Netopia 6.3 User Manual

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Appendix A

SHELL Commands

Opens a PPP link on the specified virtual circuit.

Displays the current status of a Cayman Gateway, the device's hardware and soft-
ware revision levels, a summary of errors encountered, and the length of time the
Cayman Gateway has been running since it was last restarted. Identical to the
show status

command.

Lets you open a telnet connection to the specified host through your Cayman
Gateway.

The hostname argument is the name of the device to which you want to
connect; for example, telnet ftp.cayman.com.

The ip_address argument is the IP address, in dotted decimal notation, of
the device to which you want to connect.

The port

argument is the number of t he port over which you want to open

a telnet session.

Traces the route between the Cayman Gateway and the specified host.

The hostname argument is the name of the device you want to trace; for
example, traceroute ftp.cayman.com

.

The ip_address argument is the IP address, in dotted decimal notation, of
the device you want to trace.

Copies the current configuration settings of the Cayman Gateway to a TFTP (Triv-
ial File Transfer Protocol) server. The TFTP server must be accessible on your Ether-
net network. The server_address argument identifies the IP address of the
TFTP server on which you want to store the Cayman Gateway settings. The
filename

argument identifies the path and name of the configuration file on

the TFTP server. If you include the optional confirm keyword, you will not be
prompted to identify a TFTP server or file name.

Displays the names of the current shell users.

DSL

start ppp vccn

BOTH

status

BOTH

telnet {

hostname

|

ip_address

} [

port

]

BOTH

traceroute {

hostname

|

ip_address

}

BOTH

upload [

server_address

] [

filename

] [confirm]

BOTH

who

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