Autonegotiating 10/100 Mb/S Ethernet Lan; Autosensing 10/100 Mb/S Ethernet Lan; Time And Date; Reset Button - Nortel BCM50a Configuration Manual

32 Chapter 1 Getting to know your BCM50a Integrated Router

Autonegotiating 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet LAN

The LAN interfaces automatically detect if they are on a 10 or a 100 Mb/s
Ethernet.

Autosensing 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet LAN

The LAN interfaces automatically adjust to either a crossover or straight through
Ethernet cable.

Time and date

Using the BCM50a Integrated Router, you can get the current time and date from
an external server when you turn on your BCM50a Integrated Router. You can
also set the time manually.

Reset button

There is a 'Cold Reset Router' button that is accessible from the Element Manager
Administration/Utilities/Reset page.Use this button to restore the factory default
password to setup and the IP address to 192.168.1.1, subnet mask 255.255.255.0,
and DHCP server enabled with a pool of 126 IP addresses starting at 192.168.1.2.

Nonphysical features

IPSec VPN capability

Establish Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnels to connect home or office
computers to your company network using data encryption and the Internet; thus
providing secure communications without the expense of leased site-to-site lines.
VPN is based on the IPSec standard and is fully interoperable with other
IPSec-based VPN products.

Nortel Contivity Client Termination

The BCM50a Integrated Router supports VPN connections from computers using
Nortel Contivity VPN Client 3.0, 5.01, 5.11, 6.01, 6.02, or 7.01 software.
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