Configuring your SmartNode
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SmartNode 4660 & 4670 User Manual
4 • SmartNode initial configuration
Configuring your SmartNode
Once you have logged in you can use the browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) to configure and man-
age your SmartNode. The information in this section is intended to introduce the configuration tools and get
you started. For more detailed information about configuring your SmartNode, please refer to the
SmartWare
Configuration Guide
available online at
www.patton.com/smartnode
.
You may find the following hints helpful when configuring your SmartNode:
Accessing the Internet
The SmartNode supports two types of WAN (Internet or corporate-Private) access:
•
DHCP (factory default)
•
Fixed IP address
To modify the WAN access configuration, go to the SmartNode Home page:
1.
In the configuration menu pane, click
IP/DNS.
In the
Interfaces
section, click on
eth0
. The Configuration
screen for the Ethernet port displays (
figure 11
).
The SmartNode immediately applies your changes whenever
you modify the configuration. However, your new settings ARE
NOT PERMANENTLY SAVED in non-volatile memory [RAM]. To
survive power failure or manual reload you must store your new
settings in non-volatile memory. To save your changes: return to
the home page and press the Save Current Configuration button.
For each box containing an “Apply” button, fill in the required fields
and press “apply” once. The settings are applied immediately after
the button is pressed. If there are several boxes with an “Apply” but-
ton on one page, fill in the information per box and press the button
for each box separately. This saves the new configuration parameters
in volatile memory (RAM) only.
The “alert” symbol shows you that somewhere a user input is missing
for correct functionality. In the case of the present WAN page, you
can ignore them, because the respective title bullet (“PPP over Ether-
net”) is not selected.
The “info” symbol denotes hints to ease configuration or to avoid pit-
falls. Read them whenever you encounter them!
