The Token Ring Administrator's Guide describes the Silicon Graphics® device drivers for the 802.5 Token Ring communications protocol. The guide includes basic Token Ring concepts as well as configuration issues for the IRIS® Token Ring product. The IRIS Token Ring product provides network access for Silicon Graphics applications, including TCP/IP-based network applications, IBM® emulation and connectivity products, and NetVisualyzer™.
IRIS Token Ring can be a station's only network connection, or it can be one of many network connections operating simultaneously (for example, with Ethernet and/or FDDI).
This guide provides the information needed to configure, verify, and maintain your token ring connections. This guide also contains basic troubleshooting tips.
The information in this guide will help you understand how the various network applications (TCP/IP-based and IBM emulation and connectivity products) can fit into the token ring environment.
To use the information in this guide, you should have experience in the following areas:
understanding the UNIX® file system structure
using UNIX-based editors (for example, jot or vi)
This guide uses the following stylistic conventions:
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| user input | Indicates what you must enter at a command line, such as commands, options, and arguments to commands. | |
| variable | Indicates generic, place-holding names (for example, filename) that are replaced in examples with specific names (for example, MyDoc). | |
| <xx> | Indicates keys on the keyboard that you press; for example, press <Enter> means press only the key labeled Enter. | |
| command | Designates command and utility names. | |
| file name | Indicates file names and file name suffixes. | |
| glossary item | Designates a term that is defined in the Glossary. | |
| . . . | Denotes omitted material or indicates that the preceding optional items may appear more than once in succession. |
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