Allied Telesis Rapier Switch - Manual (Page 8)

8 Rapier Switch Software Reference
Software Release 2.5.1
C613-02025-00 REV B
Routing Features
In addition to Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching, the Rapier switch provides a
wide array of multiprotocol routing, security and network management
features.
IP routing is performed at wire-speed. Other Layer 3 routing is performed by the CPU,
and increasing the routing load on the CPU decreases its performance.
Some features require the addition of WAN interfaces via Network Service
Modules (NSMs) and Port Interface Cards (PICs) installed in the NSM bay on
the rear of the switch.
Features provided by the routing software suite include:
■ IP version 4 routing
■ IP version 4 multicasting
■ IP version 6 routing
■ Network Address Translation (NAT) (not between switch ports)
■ Dynamic IP Address Assignment
■ IP Dynamic Filtering Firewall
■ IP Multihoming
■ IP RIP and IP RIPv2
■ DNS Relay
■ Demand IP
■ IP Filtering (not between switch ports)
■ IP Packet Prioritisation (not between switch ports)
■ Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
■ Basic Rate and Primary Rate access to Integrated Services Digital Network
(ISDN) services, with dial-on-demand and channel aggregation.
■ Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) over G.703 links
■ Frame Relay
■ X.25
■ ARP, Proxy ARP and Inverse ARP address resolution protocols.
■ BACP (Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol)
■ PPP Multilink
■ PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)
■ Bandwidth on Demand
■ CLI, PAP and CHAP
■ Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for fault tolerant internet
gateways (on NSM ports only)
■ IPsec
■ ISAKMP Key Management
■ Data Compression
■ Predictor Data Compression