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VPC-VSM System Administration Guide, StarOS Release 19 ▄

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CONTENTS

About this Guide .............................................................................................. xv

Conventions Used .................................................................................................................................. xvi

Supported Documents and Resources ................................................................................................. xvii

Related Cisco VPC-VSM Documentation ......................................................................................... xvii

ASR 9000 Documentation ................................................................................................................. xvii

Obtaining Cisco Documentation ........................................................................................................ xvii

Contacting Customer Support .............................................................................................................. xviii

Introduction to VPC-VSM ................................................................................ 19

Product Overview ................................................................................................................................... 20

Feature Set ............................................................................................................................................. 21

Interfaces and Addressing ................................................................................................................. 21

Encryption .......................................................................................................................................... 21

Security .............................................................................................................................................. 21

Redundancy and Availability .................................................................................................................. 22

Capacity, CEPS and Throughput ........................................................................................................... 23

Diagnostics and Monitoring .................................................................................................................... 24

Software Installation and Network Deployment ..................................................................................... 25

StarOS Operation and Configuration ............................................................. 27

Terminology ............................................................................................................................................ 28

Contexts ............................................................................................................................................. 28

Logical Interface ................................................................................................................................. 28

Management Interface ....................................................................................................................... 28

Bindings .............................................................................................................................................. 28

Services .............................................................................................................................................. 29

AAA Servers ....................................................................................................................................... 29

Subscribers ........................................................................................................................................ 29

How StarOS Selects Contexts ............................................................................................................... 31

Context Selection for Context-level Administrative User Sessions .................................................... 31

Context Selection for Subscriber Sessions ........................................................................................ 33

Understanding Configuration Files ......................................................................................................... 34

IP Address Notation ................................................................................................................................ 36

IPv4 Dotted-Decimal Notation ............................................................................................................ 36

IPv6 Colon-Separated-Hexadecimal Notation ................................................................................... 36

CIDR Notation .................................................................................................................................... 36

Alphanumeric Strings ............................................................................................................................. 38

Character Set ..................................................................................................................................... 38

Quoted Strings ................................................................................................................................... 38

Getting Started ................................................................................................. 41

Using the StarOS Quick Setup Wizard ................................................................................................... 42

Using the StarOS CLI for Initial Configuration ........................................................................................ 45

Configuring the Management Interface with a Second IP Address ................................................... 47

Configuring the System for Remote Access ...................................................................................... 48

System Settings ............................................................................................... 51