Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Network Guide

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OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 Network Configuration Guide
September 2009
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20   Using Interswitch
Protocols
Alcatel-Lucent Interswitch Protocol (AIP) is used to discover adjacent switches in the network. The 
following protocol is supported:
• Alcatel-Lucent Mapping Adjacency Protocol (AMAP), which is used to discover the topology of 
OmniSwitches and Omni Switch/Router (Omni S/R). See 
This protocol is described in detail in this chapter. 
In This Chapter
This chapter describes the AMAP protocol and how to configure it through the Command Line Interface 
(CLI). CLI commands are used in the configuration examples; for more details about the syntax of 
commands, see the OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide.
Configuration procedures described in this chapter include:
• Activating AMAP on 
.
• Configuring the AMAP discovery time-out interval on 
• Configuring the AMAP common time-out interval on 
For information about statically and dynamically assigning switch ports to VLANs, see 
For information about defining VLAN rules that allow dynamic assignment of mobile ports to a VLAN, 
see