Table Of Contents
About This Guide
Document Objectives
Audience
Scope
New and Changed Information
Conventions Used in This Guide
Document Text Conventions
Document Screen Example Conventions
Document Command Description Conventions
Additional Information Sources
Documentation CD-ROM
Cisco Connection Online
Technical Assistance Center
European Technical Assistance Center
Related Documents
Cisco IOS Documentation Set
Providing Documentation Feedback
About This Guide
This section describes the Cisco IOS Dial Services Quick Configuration Guide and includes the following topics:
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Document Objectives
•Audience
•Scope
•New and Changed Information
•Conventions Used in This Guide
•Additional Information Sources
•Providing Documentation Feedback
Document Objectives
This guide:
•Describes the tasks needed to solve common business problems with dial networking technologies.
•Presents the most common dial access tasks in a format that enables you to configure your access server quickly for the most common tasks.
•Does not describe every feature, but describes those tasks that you most likely need to do to configure your access server.
•Begins with a case study followed by configuration scenarios.
•References detailed configuration options described in the Cisco IOS configuration guides and command references, so that you can refer to these other documents for more information.
Audience
This guide is intended for the following audiences:
•System administrators who are familiar with the fundamentals of router-based internetworking and who are responsible for installing and configuring internetworking equipment, but who are not familiar with the specifics of Cisco products or the routing protocols supported by Cisco products.
•Customers who know one networking protocol (such as Novell IPX) and one LAN protocol (such as Ethernet), but have no additional networking background or experience.
Scope
This guide provides a case study as an example for you to use when setting up your network for dial services. You would most likely set up this initial network in your laboratory to get an understanding of how it works, before you scaled it up to meet your needs. The options indicated in this guide are the recommended methods for completing the specified configuration tasks. Although they are typically the easiest or the most straightforward, they are not the only methods of doing these tasks. If you know of another configuration method not presented in this guide, you can use it.
Note Although this document has been revised for inclusion in the Cisco IOS Release 12.1 documentation set, the routers used in this case study were running earlier releases for the sake of example.
New and Changed Information
The following is new or changed information since the last release of the Cisco IOS Dial Services Quick Configuration Guide (formerly known as the Dial Solutions Quick Configuration Guide):
•The chapters of the former Dial Solutions Quick Configuration Guide Part 2, "Additional Dial-Up Configurations" have been removed because the information is available elsewhere in appropriate manuals of the Cisco IOS documentation set.
These chapters included:
–IP, IPX, and AppleTalk Dial-Up Environments
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12supdoc/dsqcg3/
qcpppara.htm
–Routing Across Modem Lines
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12supdoc/dsqcg3/
qcddr.htm
–Security Configuration
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12supdoc/dsqcg3/
qcsecur.htm
•The figures have been revised in all chapters to reflect more current and correct information.
Conventions Used in This Guide
•Document Text Conventions
•Document Screen Example Conventions
•Document Command Description Conventions
Document Text Conventions
This document uses the following conventions:
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Represents the Control key. For example, when you read ^D or Ctrl-D, hold down the Control key and press the D key. Keys are indicated in capital letters but are not case sensitive.
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string
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A string is defined as a nonquoted set of characters. For example, when setting an SNMP community string to "public", do not use quotation marks around the string; otherwise, the string will include the quotation marks.
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Note Contains important information.
Caution Means reader be careful. The described action might result in equipment damage or loss of data.
Timesaver You can save time by performing the action described.
Tips Means the following information might help you solve a problem.
Document Screen Example Conventions
Examples use the following conventions:
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Information that appears on the screen.
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Information you must enter.
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Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, display in angle brackets.
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Exclamation points at the beginning of a line indicate a comment line or certain Cisco IOS processes.
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Default responses to system prompts.
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Document Command Description Conventions
Command descriptions use the following conventions:
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Description
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bold
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Indicates commands and keywords that you enter exactly as shown.
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italics
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Indicates arguments for which you supply values; in contexts that do not allow italics, arguments are enclosed in angle brackets (< >).
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[x]
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Keywords or arguments shown within square brackets are optional.
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{x | y | z}
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A choice of required keywords (represented by x, y, and z) appears in braces separated by vertical bars. Select one keyword.
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[x {y | z}]
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Braces and vertical bars within square brackets indicate a required choice within an optional element. You may choose not to select the option presented within the square brackets; but if you do want to select anything within the square brackets, the required choice within the braces must be made.
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Additional Information Sources
For more information about the Cisco IOS and Cisco equipment, refer to the following resources:
•Documentation CD-ROM
•Cisco Connection Online
•Technical Assistance Center
•European Technical Assistance Center
•Related Documents
•Cisco IOS Documentation Set
Documentation CD-ROM
Cisco documentation and additional literature are available on the Documentation CD-ROM. The CD is updated and shipped monthly, so it may be more current than printed documentation. To order the Documentation CD (available both as a single CD and as an annual subscription), contact your local sales representative or call Cisco Customer Service.
Cisco Connection Online
Cisco Connection Online (CCO) is Cisco Systems' primary, real-time support channel. Maintenance customers and partners can self-register on CCO to obtain additional information and services.
Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, CCO provides a wealth of standard and value-added services to Cisco's customers and business partners. CCO services include product information, product documentation, software updates, release notes, technical tips, the Bug Navigator, configuration notes, brochures, descriptions of service offerings, and download access to public and authorized files.
CCO serves a wide variety of users through two interfaces that are updated and enhanced simultaneously: a character-based version and a multimedia version that resides on the World Wide Web (WWW). The character-based CCO supports Zmodem, Kermit, Xmodem, FTP, and Internet e-mail, and it is excellent for quick access to information over lower bandwidths. The WWW version of CCO provides richly formatted documents with photographs, figures, graphics, and video, as well as hyperlinks to related information.
You can access CCO in the following ways:
•WWW: http://www.cisco.com
•WWW: http://www-europe.cisco.com
•WWW: http://www-china.cisco.com
•Telnet: cco.cisco.com
•Modem: From North America, 408 526-8070; from Europe, 33 1 64 46 40 82. Use the following terminal settings: VT100 emulation; databits: 8; parity: none; stop bits: 1; and connection rates up to 28.8 kbps.
For a copy of CCO's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), contact cco-help@cisco.com. For additional information, contact cco-team@cisco.com.
Technical Assistance Center
If you are a network administrator and need personal technical assistance with a Cisco product that is under warranty or covered by a maintenance contract, contact Cisco's Technical Assistance Center (TAC) at 800-553-2447 or 408-526-7209, or tac@cisco.com. Emergency technical assistance (for network-down or severe network problems) is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To obtain general information about Cisco Systems, Cisco products, or upgrades, contact 800-553-6387, 408-526-7208, or cs-rep@cisco.com.
For popular configuration tips and hints gathered from Cisco's Technical Assistance Center (TAC), go to the Hot Tips home page at the following URL. This URL is subject to change without notice.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/
If you choose to telephone the TAC for help, have the following information ready:
•Chassis serial number
•Maintenance contract number
•Software version level and hardware configuration (enter the show version command to display this information)
•Running software configuration. To display this information for Release 11.0 or later, enter the show running config command. For earlier releases, enter the write terminal command.
European Technical Assistance Center
Cisco and its European Service Partners coordinate all customer service in Europe, including hardware and software telephone technical support, onsite service, and module exchange and repair. For more information, contact the European TAC.
European TAC numbers and e-mail address are as follows:
•Phone: 32 2 778 42 42
•Fax: 32 2 778 43 00
•E-mail: euro-tac@cisco.com
Related Documents
Refer to the following online resources for more information:
•Internetworking Case Studies—Provides practical examples of how to implement Cisco IOS software features. Case studies address implementation concerns and show how to apply features to their best advantage. Detailed configuration file examples and network diagrams are included.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ics/index.htm
•Cisco Access Dial Configuration Cookbook—Contains common configurations or recipes to configure various access routers and dial technologies. It covers common configurations for async, dial-on-demand routing (DDR), integrated services digital network (ISDN), and other access dial concepts including basic security. It also provides configurations for the Cisco 700, AS5200, and AS5300. You must be a registered Cisco Connection Online (CCO) user to gain access to this publication.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/793/access_dial/
•Cisco IOS Dial Services Configuration Guides and Cisco IOS Dial Services Command Reference—Provide a comprehensive library of Cisco's dial software features, which are configured by using the command line interface (CLI).
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121cgcr/dialns_c/index.htm
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121cgcr/dialts_c/index.htm
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121cgcr/dial_r/index.htm
•Internetworking Technology Overview, Point-to-Point Protocol—Describes the background and general operation of PPP.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ppp.htm
•Troubleshooting Engine—Helps you solve common problems involving hardware, configuration, and performance.
http://te.cisco.com/cgi-bin/webcgi.exe?New,KB=TE
•Cisco AS5x00 Access Server Documentation—Includes software and hardware configuration guides for Cisco's access server product line.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/acs_serv/index.htm
Note These URLs can change without notice.
Cisco IOS Documentation Set
The Cisco IOS software documentation set is illustrated in the following figure:
Note The abbreviations next to the book icons in the following figure are page designators (for example, FC, FR, and so on), which are defined in a key in the index of each document to help with navigation. The bulleted lists under each module describe the major technology areas discussed in their corresponding books.
Figure 1 Cisco IOS Software Documentation Modules
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