Michael McNamara

technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony

Avaya Communication Server 1000 6.0 SIP Trunking with Bell Canada

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Avaya has released another technical configuration guide (application note) from their interoperability testlab regarding how to properly configure the Avaya Communication Server 1000 release 6.0 for SIP (PSTN) trunking with Bell Canada.

I figured I’d better not skip the Bell Canada document for fear of upsetting my Canadian readers. ;)

I’m really excited to see Avaya providing this information to both their resellers and customers. I’d like to thank those that wrote and lobbied for these documents within Avaya. It’s extremely encouraging to see Avaya willing to empower their users so they can leverage their products and investments to their fullest.

Cheers!

References;
NN10000-132_1.0_ CS1000_R5.5_Bell_SIP_Trunking_App_Notes.pdf

Avaya Communication Server 1000 6.0 SIP Trunking with Frontier

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Avaya has released another technical configuration guide (application note) from their interoperability testlab regarding how to properly configure the Avaya Communication Server 1000 release 6.0 for SIP (PSTN) trunking with Frontier Communication System. The document is highly technical and very thorough and while it might be “over the top” for some it’s just what the doctor ordered for those users who are eager to take a more hands on approach to their voice solutions rather than just relying on resellers.

Cheers!

References;
NN10000-133_1_CS1000_R6_FrontierComSIPTrunkAppNotes.pdf

Avaya Communication Server 1000 6.0 SIP Trunking with Paetec

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Avaya has released another technical configuration guide (application note) from their interoperability testlab regarding how to properly configure the Avaya Communication Server 1000 release 6.0 for SIP (PSTN) trunking with Paetec (Broadsoft platform). The document is highly technical and very thorough and while it might be “over the top” for some it’s just what the doctor ordered for those users who are eager to take a more hands on approach to their voice solutions rather than just relying on resellers.

I personally used Paetec a few years ago as a local CLEC where they had been providing local and long distance toll access for a number of our facilities over traditional T1/PRI access lines.

Cheers!

References;
NN10000-131_1_cs1000_R6_PaetecBroadsoftSIPTrunkingAppNotes.pdf

Avaya Technical Configuration Guide for BGP

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I use BGP extensively to provide dynamic routing between a number of vendors, business partners and affiliated organizations with whom I’m multi-homed to. I recently had to determine if Nortel/Avaya supported eBGP MultiHop on the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 software release 5.x (they do). Thankfully I was able to peer with a Cisco 6500 switch that was sitting behind a Cisco firewall module from an Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 without any significant issues,.

If you are looking for a great resource on BGP I would highly recommend O’Reilly’s book titled BGP.

If you are looking for Avaya/Nortel specific information concerning their BGP implement then you are in luck. Avaya has a technical configuration guide for the ERS 8600 that focuses on BGP. While this is an older document (November 2007) it still does a great job of providing a number of configuration examples and explaining the basics.

In the near future I might need to use an ERS 8606 as an Internet router. I’ll need to peer with the ISP since I’m multi-home to independent Internet Service Providers, although I’m not sure if the 8692SF can handle a full BGP routing table. Has anyone ever tried to feeding a full (or partial) BGP routing table from the Internet to an ERS 8800/8600 switch?

Cheers!

Traffic Filters and ACLs for the Ethernet Routing Switch 5000

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1105094_15304690There have been a few recent comments on the blog and a few questions on the discussion forum around how ACLs (traffic filters) work on the Ethernet Routing Switch 5520. I thought I would take a few minutes to dive into the subject and perhaps either answer some of those questions or foster some additional discussion. Let me get right to the most popular question.

Is the Ethernet Routing Switch 5510/5520/5530 capable of performing basic IP filtering? Yes.

Prior to software release 5.0 you had to-do all filtering in QoS policies. It seems a lot of confusion comes from the fact that in order to perform IP filtering similar to an ACL in a Cisco router you had to create a QoS policy. With the release of 5.0 software you can now create fairly straight forward ACLs. You can only do this from the CLI or WEB interface, there’s no support for ACLs in Java Device Manager.

Let me walk you through a simple example.

I started with a ERS-5520-PwR and factory reset the switch I gave it a management IP address of 192.168.1.50 (VLAN 1);

5520-48T-PWR(config)#ip address switch 192.168.1.50
5520-48T-PWR(config)#ip default-gateway 192.168.1.1
5520-48T-PWR(config)#ip address netmask 255.255.255.0

I created VLAN 100 and moved ports 13-48 to VLAN 100 making sure to set the PVID;

5520-48T-PWR(config)#vlan members remove 1 13-48
5520-48T-PWR(config)#vlan create 100 type port
5520-48T-PWR(config)#vlan members add 100 14-48
5520-48T-PWR(config)#vlan ports 13-48 pvid 100

I enabled IP routing on the switch (remember out of the box it’s just a Layer 2 switch);

5520-48T-PWR(config)#ip routing

I enabled IP routing for VLAN 1 and then gave VLAN 100 an IP address/interface;

5520-48T-PWR(config)#interface vlan 1
5520-48T-PWR(config-if)#ip routing
5520-48T-PWR(config)#exit

5520-48T-PWR(config)#interface vlan 100
5520-48T-PWR(config-if)#ip address 192.168.100.1 255.255.255.0 2
5520-48T-PWR(config-if)#ip routing
5520-48T-PWR(config)#exit

Let’s just making sure that everything looks right before we get the real meat of this post;

5520-48T-PWR#show vlan ip
==============================================================================
Vid  ifIndex Address         Mask            MacAddress        Offset Routing
==============================================================================
Primary Interfaces
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1    10001   192.168.1.50    255.255.255.0   00:1F:0A:CE:XX:40 1      Enabled
100  10100   192.168.100.1   255.255.255.0   00:1F:0A:CE:XX:41 2      Enabled
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Total of Primary Interfaces: 2

The two IP interfaces are configured properly and have routing enabled. Let’s make sure that the routing table is correct;

5520-48T-PWR#show ip route
===============================================================================
                                        Ip Route
===============================================================================
DST             MASK            NEXT            COST    VLAN PORT PROT TYPE PRF
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     10       1    1     S  IB     5
192.168.1.0     255.255.255.0   192.168.1.50    1        1    ----  C  DB     0
192.168.100.0   255.255.255.0   192.168.100.1   1        100  ----  C  DB     0
Total Routes: 3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TYPE Legend:
I=Indirect Route, D=Direct Route, A=Alternative Route, B=Best Route, E=Ecmp Route, U=Unresolved Route, N=Not in HW

Here’s where the real work starts. I created an ACL named “testacl” and then assigned it to port 23.

5520-48T-PWR(config)#qos ip-acl name testacl src-ip 192.168.100.0/24 protocol 6 dst-port-min 80 dst-port-max 80
5520-48T-PWR(config)#qos ip-acl name testacl drop-action enable
5520-48T-PWR(config)#qos acl-assign port 23 acl-type ip name testacl

In the statements above I created an ACL that will allow traffic sourced from 192.168.100.0/24 to a destination TCP port of 80 to pass unrestricted while blocking (dropping) all other traffic. I’ve assigned that ACL to port 23 where I have a test PC connected to the switch.

Let’s just pretend that you forgot to allow DNS (UDP/53) queries in your IP filter so let’s back out the ACL and recreate it.

First we need to determine the ACL number that was assigned to our ACL called “testacl”.  We can do that by issuing the following command;

5520-48T-PWR#show qos acl
Id               Name              State   ACL  Unit/Port Storage
Type             Type
_____ ____________________________ ________ ____ _________ ________
1     testacl                      Enabled  IP   1/23      NonVol

We also need to know how many rules are in the IP ACL that’s being referenced above. We can do that with the following command;

5520-48T-PWR#show qos ip-acl

Id: 1
Name: testacl
Block:
Address Type: IPv4
Destination Addr/Mask: Ignore
Source Addr/Mask: 192.168.100.0/24
DSCP: Ignore
IPv4 Protocol / IPv6 Next Header: TCP
Destination L4 Port Min: 80
Destination L4 Port Max: 80
Source L4 Port Min: Ignore
Source L4 Port Max: Ignore
IPv6 Flow Id: Ignore
Action Drop: No
Action Update DSCP: Ignore
Action Update 802.1p Priority: Ignore
Action Set Drop Precedence: Low Drop
Type: Access List
Storage Type: NonVolatile

Id: 2
Name: testacl
Block:
Address Type: IPv4
Destination Addr/Mask: Ignore
Source Addr/Mask: Ignore
DSCP: Ignore
IPv4 Protocol / IPv6 Next Header: Ignore
Destination L4 Port Min: Ignore
Destination L4 Port Max: Ignore
Source L4 Port Min: Ignore
Source L4 Port Max: Ignore
IPv6 Flow Id: Ignore
Action Drop: Yes
Action Update DSCP: Ignore
Action Update 802.1p Priority: Ignore
Action Set Drop Precedence: Low Drop
Type: Access List
Storage Type: NonVolatile

Now we can remove the ACL from port 23 and then delete it from the switch;

5520-48T-PWR(config)#no qos acl-assign 1
5520-48T-PWR(config)#no qos ip-acl 2
5520-48T-PWR(config)#no qos ip-acl 1

Now we’ll rebuild the ACL allowing DNS queries to the broadband router;

5520-48T-PWR(config)#qos ip-acl name testacl src-ip 192.168.100.0/24 protocol 6 dst-port-min 80 dst-port-max 80
5520-48T-PWR(config)#qos ip-acl name testacl src-ip 192.168.100.0/24 dst-ip 192.168.1.1/32 protocol 17 dst-port-min 53 dst-port-max 53
5520-48T-PWR(config)#qos ip-acl name testacl drop-action enable
5520-48T-PWR(config)#qos acl-assign port 23 acl-type ip name testacl

Now that we have our filter let’s see what it looks like (I’m not a fan of this output format);

5520-48T-PWR#show qos ip-acl

Id: 1
Name: testacl
Block:
Address Type: IPv4
Destination Addr/Mask: Ignore
Source Addr/Mask: 192.168.100.0/24
DSCP: Ignore
IPv4 Protocol / IPv6 Next Header: TCP
Destination L4 Port Min: 80
Destination L4 Port Max: 80
Source L4 Port Min: Ignore
Source L4 Port Max: Ignore
IPv6 Flow Id: Ignore
Action Drop: No
Action Update DSCP: Ignore
Action Update 802.1p Priority: Ignore
Action Set Drop Precedence: Low Drop
Type: Access List
Storage Type: NonVolatile

Id: 2
Name: testacl
Block:
Address Type: IPv4
Destination Addr/Mask: 192.168.1.1/32
Source Addr/Mask: 192.168.100.0/24
DSCP: Ignore
IPv4 Protocol / IPv6 Next Header: UDP
Destination L4 Port Min: 53
Destination L4 Port Max: 53
Source L4 Port Min: Ignore
Source L4 Port Max: Ignore
IPv6 Flow Id: Ignore
Action Drop: No
Action Update DSCP: Ignore
Action Update 802.1p Priority: Ignore
Action Set Drop Precedence: Low Drop
Type: Access List
Storage Type: NonVolatile

Id: 3
Name: testacl
Block:
Address Type: IPv4
Destination Addr/Mask: Ignore
Source Addr/Mask: Ignore
DSCP: Ignore
IPv4 Protocol / IPv6 Next Header: Ignore
Destination L4 Port Min: Ignore
Destination L4 Port Max: Ignore
Source L4 Port Min: Ignore
Source L4 Port Max: Ignore
IPv6 Flow Id: Ignore
Action Drop: Yes
Action Update DSCP: Ignore
Action Update 802.1p Priority: Ignore
Action Set Drop Precedence: Low Drop
Type: Access List
Storage Type: NonVolatile

That’s a basic ACL filter using Layer 3 parameters. There is a Technical Configuration Guide available from Nortel/Avaya that provides additional examples and covers Filtering and QoS configuration of the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 series switches. The guide is a little dated by still a very useful resource in my opinion.

Cheers!

Reference;
2008_04_01_Filters_and_QOS_Configurati0on_for_Ethernet_Routing_Switch_5500_TCG_NN48500559.pdf

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