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A.2.6 connection management, A.2.7 lan servers and clients, Atm forum lan emulation (lane) 1.0 – Cabletron Systems SmartCell 6A000 User Manual

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SmartCell 6A000 User Guide Appendix A-7

Features and Specifications

Features

A.2.6

Connection Management

Ceiling limit protects buffer resources from being consumed by individual ports

Floor limit reserves buffer capacity for specific ports, such as those to heavily used servers or
WAN/ATM services

Four configurable thresholds for forward congestion marking (EFCI)

UNI 4.0-based backward RM cell marking for fast, closed-loop flow control for ABR connections

Multiple threshold levels for Early Packet Discard

Automatic Partial Packet Discard

A.2.7

LAN Servers and Clients

ATM Forum LAN Emulation (LANE) 1.0

Up to 127 emulated LANs (ELANs)

LANE configuration server (LECS)

LANE server (LES)

Broadcast and unknown server (BUS)

LANE client (LEC)

802.3 (Ethernet) emulation

802.5 (Token Ring) emulation

IETF RFC 1577 Classical IP over ATM

Up to 127 logical IP subnetworks (LISs)

IP-ATM (ARP) address resolution protocol server

IP-ATM client

A.2.8

Management

Serial port for terminal or modem access

Ethernet port for telnet access

In-band management using switch LANE or IP-ATM clients

Management applications: Cabletron Systems SPECTRUM for Open Systems, third-party
SNMP-based managers