Configure the IPLIMx Application

This section provides a basic overview of the steps involved to provision the IPLIMx application for M2PA. For detailed procedures, see the Database Administration Manual - IP7 Secure Gateway of your current EAGLE documentation suite.

1. Declare the DCM to be iplim or iplimi (ent-card).
   
2. Enter adjacent point code (ent-dstn).
   
3. Define capacity and use alarm (ent-ls).
   
4. Tell the EAGLE that this is a SIGTRAN M2PA link (ent-slk).
5. Enter route (ent-rte).
   
6. Define the IP settings for the Ethernet port (chg-ip-lnk):
   1. Declare what card and port you are defining with this command
   2. Associate an IP address to that card and port
   3. Set the Ethernet settings for the card and port
7. Associate an IP address to a host name that will be used in configuring the Association (ent-ip-host).

   This step sets up a static IP address Host Table, which associates Domain Names to IP addresses so that the computer can look up Domain Names and place the corresponding IP address in the packet header. The alternative is to use a DNS server.

8. Define the network devices that the DCM card will access, for example, DNS or router (chg-ip-card).
9. Define routes through routers other than the default router defined in the ent-ip-rte command (optional).
   Limits:

   • 64 routes per card
   • 1,024 routes per EAGLE
10. Enter an Application Server Process and bind an SCTP association with it (ent-assoc).

    This command configures the SCTP association in the Internet Protocol Application Socket (IPAPSOCK) table. This command permits the association to transport protocol data units and adaptive layer peer messages. Each association is connected to a process at the far end.

    The IPAPSOCK table is used to associate the Local Host/Local Port to a Remote Host/Remote Port.

11. Allow card (alw-card).
12. Activate signaling link (act-slk).