About This Guide

How to use this guide

This guide provides alphabetically-arranged listings of DO commands, Status menus, and parameters. This guide contains:

Chapter 1, DO Command Reference,describes DO commands in alphabetical order.
Chapter 2, Status Window Reference, describes Status menus in alphabetical order.
Chapter 3, MAX Alphabetic Parameter Reference, explains parameters in alphabetical order.
Chapter 4, MAX Diag Command Reference, lists and explains the diagnostic commands provided for WAN lines and ports.

The guide also includes an index.

What you should know

This guide is for the person who configures and maintains the MAX. To configure the MAX, you need to understand the following:

Wide area network (WAN) concepts
Local area network (LAN) concepts, if applicable

Documentation conventions

This section explains all the special characters and typographical conventions in this manual.


Convention	Meaning
Monospace text	Represents text that appears on your computer's screen, or that could appear on your computer's screen.
`Boldface mono-space text`	Represents characters that you enter exactly as shown (unless the characters are also in italics-see Italics, below). If you could enter the characters, but are not specifically instructed to, they do not appear in boldface.
Italics	Represent variable information. Do not enter the words themselves in the command. Enter the information they represent. In ordinary text, italics are used for titles of publications, for some terms that would otherwise be in quotation marks, and to show emphasis.
[ ]	Square brackets indicate an optional argument you might add to a command. To include such an argument, type only the information inside the brackets. Do not type the brackets unless they appear in bold type.
\|	Separates command choices that are mutually exclusive.
>	Points to the next level in the path to a parameter. The parameter that follows the angle bracket is one of the options that appears when you select the parameter that precedes the angle bracket.
Key1-Key2	Represents a combination keystroke. To enter a combination keystroke, press the first key and hold it down while you press one or more other keys. Release all the keys at the same time. (For example, Ctrl-H means hold down the Control key and press the H key.)
Press Enter	Means press the Enter, or Return, key or its equivalent on your computer.
Note:	Introduces important additional information.
Caution:	Warns that a failure to follow the recommended procedure could result in loss of data or damage to equipment.
Warning:	Warns that a failure to take appropriate safety precautions could result in physical injury.

Manual set

The MAX 6000 Series Documentation Set consists of the following manuals:

Reference Guide (this guide)
Getting Started
ISP and Telecommuting Configuration Guide
MIF Supplement
RADIUS Configuration Guide
Security Supplement

Related publications

This guide and documentation set do not provide a detailed explanation of products, architectures, or standards developed by other companies or organizations.

Here are some related publications that you may find useful:

The Guide to T1 Networking, William A. Flanagan
Data Link Protocols, Uyless Black
The Basics Book of ISDN, Motorola University Press
ISDN, Gary C. Kessler
TCP/IP Illustrated, W. Richard Stevens
Firewalls and Internet Security, William R. Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin

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