Port Translations - Alcatel Omni Switch/Router User Manual

The Switch Menu

Port Translations

The command allows you configure translations on a port-by-port basis. Its translation
options are similar to those for
tions to all ports for a particular media type,
specify.
To specify translation for a single port:
1. Start the
where
example, to set the translation for port 1 on slot 2, enter the following:
2. Something like the following screen displays, showing the current translation settings for
the port:
The top line of the display indicates the media type of the port as well as the slot number,
port number, service type, and service number. The next line,
framing type applied to this port through the
been defined through the Switch menu, then this field would read
3. The Translation Options section shows the six frame types for which you can set transla-
tion options. The frame type in the left column indicates the incoming frame, and the
frame type in the right column (after the
ure the outgoing frame type for each incoming frame.
Note that the default option is a question mark ( ). If you press
mation will be redisplayed
4. You change an outgoing frame type by entering its line number, an equal sign (=) and a
frame type indicator ( , , , or ). The frame type indicators represent the following
frames:
For example, if you wanted to translate incoming IPX SNAP frames to LLC frames, then
you would enter
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command by entering it at the prompt as shown:
is the board on which the port is located and
Ethernet II or Ethertype
SNAP
802.2 or LLC
Ethernet 802.3
, and . However, instead of applying transla-
applies translations only to the port you
command. If the framing type had
) indicates the outgoing frame. You can config-
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is the port number. For
, indicates the
.
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