Logging In to the Server and Initializing WebFORCE Internet Gateway
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Logging In to the Server and Initializing WebFORCE Internet Gateway
The next step in installing WebFORCE Internet Gateway is to log in to the server and run
the
start-gateway
program, which prompts you for some information that is necessary to
configure your Internet gateway.
Take a moment to fill out this checklist so that you have ready all the information needed
by
start-gateway
. Fill in the middle column of values in Table 3-2 below.
Table 3-2
Checklist of Information Needed to Initialize the Gateway Server
Information
Value For Your Internet
Gateway Server
What It Is and Why It Is Needed
Hostname
Every system on the Internet 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
commercial servers, EDU for educational
servers, ORG for non-profit servers, and
geographic domains like portland.or.us
(Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.) and sf.ca.us
(San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) Domain
names are not case-sensitive, so com is the
same as com.
Your ISP may already have provided you
with a domain name. If you have not yet
contacted an ISP and obtained a domain
name, you can pick any domain name you
want for the time being, though you may
have to change it later.
Example:
freestuff.org
Example:
santa-cruz.ca.us
