CHAPTER 4: SETTING UP THE D.20 RIO
D.20 RIO CONFIGURATION UTILITY
D.20 RIO - HARDWARE USER’S MANUAL
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Administrator group
users
Allows you to create administrator-level users (if you are using local authentication mode)
and to change details associated with existing administrator user accounts.
Before adding users, configure the time synchronization to the current time. This avoids
warning messages regarding expired passwords.
Configure network settings
The
Network Settings
menu includes optional settings for the D.20 RIO network interface.
NOTE
The D.20 RIO must be rebooted to activate changed network settings.
ICMP echo
You can disable ICMP echo to help with securing the D.20 RIO. By default ICMP echo is
enabled, so that the D.20 RIO can be pinged on any interface, but ICMP echo can be
disabled if required by the administrator.
Machine host name
Used to assign a host name to the D.20 RIO unit. The name must be unique to this D.20 RIO
and only contain alphanumeric characters (– [hyphen] is supported).
Configure network interfaces
The
Configure Network Interfaces
menu includes settings for the D.20 RIO’s network
connections (NET1, NET2, and Enable Lan Redundancy).
NOTE
The D.20 RIO must be rebooted to activate changed network settings.
Static IP address
Configures the D.20 RIO to use a manually defined IP address, subnet mask, and gateway
address.
Dynamic address
Configure the D.20 RIO to use network parameters that are provided by a DHCP server.
At the
D20RIO#>>
prompt, type the command
ifconfig
to determine the dynamically
assigned IP address.
NOTE
If dynamic addressing is to be used in a system that supports D.20 RIO redundancy, you
must ensure that a fixed IP address is allocated for each device.
VLAN
As long as the VLAN has been configured on your D400 and network hardware (such as
switches), there is no need to configure a VLAN on your D.20 RIO device. Some advanced
users may opt to configure a VLAN on their D.20 RIO if they would like to improve traffic
prioritization on the outgoing link.
It is common to use a VLAN when connecting D400 and D.20 RIO devices over a network.
By assigning your D.20 RIO to a VLAN, you can ensure higher prioritization for data
transmitted from it and you can reduce the amount of extraneous information the D.20
RIO receives from other devices on the network.
In Figure 9 on page 42, a VLAN has been created on the NET1 interface on the D400. NET1
is connected to a third party switch, which is also connected to another third party switch.
These connections are called the trunks, since they carry the VLAN data as well as all other
data transmitted on the interface.
