Cabletron Systems 9A100 - Manual (Page 41)

SmartSwitch 9A100 User Guide 3-7
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3.2.3 Switch Clients
It is important to understand the concept of SmartSwitch 9A100 switch client connections. A client connection is
actually a connection between the VLAN and the SmartSwitch 9A100 CPU; this CPU connection appears as if the
switch is an end station on the VLAN. The SmartSwitch 9A100 uses local clients to connect itself to the VLANs that
it supports.
This is analogous to a phone company that supports a communication system. Even though the phone company
maintains the circuits, a call to the phone company itself cannot be made unless the phone company has its own number
and connection on its own phone system. Similarly, VLAN membership (and the reachability) of a
SmartSwitch 9A100 on any particular VLAN depends upon whether the SmartSwitch 9A100 has a local client
connection for that VLAN.
Clients are created using the command add laneclient for LAN emulation, and add ipatmclient for IP over ATM.
For example, the following command adds a switch client to the ELAN elan1:
SmartSwitch# add laneclient
ClientNumber(0) : 1
LanName(ELAN001) : elan1
ServerType(LECS) :
ServerAddress() :
IPAddress() : 128.213.77.95
NetMask(255.255.0.0) :
MTU(1516) :
SmartSwitch#
Prior to creating this local client connection, end devices could communicate with each other through elan1 , but they
could not communicate with the SmartSwitch 9A100.