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Quick Setup
This guide walks you through the installation of your SnapGear
appliance. Installing your SnapGear appliance into a well planned
network is quick and easy. However, network planning and design is
outside the scope of this guide. Please take some time to plan your
network prior to installing your SnapGear appliance.
To add a SnapGear appliance to your local area network (LAN), the
basic steps are:
Unpack your SnapGear appliance
Set up a PC to connect to t
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STEP 1 Unpack the SnapGear appliance STEP 2 Set up a PC to connect to the SnapGear Management Console Check the following items were included with your SnapGear appliance: The SnapGear appliance ships with initial, static IP settings of: Power Adapter SnapGear CD IP address: 192.168.0.1 Ethernet straight through cable (blue) Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Ethernet crossover cable (either gray or red) Note: The Internet/WAN and DMZ interfaces are by default inactive, i.e. On
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STEP 3 Set up the SnapGear appliance’s password and LAN connection settings Launch Internet Explorer (or your preferred web browser) and navigate to 192.168.0.1. The SnapGear Management Console will display. Select Quick Setup Wizard from the center of the page. You will be prompted to log in. Enter the initial user name and password for your SnapGear appliance: User name: root Password: default Note: If you are unable to connect to the Management Console at Select Use the foll
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Hostname: You may change the name the SnapGear appliance knows itself by. This is not generally necessary. Note: This page will only display if you previously selected Manual configuration. Otherwise skip to the next step. Enter an IP address and Subnet mask for your SnapGear appliance’s LAN connection. You may choose to use the SnapGear appliance’s initial network settings if you are sure no other PC or network device already has the address of 192.168.0.1. Manual configuration:
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STEP 4 Set up the SnapGear appliance’s Internet STEP 5 Set up the PCs on your LAN to access the connection settings Internet First, attach your SnapGear appliance to your modem device or Internet If you haven’t already, connect your SnapGear appliance’s LAN Ethernet connection medium. If necessary, give the modem device some time to port directly to your LAN hub using the straight through Ethernet cable power up. (blue). To access the Internet, the PCs on your network must all be set up to
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Click Add Server and configure the DHCP server with the following Note: If you only have several PCs, we suggest manually setting up details: your network. If you have more PCs, enabling the SnapGear appliance’s DHCP server is more scalable. Gateway Address is the IP address of the SnapGear appliance’s LAN connection, or leave it blank. To manually set up each Windows PC on your network: DNS Address is the IP address of the SnapGear appliance’s LAN Click Start -> Settings
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Common VPN Scenarios Generally there are two common scenarios in which you will want to set up your SnapGear appliance(s): • LAN-to-LAN: Linking two branch offices across the Internet. For this case we recommend using IPSec. The SnapGear VPN can operate with both static and dynamic public (Internet) IP addresses. For the example below we assume SnapGear appliances are installed at either end, and both have a static public IP address, or one is static and one is dynamic. The example
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STEP 2 Add a New IPSec Connection STEP 4 Remote Endpoint Settings Select the Add New Tunnel tab at the top of the window. If you selected The remote party has a static IP address, enter the other SnapGear appliance's public (Internet) IP address in The remote party's IP address. If you selected The remote party has a dynamic IP address, enter snap@branch as the Required Endpoint ID. Note: Please note again that this example is not suitable for setting up a connection where both ends h
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STEP 6 Phase 2 Settings Remote Workstation to SnapGear VPN (PPTP) STEP 1 Enable PPTP Server Select PPTP VPN Server from the Networking menu. The table below describes the fields in the PPTP VPN Server Setup page and the options in enabling and configuring VPN access. Enable PPTP Check this box to enable the establishment of PPTP connections to your SnapGear appliance. IP Address(es) to Enter a range of free IP addresses on your Assign VPN Clients LAN to assign to the remote connecti
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As new VPN user accounts are added, they are displayed on the STEP 2 Add User Account(s) updated Account List. Once you have set up the VPN server, select Continue. To modify the password of an existing account, Select the account in the Account List then enter New Password and Confirm in the Delete or Change Password for the Selected Account field. Similarly to delete an existing account, Select the account in the Account List then check Delete in the Delete or Change Password for
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Enter the SnapGear appliance’s public (Internet) IP address in the Terms and Conditions SnapGear Warranty Destination Address and click Next. Select the Connection Availability that you require on the next window and click Next, which will display the final window in this wizard. Standard Warranty Choose a name for your new VPN connection, e.g. My Office VPN. SnapGear, Inc., its parent, affiliates and subsidiaries, (collectively, Your client machine should be connected to the Internet
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Extended Four Year Warranty Limitation of Liability If Purchaser buys Extended Warranty at time of purchase of the product or within thirty (30) days from date of original purchase, the period of No action, regardless of form, arising from this warranty may be brought warranty will be extended by three (3) additional years to a total of four by either party more than two (2) years after the cause of action has (4) years. occurred. Purchaser expressly agrees that SnapGear's liability, if
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GOVERNING LAW AND ATTORNEY’S FEES. This EULA is governed by the laws of the State of Utah, USA, excluding its SNAPGEAR END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT conflict of law rules. You agree that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is hereby excluded in its entirety and does not apply to this EULA. If you acquired this Software in a country outside of the United IMPORTANT States, that country’s laws may apply. In any action or suit to enforce any right or
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NOTES Contact Details USA Australia 7984 South Welby Park Drive 825 Stanley St Suite #101 Woolloongabba West Jordan, UT 84088 QLD 4102 USA Australia Phone +1 801 282 8492 Phone +61 7 3435 2888 Fax +1 801 282 8496 Fax +61 7 3891 3630 Product Registration For prompt product registration please go to the SnapGear website at: http://www.snapgear.com/registration.html You will require a current email address to register your product. 27 28 Part Number: 520072-00
