Nortel Networks Ethernet Routing Switch 8300Installation and Commissioning— Quick StartNN46200-100 (322800-A).

installing a module

installing a power supply module

powering up the system

verifying a successful installation

Nortel 8300 Series Installation And Commissioning Manual

Regulatory information and safety precautions

European Union and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) notice

Safety messages

Software license

New in this Release

Introduction

DC power supply fundamentals

Ethernet Routing Switch 8300 series chassis

Minimum number of 8005DI DC power supplies to install

Minimum number of 8005DC power supplies to install

DC power supply installation

Determining the minimum number of DC power supplies

Preparing cables for installation

Installing the DC power supply

Translations of safety messages

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch

Model 8005DI DC power supply

Model 8005DC power supply

June

8300 Series

Regulatory Information and Safety Precautions

EN 55 022 Statements

European Union and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Notice

national safety statements of compliance

Denan Statement (Japan/Nippon only)

Notices

New in this release

Chassis installation fundamentals

Ethernet Routing Switch 8306 chassis

Power supplies

Fan trays

Hardware requirements

Ethernet Routing Switch 8310 and 8306 chassis installation

Chassis installation time requirements

Procedure job aid: Chassis weight including components

Procedure job aid: Maximum number of chassis installed in 7-foot rack

Switch operations

Powering on AC power supplies

Resetting the switch

Removing removable flash memory cards

Protecting memory card files

Part Numbers

Ethernet Routing Switch 8310 chassis specifications

Technical specifications

Ethernet Routing Switch 8306 chassis specifications

Environmental specifications

Ethernet Routing Switch 8301 AC power supply specifications

Ethernet Routing Switch 8005DC power supply specifications

Electrostatic discharge caution statement

NN46200-309 01.01 Standard 16 June

restricted rights legend

Safety and regulatory information

Care of ﬁber optic equipment

Fiber optic connector care

Job aid: connector cleaning tools and materials

Cleaning duplex SC connectors

Product safety warnings and information

Small form factor pluggable transceivers

Procedure job aid: SFPs and common applications

Procedure job aid: SFP models with DDI support

Installing an SFP

Procedure job aid: locking and extractor mechanisms

Removing an SFP

Gigabit small form factor pluggable transceivers

Procedure job aid: XFP models

Removing an XFP

SFP speciﬁcations

General SFP speciﬁcations

BASE-SX (LC) SFP speciﬁcations

BASE-SX (MT-RJ) SFP speciﬁcations

BASE-XD CWDM SFP speciﬁcations

BASE-ZX CWDM SFP speciﬁcations

XFP speciﬁcations

General XFP speciﬁcations

GBASE-LR/LW XFP speciﬁcations

GBASE-ER/EW XFP speciﬁcations

GBASE-ZR/ZW XFP speciﬁcations

Index

statement of conditions

en 55 022 statements

new in this release

Preface

Getting help from the Nortel web site

Getting help from a specialist using an Express Routing Code

VLANs, Spanning Tree, and Static Link Aggregation

VLAN ports

Policy-based VLANs

Protocol-based VLANs

Figure 2 Dynamic protocol-based VLAN

Independent VLAN Learning (IVL)

VLAN router interfaces

Table 3 VLAN rules

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

Figure 4 Multiple spanning tree groups

Spanning Tree modes

Spanning Tree Protocol topology change detection

Link aggregation trafﬁc distribution

Link aggregation examples

Figure 5 Switch-to-switch link aggregation conﬁguration

Figure 6 Switch-to-server link aggregation conﬁguration

Split MultiLink Trunking

Overview

Advantages of SMLT

How SMLT works

Figure 10 8300 switches as SMLT aggregation switches

Inter-Switch Trunks

CP-Limit and SMLT IST

Trafﬁc ﬂow in an SMLT environment

Figure 11 show vlan info fdb-entry 10 sample output

Single port SMLT

SMLT topologies

Figure 14 Single Port SMLT topology

Figure 15 SMLT triangle topology

Figure 16 SMLT square topology

Using MLT-based SMLT with single port SMLT

SMLT network design considerations

SMLT and VRRP backup master

Simple Loop Prevention Protocol

Figure 19 SLPP frame

Port auto recovery

VLAN, STG, and link aggregation feature support

Conﬁguring VLANs

Displaying deﬁned VLANs

Table 8 VLAN - Basic tab ﬁelds

Creating a VLAN

Creating a port-based VLAN

Conﬁguring an IP address for a VLAN

Creating a protocol-based VLAN

Conﬁguring user-deﬁned protocol-based VLANs

Managing a VLAN

Conﬁguring advanced VLAN features

Table 9 VLAN - Advanced tab ﬁelds

Conﬁguring a MAC address for auto-learning on a VLAN

Table 10 VlanMacLearning - Insert Manual Edit tab ﬁelds

Managing the VLAN forwarding database

Table 11 Bridge ,VLAN dialog box - Transparent tab ﬁelds

Table 12 Bridge, VLAN dialog box - Forwarding tab ﬁelds

database

Conﬁguring static forwarding

Table 13 Bridge , VLAN - Static tab ﬁelds

Conﬁguring VLAN forwarding database ﬁlters

Table 14 Bridge, VLAN dialog box - Filter tab ﬁelds

Conﬁguring Layer 2 multicast MAC ﬁltering

Table 15 Bridge, VLAN, Insert Multicast tab ﬁelds

Conﬁguring port auto recovery

Enabling or disabling port auto recovery for a single port

Enabling or disabling port auto recovery for multiple ports

Conﬁguring Spanning Tree Group

Table 16 STG Conﬁguration tab ﬁelds

adding ports to an stg

Table 17 STG Status tab ﬁelds

Table 18 STG Ports tab ﬁelds

deleting an stg

Conﬁguring Simple Loop Prevention Protocol

Conﬁguring the SLPP by VLAN

Conﬁguring the SLPP by port

Table 21 SLPP - Ports tab ﬁelds

Conﬁguring static link aggregation

Adding a link aggregation group

Table 22 MLT dialog box - MultiLink Trunks ﬁelds

adding ports to a link aggregation group

Viewing link aggregation interface statistics

Table 23 Statistics, MLT dialog box - Interface tab ﬁelds

Table 24 Statistics, MLT dialog box - Ethernet Errors tab ﬁelds

Conﬁguring SMLT

Viewing MLT-based SMLT information for the switch

Conﬁguring a single port SMLT

Viewing single port SMLTs conﬁgured on the switch

Deleting a single port SMLT

Removing an IST MLT

Viewing IST statistics

Administration and Security

Nortel Secure Network Access

NSNA features

Port authentication modes

RADIUS Accounting and proﬁling

Password and SNMP community string encryption

Secure and non-secure protocols

Disabling and enabling SNMPv1 or SNMPv2

Disabling HTTP

Enabling SNMPv3

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting planning

Site network map

Troubleshooting fundamentals

Port mirroring

Port statistics

Log ﬁles

System core image dump

Initial troubleshooting

Accessing the NNCLI (from the CLI)

Returning to the CLI (from the NNCLI)


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