Design Reference

VRF Lite....................................................................................................................................................
55
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol.........................................................................................................
57
Open Shortest Path First...........................................................................................................................
62
Border Gateway Protocol..........................................................................................................................
66
IP routed interface scaling.........................................................................................................................
72
Chapter 11: SPBM design guidelines................................................................................
73
802.1aq standard......................................................................................................................................
73
VLANs without member ports...................................................................................................................
75
Provisioning...............................................................................................................................................
76
Implementation options.............................................................................................................................
77
Reference architectures............................................................................................................................
83
Solution-specific reference architectures..................................................................................................
96
Best practices............................................................................................................................................
101
SPBM restrictions and limitations..............................................................................................................
103
IP multicast over SPBM restrictions..........................................................................................................
105
Chapter 12: IP multicast network design..........................................................................
107
Multicast and VRF-lite...............................................................................................................................
107
Multicast and MultiLink Trunking considerations......................................................................................
107
Multicast scalability design rules...............................................................................................................
108
IP multicast address range restrictions.....................................................................................................
109
Multicast MAC address mapping considerations......................................................................................
110
Dynamic multicast configuration changes.................................................................................................
112
IGMPv3 backward compatibility................................................................................................................
112
IGMP Layer 2 Querier...............................................................................................................................
113
TTL in IP multicast packets.......................................................................................................................
113
Multicast MAC filtering..............................................................................................................................
114
Guidelines for multicast access policies....................................................................................................
114
Multicast for multimedia............................................................................................................................
115
Chapter 13: System and network stability and security..................................................
119
DoS protection mechanisms.....................................................................................................................
119
Damage prevention...................................................................................................................................
120
Data plane security...................................................................................................................................
122
Control plane security...............................................................................................................................
124
Additional information................................................................................................................................
128
Chapter 14: QoS design guidelines...................................................................................
129
QoS mechanisms......................................................................................................................................
129
QoS interface considerations....................................................................................................................
132
Network congestion and QoS design........................................................................................................
134
QoS examples and recommendations......................................................................................................
134
Chapter 15: Layer 1, 2, and 3 design examples...............................................................
139
Layer 1 example........................................................................................................................................
139
Layer 2 example........................................................................................................................................
140
Layer 3 example........................................................................................................................................
141
Chapter 16: Software scaling capabilities........................................................................
143
Chapter 17: Supported standards, RFCs, and MIBs........................................................
147
Supported IEEE standards.......................................................................................................................
147
Supported RFCs.......................................................................................................................................
148
6 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 February 2014