COREBUILDER
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION AND RELEASE NOTES
Published October 9,1997 Revision
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CONTENTS
COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION
Hardware Dependencies
Upgrading Your LMM or LMM+
A IP MULTICAST ROUTING
B REMOTE MONITORING RMON TECHNOLOGY
D ADMINISTERING VLANS
C VLANS ON THE COREBUILDER SYSTEM
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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
Loading System
Software on
the LMM+
the Setup dialog box
To load the new software
corrupted for example, when the power fails while you are updating
Corebuilder 6000 Administration Console User Guide
CoreBuilder 6000 Command Quick Reference folded card
LANplex 6000 Extended Switching User Guide
FDDI Switching Module FSM Guide
Fast Ethernet Switching Module FESM Guide
What’s New at
Revision 8.2.3?
IP Interface Configuration Change
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
Enter subnet mask 255.255.0.0 Enter cost
enabled
disabled
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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
duplexMode
tokenringfastEthernet
Default To select the default all, press Return
Logout the other telnet session? Y/N y Enter Password correctpassword
Incorrect password. Disconnecting
Disconnecting
LOGGING OUT the other telnet session
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
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
The Ethernet MIB attributes, requestedEnabledPaths and
lpBridgePortAddressLearnedEvent and
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LANplex 6000 Extended Switching User Guide
IP MULTICAST ROUTING
Overview
disabled
Enabling and
Disabling DVMRP
Disabling IGMP
Multicast
Administering IP
Interfaces
Rate Limit
ip multicast interface disable
ip multicast interface enable
Select IP stack by slot 2,3,7,9-12all
Enter an IP interface index
Administering
Multicast Tunnels
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
Displaying Routes
Enter the slots of the switching module for which you want to view IP
The following display shows all available multicast routes
Table A-1 describes the fields in the route display
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
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
Set of interfaces on which the traffic will be flooded out. I repre
REMOTE MONITORING RMON B TECHNOLOGY
CoreBuilder
RMON
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
3Com Transcend RMON Agents
B-8 APPENDIX B REMOTE MONITORING RMON TECHNOLOGY
Management Information Base MIB
Figure B-2 shows an example of the CoreBuilder RMON implementation
The displayed information includes these items
About VLANs
VLANS ON THE
COREBUILDER SYSTEM
Port Group VLANs
MAC Address Group VLANS
Application-Oriented VLANS
C-2 APPENDIX C VLANS ON THE COREBUILDER SYSTEM
CoreBuilder Protocol-Sensitive VLAN Configuration
Protocol-Sensitive VLANS
Protocol Suite
About VLANs
Layer 3 Addressing Information
The flood domain for protocols not supported by any VLAN in the system
Modifying the Default VLAN
VLAN Exception Flooding
Overlapped IP VLANs
For example, two IP VLANs can be configured for ports 1-10 as follows
Routing Between VLANs
ADMINISTERING VLANS
Displaying VLAN Information
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
Defining VLAN
Information for a
Traditional Bridge
SNA,Vines,X.25,NetBIOS,default
Information for an HSI Switch Engine
The maximum number of VLANs you can define on a single bridge is
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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