User`s guide

Contents
Pipeline User’s Guide Preliminary January 30, 1998 vii
Identifying Temporary routes in the routing table ............................. 2-30
Configuring IP routing connections .......................................................... 2-30
Checking remote host requirements ................................................... 2-30
Example host connection with static address ..................................... 2-31
Example router connection ................................................................. 2-33
Example router connection on a subnet ............................................. 2-35
Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol (ATMP) ........................................ 2-37
Using a Pipeline in a virtual private network ..................................... 2-37
Foreign and home agents .................................................................... 2-37
Configuring a home agent in router mode ......................................... 2-38
IP Address Management ......................................... 3-1
Connecting to a local IP network ................................................................ 3-1
Assigning the Ethernet interface IP address ......................................... 3-3
Creating a subnet for the Pipeline .................................................. 3-3
Assigning two addresses: Dual IP .................................................. 3-4
Using Ping to verify the address .......................................................... 3-6
Enabling proxy mode in the Pipeline ................................................... 3-6
Enabling DNS on the Pipeline ............................................................. 3-7
Generating UDP checksums ................................................................. 3-7
Updating other routers on the backbone .............................................. 3-8
BOOTP Relay .............................................................................................. 3-9
DHCP services ........................................................................................... 3-10
How IP addresses are assigned ........................................................... 3-10
Configuring DHCP services ............................................................... 3-11
Setting up a DHCP server ............................................................ 3-14
Setting up Plug and Play support ................................................. 3-14
Setting up DHCP spoofing ........................................................... 3-14
Dial-in user DNS server assignments ........................................................ 3-15
Configuring DNS servers in the Ethernet profile ............................... 3-15
Configuring DNS servers in the Connection profile .......................... 3-16
Local DNS host address table .................................................................... 3-17
Configuring the local DNS table ........................................................ 3-18
Creating the local DNS table .............................................................. 3-19
Editing the local DNS table ................................................................ 3-20
Deleting an entry from the local DNS table ................................. 3-21
Restrictions for names in the local DNS table ............................. 3-21
User-definable TCP connection retry timeout ................................... 3-21
Network Address Translation (NAT) for a LAN ...................................... 3-22