Chapter 7

TCP/IP Network Characteristics

Overview

Introduction

This chapter describes the configuration characteristics for a TCP/IP network. To enable the access server to operate on a TCP/IP network, you need to:

1)Configure the Internet address and subnet mask.

2)Configure the TCP/IP characteristics, for example:

List of commonly used Internet hosts

List of gateway addresses

List of ARP entries

TCP keepalive timer

3)Configure domain name characteristics.

In addition, you can configure the access server to automatically learn IP information from other types of servers on the network.

In This Chapter

This chapter contains the following topics:

Configuring the Internet Address and Subnet Mask

Configuring Domain Name System (DNS) Characteristics

Configuring a List of Internet Gateway Addresses

Configuring a List of Internet ARP Entries

Displaying the Internet Counters

Setting the TCP Keepalive Timer

Learning IP Information From a BOOTP Server

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