Nortel Alteon OS 40M2420 Operating manual

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Alteon OS

Command Reference

Layer 2/3 GbE Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter®

Version 1.3

Part Number: 40M2420, April 2007

Alteon OS Command Reference

240M2420, April 2007

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Contents

Preface 13

Who Should Use This Book 14

How This Book Is Organized 15

Typographic Conventions 16

How to Get Help 17

The Command Line Interface 19

Connecting to the Switch 20

Management Module Setup 20

Factory-Default vs. MM assigned IP Addresses 20

Default Gateway 21

Configuring management module for switch access 21

Connecting to the Switch via Telnet 23

Running Telnet 23

Establishing an SSH Connection 24

Running SSH 25

Accessing the Switch 26

Setup Versus CLI 28

Command Line History and Editing 29

Idle Timeout 29

First-Time Configuration 31

Using the Setup Utility 32

Information Needed For Setup 32

Starting Setup When You Log In 32

Stopping and Restarting Setup Manually 34

Stopping Setup 34

Restarting Setup 34

Setup Part 1: Basic System Configuration 34

Setup Part 2: Port Configuration 36

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Setup Part 3: VLANs 38

Setup Part 4: IP Configuration 39

IP Interfaces 39

Default Gateways 40

IP Routing 41

Setup Part 5: Final Steps 41

Optional Setup for Telnet Support 42

Setting Passwords 43

Changing the Default Administrator Password 43

Changing the Default User Password 45

Menu Basics 47

The Main Menu 48

Menu Summary 49

Global Commands 50

Command Line History and Editing 53

Command Line Interface Shortcuts 54

Command Stacking 54

Command Abbreviation 54

Tab Completion 54

The Information Menu 55

Information Menu 56

System Information 58

SNMPv3 System Information Menu 59

SNMPv3 USM User Table Information 61

SNMPv3 View Table Information 62

SNMPv3 Access Table Information 63

SNMPv3 Group Table Information 64

SNMPv3 Community Table Information 64

SNMPv3 Target Address Table Information 65

SNMPv3 Target Parameters Table Information 66

SNMPv3 Notify Table Information 67

SNMPv3 Dump Information 68

BladeCenter Chassis Information 69

General System Information 70

Show Recent Syslog Messages 72

User Status 73

Layer 2 Information 74

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FDB Information 76

Show All FDB Information 77

Clearing Entries from the Forwarding Database 77

Link Aggregation Control Protocol Information 78

Show all LACP Information 78

802.1x Information 80

Spanning Tree Information 82

RSTP/MSTP Information 85

Common Internal Spanning Tree Information 88

Trunk Group Information 91

VLAN Information 91

Layer 3 Information 93

IP Routing Information 95

Show All IP Route Information 96

ARP Information 98

Show All ARP Entry Information 99

ARP Address List Information 99

BGP Information 100

BGP Peer information 100

BGP Summary information 101

Show all BGP Information 101

OSPF Information 102

OSPF General Information 103

OSPF Interface Information 104

OSPF Database Information 104

OSPF Information Route Codes 106

Routing Information Protocol Information 107

RIP Routes Information 107

Show RIP User Configuration 107

IP Information 108

IGMP Multicast Group Information 109

IGMP Group Information 110

IGMP Multicast Router Port Information 110

IGMP Mrouter Information 111

VRRP Information 112

Quality of Service Information 113

802.1p Information 113

Access Control List Information 115

Link Status Information 116

Port Information 117

Logical Port to GEA Port Mapping 118

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Fiber Port SFP Status 119

Information Dump 119

The Statistics Menu 121

Statistics Menu 121

Port Statistics 123

802.1x Authenticator Statistics 124

802.1x Authenticator Diagnostics 125

Bridging Statistics 127

Ethernet Statistics 129

Interface Statistics 132

Interface Protocol Statistics 134

Link Statistics 134

Layer 2 Statistics 135

FDB Statistics 135

LACP Statistics 136

Layer 3 Statistics 137

IP Statistics 139

Route Statistics 141

ARP statistics 141

DNS Statistics 142

ICMP Statistics 142

TCP Statistics 145

UDP Statistics 147

IGMP Statistics 148

OSPF Statistics 149

OSPF Global Statistics 150

VRRP Statistics 154

Routing Information Protocol Statistics 155

Management Processor Statistics 156

MP Packet Statistics 157

TCP Statistics 158

UCB Statistics 158

CPU Statistics 159

ACL Statistics 160

ACL Meter Statistics 161

SNMP Statistics 162

NTP Statistics 166

Statistics Dump 167

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The Configuration Menu 169

Configuration Menu 170

Viewing, Applying, and Saving Changes 172

Viewing Pending Changes 172

Applying Pending Changes 172

Saving the Configuration 173

System Configuration 174

System Host Log Configuration 177

SSH Server Configuration 178

RADIUS Server Configuration 179

TACACS+ Server Configuration 181

LDAP Server Configuration 184

NTP Server Configuration 186

System SNMP Configuration 188

SNMPv3 Configuration 190

User Security Model Configuration 192

SNMPv3 View Configuration 193

View-based Access Control Model Configuration 194

SNMPv3 Group Configuration 196

SNMPv3 Community Table Configuration 197

SNMPv3 Target Address Table Configuration 198

SNMPv3 Target Parameters Table Configuration 199

SNMPv3 Notify Table Configuration 200

System Access Configuration 201

Management Networks Configuration 203

User Access Control Configuration 204

System User ID Configuration 205

Strong Password Configuration 206

HTTPS Access Configuration 207

Port Configuration 208

Port Link Configuration 210

Temporarily Disabling a Port 211

Port ACL Configuration 211

ACL Port Metering Menu 212

Re-Mark Menu 213

Re-Marking In-Profile Menu 214

Update User Priority Menu 215

Re-Marking Out-of-Profile Menu 216

Layer 2 Configuration 217

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802.1x Configuration 219

802.1x Global Configuration 220

802.1x Guest VLAN Configuration 222

802.1x Port Configuration 223

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol/

Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol Configuration 225

Common Internal Spanning Tree Configuration 227

CIST Bridge Configuration 228

CIST Port Configuration 229

Spanning Tree Configuration 231

Spanning Tree Bridge Configuration 233

Spanning Tree Port Configuration 235

Forwarding Database Configuration 237

Static FDB Configuration 238

Trunk Configuration 239

IP Trunk Hash Configuration 240

IP Trunk Hash 240

LACP Configuration 242

LACP Port Configuration 243

Layer 2 Failover Configuration 244

Failover Trigger Configuration 245

Auto Monitor Configuration 246

VLAN Configuration 247

Protocol-based VLAN Configuration 249

Private VLAN Configuration 251

Layer 3 Configuration 252

IP Interface Configuration 254

Default Gateway Configuration 255

IP Static Route Configuration 256

IP Multicast Route Configuration 257

ARP Configuration 258

ARP Static Configuration 259

IP Forwarding Configuration 260

Network Filter Configuration 261

Routing Map Configuration 262

IP Access List Configuration 264

Autonomous System Filter Path 265

Routing Information Protocol Configuration 266

Routing Information Protocol Interface Configuration 267

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Open Shortest Path First Configuration 269

Area Index Configuration 271

OSPF Summary Range Configuration 272

OSPF Interface Configuration 273

OSPF Virtual Link Configuration 275

OSPF Host Entry Configuration 276

OSPF Route Redistribution Configuration 277

OSPF MD5 Key Configuration 278

Border Gateway Protocol Configuration 279

BGP Peer Configuration 281

BGP Redistribution Configuration 283

BGP Aggregation Configuration 284

IGMP Configuration 285

IGMP Snooping Configuration 286

IGMP Version 3 Configuration 287

IGMP Relay Configuration 288

IGMP Relay Multicast Router Configuration 289

IGMP Static Multicast Router Configuration 290

IGMP Filtering Configuration 291

IGMP Filter Definition 292

IGMP Filtering Port Configuration 293

IGMP Advanced Configuration 294

Domain Name System Configuration 295

Bootstrap Protocol Relay Configuration 296

VRRP Configuration 297

Virtual Router Configuration 299

Virtual Router Priority Tracking Configuration 301

Virtual Router Group Configuration 302

Virtual Router Group Priority Tracking Configuration 304

VRRP Interface Configuration 305

VRRP Tracking Configuration 306

Quality of Service Configuration 307

802.1p Configuration 308

DSCP Configuration 309

Access Control List Configuration 310

ACL Configuration 311

Ethernet Filtering Configuration 312

IP version 4 Filtering Configuration 313

TCP/UDP Filtering Configuration 314

Packet Format Filtering Configuration 315

ACL Block Menu 316

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ACL Group Configuration 317

Port Mirroring Configuration 318

Port-Mirroring Configuration 319

Setup 320

Dump 320

Saving the Active Switch Configuration 321

Restoring the Active Switch Configuration 321

The Operations Menu 323

Operations Menu 324

Operations-Level Port Options 325

Operations-Level Port 802.1x Options 326

Operations-Level VRRP Options. 327

Operations-Level IP Options 328

Operations-Level BGP Options 328

The Boot Options Menu 329

Boot Menu 330

Scheduled Reboot of the Switch 330

Scheduled Reboot Menu 330

Updating the Switch Software Image 331

Loading New Software to Your Switch 331

Using the BBI 331

Using the AOS CLI 333

Selecting a Software Image to Run 334

Uploading a Software Image from Your Switch 335

Selecting a Configuration Block 336

Resetting the Switch 337

Accessing the ISCLI 337

The Maintenance Menu 339

Maintenance Menu 340

System Maintenance 342

Forwarding Database Maintenance 343

Debugging Options 344

ARP Cache Maintenance 345

IP Route Manipulation 346

IGMP Maintenance 347

IGMP Group Maintenance 347

IGMP Multicast Routers Maintenance 348

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