Operator`s manual
Table Of Contents
- RS 8000/8600 Getting Started Guide
- Notices
- Table of Contents
- 1 About This Guide
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Hardware Installation
- 3.1 Safety Considerations
- 3.2 Hardware Specifications
- 3.3 Installing the Hardware
- 3.3.1 Verifying Your Shipment
- 3.3.2 Installing the Chassis
- 3.3.3 Installing an AC Power Supply
- 3.3.4 Installing a DC Power Supply
- 3.3.5 Installing the Control Module
- 3.3.6 Installing the Switching Fabric Module (RS8600 only)
- 3.3.7 Installing Line Cards
- 3.3.8 Installing GBIC Modules into Line Cards
- 3.3.9 Installing ATM Physical Media Cards (PHYs)
- 3.3.10 Multi-rate WAN Line Card and WICs
- 3.3.11 SRP Line Cards and Bridge Mate Module
- 3.3.12 Installing SFP Transceivers
- 3.3.13 Attaching the Network Cables to Line Cards
- 4 Initial Configuration
- 4.1 Powering on the RS8000/8600
- 4.2 Starting the Command Line Interface
- 4.3 Configuration Changes and Saving the Configuration File
- 4.4 Setting the Basic System Information
- 4.5 Setting Up Passwords
- 4.6 Setting Up SNMP
- 4.7 Setting the DNS Domain Name and Address
- 4.8 Setting the SYSLOG Parameters
- 4.9 Using Redundant Control Modules
- 5 Managing Software
- Appendix A Troubleshooting
- Appendix B International SaFety Information
- Index

Riverstone Networks RS 8000/8600 Switch Router Getting Started Guide 2-3
Introduction Specifications
Routing protocols
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IP: RIP v1/v2, OSPF, BGP 2, 3, 4, IS-IS
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IPX: RIP, SAP
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Multicast: IGMP, DVMRP, GARP/GVRP
MPLS
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LER and LSR complete functionality
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RSVP-TE and LDP for label distribution and dynamic
LSP creation
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OSPF-TE and ISIS-TE traffic engineering extensions
with support for online CSPF
Bridging and VLAN
protocols
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802.1d Spanning Tree
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802.1Q (VLAN trunking)
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Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
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Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST)
RMON
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RMON v1/v2 for each port
Management
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SNMP v1, v2
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Emacs-like Command Line Interface (CLI)
Port mirroring
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Traffic from specific ports
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Traffic to specific expansion slots (line cards)
Hot swapping
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Line cards
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Control module (when redundant Control Module is
installed and online)
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Switching Fabric Modules (RS 8600 only)
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Power Supply (when redundant supply is installed and
online)
Redundancy
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Redundant power supplies
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Redundant Control Modules
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Redundant Switching Fabric Modules (RS 8600 only)
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Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Table 2-2 RS 8000/8600 specifications (Continued)
Feature Specification