Nortel Routing Switch 8603 3-slot Chassis Bundle No power cord DS1412A06-E5 User Manual

Performance specifications

• System architecture bandwidth: 720 Gbps
• Sub100ms failover (requires 8692SF with

SuperMezz)

• Frame length: 64 to 1,518 bytes (IEEE 802.1Q

Untagged), 64 to 1,522 bytes (IEEE 802.1Q
Tagged)

• Jumbo frame support: Up to 9.6k bytes 

(IEEE 802.1Q Tagged)

• Multi-Link Trunks: Up to 128 trunks 

with 8 links per group with 8692SF + 
R/RS-Modules/Mode

• VLANs: Up to 4,000 port- or protocol-based; 

per VLAN Tagging option

• IP Multicast: Up to 4,000 S,G
• Multiple spanning tree groups: Up to 

64 (STGs)

• SMLT and RSMLT (Routed Split Multi-

Link Trunking)

• Single Port Split Multi-Link Trunking

Network protocol and
standards compatibility

IEEE

• IEEE 802.1D MAC Bridges/Spanning Tree

Protocol

• IEEE 802.1p Prioritizing
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol

(MSTP)

• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

(RSTP)

• IEEE 802.1x EAPOL
• IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD Ethernet 

(ISO/IEC 8802-3)

• IEEE 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet 1000BaseT
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control

Protocol (LACP)

• IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3i 10BaseT – Autonegotiation
• IEEE 802.3u 100BaseTX – Autonegotiation
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control on the Gigabit

Uplink port

• IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet 1000BaseSX

and LX

IETF RFCs

Layer 2 features ATM / POS

• RFC 1332 IPCP (POS module)
• RFC 1471 LCP (POS module)
• RFC 1473 NCP (POS module)
• RFC 1474 Bridge NCP (POS module)
• RFC 1552 IPXCP (POS module)
• RFC 1638 BCP (POS module)
• RFC 1661 PPP (POS module)
• RFC 1989 PPP Link Quality Monitoring 

(POS module)

• RFC 2558 Sonet / SDH (POS module)
• RFC 2615 PPP over SONET / SDH 

(POS module)

IPv4 Layer 3 / Layer 4 Intelligence

• RFC 768 UDP Protocol
• RFC 783 TFTP Protocol
• RFC 791 IP Protocol
• RFC 792 ICMP Protocol
• RFC 793 TCP Protocol
• RFC 826 ARP Protocol
• RFC 854 Telnet Protocol
• RFC 903 Reverse ARP Protocol
• RFC 951 / RFC 2131 BootP / DHCP
• RFC 1058 RIPv1 Protocol
• RFC 1112 IGMPv1 for snooping
•

RFC 1213 TCP/IP Management

Information Base

• RFC 1253 OSPF
• RFC 1256 ICMP Router Discovery
• RFC 1583 OSPFv2
• RFC 1591 DNS Client
• RFC 1745, obs RFC 1703 BGP / OSPF

Interaction

• RFC 1771 / RFC 1772 BGP-4
• RFC 1812 Router Requirements
• RFC 1866 HTMLv2 Protocol
• RFC 1965 BGP-4 Confederations
• RFC 1966 BGP-4 Route Reflectors
• RFC 1997 BGP-4 Community Attributes
• RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• RFC 2131 Dynamic Host Control Protocol

(DHCP)

• RFC 2138 RADIUS Authentication
• RFC 2139 RADIUS Accounting
• RFC 2178 OSPF MD5 cryptographic

authentication / OSPFv2

• RFC 2205
• RFC 2210
• RFC 2211
• RFC 2236 IGMPv2 for snooping
• RFC 2270 BGP-4 Dedicated AS for sites/single

provide

• RFC 2328 OSPFv2
• RFC 2338 VRRP: Virtual Redundancy Router

Protocol

• RFC 2362 PIM-SM
• RFC 2385 BGP-4 MD5 authentication
• RFC 2439 BGP-4 Route Flap Dampening
• RFC 2453 RIPv2 Protocol
• RFC 2702
• RFC 2819 Remote Monitoring (RMON)
• RFC 2961
• RFC 3031
• RFC 3032
• RFC 3036
• RFC 3037
• RFC 3210
• RFC 3215
• RFC 3270 (partial)
• RFC 3376 IGMPv3 partial compliancy
• RFC 3443
• RFC 3569 PIM-SSM
• RFC 3917 / RFC 3995 IPFIX
• RFC 4364
• RFC 4379
• NAT (Network Address Translation) — only

with WSM

IPv4 Multicast

• RFC 1075 DVMRP Protocol
• RFC 1112 IGMP v1 for routing / snooping
• RFC 2236 IGMP v2 for routing / snooping

• RFC 2362 + some PIM-SM v2 extensions

(PIM-SM)

IPv6 

• IPv6 requires 8692SF and SuperMezz Daughter

card and R-Modules

• RFC 1981 IPv6 path MTU discovery
• RFC 2375 IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
• RFC 2460 IPv6 specifications
• RFC 2461 Neighbor Discovery
• RFC 2462 Stateless Auto Configuration
• RFC 2463 ICMPv6
• RFC 2710 MLDv1 / MLDv2
• RFC 2740 OSPFv3
• RFC 2893 Configured Tunnels and Dual Stack

Routing per port

• RFC 3484 Default Address Selection for IPv6
• RFC 3513 IPv6 addressing architecture
• RFC 3587 Global Unicast Address Format
• RFC 3596 DNS Extensions to support
• RFC 3810 IPv6 Multicast capabilities
• SSH/SCP, Telnet, Ping, CLI, JDM support for

IPv6

Platform

• RFC 1305 (NTP client / unicast mode only)

Quality of Service (QoS) 

• RFC 2474 / RFC 2475 DiffServ Support
• RFC 2597 / RFC 2598 DiffServ per Hop

Behavior

Network management

• RFC 1155 SMI
• RFC 1157 SNMP
• RFC 1215 Traps
• RFC 1757 / RFC 2819 RMON
• RFC 1907 SNMPv2
• RFC 2571, 2572, 2573, 2574, 2575 and 2576

SNMPv3

MIBs

• RFC 1213 MIB II
• RFC 1389 / RFC 1724 RIPv2 MIB extensions
• RFC 1493 Bridge MIB
• RFC 1573 Interface MIB
• RFC 1643 Ethernet MIB
• RFC 1657 BGP-4 MIB using SMIv2
• RFC 1850 OSPF MIB
• RFC 2021 RMON MIB using SMIv2
• RFC 2096 IP Forwarding Table MIB
• RFC 2233 Interfaces Group MIB using SMIv2
• RFC 2452 IPv6 MIB: TCP MIB
• RFC 2454 IPv6 MIB: UDP MIB
• RFC 2465 IPv6 MIB: IPv6 General group and

textual conventions

• RFC 2466 IPv6 MIB: ICMPv6 Group
• RFC 2674 Bridges with Traffic MIB
• RFC 2863 Interface Group MIB
• RFC 2925 Remote Ping, Traceroute & Lookup

Operations MIB

• RFC 2932 Mroute MIB
• RFC 2933 IGMP MIB
• RFC 2934 PIM MIB
• RFC 3019 IPv6 MIB: MLD Protocol
• RFC 4022 TCP MIB
• RFC 4113 UDP MIB