Force10 Networks S2410s manual Audience, How to Use this Guide, About This Guide

Audience

This guide assumes you are knowledgeable in Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking technologies, that you have an understanding of the SFTOS software base and have read the appropriate specification for the relevant switch platform.

This document is primarily for system administrators configuring and operating a system using SFTOS software. It is intended to provide an understanding of the configuration options of SFTOS software.

In addition, software engineers who will be integrating SFTOS software into their router or switch product can benefit from a description of the configuration options.

How to Use this Guide

This guide is structured so that you can look up not only command syntax, but also how commands are related. Related commands are generally grouped together, and, in addition, some command statements contain links to descriptions of related commands.

While you can infer a lot about the use of a command from its syntax statement, you are better served to see if the SFTOS Configuration Guide (Version 2.4) uses the command, because you can learn more about the context of its use.

Regarding RFCs and MIBs (management information base files) supported on the S2410 switch, syntax statements in this guide and related instructions in the SFTOS Configuration Guide cite the relevant RFCs. Also, an appendix in that guide contains a list of the RFCs and MIBs.

This guide is structured in this sequence:

•New Features on page 3 is a quick way to access new and changed commands.

•Chapter 1, SFTOS Overview briefly introduces the S-Series hardware and SFTOS software.

•Chapter 2, Quick Start is an introduction to how to start and configure the S2410 using SFTOS software.

•Information on how this guide presents the CLI modes, syntax, conventions, and terminology is in Chapter 3, Using the Command Line Interface, on page 39.

•The SFTOS Web User Interface (Web UI) is introduced in Chapter 4, Using the Web User Interface.

•The CLI command syntax statements begin in Chapter 5, System Management Commands. Chapters 6 through 11 describe commands that manage the system, while the later chapters describe commands specific to particular networking protocols. Beginning with Version 2.3, the CLI syntax statements that are new or changed include a Command History table.

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