Allied Telesis AR400 Series Router - Manual (Page 7)

Chapter 1
Introduction
Introducing the AR400 Series Router
Congratulations on purchasing an AR400 Series router — the optimal solution
for your small or medium sized business.
This guide introduces the AR400 Series router and will guide you through the
most common uses and applications of your new router. Getting started will
not take long—many applications are set up in just a few minutes. If you have
any questions about the router, contact your authorised distributor or reseller.
Your AR400 Series router is supplied with default settings which allow you to
operate the router immediately, without any configuration. Even if this is all
you want to do, you should still gain access to the router configuration, if only
to change the manager password to prevent unauthorised access.
To change the switching configuration, and to take advantage of the advanced
routing features, you will need to enter detailed configuration. The router has
both a Command Line Interface (CLI) and a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for
configuration and management. Before you can use the GUI, you will need to
login to the router and use its CLI to allocate an IP address to at least one
interface.
Why Read this User Guide?
Before you use your router in a live network, please read this guide. The guide
tells you how to access and use the Command Line Interface (CLI) to configure
the router software, and how to access and use the router’s Graphical User
Interface (GUI). It then introduces a number of common router functions and
how to configure them using the CLI. For information on configuration using
the GUI, see the context-sensitive online GUI help. For more detailed
descriptions of all commands, display outputs, and background information,
see the AR400 Series Router Software Reference.
This user guide is organised into the following chapters:
■ Chapter 1, Introduction gives an overview of the router features and of the
documentation supplied with your router.