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point-to-point connection between it and the hub or switch. The
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media connect the hub or switch and workstations. The star
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topology is extensively used in LAN construction. Of course the
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Mo same time, only one user can transmit data, and so the data
amount and speed of each user (interface) depends on the
number of active users (interfaces).
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interfaces to connect network nodes but its performance is much
higher than that of a shared hub. It can be considered to have
many buses so that devices connected to each interface can
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fixed bandwidth. In addition, a switch has some functions that a
hub lacks, such as data filtering,network segmentation, and
broadcast control.
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and is used to route, store, and forward packets between
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ISDN can identify the number of each other. The call cost of the
Mo ISND is higher than that of the ordinary telephony network, but
the double-channel structure supports two independent lines. The
ISND is applicable to individual subscribers or small offices.
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connection that transmits data at the speed of 64 kbit/s to 2.048
Mbit/s. The leased line guarantees data transmission and
provides constant bandwidth, but the cost is high and the point to-
point structure is not very flexible.
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at present. It transmits data at the speed of 9600 bit/s to 2 Mbit/s.
X.25 adopts the redundant mode and is fault tolerant, so it
features high reliability. But the transmission speed is low and the
delay is high.
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potential of Internet in communications, information searching,
and customer service. Then numerous enterprises in the world
swarmed into the Internet, which resulted in a new leap of the
Internet.
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Internet backbone network operated by multiple private companies.
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defines the 802.X protocol suite. 802.3 is the standard for the
Ethernet; 802.4 is the standard for the token bus network;802.5 is
the standard for token ring; 802.11 the standard fro the wireless
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ANSI is an organization formed by companies, governments, and
other members voluntarily. The ANSI defines the standard for the
fiber distribution data interface.
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diversified services. As such, VPN technology has become more
and more popular. VPN is a private network constructed within a
public network infrastructure with the help of Internet service
providers (ISPs) and network service providers (NSPs).
Based on the implementation layer, VPN can be classified into
Layer 2 VPN (L2VPN), Layer 3 VPN (L3VPN) and the Virtual
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access to mobile personnel in enterprises and small-sized ISPs
using the dialup function of the public network and the access
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routing functions.
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access network establish a Layer 2 connection and transparently
transmit the request to the BRAS.
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authorization, and allocates IP addresses to the user.
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layer. The devices at the convergence layer forward the packets
through routing functions, to allow the user to have access to the
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directly connected to the CE. The P device forwards MPLS data,
and does not maintain VPN information.
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backup plane. When designing the network, architects usually
design the plane as one that can carry all services. As a network
requires carrying multiple services, the hierarchical plane network
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an address represents a network segment, while the latter host
portion represents the device in a given network segment. In using
this hierarchical design for every network layer device, the network
is able to be segmented. This mechanism enables routers to
decrease the number of routing table entries greatly, and increases
routing flexibility.
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octets. The first digit of the first octet is 1 and the second digit is 0.
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128 to 191. For example, 128.1.1.1 and 168.2.4.78 are class B
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the last 16 bits. The class B address ranges from 128.0.0.0 to
191.255.255.255. Each class B network can have 216 IP
addresses. The network ID of the class C address is the first
three octets. The first two digits of the first octet are 11, and the
third digit is 0. Therefore, the number of valid digits of class C
network address is 24–3=21. The first digit of the class C
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calculated. For example, in class B network segment 172.16.0.0,
an IP address has a 16-bit host ID. There are 2 to the power of
16 IP addresses on the network segment, in which 172.16.0.0 is
the network address and 172.16.255.255 is the broadcast
address, so up to 216- 2 IP addresses can be allocated to hosts.
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between the IP address and the subnet mask. The AND operation
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A network can be divided into multiple subnets, and each subnet

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Mo bought five routers. One router, which works as the gateway of the
intranet, is connected to the local ISP. The other four routers are
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need 21 IP addresses (including a router interface). The 4
network segments connected with the gateway need 2 IP
addresses. The IP address number of every network segment is
different, so the VLSM could be used. The four network
segments for the office adopt the subnet mask 255.255.255.224,
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Mo the network addresses aggregated by CIDR must be the same. As

shown in the above figure, if the ISP is connected to network segment
172.178.1.0, then the routes of the network segments cannot be
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Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a broadcast protocol, through

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Mo IP address to MAC address is contained, as well as the destination
IP address needs to be resolved. When the destination host B
receives the request packet, it stores the mapping information of
host A into its ARP cache, and sends its own mapping information
from IP to MAC address back to host A. After host A receives the
ARP Reply, it obtains the MAC address of host B. At the same time,
host A puts the mapping information of host B into its ARP cache.
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corresponding MAC address of its own IP address. If in the network,
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the ARP table, then the receiving party must update the old ARP
information table, using the address information in the new ARP
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two kinds of network protocols could be implemented in the
router to interconnect heterogeneous networks. For example,
routers that support ATM and FR interfaces can be considered
as belonging to a router that can interconnect heterogeneous
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Mo intended for the local host. If so, the network layer encapsulation is
decapsulated, and the packet is sent to the upper layers. If not, the
router will check the routing table according to the destination
address of the packet. If a route item could be found, the packet
is sent to data link layer and the corresponding interface, after the
encapsulation of data link layer, the packet is forwarded. If no route
could be found, the packet will be discarded, and relative error
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discarded by TCP receiver and the acknowledgement will not be
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fixed space. Only the amount of data less than the size of
receiver’s buffer could be sent by the sender. This mechanism
prevents such a situation happening in which the buffer is
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Mo source and destination IP address of IP header, a unique TCP

connection could be confirmed.
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sequence number the source next expects to receive from the
destination. The Acknowledgement Number is the last data
sequence number plus one.
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example shows, because the destination equipment has not
received the fourth data packet correctly, the destination
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quench mechanism could be used in congestion management.
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sends the ICMP ECHOREQUEST message. In this example, the
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cannot directly connect to the router console port, it may be
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For the PC to use Telnet to reach the Telnet server requires two
conditions to be met.
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„user view‟. It is from here that the user can switch to the system
view by entering the System-view command. It is then possible
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off in the „user view‟, from where users can switch to the „system
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Mo #Return to the system view from the interface view.
[Huawei-Serial0/0/0]quit
[Huawei]
#Return to the user view from the system view.
[Huawei]return
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obtain a brief of all the commands at a given level. All levels will
support the use of this command to display possible completions.
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The command line interface automatically stores commands

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input by users which so that users can recall used commands at
any time and repetitively. By default,
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commands for a user.c e
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r e is cleared up and the alarm goes off.

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following:
(1) The format of command records kept by VRP complies with
the format of commands input by users. If the format of
commands input by users is not intact,
then the format of commands kept by VRP is not intact either.
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keeps the first running of this command as record. If a command
is run in different formats several times, it is treated as different
commands. For example, if you run the display ip routing-table
command several times, VRP will keep it as only one record. If
you run disp ip routing and display ip routing-table, VRP will
keep them as two records.
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Do as following to change the name of a router:
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other devices, often as a security measure and therefore the
system time should be set correctly.
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You can display the VRP version information by running the
display version command.
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You can view the configurations in the current view by running
Mo the display this command. For example, you can view the
configurations of the interface after you enter the interface view:
[Hauwei]interface Ethernet 0
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ip address 13.13.13.2 255.255.255.252
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return
You can obtain the diagnostic information by running the display
diagnostic-information command.
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VRP manages software and configuration files through the file

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system. The file system is used for managing the files and
directories in the storage device, which includes creating the
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system file, changing names of files and directories, creating,
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deleting, modifying files and directories and display files. The two
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the logical vessels for keeping files.
Delete a file.
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Mo Delete flash:/test/test.txt?[Y/N]
<Huawei>
Restore the file that was deleted.
<Huawei> undelete sample.bak
Undelete flash:/test/sample.bak ?[Y/N]:y
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Delete files in the recycle bin.
<Huawei> reset recycle-bin
Display a file.
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When the router is powered on, it reads the configuration file

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from the default storage path to initialize itself. The configuration
in the configuration file is called the initial configuration. If there
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are no configuration files in the default storage path, the router
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will initialize itself with the default parameters. The configuration
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through the command line interface. To make the current
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configuration to be the initial configuration for the router when the
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router is powered on next time, you need to save the current
a rconfiguration in the default storage path with the save command.

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display saved configuration command.
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Mo the display current-configuration command.
You can save the current configuration by running the save
command. The detailed procedure is as follows:
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Are you sure to continue? (y/n)[n]:y
It will take several minutes to save configuration file, please
wait.....
Configuration file had been saved successfully
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configuration in the configuration file stored. The following shows
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VRP can backup its software and configuration files through FTP,

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TFTP. Here we will introduce the basic operations for routers or
switches to obtain version files through the two modes, which is
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version update methods and procedures, please refer to the
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update guidelines we provide for a product or a specific version
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between users and devices.
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File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is based on TCP and takes the
mode of Server/Client. VRP can act both as the FTP server and
a rthe FTP client. When it acts as the FTP server, users can log in
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r e program. When VRP acts as the FTP client, users can run FTP
commands to connect with the remote FTP server and then visit
Mo files on the remote host after they built connections with the
router through the terminal emulation program or Telnet.
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), different from FTP, does not
require any authentication mechanisms, which is fit for an
environment that does not involve much interaction between
clients and servers.
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TFTP transfer is initiated by the client. When there are files to
download, the client sends requests to the TFTP server for
reading the files and receives packets from the server and at last,
it sends confirmation to the server.
When there are files to upload, the client sends requests
to the TFTP server for writing the files and sends packets to the
server and at last, it sends confirmation to the server. TFTP files
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As the above figure illustrates, the PC and Router A are

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connected through serial ports and Router A and the FTP server
are connected to the LAN. Router A obtains version files from the
FTP server as the FTP client. Set the username and password to
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huawei and huawei respectively on the FTP server. Log in to
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Router A from the PC by the super terminal and make the
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following operations to obtain version files.
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[RouterA] get vrp.cc
150 "D:\system\vrp.cc" file ready to send (5805100 bytes) in
IMAGE / Binary mode
226 Transfer finished successfully.
FTP: 5805100 byte(s) received in 19.898 second(s)
291.74Kbyte(s)/sec.
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As the above figure illustrates, the PC and Router A are

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connected through serial ports and Router A and the FTP client
are connected to LAN. Router A is configured as the FTP server
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to obtain version files from the FTP client. Run the following
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commands to configure Router A as the FTP server.
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[RouterA]ftp server enable
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authorization of the FTP server. Only users that pass the
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Le #Create a local user named huawei.

[RouterA-aaa] local-user huawei
r e #Set the service type to FTP.
Mo [RouterA-aaa] local-user huawei service-type ftp
#Configure the password to huawei.
[RouterA-aaa] local-user huawei password simple huawei
#Configure the authorization directory of FTP users on the FTP
server.
[RouterA-aaa] local-user huawei ftp-directory flash:/ftp/huawei
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As the above figure illustrates, the PC with the IP address of

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10.111.16.160 runs the TFTP software to act as the TFTP server
and Router A obtains version software from the TFTP server.

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software.
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Run the dir command to check if the version file is obtained and
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save in the defined directory.
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used

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network management protocol. SNMP is a protocol that works at
the application layer and the transport layer protocol is UDP. It
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SNMP consists of NMS c e and Agent. NMS stands for Network
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process or tasko that resides on the device that is managed.
Agent makes e sanalysis and obtains information after it receives
R NMS and then it generates responding packets to
requests from
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management device. Trap is generated by Agent and it reports
abnormalities of the managed device to NMS. Once NMS
receives the trap, it takes measures such as polling detection to
diagnose problems and take methods to solve problems and
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[RouterA]snmp-agent //Enable the SNMP Agent service
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configurations of Agent should agree with that on the
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[RouterA]snmp-agent trap enable //Enable the router to send
a Trap.
Le [RouterA]snmp-agent target-host udp-domain 10.111.16.160

r e udp-port 5000 params securityname public

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parameters correctly and then log into the router to configure.
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4. What protocols can be used to upgrade VRP file?
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Routing protocol basics is a basic course with great significance

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for understanding the different routing protocols. Based on
previous sections, this section focuses on how the packet is
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A router provides mechanisms for interconnecting networks of

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different structures which makes the transfer of packets among
networks a reality. Routes are decisions made regarding the path
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not always travel along the best route if some routing policies

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Mo a packet to a destination in network N. By searching the routing

table, RTA finds the egress to network N is E0/0 and the next
hop router is RTB. Then RTA sends out the packet through E0/0
to RTB and RTB forwards the packet to RTC in the same way
and so on until the last router RTC sends the packet to network
N. The packet is sent following the route RTA-RTB-RTC-network
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Mo After they go through the logical AND, we may know that the
segment is 8.0.0.0/8 which is a Class A address.
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multiple route entries to the same destination in a routing table,
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forwarded from. Nexthop: indicates the IP address of the next
interface that an IP packet will go through.
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The routing table includes factors like destination, mask, protocol,
preference, metric, nexthop and interface. The equal cost multi-
path refers to routes that head for the same destination with the
same metric. When these routes have the same preference, they
are all added to the routing table and IP packets are sent on
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for a route that matches with the address of the destination of the
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A flexible management technique on routes can be realized by
configuring the preference value differently. If you assign multiple
routes to the same destination with the same preference value,
load balancing can be achieved; otherwise, route backup is
made. You can input preference values more than once in a
command but only the last one is valid.
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The default route supports both the load balancing and route

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called the Shortest Path First (SPF) algorithm. This algorithm
pays attention to the state of links or interfaces in the network,
including whether they are up or down, their IP addresses and
masks. Routers advertise information about link states they know
to other routers in the area through which each router in the area
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The distance-vector (D-V) routing protocol is based on the

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Bellman-ford algorithm. A router using the D-V algorithm sends
the entire routing table to adjacent routers.
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The D-V algorithm requires that each router sends it’s routing table to adjacent

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count is increases to 2.)
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Split horizon is a common solution among distance-vector

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routing protocols to avoid routing loops. One cause of routing
loops is due to a router learning the route from its neighbor, and
then advertising this route to the same neighbor who advertised
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Mo B from Router C is incorrect.) However, Router C does not know
that the route is incorrect. Router B considers that 11.4.0.0 is
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 3. Split horizon solves this problem. Split horizon forbids a router
to return the routing information to the interface from which the
routing information arrived. In the figure, Router B learns the
route to 11.4.0.0 from Router C. Split horizon forbids Router B to
advertise this route to Router C again. This avoids routing loops
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Mo sends a poison reverse update message to Router C. The
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used to confirm that all routers on this network segment know
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Route poisoning can avoid routing loops to some extent and can

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suppress network flapping caused by interface resetting. When a
fault occurs in the network or an interface is reset, route
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a rsame time, Router C starts a hold-down timer. Within the hold-
Le down time, if Router C receives a route reachable message from

r e the same neighbor (or the same direction), it marks the network
as reachable and stops the hold-down timer.
Mo 2. If Router C receives an update message from other neighbors,
advertising the route with higher weight, Router C updates the
routing table by selecting the new route. At the same time,
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reachable update message, but the weight of the new route is
lower, Router C will not accept the new route. After the hold-
down timer expires, if Router C receives this update message
again, it will update the routing table.

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As shown in the figure, when network 11.4.0.0 becomes

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unreachable, Router C obtains this information first. Generally,
route update messages are sent to adjacent routers periodically.
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topology changes, it immediately sends the triggered update

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Mo triggered update messages immediately, and thus the triggered

update messages spread in the entire network. In the figure,
Router C immediately sends an update message to advertise
that network 11.4.0.0 is unreachable. After Router B receives this
message, it sends the network unreachable message from
interface S0. Router A then advertises this message from
interface E0.
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router does not update the route to the destination network
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a updates with the hold-down timers ensures that the triggered
Le update message has enough time to be transmitted in the

r e network. As shown in the figure, when Route C detects that

Mo network 11.4.0.0 is disconnected, it deletes the route to this

network immediately. Then Router C sends a triggered update
message to Router B. Router C sets the route metric to 11.4.0.0
to infinite (16) to suppress this route. After receiving the triggered
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 Router B starts the hold-down timer and marks the network as
"may be disconnected." At the same time, Router B sends a
reverse update message to Router C, then sends a triggered
update message to Router A to advertise that network 11.4.0.0 is
unreachable. Router A then suppresses the route to 11.4.0.0 and
sends a reverse update message to Router B.

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The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a relatively simple

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dynamic routing protocol, but it is widely used. RIP is a routing
protocol based on the distance vector (D-V) algorithm. RIP
exchanges routing information through UDP. Based on RIP, a
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router sends update messages every 30 seconds. If a router
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does not receive the update message from the peer router within
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180 seconds, the router marks all routes learned from the peer
router as unreachable. If the router still does not receive the
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seconds, it deletes these routes from the routing table. RIP
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count. In RIP, the hop count between a router and the directly
connected network is 0. If the network can be reached through
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another router, the hop count increases by 1. The hop count

a r increases with the number of routers between the source router

and the destination network. In RIP, the metric is an integer
Le ranging from 0 to 15. The hop count equal to or larger than 16 is
defined as infinite, that is, the destination network or host is
r e unreachable. RIP is on the upper layer of UDP. Routing
Mo information for RIP is encapsulated in the datagram of UDP. RIP
uses port 520 to exchange routing information. When a router
receives the route update message from the remote router, the
router notifies other routers of the changed route. In this way,
routes are synchronized on all routers in the network. To improve
the routing performance and avoid route loop, RIP supports split
horizon, poison reverse, and triggered updates. In addition, RIP
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When RIP is enabled, the initial routing table contains only direct

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routes. After RIP is enabled on a router, the router broadcast
Request packets to all directly connected interfaces. When the
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adjacent router receives the Request packet from an interface, it
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broadcast Response packet to the network connected to this
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interface according to its routing table. When the router receives
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the Response packet from the adjacent router, it generates the
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routing table according to the Response packet. Based on the
characteristics of the D-V algorithm, the devices involved in RIP
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passive device. That is, a router not only broadcasts route

r e update packets, but also receives the D-V packets from other

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Based on RIP, a router broadcasts its routing table through the

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Response packets every 30 seconds. After receiving the
Response packet from the neighbor, the router calculates the
route metric in the packet through RIP. Then the router compares
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the calculated metric with the metric of the route in the routing
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table and updates the routing table. The route metric is
c
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calculated by the following formula: metric = Min (metric + cost,
16). Here, "metric" is the metric in the packet. Cost is the metric
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from the neighbor to the network where the packet is received.
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destination network is unreachable. When the local router

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receives a route update packet, it updates the routing table
based on the following principles:
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For an existing route entry in the routing table, if the next hop is
a r the adjacent router, the local router updates the entry (keeps the

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original metric and only resets the aging timer), regardless of
whether the metric in the route up date packet is larger or smaller.

r e If the next hop is not the adjacent router, the local router updates
the route entry only when the metric in the router update packet
Mo is smaller than the previous metric. For a route entry that does
not exist in the routing table, the router adds it to the routing table
if the metric is less than 16 (unreachable). Each entry in the
routing table has an aging timer. If a route entry is not updated
within 180 seconds, the aging timer times out and the metric of
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advertised through the Response packet for four times (120
seconds), this route will be deleted from the
routing table.

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RIP has two versions: RIPv1 and RIPv2. RIPv1 does not support

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Variable Length Subnet Masks (VLSM). RIPv2 supports VLSM,
route aggregation, and Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR).
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address for RIPv2 is 224.0.0.9. An advantage of multicast
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This figure shows the format of the RIPv1 packet. A RIPv1

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packet contains a command field, a version field, and multiple
route entries (up to 25 entries). Each route entry consists of the
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each route entry takes 20 bytes. Therefore, the length of a RIP
packet is 4 + 25 x 20 = 504 bytes. Counting the 8-byte UDP
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header, the maximum length of the RIP packet (excluding the IP
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Request packet; 2 represents the Response packet. A router or
Mo host sends the Request packet to require routing information
from the peer router. The peer router responds by the Response
packet. But in most cases, a router periodically sends Response
packets without waiting for the Request packet.
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 Address Family Identifier (AFI): For the IP protocol, the value is 2.
IP address: indicates the destination address of the route. The
value can be a network address or the address of a host.
Metric: indicates the hop count. The value ranges from 1 to 16.

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Compared with the RIPv1 packet, the RIPv2 packet has the
following new fields:
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All command lines base on VRP 5.9.
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Mo not send or receive routes on the interface. RIP does not forward
routes on this interface to other interfaces either. Therefore, you
must specify a network segment after RIP is enabled. The
network-address specifies the address of the network where RIP
is enabled. It can be the network address of the interface. When
this parameter is specified, RIP is enabled on all interfaces in this
network segment.
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The display rip command is used to display the running status

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and configuration of RIP. Part of the display information is
described in the following. Pay attention to the contents marked
in red.
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RIP process: 1— indicates
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r e 30 seconds.

Mo Age time: 180 sec — indicates that the aging time of the RIP
route is 180 seconds.
Networks: 192.168.1.0 172.16.0.0 — indicates the network
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The display rip route command is used to display all active and
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inactive routes, and the timer of each route.
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interface view. By default, the RIP
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transmission modes: broadcast and multicast. Multicast is
adopted by default. The multicast address for RIPv2 is 224.0.0.9.
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RIP will not process the RIP packets. With multicast, network
segments that run RIPv1 will not receive or process the RIPv2

r e routes. If the interface with the RIP version RIPv1, the interface
process only RIPv1 and RIPv2 broadcast packets and does not
Mo process RIPv2 multicast packets. If RIPv2 broadcast mode is
adopted on the interface, the interface receives only RIPv1 and
RIPv2 broadcast packets and does not receive RIPv2 multicast
packets. If RIPv2 multicast mode is adopted on the interface, the
interface receives only RIPv2 multicast packets and does not
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configure the RIP version in the interface view vrp5.x
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On Router A, the summary command is used to configure route

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aggregation. Thus, routes 172.16.1.1/32, 172.16.1.2/32, and
172.16.1.3/32 are aggregated to one route: 172.16.0.0/16. The
aggregated route uses the natural mask. 172 indicates that the
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address is a Class-B address, so the mask length of the
aggregated route is 16.
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RIPv2 supports route aggregation. By default, route aggregation
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is enabled. That is, when the RIP version is configured to RIPv2,
route aggregation takes effect automatically, unless you use the
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aggregation in RIP-2 improves the extendibility and efficiency of
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large scale networks. After route aggregation, the RIP routing
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table does not contain sub route entries, namely, the route entry
containing a single IP address. In this way, the routing table is
a r condensed, thus the router can process more routes. When the

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classful aggregation is enabled, the router aggregates the subnet
addresses to the natural network segment when it advertises

r e routes to the destination out of the network segment. However,

when split horizon or poison reverse is configured, classful
Mo aggregation becomes invalid. Therefore, to configure the router
to advertise aggregated routes to the destination out of the
natural network segment, you must disable the split horizon and
poison reverse functions in the corresponding view by using the
following commands:
[RTA-Serial0/0/0]undo rip split-horizon
[RTA-Serial0/0/0]undo rip poison-reverse// supported by
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Using the undo summary command, you can disable classful

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route aggregation to allow routing between subnets. In this case,
routing information of the subnet is advertised. Route
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routing table of Router B, you can find three host routes with
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Using the rip summary-address ip-address mask command,

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you can configure a RIP router to advertise an aggregated local
IP address. This command is supported by VRP5.9.
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ip-address: network address to be aggregated
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mask: subnet mask
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aggregationReand manual route aggregation are enabled, the
manually
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Each routing protocol has a preference. The preference

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influences the routing policy in selecting the route learned
through a certain protocol as the best route. The larger the value,
s :
the lower is the preference. You can set the preference of the
RIP protocol manually.
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to 10. Therefore, the cost of imported routes is calculated by
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 key-string: specify the password for MD5 authentication. For the
plain text password, the string can contain 1 to 16 characters, for
example, 1234567. For the cipher text password, the string must
contain 24 characters, and the format must be cipher text, for
example, _(TT8F]Y\5SQ=^Q`MAF4<1!!.
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router and the destination network. In RIP, the metric is an
integer ranging from 0 to 15. The hop count equal to or larger
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 RIP is on the upper layer of UDP. Routing information for RIP is
encapsulated in the datagram of UDP. RIP uses port 520 to
exchange routing information. When a router receives the route
update message from the remote router, the router notifies other
routers of the changed route. In this way, routes are
synchronized on all routers in the network.
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Mo incoming interface. If the physical status of the interface is Down
or Administratively Down, or the protocol status is Down, RIP
cannot function normally on the interface. Therefore, you must
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 3. Check whether the version of the RIP packets sent from the
peer is the same as the RIP version configured on the local
interface. If the version of the received RIP packets is different
from the RIP version configured on the incoming interface, the
RIP routes may not be accepted correctly.
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incoming interface. The rip input command is used to allow the
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specified interface to receive RIP packets. The undo rip input
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routes are accepted correctly, but the routing table contains the
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 for example, OSPF or IS-IS. Generally, the priority of OSPF or
IS-IS is higher than the priority of RIP, so the routing
management module selects the routes learned through OSPF
or IS-IS. Using the display ip routing-table protocol rip
verbose command, you can see that these routes are inactive. If
the fault still exists after these steps, contact technical support
engineers of Huawei or visit http://support.huawei.com.
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Mo Use the display interface command to view the status of the
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 3. Check whether the silent-interface command is configured on
the outgoing interface. The silent-interface command is used to
suppress the interface from sending the RIP packet. The display
current-configuration configuration rip command is used to
check whether the interface is suppressed from sending the RIP
packet. Enable the interface if it is disabled.
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on outgoing interface. The rip output command is used to allow
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address of the local interface. Run the display interface
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address of the interface cannot be added to the advertised
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If the outgoing interface does not support the multicast or
broadcast mode and a packet needs to be sent to the multicast
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 You can configure the peer command in the RIP mode to make
routers send packets with unicast address. If the fault still exists
after these steps, contact technical support engineers of Huawei
or visit http://support.huawei.com.

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update packets to improve security. The authentication modes
Mo and authentication keys must be the same on the two routers. If
the authentication modes or authentication keys on two routers
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Fault description: The metric of the route exceeds the hop count
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limit in RIP, so the router cannot accept route.
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Analysis: RIP limits the hop count to 15. If the hop count in a
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original metric. The rip metricin command is used to set the
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increment added to a route to be advertised. But the metric of
this route is not changed in the local routing table. For example,
a rafter you configure rip metricin 15 on RTB, the hop count of the
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Viewing the routing tables of RTA and RTB, you can find that the

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route to 172.16.2.0 is added to the routing table of RTB, while
route to 172.16.3.0 is not added to the routing table of RTA.
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same destination have the same cost, the traffic is shared by
these routes evenly. Through load balancing, the link bandwidth
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Mo and other nodes in the network are leaves. The shortest path
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listing the routes to other nodes in the network. Thus, each
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Mo according to the LSA header.

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router knows the LSAs that exist in the LSDB of the peer but do
not exist in the local LSDB. Then the router sends an LSR packet
to request for these LSAs. The LSR packet contains the
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the peer router. An LSU packet contains the combination of
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Mo route convergence speed in large-scale broadcast and NBMA

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adjacencies only with the DR and BDR. RTA does not establish
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network type. In a point-to-point network, two routers can
establish the adjacency. A point-tomultipoint network can be
regarded as a group of point-to-point networks. An adjacency is
established between each two directly connected routers. In a
broadcast or NBMA network, a DR and a BDR are selected.
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Mo OSPF requires that all routers in the same area have the same
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LSDB. A router ID is a 32-bit integer used to uniquely identifies a
router in an AS. Each OSPF router has a router ID. Router ID
uses the format of an IP address. The IP address of Loopback
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enter the area view.
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Mo OSPF allows network segment to form an area.

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area connected to it. Since the link state information is not
advertised to other areas, the size of LSDB is much more smaller.
Area 0 is the backbone area that advertises the inter-area routing
information (not detailed link state information) summarized by
edge routers to non-backbone areas. To avoid routing loop, non-
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routers in the same AS. Routers in an AS communicate with
routers in other AS’ through the ASBR. An IR or ABR can act as
the ASBR. An ASBR can be in the backbone area or a non-
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Mo so this network segment cannot be specified in Area 0. Note that
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March, 2004, IEEE issued the 802.3ak standard or 10GBASE-CX4 for 10G Ethernet
over copper twin-axial cable.
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cables, however has generally been superseded by an enhanced
version known as Cat5e. The Cat5e standards are much more
stringent and give a support the use of 4 wire pairs as opposed
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Mo from the 10G Ethernet that runs on copper cables, IEEE issued
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Mo involves the MAC sub-layer and does not implement the LLC
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shortest possible length) of the frame has been received. This
mode inherits the advantages of the Cut-Through mode and the
Store-and-Forward mode. With this mode, the switch can start
forwarding without the whole frame having being received which
is the same as it does with the Cut-Through mode; and at the
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switches possess, including MAC-address based frame
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if they use the exact search approach to find routes, the odds to
hit the cache is not optimistic. Furthermore, most high-end
switches use hardware to realize longest matching search which
may be as efficient as the exact search approach. So for high-
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always thought to be designed for LANs. So L3 switches do not
support many interface types except the interfaces relevant to
VLANs such as Ethernet interface, ATM VLAN virtual interface,
which avoids problems that have bothered routers with multi-type
interfaces. Since every interface of a L3 switch is an Ethernet
interface, collisions are avoided and the odds of segmentation is
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Mo sequence formed by linking conformity testing pulse. Once those
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backpressure to manage transmission between stations with
different speeds. For example, when a 100Mbps server sends
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Mo fails, large amount of data will be lost. The connection of high-
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guaranteed. With port aggregation function, you can prevent
such a disaster. For example, if a cable is pulled out by mistake,
the link will not be affected. So for an aggregated port consists of
multiple ports, the failure of one port will not affect the whole

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automatically. You only need to change the visiting address and
the whole process is completed in no time. This function makes
network to run continuously.

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balancing and improve network reliability. Port mirroring is
applied to support traffic observation and fault location by making
a copy of service data and sending this data to the monitor
device port to be analyzed.
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VLAN technology divides users into multiple logical networks

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All the Ethernet frames exist in the switch in the form of tagged

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added according to the mapping relationship table.
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address information in a packet.
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address and IP address, MAC address, or IP address and port.
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The tag in Ethernet frames combined with VLAN configuration of

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the port can control packet forwarding. A received Ethernet frame
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tagged frame, while some devices supporting special services
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otherwise the VLAN ID will not exist in the VLAN permit list, and
the corresponding VLAN frame cannot be forwarded from the
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If a Hybrid port is only configured to allow untagged VLAN
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To configure access and trunk ports on SWA and SWB, it is

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The command “gvrp” is used to enable GVRP on a switch. The

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command “undo gvrp” can be used to disable it. The GVRP
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isolating the traffic of different VLANs. This results in users being
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boundaries, and so the ability to route traffic is needed to allow
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trunking is implemented using only a single physical interface on
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gateways for each of the three VLANs. Each frame will contain a
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switch. A layer-3 switch effectively integrates the functionality of a
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and route processing units, or SRU, and may support multiple
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between the control VLAN and the Ethernet sub-interface to
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Connectivity between the hosts of different VLANs can be

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On the layer-3 switch (SWA) port 1 and port 2 represent a local

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network that has been logically segmented through the
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network layer, a logical interface can be created, namely, a
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Mo a single physical interface for each VLAN, or more suitably

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destination MAC addresses and destination ports.
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SWB forwards a frame through port E0/6. No modification is
made to the data frame.
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address table to find that the destination MAC address is it’s own
MAC address. PCB will then process this data frame and send
the de-encapsulated data to the upper layer protocol.
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some concepts, including Root Bridge, Root Port, Designated
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Mo 2. Calculate the shortest path from the current bridge to the root
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to the root bridge as the designated bridge, responsible for the
data forwarding of this network segment;
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5. Select the designated port besides the root port.
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Mo the root bridge. The system first compares the priority. If the
switches have the same priority, the system compares their MAC
addresses. The switch with the smallest MAC address is elected
first.
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has the smallest MAC address, so SWA is elected as the root
bridge.
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Mo The port whose upstream switch has the smallest identifier is
elected. If the upstream switches have the same bri dge identifier,
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port whose upstream port has the smallest identifier is elected.
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port number.
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In this example, we assume that all ports are 100 M ports and
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Mo LANA and LANB are both on SWA.
LAND and LANE are both connected to the port of only one
switch, and the connected ports are designated port for LAND
and LANE respectively.
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switches have the same root path cost. Therefore, the identifiers
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(because its MAC address is smaller), so the designated port for
LANC is on SWB.
The port that is neither the root port nor the designated port is
called the alternate port. The alternate port does not forward data
and is in Blocking state.
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to the alternate port, the port state changes to Blocking. If the
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Therefore, SWA becomes the root bridge and SWB becomes the
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all switches, only SWD has an alternate port E0/2 and the port is
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Mo link, the downstream bridge will not respond to the handshake
request sent from upstream designated port; only after two times
Forward Delay would it change to a forwarding state.
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terminal directly instead of other bridges, the Edge Port could
enter a forwarding state without any time delay. However, it
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the parameters like IP addresses. For example, IPCP negotiates
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differentiating the packets of each upper layer protocol. The
encapsulation format of PPP contains only three fields.
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protocol encapsulated in the PPP frame, for example, IP, LCP,
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MRU is 1500 bytes.
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Mo Padding field to reach the length of MRU to make the
transmission convenient. But the padding is not mandatory. That
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The basic configuration of PPP on the serial link is simple.

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Configure PPP encapsulation interface view, and then configure
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This table lists four types of LCP packets used to negotiate link-
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As is shown in the figure above, RTA and RTB are connected

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through the serial link and they run PPP. When the physical layer
link is up, RTA and RTB negotiate the link parameters through
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If RTA does not receive the Configure-Ack packet, it will re-sends
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the Configure-Request packet every three seconds. If RTA still
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Le Configure-Request packets, RTA considers RTB failed and stops

sending the Configure-Request packet.
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needs to send the Configure-Request packet to RTA to let RTA
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RTB checks the parameters contained in the packet. If RTB can
identify the link layer parameters but finds that some or any of
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This Configure-Nak packet contains only the unacceptable
parameters. The values (or value ranges) of these parameters
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parameter values locally according to the parameter values in
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parameters are forbidden without further negotiation.
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RTB checks the parameters contained in the packet. If RTB
cannot identify some or any of the link layer parameters in the
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packet, RTB returns a Configure-Reject packet to RTA. The
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On the VRP platform, MRU is represented by MTU configured on

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the interface. The PPP authentication protocols widely used are
PAP and CHAP (will be described in the following chapters). The
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different authentication protocols. The authenticated party,
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that no loop occurs on the link, and the receiver end sends a
Mo Configure-Ack packet (other parameters are also agreed),
indicating the magic number is agreed. If the packets sent later
contain the magic numbers, the magic numbers are set to the
negotiated one, and LCP does not generate new magic numbers
any more.
If the magic number in the Configure-Request packet is the same
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Nak packet, which contains a new magic number. Then, LCP
sends a new Configure-Request packet with a mew magic
number whether the received Configure-Nak packet contains the
same magic number or not . If loop occurs on the link, this
process is repeated continuously. If there is no loop, the packet
interaction is restored.
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If the authentication fails or the administrator closes the
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connection manually, LCP will stop the connection.
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LCP stop connections by using the Terminate-Request and
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Terminate-Ack packets. The Terminate-Request packet is used
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for the peer to request stop the connection. If one end receives a
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packet to confirm the closure of connection.

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re-sends the Terminate-Request packet every three seconds. If
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After establishing a connection, LCP detects the status of the link

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by using the Echo-Request and Echo-Reply packets. After
receiving an Echo-Request packet, it returns an Echo-Reply
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packet to tell that the link status is normal. On the VRP platform,
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PAP is the Password Authentication Protocol. It is used for
passwords authentication.
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The configuration of PAP contains two steps:
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the iuser name is huawei and the password is hello. Key word
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r e password is cipher text in the configuration file.

Mo local-user huawei service-type ppp

This command is used for configuring user huawei as a PPP
user.
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This command is used for enabling PAP authentication on the
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This command is used for configuring the user name and
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The working process of PAP authentication is simple. After LCP

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negotiation, the authenticator requests the peer to use PAP
authentication. The peer sends the user name and password in
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plain text through the Authenticate-Request packet to the
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authenticator. In this example, the user name is huawei and the
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password is hello.
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CHAP is the Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. It is

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an authentication method that sends password information in

CHAP is more secure. s :

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authenticator. That is, request the peer to use CHAP
authentication.
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This command is used for configuring the password for CHAP
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The CHAP authentication contains three interaction phases. To

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match the request packet and response packet, the packet
carries the Identifier field. All the packets in one authentication
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process use the same identifier.
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packet to the peer. The packet contains the Identifier field and
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After the peer receives the Challenge packet, it encrypts the
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packet. The encryption formula is MD5{ Identifier + password +
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Le password, and Challenge undergoes the MD5 calculation. Then,

a 16-byte digest is generated. The digest and the CHAP user
r e name configured on the port are encapsulated in the Response
Mo packet and sent back to the authenticator. In this example, after
the encryption, the digest information and user name huawei are
sent to the authenticator.
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calculation is the same as that used by the peer. Then, the
authenticator compares the digest information with that
encapsulated in the Response packet. If they are the same, the
authentication succeeds; otherwise, the authentication fails.
As this shown in the previous process, CHAP sends the
password in cipher text instead of plain text, hence the security is
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network layer protocol. The NCP protocol negotiates the network
layer parameters. For example, IPCP is used for negotiating and
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controlling IP parameters, and MPLSCP is used for negotiating
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IPCP uses the same negotiation mechanism and packet type as

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LCP, but IPCP does not invoke LCP. This is the same as LCP in
terms of working procedure, packet and so on. There are two
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types of IP address negotiation methods: static configuration and
dynamic configuration.
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r e check the IP address contained in the packet. If the IP address is
Mo a valid unicast IP address and it is different from that configured
locally (no confliction), it indicates that the peer can use this IP
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As it is shown in the routing table, the IP address of the peer on

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the PPP link is a 32-bit host address. The reason is that by
sending information through IPCP, the two ends of the PPP link
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As is shown in the figure above, RTA asks the peer to allocate an

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IP address, and RTB uses static IP address 10.1.1.2/30. RTB
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Configure-Nak packet containing IP address 10.1.1.1; After RTA
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contains IP address 10.1.1.1; When RTB receives the Configure-
r e Request packet, it considers the IP address contained in the
Mo packet valid and returns a Configure-Ack packet.
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RTA, which means that RTB requests to use IP address 10.1.1.2.
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The VRP platform supports IP address negotiation in PPP.
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Mo locally acceptable parameters.
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cannot be identified, this packet is used for responsing, carrying
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Frame Relay is found at the second layer of the OSI model. It is

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the user can occupy the unreserved bandwidth. Thus the
network resource is fully used.
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switching technology. It can provide the SVC and PVC services.
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DLCI. The address field in the FR frame can identify the virtual
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Mo private switches. No matter which method is used, the provider
of the FR network allocates the DLCI to the PVCs that are used
by the users‟ routers. Some DLCI numbers represent special
functions. For example, DLCI 0 and DLCI 1023 are used by only
the LMI protocol.
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device so that the upper layer protocol can find the peer device
through the protocol address of the peer device. FR is mainly
used to carry the IP protocol. Before the device sends the IP
packet, the DLCI matching the next hop address must be known
. The device can find the DLCI by searching the mapping table.
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FR network can communicate with each other, the FR network
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address of a peer over a virtual circuit, with support for both IP
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mapping cannot be generated if the receiver discovers that
the peer protocol address is the same as the network address
in the local mapping table.
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mapped to the connected remote protocol address. Thus, the
PVC can be connected to the corresponding remote end. The
address mapping must be configured manually or set up through
the inverse ARP protocol.
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the interface to use FR as the link-layer protocol. The default
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mode. If the devices are used for FR switching, the interfaces
should work in NNI mode or DCE mode.
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interface. The IP address 10.1.1.1 30 command configures the
IP address for the interface.
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the FR address and the DLCI static address. ip-address:
indicates the IP address of the peer.
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only one zone. The interface can be a physical or logical
interface. Adding an interface to a zone means that the network
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and networks should obey the following rules: internal networks
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translate the IP address in a data packet header to another IP
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and lookup record in the NAT table. The destination address will
be replaced by a private address 192.168.1.3 of the internal PC.
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devices (for example, the PC A-D and server). For the external
server, it regards IP address of internal PC as 202.169.10.1, it is
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server, packet 1 and 2 are shown to be from the same internal
address but since the destination is different for the two packets,
there will be a different port number associated with each packet.
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address or port information, this content can not be translated by
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FTP server that uses an internal IP address needs to send its IP
address to a peer when it establishes a session with an external
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