
Phihong USA Corporation • 47800 Fremont Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 • Tel: 1.510.445.0100 Fax: 1.510.445.1678
www.phihong.com or www.midspans.com
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Contents
1. Safety Procedures
1.1. General Precautions ............................................................................................................... 6
2. Midspan Hardware Setup
2.1. Physical Hardware Appearance ............................................................................................. 8
2.2. Powering Your Midspan ......................................................................................................... 9
2.3. Connecting Ethernet Cables ................................................................................................ 10
2.4. Connecting USB and Power Cables .................................................................................... 10
2.5. Powering Up ......................................................................................................................... 11
2.6. LED Indicators ...................................................................................................................... 11
2.7. Rack-Mounting Installation .................................................................................................. 12
2.8. Technical Specifications ...................................................................................................... 13
3. Phihong GUI and USB Driver Installation
3.1. PC-to-Midspan Connection via USB/RS232 ....................................................................... 15
3.2. USB Block Diagram ............................................................................................................. 16
4. Midspan GUI
4.1. GUI Main Window ................................................................................................................ 17
4.2. GUI System Control and Information ................................................................................... 18
4.3. GUI Port Description ............................................................................................................ 20
4.4. GUI Parametric Information ................................................................................................. 22
5. Midspan Troubleshooting .......................................................................................................... 23
6. Appendix
A. Optional RPS – option R ........................................................................................................ 24
B. Optional NIC Interface – option N
1. NIC Interface Setup .......................................................................................................... 25
2. Advanced Setup Options .................................................................................................. 27
3. Controller Setup ................................................................................................................ 28
3.1. System Administration ............................................................................................. 29
3.2. SNMP Settings ......................................................................................................... 33
4. DHCP Client – Dynamic and Static Mode Setup .............................................................. 36
5. Setup NIC Midspan with Phihong GUI ............................................................................. 37
C. SNMP MIB Controls ............................................................................................................... 39
D. SSL .......................................................................................................................................... 45
1. Getting Started ................................................................................................................... 45
2. Installing Cygwin ................................................................................................................ 45
3. Generating Security Certificates ........................................................................................ 49
4. Load Security Certificates .................................................................................................. 51
4.1 Load Certificates into Midspan SNMP Card .............................................................. 51
4.2 Load Certificates into Internet Explorer ...................................................................... 53
4.3 Load Certificates into Mozilla Firefox ......................................................................... 55
5. Enable SSL ........................................................................................................................ 57
6. Access Via SSL .................................................................................................................. 58
7. Troubleshooting ................................................................................................................. 59
7.1 Regenerating Root Certificates .................................................................................. 60
E. Frequently Asked Questions ................................................................................................... 52