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The Nortel ERS 5500 Series switches support Layer 3 switching (routing) but only with static routes. The Advanced Routing License is required to provide the following features;OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) Routing VRRP (Virtual Routing … [Continue reading]
The Nortel VPN (formerly Contivity) Routers are among some of the best in the industry. The majority of the product line came to Nortel (formerly Bay Networks) from the acquisition of New Oak back in 1999.Since that time Nortel has added a few … [Continue reading]
This post applies to the following models;Nortel Business Policy Switch 2000 Nortel Ethernet Switch 300 Series Nortel Ethernet Switch 460 Nortel Ethernet Switch 470 Nortel Ethernet Switch 2500 Series Nortel Ethernet Switch 4500 Series … [Continue reading]
Protecting your network switches from un-authorized access should be high on everyone's list these days. It's clear that an insecure switch is a liability in any network topology. In the vast majority of cases this means at least changing the default … [Continue reading]
There was a recent comment about a Usenet positing I made back in 2002 in comp.protocols.snmp.In the post I was responding to someone looking for information on how to decode the value returned from the ipNetToMediaIfIndex when querying an ERS 8600 … [Continue reading]