Allied Telesis 2.6.1 manual Special Feature Licences

Introduction 11

■Sophisticated packet filtering.

■Bridging.

■Van Jacobson’s header compression, STAC LZS and Predictor compression, and DES encryption.

■Terminal serving using Telnet, with local host nicknames.

■Access to network printers via LPD or TCP streams.

■Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for delivering quality of service to application data streams.

■A fully featured, stateful inspection firewall.

■IPsec-compliant IP security services.

■Integration with a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

■Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).

■Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP-4).

■Load Balancing for distributing traffic among multiple resources.

■Software Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

■802.1x port authentication.

Special Feature Licences

You need a special feature licence and password to activate some special features over and above the standard software release. Typically, these special features are covered by government security regulations. Special feature licences and passwords are quite separate and distinct from the standard software release licences and passwords. Some of the software features that require a special feature licence are:

■Triple DES S/W

■Firewall SW

■Firewall SMTP Application Gateway

■Firewall HTTP Application Gateway

■DES encryption

■IPv6

■IP Multicast routing: DVMRP and PIM-Sparse Mode

■IPX routing

■IPX/SPX Spoofing

■IPX Filtering (not between switch ports)

■AppleTalk

■BGP-4

■Load balancer

Software Release 2.6.1 C613-02039-00 REV A