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Appendix A

Using Quick Configuration


This appendix describes how to configure your GT 70 Series router using the Quick Config process and includes the following sections:

Before You Begin

Entering Quick Config

Configuring Your GT 70 Series Router

Before You Begin

Quick Configuration (Quick Config) is part of the Command Line Interface. It is a question and answer script that allows you to configure basic device, bridging, routing, and booting information without having to enter and exit the different configuration processes.

Quick Config is appropriate for installations where your GT 70 Series router always calls the same remote router. You can also use Quick Config to configure the primary remote site that your router calls, and then use the Setup Utility or Command Line Interface to add other sites.

Whatever parameters you cannot configure with Quick Config you can configure using the Command Line Interface configuration processes after exiting Quick Config.

You cannot delete Quick Config information from within Quick Config, but you can change information by exiting and returning to Quick Config or by typing r for restart as a response to a Quick Config question.

Notes:

Entering Quick Config

If you are configuring your router for the first time and you are using the Command Line Interface, your router enters Quick Config automatically the first time you boot it.

To run Quick Config after you have initially configured your router, follow these steps:

1. At the * prompt, enter config to display the Config> prompt. For example:
* config
Config>

2. Enter qconfig at the Config> prompt to begin Quick Config.

Exiting Quick Config

To exit Quick Config, type r for restart at any prompt and follow the queries until you type no and then q for quit. The router returns to the Config (only)> prompt or the Config> prompt.

Configuring Your GT 70 Series Router

This section describes the questions that Quick Config displays. The actual questions vary depending on answers that you entered earlier, such as ISDN-related questions that are customized based on the type of ISDN switch specified, the software loaded on your router, and your hardware configuration. The questions are covered in the following sections:

Note: Examples of user input appear in bold typeface.

Configuring Interfaces

Quick Config interface configuration lets you configure ISDN and PAP and CHAP user authentication. It also lets you enable Multilink PPP (MP) and data compression. Ask your ISP or network manager for the network addressing information that you need for your router configuration.

Table A-1 has all possible interface configuration questions that can appear in Quick Config. The OpenROUTE software does not ask all of these questions because some questions only pertain to particular switch types or are based on other answers and appear only when needed.

Table A-1 Interface Configuration Questions

Question Description
Local Router's Name: [gt72-22] gt72local Unless you override this local router's name later in this Quick Config process, this name is identifies your router to the remote router.

If you are using your router for

Switch-Variant-Model (5ESS, DMS100, NET3, INS64, USNI1, USNI2, VN3, AUS): [USNI1] 5ess The type of switch to which you connected this ISDN interface.

Point/Multi-Point Selection (PP, MP): [MP] pp The software only asks this question if it cannot determine the correct answer based on the switch type. If the switch requires multipoint (MP), then Quick Config makes the correct choice and does not ask the question. Check with your ISDN service provider.

Enter your first ISDN phone number (number or number:extension):[] 12228888 or 12228888:44 The ISDN telephone number that your service provider assigns to your local router. For multipoint, switch variants in North America use a different telephone number for each device. Switch variants in Europe, Japan, and Australia use sub-addresses.

Enter your second ISDN phone number (number or number:extension): [] 12225555 or 12225555:77 A second ISDN telephone number that your service provider assigns to your local router. For multipoint, switch variants in North America use a different telephone number for each device. Switch variants in Europe, Japan, and Australia use sub-addresses.

Enter your ISDN phone number (number or number:extension):[] 19992222 or 19992222:82 The software asks this question when it knows, based on your switch type, that there can only be one ISDN telephone number. This is the ISDN telephone number that your service provider assigns to your local router. For multipoint, switch variants in North America use a different telephone number for each device. Switch variants in Europe, Japan, and Australia use sub-addresses.

Enter Service Profile ID 0
(19 digits max): [] 5085551234
In North America, service providers may require Service Profile IDs (SPIDs). A SPID is a number that uniquely identifies a specific profile of service characteristics available on a particular access interface (such as a B channel). Your ISDN service provider assigns SPIDs.

Enter Service Profile ID 1
(19 digits max): []
If your service provider assigned a second SPID, enter it here. Generally, if your service provider assigns two directory numbers, they also assign two SPIDs.

Specify remote router name (1-23 chars): [] GT70remote Enter a name for the remote router to which your router connects.

Enter `GT70remote' ISDN phone number (number or number:extension): []
15551212 or 15551212:33
The ISDN telephone number of the remote router. For multipoint, switch variants in North America use a different ISDN telephone number for each device. Switch variants in Europe, Japan, and Australia use
sub-addresses.

Enter a second ISDN phone number? (Yes, No): [No] You can enter a second telephone number for the remote router. Your local router attempts to call each of the numbers until it successfully connects to the remote router.

Enter `GT70remote' ISDN phone number (number or number:extension): []
15551212 or 15551212:33
The ISDN telephone number of the second remote router. For multipoint, switch variants in North America use a different ISDN telephone number for each device. Switch variants in Europe, Japan, and Australia use sub-addresses.

Enable DOSBS mode? (Yes, No): [No] Data Over Speech Bearer Service (DOSBS). A method by which your router sends or receives 56K voice grade calls and uses the channels to pass data.

Place Outbound Calls (Yes, No): [Yes] Set whether or not your router can place outbound calls.

Accept Inbound Calls (Yes, No): [Yes] Set whether or not your router can accept inbound calls.

Multilink PPP (Disable, Enable): [Disable] Enables or disables Multilink PPP.

PPP STAC Data Compression (Disable, Enable): [Disable] Enables or disables Stac® data compression.

PPP Call-Back (Disabled, Request, Accept, Always): [Disabled] The initial default value is disabled. This implies Call-back is not performed. The other options, Request, Accept, and Always, enable their respective Call-back modes (Request, Accept, and Always).

Setup CHAP authentication? (Yes, No): [Yes] yes Allows you to set up CHAP authentication on your router.

Local Name used for CHAP Identification: [GT72local] Enter the name that the local router uses to identify itself in CHAP packets transmitted on this interface. The default is the local router's name specified earlier. See page 49. If you have multiple interfaces calling multiple ISPs, use the user name your ISP or network administrator assigned to you if that name is different than the local router's name entered earlier.

Require CHAP from remote? (Yes, No): [No] If you enter yes, you enable CHAP when your router is answering a call from a remote router.

Router `GT70remote' CHAP Secret: [] remote secret Enter the CHAP secret assigned to you by the remote router adminstrator. This may be your ISP or the corporate network adminstrator.

Setup PAP authentication? (Yes, No): [No] yes Allows you to set up PAP authentication on your router.

Local Name used for PAP Identification: [GT72local] Enter the name that the local router uses to identify itself in PAP packets transmitted on this interface. The default is the local router's name specified earlier. See page 49. If you have multiple interfaces calling multiple ISPs, use the user name your ISP or network administrator assigned to you if that name is different than the local router's name entered earlier.

Router `GT72local's' PAP password: []
localpw
Enter the PAP password assigned to you by the remote router adminstrator. This may be your ISP or the corporate network adminstrator

Require PAP from remote? (Yes, No): [No] If you enter yes, you enable PAP when your router is answering a call from a remote router.

Router `GT70remote' PAP password: [] remotepw Add a password for the remote router. This is the password you expect to receive from the remote router when the remote router calls your router.

Configuring Bridging

Table A-2 Bridging Configuration Questions

Prompt Description
Enable STB on this interface? Enter y to enable Spanning Tree Bridge/Transparent Bridging on the interface.

Configuring Protocols

Table A-3 IP Configuration Questions

Prompt Description
Enable IP on this interface? (Yes, No): [Yes] Enter yes to enable IP on the interface you are configuring.

IP Address:[] 128.185.142.20 Enter the IP address of the interface in decimal notation.

Address Mask:[255.0.0.0]
255.255.255.0
Address mask is a decimal value that reflects the IP address class type. Class A is 255.0.0.0, Class B is 255.255.0.0, and Class C is 255.255.255.0.

For more information about IP addressing or address masks, consult your network administrator.

Use Unnumbered IP Addressing? (Yes, No): [Yes] For WAN interfaces, IP allows you to use the interface for IP traffic without assigning an IP address.

Use Dynamic IP Address Assignment? (Yes, No): [No] Your ISP or corporate network adminstrator may not permanently assign you an IP address. If your IP address is assigned when you connect to the network, then answer Yes.

Address Mask: [255.255.255.0] Your GT 70 Series router requires an IP address mask for dynamically assigned addresses. You can accept the default (255.255.255.0) unless your ISP or network adminstrator tells you otherwise.

Enable Dynamic Routing via RIP? (Yes, No): [Yes] Enter yes if you want RIP to build the routing tables.

Enter no to manually add IP address destinations to the routing tables (static routes).

Specify a Default Route? (Yes, No): [No] Enter yes if you want to specify a default route.

Default Route Gateway IP Address?:[0.0.0.0]128.185.252.2 Enter the IP address of the default gateway. This is the router that provides access to other remote networks.

Specify default route via an unnumbered interface of address assigned interface? (Yes, No): [Yes] If you are configuring a default route for a WAN interface, you can specify that the default route is via the unnumbered interface of the address assigned interface.

Which interface is the default route? (0-1):[1] 1 If you specify that the default route is via the unnumbered interface, enter the interface number of the unnumbered interface.

Restarting the Router

When Quick Config is finished, it prompts you to restart the router. You must restart the router for the configuration to take effect.

You may defer restarting the router to configure additional protocols and features. When you complete the configuration, restart the router for all settings to take effect.



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