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Table 8

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 operations documents (cont’d.)

Document title

Description

 

 

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

This document provides procedures

Configuration — OSPF and RIP,

and conceptual information to

NN46205-522

administer and configure Open

 

Shortest Path First and Routing

 

Information Protocol.

 

 

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch

This document provides instructions to

8600 Configuration — IP Routing,

configure general routing operations

NN46205-523

on the Nortel Ethernet Routing

 

Switch 8600. Operations include

 

address resolution protocol, reverse

 

ARP, TCP/UDP, Dynamic Host

 

Configuration Protocol, Virtual Router

 

Redundancy Protocol, Multiple Virtual

 

Router feature, VRF Lite, circuitless IP

 

interfaces, static routes, Point-to-Point

 

Protocol over Ethernet, Equal Cost

 

Multipath, Routed Split Multi-Link

 

Trunking, and routing policies.

 

 

Fault and Performance Management

Fault and Performance Management documents include information that supports the tasks that operations personnel perform that relate to managing or preventing faults, troubleshooting, and monitoring and improving the performance of the network or product.

The following table shows the documents for this job function.

Table 9

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 fault and performance management documents

Document title

Description

 

 

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

This document provides a reference

Logs Reference, NN46205-701

for the log messages generated by the

 

Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 System

 

Messaging Platform (SMP).

 

 

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

Documentation Roadmap

NN46205-103 01.01 Standard

19 May 2008

Copyright © 2008 Nortel Networks

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Nortel Networks 8600 manual Fault and Performance Management

8600 specifications

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