User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Ascend Customer Service
- How to use this guide
- What you should know
- Documentation conventions
- How to use the on-board software
- Manual set
- Configuring WAN Connections
- Configuring IP Routing
- Introduction to IP routing on the Pipeline
- Managing the routing table
- Parameters that affect the routing table
- Static and dynamic routes
- Configuring static routes
- Specifying default routes on a per-user basis
- Enabling the Pipeline to use dynamic routing
- Route preferences
- Viewing the routing table
- Fields in the routing table
- Removing down routes to a host
- Identifying Temporary routes in the routing table
- Configuring IP routing connections
- Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol (ATMP)
- IP Address Management
- Connecting to a local IP network
- BOOTP Relay
- DHCP services
- Dial-in user DNS server assignments
- Local DNS host address table
- Network Address Translation (NAT) for a LAN
- Configuring IPX Routing
- How the Pipeline performs IPX routing
- Adding the Pipeline to the local IPX network
- Working with the RIP and SAP tables
- Configuring IPX routing connections
- Configuring the Pipeline as a Bridge
- Defining Filters and Firewalls
- Setting Up Pipeline Security
- Pipeline System Administration
- Pipeline 75 Voice Features
- IDSL Implementations
- APP Server utility
- About the APP Server utility
- APP Server installation and setup
- Configuring the Pipeline to use the APP server
- Using App Server with Axent SecureNet
- Creating banner text for the password prompt
- Installing and using the UNIX APP Server
- Installing and using the APP Server utility for DO...
- Installing and using the APP Server utility for Wi...
- Installing APP Server on a Macintosh
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrading system software
- What you need to upgrade system software
- Displaying the software load name
- The upgrade procedure
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Ascend Customer Service
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Ascend Customer Service
You can request technical assistance or additional information by telephone,
email, fax, or modem, or over the Internet.
Obtaining Technical Assistance
If you need technical assistance, first gather the information that Ascend
Customer Service will need for diagnosing your problem. Then select the most
convenient method of contacting Ascend Customer Service.
Information you will need
Before contacting Ascend Customer Service, gather the following information:
• Product name and model
• Software and hardware options
• Software version
• Service Profile Identifiers (SPIDs) associated with your product
• Your local telephone company’s switch type and operating mode, such as
AT&T 5ESS Custom or Northern Telecom National ISDN-1
• Whether you are routing or bridging
• Type of computer you are using
• Description of the problem
How to contact Ascend Customer Service
After you gather the necessary information, contact Ascend in one of the
following ways:
Telephone in the United States 800-ASCEND-4 (800-272-3634)
Telephone outside the United States 510-769-8027 (800-697-4772)
Austria/Germany/Switzerland
(+33) 492 96 5672
Benelux
(+33) 492 96 5674