Avaya Cajun P882, P550R, P580, P880 User Manual

Avaya P550R



, P580,

P880, and P882

Multiservice Switch

User Guide,

Version 5.3.1

Document Revision 2.0

August 2002

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Avaya P550R®, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switch User Guide, Version

5.3.1, Document Revision 2.0

Produced in USA, August, 2002

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Table of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Overview of the Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Avaya Technologies Products and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvi

Using Notes, Cautions, and Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Online Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Online Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xix

Installing Online Documentation and Help Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xix

Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii

Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii

Documentation Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii

Chapter 1 — Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-1

Switch Descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-1

Hardware Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-2

Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-2

Avaya P550R and P580 Multiservice Switch Chassis. . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Avaya P880 and P882 Multiservice Switch Chassis. . . . . . . . . . . .1-5

50-Series Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-7

Redundant Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-9

Media Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-10

80-Series Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-13

Software Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-14

Virtual Bridging Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-14

Flood Pruning Using VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-15

Hunt Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-16

OpenTrunk Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-16

Load MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-17

Spanning Tree Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-17

Extensive Fault Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-21

Buffer and Queue Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-21

New Software Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-22

5.3.1 Software Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-22

v5.3 Software Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-22

v5.2.10 Software Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-25

v5.2.6 Software Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-26

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v5.2.2 Software Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-27

v5.2.0 Software Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-27

Routing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-28

Compatibility with Layer 2 Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-29

Routing with Layer 2 and Layer 3 Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-29

Chapter 2 — Initialize and Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Setting Up Your Laptop or PC Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Managing the Avaya Multiservice Switch using Telnet . . . . . . . . 2-2

Viewing Active Telnet Sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Telnet session expiration timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Configuring the Supervisor Module Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Configuring the Switch Using the Web Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Opening the Web Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Moving through the Web Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

Configuring Custom Access Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12

Opening the Custom Access Types Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Creating a Custom Access Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Modifying a Custom Access Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

Deleting a Custom Access Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

Setting Up User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Disabling User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19

Setting Up SNMP Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

Configuring User Accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23

RADIUS Client Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24

Changing the Console Serial Port Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32

Configuring the Serial Console Port as a TTY Console . . . . . . . . 2-32

Configuring the Serial Console Port as a PPP Console . . . . . . . . 2-35

Configuring Dial-Up Networking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-40

Changing the TCP Ports for HTTP and Telnet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-43

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-43

Changing the TCP Port Number for HTTP and Telnet Requests . 2-43

Starting a Telnet Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-45

Opening the Web Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-46

Managing Configuration Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-46

Viewing Your Running Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-46

Viewing Your Startup Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-47

Viewing Your Script Execution Log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-47

Copying Configuration Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-47

Copying Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49

Viewing the Status of a TFTP Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-53

Chapter 3 — Configuring System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Entering General System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Enabling the Simple Network Time Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Setting Summer Time Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

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Setting Recurring Summer Time Hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5

Setting One-Time Summer Time Hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Setting the System Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-11

Setting the Temperature System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-13

Displaying the Power System Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-15

Displaying Cooling System Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Performing a Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-17

Chapter 4 — Using VLANs, Spanning Tree, Hunt Groups, and VTP

Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-1

VLAN Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-1

What is a VLAN? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-2

Ingress Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-4

Forwarding Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-5

Egress Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-7

Creating and Implementing VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-7

VLAN Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-7

Creating a VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-8

Using the Web Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-8

Configuring VLAN Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-11

Assigning Ports to VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-13

Spanning Tree Protocol Setup and Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-13

Spanning Tree Protocol Implementation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-13

Managing the Spanning Tree Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-15

Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-20

Disabling Spanning Tree Mode for the Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24

Using Hunt Groups to Aggregate Bandwidth between Switches . . . .4-28

Hunt Group Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-29

How Hunt Groups Load Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-30

Hunt Group Configuration Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-34

Creating Hunt Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-35

Adding Ports to the Hunt Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-36

Viewing Hunt Group Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-40

Removing Ports from Hunt Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-42

Configuring VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP) Snooping. . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-42

Chapter 5 — Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-1

Two Categories of Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Physical Port Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-2

Switch Port Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-5

Relationship Between Different Switch Port Parameters. . . . . . . . 5-6

Assigning VLANs to a Port and Associated Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

Configuring Physical Port Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10

Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Gigabit Ports . . . . . . . .5-11

Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Fast Ethernet Ports . . .5-16

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Using the All Ports Configuration Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22

Configuring Switch Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-23

Configuring Switch Port Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-23

Automatic VLAN Creation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29

Configuring Fast Start Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-32

Enabling the Auto Flush Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33

Using the All Module Ports Configuration Window . . . . . . . . . . 5-35

Viewing Switch Port Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-36

GBIC Identification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-38

Network Error Detection and Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-39

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-39

Enabling NEDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-41

Internal Error Detection and Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-44

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-44

Enabling IEDR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-44

Enabling IEDR for Hunt Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45

Setting the IEDR Threshold for Internal Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-46

Viewing IEDR Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-46

Viewing IEDR Settings for Hunt Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-46

Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-47

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-47

Chapter 6 — Managing the Address Forwarding Table. . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Relationship between VLANs, AFT and Hash Table Sizes . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Hash Table guidelines for creating VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Examples of Configuring VLANs and Hash Table Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5

AFT Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Address Forwarding Table, Auto-Sizing, Auto Increment and Threshold67

Total Entries, Address Memory, Age and Super-Age Timers. . . . . . . . 6-9

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Configuring the AGE and Super Age Timers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Instance Table Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10

Searching the Switch AFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14

Adding Entries to the AFT Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19

Option 82 for DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21

Changing the Status of Option 82 by Using the Web Agent. . . . 6-21

Changing the Status of Option 82 by Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . 6-21

Changing the Status of Option 82 by Using SNMP. . . . . . . . . . . 6-22

MAC Address Lock and Traps for Unknown Source Addresses. . . . . 6-22

Chapter 7 — Configuring Redundancy Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Configuring Redundant Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3

Redundant Switch Controllers and Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3

Installing and Enabling Redundant Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Installing Redundant Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

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Enabling Redundant Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-5

Replacing the Primary Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-7

Replacing an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-9

Configuring Supervisor Module Redundant Ethernet Console IP Addresses 7-10

Synchronizing the Active and Standby CPUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-12

Synchronizing Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-13

Chapter 8 — Configuring DNS Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-1

DNS Client Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1

Chapter 9 — Configuring IP Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-1

Routing Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-1

Hardware Requirements for IP Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-2

Software Requirements for IP routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-2

Minimum IP Routing Configuration Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . .9-3

Routing Configuration Quickstart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-3

Displaying Existing IP Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-4

Creating and Assigning IP Interfaces to the VLAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5

Enabling IP Forwarding (Routing) Global Parameters. . . . . . . . . 9-10

Access Lists (also called Access Control Lists or ACLs) . . . . . . . .9-15

Access Control List Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-16

Creating Access Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-20

Activating Access Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-27

Example: Filtering Web Traffic Using an Access Rule . . . . . . . . .9-28

Optimizing Performance when Using an Access Control List . . .9-30

How to Optimize Performance when using ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-32

Evaluate System Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-33

Enable Routing at the Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-36

Design Safe, Efficient ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-37

Identify the Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-37

Configuring Hash Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-39

Managing F-chip Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-40

Creating IP Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-41

Creating IP Static ARP Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-43

Creating a BOOTP/DHCP Server Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-44

Option 82 for DHCP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-46

IP Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-48

Configuring IGMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-49

Configuring and Modifying DVMRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-53

Modifying a DVMRP Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-57

Monitoring Switch Performance Using IP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-59

Displaying Global IP Routing Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-59

IP Multicast Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-69

Displaying IGMP Interface Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-71

Displaying the IGMP Group Membership Table . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-74

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Displaying the IGMP Local Multicast Forwarding Cache . . . . . . 9-75

Displaying DVMRP Global Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-76

Displaying DVMRP Interface Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-78

Displaying DVMRP Neighbor Routers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-80

Displaying DVMRP Routing Table Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-81

Displaying the DVMRP Route Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-82

Displaying the Upstream DVMRP Routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-84

Displaying the DVMRP Designated Forwarder(s) Table . . . . . . . 9-84

Displaying the DVMRP Downstream Dependent Routers . . . . . 9-85

Displaying the DVMRP Multicast Forwarding Cache . . . . . . . . . 9-86

Configuring VRRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-90

Globally Enabling VRRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-90

Enabling VRRP on an Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-92

Creating a VRRP Virtual Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-93

Displaying VRRP Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-97

VRRP Configuration Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-99

Configuring IRDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-102

Enabling IRDP on an Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-102

Configuring LDAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-105

Configuring LDAP Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-105

Viewing LDAP Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-108

Configuring a Static Route for the PPP Console . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-109

Configuring the IP Interface for the PPP Console . . . . . . . . . . . 9-111

Chapter 10 — Configuring RIP Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1

Configuring RIP on the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1

Modifying RIP Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3

Creating Trusted RIP Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6

Viewing RIP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11

NBMA IP Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12

Chapter 11 — Configuring the OSPF Routing Protocol . . . . . . . . . 11-1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1

What is OSPF? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1

Configuring Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2

Configuring the OSPF Global Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-3

Creating OSPF Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-5

Deleting OSPF Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7

Modifying OSPF Areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-8

Enabling OSPF on an IP Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-9

Modifying OSPF Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-9

OSPF Passive-Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12

Creating OSPF Virtual Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-14

Deleting OSPF Virtual Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-16

Modifying OSPF Virtual Links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-17

Creating OSPF Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18

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Deleting OSPF Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-20

Modifying OSPF Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-20

Monitoring Switch Performance Using OSPF Statistics . . . . . . . . . .11-21

Displaying OSPF Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-21

Displaying OSPF Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-24

Displaying OSPF Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-25

Searching the OSPF Link State Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-27

NBMA IP Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-33

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-33

Setting Up an NBMA IP Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-34

Setting Up NBMA Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-35

Removing NBMA Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-36

Chapter 12 — Configuring IPX Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-1

IPX Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-1

IPX Datagram Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

Configuring the Avaya Switch as an IPX Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-3

Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3

Configuring IPX Routing Globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-4

Configuring IPX Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-5

Creating IPX Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-9

Deleting IPX Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-12

Modifying IPX Static Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-12

Creating IPX Static Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-13

Deleting IPX Static Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-16

Modifying IPX Static Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-17

Monitoring Your Switch Using IPX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-17

Displaying IPX Global Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-18

Searching the IPX Route Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-20

Displaying the IPX Route Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-21

Displaying IPX Route Table Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-22

Searching the IPX Service Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-23

Displaying the IPX Service Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-24

Displaying IPX Service Table Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-25

Chapter 13 — Configuring the IPX RIP Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-1

Configuring IPX RIP Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-1

Creating and Modifying IPX RIP Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-3

Viewing RIP Interface Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-8

Chapter 14 — Configuring the IPX SAP Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-1

Configuring IPX SAP Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-1

Creating IPX SAP Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-3

Creating IPX SAP Name Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-4

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Creating IPX SAP Network Filters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-8

Interpreting IPX SAP Interface Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-13

Chapter 15 — Configuring AppleTalk Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-1

Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-1

What is AppleTalk Routing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-1

Need for AppleTalk Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-3

Configuring AppleTalk Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-3

Enabling AppleTalk Global Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-4

Creating an AppleTalk Routing Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-5

Editing AppleTalk Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-8

Deleting an AppleTalk Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-10

Creating an AppleTalk Static Route. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-11

Editing AppleTalk Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-13

Deleting an AppleTalk Static Route. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-15

Creating an AppleTalk Name-Binding Protocol (NBP) Filter . . 15-15

Editing an AppleTalk NBP Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-18

Adding or Deleting Interfaces to an NBP Filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-19

Creating an AppleTalk Zone Filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-20

Editing an AppleTalk Zone Filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-22

Adding or Deleting Interfaces to a Zone Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-23

Viewing AppleTalk Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-24

Viewing AppleTalk Global Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-24

Viewing the AppleTalk Interface Statistics Table. . . . . . . . . . . . 15-27

Viewing the AppleTalk Route Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-28

Viewing AppleTalk Route Table Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-30

Viewing the AppleTalk ARP Cache Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-31

Viewing the AppleTalk Zone Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-32

Viewing AppleTalk Zone Table Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-33

Viewing the AppleTalk NBP Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-34

Chapter 16 — Managing Intelligent Multicasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-1

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-1

Manually Configured Intelligent Multicasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-2

Dynamic Intelligent Multicasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-3

Configuring Intelligent Multicasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-5

Configuring Global Intelligent Multicasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-5

Displaying Router Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-8

Configuring Static Router Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-9

Searching for Intelligent Multicast Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-10

Deleting an Intelligent Multicast Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-13

Deleting a Multicast Session Client Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-14

Creating a Static Multicast Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-15

Deleting Static Multicast Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17

Creating Static Client Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-18

Deleting Static Client Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-19

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Managing IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-20

Enabling IGMP Snooping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-21

Viewing IGMP Snooping Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-22

Managing the LGMP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-22

Configuring the LGMP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-25

Viewing the LGMP Server Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-26

Viewing the LGMP Server Statistics per VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-27

Managing the LGMP Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-29

Enabling the LGMP Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-31

Viewing LGMP Clients Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-32

Viewing LGMP Clients per VLAN statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-33

Managing CGMP Snooping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-35

Enabling CGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-35

Viewing CGMP Snooping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-37

Chapter 17 — Monitoring the Avaya Multiservice Switch. . . . . . . 17-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-1

Interpreting Front Panel LED Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-1

Checking Temperature Status and Configuring Thresholds. . . . .17-2

Checking Active Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-5

Viewing the Active Alarm Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-5

Using the Event Subsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-6

Configuring the Protocol Event Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-7

Viewing the Event and Shutdown Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-12

Viewing Event Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-15

Setting Log Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-16

Configuring Event Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-19

Chapter 18 — Monitoring and Configuring the Forwarding Cache18-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18-1

Configuring the Forwarding Cache. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-1

Monitoring the Forwarding Cache Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18-4

Displaying Frame Forwarding Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18-4

Displaying and Searching the L3 Forwarding Cache for an Entry18-6

Displaying the Forwarding Cache. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18-8

Chapter 19 — Analyzing Network Performance By Using RMON and

Ethernet Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19-1

Viewing Network Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19-1

Setting Up Port Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19-8

Setting Up a Port Mirror on a Switch in Fabric Mode 1. . . . . . . .19-9

Setting Up Port Mirroring on a Switch in Fabric Mode 2 . . . . .19-13

Removing a Fabric Mode 2 Port Mirror. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19-19

Viewing Information about a Fabric Mode 2 Port Mirror . . . . .19-20

Setting Up a Port Mirror by Using SNMP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19-20

Enabling MAC Address Lock and Traps for Unknown Source Addresses. .

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Chapter 20 — Managing Buffers and Queues on 50-Series Modules. . 20-1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-1

How Queues Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-1

Managing Buffers and Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-2

Chapter 21 — 80-Series QoS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-1

Why implement QoS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-2

How Does QoS Work? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-3

QoS Process for Ingress Traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-3

QoS Process for Egress Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-4

Diagram of QoS Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-6

Classification of Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-7

Default Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-7

Classifying Traffic by Layer 2 Characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-8

Classifying Traffic by Layer 3 or Layer 4 Characteristics. . . . . . . 21-8

Diffserv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-10

Precedence of Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-11

Supported Number of Queues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-12

Setting the Priority of a Physical Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-13

Setting a Physical Port to Ignore Tag Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-14

Setting the Priority of a MAC Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-16

Displaying the Priority of a MAC Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-18

Setting a Physical Port to Use DiffServ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-19

Setting a Physical Port to Mask DiffServ Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-20

Assigning a Priority to a DSCP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-21

Displaying the DiffServ Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-22

Displaying the QoS Settings for a Physical Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-22

Setting Up an ACL Rule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-23

Setting Up a Default ACL Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-30

Displaying ACL Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-31

Ingress Policing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-31

Setting Up Policing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-32

Displaying the Policing Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-34

Queue-Servicing Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-35

WFQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-35

Strict Priority Queueing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-36

CBQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-37

CBWFQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-37

Management Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-38

Setting Up WFQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-39

Setting Up Strict Priority Queueing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-40

Setting Up CBQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-41

Setting Up CBWFQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-42

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Displaying the Queue-Service Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-46

QoS Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21-47

Displaying QoS Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21-53

Resetting the QoS Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21-54

Displaying the Buffer Settings for Egress Queues . . . . . . . . . . .21-55

Appendix A — Upgrading the Application Software. . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-1

Backing Up the Current Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-2

Backing Up the Previous Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3

Downloading Application Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-5

Setting the Startup Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-6

Synchronizing the Active and Standby Supervisor Modules . . . . . . . .A-7

Resetting the Active Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-8

Resetting the Standby Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-9

Verifying the Upgrade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-10

Upgrading from v4.x to v5.x. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-10

Upgrading a Switch with Multiple VLANs Statically Bound to Hunt Group

Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-11

Appendix B — Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

Accessing BOOT Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B-1

Accessing BOOT Mode During Power Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B-1

Accessing BOOT Mode with Corrupted Operational Images. . . . .B-1

Password Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B-2

Downloading New Operational Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B-2

Appendix C — Supported MIB Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-1

General Private MIBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-1

IPX Interface MIBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-1

IEEE 802.3 MAU Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-1

IEEE 802.3 Statistics Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-2

Bridge MIB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-2

SNMPv2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-2

RMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-2

RMON2 MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-2

SMON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-2

RIP Version 1.0 and 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-2

OSPF Version 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-2

VRRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-3

IGMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-3

IP Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-3

IP Version 4.0 and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-3

IP Forwarding/Route Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-4

DVMRP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-4

AppleTalk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-4

Policy Capability MIB for LDAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-4

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Load MIB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-4

Appendix D — FCC Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-1

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Index-1

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Preface

Overview of the Contents

This guide provides information and procedures for configuring the Avaya P550R

, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice switches with various protocols. You can use either the Web Agent or command line interface (CLI) to configure the switches. This guide provides information for both interfaces. The Avaya switches support both layer 2 and layer 3 functionality.

* Note: For detailed information about the CLI, refer to

Command Reference Guide for the Avaya P550R, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switches, Version 5.3.1.

This guide is divided in to the following chapters:

■ Chapter 1, Introduction — Provides an overview of

hardware and software used on all four switches.

■ Chapter 2, Initialize and Setup — Explains how to

initially configure all three switches, and create users, configure protocols, manage configuration files, and configure the switches for dial-up networking.

■ Chapter 3, Configuring System Information — Explains

how to view and configure switch information such as system clock settings, and temperature, power, and cooling statistics.

■ Chapter 4, Using VLANs, Spanning Tree, Hunt Groups,

and VTP Snooping — Provides detailed information on how to create and configure VLANs, Spanning Tree, Hunt groups, and VTP Snooping on your switch.

■ Chapter 5, Configuring Port Parameters — Explains how

to configure physical port and switch port parameters on your switch.

■ Chapter 6, Managing the Address Forwarding Table —

Provides information on how to configure and manage the address forwarding tables in your switch.

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■ Chapter 7, Configuring Redundancy Options —

Explains how to install, enable and configure redundancy hardware options on your switch.

■ Chapter 8, Configuring DNS Client — Explains how to

configure DNS and RADIUS clients on your switch.

■ Chapter 9, Configuring IP Routing — Explains how to

configure your switch for IP routing and interpret IP routing statistics.

■ Chapter 10, Configuring RIP Routing — Explains how to

configure IP RIP on your switch.

■ Chapter 11, Configuring the OSPF Routing Protocol —

Explains how to configure OSPF routing protocol on your switch. Also provided is information on OSPF statistical displays.

■ Chapter 12, Configuring IPX Routing — Explains how to

configure IPX on your switch.

■ Chapter 13, Configuring the IPX RIP Protocol —

Explains how to configure IPX RIP protocol on your switch.

■ Chapter 14, Configuring the IPX SAP Protocol —

Explains how to configure IPX SAP on your switch.

■ Chapter 15, Configuring AppleTalk Routing — Explains

how to configure AppleTalk parameters and view AppleTalk statistics.

■ Chapter 16, Managing Intelligent Multicasting —

Explains how to configure and manage intelligent multicast sessions on your switch.

■ Chapter 17, Monitoring the Avaya Multiservice Switch

— Explains how to use the Web Agent to assess your switch’s current operational status.

■ Chapter 18, Monitoring and Configuring the

Forwarding Cache — Explains how to interpret and monitor forwarding operations that occur in the address cache of the multilayer media modules.

■ Chapter 19, Analyzing Network Performance By Using

RMON and Ethernet Statistics — Provides information on how to interpret the statistics counter values displayed in your switch.

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■ Chapter 20, Managing Buffers and Queues on 50-Series

Modules — Explains how to use your switch’s buffer management features to optimize traffic throughput through the switch fabric.

■ Chapter 21, 80-Series QoS — Provides information about

QoS and explains how to configure QoS on the switch.

■ Appendix A, Upgrading the Application Software —

Explains how to update the operational code on your switch.

■ Appendix B, Boot Mode — Explains how to use boot

mode on the Avaya Multiservice switches.

■ Appendix C, MIB Groups — Provides information on the

supported MIB groups.

■ Appendix D, FCC Notice — Provides the FCC notice

statement.

■ Index

Technical Support

To contact Avaya’s technical support:

■ From the United States:

1-800-237-0016

■ From North America:

1-800-242-2121

■ Outside North America:

Contact your distributor

Avaya Technologies Products and Services

Refer to the Avaya World Wide Web site at:

http://support.avaya.com

for information about Avaya products and services.

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Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this guide:

Convention Represents Examples

User Input User entered text. To create a new

password, type store password root.

Boldface Text Represents a menu

command, a keyword to be acted upon, or a button name.

In the Interface field, select Default.

Click Cancel to stop the installation.

System Output Text displayed by the

system.

If you attempt to find the physical location of port 30, the system displays

Unit 2 Port 2

“Save the running configuration to the startup configuration”

Always save the running configuration to startup configuration before you turn off the switch

Note: Never save the

startup configuration to the running configuration.

“Save the running configuration to the startup configuration and turn off the switch”.

+ or - Expand or collapse a folder

in the navigation pane.

To set your server location, you must first expand the System folder, then expand the Configuration folder to see the Server Location link.

Using the Web Agent.

The Web Agent consists of folders that you must open to perform a specific operation. The folders are part of a group located on the Web Agent window.

Select Modules & Ports from the System > Configuration group on the Web Agent window.

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The words Select and Click.

In this guide: Select means to point and

click on a specific item that that opens another dialog box, window, option box, etc.

Click means to point to an action and press the left mouse button once to perform an operation.

Select Configuration from the Module & Ports folder. The Module Information Web page displays.

Click Apply to accept the change, or Cancel to ignore the change

Web Agent vs. Command Line Interface (CLI) steps.

The procedures in this guide provide detailed steps for the Web Agent. A series of CLI commands are also available that accomplish the same actions. These commands are listed after the Web Agent procedure and are followed by a reference to the Command Reference

Guide for the Avaya P550R, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switches, Version

5.3.1 for more detailed

information.

In the Ports field, select the port number of the module.

The CLI command is

show port (mod-num>

(refer to the Command Reference Guide for the Avaya P550R, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switches, Version 5.3.1 for

more detailed information).

Knowledge level

All procedures in this guide are written with the assumption that the reader knows how to navigate through a windows-type environment (use scroll bars, open pull-down menus, etc.).

Scroll to the “Configuring IP by Using the Web Agent” section.

Open the In-band IPC pull-down menu.

Convention Represents Examples

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Using Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

The following text and icon conventions are used in this guide for Notes, Cautions, and Warnings.

* Note: Provides additional information about a procedure or

topic.

WARNING

Indicates a condition that may cause bodily injury or death.

CAUTION

Indicates a condition that may damage hardware or software.

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