RIVERBED MOBILE CONTROLLER TUTORIAL - GENERAL

Riverbed Mobile Controller and Client March 31, 2008 Introduction The Steelhead Mobile Controller is a centralized device located on your company’s core network. This device, in conjunction with a Steelhaed WAN Accelerator, will allow remote users in small offices to enjoy the benefits of WAN acceleration and optimization without having an additional hardware device installed on the client end. Users install an application called the “Steelhead Mobile Client” on their computers. This software simulated a full sized Steelhead device and will optimize and accelerate file (CIFS) and Exchange / MAPI traffic between it and tis Mobile Controller parent. Unlike its full blown hardware parent, the mobile client will not accelerate or optimize all TCP traffic. The traffic specifically optimized by the mobile controller is: HTTP, CIFS (file) and Exchange / MAPI. Future releases may inlcude support for SQL, FTP and other protocols. Before We Begin You will need several things before we begin the installation and configuration of the Steelhead Mobile client. • A static VPN connection to your company’s core network or a VPN client • The internal IP address of the Steelhead Mobile Controller • The internal IP address of your company’s DNS server • A link from your network administrator to download the Steelhead Mobile Client Let’s Get Started Because file and Exchange traffic are not available outside of the network, you must be ...