3Com Switch 4200G Configuration Guide

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Related Manuals The 3Com Switch 4200 Family Getting Started Guide provides information about
installation.
The 3Com Switch 4200 Family Command Reference Guide provides all the
information you need to use the configuration commands.
Warning Information that alerts you to potential personal injury.
Tabl e 2 Text conventions
Convention Description
Screen
displays
This typeface represents text as it appears on the screen.
Keyboard key
names
If you must press two or more keys simultaneously, the key names are
linked with a plus sign (+), for example:
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del
The words “enter”
and “type”
When you see the word “enter” in this guide, you must type something,
and then press Return or Enter. Do not press Return or Enter when an
instruction simply says “type.”
Fixed command
text
This typeface indicates the fixed part of a command text. You must type
the command, or this part of the command, exactly as shown, and press
Return or Enter when you are ready to enter the command.
Example: The command display history-command must be
entered exactly as shown.
Variable
command text
This typeface indicates the variable part of a command text. You must
type a value here, and press Return or Enter when you are ready to enter
the command.
Example: in the command super level, a value in the range 0 to 3
must be entered in the position indicated by level
{ x | y | … } Alternative items, one of which must be entered, are grouped in braces
and separated by vertical bars. You must select and enter one of the
items.
Example: in the command flow-control {hardware | none |
software}, the braces and the vertical bars combined indicate that
you must enter one of the parameters. Enter either hardware, or
none, or software.
[] Items shown in square brackets [ ] are optional.
Example 1: in the command
display users [all], the square
brackets indicate that the parameter
all is optional. You can enter the
command with or without this parameter.
Example 2: in the command user-interface [type]
first-number [last-number] the square brackets indicate that the
parameters [type] and [last-number] are both optional. You can
enter a value in place of one, both or neither of these parameters.
Alternative items, one of which can optionally be entered, are grouped
in square brackets and separated by vertical bars.
Example 3: in the command header
[shell | incoming |
login] text, the square brackets indicate that the parameters
shell, incoming and login
are all optional. The vertical bars
indicate that only one of the parameters is allowed.
Tabl e 1 Icons (Continued)
Icon Notice Type Description