User`s guide

Setting the Configuration
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TCP/IP AXEL Platine Terminal 13
2.2.3 - Host Management
To connect a Platine terminal to a host on the Ethernet network, using TCP/IP
or TELNET protocols, the host must be identified with 2 parameters:
- a name (any alphanumeric character string beginning with a letter),
- an IP address,
- a telnet port: the TCP port used by the telnet service of Unix (default
value 23).
These parameters can be found in the /etc/hosts file of the host to which
you want to connect.
Select the 'Add Host' option from the TCP/IP Platine terminal Set-Up and
enter the 2 parameters. The host address you select must be identical to the
value listed in the host’s /etc/hosts file. However the host name (used by
AX3000) may be different. For example you would use a different host name if
you wished to connect to two different hosts which, by coincidence, had been
given the same host name.
The 'Drop Host' option is used to cancel a host assignment. You will be
presented with a sub-menu listing all currently declared hosts. Select the one to
be dropped, from this sub-menu list, and press <RETURN>.
2.2.4 - Router Management
Depending on the network topology, the Platine terminal and the host may be
installed on different physical networks and linked through one or several
routers. In this configuration, any router that is to be declared in the Network
menu of the TCP/IP Set-Up must belong to the same physical network as
the AX3000.
To declare a router, use the 'Add Route' option and enter the three following
parameters:
- Gateway Address: router IP address. This router must be connected to
the same network as the terminal.
- Host IP Address: IP address of the host to be reached.
- Mask: logical mask on the host IP address. The default value of this
mask distinguishes the host segment from the network segment of the IP
address.