Command Reference Guide

3Com Router 3000 Ethernet Family

Chapter 1 Basic Configuration Commands

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View

System view

Parameter

motd: Banner displayed before the login interface.

incoming: Banner displayed when a user logs onto a terminal user interface.

shell: Banner displayed for entering user view.

text: Banner message, with the first character being the start and ending delimiters.

After the ending delimiter is input, the system quits automatically.

Description

Use the header command to create a banner.

Use the undo header command to clear a banner.

The motd banner is displayed when a user just logs in from a user interface. If

password or scheme authentication is set, the banner is displayed before login

authentication.

The login banner is displayed only when login authentication is set to password or

scheme. It is displayed after the motd banner is displayed and before login

authentication.

The shell banner is displayed after a user session is established.

Two ways are available for inputting a banner message:

1) Input the message in one line. This allows 255 characters including the command

keyword.

2) Input the message in separate lines each ended with a carriage return. This allows

1024 characters (including those invisible) in addition to the command keyword.

If no keyword, incoming, login, motd, or shell, is specified, the configured banner is

taken as a login banner by default. Therefore, if no text is provided after you input one

of these keywords, incoming, for example, it will be taken as the text for a login banner

rather than a keyword.

You may do the following to have the start delimiter as part of the banner message or

not:

z To have the start delimiter excluded from the banner message, input a carriage

return immediately after it or make sure that the start and ending delimiters are in

the same line.

z To have the start delimiter being part of the banner message, make sure that the

start and ending delimiters are in different lines and the start delimiter is not

immediately followed by a carriage return.