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This guide provides information you need to use Enterprise OS software to operate and configure your bridge/router. This guide includes procedures for configuring your software for bridging, routing, and wide area protocols, according to your network needs.
Supported bridge/routers include:
If the information in the release notes shipped with your product differs from the information in this guide, follow the release notes.
Before you use the information in this guide, you must first install the bridge/router according to the hardware installation guide. You must then install and configure Enterprise OS software on the bridge/router. If you are upgrading, see Upgrading NETBuilder Family Software. For a new installation, see the appropriate guide for your platform listed in Table 1.
For a comprehensive description of Enterprise OS software commands, see Reference for Enterprise OS Software.
In this guide, the term bridge/router is used regardless of whether the NETBuilder system is configured as a bridge or a router or both.
This guide is intended for network administrators who:
This guide provides a comprehensive description of Enterprise OS configuration and operation. Most users do not need to read the entire guide.
All users should read the Configuring Basic Ports and Paths chapter. Read other chapters if they apply to your network needs. If a chapter discusses a protocol or function you do not intend to use, you do not need to read that chapter.
The Configuring Basic Ports and Paths chapter
provides conceptual information on basic paths, ports, including port and path numbering, and describes how to configure them. The Configuring Advanced Ports and Paths chapter provides information on advanced path and port concepts, including virtual ports, multiple instance lists, and multiple logical networks and describes how to configure them. describes how to configure ports for Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI).The Configuring Auto Startup chapter
describes how to configure a remote bridge/router and central site server so the server sends boot information to the bridge/router as part of the bridge/router automatic startup procedure.Tabs divide the rest of the guide into sections. Each section consists of one or more chapters.
The Bridging section provides information on configuring transparent and translation bridging, bridge filters, source route bridging, source route transparent bridging, source route transparent bridging gateway (SRTG), and route discovery for end system source routing.
The Routing section describes how to configure your bridge/router for AppleTalk, Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN), DECnet, Internet Protocol (IP) (including IP multicasting, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Broadcast Helper, and IP security options), IP Firewall, Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX), Open System Interconnection (OSI), VINES, and Xerox Network Systems (XNS) routing protocols.
The IBM Internetworking section describes how to configure the Logical Link Control, type 2 (LLC2) data link interface, data link switching to connect networks running IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and NetBIOS traffic over Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
The Boundary Routing section describes Boundary Routing® system architecture and how to implement it.
The WAN Dial Up Services section describes describes port bandwidth management of dial-up lines over wide area networks using the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN).
The WAN Packet Switched Services section describes wide area networking using packet and cell-switched services, including Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS), X.25, and local and global switching (X.25 tunneling over IP).
The ATM Services section describes Internetworking using ATM for both WAN environments and LAN Emulation.
The X.25 Connection Services section describes X.25 connection services for outgoing and incoming calls.
The Network Tuning section section describes data compression and explains how to assign a percentage of bandwidth to designated packets that meet certain conditions, to schedule recurring events, and how to prioritize packets to be forwarded over a wide area network.
The Network Management section describes network management activities, configuration, monitoring, alarms, messages, and remote access.
The Appendixes section provides additional information about Enterprise OS software and related technology that will help you use the product more effectively.
Table 2 and Table 3 list conventions that are used throughout this guide.
This guide always gives the full form of a command in uppercase and lowercase letters. However, you can abbreviate commands by entering only the uppercase letters and the appropriate value. Commands are not case-sensitive.