Allied Telesis AR400 Series Router - Manual (Page 23)

Chapter 3
Getting Started with the Graphical User
Interface (GUI)
This Chapter
This chapter describes how to access the router’s HTTP-based Graphical User
Interface (GUI), and provides basic information about using the GUI,
including:
■ About the GUI, what you can use the GUI to do, and how to navigate
within it
■ Supported browsers, and what you may need to configure on your
browser
■ How to connect the router to a PC and configure the router so you can
access the GUI, for the following scenarios:
• a PC directly connected to the router with an Ethernet card
• a PC in your LAN, in the same subnet as the router
• a PC in your LAN, in a different subnet to the router
■ How to use the context sensitive GUI help
■ How to change the manager account’s password
■ How to upgrade to a new GUI resource file
■ How to troubleshoot access to the GUI, and the router’s configuration
using the GUI.
About the GUI
The GUI is stored on the router in the form of a resource file, with file extension
rsc . Resource files use a fixed naming convention, which includes a product
code, a language code and a version code. For the AR450S, filenames are of the
form
d450se01.rsc . Resource files are model-specific, and the most recent
resource file will generally only be compatible with the most recent software
release.
If you change the GUI resource file’s name, the router will not recognise it as a valid file
and you will be unable to use it for configuration.