McDATA 3000 Required Network Design Information for an Ethernet Network, UltraNet Edge, IP Router

Required Network Design Information for an Ethernet Network

Network Design

The following is a list of information for you need to know for the network components when designing an Ethernet network.

UltraNet Edge 3000

•The Ethernet maintenance interface is statically configured for auto negotiate.

•Each IP interface on the UltraNet Edge 3000 needs to be on a separate subnet. This includes the WAN interfaces, the Ethernet maintenance interface, and the serial interface for PPP.

•The default PPP IP host address for the UltraNet Edge 3000’s serial interface is 192.168.1.1/28. This can be changed using UltraNet ConfigManager.

•The UltraNet Edge 3000 does not listen to routing broadcasts. One default gateway can be configured along with multiple host and network specific static routes. Generally the default gateway is defined for the Ethernet maintenance interface and the other static routes are used for the WAN.

•The end-to-end network must have less than 1% packet loss.

•The UltraNet Edge 3000 has SNMP support. SNMP access can be configured to limit Get or Set requests on a host specific basis. Up to six Trap destinations can be defined (see Appendix F, Configure SNMP for more information).

•The end-to-end network latency must be less than or equal to 200ms round-trip latency with less than 10% jitter.

•E_port and F_port Disk Streaming require dedicated ISLs. If multiple ISLs have been deployed, zoning and ISL routing (uroute, preferred pathing) should be incorporated.

IP Router

•The routers need to be configured for Ethernet Version II or IEEE 802.3.

•The routers need to be configured to pass interfaces 20/21 (ftp), 23 (telnet), and 161/162 (SNMP).

•The routers that are in the data path need to be configured to pass protocol ID’s 01 (ICMP), 61 (McDATA’s Transport Protocol), 255 (McDATA’s test utilities), 800 (IP), and 806 (ARP).

•The routers need to support at least 50K packets per second.

Network Design Criteria 3-3

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