All_about_network

This article will be rather short as it will contain just few bits an pieces of what I encountered while doing some stuff on Nokia boxes.

1. How to  bring up an unconfigured interface

step 1 – run CLISH
step 2 – run show interafaces
step 3 – find the interface you want to configure and note that the interfaces full name is something like eth1c0 for interface eth1 (this is very important !)
step 4 – run ”add interface eth1c0 address 192.168.1.1/24 enable” which will add the address to the interface config
step 5 – make the interface active with this command  ” set interface eth1 active on”

2. How to run fsck on flash-based devices

There is one small glitch for running the fsck command on flash-based Nokia boxes. The thing is that Nokia uses specific file-system parameters which are different from defaults. This leads to the fsck utility to actually corrupt the FS if used without proper parameters that take the specifics into account. So please if you need to run the fsck do it from single user mode and with the parameters as follows:

fsck -fyb 32

This article will be probably enhanced later on as I feel that it is more a stub than anything else.

3. The most common mistake while configuring from ipso

After you configure anything it is vitally important to save the config. By the save config command. If you wold not do that you config is stored just in RAM and after a reboot it will vanish. It is the same as in Cisco’s write nvram or Huawei’s safe (safely).