Filter
Top Products
2-2 C
HAPTER
2: G
ETTING
S
TARTED
DUA1860-0AAA01
Introduction
This chapter describes setting up the bridge for the first time. If
you have not set up the bridge before, or are setting it up again
after initializing NVRAM, you should read this chapter.
The chapter contains the following information:
■
A general introduction to the VT100 Management Interface,
which is used to manage the bridge.
■
A description of how to configure a simple bridge that connects
up to four network segments. This configuration involves:
■
Logging on and off the bridge
■
Establishing operator accounts
■
Defining bridge information
■
Saving and making changes effective
■
Erasing all the changes
■
A descrption of how to assign an IP address to the bridge so that
the bridge can be managed remotely via Telnet. This involves:
■
Setting up IP addresses
■
Using Telnet for remote connections
■
Using the Packet Internet Groper (PING) program to test
connections
■
A description of how to configure the SNMP agent on the bridge
so that SNMP applications can obtain information about the
bridge. This involves:
■
Configuring the basic characteristics of each community and
globally enabling or disabling the Authentication Failure Trap
■
Enabling traps for individual communities and specifying the IP
addresses where the traps should be sent