3Com® Switch 5500G Open Services Networking Configuration and Command reference Guide

10 Chapter 2: Configuring the Application Control Forwarding Protocol (ACFP)
ACFP Architecture Figure 1 Diagram for ACFP architecture
As shown in Figure 1, the ACFP architecture consists of:
■ Routing/switching component (ACFP server): As the main part of a
router and a switch, it performs complete router/switch functionality
and is the core of user management control.
■ Independent service component (ACFP client): Also known as the
Open Service Networking Module (OSN|M), this is the main
component open for development by a third party and is mainly used
to provide various unique service functions.
■ Interface-connecting component: This component connects the
routing/switching component’s interface to that of the independent
service component, allowing the devices of two manufacturers to be
interconnected.
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A Switch 5500G Ethernet switch provides two internal ports,
GigabitEthernet 1/1/1 and GigabitEthernet 1/1/2, to connect to the
OSN|M. 3Com recommends that you do not to perform any
configurations except for disabling the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) on
GigabitEthernet 1/1/1, and adding GigabitEthernet 1/1/2 to a VLAN.
ACFP Collaboration ACFP collaboration means that the independent service component can
send instructions to the routing or switching component to change its
functions. ACFP collaboration is mainly implemented through the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Acting as a network
management system, the independent service component sends various
SNMP commands to the routing or switching component, which can
then execute the instructions received because it supports the SNMP
agent. During this process, the cooperating MIB is key that associates the
two components.
ACFP Management ACFP collaboration provides a mechanism that enables the ACFP client
(namely, the independent service component shown in Figure 1) to
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service component
Routing/switching
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Interface-connecting
component