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List of Tables Table 3.1 ACT and OPR LED Summary .................................................. 11 Table 4.1 Possible LAG Configurations ................................................... 28 Table 5.2 Differences Between RIP and RIP2 .......................................... 47 Avaya P460 Conf...

List of Figures Figure 1.1 The Avaya P460 Switch – Front View ....................................... 1 Figure 2.1 M460ML-SPV Supervisor Module Serial Console Port .......... 3 Figure 2.2 M460ML-SPV Supervisor Module Fast Ethernet Console Port ...........................................................

Chapter 1 Avaya P460 Product Overview Introduction The Avaya P460 is a high-performance multilayer modular switch with two Supervisor module slots, four I/O slots and up to three Power Supply Units. It features full redundancy from switching fabric to port level. Figure 1.1 The Avaya P460 Switch – F...

Chapter 1 Avaya P460 Product Overview Avaya P460 Main Components Note: For information on Installation, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of these components, refer to the “Avaya P460 Installation and Maintenance Guide.” Supervisor Modules The P460 Supervisor modules form the core of the P460. Their f...

Chapter 2 Establishing Switch Access Introduction This chapter describes how to access the Avaya P460 CLI from the following devices: • A terminal to the serial port on the Supervisor Module • A workstation running a Telnet session connected via an I/O module (Inband) • A workstation running a Telne...

Chapter 2 Establishing Switch Access Note: If you connect your terminal to the Standby SPV, you can get access to all the CLI commands by opening a Session to the Active SPV. Establishing a Telnet Connection with the Switch (Inband) Perform the following steps to establish a Telnet connection to the...

Chapter 2 Establishing Switch Access In order to... Use the following command... Send an ICMP echo request packets to another node on the network. ping Note: For more detailed information on the CLI commands, please refer to the Avaya P460 Reference Guide Establishing a Telnet Connection with the Sw...

Chapter 2 Establishing Switch Access Outband Interface Connection CLI Commands In order to... Use the following command... Configure the management interface set interface outband Enable the outband interface enable interface outband Disable the outband interface disable interface outband Enable or ...

Chapter 2 Establishing Switch Access Redundant Outband Connections You can create a redundant outband management connection by connecting both Supervisor modules to the NMS via the Fast Ethernet interface by a switch (see Figure 2.3). Figure 2.3 Redundant Outband Connections Switch Workstation In th...

Chapter 2 Establishing Switch Access Establishing a PPP via Modem Connection with the P460 (Sideband) Overview The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a Layer 2 method for transporting multi-protocol datagrams over point-to-point links. Here only IP datagrams will be exchanged, over a RS232 seria...

Chapter 2 Establishing Switch Access Setting Up Sideband (PPP) Connection Configuration L You need to configure an IP address and netmask for the sideband interface before you can establish a ppp link. 1 Connect a terminal to the Serial console port. 2 When you are prompted for a Login Name, enter t...

Chapter 3 Avaya P460 Supervisor Module Features Introduction The Avaya P460 Supervisor module provides the following functionality: • Chassis-wide control • I/O module initialization • Fabric initialization • Switching that also uses also the fabric of the second SPV • Layer 3 functionality includin...

Chapter 3 Avaya P460 Supervisor Module Features Table 3.1 ACT and OPR LED Summary ACT LED is... OPR LED is... M460ML-SPV Module mode ON Blinking Active No fan module present OFF ON Standby OFF Blinking Halted or booting Supervisor Synchronization Configuring the Supervisor Modules for Active/Standby...

Chapter 3 Avaya P460 Supervisor Module Features — Embedded Web image — Preferred boot bank — Chassis synchronization L The transfer process can take up to 90 seconds. L The following screen capture shows the process: P460-1(super)# sync spv This command may overwrite the neighbor SPV software and re...

Chapter 3 Avaya P460 Supervisor Module Features • Layer 2 configuration changes are saved in both Supervisor modules when you press Enter. L The Supervisor module Ethernet outband interface configuration is not synchronized between the modules. • Layer 3 startup configuration is saved in the Standby...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Ethernet Ethernet is one of the most widely implemented LAN standards. It uses the Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) access method to handle simultaneous demands. CSMA/CD is a multi-user network allocation procedure in which every ...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features The Avaya P460 supports auto-negotiation enabling/disabling on a per-port basis. Flow Control€ Flow Control ensures that the receiving device can handle all the incoming data. Flow control does this by adjusting the data flow from one device to another. This is ...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features CAM Table€ It might be inefficient if the Avaya P460 could not “remember” which MAC address was accessible from which port, that is, where a specific device is attached. Therefore, the P460 stores a mapping of learned MAC addresses to port and VLANs in the CAM t...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features In order to... Use the following command... Display the CAM table entries for a specific port show cam Clear all the CAM entries. clear cam Send ICMP echo request packets to another node on the network. ping 18 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Ethernet Configuration Examples This example shows basic Ethernet configuration for port 40 on I/O module 6: 1 Disabling port negotiation P460-1(super)# set port negotiation 6/40 disable Link negotiation protocol disabled on port 6/40 2 Setting port duplex to fu...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features VLAN Configuration VLAN Overview A VLAN is made up of a group of devices on one or more LANs that are configured so the devices operate as if they form an independent LAN. These devices can, in fact, be located on several different LAN segments. VLANs can be use...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features In Figure 4.2, the switch has three separate VLANs: Sales, Engineering, and Marketing. Each VLAN has several physical ports assigned to it with PC’s connected to those ports. When traffic flows from a PC on the Sales VLAN, for example, that traffic is only forwa...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Multi VLAN Binding Multi VLAN binding, also known as Multiple VLANs per port, allows access to shared resources by stations that belong to different VLANs through the same port. This is useful in applications such as multi-tenant networks, where each user has hi...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features P460 VLAN Table The P460 VLAN table includes two types of VLANs: • User-configured VLANs • Dynamically learnt from the incoming traffic on the “Bind to All” ports When the VLAN list reaches its maximum capacity it is locked. No VLANs are dynamically learned and ...

---- --------- ----- ---- ---- --------------- --------------------- ----------- ------- Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features VLAN Configuration Example This example shows VLAN configuration for port 40 on I/O module on I/O module 6: 1 Defining VLAN 10 (switch-level) P460-1(super)# set vlan 10 VLAN...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Spanning Tree Configuration Spanning Tree Overview Without Spanning Tree a Network might experience packet storms when there are multiple bridges and paths through the network. In addition, loops might be formed in the network. When there are loops in the networ...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Spanning Tree CLI Commands In order to... Use the following command... Enable/Disable the spanning-tree protocol for the switch set spantree enable/disable Set the bridge priority for STA set port spantree priority Enable/Disable the spanning tree for switch por...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features LAG Configuration LAG Overview A LAG uses multiple ports to create a high bandwidth connection with another device. For example, assigning four 100BASE-T ports to a LAG on an M4648ML-T I/O module, allows the module to communicate at an effective rate of 400 Mbps...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Table 4.1 Possible LAG Configurations Module Maximum number of LAGs Base port is... Additional ports must be... Logical port numbers M4612ML-G 6 GBIC GBIC Part of the same group of six ports (1-6; 7-12) 101-103 (ports 1-6) 104-106 (ports 7-12) Logical Port Numbe...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features LAG CLI Commands In order to... Use the following command... Enable or disable a Link Aggregation Group interface on the switch set port channel Display Link Aggregation Group information for a specific switch or port show port channel LAG Configuration Example ...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Port Redundancy Configuration Port Redundancy Overview Redundancy involves the duplication of devices, services, or connections, so, in the event of a failure, the redundant duplicate can take over for the one that failed. Since computer networks are critical fo...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Redundancy CLI Commands In order to... Use the following command... Define/delete a redundancy entry. set port redundancy (on/off) Enable port redundancy on the switch set port redundancy enable Disable port redundancy on the switch set port redundancy disable S...

--------------- -- -------------- ------ ---------- Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Port Redundancy Configuration Example This example shows configuration of a port redundancy pair called “p460red” between ports 40 and 48 on I/O module 6 and its configuration. P460-1(super)# set port redundanc...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features IP Multicast Filtering Configuration Overview IP Multicast is a method of sending a single copy of an IP packet to multiple destinations. Different applications including video streaming and video conferencing can use IP multicast. The Multicast packet is forwar...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features • The Group Filtering Delay time is the time that the switch should wait between becoming aware of a Multicast group on a certain VLAN and starting to filter traffic for this group. IP Multicast CLI Commands In order to... Use the following command... Enable or ...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Broadcast Storm Control Broadcast Storm Control Overview This feature allows you to protect the network or switch from excessive Broadcast or Unknown traffic. When the Broadcast Storm Control is enabled, the switch discards broadcast, multicast and unknown packe...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 37 Broadcast Storm Control CLI Commands Broadcast Storm Control Configuration Examples This example shows configuration of broadcast storm control with a threshold of 100,000 pps. In order to... Use the following command... Enable ...

Chapter 4 Avaya P460 Layer 2 Features 38 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide Priority Configuration Overview By its nature, network traffic varies greatly over time, so short-term peak loads might exceed the switch capacity. When this occurs, the switch must buffer frames until there is enough capacity t...

Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 39 Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Introduction What is Routing? Routing allows transfer of a data packet from source to destination by a device called a router. Routing involves two basic activities: determination of optimal routing paths and transmission of inf...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 40 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide Figure 5.1 Routing The routers obtain the relation between the destination host’s protocol address and its physical address using the ARP request/reply mechanism.The information is stored within the ARP table in the router. See ...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 41 Routing Configuration Forwarding The P460 forwards IP packets between IP networks. When it receives an IP packet through one of its interfaces, it forwards the packet through one of its interfaces. The P460 supports multinetting...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 42 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide IP Configuration IP Configuration CLI Commands In order to... Use the following command... Enable IP routing ip routing Set ICMP error messages ip icmp-errors Specify the format of netmasks in the show command output ip netmask-...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 43 Basic Router Configuration L You need to install the Layer 3 license before you can configure Layer 3 parameters. The following example shows configuration of a basic IP interface and the routing protocol over this interface. It...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 44 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 3 Configure a VLAN for the specific IP interface Marketing: 4 Define an interface called Marketing, assign an IP address and the VLAN: 5 Display the settings: 6 Enable the required protocols: or 7 Start the operation to copy the...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 45 L This is necessary to retain the configuration after a reset Router-1(configure)# copy running-config startup-config

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 46 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide RIP (Routing Interchange Protocol) Configuration RIP Overview RIP is one of the two main groups of routing protocols - the other is OSPF (refer to "OSPF Overview" on page 49 for details). It is a “distance vector protoco...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 47 RIP2 RIP2 overcomes some of the shortcomings of RIP. Table 5.2 summarizes the differences between RIP and RIP2. RIP CLI Commands Table 5.2 Differences Between RIP and RIP2 RIP2 RIP Multicast addressing Broadcast Addressing Event...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 48 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide Enable split-horizon mechanism ip rip split-horizon Specify the type of authentication used in RIP Version 2 packets ip rip authentication mode Set the authentication string used on the interface ip rip authentication key In ord...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 49 OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) Configuration OSPF Overview OSPF is a routing protocol developed for IP networks based on the shortest path first or link-state algorithm. It was introduced to overcome the limitations of RIP in i...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 51 Static Routing Configuration Static Routing Overview When dynamic routing protocols – RIP or OSPF – are not appropriate, you can manually configure static routes to indicate the next hop on the path to the final packet destinati...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 52 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide Route Preferences The routing table can contain routes from different sources. Routes to a certain destination can be learned independently from RIP and from OSPF. At the same time, a static route can also be configured to the s...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 53 Route Redistribution Route redistribution is the interaction of multiple routing protocols. OSPF and RIP can be operated concurrently in the P460. In this case, you can configure the P460 to redistribute routes learned from one ...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 54 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) Table Configuration ARP Overview IP logical network addresses are independent of physical addresses. The physical address must be used to convey data in the form of a frame from one device to an...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 55 The ARP Table The ARP table stores recently used pairs of IP/MAC addresses. This storage saves time and communication costs, since the host looks in the ARP cache first when transmitting a packet. If the information is not there...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 56 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide BOOTP/DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Relay Configuration BOOTP/DHCP Overview BOOTP Short for Bootstrap Protocol, BootP is an Internet protocol that allows a diskless workstation to discover the following:• Its own IP...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 57 When the DHCP/BOOTP server is configured to allocate addresses only from a single subnetwork among the different subnetworks defined on the VLAN, you might need to configure the P460 with the relay address on that subnet so the ...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 58 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide NetBIOS Re-broadcast Configuration NetBIOS Overview Short for Network Basic Input Output System, an application programming interface (API) that augments the DOS BIOS by adding special functions for local-area networks (LANs). A...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 59 VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) Configuration VRRP Overview VRRP is an IETF protocol designed to support redundancy of routers on the LAN, and load balancing of traffic. VRRP is transparent to host stations, making it ...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 60 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide VRRP Configuration Example 1 Figure 5.4 VRRP Configuration Example Case#1 One main router on IP subnet 20.20.20.0, such as a P333R, P460 or any router that supports VRRP, and a redundant router. You can configure more backup rou...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 61 00.00.5E.00.01.VRID as a response to the stations ARP requests. • In the meantime, the redundant router will use a VRRP polling protocol to check the Main router integrity at one second intervals (default). Otherwise, it is idle...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 62 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide Set the primary address used as the source address of VRRP packets for the virtual router ID ip vrrp primary Accept or discard packets addressed to the IP address(es) associated with the virtual router, such as ICMP, SNMP, and T...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 63 Policy Configuration Policy Configuration Overview The P460 supports QoS (Quality of Service) by using multiple priority levels and IEEE 802.1p priority tagging. This QoS ensures that data and voice receive the necessary levels ...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features 64 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide Figure 5.5 Avaya P460 Policy Policy Configuration CLI Commands In order to... Use the following command... Configure the DSCP-802.1p mapping set qos dscp-cos-map Configure the DSCP entry name set qos dscp-name Configure which of...

Chapter 5 Avaya P460 Layer 3 Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 65 Policy Configuration Example The following shows configuration of Access List 1001 Assigning priority 6 to all TCP traffic originating in network 149.49.0.0 – rule 1: 2 Assigning priority 3 to all TCP traffic going to the host 1...

Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 67 Chapter 6 Switch Monitoring Features SNMP Configuration SNMP Configuration Overview Managers and Agents SNMP uses software entities called managers and agents to manage network devices: The manager monitors and controls all other SNMP-managed devices or network node...

Chapter 6 Switch Monitoring Features 68 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide function, you do not need to know the exact variable name you are looking for. The SNMP manager takes the variable you name and then uses a sequential search to find the desired variable. • Retrieve a number of values – a get-bul...

Chapter 6 Switch Monitoring Features 70 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide RMON RMON Overview RMON, the internationally recognized network monitoring standard, is a network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single workstation. You can use RMON probes to monitor and ...

Chapter 6 Switch Monitoring Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 71 Display the RMON statistics counters for a certain interface number according to the MIB-2 interface table numbering scheme show rmon statistics Display the most recent RMON history log for a given History Index show rmon history...

Chapter 6 Switch Monitoring Features 72 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide SMON SMON Overview SMON is Avaya’s standard-setting switch monitoring technology that has now been adopted as IETF standard RFC 2613. SMON extends the RMON standard to provide the switch monitoring tools and features you need to ...

Chapter 6 Switch Monitoring Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 73 SMON CLI Commands See "Basic Switch Configuration" in the Avaya P460 Installation and Maintenance Guide .

Chapter 6 Switch Monitoring Features 74 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide Logs Log Overview There are two logs are available for each Supervisor module – the System Log file and the Event Log file. • The System Log displays all the resets that took place in the supervisor with their time stamp and caus...

Chapter 6 Switch Monitoring Features Avaya P460 Configuration Guide 75 Port Mirroring Configuration Port Mirroring Overview Port Mirroring copies all received and transmitted packets (including local traffic) from a source port to a predefined destination port, in addition to the normal destination ...

Chapter 6 Switch Monitoring Features 76 Avaya P460 Configuration Guide Port Classification Port Classification Overview With the Avaya P460, you can classify any port as “regular” or “valuable”. Setting a port to “valuable” classification means that a link fault trap is sent in the event of a link f...