How To Use Quick Configuration

Operating Notes

Data Entry

When you move the cursor from one field to another, the data entry field changes to prompt you for the new data. When you type the new data, it appears in the data entry field, but does not appear in the corresponding field until you press [Return].

Saving vs. Saving and Rebooting

‘‘Saving’’ a new configuration holds that configuration in memory and displays the new settings in the Quick Configuration display (and in the Configuration Editor displays). However, because the router always uses the configuration with which it was last booted, the new configuration does not replace the previous configuration until you reboot the router. Thus:

1.If you save a configuration (by typing y at the ‘‘save and exit’’ prompt—page 3-9). . .

2. . . . but then choose not to reboot the router (by typing n at the ‘‘Reboot now (y/n)?’’ prompt—page 3-10)

Then the configuration changes are saved in memory, but are not implemented in the current configuration, unless you subsequently reboot the router in one of the following ways:

Re-enter the Quick Configuration utility, then exit as described under ‘‘To exit from the Quick Configuration utility and reboot the router’’ on page 3-9.

Use the Network Control Language Interpreter (NCL) Boot command.

Press the Reset button on the back of the router.

Cycle the power.

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