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Table Of Contents

Ascend Customer Service
How to use this guide
What you should know
Documentation conventions
How to use the on-board software
- Changing parameter values
- Saving or discarding your changes
Manual set
Configuring WAN Connections
- About Wide Area Network (WAN) connections
- Link encapsulation
- Nailed groups
- How calls are initiated
- How calls are answered
- Data compression options
- The Answer profile
- Connection profiles
- Configuring Frame Relay connections
Configuring IP Routing
- Introduction to IP routing on the Pipeline
- Managing 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
  - How IP addresses are assigned
  - Configuring DHCP services
- Dial-in user DNS server assignments
  - Configuring DNS servers in the Ethernet profile
  - Configuring DNS servers in the Connection profile
- 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
- Introduction to Ascend bridging
- Enabling bridging
- Managing the bridge table
- Configuring bridged connections
Defining Filters and Firewalls
- Introduction to filters
- Overview of Filter profiles
- Example filters
- Working with predefined call filters
- Display unwanted dial-out packets
- Secure Access Firewalls
- Filter persistence
  - Background on firewall and filter persistence
  - Filter persistence and Connection profiles
Setting Up Pipeline Security
- Recommended security measures
- Pipeline Security profiles
- Connection security
- Using filters to secure the network
- Using security cards
Pipeline System Administration
- Overview of administration functions
- Activating administrative privileges
- Configuring administration options
- Using the Pipeline status windows
- Performing system administration operations
- Using the terminal server interface
  - Invoking and quitting the terminal server interfac...
  - Terminal server commands
- Accessing a local Pipeline via Telnet
Pipeline 75 Voice Features
- About the integrated services of ISDN
- How your ISDN service affects voice features
  - Ordering supplementary voice services
  - Ordering voice features
- How outgoing voice calls are handled
- How incoming voice calls are handled
- Support for 2-channel calls on one SPID
  - Configuring a 2-channel, single SPID call
- Support for outgoing 3.1K audio calls
  - How 3.1K audio calls work
  - Configuring 3.1K audio call
- EAZ Terminal ID for Germany
IDSL Implementations
- ISDN Digital Subscriber Line (IDSL)
- Configuring an IDSL connection
- Making voice calls over IDSL
APP Server utility
- About the APP Server utility
- APP Server installation and setup
Troubleshooting
- Cabling problems: Rule these out first
- Common problems and their solutions
- Problems configuring the Pipeline
- ISDN BRI interface problems
  - Bridge/router problems
- Problems accessing the remote network
  - Check the installation
  - Configuration problems
Upgrading system software
- What you need to upgrade system software
- Displaying the software load name
- The upgrade procedure
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Pipeline User’s Guide Preliminary January 30, 1998 v

Contents

Ascend Customer Service .............................................................................. iii

About This Guide .................................................... xix

How to use this guide ................................................................................... xix

What you should know ................................................................................. xix

Documentation conventions .......................................................................... xx

How to use the on-board software ................................................................ xxi

Changing parameter values ................................................................. xxii

Saving or discarding your changes ...................................................... xxii

Manual set .................................................................................................. xxii

Configuring WAN Connections ................................ 1-1

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

Session options ................................................................................... 1-11

Telco options ...................................................................................... 1-12

Encapsulation options ........................................................................ 1-13

PPP connections ........................................................................... 1-13

MP, MPP, and MP+ connections ................................................. 1-15

Dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) ........................................ 1-16

Guidelines for configuring DBA .................................................. 1-18