3Com MSH 1005, User Manual

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About the LinkBuilder MSH
The LinkBuilder MSH is an extremely versatile, chassis-based hub that
allows you to connect and manage large, mixed-technology,
mixed-media LANs.
The basis of the MSH is the chassis into which you can install a series of
network-specific modules. Modules within the chassis connect to a
number of backplanes allowing communication between the various
LANs and LAN segments connected to the MSH.
About the MSH Switch 1005
The MSH Switch 1005 is designed to be installed into the MSH chassis,
so that you can extend your network beyond the limits of a repeater
and provide your users with greater bandwidth, faster throughput, and
high speed connections.
The MSH Switch 1005 is an intelligent module with its own on-board
management agent. This means that even in an unmanaged MSH
chassis, you can access the manageable features of the Switch using a
Telnet application or an SNMP Network Manager and configure internal
port connections using the five links located on the Switch.
With a Management Module installed into your MSH chassis, you have
access to the VT100 interface of the Switch. This interface provides a
series of ASCII character-based forms which allow you to configure the
manageable features of the Switch. Y ou can find further information
about Switch management in “Setting up the Switch 1005” in
Chapter 2.