Nortel Networks BMD00007 manual Contents

Contents

Preface 13

Who Should Use This Book 14

How This Book Is Organized 15

Typographic Conventions 16

How to Get Help 17

The Command Line Interface 19

Connecting to the Switch 20

Management Module Setup 20 Factory-Default vs. MM assigned IP Addresses 20 Default Gateway 21

Configuring management module for switch access 21 Connecting to the Switch via Telnet 23

Running Telnet 23 Establishing an SSH Connection 24

Running SSH 25 Accessing the Switch 26 Setup Versus CLI 28

Command Line History and Editing 29 Idle Timeout 29

First-Time Configuration 31

Using the Setup Utility 32

Information Needed For Setup 32

Starting Setup When You Log In 33

Stopping and Restarting Setup Manually 34

Stopping Setup 34

Restarting Setup 34

Setup Part 1: Basic System Configuration 34

Setup Part 2: Port Configuration 36

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