Chapter 1: SmartSwitch Router Product Overview

tacacs

- Configure TACACS related parameters

vlan

- Configure VLAN-related parameters

Special configuration mode commands:

erase

- Erase configuration information

negate

- Negate a command or a group of commands

 

using line numbers

no

- Negate matching commands

save

- Save configuration information

search

- Look up a command in configuration

show

- Show configuration commands

 

 

To exit Configure mode and return to Enable mode, use one of the following commands:

Exit Configure mode.

exit

Ctrl+Z

Boot PROM Mode

If your SSR does not find a valid system image on the external PCMCIA flash, the system might enter programmable read-only memory (PROM) mode. You should then reboot the SSR at the boot PROM to restart the system. If the system fails to reboot successfully, please call Cabletron Systems Technical Support to resolve the problem.

To reboot the SSR from the ROM monitor mode, enter the following command.

Reboot in Boot PROM mode.

reboot

Disabling a Function or Feature

The CLI provides for an implicit negate. This allows for the “disabling” of a feature or function which has been “enabled”. Use the negate command on a specific line of the active configuration to “disable” a feature or function which has been enabled. For example, Spanning Tree Protocol is disabled by default. If after enabling Spanning Tree Protocol on the SmartSwitch Router, you want to disable STP, you must specify the negate command on the line of the active configuration containing the stp enable command.

Loading System Images and Configuration Files

The SSR contains an internal flash on the Control Module and an external PC flash. The internal flash contains the SSR boot image and user defined configuration files. An external PC flash contains the system image executed by the Control module. When an

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