Olicom CrossFire 8720, Installation Manual

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CrossFire 8720 Fast Ethernet Layer 3 Switch, v. 1.00.02, P/N: 710001800
About This Guide
This installation guide contains the information needed to install and get started
with the CrossFire
TM 8720 Fast Ethernet Layer 3 Switch. Throughout this guide it
will be referred to as the “CrossFire 8720 Switch”.
The guide is intended to be used by network administrators or knowledgeable
users, therefore it assumes a basic knowledge of Local Area Networks and IP
routing principles.
In addition to this installation guide, the CrossFire 8720 Switch is delivered with
the on-line CrossFire 8720 Fast Ethernet Layer 3 Switch Reference Guide
enclosed as a PDF file on a CD-ROM. The CD-ROM also contains an on-line
version of this installation guide. When you need information outside the scope of
the installation guide, please refer to the reference guide.
Textual Conventions
Table 1. Textual Conventions
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Convention Example
Console commands are written in Courier
console command
Menu items are indicated by bold Statistics
Options are identified by brackets and delimited by “|” (option1 | option2)
Text to be substituted is enclosed by < > <text>
References to other sections or documents are in italics italics
Key entries are shown in Helvetica narrow ESC Enter
Screen display is shown in Courier normal and bold
display
Hexadecimal notation may be indicated with an “h” D0000h
End of a chapter is indicated with
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