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The Nortel Networks Passport* 8600 Routing Switch delivers a proven and tested resilient,
secure, and intelligent network solution. With the capability to deliver hundreds of millions
of packets per second (Mpps) performance to the network core, the Passport 8600 Routing
Switch combines resiliency and high performance with intelligence and security.  

• Resiliency ensures that network resources are always available.  
• Intelligence delivers bandwidth and performance for those applications that need it the

most when they need it. 

• Security ensures that the information traveling across your network remains secure and

unaltered.  

Resiliency, intelligence, and security are the basic network building blocks that allow an
enterprise to use their network to grow their business and provide a solid foundation for
their future network growth.

Passport 8600 

Routing Switch

IEEE general
• 802.3 CSMA/CD Ethernet (ISO/IEC 8802-3)
• 802.3i 10BASE-T (ISO/IEC 8802-3)
• 802.3u 100BASE-T (ISO/IEC 8802-3)
• 802.3z (Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE- SX and LX)
• 802.3ab (Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T 4 pair Cat5 UTP)
• 802.1D (MAC bridges/Spanning Tree Protocol)
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Re-convergence Spanning Tree
• 802.3x (Flow Control)
• 802.1X (EAPOL)

Layer 2 features
• RFC 1490 (Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay)
• RFC 1570 (PPP LCP Extensions)
• RFC 1662 (PPP in HDLC-Like Framing)
• RFC 1990 (PPP multi-link protocol)
• RFC 1548 (PPP)
• RFC 1493 (Bridge MIB)

Layer 2 features—ATM/POS
• Bell Communications Research, SONET Transport Systems:

Common Generic Criteria, GR-253-CORE, January 1999, 
Revision 2 (partial compliance)

• RFC 1213 (MIB-2)
• RFC 1332 (IPCP)
• RFC 1471 (LCP)
• RFC 1473 (NCP)
• RFC 1474 (Bridge NCP)
• RFC 1552 (IPXCP)
• RFC 1661 (PPP)
• RFC 1638 (BCP)
• RFC 1989 (PPP Link Quality Monitoring)
• RFC 2558 (SONET/SDH)
• RFC 2615 (PPP over SONET/SDH)

Layer 3/Layer 4 intelligence

General
• RFC 951 (BootP)
• RFC 2131 (Dynamic Host Control Protocol: DHCP)
• RFC 1812 (Router Requirements)
• RFC 1213 (TCP/IP Management Information Base)
• RFC 2391 Load Sharing Using IP Network Address Translation 

(load sharing)

• RFC 1519 (CIDR)
• RFC 1349 (Type of Service in Internet Protocol Suite)
• RFC 1293 (Inverse ARP)
• RFC 1631 (IP Network Address Translation)
• RFC 1256 (ICMP Router Discovery message)
• RFC 2338 (VRRP: Virtual Redundancy Router Protocol)

RIP
• RFC 1058 (RIP version 1)
• RFC 1723 (RIP version 2)
• RFC 1389 (RIP 2 Management Information Base)

OSPF
• RFC 1253 (OSPF MIB)
• RFC 1583 (OSPFv2)
• RFC 2178 (OSPF v2)
• RFC 1850 (OSPF Management Information Base)
• RFC 2178 (OSPF MD5 cryptographic authentication)

in the core