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    Smartswitch atm switch user guide 35 industrial way rochester, nh 03866 usa (603) 332-9400 part number 04-0053-01 rev. A order number 9033002.

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    Ii smartswitch atm switch user guide notice cabletron systems reserves the right to make changes in specifications and other information contained in this document without prior notice. The reader should in all cases consult cabletron systems to determine whether any such changes have been made. The...

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    Smartswitch atm switch user guide iii fcc class a notice this device complies with part 15 of the fcc rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference tha...

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    Iv smartswitch atm switch user guide declaration of conformity addendum application of council directive(s): 89/336/eec 73/23/eec manufacturer’s name: cabletron systems, inc. Manufacturer’s address: 35 industrial way p. O. Box 5005 rochester, nh 03866 product name: smartswitch atm switches european ...

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    Smartswitch atm switch user guide v safety information class 1 laser transceivers the connectors on i/o modules containing the part numbers iom-29-4-mix, iom-29-4-ir, iom-29-4-lr, iom-39-1 and iom-39-1-lr use class 1 laser transceivers. Read the following safety information before installing or oper...

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    Vi smartswitch atm switch user guide fiber optic protective caps warning read before removing fiber optic protective caps. Cable assemblies and mmf/smf ports are shipped with protective caps to prevent contamination. To avoid contamination, replace port caps on all fiber optic devices when not in us...

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    Smartswitch atm switch user guide vii regulatory compliance summary safety smartswitch atm switches meet the safety requirements of ul 1950, csa c22.2 no. 950, en 60950, iec 950, and 73/23/eec. Emc smartswitch atm switches meet the emc requirements of fcc part 15, en 55022, csa c108.8, vcci v-3/93.0...

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    Viii smartswitch atm switch user guide revision history document name: smartswitch atm switch user guide document part number: 04-0053-01 rev. A document order number: 9033002 author: bruce jordan editor: ayesha maqsood illustrator: mike fornalski date revision description >Àv…Ê£™™™ " initial releas...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide ix table of contents table of contents 1 introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 1.1 contents of the user guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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    X smartswitch atm user guide table of contents 5 virtual ports and static connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-1 5.1 pvc connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide xi table of contents 9.4 troubleshooting congestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4 9.4.1 diagnosing congestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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    Xii smartswitch atm user guide table of contents.

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    Smartswitch atm user guide xiii list of figures list of figures figure 2-1 single pvp connection between clients and lane services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15 figure 2-2 multiple pvp connection between clients and lane services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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    Xiv smartswitch atm user guide list of figures.

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    Smartswitch atm user guide xv list of tables list of tables table 2-1 elan join policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12 table 6-1 traffic descriptor type number explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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    Xvi smartswitch atm user guide list of tables.

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 1-1 1 introduction welcome to the smartswitch atm user guide. This manual provides instructions and information about switch use, maintenance, and problem solving for all smartswitch atm switches. These include • smartswitch 2500 workgroup and backbone atm switches • smart...

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    1-2 smartswitch atm user guide smartswitch atm switch differences introduction 1.2 smartswitch atm switch differences not all features are supported on all smartswitch atm switches. The smartswitch 6500 has capabilities that are not supported by the other smartswitch atm switches. The following is a...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-1 2 ip over atm and lane this chapter describes working with the smartswitch atm switch ip over atm vlan and emulated lan capabilities. At the end of this chapter you will be able to use your smartswitch atm switch to: • create an ip over atm vlan • create an emulated et...

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    2-2 smartswitch atm user guide creating an ip over atm vlan ip over atm and lane 3. Enter the show client command to make sure the client is operational and to obtain the 20-byte atm address of the arp server. For instance, if you used the client number (client 1) from the example in step 2, enter t...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-3 ip over atm and lane creating an ip over atm vlan note if configured devices fail to join the vlan, see chapter 4, "routing." section 4.3. Also, see chapter 9, "troubleshooting." 2.1.1 default atm addressing for ip over atm atm smartswitches provide a default format fo...

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    2-4 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane 2.2 creating an emulated lan this section describes the steps for implementing an emulated lan (elan) on your smartswitch atm switch. Note if lane services are to be reached through a virtual port on an atm smartswitch, thi...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-5 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan note when you create a client, it automatically finds the lecs address using ilmi. Note the command add laneclient always prompts you with a subnet mask that is appropriate for the ip address. However, if necessary, you can...

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    2-6 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane acquire the lecs address through ilmi or use the well known address as the address for the lecs. For details on the atm smartswitch automatic addressing scheme for lane, see section 2.2.1. 7. As each end device registers wi...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-7 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan the lecs address is constructed from: netprefix + cpu mac address + selector byte of 01 for example netprefix = 39:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:14:41:89 chassis mac address = 00:20:d4:14:41:80 then, default lecs address = 39:...

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    2-8 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane the lecs address is constructed from: netprefix + chassis mac address + selector byte of 01 for example netprefix = 39:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:a3:87:0b chassis mac address = 00:00:1d:a3:87:0b then, default lecs address =...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-9 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan 2.2.3 switch clients it is important to understand the concept of atm smartswitch client connections. A switch client connection is actually a vlan connection to the atm smartswitch’s cpu (here, we use the term vlan to mean...

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    2-10 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane 2. Use the add leselan command to create an les on switch sw2: sw2 # add leselan elannumber(0) : 1 elanname(elan001) : mis1 connectmethod(svc) : elantype(802.3) : multipoint(yes) : mtu(1516) : errorlogenable(no) : minimumt...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-11 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan 6. Use the show client command on sw1 to see that the client has reached all the distributed lane services and has successfully joined elan mis1 . Sw1 # show client clientnumber(all) : client type ip address server type se...

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    2-12 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane note if the default elan (elan 0) has been deleted, the client is dropped. By using elan join policies, clients attempting to join lane services can be assigned to specific elans. Table 2-1 lists the elan join policies tha...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-13 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan use the add lecselanpolicy command to create elan join policies. The following is an example of creating an elan join policy based on the by packet size policy. Smartswitch # add lecselanpolicy policyindex() : 2 — can be a...

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    2-14 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane in the following example, a client is identified by its atm address and ip address, and associates it with elan number 1. Smartswitch # add lecselanlec atmaddress() : 39:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:44:55:66:11:22:33:44:55:6...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-15 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan figure 2-1 single pvp connection between clients and lane services physical bus multicasting implies that the bus performs multicasting according to physical ports. With a single pvp, the bus understands that all requests ...

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    2-16 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane currently, the smartswitch 6500 is the only smartswitch atm switch that supports logical multicasting. For this reason, if you are connecting to lane services across an atm wan using multiple pvps and if client join reques...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-17 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan figure 2-3 lnni redundant lecss on same network lane load sharing running multiple lecss, alleviates the bottleneck of a single lecs supporting all clients on all elans. Under lnni, a client requesting a call setup is serv...

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    2-18 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane figure 2-4 lnni call set up load sharing additional load sharing can be achieved using lnni and distributed lane services. Using distributed lane, lnni allows each switch containing an lecs to support up to eight (8) les/b...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-19 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan figure 2-5 how lnni handles elan join requests setting up lnni lecs the procedure for setting up lnni on a smartswitch atm switch is performed by executing the following basic steps: • shut down all lane services — lecs, l...

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    2-20 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane 1. On both sw1 and sw2, enter the stop lecs command to make sure each lecs is down sw1 # stop lecs confirm(y/n)?:y notice - 'lecs' ***** lecs shutdown ***** sw1 # 2. On both sw1 and sw2, enter the stop les command to stop ...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-21 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan 6. On sw1, create an elan; in this example, we create elan1 : sw1 # add elan elannumber(0) : 1 elanname(elan001) : elan1 connectmethod(svc) : elantype(802.3) : multipoint(yes) : mtu(1516) : errorlogenable(no) : minimumtden...

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    2-22 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane similarly, enter the show elan 1 command on sw2 to obtain sw2’s lecs address sw2 # show elan 1 elan 1 ============================================================================== elan number : 1 lecs address : 39:00:00:0...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-23 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan connected by a logical full-mesh topology. In this case, the term “logical” means only that all lnni switches participating within a particular domain should be able to reach each other. Typically, a full-mesh topology is ...

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    2-24 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane 6. On switch sw3, use the set lnnistatus command to enable lnni and scsp (server cache synchronization protocol). Sw3 # set lnnistatus lnnistatus(disabled) : enable scspstatus(disabled) : enable sw3 # note scsp does not ha...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 2-25 ip over atm and lane creating an emulated lan to see a list of servers (les/bus or sms servers) known to a particular lnni lecs, enter the show lecsserverlist command on a switch running an lnni lecs: sw1 # show lecsserverlist elannumber(all) : 1 les/sms servers known...

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    2-26 smartswitch atm user guide creating an emulated lan ip over atm and lane.

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 3-1 3 pnni routing all atm smartswitches use pnni version 1.0 as their default routing protocol. Pnni provides automatic and dynamic connectivity among all pnni nodes within the same peer group. By configuring multi-level pnni topologies and peer group leaders, full hierar...

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    3-2 smartswitch atm user guide pnni node addressing pnni routing note if the node does not have a child node, and the node is also at the lowest level, the second byte is assigned the constant value a0 (160 decimal). For example, for a node at the lowest level (80), the level and address length byte...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 3-3 pnni routing multi-level pnni topology use the show pnninode command to view atm smartswitch pnni node parameters. For example: smartswitch # show pnninode nodeindex(1) : ================================================================================ node index : 1 no...

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    3-4 smartswitch atm user guide multi-level pnni topology pnni routing 1. Physically connect switches swa1, swa2, and swa3. Similarly, physically connect switches swb1, swb2, and swb3 (see figure 3-1). Figure 3-1 physical connectivity for multi-peer group example 2. Use the set pnnipeergroupid comman...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 3-5 pnni routing multi-level pnni topology note the first byte of the peer group id indicates the peer group’s level. It also indicates the number of significant bits used in the peer group id. For example, if the level indicator is 50 (80 decimal), then 80 bits / 8 = 10 b...

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    3-6 smartswitch atm user guide multi-level pnni topology pnni routing do the same on switch swb3: swb3 # set pnnipglelection nodeindex(1) : leadershippriority(0) : 205 — highest priority in election process parentnodeindex(0) : 2 — node 2 will represent the peer group b in the parent group inittime(...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 3-7 pnni routing multi-level pnni topology connectivity is now established between the two peer groups. For example, if lane services are running on a switch within peer group a, lane clients can exist in group b. The clients in group b will traverse the link between the t...

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    3-8 smartswitch atm user guide multi-level pnni topology pnni routing 2. Add a third node (at level 64) to either switch swa3 or swb3. 3. Use the set pnnipglelection command to designate the switch’s second node (not third) as the pgl for the parent peer group, and specify the third node as the pare...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 3-9 pnni routing managing parallel pnni links 3.3 managing parallel pnni links atm smartswitches can be connected by more than one physical link. Pnni treats these connections as parallel physical links. By default, parallel links are considered to have equal capabilities ...

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    3-10 smartswitch atm user guide managing parallel pnni links pnni routing use the set pnniinterface command to set the administrative weight of a physical link originating from a particular port. The following, is an example of increasing the administrative weight for cbr call setups through the phy...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 3-11 pnni routing managing parallel pnni links the physical connection from switch swa2 to switch swb2 is now advertised as a second logical link within the parent peer group (see figure 3-4). Figure 3-4 aggregation token values and parallel links 3.3.2 pnni link timing by...

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    3-12 smartswitch atm user guide managing parallel pnni links pnni routing however, certain time-sensitive implementations of pnni may require that link fail occur either immediately or after a period of time longer than three seconds. Use the set linkmonitortimeout command to control the time requir...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 4-1 4 routing 4.1 additional routing protocols along with pnni, all atm smartswitches support additional atm routing protocols: • iisp — use to connect with devices that do not support pnni • uni — use to connect end stations (also to connect devices whose implementation o...

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    4-2 smartswitch atm user guide iisp routes routing note for iisp routes, always set the type parameter of the add atmroute command to external . This indicates that the route is external to the pnni domain. Note the add atmroute command allows you to specify a set of metrics to be used with the rout...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 4-3 routing iisp routes iisp routing example one in figure 4-1 switch a is an iisp device connected to the pnni domain through switch b. Switch a contains an lec, which is a member of an elan whose lecs is on switch c (within the pnni domain). If the lec on switch a is to ...

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    4-4 smartswitch atm user guide iisp routes routing figure 4-2 routes needed for a second iisp switch 4.2.2 iisp link timing by default, if an iisp link loses connectivity, the link fails after three (3) seconds. This short amount of time is designed as a buffer in case of minor latency. By waiting t...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 4-5 routing uni routes 4.3 uni routes use the add atmroute command to create uni routes. For example, connect an end station adapter (with mac address 00:11:22:33:44:55) to port 7a2 of a smartswitch 6500. If the adapter does not support ilmi or its ilmi is incompatible wit...

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    4-6 smartswitch atm user guide uni routes routing 4. Enter the show atmroute command to check that the uni route was added. Smartswitch # show atmroute addressnumber(all) : no. Port route address type protocol ================================================================================ 1 7b4 39:...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 4-7 routing route metrics caution remember that while some special network configurations may require the timeoutvalue to be zero (0), setting timeoutvalue to less than three seconds may cause a uni route to fail unnecessarily. For this reason, care should be taken when se...

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    4-8 smartswitch atm user guide route metrics routing 1. Create the outgoing member of the metric pair: smartswitch # add pnnimetric executing this command : add pnnimetrics metricstag(1) : 9 trafficdirection(outgoing) : — 1st pair member, we accept the default (outgoing) servicecategory(ubr) : cbr g...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 4-9 routing ip routing for management once the metric is created, we can specify its metric tag number within the definition of a route. In this example, an iisp route is being created: smartswitch # add atmroute portnumber() : 6b2 atmaddress() : 39:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00...

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    4-10 smartswitch atm user guide ip routing for management routing to see the route, enter the show route command on sw2 smartswitch # show route route net table destination gateway flags refcnt use interface ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 1 0...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 5-1 5 virtual ports and static connections 5.1 pvc connections atm smartswitches support permanent virtual circuits (pvcs), both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint. Use pvcs to connect devices (that do not support svcs) to a switch’s local client. Also, use pvcs to mak...

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    5-2 smartswitch atm user guide pvc connections virtual ports and static connections for this example, we specify cbr as the traffic type, then take the remaining defaults. Enter the show trafficdescriptor command to obtain the index number of the new traffic descriptor. In this example, the index nu...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 5-3 virtual ports and static connections pvc connections example: create a point-to-multipoint connection between a broadcasting workstation on port 7a1 and three other workstations connected to ports 7a2 , 7a3 , and 7a4 . 1. Use add trafficdescriptor to create two new tra...

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    5-4 smartswitch atm user guide pvc connections virtual ports and static connections 5. Connect the workstations to their respective ports. 6. Configure the workstations for the same subnet and vpci/vci pair = 0/101. The broadcasting workstation on port 7a1 can send traffic to the receiving workstati...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 5-5 virtual ports and static connections pvp connections 5.2 pvp connections note pvp connections are supported only on the smartswitch 6500. However, because all atm smartswitches support virtual ports, pvps can be terminated using any smartswitch atm switch. The smartswi...

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    5-6 smartswitch atm user guide pvp connections virtual ports and static connections 2. Use the set portconfig command to turn off signaling and ilmi and to specify bits for vpis on port 7b1 : smartswitch # set portconfig portnumber() : 7b1 — specify the second port portadminstatus(up) : ilmiadminsta...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 5-7 virtual ports and static connections virtual ports 5.2.1 connecting pvps pvps are physically connected to other devices in the following two ways: • physically connecting the pvp port to another pvp switch when connecting to another pvp switch, the vpi numbers assigned...

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    5-8 smartswitch atm user guide virtual ports virtual ports and static connections 5.3.1 creating virtual ports virtual ports are created on physical ports by first allocating a range of virtual path identifiers (vpis), and then distributing the vpis among the virtual ports. The number of vpis used d...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 5-9 virtual ports and static connections virtual ports note for pnni, the number of vpis used by each virtual port should be one (1). For virtual uni, the number of vpis used by each virtual port should correspond to the number of vpis on the user side of the uni connectio...

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    5-10 smartswitch atm user guide virtual ports virtual ports and static connections 3. Use the portnumber and maxvpibits parameters of the add port command to create the virtual ports. Smartswitch # add port portnumber() : 7a1.1 — the .1 means our base vpi is one (1) portadminstatus(up) : ilmiadminst...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 5-11 virtual ports and static connections soft pvc and pvp connections things to watch out for when creating virtual ports • make certain that the virtual port number (base vpi) plus the vpis designated by maxvpibits does not exceed the available vpis as specified by maxvp...

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    5-12 smartswitch atm user guide soft pvc and pvp connections virtual ports and static connections 5.4.2 making soft pvc and pvp connections creating soft pvc and pvp connections consists of the following general steps: • configure a target port and atm target address on the target switch • create a ...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 5-13 virtual ports and static connections soft pvc and pvp connections 1. Define a target atm address to be used on the target switch. The target atm address can be any address that is either eight (8) or twenty (20) bytes long and must not be identical to any address curr...

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    5-14 smartswitch atm user guide soft pvc and pvp connections virtual ports and static connections 5. On the source switch, use the add spvc command to create the soft pvc connection between the two switches: smartswitch # add spvc portnumber() : 7a1 — port on source switch sourcevpi(0) : 0 sourcevci...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 5-15 virtual ports and static connections soft pvc and pvp connections 5.4.4 creating a soft pvp note soft pvps are supported only on the smartswitch 6500 atm switch. The following is an example of creating a soft pvp between port 7a1 on the source switch and port 6b3 on t...

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    5-16 smartswitch atm user guide soft pvc and pvp connections virtual ports and static connections 3. Use the add spvcaddress command on the target switch to specify the target port and atm address. Smartswitch # add spvcaddress portnumber() : 6b3 — port on target switch atmaddress() : 22:22:22:22:22...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 5-17 virtual ports and static connections soft pvc and pvp connections enter the show spvp command on the target switch to see the soft pvp and its current state: smartswitch # show spvp portnumber(all) :7a1 sourcevpi(0) : 3 ================================================...

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    5-18 smartswitch atm user guide soft pvc and pvp connections virtual ports and static connections.

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 6-1 6 traffic management 6.1 traffic management capabilities atm smartswitches have extensive abilities for managing traffic flow. Traffic management includes all operations performed by the atm smartswitch that ensures optimum switch throughput, where throughput is based ...

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    6-2 smartswitch atm user guide traffic management capabilities traffic management atm smartswitch user data cells are classified according to the state of a cell loss priority (clp) bit in the header of each cell. A clp 1 cell has a lower priority than a clp 0 cell and is discarded first. Source tra...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 6-3 traffic management traffic management capabilities a user-defined pvc must have user-defined traffic descriptors. For instance, if a video link over a pvc requires a peak cell rate of 8000 kb/s, create a traffic descriptor for cbr traffic that specifies 8000 as the pea...

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    6-4 smartswitch atm user guide traffic management capabilities traffic management use the command show caceqbwallocscheme to view the current cac policies used by each port for each class of service. Smartswitch # show caceqbwallocscheme portnumber(all) : ============================================...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 6-5 traffic management traffic management capabilities 6.1.3 queue buffers atm smartswitches perform buffering using a shared-memory architecture. Buffer space is divided into queues for each class of service. In turn, ports are allocated a portion of each of the service c...

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    6-6 smartswitch atm user guide traffic management capabilities traffic management • queue 4 — available bit rate (abr) • queue 5 — unspecified bit rate (ubr) if calls of a particular service class are being dropped on a particular port, use the set porttrafficcongestion command to raise the port’s q...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 6-7 traffic management traffic management capabilities 6.1.4 efci, epd, and rm cell marking to control switch congestion, atm smartswitches implement standard resource management cell (rm-cell) marking, explicit forward congestion indicator cell marking (with backward rm c...

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    6-8 smartswitch atm user guide traffic management capabilities traffic management.

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 7-1 7 firmware upgrades and bootline commands 7.1 update firmware commands you can upgrade the operating firmware of an atm smartswitch while the switch is running its current firmware. This procedure is known as a hot upgrade and is accomplished by the update firmware com...

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    7-2 smartswitch atm user guide bootline commands firmware upgrades and bootline commands if possible, determine why the update firmware command failed. Possible causes are: • the atm smartswitch lost network connectivity before it finished its download • the wrong file or a corrupt file was download...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 7-3 firmware upgrades and bootline commands bootline commands • load switch firmware upgrades • set whether power-on system tests (post) are automatically run at start-up • change the master/slave relationship for tsm/cpus and csms on smartswitch 6500s 7.2.1 accessing the ...

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    7-4 smartswitch atm user guide bootline commands firmware upgrades and bootline commands 7.2.2 bootline commands explanations the following table describes the commands available from the bootline prompt, their use, and their associated parameters. Table 7-1 bootline commands command action paramete...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 7-5 firmware upgrades and bootline commands bootline commands figure 7-1 memory locations affected by the bootline commands scsm switch to the redundant csm: tells the smartswitch 6500 to transfer csm mastership to the slave csm. None swms switches cpu mastership to other ...

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    7-6 smartswitch atm user guide bootline commands firmware upgrades and bootline commands 7.2.3 upgrading boot load firmware two images of the boot load firmware reside in flash ram. The two images are identified as boot load image 0 and boot load image 1. Both boot load images can be upgraded by usi...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 7-7 firmware upgrades and bootline commands bootline commands changing the default boot load image continuing with the example above, perform the following steps to set boot load image 0 back to being the default. 1. Reboot the atm smartswitch. 2. When the following messag...

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    7-8 smartswitch atm user guide bootline commands firmware upgrades and bootline commands ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ............................................................

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 7-9 firmware upgrades and bootline commands bootline commands ................................................... Validity checks of the switch software downloaded file... All validity checks ok programming downloaded image into switch software section, please wait... New ...

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    7-10 smartswitch atm user guide bootline commands firmware upgrades and bootline commands.

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 8-1 8 atm filtering and clocking 8.1 port atm address filters smartswitch atm switches support atm address filtering. Address filtering provides a way to control call setups through svcs. Filtering is a process of stating whether entities with particular atm source or dest...

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    8-2 smartswitch atm user guide port atm address filters atm filtering and clocking 8.1.3 atm address filter example the following is an example of creating a filter, a filter set, and assigning the filter set to an incoming and outgoing port. 1. Use the add atmfilter command to create filters on sou...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 8-3 atm filtering and clocking port clock configuration by setting the mask appropriately, a filter could either admit or deny access to all but a few addresses within a range. For example, if a filter’s mask is set to 00:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:...

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    8-4 smartswitch atm user guide port clock configuration atm filtering and clocking by default, the clock mode for all smartswitch 6500 ports is local . Use the set portclockmode command to change a ports clocking source. For example, the following sets port 5a3 into loopback mode. Smartswitch # set ...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 9-1 9 troubleshooting this chapter provides basic troubleshooting for diagnosing and fixing problems with vlan, emulated lans, pnni links, and atm traffic congestion. 9.1 troubleshooting ip over atm you have configured an ip over atm vlan, but your network applications are...

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    9-2 smartswitch atm user guide troubleshooting lan emulation troubleshooting 5. If working through these questions does not solve the problem, contact cabletron systems customer service. (see appendix b, "technical support"). 9.2 troubleshooting lan emulation you have configured an emulated lan and ...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 9-3 troubleshooting troubleshooting pnni links - do devices begin to register with the les and bus once multi-point signaling is turned off? 7. Check whether bus is connected. • use show busclient to check whether devices are registered with the bus. If clients are registe...

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    9-4 smartswitch atm user guide troubleshooting congestion troubleshooting 2. Make certain that the switches in the other peer group support multi-level pgls and border nodes. If not, the other switches must be placed in the same peer group as the atm smartswitch if you want them to connect. 3. Are t...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 9-5 troubleshooting troubleshooting congestion *use the show portconfig command to view bandwidth utilization 3. Has the congestion subsided? • if yes, you are done. • if no, continue. 4. Have you changed the epd threshold ( set switchtrafficcongestion command)? • if yes, ...

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    9-6 smartswitch atm user guide events and alarms troubleshooting • if yes, the switch is improperly set up. Check the switch configuration. • if no, this indicates port congestion. Continue. 2. Enter the show cacinfo command for this port. Note the bandwidth allocated for each quality of service on ...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 9-7 troubleshooting events and alarms both events and alarms are stored within circular memory buffers. When the buffers become full, older events and alarms are overwritten by newer entries. Both events and alarms are stored in shared ram. However, the 40 most recent alar...

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    9-8 smartswitch atm user guide events and alarms troubleshooting note depending on the activity of your atm smartswitch, the appearance of events on the atm smartswitch may be too frequent to use the console comfortably. It is recommended that you turn on the automatic display of events only when tr...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide 9-9 troubleshooting saving core dumps 9.6 saving core dumps the atm smartswitch core dump feature allows you to specify a local ethernet host where, in the event of a system failure, the atm smartswitch sends a copy of its memory. Atm smartswitch system memory is saved to ...

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    9-10 smartswitch atm user guide saving core dumps troubleshooting if a system failure occurs while the core dump feature is enabled, the atm smartswitch console appears similar to the example below. The atm smartswitch then begins sending images of its memory to the core dump files on the tftp serve...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide a-1 appendix a agent support this appendix briefly describes the support provided for managing an atm smartswitch using simple network management protocol (snmp). A.1 mib, smi, mib files and internet mib hierarchy a mib (management information base) is the term used to rep...

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    A-2 smartswitch atm user guide mib, smi, mib files and internet mib hierarchy agent support figure a-1 internet mib hierarchy a.1.1 csi zeitnet proprietary mibs the location of some of zeitnet proprietary mibs in the internet hierarchy is shown in figure a-2. All nodes starting with “zn” represent z...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide a-3 agent support mib, smi, mib files and internet mib hierarchy . Figure a-2 csi zeitnet private mibs in figure a-2, the zeitnet proprietary group is identified by 1.3.6.1.4.1.1295; its subgroup, called znproducts, is identified by 1; and the first variable is znmanagedob...

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    A-4 smartswitch atm user guide mib, smi, mib files and internet mib hierarchy agent support : figure a-3 cabletron atm smartswitch object identifier example a.1.3 supported protocols all atm smartswitches support simple network management protocol (snmp). Both the snmpv1 and snmpv2c formats of the p...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide a-5 agent support mib, smi, mib files and internet mib hierarchy znipatmserver 1.3.6.1.4.1.1295.2.200.2 ip atm server services zncommonobjs 1.3.6.1.4.1.1295.2.300 zeitnet specific information zntrapobjs 1.3.6.1.4.1.1295.2.301 zeitnet traps znswitchobjects 1.3.6.1.4.1.1295....

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    A-6 smartswitch atm user guide mib, smi, mib files and internet mib hierarchy agent support a.1.6 atm smartswitch mib support the atm smartswitch is shipped with the following mibs: • mib ii (rfc 1213) • interface table mib (rfc 1573) • atom mib (rfc 1695) • atom2 mib • lane mib (atm forum) • ilmi 4...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide a-7 agent support managing an atm smartswitch - p2mproot - p2mpleaf • atmvplreceivetrafficdescrindex — doesn’t accept abr traffic descriptor • atmvpltransmittrafficdescrindex — doesn’t accept abr traffic descriptor not supported the following mib objects are not supported....

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    A-8 smartswitch atm user guide managing an atm smartswitch agent support • community: sets the community strings for the atm smartswitch • trapcommunity: specifies the nms to which traps are sent • mynmaddr: specifies the ip address through which the switch is managed • trustednms:specifies the ip a...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide b-1 appendix b technical support this appendix tells you what to do if you need technical support for your atm smartswitch. Cabletron offers several support and service programs that provide high-quality support to our customers. For technical support, first contact your p...

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    B-2 smartswitch atm user guide hardware warranty technical support • hardware model number, software version, and switch configuration (that is, what part types are in what slots) b.5 hardware warranty cabletron warrants its products against defects in the physical product for one year from the date...

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    Smartswitch atm user guide index-1 index a accessing the boot load prompt ................ 7-3 address filters ........................................... 8-1 example .............................................. 8-2 address masking ....................................... 8-2 administrative weight ...

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    Index-2 smartswitch atm user guide index add spvcaddress ......................5-13 , 5-16 add spvp ........................................... 5-16 add trafficdescriptor ........................... 6-3 create portfilterset .............................. 8-2 reboot .....................................

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    Smartswitch atm user guide index-3 index identifying clients ............................ 2-14 index number ................................... 2-13 priority value .................................... 2-13 elans across multiple switches ............. 2-8 emulated lan ...................................

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    Index-4 smartswitch atm user guide index les/bus connectivity ...................................... 2-19 les/bus load sharing ...........................2-17 lgn .......................................................... 3-3 link timing ............................... 3-11 , 4-4 , 4-6 lnni ...........

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    Smartswitch atm user guide index-5 index physical multicasting .............................. 2-14 pnn managing parallel links ...................... 3-9 pnni adding higher-level peer groups ........ 3-7 adding nodes ...................................... 3-5 administrative weight .....................

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    Index-6 smartswitch atm user guide index s scsm .......................................................... 7-5 scsp .............................................2-22 , 2-24 security ..................................................... 9-9 smartswitch 6500 snmp agent ...................................

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    Smartswitch atm user guide index-7 index update firmware ....................................... 7-8 upgrades ................................................... 7-1 upgrading boot load firmware ............................. 7-6 changing default boot load image ...... 7-7 post diagnostics .............