From: Garnet Ulrich (garnet.ulrich@gmx.net)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 08:41:49 GMT-3
I am currently using an old Bay Networks Centillion 100. They can
usually be picked up for about $300US with 2 multimode oc3 ports. They
have done everything I've needed them to except they will not do dynamic
PVCs using the "atm ilmi-pvc-discovery" commands on the routers because
Bay did not support this feature of ilmi. They are real easy to
configure if you can find someone with a Windoze PC to run the GUI (yes,
GUI!). The CLI lets you set the management address and stuff like that
but then you actually need to run "Speedview" to create PVCs, assign
network addresses, set UNI level etc.. (Hmmm, why weren't these the
most popular product?) Once you configure it and create a handful of
PVCs from port to port, you'll probably not need the GUI again.
So in short, the Centillion 100 will let you do RFC 1483/2684 with both
SVCs and PVCs as well as Classical IP RFC 1577/2225 with both SVCs and
PVCs.
Do make sure that your routers are using the same interface (probably
multimode oc3) as whatever ATM switch you buy (used Centillions are most
often oc3 multimode).
Cheers.
Garnet Ulrich
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 20:19, Sukhdev wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Apologies if this has been discussed before but could someone suggest
> alternative ATM switches (besides Cisco) to be used for a home lab. I see
some
> being sold at eBay and they are going reasonably cheap but I am not sure
which
> make and model would have the features to cover the ATM requirements in the
> CCIE lab and perhaps, learning other aspects of ATM in general.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> S Dave
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