Chapter 8 Management Network Connectivity

IP Addressing Scenarios

In the example, the GNE is assigned an IP address within the central office LAN and is physically connected to the LAN through its LAN port. ENEs are assigned IP addresses that are outside the central office LAN and given private network IP addresses. If the ENEs are collocated, the LAN ports could be connected to a hub. However, the hub should have no other network connections.

Figure 8-10 ONS 15310-MA SDH Proxy Server with GNE and ENEs on the Same Subnet

ONS 15310-MA SDH

ENE

ONS 15310-MA SDH

IP 192.168.20.0/24

ENE

 

ONS 15310-MA SDH

NOC CTC

 

station

NOC LAN

 

 

97.1.1.x

 

Interface 0/0

 

97.1.1.1

 

Interface 0/1

 

86.1.1.1

Central Office LAN

 

86.x.x.x

Interface 0/0

 

Interface 0/1

86.1.1.3

192.168.20.1

 

ONS 15310-MA SDH

 

GNE

 

IP 192.168.20.20

 

Default gateway

 

192.168.20.1

271796

 

Local CTC station

IP 10.10.10.10

ENE

Table 8-2shows recommended settings for ONS 15310-MA SDH GNEs and ENEs in the configuration shown in Figure 8-10.

Table 8-2

ONS 15310-MA SDH GNE and ENE Settings

 

 

 

 

Setting

 

ONS 15310-MA SDH GNE

ONS 15310-MA SDH ENE

 

 

 

 

OSPF

 

Off

Off

 

 

 

SNTP Server (if used)

SNTP server IP address

Set to node GNE IP address

 

 

 

 

SNMP (if used)

 

SNMPv1 trap destinations

Set SNMPv1 trap destinations to node

 

 

 

GNE

 

 

 

 

Figure 8-11shows the same proxy server implementation with ONS 15310-MA SDH ENEs on different subnets. In this example, GNEs and ENEs are provisioned with the settings shown in Table 8-2.

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15310-MA specifications

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