GE D.20 RIO Hardware User Manual

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CHAPTER 4: SETTING UP THE D.20 RIO D.20 RIO CONFIGURATION UTILITYD.20 RIO - HARDWARE USER’S MANUAL GE Information 41Administrator groupusersAllows 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 avoidswarning messages regarding expired passwords.Configure network settingsThe Network Settings menu includes optional settings for the D.20 RIO network interface.NOTEThe 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 isenabled, so that the D.20 RIO can be pinged on any interface, but ICMP echo can bedisabled 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 RIOand only contain alphanumeric characters (– [hyphen] is supported).Configure network interfacesThe Configure Network Interfaces menu includes settings for the D.20 RIO’s networkconnections (NET1, NET2, and Enable Lan Redundancy).NOTEThe 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 gatewayaddress.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 dynamicallyassigned IP address.NOTEIf dynamic addressing is to be used in a system that supports D.20 RIO redundancy, youmust 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 asswitches), there is no need to configure a VLAN on your D.20 RIO device. Some advancedusers may opt to configure a VLAN on their D.20 RIO if they would like to improve trafficprioritization 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 datatransmitted from it and you can reduce the amount of extraneous information the D.20RIO 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. NET1is 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 otherdata transmitted on the interface.