About Connection and Login Methods
Issue 7 January 2005
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c. Click Proxies.
d. If Direct connection to the Internet is selected, no change is necessary; click
Cancel to exit.
e. If Direct connection to the Internet is not selected, you can:
- select it and click OK to exit
or,
- Leave it unselected and configure your browser to bypass the proxy server
whenever you are connected to the S8300 services port:
i. Select Manual Proxy Configuration and click View
ii. Type 192.11.13.6 in the Exceptions box (or in the No Proxy for:
box in later
versions of Netscape). If there are other entries in this box, add to the list of entries
and separate entries with a ";".
iii. Click OK to exit.
About connection methods
Connecting a laptop to services port of S8300
To connect your laptop directly to the S8300 media server
1. Make sure your laptop meets the hardware and software requirements.
2. Plug an Ethernet crossover cable (MDI to MDI-X) into the 10/100 BaseT Ethernet network
interface card (NIC) on your laptop.
- Crossover cables of various lengths are commercially available.
- See
Table 4
for pinout connections if needed. Crossover of the transmit and receive pairs
(as shown) is required.
Table 4: Crossover cable pinout chart
Pin to S8300
Services Port
Connects to
Pin to Laptop
Ethernet card
8
8
7
7
6
2
5
5
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