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ProSecure Unified Threat Management (UTM) Appliance
4. Prepare to connect the UTM physically to your cable or DSL modems and a computer.
Instructions for connecting the UTM are in the ProSecure Unified Threat Management UTM
Installation Guide.
Cabling and Computer Hardware Requirements
For you to use the UTM in your network, each computer needs to have an Ethernet network
interface card (NIC) installed and needs to be equipped with an Ethernet cable. If the
computer will connect to your network at 100 Mbps or higher speeds, you need to use a
Category 5 (Cat 5) cable.
Computer Network Configuration Requirements
The UTM integrates a web management interface. To access the configuration screens on
the UTM, you need to use a Java-enabled web browser that supports HTTP uploads such as
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later, Mozilla Firefox 3 or later, or Apple Safari 3 or later with
JavaScript and cookies, and you need to have SSL enabled. Free browsers are readily
available for Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX/Linux.
For the initial connection to the Internet and configuration of the UTM, you need to connect a
computer to the UTM, and the computer needs to be configured to get its TCP/IP
configuration automatically from the UTM through DHCP.
The cable or DSL modem broadband access device needs to provide a standard 10 Mbps
(10BASE-T) Ethernet interface.
Internet Configuration Requirements
Depending on how your ISP set up your Internet accounts, you will need the following
Internet configuration information to connect UTM to the Internet:
• Host and domain names
• One or more ISP login names and passwords
• ISP Domain Name Server (DNS) addresses
• One or more fixed IP addresses (also known as static IP addresses)
Where Do I Get the Internet Configuration Information?
There are several ways you can gather the required Internet connection information.
• Your ISPs provide all the information needed to connect to the Internet. If you cannot
locate this information, you can ask your ISP to provide you with it, or, if you have a
computer already connected using the active Internet access account, you can gather the
configuration information from that computer.
- For Windows 95/98/ME, open the Network Control Panel, select the TCP/IP entry for
the Ethernet adapter, and click Properties. Record all the settings for each tab.