Avaya Polled AOT Transport User Manual
Configuring Polled AOT
Transport Services
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Contents
About This Guide
Audience ........................................................................................................................... xi
Before You Begin .............................................................................................................. xi
Conventions ......................................................................................................................xii
Acronyms ..........................................................................................................................xii
Ordering Bay Networks Publications ...............................................................................xiii
Bay Networks Customer Service .....................................................................................xiii
How to Get Help ..............................................................................................................xiv
Chapter 1
Polled AOT Overview
Polled AOT Networking ...................................................................................................1-1
Polled AOT Configurations on Bay Networks Routers ....................................................1-3
Polled AOT Device Support ............................................................................................1-4
Chapter 2
Enabling Polled AOT
Starting Polled AOT on an Interface ...............................................................................2-2
Specifying the Polled AOT Interface Parameters ............................................................2-3
Creating the Polled AOT Peer Table ...............................................................................2-4
Completing the Configuration .........................................................................................2-7
Chapter 3
Editing Polled AOT Parameters
Editing the AOT Interface Parameters ............................................................................3-1
Editing the AOT Peer Table .............................................................................................3-3
Disabling the AOT Peer Table .........................................................................................3-4
Removing Polled AOT from the Router ..........................................................................3-5
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Appendix A
Polled AOT Parameters
AOT Interface Parameters ............................................................................................. A-1
AOT Peer Table Parameters .......................................................................................... A-4
Asynchronous Parameters ............................................................................................ A-6
Index
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Figures
Figure 1-1. Bay Networks Polled AOT Network Topology ..........................................1-2
Figure 2-1. WAN Protocols Window ...........................................................................2-2
Figure 2-2. Edit AOT Interface Window ......................................................................2-3
Figure 2-3. AOT Peer Table Configuration Window ....................................................2-5
Figure 2-4. Add AOT Peer Entry Window ...................................................................2-6
Figure 2-5. Edit SYNC Parameters Window ...............................................................2-7
Figure 3-1. AOT Interfaces Window ...........................................................................3-2
Figure 3-2. AOT Peer Table Configuration Window ....................................................3-3
Figure 3-3. Edit AOT Global Parameters Window ......................................................3-5
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Tables
Table 1-1. Polled AOT Router and Module Support ..................................................1-3
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About This Guide
This guide describes how to customize Bay Networks® router software for polled
Asynchronous over TCP/IP (AOT) transport services.
If you want to Go to
Read about polled AOT services on Bay Networks routers Chapter
Enable polled AOT services on a Bay Networks router by setting the
polled AOT interface and Peer Table parameters
Edit the polled AOT interface and Peer Table parameters Chapter 3
Review the polled AOT parameters Appendix A
Audience
Written for system and network managers, this guide describes how to configure
the Bay Networks implementation of polled AOT.
Before You Begin
Before using this guide, you must complete the following steps:
1.
Open a configuration file.
2.
Specify the router hardware, if this is a local-mode configuration file.
Select the connector on which you are enabling polled AOT.
3.
See
Configuring and Managing Routers with Site Manager
1
Chapter 2
for instructions.
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Conventions
This section describes the conventions used in this guide.
bold text
Indicates text that you need to enter, command names,
and buttons in menu paths.
Example: Enter
Example: Use the
Example: Protocols > Interfaces >
wfsm &
dinfo
command.
AOT
identifies the
button in the window that appears when you select the
Interfaces option from the Protocols menu.
italic text
Indicates variable values in command syntax
descriptions, new terms, file and directory names, and
book titles.
quotation marks (“ ”) Indicate the title of a chapter or section within a book.
separator ( > ) Separates menu and option names in instructions and
internal pin-to-pin wire connections.
Example: Protocols > AOT identifies the A O T option in
the Protocols menu.
Example: Protocols > AOT > Interfaces
vertical line (|) Indicates that you enter only one of the parts of the
command. The vertical line separates choices. Do not
type the vertical line when entering the command.
Acronyms
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Example: If the command syntax is
|
show at routes
show at routes
AOT Asynchronous over TCP/IP
CU control unit
FEP front-end processor
IP Internet Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
WAN wide area network
, you enter either
nets
show at nets
or
, but not both.
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