Allied Telesis AR410 User Manual page 11

Introduction
Software Release 2.7.1
C613-02021-00 REV F
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TCP/IP routing.
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Novell® IPX routing.
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DECnet™ routing (Phase IV+ and area).
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AppleTalk routing.
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Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) protocols.
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IP multicast routing support, including Internet Group Management
Protocol (IGMP), Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)
and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse and Dense Modes.
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Ping Polling for determining device reachability and responding when a
device or link goes up or down.
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IPv6 routing support, including stateless address autoconfiguration, RIPv6
and ICMPv6.
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IPv6 multicast routing support, including Multicast Listener Discovery
(MLDv2) and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse and Dense
Modes.
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OSPF, RIP (IP and Novell®), SAP (Novell®), EGP and BGP routing
protocols.
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ARP, Proxy ARP and Inverse ARP address resolution protocols.
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Sophisticated packet filtering.
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Bridging.
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Van Jacobson's header compression, STAC LZS and Predictor compression,
and hardware-based AES (not AR410 or AR410S) and DES encryption.
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Create secure Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) across the Internet or any
other public or shared IP network, using AT-VPNet.
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Tunnelling of synchronous (HDLC) data through TCP/IP (models with a
PIC bay).
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Terminal serving using Telnet, with local host nicknames.
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Access to network printers via LPD or TCP streams (AR410 only).
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Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for delivering quality of service to
application data streams.
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TPAD support for fast credit card authorisation transactions (models with
a PIC bay).
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A fully featured, stateful inspection firewall.
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IPsec-compliant IP security services.
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Integration with a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
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Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).
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Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Connectionless Network Service
(CLNS).
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Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP-4).
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Load Balancing for distributing traffic among multiple resources.
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Software Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
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Voice over IP (VoIP).
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802.1x port authentication.
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