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RAPIER SWITCH
USER GUIDE
www.alliedtelesyn.com
Simply connecting the world C613-02003--00 REV A
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2 Rapier Switch User Guide Document Number C613-02013-00 REV A. Copyright © 2000-2001 Allied Telesyn International, Corp. 960 Stewart Drive Suite B, Sunnyvale CA 94086, USA. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without prior written permission from Allied Telesyn. Allied Telesyn International, Corp. reserves the right to make changes in specifications and other information contained in this document without prior written notice. The information provided herein is
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Contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction Why Read This User Guide? .............................................................................. 5 Where To Find More Information ...................................................................... 6 Technical support .............................................................................................. 6 What Can the Rapier Switch Do? ...................................................................... 7 Switching Features ...................
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4 Rapier Switch User Guide Port security ............................................................................................. 34 Virtual LANs .................................................................................................... 35 Static and dynamic VLANs ........................................................................ 37 Creating VLANs Without VLAN Tags ......................................................... 37 VLAN Tagging .....................................
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Introduction 5 Chapter 1 Introduction Welcome to the Rapier Series Layer 3 Gigabit switch, combining wire speed Layer 2 and Layer 3 IP switching, with a powerful multiprotocol routing software suite. Why Read This User Guide? This User Guide describes how to get started accessing the switch’s Command Line Interface (CLI) and its Graphical User Interface (GUI), and how to configure the Layer 2 switching features. For more detailed descriptions of all commands and display outputs see the Rap
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6 Rapier Switch User Guide Where To Find More Information Before installing the switch and any expansion options, read the important safety information in the Safety and Statutory Information booklet. Follow the Quick Install Guides step-by-step instructions for physically installing the switch and its expansion options. The Hardware References give detailed information about the equipment hardware. Once you are familiar with the basic operations of the switch, use the Software Reference fo
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Introduction 7 What Can the Rapier Switch Do? The Rapier switch software support for the Rapier Series switches and their expansion options provides wirespeed Layer 2 switching, including support for Virtual LANs, wirespeed Layer 3 IP switching, and Layer 3 multiprotocol routing. Switching Features The main Layer 2 features of the switch are: High performance, non-blocking, wire-speed Layer 2 switching (“Layer 2 Switching Process” on page 43). Packet Forwarding at wire speed (“The Forwar
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8 Rapier Switch User Guide Routing Features In addition to Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching, the Rapier switch provides a wide array of multiprotocol routing, security and network management features. IP routing is performed at wire-speed. Other Layer 3 routing is performed by the CPU, and increasing the routing load on the CPU decrease its performance. Some features require the addition of WAN interfaces via Network Service Modules (NSMs) and Port Interface Cards (PICs) installed in the NSM ba
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Introduction 9 Telnet client and server. A sophisticated and configurable event logging facility for monitoring and alarm notification to single or multiple management centres. Triggers for automatic and timed execution of commands in response to events. Scripting for automated configuration and centralised management of configurations. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for automatically assigning IP addresses and other configuration information to PCs and other hosts on
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10 Rapier Switch User Guide Optional Features Some additional features in the switch software may require special feature licences and passwords. SecureShell Remote Management Nemesis stateful inspection firewall Firewall SMTP Application Gateway Triple DES encryption Support for Public Key Infrastructure. Passwords must be ordered from your local distributor or reseller. You must specify the special features to be licenced and the serial number(s) of the switch(s) on which the spec
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Getting Started 11 Chapter 2 Getting Started The Rapier switch is supplied with default settings which allow it to operate immediately as a switch, without any configuration. Even if this is all you want to use the switch for, you should still gain access to the switch configuration, if only to change the manager password to prevent unauthorised access. To take advantage of the full range of advanced Layer 2 switching features, the switch configuration must be changed. Layer 3 routing capab
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12 Rapier Switch User Guide Table 1: Parameters for terminal communication Parameter Value Baud rate 9600 Data bits 8 Parity None Stop bits 1 Flow control Hardware Logging In A user accessing the switch from a terminal or PC connected to the front panel RS-232 terminal port (asyn0), or via a Telnet connection, must enter a login name and password to gain access to the command prompt. When the switch is supplied, it has a manager account with an initial password friend. Enter your login name
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Getting Started 13 Table 2: Command line editing functions and keystrokes Function VT100-compatible Keystroke Move cursor within command line ←, → Delete character to left of cursor [Delete] or [Backspace] Toggle between insert/overstrike [Ctrl/O] Clear command line [Ctrl/U] Recall previous command ↑ or [Ctrl/B] Recall next command ↓ or [Ctrl/F] Display command history [Ctrl/C] or SHOW ASYN HISTORY Clear command history RESET ASYN HISTORY Recall matching command [Tab] or [Ctrl/I] Enabling the
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14 Rapier Switch User Guide Passwords must be ordered from your local distributor or reseller. You must specify the special features to be licenced and the serial number(s) of the switch(s) on which the special feature licences are to be enabled. Graphical User Interface The switch includes a built-in web browser based GUI for configuring and monitoring the switch. Before you can access the GUI, it must be enabled using the CLI (“Command Line Interface” on page 11). You need a web browser to
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Getting Started 15 Figure 2: Rapier 24 Welcome page Save this page as a bookmark in your web browser, so that you can easily find it again. Navigating While using the Rapier GUI, use the buttons on the pages to navigate, not the browser’s Back and Forward buttons, to ensure that configuration information is stored correctly. The GUI is made up of Configuration pages, Monitoring pages and a Troubleshooting page. Click on a menu item on the left to select the Configuration, Monitoring or
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16 Rapier Switch User Guide Monitoring In the Monitoring page, select the kind of monitoring you want to display. A pop-up display page locks the base page from which it was opened. Click OK to close the pop-up window and return to its base window. Troubleshooting Web pages can sometimes become frozen if they are not navigated correctly. They can be unlocked by restarting the web browser. In the Troubleshooting page you can enter any command from the Rapier Switch Software Reference. The com
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Operating the Switch 17 Chapter 3 Operating the Switch This chapter introduces general operation, management and support features, including user authentication, loading and installing support files, and SNMP MIBs. For more information see Chapter 1, Operation in the Rapier Switch Software Reference. User Privileges The command processor supports three levels of privilege, USER, MANAGER, and SECURITY OFFICER, distinguished by the prompt displayed by the command processor when it is ready to
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18 Rapier Switch User Guide Figure 3: Example output from the SHOW FILE command. Filename Device Size Created Locks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1mac.scp flash 527 08-Nov-2000 12:46:00 0 86s-210.rez flash 1690736 14-Sep-2000 14:11:56 0 config.scp flash 64 10-Nov-2000 23:26:31 0 hdroute.scp flash 374 08-Nov-2000 12:46:00 0 lo
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Operating the Switch 19 Figure 4: Example of output from the SHOW SYSTEM command Switch System Status Time 14:29:17 Date 12-Sep-2000. Board ID Bay Board Name Rev Serial number -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Base 86 AT-RP24 Rapier 24 P2-1 49867449 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memory - DRAM : 32768 kB FLASH : 6144 kB -----
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20 Rapier Switch User Guide Saving Configuration Entered with the CLI Subsequent commands entered from the command line or executed from a script affect only the dynamic configuration in memory, which is not retained over a power cycle. Changes are not automatically stored in nonvolatile memory. When the switch is restarted the configuration will be restored to that defined by the boot script, or if the switch was restarted using the RESTART command, any script specified in the RESTART comm
