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Important notices and new features
Device Manager support for the ERS5500 and ERS5600 v6.0.0 will be in
Java Device Manager v6.1.6 targeted for availability from
by
2008-12-19.
Supported software and hardware capabilities
The following table lists the known limits for the Ethernet Routing Switch
5000 Series, release 6.0 and Device Manager 6.0.1.0. These capabilities
will be enhanced in subsequent software releases.
Table 2
Supported capabilities in Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series switches
Feature
Maximum number supported
VLANs
256
Protocol-based VLANs
Depending on the protocol specified, the
number of protocol VLANs supported at one
time varies between 3–7. See Nortel Ethernet
Routing Switch 5500 Series Configuration —
VLANs, Spanning Tree, and MultiLink Trunking
(NN47200-502) for more information.
Nortel SNA VLANs
One Red VLAN per switch. Nortel recommends
a maximum of five Yellow VLANs, five Green
VLANs, and five VoIP VLANs per switch for
release 6.0.
Nortel SNA ports
All ports.
Note: The 5530 has two 10 Gigabit (Gb) ports.
You can configure these as uplink ports only.
You cannot configure these as dynamic ports.
Aggregation groups (link aggregation)
32
Ports per aggregation group
8
IGMP maximum number of unique groups
240 (for Layer 2) and 1000 (for Layer 3)
EAPoL 802.1x supplicants
All ports
MAC addresses in fdb
16 Kb
Number of routes (dynamic, static and local)
2000
1
ARP records
1500
Static ARP
256
IP interfaces
256
Static routes
up to 512
Spanning Tree Groups
8
Aggregation groups (link aggregation)
32
Ports per aggregation group
8
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series
Release Notes — Release 6.0
NN47200-400
04.01
Standard
6.0
12 December 2008
Copyright © 2008., Nortel Networks
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