Cabletron Systems SmartCell 6A000 manual Console Help

Using the Console Switch Installation and Setup

As with the show command, each prompt provides you with a default. For example

SmartCell ZX # add laneclient

ClientNumber(3) : ￿accept the default

LanName(ELAN003) : My-elan￿call the ELAN something other than the default name

ServerType(LECS) :

ServerAddress() : 39:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:14:41:80:00:20:d4:14:41:80:01

IPAddress() : 122.44.212.17

NetMask(255.0.0.0) : 255.255.255.0

MTU(1516) :

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In the example￿￿￿￿above, some values are specified by taking the default, while others are explicitly entered.

Press the Esc key to back out of any command before you enter the last value.

2.5.2Console Help

The console provides several levels of help for console commands. For example, to list the switch-attributes that can be used with a particular operator, enter the word help (or ?) followed by the operator.

SmartCell ZX # help add

HELP ---- add

============================================================================

add	[ AlarmConf BUSELAN Community		ELAN	IISPRoute
	IPATMClient IPATMPVC	LANEClient	LECSAddress LECSELAN
	LECSELANLEC LECSTLVSET	LESELAN PVC		Route
	TrafficDescriptor TrapCommunity		UNIRoute WellKnownAddress ]
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To obtain an explanation of a command and its parameters, enter the word help (or ?) before the command.

SmartCell ZX # ? add laneclient

Create LANE Client

============================================================================

ClientNumber	Local Client Number			(0-127)
LanName	Name of	the	ELAN to	join
ServerType	Type of	LANE Server		[LECS, LES]
ServerAddress	ATM Address		of the LANE Server
IPAddress	IP Address of the Client
NetMask	IP Netmask of the Client
MTU	MTU for	the	Client [1516, 9234, NONE]
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While entering a command, you can obtain help about the current parameter by entering a question mark (?) at the prompt. For example

SmartCell ZX # add uniroute

PortNumber(A1) :B3

UNIATMAddress() : ?

ATM Address for the UNI route. 20 bytes

UNIATMAddress() :39:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:14:41:80:00:20:d4:14:41:80:00

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