Setting Up
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Internetwork Packet Exchange
103-000176-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual
99a
38
July 17, 2001
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If the Status field associated with the call reads Not Connected , press Ins
to connect the call.
5
Wait for the Status field to change to Connected .
This can take several seconds if you are using a dial-up line.
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Press Enter .
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Select Autoconfigure Local and Remote Routing Tables .
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Enter the SNMP Control Community name associated with the remote
router, or press Enter to accept the default Control Community public .
The remote router must have write access enabled. If you need to check
write access, refer to
“Checking Write Access on the Remote Router.”
A progress screen appears as STATICON exchanges routes and services
with the remote router. This might take several minutes if you are working
over a large network or slow link.
The following message appears when the exchange is complete:
Autoconfiguration of Routing Tables between local and
remote Routers completed successfully.
<Press ENTER to continue>
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Press Enter .
STATICON allows you to choose whether to save the static configuration
to disk now or try the configuration first.
If you want to save the configuration to disk now, continue with
.
If you want to try the configuration before saving it to disk, select
Do
Not Save the Routing Tables to Permanent Storage
.
In this case, the configuration remains in router memory.
If you decide later to save the configuration to disk, return to the Select
Configuration Option For This Call screen and select Write Connection
Routing Tables to Permanent Storage .
You can do this as long as you do not do any of the following while trying
out the configuration:
Restart the router
Delete the WAN call destination from NIASCFG
Unload IPXRTR