First 8600

[stauftm]

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

[Michael McNamara]

That looks like a great start to me...

You might want to check out the following blog posts;
How to configure SNMPv3 on a Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch
How to restrict SNMP community strings on the ERS8600
ERS8600 Access Policy
ERS8600 Usernames and Passwords
ERS8600 Boot Configuration Sequence

Here are the commands for setting up a SYSLOG host;
config sys syslog host 1 create
config sys syslog host 1 address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
config sys syslog host 1 host enable
config sys syslog ip-header-type circuitless-ip

Just be ware that in the above config I'm using the source IP address as the circuitless-ip interface? If you don't have an circuitless-ip interface configured you can just leave off that command.

Good Luck!