3Com 3CRWX120695A, 3CRWX440095A manual Text Entry, Conventions, MAC Address, Notation

CLI Conventions 23

„A vertical bar () separates mutually exclusive options within a list of possibilities. For example, you enter either enable or disable, not both, in the following command:

set port {enable disable} port-list

Text Entry	Unless otherwise indicated, the MSS CLI accepts standard ASCII
Conventions and	alphanumeric characters, except for tabs and spaces, and is
Allowed Characters	case-insensitive.
	The CLI has specific notation requirements for MAC addresses, IP
	addresses, and masks, and allows you to group usernames, MAC
	addresses, virtual LAN (VLAN) names, and ports in a single command.
	3Com recommends that you do not use the same name with different
	capitalizations for VLANs or access control lists (ACLs). For example, do
	not configure two separate VLANs with the names red and RED.
	The CLI does not support the use of special characters including the
	following in any named elements such as SSIDs and VLANs: ampersand
	(&), angle brackets (< >), number sign (#), question mark (?), or quotation
	marks (“”).
	In addition, the CLI does not support the use of international characters
	such as the accented É in DÉCOR.
MAC Address	MSS displays MAC addresses in hexadecimal numbers with a colon (:)
Notation	delimiter between bytes — for example, 00:01:02:1a:00:01. You can
	enter MAC addresses with either hyphen (-) or colon (:) delimiters, but
	colons are preferred.
	For shortcuts:
	„ You can exclude leading zeros when typing a MAC address. MSS
	displays of MAC addresses include all leading zeros.
	„ In some specified commands, you can use the single-asterisk (*)
	wildcard character to represent from 1 byte to 5 bytes of a MAC
	address. (For more information, see “MAC Address Globs” on
	page 25.)