3com 8807 User Guide

The management module of configuration file provides a user-friendly operation 
interface. It saves the configuration of the switch in the text format of command 
line to record the whole configuration process. Thus you can view the 
configuration information conveniently.

The format of configuration file includes:

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It is saved in the command format.

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Only the non-default constants will be saved

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The organization of commands is based on command views. The commands in 
the same command mode are sorted in one section. The sections are separated 
with a blank line or a comment line (A comment line begins with exclamation 
mark "#").

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Generally, the sections in the file are arranged in the following order: system 
configuration, Ethernet port configuration, VLAN interface configuration, 
routing protocol configuration and so on.

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It ends with "end".

The following sections describe configuration file management tasks.

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When the switch is being powered on, the system will read the configuration files 
from Flash Memory for the initialization of the switch. (Such configuration files are 
called saved-configuration files). If there is no configuration file in Flash Memory, 
the system will begin the initialization with the default parameters. Relative to the 
saved-configuration, the configuration in effect during the operating process of 
the system is called current-configuration. You can use the following commands 
to display the current-configuration and saved-configuration information of the 
switch.

Perform the following configuration in any view.