Specifications

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OmniSwitch 6850 Series
8 sessions are supported per standalone switch and stack
An aggregable port of a link aggregation group cannot be a mapped port and vice versa
A mirrored port cannot be a mapped port and vice versa
A mobile port cannot be configured as a network port of a mapping session
SCP (secure copy) “SCP” command can be used to get/put the file from/to the server.
Since OS6800/OS6850 does not have any SCP-daemon running on the switch, therefore this feature
only works when OS6800/OS6850 works as a client instead of the server. This feature has been
validated with SSH 4.0 on Solaris and Linux platforms.
Since SSH 4.0 contains SCP, SFTP and SSH features, therefore the system allows the network
administrator to create the local user database to specify all domain or family of features (i.e. the
family of feature that a user can have access). When a user is being created, all allowed access need to
be defined.
SFLOW SFlow is a sampling technology embedded within switches/routers defined in RFC 3176. It provides
the ability to monitor the traffic flows. It requires an sFlow Agent running in the Switch/Router and a
sFlow collector which receives and analyses the monitored data.
SFlow agent running on the OS6850, combines interface counters and traffic flow (packet) samples on
all the configured interfaces into sFlow Datagrams that are sent across the network to an sFlow
collector (3rd Party software). Packet sampling is done in hardware and is non-CPU intensive.
Current release will not support IPv6 as Collector.
Interswitch Protocols 4.1.6 Alcatel Interswitch Protocols (AIP) is used to discover adjacent switches and retain mobile port
information across switches. The following protocols are supported:
• Alcatel Mapping Adjacency Protocol (AMAP), which is used to discover the topology of
OmniSwitches and OmniSwitch/Routers (Omni S/R).
• Group Mobility Advertisement Protocol (GMAP), which is used to retain learned mobile port and
protocol information.
These protocols are independent of each other and perform separate functions. (Note: GMAP is not
supported in AOSv6.1.1r01 Release)
AMAP Overview
The Alcatel Mapping Adjacency Protocol (AMAP) is used to discover the topology of OmniSwitches
or Omni S/R(s) in a particular installation. Using this protocol, each switch determines which
OmniSwitches or Omni S/R(s) is adjacent to it by sending and responding to Hello update packets. For
the purposes of AMAP, adjacent switches are those that:
Have a Spanning Tree path between them
Do not have any switch between them on the Spanning Tree path that has AMAP enabled
AMAP switch ports are either in the discovery transmission state, common transmission state, or
passive reception state. Ports transition to these states depending on whether or not they receive Hello
responses from adjacent switches.
Note. All Hello packet transmissions are sent to a well-known MAC address (0020da:007004).
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Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Alcatel-Lucent's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) rating for
software processes meets the Level-2 (CMM-level-2) requirements.
The Ethernet software The Ethernet software is responsible for a variety of functions that support the Ethernet, Gigabit
Ethernet and 10Gigabit Ethernet ports on OmniSwitch 6850 Series switches. These functions include
diagnostics, software loading, initialization, and configuration of line parameters, gathering statistics,
and responding to administrative requests from SNMP or CLI.
Operating Systems
Wind River’s VxWorks multi-tasking O/S version 5.4 with a Kernel version 2.5. Alcatel-Lucent O/S – AOS (Alcatel-Lucent’s Operating Systems).
O/S: AOS (Alcatel-Lucent Operating Systems) based – common to OS9000, OS8800, OS7000, OS6800
The AOS is uploaded onto the Flash memory. The advantage of this switch running the AOS is that it is managed using the same interface as with the rest of the
Alcatel-Lucent AOS switching & routing platforms. The AOS on the OS6850 platforms provides support for the majority of the features of the larger modular
platforms including layer-3 unicast routing using RIPv1&v2, VRRP, or OSPFv2. Group mobility and authenticated VLANs as well as QoS and ACL
functionality are supported making the OS6850 a highly functional solution for the core of the network.
Software
Each OmniSwitch 6850 Chassis is shipped with base software.
All advanced features (with the exception of Advanced Routing Software) are also included in the base software.
Authenticated Services Software
OS-SW-SBR-N
"[ECCN 5D992] Authentication bundle for Windows w/MD5, RC4, MD4, DES. This bundle provides Funk Software's Steel-Belted
Radius Enterprise Edition for Microsoft Windows and includes an one-year maintenance contract (maintenance releases, 7X24 phone
support and e-service web access)."
OS-SW-SBR-S
"[ECCN 5D992] Authentication Bundle for Solaris w/MD5, RC4, MD4, DES. This bundle provides Funk Software's Steel-Belted
Radius Enterprise Edition for Sun Solaris and includes an one-year maintenance contract (maintenance releases, 7X24 phone support
and e-service web access)."
Advanced Routing Software
OS6850-SW-AR
OS6850 Advanced Routing software. Includes support for OSPF, BGP, PIM-SM and DVMRP.