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Maestro — Branding Engine Quick Start Guide
Section 2 — Hardware Installation
Figure 34. 3COM OfficeConnect Gigabit VPN Firewall Ports
Connect the Deployment/Content Gateway PC, VPN Firewall and House
LAN as follows:
1.
Connect the House LAN to the VPN Firewall WAN 1 port with a CAT6
Ethernet cable.
2.
Attach the Gigabit USB NIC to a rear panel USB port on the
Deployment/Content Gateway PC.
Note
Actual network performance is limited by the USB bus speed and traffic on
the USB bus.
3.
Connect the Deployment/Content Gateway USB NIC to a VPN
Firewall LAN port with a CAT6 Ethernet cable.
Note
The default IP address of the 3COM VPN Firewall appliance is 192.168.1.1. It
is configured as a DHCP server and will assign a 192.168.1.x address to the
the USB NIC. If you desire a different subnet range for the VPN Firewall,
consult the 3COM OfficeConnect documentation for instructions on changing
the default IP address and DHCP address assignment range.
Consult the 3COM OfficeConnect VPN Firewall documentation for
instructions on configuring the LAN/DMZ ports, firewall settings and
other features of interest in the VPN Firewall appliance.
Once the LAN connections and firewall are properly configured as illus-
trated in
, the Content Gateway may be installed and accessed
from the branding element production LAN.
To install the Content Gateway do the following:
1.
On the Deployment/Content Gateway PC, create the folders in which
you wish to store branding content transferred from the branding
element production computers.
Note
Depending on the number and size of branding elements you anticipate
storing and deploying to Maestro channels, if using the Deployment PC as the
Content Gateway, you may wish to install a separate hard drive specifically for
this purpose.
The folder structure in which branding elements are stored on the Content
Gateway is not fixed; Any folder structure that allows for the logical orga-
nization of branding elements and makes it easy to transfer them from the