Vanguard Managed Solutions installation manual Vanguard 342 Description, Limitations

Vanguard 342 Description

Vanguard 342 Description

Introduction	This section describes the Vanguard 342 device.
Description
	The Vanguard 342 is a member of the 340 family. The Vanguard 342 expands the
	capabilities of the 340 by providing enhanced performance, increased memory and
	support for new applications and services to meet the growing demands of the small
	branch office. It’s high performance architecture and features enable new WAN
	services such as G.SHDSL, broadband DSL and Cable access, as well as
	multiservice voice, data, video integration, and VPN. The 342 comes standard with
	two 10/100BaseT auto-sensing Ethernet ports - one of which can be used as a WAN
	port for direct connectivity to a DSL or Cable modem, or for LAN segmentation to
	separate public from private data.
	The Vanguard 342 offers cost-effective integrated solutions that simultaneously
	support:
		•	Data
		•	Fax
		• Voice over Frame Relay and Voice over IP
		• Virtual Private Network (VPN)
		•	Broadband access
		• Two 10/100BT LAN Ports
		Note
		The second LAN port is port 8.
	The Vanguard 342 is SNMP-manageable and comes with a variety of LAN, SNA,
	and IP networking features. The Vanguard 342 supports two Vanguard Daughtercard
	slots for voice, fax and mixed protocol data traffic such as, IP, Frame Relay, X.25,
	ISDN, or NX64 T1/E1 services. The Vanguard 342 also comes with two
	10/100BT LAN Ports.
	For descriptions of the Vanguard 342 Daughtercard and other hardware components,
	refer to the appropriate sections in Chapter 2, Hardware Description.
Limitations
	Ethernet SLAC stations are not supported on the 2nd LAN port of
	Vanguard® 342 .

Note

CMEM configurations from Vanguard 342 should not be loaded on a Vanguard 340. If the 342 CMEM has Port 5 with a Bridge Link Number or Router Interface Number parameters with a value different from 1, then the Port 5 record needs to be deleted and then created again.

FLASH SIMMs for the Vanguard 340 and 6400 Series are not compatible with the Vanguard 342. Vanguard 342 SIMMs are not compatible with the Vanguard 340 and 6400 Series. The SIMMs could be damaged.

The Vanguard 342 requires 6.2 or greater software.

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