Allied Telesis AR400 Series Router - Manual (Page 11)

Introduction 11
Software Release 2.6.1
C613-02021-00 REV D
■ Novell® IPX routing.
■ DECnet™ routing (Phase IV+ and area) (AR410 only).
■ AppleTalk routing.
■ Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) protocols.
■ IP multicast routing support, including Internet Group Management
Protocol (IGMP), Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)
and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse and Dense Modes.
■ Ping Polling for determining device reachability and responding when a
device or link goes up or down.
■ IPv6 routing support, including stateless address autoconfiguration, RIPv6
and ICMPv6.
■ IPv6 multicast routing support, including Multicast Listener Discovery
(MLDv2) and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse and Dense
Modes.
■ OSPF, RIP (IP and Novell®), SAP (Novell®), EGP and BGP routing
protocols.
■ ARP, Proxy ARP and Inverse ARP address resolution protocols.
■ Sophisticated packet filtering.
■ Bridging.
■ Van Jacobson’s header compression, STAC LZS and Predictor compression,
and hardware-based AES (AR450S only) and DES encryption.
■ Create secure Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) across the Internet or any
other public or shared IP network, using AT-VPNet.
■ Tunnelling of synchronous (HDLC) data through TCP/IP (AR410 only).
■ Terminal serving using Telnet, with local host nicknames.
■ Access to network printers via LPD or TCP streams (AR410 only).
■ Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for delivering quality of service to
application data streams.
■ TPAD support for fast credit card authorisation transactions (AR410 only).
■ A fully featured, stateful inspection firewall.
■ IPsec-compliant IP security services.
■ Integration with a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
■ Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).
■ Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Connectionless Network Service
(CLNS).
■ Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP-4).
■ Load Balancing for distributing traffic among multiple resources.
■ Software Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
■ Voice over IP (VoIP).
■ 802.1x port authentication.