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Cache Review Series - Quantex WebXL
Installation and Setup
The WebXL is packaged in a 2U 19" rack-mountable enclosure, with floppy
drive, power, and reset buttons hidden behind a key-locked panel for security.
It arrived with a cross-over cable, Setup Wizard floppy, and easy-to-read
10-page pamphlet illustrating cabling and set-by-step setup instructions.
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The Wizard is the easiest setup method: one HTML form accepts time zone, IP addresses, domain name, hostname, gateway, and forward proxy port. Click a button to generate a setup file, which you must awkwardly paste into your favorite text editor, then save to floppy with the designated filename autoload.nas. Just pop the floppy into the WebXL when it beeps during boot-up. We were up and running in under ten minutes. Alternatively, renumber a PC to match the WebXL's default address, connect the cross-over cable, and open the URL http://10.1.1.1:1959/appliance/config.html with a recent browser. We tried this with IE 4.01 and were prompted to install SP1; we wish required browsers had been shipped with the product. |
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The pamphlet describes Netscape and IE proxy configurations to test the WebXL. However, it refers the reader to online documentation for troubleshooting without providing a URL, and we found little documentation that would help correct initial connectivity problems (in our case, a transposed digit in an IP address). The only diagnostic tool included in the WebXL GUI is ping. |
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