3Com WX3000 operation manual Telnetting to the Switching Engine

[device-ui-vty0] protocol inbound telnet

# Set the maximum number of lines the screen can contain to 30.

[device-ui-vty0] screen-length 30

# Set the maximum number of commands the history command buffer can store to 20.

[device-ui-vty0] history-command max-size 20

# Set the timeout time to 6 minutes.

[device-ui-vty0] idle-timeout 6

Telnetting to the Switching Engine

Telnetting to the Switching Engine from a Terminal

1)Assign an IP address to VLAN-interface 1 of the access control engine of the device (VLAN 1 is the

default VLAN of the access control engine).

zConnect the serial port of your PC/terminal to the console port of the device, as shown in Figure 3-4.

Figure 3-4Diagram for establishing connection to a console port

zLaunch a terminal emulation utility (such as Terminal in Windows 3.X or HyperTerminal in Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows NT/Windows 2000/Windows XP) on the PC terminal, with the baud rate set to 9,600 bps, data bits set to 8, parity check set to none, and flow control set to none.

zPower on the device and press Enter as prompted. The prompt (such as <device>) appears, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 3-5The terminal window

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