The 5842 and 5844 Multiport Routers provide the following features:
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Support for a wide variety of WAN protocols such as PPP, Frame Relay, Multilink PPP,
Multilink Frame Relay FRF.16.1, and MAC Learning Bridging for point-to-point and point-
to-multipoint applications to the Internet, private or public Frame Relay networks
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Advanced IP / Frame Relay Router capabilities with:
• Standard-based IP-over-Frame Relay encapsulation, RFC-2427 compliant
• Link Management Interface (LMI): ANSI AnnexD, ITU Annex A, and FRF Rev 1.0
• Static and dynamic configuration of up to 1024 DLCIs
• Static and dynamic mapping of DLCI to IP Subnets using InverseARP
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Dynamic routing protocols RIP1, RIP2, OSPF, and optional BGP-4 (I-BGP and E-BGP)
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Dynamic load balancing, using OSPF or optional BGP-4 (I-BGP and E-BGP)
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Optional DiffServ-compliant QoS capabilities:
• Ability to assign maximum bandwidth to each traffic class
• Traffic metering, shapes or drops “out-of-profile” traffic
• Prevents lower classes of traffic from being bandwidth starved
• Enables QoS per routing interface in incoming and outgoing direction
• Novice user configuration with presets; advanced user to optimize resources and
throughput; statistics reports on QoS
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Network Address Translation (NAT) and port translation (NAPT)
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Remote configuration and management through Telnet (Terminal User Interface menus),
Command Line Interface (CLI), and SNMPv3
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MAC Bridging features: VLAN MPLS tag transparency
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Basic device configuration and T1/E1 loopback diagnostics through front panel
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Full range of network performance monitoring and troubleshooting features that enable
you to accurately measure end-to-end performance of the network, including RMON-1
statistics, RMON-2 applications and protocol monitoring, and Frame Relay SLA FRF.13.
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Multilink Frame Relay (FRF.16.1) and MLPPP (RFC1990) support
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Stateful Inspection Firewall with TCP, UDP, ICMP, DNS, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP protocol
handling capabilities
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Menu access for layer-3 and above statistics
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Multiple multilink bundles and support of MLPPP / MLFR bundle classes A, B & C
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Support of DHCP server and DHCP relay agent
A sophisticated product architecture.
