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