Protocols and Standards
OpenArchitect 2.02 IP Features
Features and implementations of IEEE & RFC specifications available in OpenArchitect 2.02
General Protocols
Network Services
  • FTP (RFC 959)
  • TFTP (RFC 783)
  • DHCP Server
  • DHCP Client
  • DHCP Relay
  • NFS Client
  • Network Time Protocol-NTP
  • Network Address Translation-NAT (RFC1631)*
    *Implemented on CPU
  • Additional protocols on request
VRRP
(Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)
OSPF
(Open Shortest Path First)
BGP
(Border Gateway Protocol)
IP Multicast
  • IGMP Snooping
  • IGMPv2 (RFC2236)*
    *Implemented on CPU
  • DVMRPv3 (IETF draft)*
    *Implemented on CPU
Quality of Service/Class of Service
  • IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (COS)
    -4 service queues on switch fabric
    -scheduling options
  • TOS - Types of Service (RFC1349)
  • Architecture for Differentiated Services (RFC2475)
  • DS Field (RFC2475)
Access Control Lists
  • Based on the first 64 bytes
  • Can drop, accept, modify 802.1p tags, or modify TOS
Filtering
  • Packet Header Filtering
  • Powerful Rules Tool - iptables
IEEE Compliance
  • IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree
  • IEEE 802.1p Traffic Class/Multicast
  • IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
  • IEEE 802.3x Flow Control
  • IEEE Std 1386 [1] PMC Physical & Environment
PICMG Compliance
  • PICMG 2.1 Full HotSwap support
Management