SMC Networks SMC8150L2 manual Line Commands Function Mode

4 Command Line Interface

The access mode shown in the following tables is indicated by these abbreviations:

ACL (Access Control List Configuration)	MST (Multiple Spanning Tree)
CM (Class Map Configuration)	NE (Normal Exec)
GC (Global Configuration)	PE (Privileged Exec)
IC (Interface Configuration)	PM (Policy Map Configuration)
LC (Line Configuration)	VC (VLAN Database Configuration)

Line Commands

You can access the onboard configuration program by attaching a VT100 compatible device to the server’s serial port. These commands are used to set communication parameters for the serial port or Telnet (i.e., a virtual terminal).

Table 4-5 Line Commands

Command	Function	Mode	Page
line	Identifies a specific line for configuration and starts the line	GC	4-11
	configuration mode
login	Enables password checking at login	LC	4-11
password	Specifies a password on a line	LC	4-12
timeout login	Sets the interval that the system waits for a user to log into the	LC	4-13
response	CLI
exec-timeout	Sets the interval that the command interpreter waits until user	LC	4-13
	input is detected
password-thresh	Sets the password intrusion threshold, which limits the number	LC	4-14
	of failed logon attempts
silent-time*	Sets the amount of time the management console is	LC	4-15
	inaccessible after the number of unsuccessful logon attempts
	exceeds the threshold set by the password-threshcommand
databits*	Sets the number of data bits per character that are interpreted	LC	4-15
	and generated by hardware
parity*	Defines the generation of a parity bit	LC	4-16
speed*	Sets the terminal baud rate	LC	4-17
stopbits*	Sets the number of the stop bits transmitted per byte	LC	4-17
disconnect	Terminates a line connection	PE	4-18
show line	Displays a terminal line's parameters	NE, PE	4-18

* These commands only apply to the serial port.

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