Re: Accelar Question

["Phil Wang" <pywang@nortelnetworks.com>]

Hi Norman,

The Accelar boot FAQ presents two ways booting the Accelar. However, you
would better to use one of them, not both. See Q9 to learn how to boot
the Accelar through the back port, you need to enter the monitor state
and alter the boot settings.

Otherwise, if you use the front port, you have to use the TFTP boot
command, see Q8. 

"Brickman,Norman F." wrote:
> 
> Phil,
>         I've been gathering some software together for our Accelar work, but I
> would appreciate it if you could first help with the Accelar
> configuration.  I have been reading your Accelar FAQ file, and have a
> couple of questions.
> 
>         Your use of the back port sounds fine, but I would prefer to separate
> the front ports into two vlans if that is acceptable - and to boot from
> one of those two lans.  Say vlan-1 and vlan-2.  The directions that come
> with the box describe how to configure a vlan, and then how to remove
> ports from the vlan.  Could I remove, say 4 of the ports and then gather
> them into vlan2?
Sure, you have to specify which ports to which vlan. The commands for
adding or removing a vlan and a port are below.

- add a vlan
	Accelar-1100# config vlan 1 ip create 192.168.1.254/24
- remove a vlan
	Accelar-1100# config vlan 1 ip delete 192.168.1.254/24
- remove a port from vlan 1
	Accelar-1100# config vlan 1 ports remove 3/1
- add a port with a new vlan
	Accelar-1100# ehternet 3/1 ip create 192.168.2.254/24 2
> 
>         My TFTP and HTTP servers will both be in the same PC/NT.  Let's say
> that the PC is in VLAN-1.  Can I then change the boot sequence to
> indicate "choices" to "net" as you did, and then use the "tftp" command
> to give it the IP address to use?  But if it boots from net / tftp /
> ip-address, how does the Accelar know which port to go to for that IP
> address?  (That is, if it doesn't boot internally it shouldn't know IP
> address locations, or how I wanted the front ports to be configured.)
You do not need to set the boot sequence, see Q8. The command is like
"boot tftp ip 192.168.1.1 file acc-0.31.0", of which 192.168.1.1 is the
IP address of the tftp boot service.

Phil
> 
>         I know this must be a very elementary question - but I am just getting
> started!
>         Thanks for any help.
>                 Norman
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