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Chapter 1: SSR Product Overview
Supported Media (Encapsulation Type)
The SSR supports the following industry-standard networking media:
IP: IEEE 802.3 SNAP and Ethernet Type II
IPX: IEEE 802.3 SNAP, Ethernet Type II, IPX 802.3, 802.2
802.1Q VLAN Encapsulation
Supported Routing Protocols
The SSR supports many routing protocols based on open standards. The SSR can receive
and forward packets concu rrently from any combina tion of the following:
Interior gateway protocols:
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Version 2
Quality of
Service (QoS)
Layer-2 prioritization (802.1p)
Layer-3 source-destination flows
Layer-4 source-destination flows
Layer-4 application flows
RMON RMON v1/v2 for each port
Management • SNMP
CoreWatch Element Manager (GUI)
Emacs-like Command Line Interface (CLI)
Port mirroring Traffic to Control Module
Traffic from specific ports
Traffic to specific chassis slots (line cards)
Hot swapping Power supply (when redundant supply is installed and online)
Load balancing/
sharing
Cabletron Systems SmartTRUNK support
Redundancy Redundant and hot-swappable power supplies
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Table 1. SSR Hardware and software sp ecifications (Continued)
Feature Specification