EMME USER'S GUIDE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1
USING THIS MANUAL ................................................................ 1-1
1.2
ETHERNET MANAGEMENT MODULE OVERVIEW.................. 1-2
1.2.1
Multi Media Access Center with Flexible Network Bus ... 1-4
1.2.2
Repeater Interface Controller Media Interface Modules . 1-5
1.2.3
Ethernet Channels A, B, C, and D .................................. 1-6
1.2.4
Local Management ......................................................... 1-8
1.2.5
MIB Navigation ............................................................... 1-8
1.2.6
LANVIEW LEDs .............................................................. 1-8
1.2.7
LANVIEWSECURE......................................................... 1-8
1.3
REPEATER FUNCTIONALITY.................................................. 1-10
1.4
BRIDGING FUNCTIONALITY ................................................... 1-10
1.5
MORE ABOUT BRIDGES ......................................................... 1-11
1.5.1
Filtering and Forwarding ............................................... 1-12
1.5.2
Spanning Tree Algorithm .............................................. 1-13
1.6
ROUTING FUNCTIONALITY .................................................... 1-13
1.7
COMMUNITY NAMES............................................................... 1-15
1.8
SNMP (SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL) .... 1-15
1.8.1
Management Information Base (MIBs) ......................... 1-16
1.9
IP ADDRESSING ...................................................................... 1-16
1.9.1
Network ID .................................................................... 1-17
1.9.2
Host ID .......................................................................... 1-17
1.9.3
Subnet Addresses ........................................................ 1-17
1.9.4
Subnet Masks ............................................................... 1-18
1.10 DEFAULT GATEWAY ............................................................... 1-19
1.11 MAC ADDRESS ........................................................................ 1-19
1.12 NETWORK MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES ............................ 1-19
1.13 UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLIES (UPS) ..................... 1-20
1.14 EMME UPGRADES................................................................... 1-20
1.15 GETTING HELP ........................................................................ 1-22
1.16 RELATED MATERIAL ............................................................... 1-22