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This guide provides a general overview of the XSR hardware and software features. It describes
how to configure and maintain the router. Refer to the XSR CLI Reference Guide and the XSR
Getting Started Guide for information not contained in this document.
This guide is written for administrators who want to configure the XSR or experienced users who
are knowledgeable of basic networking principles.
Contents of the Guide
Information in this guide is arranged as follows:
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Chapter 1, Overview, introduces key features of the XSR.
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Chapter 2, Managing the XSR, describes the three methods of managing the router along with
the control commands and tools available to accomplish that task including Remote Auto
Install (RAI) and memory management.
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Chapter 3, Managing LAN/WAN Interfaces, describes system FastEthernet/GigabitEthernet and
High Speed Serial features, how to configure them, and MIB-II statistics collected for LAN
interfaces.
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Chapter 4, Configuring T1/E1 & T3/E3 Interfaces, outlines XSR controller features, including the
Drop and Insert NIM, and how to configure and troubleshoot them.
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Chapter 5, Configuring IP, outlines a host of XSR IP protocol suite features, including Secondary
IP, VRRP, Proxy DNS, VLAN and Policy Based routing, Route Preference, multiple static
routes, CIDR, and their associated configuration.
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Chapter 6, Configuring the Border Gateway Protocol, describes XSR-supported BGP-4 features
including MIB tables defined in RFC-1657, BGP SNMP traps, protection of sessions,
capabilities advertisement, route reflection, communities, route refresh, route flap
dampening, AS confederations, and debug capability.
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Chapter 7, Configuring PIM-SM and IGMP, describes Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse
Mode (PIM-SM) and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) configuration with these
features and how to configure them: IGMP versions 1, 2 and 3 (on LAN interface only), PIM-
SM version 2, Static IGMP group membership, Dynamic and Static RP, Register and Assert
Mechanism, Rendezvous Point Tree (RPT) Build-up, Shortest Path Tree (SPT) Build-up, RPT
to SPT Switch, Join/Prune Mechanism, and Source Specific Multicast (SSM) Support.
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Chapter 8, Configuring PPP, details XSR support for the PPP and Multi-link PPP protocols,
Multi-Class MLPPP, peer entity authentication, Bandwidth on Command (BAP), and how to
configure these features.
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Chapter 9, Configuring Frame Relay, details how to set up Frame Relay networks on the XSR,
including using rate enforcement (CIR) and congestion control (FECN and BECN), Discard
Eligibility, Frame Relay Inverse ARP, LMI support, and FRF.12 fragmentation.
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Chapter 10, Configuring Dial Services and Back Up, details background information about Dial
Services and Dial Backup across a PSTN, Ethernet failover, Dial on Demand (DoD) and
Bandwidth on Demand (BoD), Multi-link PPP, dialer interface spoofing, Dialer Watch, ISDN
callback, and the commands to configure these features.
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