Chapter 2: What You Need To Start
Phone Service
If you get phone service with your data service, you need the following:
•A POTS splitter, or micro filter may be required; check with your service provider
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The POTS splitter is a device that separates data transmission from phone service. After installing the POTS splitter, connect separate jacks for data from your session and for phone service. Ensure that your service provider indicates which jacks are for data and which jacks are for phone service.
WHAT YOU NEED FROM YOUR SERVICE PROVIDER
This section lists the information you need to configure system settings and sessions for the modem. Contact your service provider for this information. Use the worksheets, provided in Appendix C on page 83, to record your configuration information. When you begin to configure the modem in Chapter 4 on page 17, the procedures refer you to the proper table for the configuration information that you recorded.
1System mode (WAN connection for the sessions between the modem and the service provider) utilizes Bridge/Router RFC 1483 protocol.
•Configure as a Bridge only, as a Router only, or as a Bridge and Router.
•Choose LLC or
•If Router, choose version of and direction for RIP (RIP1, RIP2, or RIP1 compatible).
•If Bridge, select whether or not to enable Spanning Tree.
2Session address for Ports 1 through 32 (WAN configuration):
•ATM VPI and ATM VCI (specified for each session)
•IP address specified for each session by the service provider
For more information about the configuration choices listed above, see Chapter 9, “Technical Reference” on page 61.
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