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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Safety and Regulatory Notices The following are mandatory notices for installation and operation of EtherHaul Wireless Backhaul Link. Indications appearing here are required by the designated government and regulatory agencies for purposes of safety and compliance.
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Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. Changes or modifications to this equipment not expressly approved by Siklu LTD or Note: the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual About this Document This document is the EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance manual for Siklu’s EtherHaul wireless link product line. For the installation and radio link setup instructions, please refer to the individual product’s Installation Manual.
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Provides important and useful information. Caution: Describes an activity or situation that may or will interrupt normal operation of the EtherHaul system, one of its components, or the network. Text Conventions Italicized text is used to reference sections or chapters Document References in this document.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction to the EtherHaul System ............15 Main Features ......................16 Functional Description ....................18 Installing the EtherHaul System ..............20 Managing the EtherHaul ................21 Connecting to System Using the Web-Based Management ........22 Connecting to System Using the Command Line Interface ........
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 6.3.2 SW Upgrade ....................40 6.3.3 Licensing ...................... 41 6.3.4 Scripts ......................43 6.3.5 Configuration Management ................44 6.3.6 File System ....................45 Event Configuration ....................46 CLI Commands ......................47 Network Configuration and Monitoring .............49 General ........................
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 8.6.3 S-VID Translation ..................72 8.6.4 Forwarding Data Base (FDB)................ 72 8.6.5 Default C-VLAN EtherType ................. 73 8.6.6 Bridge VLAN EtherType ................73 8.6.7 MAC Learning ..................... 74 Quality of Service..................75 QoS Configuration Using the Web-based Management GUI ........76 Default QoS Configuration ..................
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) ..............104 12.1 Ethernet Ring Protection Description ..............104 12.2 Supported ERP Features ..................105 12.3 ERP Ring Commands ..................... 105 12.4 ERP Administrative Commands ................106 12.5 ERP Timers ......................108 12.6 Sample ERP Configuration ..................
The multiple ports enable also colocation installation and leveraging the infrastructure for additional fixed services delivery. The EtherHaul is fast, simple and inexpensive to deploy. EtherHaul as the ideal solution for mobile backhaul and business services delivery features: ...
“pay as you grow” basis. Supporting point-to-point, daisy- chain, ring, and mesh configurations, the EtherHaul system offers carrier class availability and services. The following are some of the main features of the EtherHaul (availability of features depends on platform): All-Outdoor Packet Radio ...
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The EtherHaul family implements hitless/errorless adaptive bandwidth, coding and modulation adjustment to optimize the over-the-air transmission and prevent weather- related fading from disrupting traffic on the link. The EtherHaul can gain up to 21 dB in link budget by dynamically adapting: Modulation, FEC coding rates, and channel bandwidth maintaining the high priority traffic using quality of service advanced mechanism and dropping the traffic according to the QoS priority defined by the user.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Figure 1-1 Hitless Adaptive Bandwidth, Coding and Modulation Functional Description The EtherHaul is an all-outdoor system comprised of the following functional blocks: RFIC: Siklu’s integrated Silicon Germanium (SiGe) transceiver operating at 57- 66GHz (EH-600T), 71-76GHz (EH-1200/TL) or 71-76/81-86GHz (EH-1200F/FX).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Installing the EtherHaul System For installation and setup of the EtherHaul system, please refer to the individual product’s Installation Manual. The scope of this document is to describe the Web-Based Management (HTML) and Command Line Interface (CLI) configuration and monitoring options.
There are 3 options to connect and manage the EtherHaul: 1) Embedded HTML Web-Based Management. EtherHaul's recommended management option and the use of this option is described in details in this document. Provides self-explanatory graphical user interface for managing both ends of the link.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual General CLI conventions: o Confirmation after each command correctly entered. o Error-message with hint in case of wrong command o Use Tab for Auto-complete o Use Up Arrow and Down Arrow to display command history o Use ? for help on possible configuration options and for exact command syntax.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 3. Once loaded, the Web-Based Management Main page is displayed. Figure 3-3 Web-Based Management Main Page Connecting to System Using the Command Line Interface 1. Launch standard SSH client. You can use any common, open source SSH client program, such as PuTTY, available for download from the web.
Although the local and remote systems IP address is identical (default IP address 192.168.0.1), the remote will be available as well as the EtherHaul uses dedicated communication channel for local-remote communication that is not IP-based. It is recommended, however, to assign dedicated IP address for local and remote systems.
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For FDD systems – value is Full-Duplex. o For TDD systems – value is aggregated (Half-Duplex). Note: Actual Layer 1 throughput depends on product's specs. Refer to the EtherHaul Release Notes for exact specifications. Current Alarms – list of currently active alarms and date&time raised.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Quick Configuration Wizard Use the Quick Configuration wizard to configure the basic system parameters for both local and remote systems. It holds the basic minimal configuration required to start using the link. The Quick Configuration wizard should be used for the initial system setup after installation.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 3.5.3 Rollback A safety measure that allows recovering from system configuration changes that caused loss of communication. When Rollback is used, a timer runs (and restarts) whenever a management (or CLI) command is entered. In the event that no command is entered within the timeout period, the system automatically resets and comes up with the saved startup configuration.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Radio Configuration and Monitoring The radio link parameters and radio link monitoring are managed in the Radio page. This chapter includes the following topics: Settings Advanced Settings Maintenance Modulation Table ...
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Note: Adjust Tx Power so the RSSI at the remote end will not exceed -35dBm (overload threshold). The Tx power value sets the transmit power for the highest modulation profile. In case lower modulation profile(s) has higher max Tx power (based on product’s specs), the Tx power will be increased automatically without indication in RF configuration menu.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Advanced Settings Figure 4-2 Radio Page: Advanced Settings This section allows configuring the following parameters: Long Range Mode – checkbox to enable the mode (for radio links over 4500m and up to 7000m). Note that Long Range support depends on product’s specs and is NOT relevant for V-Band systems).
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Encryption – checkbox to enable Encryption and field to enter the static key. The EtherHaul supports 128bit and 256bit AES encryption with Static key. This means that the encryption key (32 characters long for AES 128bit or 64 characters long for AES 256bit) must be inserted manually into both ends of the link.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Maintenance Figure 4-3 Radio Page: Maintenance This section allows configuring the following parameters: RF Loopback – checkbox to enable the internal RF loopback, set the timeout for clearing the loopback in seconds and select the modulation the ODU will be tested at.
Note that different modulation tables may apply according to product used, the frequency channel used and ARQ status. The modulation profiles and thresholds are optimized and should not be modified (can be configured via CLI only after consulting Siklu support). Statistics Figure 4-5 Radio Page: Statistics Radio link’s performance can be monitored using the advanced statistics counters.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Ethernet Ports Configuration and Monitoring The Ethernet ports parameters and monitoring are managed in the Eth Ports page. The EtherHaul system has the following Ethernet interfaces: Host – Management interface Eth0 – Radio interface (RF) ...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Auto Negotiation – checkbox to enable auto-neg. Speed/Duplex – speed (10/100/1000) and duplex (half/full) setting: o When Auto Negotiation Enabled – R/O field indicating the current speed/duplex. o When Auto Negotiation Disabled – manual configuration of the speed and duplex (for RJ45 ports: 10HD, 10FD, 100HD, 100FD, 1000HD or 1000FD;...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual This section allows configuring the following parameters: Line Loopback – checkbox to enable loopback on the port. External (towards the line side) or Internal (towards the radio side) loopback are available, with or without MAC addresses swap.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual System Configuration and Monitoring The system general parameters and monitoring is managed in the System page. This chapter includes the following topics: Settings Advanced Settings Maintenance Event Configuration CLI commands...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Note: Full inventory information of the system is stored as a file (inventory.ini) in the File System and can be retrieved by the user. Inventory – R/O fields. Serial Number and active SW version.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Maintenance 6.3.1 File Transfer Figure 6-3 System Page: Maintenance – File Transfer The administration of the file system is controlled by the File Transfer session. It includes the configuration files, SW version, licenses, scripts, inventory and more.
SW Upgrade Figure 6-4 System Page: Maintenance – SW Upgrade The EtherHaul system supports switching, in real time, between two software versions. The EtherHaul maintains an Active (running) and an Offline (standby) software versions (banks) that allows software upgrade with minimum service interruption.
Licensing Figure 6-5 System Page: Maintenance – Licensing The EtherHaul provides easy migration to support Gigabit throughput and advanced features, enabling operators to enhance bandwidth capacity on a “pay as you grow” basis as well as adding features and capabilities according to their networks evolutions.
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License upgrade key is a signature file containing the license configuration that is based on the system's serial number. License file will be provided by Siklu as a text file that can be opened with any text editor. The license file name will always be <system_serial_number>.lic.
Scripts Figure 6-6 System Page: Maintenance – Scripts The EtherHaul supports the use of pre-composed, multiple-line command scripts. A script is simply a list of CLI commands, saved as a text file that runs locally on the system. Script output is displayed on a script output screen and can be copied and saved.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Note: Whenever contacting Siklu for support, send the output of this script from both systems for efficient service (copy the output to a text file). Select a script from the list and click Show to view (pop-up screen) list of commands composing this script.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 6.3.6 File System Figure 6-8 System Page: Maintenance – File System Lists the files and directories under the system's file system (flash:). Enter file name and click Copy To ODU in order to copy the file from the FTP directory to the file system (flash:).
Event Configuration Figure 6-9 Network Page: Event Configuration The EtherHaul supports masking of individual/group alarms and events. In case alarm is masked, it is not displayed in the Active Alarms and Event Log and no trap is sent. By default, none of the alarms are masked but the RSSI, CINR and Lowest Modulation threshold-crossing alarms.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual o Temperature – when system temperature exceeds the High or Low thresholds. Note that system temperature is typically 15-25°C higher then ambient temperature. o CINR – when radio CINR drops below the Low threshold.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Loading a new script (for example, using FTP): copy ftp://<ftp_user>:<ftp_password>@<ftp_server_ip>/<script_file_name> flash:scripts/<script_file_name> Viewing list of files in the File System: dir flash: Event Configuration: Viewing event configuration (masking and thresholds): show event-cfg...
IP Address Figure 7-1 Network Page: General – IP Address The EtherHaul supports up to four IP addresses that can be associated with different VLANs. IPv4 or IPv6 can be configured. IP addresses may also be acquired by DHCP. This section allows configuring the following parameters: ...
Figure 7-2 Network Page: General – Default Gateway This section allows configuring a single default gateway for IPv4 and IPv6. The EtherHaul allows defining up to 10 static routes, in which you can define the network (Destination + Prefix-length) and the Next-Hop.
NTP provides a connectionless service (UDP in the Transport Layer). The EtherHaul has an embedded NTP client. It can synchronize the host clock to any NTP server in the LAN/Internet to deliver accurate and reliable time.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Advanced Settings 7.2.1 Management Access List Figure 7-5 Network Page: Advanced Settings – Management Access List List of authorized IPv4/IPv6 IP addresses (or IP address ranges) that are permitted to access the Host (management).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 7.2.3 Syslog Server Figure 7-7 Network Page: Advanced Settings – Syslog Server When set, all system's event and alarms will be sent to servers. Up to 5 different Syslog servers can be configured. Syslog servers listen to Port 514.
For internal user management (standard user/passwords that are configured in the device), select Local as the Authentication Mode. The EtherHaul supports 4 types of users that can be defined locally: User – Read-only access. Cannot view user names, passwords, and other security settings.
LLDP enables the discovery of accurate physical network topologies, meaning which devices are neighbors and through which ports they connect. It enables the EtherHaul to discover other network elements that are connected to it, including the discovery of third-party network elements, and enables easier integration of EtherHaul links in an LLDP supported networks.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual LLDP can be configured for each one of the Ethernet ports, including the radio port (Eth0). LLDP information may be sent over VLAN or without VLAN (untagged). This section allows configuring the following parameters: ...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Chassis ID – displays the IP address (network address, typically refer to IP #1) of remote device Chassis ID Subtype – will be 'network-addr' Port ID – displays the received MAC address ...
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual set route6 1 dest 0001:0001:0001:0001:0001:0001:0001:0001 prefix-len 0 next-hop 0001:0001:0001:0001:0001:0001:0001:0002 SNMP Managers: Viewing SNMP managers: show snmp-mng Setting SNMP managers: set snmp-mng 1 ip-addr 192.168.0.250 udp-port 162 snmp-version v2c security-name public Deleting SNMP managers: clear snmp-mng all ...
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Setting password strength: set password-strength min-length 8 min-difference 0 Syslog Server: Viewing servers: show syslog Configuring server: set syslog 2 server 192.168.0.222 Deleting user: clear syslog all Connectivity: Ping: ping 192.168.0.222 ping configuration options: ping [-c <num-packets 1..32000>] [-t] [-l <packet-length 0..5000>] <host>...
First setup to enable links establishment including services flow. Bridge Architecture The EtherHaul incorporates a fully functional integrated Provider Bridge (IEEE 802.1ad). Provider Bridge, commonly known as Q in Q, extends the IEEE 802.1Q standard by providing for a second stack of VLANs in a bridged network. The general purpose of Provider Bridge is to enable frames from multiple customers to be forwarded (or tunneled) through another topology (provider network) using Service VLANs (S -VLAN).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual The implementation of Provider Bridge is a network of up to seven virtual bridges connected in a “cross-like” fashion. Each component acts as a virtual bridge. A component can have both external and internal ports. An external port name is identical to its interface name.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Figure 8-2 Single Component Bridge Model (Provider NNI ports) Figure 8-3 Multiple Components Bridge Model (Customer UNI ports) Services Configuration Overview Configuring Ethernet services consists of 3 parts: VLAN configuration Allow, block or add specific VLAN IDs on the system’s ports.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual S-VLAN entering the provider-nni port will be processed based on the VLAN configuration of the port. Untagged or C-VLAN entering a provider-nni port will be considered as untagged (as they have no S-VLANs) and will be tagged internally using S- VLAN PVID (default is S-VLAN ID 1).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Egress Ports: On what ports the VLAN ID is transmitted. Remove Tag: If a port is checked, the VLAN ID is removed (untagged) on egress (when it goes out of the port).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 8.3.2 Port Network Type Configuration Figure 8-6 Services Page: General – Port Network Type The default port Network Type is Customer-NNI (for EH-1200F/FX and EH-600T systems). You can change the Network Type manually or all the system to configure it automatically using the VLAN configuration.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual PVID is a VLAN ID which will be assigned to an untagged frame or a priority-tagged frame, (the VID is set to 0 indicating that the frame does not belong to any VLAN and only PCP field is relevant), which enters to the bridge through this port.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual To provide this traffic separation, all traffic coming from Eth2 will be tagged with S - VLAN (for example, S-VLAN 2). This S-VLAN will be allowed on Eth2 and Eth0 (RF). Configuration steps using the GUI: 1.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Port Network Type Configuration: set eth eth0 network-type provider-nni Maintenance Figure 8-9 Services Page: Maintenance In the Networking Configuration click Show to view (pop-up screen) the full networking services configuration in the form of CLI commands.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual When loading the Services page, the current system’s networking services Note: configuration will be evaluated. If advanced configuration that is not supported by the GUI is present, the services configuration will not be displayed and the following message will be displayed: “The Networking Services configuration cannot be displayed.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual clear cvlan-reg {<c-comp-id-list> | all} {<ext-bridge-port-list> | all} {<vid-list> | all} 8.6.2 PEP Virtual Ports PEP Virtual Ports are used to configure ingress port filtering. PEP table entries define traffic flows from the provider network to the customer edge port. The table is indexed by Component ID and S-VID.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 8.6.3 S-VID Translation The S-VID Translation table is used to maintain bi-directional mapping between a Local S-VID (used in data and protocol frames transmitted and received through a CNP or PNP) and a Relay S-VID (used by the filtering and forwarding process).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual The system maintains 64 permanent instances of the FDB object that can be created on S1 (separate instances based on S-VLANs only). By default, FDB #1 is used for all incoming packets. The default aging time for all FDBs is 172800 seconds (48 hours).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 8.6.7 MAC Learning By default the MAC Learning is enabled. You can disable MAC Learning using the CLI. If disabled, all received frames will not be learned and will be broadcasted to all ports.
The EtherHaul QoS engine classifies the incoming packets onto streams using any combination of VID, PCP, DSCP (or alternatively MPLS EXP bit) fields. Each stream may be assigned a bandwidth profile with CIR (committed rate), CBS (committed bu rst size), EIR (excess rate), EBS (excess burst size) and color-mode.
CoS 7 (highest priority). QoS Classification The EtherHaul QoS Engine classifies the incoming packets by port, VID, PCP, and/or DSCP (as defined by the IEEE 802.1 Q/p and RFC-2475 standards), packet type (unicast, non-unicast or all) or alternatively MPLS EXP bit, and maps them onto {EVC, CoS} pairs.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Classification Criteria options have lower priority than configured Port Priority. Classification based on one of the following options: None – no classification, hence no classifiers (all previously configured classifiers will be deleted besides the Port Priority).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Scheduling Scheduler Mode options: Strict Priority – Lower priority packets are served only if all higher priority queues are empty. This is the default scheduler mode. Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) – Weights can be assigned to the radio queues, assuring fairness between the queues.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) can be used to provide different rates to different flows while maintaining fairness in order to avoid starvation. WFQ is a data packet scheduling technique that provides different scheduling priorities to statistically multiplexed data flows.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual In Priority-Shaper scheduling, packets in the lower priority queues are served only if all higher priority queues are empty. 9.4.4 Scheduling Mode: WFQ-Shaper Figure 9-9 Advanced Config Page: Quality of Service – Scheduler Mode WFQ-Shaper Combination of the Shaper and WFQ scheduling.
3 ip-cos dont-care packet-type all cos 4 Classification based on DSCP: The EtherHaul supports 2 modes of classification based on DSCP: 3 bits (MSB) or 6 bits (full DSCP). When selecting DSCP (3 Bits), you can combine it with PCP classification (in addition to VID and MPLS-EXP).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual eth1|eth2|eth3|eth4>] [precedence <1..8>] [vid < list 0..4094>] [pcp < list 0..7>] [ip-cos <{{dscp-cos | mpls-exp} <list of 0..7>}|dont-care>] [packet-type < unicast | non-unicast | all] [cos <0..7>] IP-COS: Priority based on IP header value – DSCP (differentiated services), MPLS-EXP (MPLS experimental bit), or Don’t-Care (IP header values ignored).
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual If EVC is defined, the EVC and CoS represents the entry in the marking table (for metering and coloring) classifier-cos configuring: set classifier-cos <classifier-id {1..248}> [interface <host|eth0|eth1|eth2|eth3|eth4>] [precedence <1..8>] [vid <0..4094>] [pcp <0..7>] [ip-cos <{dscp-cos | mpls-exp} <0..7>} | dont-care>] [packet-type <unicast|non-unicast|all>...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Color-Aware mode for S-VLANs Color-aware mode is supported for ingress S-VLAN packets only (based on MEF definitions). The DEI (Drop Eligible Indicator) bit in S-Tag is used for Color encoding: DEI =‘0’ Green ...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 9.8.4 PFC - Priority-based flow control Priority-based flow control (IEEE standard 802.1Qbb) prevents frame loss from congestion by pausing traffic based on the congested priority without affe cting the traffic of uncongested priorities. Instead of pausing all traffic on a link as in IEEE 802.3x Ethernet PAUSE (flow control), PFC allows you selectively pause traffic according to its class.
: list: | integer 1..32 set egress-qos eth0 <cos-id-list> pfc <pfc-id-list> 9.8.5 Queue Management The EtherHaul allows controlling the drop mode by setting it to one of the following options: Simple – set queue length in microseconds Length – set queue length us Kbytes ...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Note: WRED configuration supported in the CLI only. Figure 9-10 TCP Performance 9.8.6.1 WRED Functionality When a packet arrives, WRED handles it according to the following process: 1) The average queue size is calculated using the following equation: Average = (old_average * (1-1/2^n)) + (current_queue_size * 1/2^n).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual occur as multiple TCP hosts reduce their transmission rates). If the difference is too small, many packets may be dropped at the same time, resulting in global synchronization. “n” the average factor - “n” is the user-configurable exponential weight factor.
Synchronization messages are transported between the SyncE elements using Ethernet Synchronization Message Channel (ESMC). ESMC is similar to SSM (Synchronization Status Message), used in Sonnet/SDH systems. ESMC carries information about the Quality Level (ql) and sync status of the source clock, enabling the EtherHaul products to Page 92...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual determine which clock source of use-based on performance and the need to avoid loops. Quality Level is based on the clock’s holdover performance. Quality Levels (ql) names and hierarchy: Table: Quality Levels (ql) and Names...
Typical SyncE Scenario Normal Operation The local EtherHaul receives timing information on Eth1 from the network (source) with quality level PRC (2: ql-prc) and distributes it to all interfaces. The remote EtherHaul receives timing information from the radio port (Eth0). Its quality level is PRC (2: ql-prc).
Radio Failure The local EtherHaul receives timing information on Eth1 from the network (source) with quality level PRC (2: ql-prc) and distributes it to all interfaces. No incoming clock source on the remote EtherHaul as radio link is down.
PRC clock accuracy it received previously and distributing it with its own quality level (11: ql-eec1). The remote EtherHaul receives and is locked on its Eth0 source and distributes timing information from this source to its interfaces. Figure 10-5 Typical SyncE Scenario – Line Failure...
Active Alarm List. 10.2 IEEE 1588v2 The EtherHaul supports IEEE 1588v2 Transparent Clock (TC). The support is hardware based. The operator is required to have a software license to activate the capabilities. The EtherHaul complies with the mobile backhaul specifications for packet synchronization distribution backhaul architectures for mobile radio access networks.
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In wireless link the compensation of the PDV needs to be done for the entire link including the air interface and not only per node. Siklu’s 1588 Transparent Clock (TC) implements one step end to end HW time stamping and distributed TC algorithm to synchronize the two ends of the link. The accuracy level of the synchronization correction field between the two sides is <100ns and complies...
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual For 1588 phase locking, SyncE must be configured (for frequency locking) even in the absence of SyncE signal over the link. Basic SyncE configuration may be applied. Local side (network side) – assuming local clock (Host) is used (no SyncE running):...
The EtherHaul powerful, integrated networking engine does everything for you. As the capacity of the sub-6 GHz link is lower than the 1 Gbps capacity of the EtherHaul, the ExtendMM allows to leverage the EtherHaul traffic prioritizing capabilities extending the availability of the high priority traffic.
Layer 2 broadcast or multicast traffic. Mount the EtherHaul and sub-6 GHz radios and establish reliable connectivity of both. Connect the traffic cable to the EtherHaul port (Eth1). Connect the sub -6 GHz radio to the EtherHaul port (Eth2 is the default).
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual This section allows configuring the following parameters: Role – the EtherHaul radio on one side of the link should be “master” while the other should be “slave”. Backup Port – the Ethernet port in the EtherHaul to which the sub-6 GHz radio is connected to.
Ethernet link, the radio link, or even the entire EtherHaul fails. This provides resiliency for both Ethernet - Ethernet rings that typically protect single site connectivity and Ethernet-RF rings that typically protect against RF network failure.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Figure 12-1 Basic ERP Protection Mechanism 12.2 Supported ERP Features Among the ERP features supported by the EtherHaul are: Backwards compatibility to previous versions Revertive and non-revertive behavior Flush logic with the Node-ID and BPR (Blocked Port Reference) mechanism ...
| {<md-idx> <ma-idx> <mep-id> <peer-mep-id>} 12.4 ERP Administrative Commands The EtherHaul provides two commands for blocking a particular ring port: Forced Switch (FS) – Can be used even if there is an existing condition. Multiple FS commands are supported per ring. FS commands can be used to enable immediate maintenance operations.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 4 21:09:39 sw cad: local Forced switch at 200 CW unblocked ACW blocked CLI>show ring all state ring 3 state : fs CLI>set ring 3 action clear Set done: ring 3 CLI>show log 4 21:09:39 sw cad: local Forced switch at 200 CW unblocked...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 12.5 ERP Timers Different timers are used to determine the time of fault reports and switching in order to assure only necessary switching for permanent failures. Timer Description Hold-off Timer for ensuring stability of failure before triggering action to avoid reporting a fault in case of intermittent failure.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual ring 1 acw-status-raps : unblocked ring 1 acw-status-raps : blocked ring 1 state : idle ring 1 state : idle ring 1 last-state-time : 2011.07.05 ring 1 last-state-time : 2011.06.27 ring 1 idle-percent : 97.731606 ring 1 idle-percent : 97.658112...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) This chapter describes the Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) capabilities of the EtherHaul system and includes the following topics: Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) as per IEEE 802.1ag ...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual OAM capabilities independently, with the customer at the highest level, the provider in the middle, and the operator at the lowest level. CFM is designed to be transparent to the customer data transported by the network and to provide maximum fault coverage.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual The system supports the following monitoring tools: CFM Continuity Check Message (CCM) CFM Linktrace CFM Loopback 13.1.2 Working with Maintenance Domains A Maintenance Domain (MD) is a part of a network that is controlled by a single operator and used to support the connectivity between service access points.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual show cfm-ma {<md-idx-list> | all} {<ma-idx-list> | all} {name | component | interval | info} Use the following command to clear a particular MA or all MAs: clear cfm-ma {<md-idx-list> | all} {<ma-idx-list> | all} 13.1.4...
13.1.6 Working with Peer MEPs MEPs connected by the EtherHaul Provider Bridge feature are known as Peer MEPs. Peer MEPs can be used to measure CCM delay and changes in that delay. Use the following command to create a Peer MEP entry. This command causes automatic creation of entries in the Peer MEP DB for all MEPIDs that have entries in MEP table and this Peer MEP ID.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 13.1.7 Working with CCM Messages An MEP can periodically transmit a multicast Connectivity Check Message (CCM) announcing the identity of the MEP and its MA. The MEP also tracks CCMs received from the other MEPs.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 13.1.8 Working with Linktrace Messages Linktrace messages are multicast from an originating MEP to a target MAC (MIP or MEP)/MEP ID, to verify the path between the two. Linktrace Reply messages (LTRs) are unicast from the target (or MIPs on route) to the originating MEP. Receipt of an LTR verifies the path.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual The following command creates a Maintenance End Point (MEP): set cfm-mep 1 1 1 interface eth0 dir down cci enabled The following command creates a Peer MEP: set cfm-peer-mep-create 1 1 2 The following command creates an MD at level 2:...
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual set cfm-ma-comp c2 1 1 vlan 200 The following command creates a Maintenance End Point (MEP): set cfm-mep 1 1 2 interface eth0 dir down cci enabled The following command creates a Peer MEP:...
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual cfm-peer-mep 2 2 1 2 mng-addr-domain : unknown Configure the Loopback on the Local System The following set of commands sets up the Loopback on the local System. You must set the destination type (mepid or mac) and the destination MEP ID, determine the number of loopback packets to transmit, and enable the Loopback for transmit.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 13.3.3 Link OAM Loopback Link OAM loopback is supported and can be enabled on the Ethernet port. Once enabled, traffic received on the port is looped back to the port that initiated the remote loopback.
Accounting: Reporting of information on requesters (identities, number of access attempts per requester, start and stop times, executed commands, etc.) The EtherHaul is a Network Access Server (NAS) for requesters and functions as AAA client passing requester information (e.g. username, password, etc.). The AAA Server is responsible for receiving connection requests, authenticating or disqualifying the requester, and sending the permit or denies response to the EtherHaul client.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual password is encrypted before it is sent between the EtherHaul and the AAA Server in order to prevent deciphering. The AAA Server can also provide accounting of requester commands and of changes in authorization level. This information is recorded in a special log fi le that enables a supervisor to view the activities of all the administrators.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Only admin user is defined in the system. All other users (including their name, password and type) are defined in the server. This section allows configuring the following parameters: Authentication Mode – Tacacs.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 14.1.4 Radius Authentication Mode Figure 14-2 Network Page: Users Administration – Radius Users are defined in the system, including name and type. The passwords are defined in the server. This section allows configuring the following parameters: ...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 14.4 Zero-Touch Configuration Zero Touch enables the user to quickly and easily commission the link and complete the startup configuration process. The process begins with the remote and automatic configuration files, which enable t he transfer and loading of the software file.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual ### Configuration file ### # Set the system name set system name EtherHaul_SiteA # Copy the following sw and upgrade it if differs from siklu-uimage-5.0.0-9900 copy sw tftp://192.168.0.222/siklu-uimage-5.0.0-9931 if-version-differs-from siklu-uimage-5.0.0-9900 run sw immediate no-timeout if-version-differs-from siklu-uimage-5.0.0-9931...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual If an error occurs in the script, causing the configuration to fail, an error message to the TFTP Server and the unit sends an SNMP trap. The following command allows you to set the delay time before the system restarts the configuration: set net-config [config-file <value>] [config-error-restart-delay...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 14.6 DHCP Relay (Option 82) Since DHCP packets cannot travel across a router, a relay agent is necessary in order to have a single DHCP server handle all leases. Relay agents receive broadcast DHCP packets and forward them as unicast packets to a DHCP server.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Enabling DHCP Relay set net-config dhcp-relay enable Viewing DHCP Relay status show net-config dhcp-relay net-config dhcp-relay : enable Page 137...
The general diagnostics process for an EtherHaul link is to identify whether there is a problem that needs to be addressed, to isolate the root cause of the problem, and to implement the steps that are required to solve the problem.
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Step 5: Need Support? Contact Siklu for technical support in case assistance is needed. Include detailed description of the issue and what steps were taken trying to solve it. Send the output of the System_info script from both sides (copy its output to a text file) for efficient service.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 15.2 System LEDs Color Description PWR (Power) Green – Power OK Blink Green – Device boot Red – Power Failure Off – No Power Green – Link Up Blink Green – Device boot Orange – Alignment Mode Off –...
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual than 5 sec (for more than 5 factory defaults restore seconds), restoring factory defaults Cold start: power Power restored, no corrective System power up 1) Restoring the power failure reset actions needed. after system reset...
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual interfaces Modulation Change RF link In adaptive mode: Verify if modulation change is modulation Modulation changed (up due to rain fading, mis- changed to the or down) due to change in alignment or interference.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual level equal to has Quality Level of EEC1 relevant corrective actions. EEC1 or worse. or worse. Better than EEC1 The SyncE 1) Active clock source has Normal state, no corrective interface receives Quality Level better than actions needed.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual ERP Forced Switch ERP Forced Switch User action: Forced Switch notification on local or remote (any remote unit in the ring) with indication if CW or ACW ports are blocked (not sending traffic) or...
15.4 Performance Statistics The EtherHaul system uses advanced RF and Ethernet counters to provide real -time performance statistics for radio transmission activities, Ethernet ports, and VLAN traffic. Refer to the Statistics chapter of this manual for detailed description of the performance monitoring statistics.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Loopbacks can be applied with a timeout (up to 24 hours). When timeout expires, the loopback will be removed. 15.5.1 Loopbacks Diagram Figure 15-1 System Loopback Points 15.5.2 Ethernet Line Loopbacks The loopback can be applied separately for each one of the interfaces (Eth1 to Eth4) and can be set with or without MAC Address swapping.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Internal Line Loopback An Internal External loop returns the received frames to the radio side, enabling you to test Ethernet traffic across the link. The Ethernet traffic from the Customer’s end-equipment or Ethernet analyzer is looped...
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual set eth eth1 loopback-mode internal-mac-swap Line external loopback set eth eth1 loopback-mode external-mac-swap RF loopback timeout set rf loopback internal-mac-swap qam64 4 1 0.5 set eth eth1 loopback-mode external-mac-swap Use the following command to clear the loopback: set eth eth1 loopback-mode disable ...
The RF statistics consist of real time statistic counters since the last time the counters were cleared VLAN statistics - displays statistic counters of each EtherHaul link component per VLAN Ethernet statistics - displays Ethernet statistics counters per Ethernet port ...
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual RF Statistics Summary is cleared upon system reset. RF Statistics Summary – 30 days 16.1.2 Summary of radio statistics – 30 intervals of 24 hours, recording the minimum and maximum values per interval of RSSI, CINR and Modulation profile.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Radio errors observed in these indicators do not mean necessarily frame -loss on the Ethernet service. The ARQ (Automatic Repeat Request) algorithm uses selective repeat (retransmission) to eliminate radio BER. The arq-in-loss and arq-out-loss indicate frame-loss over the radio that is noticed by the Ethernet service.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 16.2 Bandwidth Utilization Statistics Presented per port: Eth0 (RF), Eth1 to Eth4 – 96 intervals of 15 minutes (last 24 hours). The total in-octets, out-octets, in-rate, out-rate and utilization (aggregated, meaning Tx and Rx) are displayed.
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Figure 16-6 Statistics Page: VLAN Statistics 16.5 Queues Statistics Queue statistics for outgoing queues and incoming queues per port. Packets counters displayed since last cleared. 16.5.1 Out-Queue Statistics The out-queue counters are available per port and per queue (one of the 8 queues per port available).
EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual 16.5.2 In-Queue Statistics The 4 rf in-queues are for the internal mapping of queues. The Good counter indicates the number of good packets received, the Error counter indicates the number of errored packets received and the Lost counter indicates the number of packets lost.
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EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual Clearing statistics: clear eth all statistics VLAN Statistics: Viewing statistics (since last cleared): show vlan all all statistics Clearing statistics: clear vlan all all statistics Queues Statistics: Viewing out-queue statistics (since last cleared):...
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