Features and Specifications

Features

A.2.6 Connection Management

￿Ceiling limit protects buffer resources from being consumed by individual ports

￿Floor limit reserves buffer capacity for specific ports, such as those to heavily used servers or WAN/ATM services

￿Four configurable thresholds for forward congestion marking (EFCI)

￿UNI 4.0-based backward RM cell marking for fast, closed-loop flow control for ABR connections

￿Multiple threshold levels for Early Packet Discard

￿Automatic Partial Packet Discard

A.2.7 LAN Servers and Clients

ATM Forum LAN Emulation (LANE) 1.0

￿Up to 127 emulated LANs (ELANs)

￿LANE configuration server (LECS)

￿LANE server (LES)

￿Broadcast and unknown server (BUS)

￿LANE client (LEC)

￿802.3 (Ethernet) emulation

￿802.5 (Token Ring) emulation

IETF RFC 1577 Classical IP over ATM

￿Up to 127 logical IP subnetworks (LISs)

￿IP-ATM (ARP) address resolution protocol server

￿IP-ATM client

A.2.8 Management

￿Serial port for terminal or modem access

￿Ethernet port for telnet access

￿In-band management using switch LANE or IP-ATM clients

￿Management applications: Cabletron Systems SPECTRUM for Open Systems, third-party SNMP-based managers

SmartCell 6A000 User Guide Appendix A-7

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