The back side of the Ingate Firewall 1200
Power connection. Connection for the power cord.
On/Off button. Use this button to turn the firewall on and off.
Ethernet ports. Ethernet ports for connecting the firewall to the network. Use Ethernet cables only.
FD button. Press this button (a pencil or other thin device is needed) during boot to make the firewall erase the current password and enter wait mode. In this mode, it waits for a reconfiguration made by a magic ping or the installation program (see chapter 3, Installing Ingate Firewall). Before one of these is performed, no traffic will be let through the firewall.
The firewall logs when the FD button is pressed according to the Logclass for administration and configuration set on the Logging Configuration page under Logging.
The button must be pressed during the part of the boot sequence when the ALERT LED blinks. The LED goes out to indicate that the FD button was pressed.
This is how to perform a magic ping:
Find out the MAC address of the firewall (printed on the back of the firewall).
Add a static entry in your local ARP table (see chapter 3, Installing Ingate Firewall) consisting of the firewall's MAC address and the IP address it should have on eth0.
Ping this IP address to give the firewall its new IP address. You should receive a ping reply if the address distribution was successful.
This will not set any password. Set a password immediately via the installation program or the web user interface. When the IP address is set, the existing configuration will be applied and the firewall start working again.
RESET button. Press this button (a pencil or other thin device is needed) to reset the firewall.
Serial port. Serial port for connecting the firewall to a workstation. This is needed when installing the firewall (see also chapter 3, Installing Ingate Firewall).