Enterasys Networks X-PeditionTM manual Preface, Contents of the Guide

Preface

This guide provides a general overview of the XSR hardware and software features. It describes how to configure and maintain the router. Refer to the XSR CLI Reference Guide and the XSR Getting Started Guide for information not contained in this document.

This guide is written for administrators who want to configure the XSR or experienced users who are knowledgeable of basic networking principles.

Contents of the Guide

Information in this guide is arranged as follows:

•Chapter 1, Overview, introduces key features of the XSR.

•Chapter 2, Managing the XSR, describes the three methods of managing the router along with the control commands and tools available to accomplish that task including Remote Auto Install (RAI) and memory management.

•Chapter 3, Managing LAN/WAN Interfaces, describes system FastEthernet/GigabitEthernet and High Speed Serial features, how to configure them, and MIB-II statistics collected for LAN interfaces.

•Chapter 4, Configuring T1/E1 & T3/E3 Interfaces, outlines XSR controller features, including the Drop and Insert NIM, and how to configure and troubleshoot them.

•Chapter 5, Configuring IP, outlines a host of XSR IP protocol suite features, including Secondary IP, VRRP, Proxy DNS, VLAN and Policy Based routing, Route Preference, multiple static routes, CIDR, and their associated configuration.

•Chapter 6, Configuring the Border Gateway Protocol, describes XSR-supportedBGP-4 features including MIB tables defined in RFC-1657, BGP SNMP traps, protection of sessions, capabilities advertisement, route reflection, communities, route refresh, route flap dampening, AS confederations, and debug capability.

•Chapter 7, Configuring PIM-SM and IGMP, describes Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) configuration with these features and how to configure them: IGMP versions 1, 2 and 3 (on LAN interface only), PIM- SM version 2, Static IGMP group membership, Dynamic and Static RP, Register and Assert Mechanism, Rendezvous Point Tree (RPT) Build-up, Shortest Path Tree (SPT) Build-up, RPT to SPT Switch, Join/Prune Mechanism, and Source Specific Multicast (SSM) Support.

•Chapter 8, Configuring PPP, details XSR support for the PPP and Multi-link PPP protocols, Multi-Class MLPPP, peer entity authentication, Bandwidth on Command (BAP), and how to configure these features.

•Chapter 9, Configuring Frame Relay, details how to set up Frame Relay networks on the XSR, including using rate enforcement (CIR) and congestion control (FECN and BECN), Discard Eligibility, Frame Relay Inverse ARP, LMI support, and FRF.12 fragmentation.

•Chapter 10, Configuring Dial Services and Back Up, details background information about Dial Services and Dial Backup across a PSTN, Ethernet failover, Dial on Demand (DoD) and Bandwidth on Demand (BoD), Multi-link PPP, dialer interface spoofing, Dialer Watch, ISDN callback, and the commands to configure these features.

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