Lanplex 2500 Extended Switching User Guide
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 Contents
 Overlapped IP VLANs
What Is Routing?
Default Route Address Resolution Protocol ARP
Example
 Dvmrp Metric Value
Mbone Multicast Routing Algorithms Flooding
Pruning
Elements IPX Routing
 About Aarp
Administering interfaces LIS Interfaces
Administering Routes
Displaying Interfaces
 10-2
Defining a Static Route
Displaying the ATM ARP Cache
10-3
 11-3
Displaying Routes Displaying the Multicast Cache
11-2
11-3 Modifying an Interface
 12-11
What Is RMON?
MIB Objects 13-4 Alarms
12-12
 Support from 3Com A-4 Returning Products for Repair A-4
 Introduction
When you configure your LANplex 2500 system
About this Guide
Monitoring Rmon
 Icon Type Description Information Note
Conventions
List conventions that are used throughout this guide
Instructions
 LANplex 2500 Documentation
 LANplex 2500 Software Release Notes
801-00322-000
 Module Installation Guides
2-5 ,
 About this Guide
 About LANplex
Features
Switching
Extended
 Using Menus
Switching software
 Bridge Menu Hierarchy
 IP Menu Hierarchy
 IPX Menu Hierarchy
 Appletalk Menu Hierarchy
 About VLANs
For the network administrator
Vlans on
Vlan concept in LAN technology helps minimize broadcast
 Vlans on the Lanplex System
 Ethertype, Snap PID
SNA Services over Ethernet Ethertype
Vlan Configuration Protocol Suite
DECnet
 Switch Ports
Layer 3 Addressing Information
 About VLANs
 IP port
VLAN, so the Default Vlan is used
Index 1 2 Data received on
Source port
 Data received on Is flooded on Because XNS port
So the Default Vlan is used
Default None
System
 On port IP subnet
Data received on Is flooded on Because IP subnet
158.103.122.2
158.103.123.2
 About VLANs
 Vlan Examples Example
Example of a Protocol-Sensitive Vlan Configuration
 Example
A Vlan Configuration with Servers on Separate 100BASE-T ports
 Vlans on the Lanplex System
 Bridging and Routing
Lanplex System
 Subnetted Architecture with LANplex Switching Hubs
 Multiple Ports per Subnets with the LANplex 2500 System
 Bridging
Routing Models
 Bridging in the Traditional Bridging and Routing Model
 Bridging in the LANplex Bridging and Routing Model
 Routing in the LANplex Bridging and Routing Model
 Bridging and Routing in the Lanplex System
 IP Routing
Routing with IP Technology
OSI Model
 Section
Elements of IP
Routing
Hardware-configured 48-bit addresses
 Address Classes
 How a Subnet Mask Is Applied to the IP Address
 Shows the routing table of the router in Figure
 Dynamic Routes Using RIP
Static Routes
 Example of an ARP Cache
 Example of ARP Cache Updated with ARP Reply
 Errors
Transmission
 Routing with
Classical IP over
 References
Forwarding to Nodes within an LIS
 Routing with IP Technology
 About IP
Routing with IP Multicast
Multicast Routing
 Tunnels on page 6 for more information about tunnels
To a multicast router
Provider
Multicast tunnel only if the Time-To-Live TTL value present
 Algorithms routing
Flooding Spanning Trees Reverse Path Forwarding
 Simple Network Implemented Without Using Spanning Tree
Shows a simple network with five links
 Interfaces
Multicast
Which are described in this section
 Routing with IP Multicast
 NetWare
IPX Routing
Environment
 Be provided by protocols above IPX
NetWare Protocols and the OSI Reference Model
 Protocol RIP
 Shows the IPX packet format
 How IPX Routing Works
 IPX Packet Routing
 How IPX Routing Works
 Elements
Service Advertising Protocol SAP
Intranetwork
 Aging Timer The time since the network’s last update
Shows an example of a typical routing information table
 Internetwork Service Information
 IPX Packet Format
 Routing with IPX
 Server Information Table
 Server Information Maintenance
 Elements of IPX Routing
 Routing with IPX
 AppleTalk
Routing in AN Appletalk Environment
About AppleTalk
Network
 Named Entities
 AppleTalk Networks and AppleTalk Zones
 Protocols
 AppleTalk Protocols and the OSI Reference Model
 Routing in AN Appletalk Environment
 AppleTalk Protocols
 Network Router Interface
 AppleTalk Protocols
 Mapping for both extended and nonextended networks
About Aarp
Description language used by many printers
Another probe packet
 About Aarp
 Routing in AN Appletalk Environment
 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter
Administering Vlans
Displaying Vlan Information
 Fields for Vlan Information Description Index
Example of a detailed display for the VLANs
Describes these statistics
Layer
 Defining Vlan Information
 Modifying Vlan Information
Vlan
 Removing Vlan Follow these steps to remove a Vlan definition
Information
Enter the indexes for the VLANs you want to remove Example
 Administering Vlans
 Administering IP Routing
Administering
 Administering IP Routing
 Ip interface summary Ip interface detail
 Example detail display
Example summary display
Defining an IP LIS Interface
 LIS interface example with both PVCs and SVCs
 Atm Route Arp Detail
 Modifying an Interface
Accept the default yes if you want to delete the interface
Removing an
 Removing an Advertisement Address
 Removing a Permanent Virtual Circuit PVC
Routes
Adding a Permanent Virtual Circuit PVC
Automatically
 Timing out
Static Route was statically configured Learned
Interface Status Information Description Direct
Timed out
 Displaying Routing Table
 Removing a Route
Flushing a Route
 ARP Cache
Default route is immediately removed from the routing table
Corresponding MAC addresses
 Displaying the ARP
String from the top level of the Administration Console
Example display of the contents of the ARP cache
Cache
 Flushing the ARP Cache
Administer the ATM ARP cache
ATM ARP Servers
ARP cache entries are immediately removed from the table
 ATM switch, such as 3Com’s CELLplex 7000 system
Removing an ATM ARP Server
 Removing an ATM ARP Cache Entry
Ip atmArpServer arp Display
 Flushing the ATM
Bootp including Dhcp = Time = DNS =
UDP Helper
Are modified and then forwarded through the router
 Displaying UDP Helper Information
 Enabling Disabling IP Routing
 Mode
Setting the RIP
Enabling Disabling Icmp Router Discovery
Operate in any of three modes
 Enter the IP address of the station you want to ping
Pinging an IP Station
You may receive one of the following responses
 Displaying IP Statistics
Describes the IP statistics
 Administering IP Routing
 Administering
IP Multicast Routing
 Disabling Igmp
Enabling and Disabling Dvmrp
Enabling
Methods to make this determination
 Administering IP
 Rate Limit
From the top level of the Administration Console, enter
Example multicast interface configuration
 Disabling Multicast Interfaces
Enabling Multicast Interfaces
 IP address of the remote multicast router
Multicast Tunnels Administration Console, enter
Multicast Tunnels
Displaying
 Removing a Multicast Tunnel
Defining a To define an IP multicast tunnel Multicast Tunnel
Tunnel is removed
 Displaying Routes
Describes the fields in the route display
 Displaying the Multicast Cache
You are prompted for the multicast source address
 Following display shows the multicast cache configuration
 Describes the fields in the cache display
 Administering IP Multicast Routing
 Administering IPX Routing
 Formats and two Fddi encapsulation formats. The Ethernet
Define an associated interface
Address. Each address within the network should be unique
Is available for communications Up or unavailable Down
 From the Administration Console top-level menu, enter
Defining an IPX
 Ipx interface modify
 Routers
Administration Console
Known to the router
Segment. a tic is approximately 55 milliseconds
 Defining a Static Route
As well as the routing table
Console top-level menu, enter
 Ipx route remove
 Server table using the Administration Console
Servers
 Console top-level menu, enter
Defining a Static Server
 Removing a Server To remove a server
From the Administration Console top-level menu, enter
Enter the number of hops to the server. Example
Flushing Servers
 Setting IPX
Forwarding
 Follow the IPX router implementation guidelines
Setting
Enhanced RIP
Brackets, press Return at the prompt
 Setting the SAP
Enter the SAP mode off, passive, or active. To use the value
 Displaying
Statistics
 Example below
Describers the IPX RIP statistics
 SAP Entries Number of servers in the server table
Describes the IPX SAP statistics
SAP Requests
Been received
 Describes the IPX forwarding statistics
Ipx statistics forwarding
 Errors in network layer header
Hdr Errors
Layer header errors
No Routes
 Administering Appletalk Routing
 Associated AppleTalk interface
 Displaying AppleTalk Interfaces
Defining an Interface
 Enter the zone name
Removing an Interface
 Appletalk route display
 Following example shows a routing table display
 12-7
 Following example shows an Aarp cache display
 Removing an Entry To remove an Aarp cache entry Cache
 Displaying the Zone Table
 Configuring Forwarding
Enter enable or disable at the prompt
Zone Table by Zones
 Configuring Checksum
Enter enable or disable at the checksum generation prompt
Enter enable or disable at the checksum verification prompt
Pinging an AppleTalk Node
 Following is an example of DDP summary statistics
Describes the AppleTalk DDP statistics you can view
 An example of summary statistics is shown below
Displaying Rtmp Information
Describes the Rtmp statistics you can view
 Displaying ZIP Information
 Describes the ZIP statistics you can view
 Displaying NBP Information
 Describes the NBP statistics you can view
 Remote Monitoring Rmon and the Lanplex System
Remote Monitoring Rmon Technology
 Remote Monitoring Rmon Technology
 Remote Monitoring Rmon Technology
 Segment being monitored
Alarm
Variable and trigger an alarm
History
 Management
Information Base
 Example of an Rmon MIB Counter Object
 Application for details on setting up alarms
Alarms
Instances of when counters exceed their set threshold
You misleading results
 Manually Set Thresholds
 Generates an alarm only under the following conditions
 Appendix
Appendix a Technical Support
 Technical Support
Services
Variety of services. This appendix describes these services
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 Index
Numerics
 See also RIP See also SAP
 Mbone
 MIB
 See also Fddi station statistics
 Tunnels IP multicast 5-6