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1.3. Target audience

The target audience for this document is:

• Field engineers

• Customers' technical personnel

1.4. Conventions

The following conventions may be used in this document:

• The menu items in graphical user interfaces are denoted as bolded italic font and the

sequence of mouse clicks, while configuring the devices in menus is separated with an

arrow. Example: “Click Tools Æ System log”.

• The console or command line output is printed with courier font and user input is printed

with bold courier font. Example:

[root@host]# date

Thu Oct 29 13:05:00 CET 2009

• The usernames and passwords are denoted with courier font.

• Parameter-value pairs are denoted with courier font.

• The placeholders for actual values are written between “<” and “>” mark.

For example, the <IP_address> would mean a place to write the actual IP address.

2. Pre-requisites

• It is assumed that the reader of this document has a basic knowledge of Linux and

Windows systems, IP networking, serial-connected devices and computers in general

• The root password of Arctic is known

• Arctic’s user’s manual is available

In addition, the following equipment is needed:

• A computer with a serial port (native rather than USB-to-serial)

• A cross-connected serial cable (Refer to Arctic’s and computer’s documentation)

• A cross-connected Ethernet cable

• A terminal emulation program (e.g. PuTTY in Windows)

• A TFTP server (e.g. tftpd32 http://tftpd32.jounin.net/

)

3. Instructions

3.1. Identifying the Arctic

The Arctic can be identified by:

• The sticker on the bottom of the Arctic

• From Configurator graphical user interface (Main screen

System)

• From command line (by command firmware).

3.1.1. Arctic Router

Visually one can also separate the Router from Gateway by counting the number of serial ports.

Arctic Router products have only one console serial port.