Access The Gui When The Network Is Down - Cisco MARS Install And Setup Manual

Appendix B Troubleshooting

Access the GUI when the Network Is Down

While console connections enable you to perform basic network settings for an appliance, you must use
the GUI to perform the majority of the configuration for the appliance. If you cannot connect to the
appliance from hosts on your network, you can access the GUI using a computer by connecting a
crossover cable to one of the Ethernet ports in the appliance.
To access the GUI using a console connection, follow these steps:
With the appliance running, connect a Cat 5 crossover cable to your computer's Ethernet port.
Step 1
Connect the Cat 5 crossover cable to the MARS Appliance's eth1 port. See
Step 2
Descriptions—MARS 25R, 25, 55, 110R, 110, 210, GC2R, and GC2, page 1-4
Configure the computer's local TCP/IP settings to be on the same network as one of the Ethernet
Step 3
interfaces in the MARS Appliance. Pick an IP address other than the one used by the appliance on that
interface.
It is possible that you specified the interface address for eth1 when you configured the interfaces using
a console connection in
Specify the IP Address and Default Gateway for the Eth1 Interface, page
default setting for eth1 is 192.168.0.101.
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Specify the IP address and Default Gateway for the Eth0 Interface, page
Access the GUI when the Network Is Down
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