Introduction; General Guidelines - Cabletron Systems SSIM-A2-01 Installation And User Manual

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Introduction

In the console configuration, port numbers are used to refer to ports, with the
ordinary Token Ring ports being numbered 1 to 20. Using the console, the ATM
port will appear as port 21 when located in the left hand slot, and as port 25 when
located in the right hand slot. The ATM ports can be configured just like the
ordinary switch ports. They will appear as additional ports on any configuration
panel where ports are listed.
As a significant difference from the ordinary Token Ring ports, the ATM ports can
work as trunk ports, which means that they can carry traffic belonging to all
possible 63 VLANs over the same physical cable connection. That is, each ATM
port is divided into virtual ATM ports (VAPs). In the default configuration an ATM
port will have one VAP in the default CRF. Assigning an ATM port to several
CRFs will create new VAPs, but there can be only one VAP per BRF/VLAN.
After a VAP has been established as described above, you can configure the VAP
from the Port Configuration menu. Manually added VAPs will have the same
settings as the default VAP, except that the ELAN name will be set to the name of
the CRF. Note that a BRF (VLAN) can only be connected to any ATM ELAN once
on the same ATM module. This means that if more than one CRF is attached to
ATM by the same ATM module, the CRFs must connect to different ELANs.

General Guidelines

To work within the console menus, follow these guidelines:
•
To select a menu item, use the arrow keys to move the "highlight" over the
selection, then press
•
If you need to specify additional information for any item—for example,
selecting Yes or No or supplying a value—a prompt appears on the screen. If
you want to exit the prompt without changing the value, press
•
In most cases, new values are saved when you select Return.
•
The term "More" means there is more information than currently displayed on
that screen. Selecting More and pressing
information. If the screen is a one-screen display, selecting More will update
the screen.
•
The term "Port" refers to the number of a specific port on a switch.
•
"Index" refers to the numerical order of a list.
•
To return to the main menu from any screen within the menus, press
Note that any changes made to the screen you were in are not saved. To return
to the greeting screen, press
SmartStack SSIM-A2-01/SSIM-A8-01
.
ENTER
from any screen.
CTRL-B
displays the next screen of
ENTER
.
ESC
CTRL-P.
Console Configuration