System and Profile Parameters
In addition to
Profiles and Connections
Profiles are either active or inactive. An active profile creates a virtual connection to the remote device associated with the profile. A virtual connection is a connection without physical channels. After creating a virtual connection, an
A physical connection is a dynamically created pipeline of packets from the Cisco 700 series router to a switch on the WAN. All connections are associated with the profile that defines the configuration of the connection.
Virtual and physical connections behave similarly; the difference is that physical connections forward packets to the WAN. Virtual connections monitor packet traffic on the LAN until a demand filter “sees” that a packet is destined for the WAN and initiates a call to the switch, opening the physical connection. Once the call is established, the virtual connection becomes an active physical connection, and the packets move through the pipeline.
System and Profile Parameters
The system is composed of both system mode parameters,
Router_name>
If you are in profile mode, the profile name appears on the prompt, separated from the system name by a colon (:). An example of the prompt is shown below:
Router_name:Profile>