Preface
Audience
This guide is intended for:
❒Network manager or administrator
❒Hardware installer
Overview of The Contents
This guide contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1, P550 Cajun Switch Overview — Provides an overview of your P550
switch and theory of operation.
Chapter 2, P220 Cajun Switch Family Overview — Provides an overview of your P220G or P220FE switch and theory of operation.
Chapter 3, Configuring the Cajun Switch — Explains how to perform the initial configuration of your switch, create users, and configure ports.
Chapter 4, Configuring IPX Routing — Explains how to configure IPX routing and interpret IPX statistics.
Chapter 5, Configuring IPX RIP Protocol — Explains how to configure IPX RIP.
Chapter 6, Configuring IPX SAP Protocol — Explains how to configure IPX SAP.
Chapter 7, Configuring IP Routing — Explains how to configure your switch for IP routing and interpret IP routing statistics.
Chapter 8, Configuring RIP Routing — Explains how to configure your switch for RIP routing.
Chapter 9, Configuring the OSPF Protocol — Explains how to configure Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) on your Cajun Switch. In addition, this chapter also provides information on OSPF statistical displays.
Chapter 10, Configuring AppleTalk — Explains how to configure AppleTalk parameters and view AppleTalk statistics.
Chapter 11, Monitoring and Configuring the Forwarding Cache (L3 Only) —
Explains how to interpret and monitor forwarding operations that occur in the address cache of the multilayer media modules.
Chapter 12, Using VLANs, Spanning Tree, and Hunt Groups — Provides detailed
information on how to optimize bandwidth usage on your network.
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