Cabling And Computer Hardware Requirements - NETGEAR ProSafe SRX5308 Reference Manual

ProSafe Gigabit Quad WAN SSL VPN Firewall SRX5308
2. Set up your accounts.
a. Obtain active Internet services such a DSL broadband accounts and locate the
Internet Service Provider (ISP) configuration information.
• In this manual, the WAN side of the network is presumed to be provisioned as
shown in the following figure, with two ISPs connected to the VPN firewall through
separate physical facilities.
• Each WAN port needs to be configured separately, whether you are using a
separate ISP for each WAN port or you are using the same ISP to route the traffic
of both WAN ports.
Customer premises
VPN
Firewall
Figure 182.
• If your ISP charges by the volume of data traffic each month, consider enabling
the VPN firewall's traffic meter to monitor or limit your traffic.
b. Contact a Dynamic DNS service and register FQDNs for one or both WAN ports.
3. Plan your network management approach.
• The VPN firewall is capable of being managed remotely, but this feature needs to be
enabled locally after each factory default reset.
NETGEAR strongly advises you to change the default management password to a
strong password before enabling remote management.
• 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 needs to have an Ethernet
network interface card (NIC) installed and needs to be equipped with an Ethernet cable. If the
computer will connect to your network at 100 Mbps or higher speeds, you need to use a
Category 5 (Cat5) cable.
Route diversity
WAN port 1 Physical facility 1
WAN port 2 Physical facility 2
Network Planning for Multiple WAN Ports
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ISP 1
Internet
ISP 2