Steelhead Appliance Installation and Configuration Guide
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Configuring In-Path Steelhead Appliances
Installing and Configuring the Steelhead Appliance
Configuring In-Path Steelhead Appliances
In a physical in-path deployment, the Steelhead appliance is physically in the direct path between clients
and servers. The clients and servers continue to see client and server IP addresses. Physical in-path
configurations are suitable for any location where the total bandwidth is within the limits of the installed
Steelhead appliance. For a detailed figure, see
“Choosing a Network Deployment” on page 49
For detailed information about in-path deployments, see the Steelhead Appliance Deployment Guide.
Avoiding Duplex Mismatch
Before you begin the configuration process, ensure that your LAN and WAN interfaces have the same
duplex settings.
The Steelhead appliance automatically negotiates duplex settings. If one end of the link is set to auto-
negotiate and the other end of the link is not set to auto-negotiate, the duplex settings on the network device
default to half-duplex. This duplex mismatch passes traffic, but it causes late collisions and results in
degraded optimization. To achieve maximum optimization set your network devices to 100 and full.
To avoid duplex mismatches, manually configure the duplex settings on your:
router
swtich
Steelhead appliance WAN interface
Steelhead appliance LAN interface
Steelhead appliance Primary interface
The following can be signs of a duplex mismatch:
You cannot connect to an attached device.
You can connect to a device when you choose auto-negotiation, but you cannot connect to that same
device when you manually set the speed or duplex.
Slow performance across the network.
For detailed information about checking for duplex mismatches, see
.
The Configuration Wizard
The configuration wizard automatically starts when you log into the CLI for the first time.
The following rules apply to the configuration wizard:
Press Enter to enter the default value.
Press '?' for help.
Press Ctrl-B to go back to the previous step.
If you quit the configuration wizard, you can restart it from the Steelhead CLI. You must be in configuration
mode to restart the configuration wizard.
To restart the configuration wizard
Enter the following set of commands at the system prompt: