EMC CX500 Portable Media Storage User Manual


 
EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, and CX700 Initialization Guide
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Setting Up the Service Laptop
Setting Up the Service Laptop
The PPP-capable (Point-to-Point Protocol) service laptop can be any
computer that satisfies the requirements described on the previous
page.
The service laptop COM port modem type must be set to Dial-Up
Networking Serial Cable between 2 PCs. This is the most flexible
modem type, and allows either a NULL modem cable or actual
modem to connect to the laptop and SP.
Physical Modem
If the laptop uses a physical modem, configure the modem for the
line characteristics of the SP, as shown in Table 1.
Table 1 Modem Line Characteristics
The selected baud rate should be the highest speed at which the
service laptop can reliably connect to the SPs.
What Next? Depending on what operating system your service laptop is running,
do one of the following:
For Windows 2000 systems - Refer to Setting Up the Dial-Up PPP
Support (Windows 2000 Environment) on page 6 and then, Setting Up
Dial-Up Networking (Windows 2000 Environment) on page 7.
For Windows NT
®
systems - Refer to the next two sections, Setting
Up the Dial-Up PPP Support (Windows NT 4.0 Environment) on page 9
and then, Setting Up Dial-Up Networking (Windows NT 4.0
Environment) on page 10.
Line Characteristic Setting
Data bits 8
Parity bits None
Stop bits 1
Baud rate 115200 baud