Hi all, let me first apologize for this very long post!
I have my first 8600 coming in next week. This will replace a stack of 5500 series switches as my core. I have been reading nortel docs, blogs and posts from this site so I can better ready myself for this new piece of hardware (this will be my first experience with an 8600).
I am trying to get familiar with the cli syntax and since it is different than the 5500 series I would like to get a vote of confidence on what I'm doing. I'm basically trying to translate what I'm doing on my 5500 series to the 8600. In this scenario I have a single 8600 and I am going to MLT with an edge closet. Obviously I'll have more edge closets to do this with, but I'll just replicate this on other edge closets.
-Enable IP Forwarding
config ip forwarding enable
-Create Vlans
config vlan 34 create byport 1 name "DataVLAN"
config vlan 40 create byport 1 name "VoiceVLAN"
-Ip for Vlans
config vlan 34 ip create 192.168.254.1/255.255.255.0
config vlan 40 ip create 192.168.253.1/255.255.255.0
-Ethernet Ports
config ethernet 1/1 name mltToEdge1-47
config ethernet 1/1 perform-tagging enable
config vlan 34 add port 1/1
config vlan 40 add port 1/1
config ethernet 2/1 name mltToEdge1-48
config ethernet 2/1 perform-tagging enable
config vlan 34 add port 2/1
config vlan 40 add port 2/1
-Discard Untagged Frames
config ethernet 1/1,2/1 untagged-frames-discard enable
-MLT
config mlt 1 create
config mlt 1 name "EdgeCloset"
config mlt 1 add ports 1/1,2/1
config mlt 1 perform-tagging enable
config vlan 34 add-mlt 1
config vlan 40 add-mlt 1
-QOS Trust Ports for UpLinks
config ethernet 1/1,2/1 access-diffserv false (Still not sure what this does!?)
config ethernet 1/1,2/1 enable-diffserv true
-DHCP Relay
config vlan 34 ip dhcp enable
config ip dhcp-relay create-fwd-path agent 192.168.254.1 server x.x.x.x mode bootP-dhcp state enable
-Enable Rate-Limiting
config sys ext-cp-limit extcplimit enable
config ethernet 1/1,2/1 ext-cp-limit SoftDown threshold-util-rate 40 (From Nortel Large Campus recommendation)
-Contact Info
config sys set contact Name
config sys set location CIS Data Center
config sys set name Core-8600
-NTP Server
config ntp server create a.b.c.d
config ntp enable true
I am still trying to figure out what I would do for the following:
1. Time Zone Setting (I'm Central Standard Time)
2. On the 5500 I would configure SNMP with a public and private community and with ipmgr I would restrict which ip's could communicate with the device. Not sure how to do this on the 8600
3. syslog, on the 5500 series i would enable logging remotely to a syslog server and log critical and serious events.
Lots to digest here, but if anyone has any advice or recommendations I'm all ears!
Todd
