Supported Media (Encapsulation Type); Supported Routing Protocols - Cabletron Systems SmartSwitch Router User's Reference Manual

Table 1. SSR Hardware and software specifications (Continued)
Feature
Quality of
Service (QoS)
RMON
Management
Port mirroring
Hot swapping
Load balancing/
sharing
Redundancy

Supported Media (Encapsulation Type)

The SSR supports the following industry-standard networking media:
• IP: IEEE 802.3 SNAP and Ethernet Type II
• IPX: IEEE 802.3 SNAP, Ethernet Type II, IPX 802.3, 802.2
• 802.1Q VLAN Encapsulation

Supported Routing Protocols

The SSR supports many routing protocols based on open standards. The SSR can receive
and forward packets concurrently from any combination of the following:
• Interior gateway protocols:
– Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Version 2
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• Layer-2 prioritization (802.1p)
• Layer-3 source-destination flows
• Layer-4 source-destination flows
• Layer-4 application flows
• RMON v1/v2 for each port
• SNMP
• CoreWatch Element Manager (GUI)
• Emacs-like Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Traffic to Control Module
• Traffic from specific ports
• Traffic to specific chassis slots (line cards)
• Power supply (when redundant supply is installed and online)
• Cabletron Systems SmartTRUNK support
• Redundant and hot-swappable power supplies
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
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