User`s guide

Pipeline User’s Guide Preliminary January 30, 1998 1-1
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Configuring WAN Connections
This chapter contains the following topics:
About Wide Area Network (WAN) connections
In order to connect to the wide area network, the Pipeline needs to know what
attributes to apply to each incoming or outgoing link. For example, it needs to
know how to negotiate the initial handshake with the remote end, what kind of
authentication is required, what kind of compression needs to be agreed upon,
what data rates are available end-to-end, how much bandwidth can be allocated
and which end will add it, what kind of encapsulation can be supported, and other
information.
About Wide Area Network (WAN) connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Link encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Nailed groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
How calls are initiated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
How calls are answered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Data compression options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
The Answer profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
Connection profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Configuring Frame Relay connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-24