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6.2.3 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
6.3 Firmware and device drivers used in this example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chapter 7. Nortel Networks L2/3 GbESM configuration and network integration . . . 57
7.1 Standards and technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
7.1.1 VLAN tagging - 802.1Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
7.1.2 Link Aggregation and LACP - 802.3ad and 802.3-2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
7.1.3 Spanning Tree - 802.1D, 802.1w, 802.1s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
7.1.4 Routing Information Protocol - RFC1058 and RFC2453. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
7.1.5 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) - RFC1257, RFC2328, and others . . . . . . . . . 59
7.1.6 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) - RFC 3768 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
7.1.7 Where standards originate and how to get them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
7.2 Summary of sample configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
7.2.1 Basic Layer 2 configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
7.2.2 Advanced Layer 2 configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.2.3 Layer 3 configuration - static routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.2.4 Layer 3 configurations - dynamic routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.3 Introduction to High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
7.3.1 Introduction to trunk failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
7.3.2 Introduction to NIC Teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
7.3.3 Introduction to VRRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
7.3.4 Some important rules for ensuring High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7.4 Guidelines for attaching the BladeCenter to a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7.4.1 Guidelines and comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7.5 Base configurations for examples in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
7.5.1 Hardware and software used for lab environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
7.5.2 Preconfiguration preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7.5.3 Base configuration common to all examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
7.6 Basic Layer 2 entry topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
7.6.1 Layer 2 configuration with 802.1Q tagging and trunk failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
7.6.2 Basic topology conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
7.7 Advanced Layer 2 topology sample configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
7.7.1 Dynamic link aggregation IEEE 802.3ad (LACP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
7.7.2 Common Spanning Tree configuration - IEEE 802.1D and PVST . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
7.7.3 Rapid Spanning Tree IEEE 802.1w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
7.7.4 Multi-Spanning Tree IEEE 802.1s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
7.8 Layer 3 topology sample configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
7.8.1 Layer 3 sample configuration with static routing and VRRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
7.8.2 Dynamic routing options OSPF/RIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
7.9 Configuration for Extreme switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 8. Serial over LAN feature description and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
8.1 SOL overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
8.2 General rules to establish an SOL connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
8.3 Configuring SOL for use with the Nortel GbESM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
8.4 SOL use during Nortel Networks L2/3 GbESM experiments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Chapter 9. Nortel Networks Layer 2/3 GbE Switch Module troubleshooting. . . . . . . 155
9.1 Basic rules and unique symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
9.1.1 Basic rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
9.2 Nortel Networks L2/3 GbESM troubleshooting methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
9.2.1 General comments on troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
9.3 Systematic approach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
9.3.1 Problem definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
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