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Chapter 2 Installation
Verifying Your Installation
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Cisco 1711 and Cisco 1712 Security Access Routers Hardware Installation Guide
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Verifying Your Installation
You can verify that you have correctly installed the router by checking the
following LEDs:
• PWR (front panel)—On when power is being supplied to the router.
• OK (front panel)—On when the router software is loaded and functional.
Blinking means that the router is performing a power-on self-test (POST).
• WIC0/WIC1 OK (back panel)—On when a WIC is correctly installed in the
corresponding WIC slot.
• ETH ACT (front panel)—Blinking when there is network traffic on the local
10/100 Ethernet LAN.
• WIC0ACT or WIC1 ACT (front panel)—See Table 1-3.
• LINK (back panel)—On when the router is correctly connected to the local
Ethernet LAN through the 10/100 ETHERNET port.
• MOD OK (back panel)—On when the VPN hardware encryption module is
installed and recognized by IOS.
Optional Installation Steps
This section describes some installation steps that you might or might not use,
depending on your site and on how you are configuring the router. This section
describes the following procedures:
• Connecting a PC to the Router’s Console Port
• Connecting a Modem on the AUX Port
• Wall-Mounting
• Stacking the Router
• Unstacking the Router