Performance Specifications; Network Protocol And Standards Compatibility; Network Management - Nortel Passport 8608GTE Specifications

Performance specifications

• System architecture bandwidth: 720 Gbps
• Sub100ms failover (requires 8692SF with SuperMezz)
• Frame length: 64 to 1,518 bytes (IEEE 802.1Q Untagged), 64 to
1,522 bytes (IEEE 802.1Q Tagged)
• Jumbo frame support: Up to 9.6k bytes
(IEEE 802.1Q Tagged)
• Multi-Link Trunks: Up to 128 trunks
with 8 links per group with 8692SF +
R/RS-Modules/Mode
• VLANs: Up to 4,000 port- or protocol-based; per VLAN Tagging
option
• IP Multicast: Up to 4,000 S,G
• Multiple spanning tree groups: Up to 64 (STGs)
• SMLT and RSMLT (Routed Split Multi-Link Trunking)
• Single Port Split Multi-Link Trunking
Network protocol and
standards compatibility
IEEE
• IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
• IEEE 802.1p Priority Queues
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
• IEEE 802.1v VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port
• IEEE 802.1x Ethernet Authentication Protocol
• IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD Ethernet
(ISO/IEC 8802-3)
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-LX Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-ZX Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-CWDM Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-SX Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-XD Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-BX Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
• IEEE 802.3ae 10GBASE-X XFP
• IEEE 802.3i 10BASE-T – Autonegotiation
• IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet (ISO/IEC 8802-3,
Clause 25)
• IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-FX
• IEEE 802.3u Auto-negotiation on Twisted Pair (ISO/IEC 8802-3,
Clause 28)
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control on the Gigabit Uplink port
• IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-SX
and LX
IETF RFCs
Layer 2 features ATM / POS
• RFC 1332 IPCP (POS module)
• RFC 1471 LCP (POS module)
• RFC 1473 NCP (POS module)
• RFC 1474 Bridge NCP (POS module)
• RFC 1552 IPXCP (POS module)
• RFC 1638 BCP (POS module)
• RFC 1661 PPP (POS module)
• RFC 1989 PPP Link Quality Monitoring
(POS module)
• RFC 2558 Sonet / SDH (POS module)
• RFC 2615 PPP over Sonet / SDH
(POS module)
IPv4 Layer 3 / Layer 4 Intelligence
• RFC 768 UDP Protocol
• RFC 783 TFTP Protocol
• RFC 791 IP Protocol
• RFC 792 ICMP Protocol
• RFC 793 TCP Protocol
• RFC 826 ARP Protocol
• RFC 854 Telnet Protocol
• RFC 894 A standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over
Ethernet Networks
• RFC 896 Congestion control in IP/TCP internetworks
• RFC 903 Reverse ARP Protocol
• RFC 906 Bootstrap loading using TFTP
• RFC 950 Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure
• RFC 951 / RFC 2131 BootP / DHCP
• RFC 1027 Using ARP to implement transparent subnet gateways/
Nortel Subnet based VLAN
• RFC 1058 RIPv1 Protocol
• RFC 1112 IGMPv1
• RFC 1253 OSPF
• RFC 1256 ICMP Router Discovery
• RFC 1305 Network Time Protocol v3 Specification,
Implementation and Analysis3
• RFC 1332 The PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP)
• RFC 1340 Assigned Numbers
1 Limited to DHCP Relay only
2 Limited to DNS Client Support only
8
3 NTP client, unicast mode only
• RFC 1541 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• RFC 1542 Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol
• RFC 1583 OSPFv2
• RFC 1587 The OSPF NSSA Option
• RFC 1591 DNS Client
• RFC 1631 NAT (Network Address Translation) — only with WSM
• RFC 1695 Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management
v8.0 using SMIv2
• RFC 1723 RIP v2 – Carrying Additional Information
• RFC 1745 BGP / OSPF Interaction
• RFC 1771 / RFC 1772 BGP-4
• RFC 1812 Router Requirements
• RFC 1866 HTMLv2 Protocol
• RFC 1965 BGP-4 Confederations
• RFC 1966 BGP-4 Route Reflectors
• RFC 1998 An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in
Multi-home Routing
• RFC 1997 BGP-4 Community Attributes
• RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• RFC 2131 Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)
• RFC 2138 RADIUS Authentication
• RFC 2139 RADIUS Accounting
• RFC 2178 OSPF MD5 cryptographic a uthentication / OSPFv2
• RFC 2205 Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) — v1 Functional
Specification
• RFC 2210 The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services
• RFC 2211 Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element
Service
• RFC 2236 IGMPv2 for snooping
• RFC 2270 BGP-4 Dedicated AS for sites/single provide
• RFC 2283 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
• RFC 2328 OSPFv2
• RFC 2338 VRRP: Virtual Redundancy Router Protocol
• RFC 2362 PIM-SM
• RFC 2385 BGP-4 MD5 authentication
• RFC 2439 BGP-4 Route Flap Dampening
• RFC 2453 RIPv2 Protocol
• RFC 2475 An Architecture for Differentiated Service
• RFC 2597 Assured Forwarding PHB Group
• RFC 2598 An Expedited Forwarding PHB
• RFC 2702 Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS
• RFC 2765 Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT)
• RFC 2796 BGP Route Reflection — An Alternative to Full Mesh
IBGP
• RFC 2819 Remote Monitoring (RMON)
• RFC 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
• RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
• RFC 2961 RSVP Refresh Overhead Reduction Extensions
• RFC 2992 Analysis of an Equal-Cost Multi-Path Algorithm
• RFC 3031 Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
• RFC 3032 MPLS Label Stack Encoding
• RFC 3036 LDP Specification
• RFC 3037 LDP Applicability
• RFC 3065 Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
• RFC 3210 Applicability Statement for Extensions to RSVP for
• RFC 3215 LDP State Machine
• RFC 3270 Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of
Differentiated Services
• RFC 3376 Internet Group Management Protocol, v3
• RFC 3392 Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4 LSP-Tunnels
• RFC 3443 Time To Live (TTL) Processing in Multi-Protocol Label
Switching (MPLS) Networks
• RFC 3569 An overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)
• RFC 3917 Requirements for IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)
• RFC 4364 BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• RFC 4379 Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data
Plane Failures
• BFD: IETF Bidirectional Forwarding Detection draft for IPv4 and
IPv6 (Single Hop)
IPv4 Multicast
• RFC 1075 DVMRP Protocol
• RFC 1112 IGMP v1 for routing / snooping
• RFC 1519 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address
Assignment and Aggregation Strategy
• RFC 2236 IGMP v2 for routing / snooping
• RFC 2362 + some PIM-SM v2 extensions (PIM-SM)
• RFC 2385 Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature
Option
• RFC 2547 BGP/MPLS VPNs
• RFC 3446: Anycast Rendevous Point (RP) mechanism using
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source
Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
• RFC 3618 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
• RFC 3768 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
IPv6
• IPv6 requires 8692SF and SuperMezz Daughter card and
R/RS-Modules
• RFC 1881 IPv6 Address Allocation Management
• RFC 1886 DNS Extensions to support IP version 6
4 Router support only. Host will be supported with infinity 2.0
5 Partially implemented
• RFC 1887 An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation
1
• RFC 1981 Path MTU Discovery for IP v6
• RFC 2030 Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) v4 for IPv4,
IPv6 & OSI
• RFC 2373 IPv6 Addressing Architecture
• RFC 2375 IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
• RFC 2460 Internet Protocol, v6 (IPv6) Specification
• RFC 2461 4 Neighbor Discovery
• RFC 2462 IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
• RFC 2463 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the
Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) Specification
• RFC 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
• RFC 2474 Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field)
in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
• RFC 2526 Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
• RFC 2710 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
• RFC 2740 OSPF for IPv6
• RFC 2893 Configured Tunnels and Dual Stack Routing per port
• RFC 2893 Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
• RFC 3056 Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds
• RFC 3363 Representing Internet Protocol Version 6 Addresses in
DNS 3
• RFC 3484 Default Address Selection for IPv6
• RFC 3513 Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing
Architecture
• RFC 3587 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
• RFC 3596 DNS Extensions to Support IP v6
• RFC 3587 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
• RFC 3590 Source Address Selection for the Multicast Listener
Discovery (MLD) Protocol
• RFC 3596 DNS Extensions to support IP version 6
• RFC 3810 IPv6 Multicast capabilities
• SSH/SCP, Telnet, Ping, CLI, JDM support
for IPv6
Platform
• RFC 1305 (NTP client / unicast mode only)
• RFC 1340 Assigned Numbers
• RFC 1350 The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2)
Quality of Service (QoS)
• RFC 2474 / RFC 2475 DiffServ Support
• RFC 2597 / RFC 2598 DiffServ per Hop Behavior
• Nortel Automatic QoS

Network management

• RFC 1155 SMI
• RFC 1157 SNMP
• RFC 1215 Convention for defining traps for use with the SNMP
• RFC 1269 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway
Protocol: v3
• RFC 1271 Remote Network Monitoring Management Information
Base
• RFC 1304 Definitions of Managed Objects for the SIP Interface
Type
• RFC 1354 IP Forwarding Table MIB
• RFC 1389 RIP v2 MIB Extensions
• RFC 1565 Network Services Monitoring MIB
• RFC 1757 / RFC 2819 RMON
• RFC 1907 SNMPv2
• RFC 1908 Coexistence between v1 & v2 of the Internet-standard
Network Management Framework
• RFC 1930 Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an
Autonomous System (AS)
• RFC 2571 An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management
Frameworks
• RFC 2572 Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• RFC2573 SNMP Applications
• RFC 2574 User-based Security Model (USM) for v3 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)
• RFC 2575 View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• RFC 2576 Coexistence between v1, v2, & v3 of the Internet-
standard Network Management Framework
MIBs
• RFC 1212 Concise MIB definitions
• RFC 1213 TCP/IP Management Information Base
• RFC 1213 MIB II
• RFC 1354 IP Forwarding Table MIB
• RFC 1389 / RFC 1724 RIPv2 MIB extensions
• RFC 1398 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-Like
Interface Types
• RFC 1406 Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1 and E1
Interface Types
• RFC 1414 Identification MIB
• RFC 1442 Structure of Management Information for version 2 of
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
• RFC 1447 Party MIB for v2 of the Simple Network Management
Protocol bytes)