The System Crossconnection screen is one of the most important parts of StarCAD. Both timeslot- and packet-oriented data is manipulated via this screen. On the left hand side are all of the Channel Card slots (including the V.35 interface) and the four Serial Interfaces. On the right hand side are the two Network Interfaces (A and B).
When the System Crossconnect form is selected, StarCAD attempts to match up any "simple" crossconnections it can figure out. If these are totally incorrect, click Clear all XCons to erase everything. If you change your mind and want StarCAD to try to match up the connections, click Auto XCon.
To manually make a crossconnect:
Make sure the signaling type on the Network Interface timeslot is set correctly.
Click (and hold down) on one of the individual channels, then drag the channel to the place you want it connected to.
If you want to overwrite a connection, just drag a new connection on top of the old one.
To change the signaling type of the Network Interface, click on the Signaling field for the timeslot you want to change. This brings up the signaling selection window:
Click on the signaling type you want to use. To change a range of timeslots, select the first timeslot with the signaling you want, then click on the ending timeslot and press Fill to Here. All of the timeslots in-between will have the same signaling as the first timeslot.
In the example above, the Serial Interface was set for PPP at 4 timeslots x 64K (=256K bandwidth). Four timeslots were selected as Data type, then the "Serial 1" was dragged on top of Timeslot 21. The other three timeslots were filled in automatically. Note that all of the channels on Card 6 were disabled to make room for the 256K data circuit.
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