Allied Telesis Rapier Switch - Manual (Page 9)

Introduction 9
Software Release 2.5.1
C613-02025-00 REV B
■ STAC Data Compression
■ L2TP
■ Telnet client and server.
■ A sophisticated and configurable event logging facility for monitoring and
alarm notification to single or multiple management centres.
■ Triggers for automatic and timed execution of commands in response to
events.
■ Scripting for automated configuration and centralised management of
configurations.
■ Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for automatically assigning
IP addresses and other configuration information to PCs and other hosts
on TCP/IP networks.
■ Group management support for IP multicasting: IGMP version 2.
■ Support for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), standard
MIBs and the Allied Telesyn Enterprise MIB, enabling the switch to be
managed by a separate SNMP management station.
■ An HTTP client that allows files to be downloaded directly from a web
server to the switch’s FLASH memory, and an HTTP server that serves web
pages from FLASH.
For a complete description of the switch’s routing software, see the Rapier
Switch Software Reference.
Special Features Licences
You need a special feature licence and password to activate some special
features over and above the standard software release. Typically, these special
features are covered by government security regulations. Special feature
licences and passwords are quite separate and distinct from the standard
software release licences and passwords. Some of the software features that
require a special features licence are:
■ Triple DES S/W
■ Firewall SW
■ Firewall SMTP Application Gateway
■ Firewall HTTP Application Gateway
■ DES encryption
■ IPv6
■ BGP-4
■ IP Multicast routing: DVMRP and PIM-Sparse Mode
■ IPX routing
■ Demand IPX
■ IPX/SPX Spoofing
■ IPX Filtering (not between switch ports)
■ AppleTalk
■ Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
■ Load balancer