Network Configuration Scenarios

Network configuration scenarios

This document covers several network scenarios.  Use these examples to help guide your network planning.

Before you begin: Prior to configuring your server in any of these scenarios, activate Lotus Foundations with the provided activation key. If your configuration scenario supports internet connectivity, you may activate anytime. Remember, Lotus Foundations expires in 30 days without activation.

In this scenario, you would go to the Advanced Network Settings screen to change the IP address or the network mask of the local network interface or Lotus Foundations default route. Although you generally do not need to change these settings, you can still do so:
1.        In the Network Devices or Network Routes section of the Advanced Network Settings screen, click the appropriate action button.
2.        Depending on your choice, the Modify Route or the Network Settings screen is displayed. Refer to Reconfiguring Network Devices and Editing Network Routes earlier in this chapter for full descriptions of these two screens.
3.        Change the appropriate settings and click Save Changes.

If Lotus Foundations has automatically chosen the proper IP addresses, there is nothing else for you to change. If you want to change the Lotus Foundations-powered server’s local IP addresses, you can do so by clicking the edit button on the line describing the parameters for the Ethernet 0 interface.

The default route is automatically determined when Lotus Foundations dials in to the Internet. In this case, there should be no default route entry in the Routes Table.

Lotus Foundations auto-configures its parameters if the ISP uses DHCP as a means of automatic network configuration. In this case, there should be nothing for you to do on the Advanced Network Setup screen, although you can change the address of your local network interface if you want to do so.

If your ISP assigns a unique static IP address, network mask, and default route, Lotus Foundations discovers the proper default route, but does not know which IP address to select. Although Lotus Foundations finds the available address and establish a proper connection to the internet, you should change the IP address of your Internet interface to the address assigned by your ISP. You should do the same with the default route setting.

To change these settings:
1.        In the Network Devices section of the Advanced Network Settings screen, click the eth1 action button.
2.        The Network Settings screen is displayed. Enter the new IP address and click Save Changes.
3.        In the Network Routes section of the Advanced Network Settings screen, click the default action button which the last entry in the list.
4.        The Modify Route screen is displayed. Change the default route and click Save Changes.

Lotus Foundations can serve as a Windows NT style domain controller for all the computers running Windows on the network. As the domain controller, Lotus Foundations provides authentication services for the computers on the network. When this function is enabled, the Windows file server is set up as a domain controller, and a domain replaces the Windows workgroup.