Operate and maintain
Documents under this category provide functional descriptions and procedures for configuring, operating, and maintaining 7705 SAR Gen 2 routers.
- Basic System Configuration Guide
  This guide describes file system management, boot option file (BOF) configuration, basic system management configuration, node timing, and synchronization functions.
- Interface Configuration Guide
  This guide describes how to provision Input/Output Modules (IOMs), Media Dependent Adapters (MDAs), connectors, and ports.
- Layer 2 Services and EVPN Guide
  This guide describes Layer 2 service and Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) functionality and provides examples to configure and implement Virtual Leased Lines (VLLs), Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), and EVPN.
- Layer 3 Services Guide: IES and VPRN
  This guide describes Layer 3 service functionality and provides examples to configure and implement Internet Enhanced Services (IES) and Virtual Private Routed Network (VPRN) services.
- MD-CLI User Guide
  This guide provides information about how to use the MD-CLI.
- MPLS Guide
  This guide provides an overview of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), and Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) and provides configuration examples.
- MS-ISA and ESA Guide
  This guide provides an overview of services provided by integrated service adapters and extended service appliances, such as IPsec and Network Address Translation (NAT), and provides configuration examples.
- Multicast Routing Protocols Guide
  This guide provides an overview of multicast routing concepts and provides configuration examples for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD), and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM).
- Quality of Service Guide
  This guide provides an overview of Quality of Service (QoS) policy management and provides configuration examples.
- Router Configuration Guide
  This guide dscribes logical IP routing interfaces and associated attributes such as IP addresses, as well as IP and MAC-based filtering, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), and cflowd.
- Segment Routing and PCE User Guide
  This guide provides an overview of segment routing features with MPLS (SR-MPLS) data path encapsulations and path computation element (PCE) features.
- Services Overview Guide
  This guide provides a general overview of functionality provided by the routers and describes how to configure service parameters such as Service Access Points (SAPs), Service Distribution Points (SDPs), customer information, and user services.
- System Management Guide
  This guide describes system security features, SNMP and NETCONF features, and event and accounting logs; the guide also covers basic tasks such as configuring management access filters, passwords, and user profiles.
- Unicast Routing Protocols Guide
  This guide provides an overview of unicast routing concepts and provides configuration examples for Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Intermediate-system-to-intermediate-system (IS-IS), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing protocols; also provides an overview of route policies and configuration examples.

Raw socket configuration

A raw socket IP transport interface can be configured for each RS-232 serial port on a node. This allows the serial port to receive TCP connections or UDP session packets from multiple remote hosts, or to create new sessions to remote hosts to send and receive serial data.

There are port-level and service-level configuration requirements for a raw socket serial port to send and receive serial data in either server mode, client mode, or both.

A raw socket port-level configuration includes defining the EOP checking parameters (idle time, length, special character) and the inter-session delay for transmitting session data over the serial link.

At the service level, an IP transport subservice is created within an IES or VPRN service to associate the serial port with the respective IES or VPRN service. TCP/UDP encapsulated serial data is routed within the corresponding Layer 3 IES or VPRN service. The required configuration includes IP transport subservice local-host and remote-host configuration, TCP timers, and session control. See the 7705 SAR Gen 2 Services Overview Guide for the required information.

March 12, 2026