Cabling And Computer Hardware Requirements; Computer Network Configuration Requirements; Internet Configuration Requirements - NETGEAR SRX5308 - ProSafe® Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall Reference Manual

• You can choose a variety of WAN options if the factory default settings are not suitable for
your installation. These options include enabling a WAN port to respond to a ping, and
setting MTU size, port speed, and upload bandwidth.
4. Prepare to physically connect the firewall to your cable or DSL modems and a computer.
Instructions for connecting the VPN firewall are in the ProSafe Gigabit Quad WAN SSL VPN
Firewall SRX5308 Installation Guide.

Cabling and Computer Hardware Requirements

For you to use the VPN firewall in your network, each computer must have an Ethernet network
interface card (NIC) installed and must be equipped with an Ethernet cable. If the computer will
connect to your network at 100 Mbps or higher speeds, you must use a Category 5 (Cat5) cable.

Computer Network Configuration Requirements

The VPN firewall integrates a Web Management Interface. To access the configuration screens on
the VPN firewall, your must use a Java-enabled Web browser that supports HTTP uploads such as
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later, Mozilla Firefox 3 or later, or Apple Safari 3 or later with
JavaScript, cookies, and SSL enabled. Free browsers are readily available for Windows,
Macintosh, and UNIX/Linux.
For the initial connection to the Internet and configuration of the VPN firewall, you must connect
a computer to the VPN firewall, and the computer must be configured to automatically get its
TCP/IP configuration from the VPN firewall via DHCP.
Note: For help with the DHCP configuration, see the
document that you can access from the link in
The cable or DSL modem broadband access device must provide a standard 10 Mbps (10BASE-T)
Ethernet interface.

Internet Configuration Requirements

Depending on how your ISP sets up your Internet accounts, you will need the following Internet
configuration information to connect VPN firewall to the Internet:
• Host and domain names
• One or more ISP login names and passwords
Network Planning for Multiple WAN Ports
ProSafe Gigabit Quad WAN SSL VPN Firewall SRX5308 Reference Manual
v1.0, April 2010
"TCP/IP Networking
Appendix E, "Related
Basics"
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