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