Compatible Systems T1-10/100 Manuale Utente

This Quickstart chapter briefly discusses the major parameters that must be set in order to use 
the Octal T1-10/100 RIOP as part of your VSR multigigabit switching router.  

Detailed information on the meaning of the router’s parameters is provided in the Compa-
tiView Management Software Reference Guide and the Text-Based Configuration and 
Command Line Management Reference Guide.  You should use this list as a starting point to 
look up more specific information in the other documents.  

If you need more general information on IP, IPX, AppleTalk or wide area protocols, see the 
Appendices in the CompatiView Management Software Reference Guide.

There are a number of parameter settings which are optional, in the sense that they are not 
required for all installations.  These settings are not covered in this chapter.

In this chapter:

CV = CompatiView

TB = Text-Based Configuration

In order to successfully connect to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), you must use router 
configuration parameters which will be provided by the technical staff of the ISP.  These 
parameters must include all IP addresses, WAN settings and any applicable authorization 
routines.  Please check with your ISP before changing the configuration of your Octal T1-10/
100 RIOP.

v Note: This Quickstart does not include information on setting up packet filters for using the 
router as a Firewall.  See the CompatiView Management Software Reference Guide or Text-
Based Configuration and Command Line Management Reference Guide regarding IP 
packet filters for more information.

Ethernet interfaces are considerably easier to set up than wide area interfaces since there are 
fewer choices that need to be made regarding communications protocols and parameters.  We 
recommend that you begin by configuring any Ethernet interface parameters before proceeding 
to configure WAN interface parameters.

These parameters set the basic address characteristics of the interface.  They provide enough 
information for another IP node to find the interface (such as a Telnet client), but not enough 
information for routing to take place.

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IP address

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IP subnet mask

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IP broadcast address

CV:  Use the TCP/IP Routing: Ethernet 0 Dialog Box to set these parameters.

TB:  Use the configure command and set the IPAddress, SubnetMask, and IPBroadcast 
keywords in the IP Ethernet 0 section.

These parameters help supply information about the segment that the interface is connected to.  
With this information, routing can take place.

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Set IP RIP 1, IP RIP 2 or OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)