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This chapter discusses the objectives, audience, organization, and conventions of the Access Services Quick Configuration Guide.
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This quick configuration guide describes the tasks you perform to solve common business problems with access service technologies. It presents the most common access service tasks in a format that enables you to configure your access server quickly for the most common tasks. It does not describe every feature, but describes those tasks that you most likely need to do to configure your access server.
This guide also presents information in configuration scenarios. It also references detailed configuration options described in the Cisco IOS configuration guides and command references so that you can refer to these other books for additional information.
This guide presents tasks introduced as features in previous releases, but typically not the current release. For example, if this quick configuration guide is part of the Cisco IOS Release 11.2 documentation, it documents features introduced in Cisco IOS Release 11.1.
This guide assumes you understand the task for which your access server was purchased.
The configuration options indicated in this quick configuration guide are the recommended methods for performing the specified tasks. Although they are typically the easiest or the most straightforward method, they are not the only methods of configuring these tasks. If you know of another configuration method not presented in this guide, you can use it.
This guide is intended primarily for the following audiences:
This guide has three parts and six chapters, as follows:
Software and hardware documentation uses the following conventions:
Command descriptions use these conventions:
Examples use these conventions:
Router(config)# indicates global configuration mode.
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Interactive examples showing prompts (2511(config-line)#) are used in procedures to show exactly what the prompt should look like when you enter a command and exactly what happens after you enter a command. Examples showing only sample output from a show running-config or show startup-config (without prompts) are shown at the end of each chapter in the configuration example sections.
 | Time Saver Means the described action saves time. You can save time by performing the action described in the paragraph. |
 | Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment damage or loss of data. |
Within this guide, the term access server is used throughout. Access servers are routers with multiple asynchronous ports for users to dial in to, and some access servers also have ISDN ports through which users can dial in and out.
This quick configuration guide is not any of the following:
For additional information about any of these topics, refer to the following resources:
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