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3The LMA automatically prompts you to enter ATM addresses for the ports that you have specified as IISP. These are ATM addresses of network devices that you want the IISP port to recognize for routing purposes. They are placed in the routing table of the port. You need to enter these addresses manually because the IISP protocol does not automatically recognize them. You can enter more than one address; press Enter to end the sequence of addresses.

***The following are addresses of ports you have defined as IISP. You may enter more than one address per port.

When you have finished press <Enter>:

ATM address for port <5.2> (19 bytes-When less: end with '.*'): 47.00.00.00.00.00.3e.00.00.b0.00.c0.da.69.00.c0.da.11.22

ATM address was set for port <5.2>

ATM address for port <5.2> (19 bytes-When less: end with '.*'): 47.00.00.00.00.00.3e.00.00.b0.00.00.00.00.c0.da.11.22.00

ATM address was set for port <5.2>

ATM address for port <5.2> (19 bytes-When less: end with '.*'):

4The LMA automatically prompts you for the NNI type of the ports that you have specified as IISP. Specify the NNI type as User or Network.

***The following is a profile of ports you have defined as Gateway: Profile of port <5.2> (U<ser>, N<etwork>): N

5Repeat until you have specified all the IISP ports.

LE Client Configuration Section This section prompts you for the LAN Emulation Client configuration. You give names to the ELANs that you want to be active in the network. In the Virtual Network Configuration section, you will assign Ethernet ports to the ELANs you have named in this section to create VLANs. Until then, the ELANs are considered potential ELANs.

You can enter the names of resident ELANs of the switch you are setting up and you can enter names of ELANs from other devices in the network. You can define any number of potential ELANs. To end the sequence, press Enter.

The names of the ELANs resident on a particular switch all have the form elanXXXX_n where “XXXX” is a number unique to the switch and “n” is

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