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Installing RIOS Filter Devices

  1. Devices running RIOS must have a management connection to an rWeb Server. Before installing your device, please make sure you have properly configured rWeb and have all of its relevant network information handy (IP address and net mask). In addition, you will need to make sure the following ports are unblocked, or the filter device will not start correctly:
  • UDP Destination Port 123 (NTP)- This is required for synching operations between the rWeb and filter device. By default, the filter device talks to two RioRey NTP Servers at 65.216.233.249 and 194.58.204.148 (this can be changed).
  • UDP Destination Port 61166 (Flow Sampling and Control)- This is how the rWeb and filter device monitor traffic and collect data.
  • UDP/TCP Destination Port 61167 (Filter List Data Exchange)- This is how rWeb and the filter device exchange information on IPs blocked by Clear Filter List (RIOS 5.6.0 or greater).
  • TCP Destination Port 8022 (Management Control)- This is how rWeb issues commands to the filter device.

The following devices support installation of RIOS. Click the link for your desired filter device specific installation instructions:

  1. For each device being installed, the instructions above will end with the device being added to rWeb and listed in the Adminstration->Devices section in the top right of rWeb's GUI. Verify that you see an entry for each device that you installed.
  2. Ensure each device has a valid loaded license. New hardware filter devices will ship with a temporary license, but if shipping delays are experienced it is possible it could be expired. New VM RIOS devices will start unlicensed and autogenerate a unique serial number, so you will need to communicate that to RioRey to receive a license (this is detailed in the links above).
  3. Ensure each device has access to valid NTP servers (ideally the same one rWeb is using). NTP time is critical for rWeb and RIOS filter devices, and filter devices won't enter normal operating mode until they have synchronized time.
  4. Once every filter device is added to rWeb, licensed, and has synchronized time settings, it should show under Device Administration with a 'Connection Status' of Connected.