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Steelhead Appliance Installation and Configuration Guide
Preface
Product Dependencies and Compatibility
Ethernet Network Compatibility
The Steelhead appliance supports the following Ethernet networking standards:
Ethernet Logical Link Control (LLC) (IEEE 802.2 - 1998)
Fast Ethernet 100 Base-TX (IEEE 802.3 - 2008)
Gigabit Ethernet over Copper 1000 Base-T and Fiber 1000 Base-SX (LC connector) and Fiber 1000 Base
LX (IEEE 802.3 - 2008)
10 Gigabit Ethernet over Fiber 10GBase-LR Single Mode and 10GBase-SR Multimode (IEEE 802.3 -
2008)
The Steelhead appliance ports support the following connection types and speeds:
Primary
- 10/100/1000 Base-T, auto-negotiating
Auxiliary
- 10/100/1000 Base-T, auto-negotiating
LAN
- 10/100/1000 Base-TX or 1000 Base-SX or 1000 Base-LX or 10GBase-LR or 10GBase-SR,
depending on configuration
WAN
- 10/100/1000 Base-TX or 1000 Base-SX or 1000 Base-LX or 10GBase-LR or 10GBase-SR,
depending on configuration
ethX_Y/Data Interfaces
- 10/100/1000 BASE-T, auto-negotiating
The Steelhead appliance supports VLAN Tagging (IEEE 802.3 - 2008). It does not support the ISL protocol.
All copper interfaces are auto-sensing for speed and duplex (IEEE 802.3 - 2008).
The Steelhead appliance auto-negotiates speed and duplex mode for all data rates and supports full duplex
mode and flow control (IEEE 802.3 - 2008).
The Steelhead appliance with a Gigabit Ethernet card supports jumbo frames on in-path and primary ports.
SNMP-Based Management Compatibility
The Steelhead appliance supports a proprietary Riverbed MIB accessible through SNMP. SNMP v1 (RFCs
1155, 1157, 1212, and 1215) and SNMP v2c (RFCs 1901, 2578, 2579, 2580, 3416, 3417, and 3418) are supported,
even though some MIB items can only be accessible through SNMPv2.
SNMP support allows the Steelhead appliance to be integrated into network management systems such as
Hewlett Packard OpenView Network Node Manager, BMC Patrol, and other SNMP-based network
management tools.
Antivirus Compatibility
The Steelhead appliance has been tested on clients and file servers generating CIFS traffic with the
following antivirus software with no impact on performance:
Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan v7.0.0 Enterprise on the server
Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan v7.1.0 Enterprise on the server
Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan v7.1.0 Enterprise on the client
Symantec (Norton) AntiVirus Corporate Edition v8.1 on the server
