Silicon Graphics WebFORCE, Installation Manual

Page 1: ...WebFORCE Internet Gateway Installation Guide Document Number 007 3316 002 ...

Page 2: ... this document by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subdivision c 1 ii of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 52 227 7013 and or in similar or successor clauses in the FAR or in the DOD or NASA FAR Supplement Unpublished rights reserved under the Copyright Laws of the United States Contractor manufacturer is Silicon Graphics Inc 2011 N Shoreli...

Page 3: ... May Provide 6 2 Connecting the Cables 7 Setting Up the Server 7 Connecting an IBM Compatible Personal Computer As the Serial Console 8 Connecting a Macintosh Computer as the Serial Console 9 Connecting Other Types of Workstations as the Serial Console 9 3 Setting Up the Terminal Emulator and Starting WebFORCE Internet Gateway 11 Types of Terminal Emulators 11 Configuring Your Terminal Emulator 12...

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Page 5: ...et Gateway Connection to the Internet 2 Figure 1 2 Basic Parts of the WebFORCE Internet Gateway Package 4 Figure 3 1 WebFORCE Internet Gateway Welcome Screen 23 Figure 3 2 Setup Tasks Icon 24 Figure 3 3 Connect to the Internet Easy Setup Icon 24 ...

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Page 7: ...ion Your ISP May Require 5 Table 1 2 Information Your ISP May Provide 6 Table 2 1 Serial Connector Pin and Signal Descriptions 9 Table 3 1 Terminal Emulator Settings 12 Table 3 2 Checklist of Information Needed to Initialize the Gateway Server 15 ...

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Page 9: ... Emulator and Starting WebFORCE Internet Gateway provides general instructions on configuring your personal computer or Macintosh computer so that you can communicate with the WebFORCE Internet Gateway server and specific steps to initialize and start the WebFORCE Internet Gateway Note If the network host you are going to use as your Internet gateway already has a monitor PC Macintosh or terminal ...

Page 10: ...Internet Gateway Installation Guide uses these conventions References to documents are in italics References to other chapters and sections within this guide are in quotation marks References to commands that you can enter at the shell prompt are in italics Input that you type literally is in bold For example To log in as root type root Names of IRIX reference manual pages are in the default font ...

Page 11: ...Internet Protocol TCP IP This means that the Internet Gateway system and its clients such as personal computers and workstations must also run the TCP IP stack so called because of its layered or stacked software architecture The Gateway and its clients must also be assigned an Internet address IP address which uniquely identifies each host on the Internet A specialized private or public agency kn...

Page 12: ...ORCE Internet Gateway connects a local area network to the Internet Figure 1 1 WebFORCE Internet Gateway Connection to the Internet Maci ntosh Sentr is650 Maci ntosh Sentr is650 Domain Internal interface External interface Internet ISP host Remote name server Phone line ISDN T1 etc ...

Page 13: ...sole to the server using serial cables The system console can be a character ASCII terminal an IBM compatible computer a Macintosh computer or another workstation If the server does have a graphics monitor refer to Using WebFORCE Internet Gateway From Your Web Browser on page 22 3 Configure the server so that you can access it over your local network with a World Wide Web browser such as NetscapeM...

Page 14: ... of the Internet Gateway Figure 1 2 Basic Parts of the WebFORCE Internet Gateway Package Silicon Graphics server Server Owner s Guide WebFORCE Internet Gateway Installation Guide IRIX software CDs Appropriate serial cable ...

Page 15: ... Server type for example Silicon Graphics Origin 200 server Type operating system IRIX UNIX Ethernet address Unique for each system on a network the Ethernet address of your server is the same as the serial number of the machine Both are imprinted on the rear of the machine and printed on the shipping label for the server One example is 08 00 69 08 19 24 You can also find the Ethernet address of t...

Page 16: ... modem IP address of your gateway Your ISP may assign an Internet protocol IP address to your gateway machine This address number is how other systems on both the Internet and on your local area network LAN identify your server The address is a series of numbers separated by decimal points for example 151 166 96 36 IP address of a name server This is the IP address of another machine probably loca...

Page 17: ...er s workstation Setting Up the Server Follow the instructions in the Silicon Graphics server owner s guide to unpack and set up the server Install any memory peripheral or other options shipped with the system and connect the power and network cables Then do the following If you are using a character ASCII terminal or another Silicon Graphics workstation as the serial console for your server foll...

Page 18: ... with the serial cable to connect to the PC compatible computer Otherwise contact your Silicon Graphics sales representative or locate a serial cable with the correct connectors for the server s serial port 1 and the PC s COM1 or COM2 port 2 Attach the PC s COM1 or COM2 port to port 1 of the Silicon Graphics server You can use either COM1 or COM2 on your personal computer Make a note of which COM ...

Page 19: ...he server Turn to Chapter 3 Setting Up the Terminal Emulator and Starting WebFORCE Internet Gateway Connecting Other Types of Workstations as the Serial Console If you have a workstation that was not manufactured by Silicon Graphics you can attach it to your WebFORCE Internet Gateway server in much the same way that you would attach a personal computer or Macintosh computer Because of the differen...

Page 20: ...r pins and signals on the server see your server owner s guide Once you have connected your workstation to the server you are ready to start the server and configure WebFORCE Internet Gateway Turn to Chapter 3 Setting Up the Terminal Emulator and Starting WebFORCE Internet Gateway ...

Page 21: ...e with the Internet Gateway server through a Macintosh or PC you need a terminal emulator Many operating systems such as Microsoft Windows ship with a terminal emulator package also known as modem or communications software Some examples of terminal emulator software include the following Term HyperTerm TERMINAL EXE Bitcom Procomm ZTerm SITcomm Macterm On UNIX based systems two common utilities ar...

Page 22: ...icated in Table 3 1 Be sure the terminal emulator software is configured to use the serial port on your computer to which you attached the serial cable Note which terminal type such as VT100 or ANSI you choose to emulate You will need this information when you log in to the server Other settings such as upload and download protocol initialization strings and file transfer settings do not matter fo...

Page 23: ... cables are correctly attached The 8 pin connector on the long serial cable must be in port 1 of the server Make sure you have configured the terminal emulator to use the correct serial port on your computer If you are using a character ASCII terminal make sure the baud rate setting is correct 9600 baud Also if the terminal has more than one connector on the back make sure you are using the correc...

Page 24: ...ing IRIX You should see messages similar to the following Starting up the system IRIX Release 6 5 IP22 Version 02111257 System V Copyright 1987 1998 Silicon Graphics Inc All Rights Reserved System is coming up IRIS login Once you see the IRIS login prompt you are ready to log in to the server and initialize WebFORCE Internet Gateway ...

Page 25: ...ernet needs a name The name can be any number or alphabetic character in the 7 bit ASCII character set and many non alphabetic characters Spaces control characters and characters used in internet addresses such as periods signs and exclamation points should not be used in the hostname Example donut 7 Domain name Every system on the Internet belongs to a domain Domains can include COM for commercia...

Page 26: ...viding networks into subnetworks The mask includes the network part of the local address and the subnet part which is taken from the host field of the address The mask can be specified as a single hexadecimal number with a leading 0x with a dot notation Internet address or with a pseudo network name listed in the network table networks 4 The mask contains 1 s for the bit positions in the 32 bit ad...

Page 27: ... and press Enter Be sure to use lowercase letters when entering the terminal type Like all UNIX operating systems IRIX is case sensitive so VT102 is not the same as vt102 You should now see the root shell prompt IRIS 1 You can now do one of the following Leave your terminal emulator session running and leave the serial cables connected from your client system system console to the gateway server Y...

Page 28: ...sing this terminal window you will configure your server to communicate with the Internet For this step you will use a Web browser on your PC compatible Macintosh or Indy computer Your computer will communicate with your server through an Ethernet cable The current configuration of your server is Hostname IRIS Domain name IP Address 192 0 2 1 Netmask 0xffffff00 You must change these factory settin...

Page 29: ...k Use an IP address that you obtained from your ISP as the IP address for the primary network interface Example 196 45 23 4 Enter the IP Address of the primary network interface 192 0 2 1 Enter the Internet address that your ISP provided for your gateway server and press Enter Note You cannot connect to either the Internet or your LAN using the default IP address of 192 0 2 1 This is a temporary a...

Page 30: ...anges in effect After your server reboots complete these steps 1 Open a Web browser on your computer 2 Open the URL http 151 166 96 36 2077 in the browser 3 Select Setup Tasks on the WebFORCE Internet Gateway Web page to continue connecting to the internet After your server reboots you can close this terminal window on your terminal or personal computer window Reboot server now y n To reboot the s...

Page 31: ...You should see lines similar to the following 151 166 96 20 PING Statistics 5 packets transmitted 5 packets received 0 packet loss round trip min avg max 1 1 1 ms This indicates a properly functioning connection between your gateway server and the other machine on your network If there is a network problem the ping command displays only the following line PING 151 166 96 20 151 166 96 20 56 data b...

Page 32: ...wser for example Netscape from a computer or workstation on your LAN You can run the Web browser from any computer or workstation that is on the same LAN as the Internet Gateway server For best results use Netscape Navigator 2 0 or later You can use other browsers but they must support HTML frames and fill out forms 3 Open the following uniform resource locator URL http server_ip_address 2077 In t...

Page 33: ...Using WebFORCE Internet Gateway From Your Web Browser 23 Figure 3 1 WebFORCE Internet Gateway Welcome Screen ...

Page 34: ... your browser is capable of using proxies make sure they are turned off In Netscape 4 x proxies are set in the Edit Preferences Advanced menu 4 Click the Setup Tools icon shown in Figure 3 2 to finish the WebFORCE Internet Gateway configuration You are then prompted for the administrative user ID and password that you have chosen Figure 3 2 Setup Tasks Icon 5 On the next screen select the icon or ...

Page 35: ...tion you can use this interface to easily perform many administrative tasks including Enable disable inetd services Configure DHCP Configure and administer mailing lists with majordomo support secure Netscape news and mail on your LAN configure sendmail and POP3 mail protocols integrate IRIX with networked PCs using samba administer ftp DNS NIS and other network services ...

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Page 37: ... a computer located between a local area network LAN and the Internet See also firewall intranet An internal or limited network that uses the basic technologies of the Internet including Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol TCP IP and World Wide Web servers and browsers See also local area network internet and Internet Internet The world wide network of computers communicating via Inter...

Page 38: ...stem perform system maintenance operate the system in PROM mode and display system error messages See also system console port system console port The serial port to which a system console is attached On Silicon Graphics workstations and servers this is the first serial port port 1 TCP IP Transmission control protocol used with the internet protocol See transmission control protocol transmission c...

Page 39: ...ulator 12 configuring terminal software 12 console 7 console cable 7 ct command 11 cu command 11 H hardware setup 7 I IBM PC 8 initialization 15 Internet 1 Internet backbone 1 Internet service provider 1 5 ISP 1 5 L logging in 15 M Macintosh 9 Macintosh cable 9 Macintosh connect 9 modem software 11 N Netscape 22 O other serial cables 9 ...

Page 40: ... 9 S serial cable 7 9 server access 13 server setup 7 start gateway program 15 system console 7 T TCP IP 1 terminal configuration 12 terminal emulator 11 Transport Control Protocol 1 W web browser 22 WebFORCE Internet Gateway 1 workstation 7 9 ...

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