Chapter 2 - Quickstart Instructions
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Chapter 2 - Quickstart Instructions
This Quickstart chapter briefly discusses the major parameters that must be set in order to use
the 8 Port 10/100 RIOP as part of your VSR multigigabit switching router.
Detailed information on the meaning of the router’s parameters is provided in the Compa-
tiView Management Software Reference Guide and the Text-Based Configuration and
Command Line Management Reference Guide. You should use this list as a starting point to
look up more specific information in the other documents.
If you need more general information on IP, IPX, AppleTalk or wide area protocols, see the
Appendices in the CompatiView Management Software Reference Guide.
There are a number of parameter settings which are optional, in the sense that they are not
required for all installations. These settings are not covered in this chapter.
In this chapter:
CV = CompatiView
TB = Text-Based Configuration
Ethernet Interface Configuration
IP Protocol
Required for IP
These parameters set the basic address characteristics of the interface. They provide enough
information for another IP node to find the interface (such as a Telnet client), but not enough
information for routing to take place.
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IP address
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IP subnet mask
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IP broadcast address
CV: Use the TCP/IP Routing: Ethernet Dialog Box to set these parameters.
TB: Use the configure command and the IPAddress, SubnetMask, and IPBroadcast
keywords in the IP Ethernet 0 (and/or other port numbers you wish to configure) section.
Suggested for IP
These parameters help supply information about the segment that the interface is connected to.
With this information, routing can take place.
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Set IP RIP 1, IP RIP 2 or OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)
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IP static routes
CV: Use the TCP/IP Routing: Ethernet 0 Dialog Box to set RIP, and the IP Static Routing
Dialog Box (under Global/IP Static Routes) to set static routes. OSPF can only be configured
using text-based configuration.
TB: Use configure and set either the RIPVersion keyword or the OSPFEnabled keyword for
the IP Ethernet 0 (and/or other port numbers you wish to configure) section. Use edit config
and add static routes in the IP Static section.
