Supported Software And Hardware Capabilities - Nortel 5000 Series Release Notes

16 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 www.nortel.comby
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
VLANs
Protocol-based VLANs
Nortel SNA VLANs
Nortel SNA ports
Aggregation groups (link aggregation)
Ports per aggregation group
IGMP maximum number of unique groups
EAPoL 802.1x supplicants
MAC addresses in fdb
Number of routes (dynamic, static and local)
ARP records
Static ARP
IP interfaces
Static routes
Spanning Tree Groups
Aggregation groups (link aggregation)
Ports per aggregation group
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Maximum number supported
256
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.
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.
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.
32
8
240 (for Layer 2) and 1000 (for Layer 3)
All ports
16 Kb
2000
1500
256
256
up to 512
8
32
8
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series
Release Notes — Release 6.0
NN47200-400 04.01 Standard
6.0 12 December 2008
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