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How This Guide is Organized
This guide contains the following chapters and appendices:
Chapter 1, Getting Started, explains how to start an Omega session.
This chapter also describes the Omega Main Menu and how to navigate
around the various menus.
Chapter 2, Managing a Switch, describes how to configure the IP
parameters for a switch, how to set the spanning tree protocol
parameters, and more.
Chapter 3, Configuring the Ports, explains how to set the port
parameters, create port mirrors and port trunks, and configure port
security.
Chapter 4, Configuring the MAC Address Table, contains the
procedures for displaying the MAC address table, viewing and changing
the static MAC address table, and configuring multicast addresses.
Chapter 5, Configuring Virtual LANs and Quality of Service, contains
background information on the different types of VLANs that are
supported by the switch. The chapter also contains the procedures for
creating and modifying VLANs and how to configure the Priority
Queueing feature.
Chapter 6, Displaying Ethernet Statistics, explains how to view switch-
level and port-level performance statistics.
Chapter 7, Configuring the Omega Interface, contains the procedures
for assigning the Omega interface a password and for disabling the
various access methods.
Chapter 8, Upgrading Switch Software and Configuration Files,
explains how to download new AT-S26 software onto the switches in
your network.
Appendix A, AT-S26 Default Settings, lists the factory default settings
for the switch and the management software.
Appendix B, Spanning Tree Concepts, briefly describes the spanning
tree protocol as implemented by Allied Telesyn for the switch.
Appendix C, Supported Platforms, lists the basic specifications of the
Fast Ethernet switches and optional expansion modules supported by
this version of the AT-S26 software.
Index, at the end of this guide, is organized according to subject matter.