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About This Guide

How to use this guide

This guide contains definitions of technical terms and acronyms commonly found in Ascend documentation. Use this guide as a reference when installing, configuring, or maintaining your system.

Note: This guide describes the full set of features for the MAX running software version 7.0.0. Some features might not be available with older versions or specialty loads of the software.

Documentation conventions

Ascend uses standard documentation conventions. The introductory section of each manual includes a section that describes the conventions, which are as follows:

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 or menu item. The item that follows the angle bracket is one of the options that appears when you select the item 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.)

Note:

Introduces important additional information.

Related publications

If you need more background information than the documentation set provides, many external references are readily available on the Web or in technical bookstores. You'll find a partial list of such references below

Related RFCs

RFCs are available on the Web at http://ds.internic.net.

Information about PPP connections

For information about PPP connections and authentication, you might want to download one or more of the following:

Information about IPX routing

 For information about IPX routing, see RFC 1634: Novell IPX Over Various WAN Media (IPXWAN).

Information about IP routers

RFCs that describe the operation of IP routers include:

Information about OSPF routing

 For information about OSPF routing, see:

Information about multicast

 For information about multicast, see:

Information about firewalls and packet filtering

 RFCs that describe firewalls and packet filters include:

Information about general network security

 RFCs pertinent to network security include:

Information about external authentication

 For information about RADIUS and TACACS authentication, see:

ITU-T recommendations

 ITU-T recommendations (formerly CCITT) are available commercially. You can order them at http://www.itu.ch/publications/.

Related books

The following books are available in technical bookstores.


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