COREBUILDER
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION AND RELEASE NOTES
Published October 9,1997 Revision
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COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION
CONTENTS
Hardware Dependencies
Upgrading Your LMM or LMM+
B REMOTE MONITORING RMON TECHNOLOGY
A IP MULTICAST ROUTING
C VLANS ON THE COREBUILDER SYSTEM
D ADMINISTERING VLANS
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Overview
COREBUILDER
EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE
Release Highlights
Filter MIB
Hard Disk Copying to the UNIX Platform
9 Remove diskette #4 using the following command
Software on
Loading System
the LMM+
the Setup dialog box
To load the new software
Corebuilder 6000 Administration Console User Guide
corrupted for example, when the power fails while you are updating
CoreBuilder 6000 Command Quick Reference folded card
LANplex 6000 Extended Switching User Guide
Fast Ethernet Switching Module FESM Guide
FDDI Switching Module FSM Guide
What’s New at
Revision 8.2.3?
IP Interface Configuration Change
Example
7 Enter the advertisement address to be used on the interface
Select IP stack by slot 1-3,5,7,9-12 1 Enter IP address
Enter subnet mask 255.255.0.0 Enter cost
disabled
enabled
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bridge stpFollowLinkState
Sample display of bridge port information
What’s New at
Revision 8.2.0?
corrections that are implemented at this release
What’s New at Revision 8.2.0?
The system displays this message
You receive the prompt to select each port’s duplex mode
tokenringfastEthernet
duplexMode
Default To select the default all, press Return
Incorrect password. Disconnecting
Logout the other telnet session? Y/N y Enter Password correctpassword
Disconnecting
LOGGING OUT the other telnet session
The system prompts you for slot numbers
1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter
The system prompts you for the port type
The system prompts you for port numbers
Note these additional items
This message is immediately overwritten with
System Issues
The ESM supports only RMON groups 1 through
VLAN statistics are not supported on the ESM
A few lines below, add the following RowStatus comment
In the IMPORTS section, add
Known Problems
Roving Analysis cannot monitor outgoing routed packets
bridge.mib - Bridge MIB, RFC ethernet.mib - Ethernet MIB, RFC
lp.mib - LANplex Systems MIB, version
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Support for IP routing on the FDDI Switching Module FSM
continued
Revision History
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Support for Single Mode Fiber SMF on the FCM module
lpBridgePortAddressLearnedEvent and
The Ethernet MIB attributes, requestedEnabledPaths and
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LANplex 6000 Extended Switching User Guide
IP MULTICAST ROUTING
Overview
Enabling and
disabled
Disabling DVMRP
Disabling IGMP
Multicast
Administering IP
Interfaces
Rate Limit
ip multicast interface enable
ip multicast interface disable
Select IP stack by slot 2,3,7,9-12all
Enter an IP interface index
Multicast Tunnels
Administering
multicast internetworks through one or more unicast routers
that require a tunnel are those that require a connection between two
subnetworks as the local IP address
The destination router cannot be directly connected to the same
Enter the index numbers of the interfaces with which you want to
Enter the slots of the switching module for which you want to view IP
Displaying Routes
Table A-1 describes the fields in the route display
The following display shows all available multicast routes
Multicast Cache
Displaying the
for packets observed on the system. The multicast cache shows you how
Displaying the Multicast Cache
The following display shows the multicast cache configuration
A-11
bracket indicate a multicast subnetwork. Entries without an
Table A-2 describes the fields in the CacheDisplay
Interface number on which that gateway is connected. Traffic is
Set of interfaces on which the traffic will be flooded out. I repre
REMOTE MONITORING RMON B TECHNOLOGY
RMON
CoreBuilder
Implementation
suite of applications
RMON Groups
Number of received octets Number of received packets
per interface for each time interval includes
Example of an Alarm Threshold
Setting Alarm Thresholds
Figure B-1 shows a counter with thresholds set manually
RMON Hysteresis Mechanism
B-8 APPENDIX B REMOTE MONITORING RMON TECHNOLOGY
3Com Transcend RMON Agents
Figure B-2 shows an example of the CoreBuilder RMON implementation
Management Information Base MIB
The displayed information includes these items
About VLANs
VLANS ON THE
COREBUILDER SYSTEM
MAC Address Group VLANS
Port Group VLANs
Application-Oriented VLANS
C-2 APPENDIX C VLANS ON THE COREBUILDER SYSTEM
Protocol-Sensitive VLANS
CoreBuilder Protocol-Sensitive VLAN Configuration
Protocol Suite
About VLANs
The flood domain for protocols not supported by any VLAN in the system
Layer 3 Addressing Information
Modifying the Default VLAN
VLAN Exception Flooding
For example, two IP VLANs can be configured for ports 1-10 as follows
Overlapped IP VLANs
Routing Between VLANs
Displaying VLAN Information
ADMINISTERING VLANS
Example of a summary display for several VLANs
D-2 APPENDIX D ADMINISTERING VLANS
Example of a detailed display for the VLANs
Table D-1describes these statistics
to set up flood domains for overlapping IP VLAN subnetworks
Number of flooded broadcast and multicast bytes that were
Information for a
Defining VLAN
Traditional Bridge
SNA,Vines,X.25,NetBIOS,default
The maximum number of VLANs you can define on a single bridge is
Information for an HSI Switch Engine
D-6 APPENDIX D ADMINISTERING VLANS
Modifying VLAN Information
Example
bridge vlan modify
Select menu option bridge/vlan remove
bridge vlan remove
Select bridges by slot 2-3,5,10-12all Select VLAN indexes 1-2all
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