel. Figure 3-2 shows the back panel of the Freeway 3600. That figure shows a Freeway 3600 with several four-port or eight-port ICP2432 boards installed. Your Freeway 3600 may have either a 2-port ICP board, a secondary ethernet, or a metal plate installed in place of the ICP boards shown.
Chapter 3. Hardware Installation Figure 3-2. Rear View, Freeway 3600 (Redundant Power Supply Configuration) 7. Make sure that the Freeway 3600 is powered off, then make the LAN connections. The Freeway’s CPU board has an RJ-45 connector for twisted-pair cable complying with the 10/100BaseT specification. CautionAlert your system administrator before making connections to your LAN. To avoid a disruption of service on your LAN, carefully plan how you will make the connections.
Chapter 3. Hardware Installation Power off Freeway completelyWe recommend that you power off the Freeway server and modem during cable installation and removal. This will prevent damage to an ICP due to electrical discharge as contact is made or broken. Figure 3-2 shows an example Freeway 3600 hardware configuration. The Freeway 3600 has sixteen PCI slots, which can be used either by ICP2432 boards or by optional secondary Ethernet Network Interface (NIC) Cards.
Chapter 4. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Initialization Diskette This chapter describes how to use a boot parameter initialization diskette to configure the boot parameters and boot your Freeway server. You can boot Freeway from a boot server attached to your IP network or from Freeway’s hard or flash drive. 4.1. Assumptions If you are booting from a boot server, it is assumed that: 1. You have performed the hardware installation procedures described in Chapter 3. 2.
Chapter 4. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Initialization Diskette 4.2. Configuration Procedure The procedure for configuring the Freeway system boot parameters is the same for UNIX, VMS, and Windows NT systems. Freeway obtains the boot parameters from local non-volatile memory during system boot. Therefore, when you configure the boot parameters in the following steps, all applicable parameters must be configured.
Chapter 4. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Initialization Diskette Configuration_File_Name Secondary_Net_Interface Gateway_Inet_Address : bootcfg.pci : : Table 4-1. Freeway System Boot Parameters Boot Parameter Description Boot Device To boot over Ethernet from the boot server using the primary Ethernet (on the CPU board), set the boot device to fei or fei0. To boot over Ethernet from the boot server using the secondary Ethernet board, set the boot device to fei1.
Chapter 4. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Initialization Diskette Boot Parameter Description Boot Server Name Enter the name assigned by the system administrator for the boot server. Optionally, you can clear this field and the software will assign the default name "bootserver." If you are booting from the local disk, this parameter is ignored.
Chapter 4. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Initialization Diskette 2. Use the blank form in Figure 4-2 to write down your boot parameter configurations for future reference. Figure 4-2.
Chapter 4. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Initialization Diskette 5. After the Freeway boots successfully, store the boot initialization diskette. It can be used to re-set exactly the same boot parameters again, either on the same Freeway or any other Freeway system.
Chapter 5. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Local Console This chapter describes how to use a local console to configure the boot parameters and boot your Freeway. You can boot Freeway from a boot server attached to your IP network or from Freeway’s hard or flash drive. 5.1. Assumptions If you are booting from a boot server, it is assumed that: 1. You have performed the hardware installation procedures described in Chapter 3. 2.
Chapter 5. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Local Console 5.2. Configuration Procedure The procedure for configuring the Freeway system boot parameters is the same for UNIX, VMS, and Windows NT systems. Freeway obtains the boot parameters from local non-volatile memory during system boot. Therefore, when you configure the boot parameters in the following steps, all applicable parameters must be configured. 1. Connect a system console to your Freeway 3600.
Chapter 5. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Local Console 4. When prompted on the console screen, press within 7 seconds to prevent the autoboot attempt. The Freeway Boot System Main Menu shown in Figure 5-1 appears. Note: The Freeway Boot System Main Menu is only accessible using the local console connected to the rear of the Freeway unit.
Chapter 5. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Local Console FTP Password Flags Freeway Server Name Freeway Inet Address Freeway Subnet Mask Boot Server Name Boot Server Inet Address System Boot Directory System Boot File Name Configuration File Name Secondary Net Interface Gateway Inet Address : : : : : : : : : : : : password 0 freeway1 207.67.135.224 ffffff00 bootmaster 207.67.135.198 /usr/local/freeway/boot fw486 bootcfg.pci 6. Configure the boot parameters as described in Table 4-1. 7.
Chapter 5. Configuring the Boot Parameters Using the Local Console 10. Use the blank form in Figure 5-3 to write down your boot parameter configurations for future reference. Figure 5-3.
Appendix A. Electrical Interfaces Table A-1 shows the commonly used electrical interfaces for WAN connections. Each link in a 2-port or 4-port ICP can be individually configured to EIA-232, EIA-449, EIA-530, or V.35. The 8-port ICP provides EIA-232 only. If you select another value for an 8-port board, it will be ignored. Note: The Freeway is always Data Terminal Equipment (DTE), while modems are Data Communications Equipment (DCE). Table A-1.
Appendix A. Electrical Interfaces Signal Name EIA-232 EIA-530 EIA-449 V.
Appendix B. Freeway 3600 LED Panel The front panel of the Freeway 3600, shown in Figure B-1, includes several LEDs to indicate the status of various system functions such as the power status and hard disk drive activity. These LEDs are described in this appendix. Figure B-1. Freeway 3600 Front Panel Power LED This LED shows whether the system is powered-on.
Index A Electrical Interfaces, 30 Ethernet, 15, 21 G Acronyms ICP (Intelligent Communications Processor) Getting Started, 13 (See ICP) IP (Internet Protocol) (See IP) WAN (Wide Area Network) (See WAN) Audience, 5 H Hardware Installation, 14 B I boot configuration file, 21 Boot flags, 22 bootparm.
R V Reference documents, 6 V.
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