Cabletron Systems SmartSwitch 6500 User Manual page 59

IP Over ATM and LANE
are ANDed together. For example, if three join policies are create, each with the same priority value, a client requesting
LANE services must meet the criteria of all three policies to be assigned an ELAN. If the client fails to meet the
requirements of all three policies, the policy with the next lowest priority value will attempt to assign the client to an
ELAN.
Use the
add lecselanpolicy
ELAN join policy based on the By Packet Size policy.
Smart6500 # add lecselanpolicy
PolicyIndex()
Type()
ELAN Policy Type (Values from 1 to 7 representing, in order, the policies BestEffort, byATMAddress,
byMacAddress, byRouteDescriptor, byLANType, byPacketSize and byELANName).
Type()
Priority()
Smart6500 #
The lower the numerical value of a priority, the higher the priority. In the example
Note
above, a priority value of 1000 was specified. Subsequently, This policy will be
tried before Best Effort (policy value = 65001).
Use the
show lecselanpolicy
Smart6500 # show lecselanpolicy
Index Assignment Policy
==============================================================================
1 Best Effort (Proprietary)
2 By Packet Size
Smart6500 #
In the example above, index 2 (or greater) was used because the
Note
policy reserves index one.
The LECSELANLEC Table
Many of the ELAN join policies use the information supplied by the
command to create a list of clients and to assign the ELAN each client should join.
lecselanlec
Note You can also assign a TLV set to be used by the client on the specified ELAN.
Clients are identified within the
•
ATM address
•
MAC address
•
Token Ring route descriptor (segment ID and bridge number)
command to create ELAN join policies. The following is an example of creating an
: 2
: ?
: 6
: 1000
command to show the newly created ELAN join policy.
Priority Value
65001
1000
list by one (or a combination of) the following attributes:
lecselanlecs
< Can be any value other than one (1)
< Use ? to see possible types
< Specify type 6, assign ELAN by packet size requested by client
< Weight the policy at 1000
< The created policy, its index number, and its priority
add lecselanlec
Creating an Emulated LAN
Best Effort
command. Use the
add
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