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FTOS - Force10 Operating System
FTOS Overview
FTOS powers the Force10 Reliable Networking product portfolio and has been hardened in some of the largest and most demanding environments in the world to meet stringent reliability, scalability and serviceability requirements. With FTOS, Force10 Networks is enabling businesses to cost effectively build end-to-end reliable networks while reducing operations and management overhead.
The advanced features and modular design of FTOS delivers the following operational advantages:
RELIABILITY ensures optimal network uptime and support for rich, dynamic application environments through a modular, fault-tolerant design as well as a rigorous testing process that results in more stable operations
PERFORMANCE AND PROCESS PREDICTABILITY is achieved in FTOS through scalable protocols and distributed processes that have been hardened in demanding data center environments to achieve rapid convergence
DAY-TO-DAY MANAGEMENT EFFICIENCIES help lower total cost of network ownership and reduce unplanned downtime attributed to human error through advanced inline monitoring and diagnostic features, an industry standard CLI, automated fault correction and configuration rollback
FTOS Features and Benefits
FTOS provides the consistency, reliability, scalability and serviceability required to streamline network management, reduce unplanned downtime related to operational error and lower the total cost of network ownership.
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FTOS Specifications
IEEE Compliance
- 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol
- 802.1D Bridging, STP
- 802.1p L2 Prioritization
- 802.1Q VLAN Tagging, Double VLAN Tagging, GVRP
- 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
- 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
- 802.1X Network Access Control
- 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
- Cisco Per-VLAN Spanning Tree+
RFC and I-D Compliance
General Internet Protocols- 768 UDP
- 793 TCP
- 854 Telnet
- 959 FTP
- 1321 MD5
- 1350 TFTP
- 1661 PPP
- 1989 PPP Link Quality Monitoring
- 1990 PPP Multilink Protocol
- 1994 PPP CHAP
- 2474 Differentiated Services
- 2615 PPP over SONET/SDH
- 2698 Two Rate Three Color Marker draft-ietf-bfd-base-03 BFD
General IPv4 Protocols
- 791 IPv4
- 792 ICMP
- 826 ARP
- 1027 Proxy ARP
- 1035 DNS (client)
- 1042 Ethernet Transmission
- 1191 Path MTU Discovery
- 1305 NTPv3
- 1519 CIDR
- 1542 BOOTP (relay)
- 1812 Routers
- 2131 DHCP (relay)
- 2338 VRRP
- 3021 31-bit Prefixes
General IPv6 Protocols
- 1981 Path MTU Discovery (partial)
- 1886 DNS (client)
- 2460 IPv6
- 2461 Neighbor Discovery (partial)
- 2462 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (partial)
- 2463 ICMPv6
- 2464 Ethernet Transmission
- 2675 Jumbograms
- 3587 Global Unicast Address Format
- 4291 Addressing
RIP
- 1058 RIPv1
- 2453 RIPv2
OSPF
- 2154 MD5
- 1587 NSSA
- 2328 OSPFv2
- Opaque LSA
- 2740 OSPFv3
- 3623 Graceful Restart
- 4222 Prioritization and Congestion Avoidance
IS-IS
- 1142 IS-IS
- 1195 IPv4 Routing
- 2763 Dynamic Hostname
- 2966 Domain-wide Prefixes
- 3373 Three-way Handshake
- 3567 MD5
- 3784 Wide Metrics
- draft-ietf-isis-igp-p2p-over-lan-06
Point-to-Point Operation - draft-ietf-isis-ipv6-06
IPv6 Routing - draft-kaplan-isis-ext-eth-02
Extended Frame Size
BGP
- 1997 Communities
- 2385 MD5
- 2439 Route Flap Damping
- 2545 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6
- 2796 Route Reflection
- 2842 Capabilities
- 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions
- 2918 Route Refresh
- 3065 Confederations
- 4360 Extended Communities
- 4893 4-byte ASN
- draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-20 BGPv4
- draft-ietf-idr-restart-06
Graceful Restart - draft-michaelson-4byte-as-
representation-05 4-byte ASN Representation (partial)
Multicast
- 1112 IGMPv1
- 2236 IGMPv2
- 2710 MLDv1
- 3376 IGMPv3
- SSM for IPv4/IPv6
- 3618 MSDP
- 3810 MLDv2
- 3973 PIM-DM
- 4541 IGMPv1/v2/v3, MLDv1 Snooping
- draft-ietf-pim-sm-v2-new-05
PIM-SM for IPv4/IPv6
Network Management
- 1155 SMIv1
- 1156 Internet MIB
- 1157 SNMPv1
- 1212 Concise MIB Definitions
- 1215 SNMP Traps
- 1493 Bridges MIB
- 1724 RIPv2 MIB
- 1850 OSPFv2 MIB
- 1901 Community-based SNMPv2
- 2011 IP MIB
- 2012 TCP MIB
- 2013 UDP MIB
- 2024 DLSw MIB
- 2096 IP Forwarding Table MIB
- 2558 SONET/SDH MIB
- 2570 SNMPv3
- 2571 Mangement Frameworks
- 2572 Message Processing and Dispatching
- 2574 SNMPv3 USM
- 2575 SNMPv3 VACM
- 2576 Coexistence Between SNMPv1/v2/v3
- 2578 SMIv2
- 2579 Textual Conventions for SMIv2
- 2580 Conformance Statements for SMIv2
- 2618 RADIUS Authentication MIB
- 2665 Ethernet-like Interfaces MIB
- 2674 Extended Bridge MIB
- 2787 VRRP MIB
- 2819 RMON MIB
(groups 1, 2, 3, 9) - 2863 Interfaces MIB
- 2865 RADIUS
- 3176 sFlow
- 3273 RMON High Capacity MIB
- 3416 SNMPv2
- 3418 SNMP MIB
- 3434 RMON High Capacity Alarm MIB
- 3580 802.1X with RADIUS
- 5060 PIM MIB
- ANSI/TIA-1057 LLDP MED MIB
- draft-grant-tacacs-02 TACACS+
- draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mib-06 BGP MIBv1
- draft-ietf-isis-wg-mib-16 IS-IS MIB
- IEEE 802.1AB LLDP MIB
- IEEE 802.1AB LLDP DOT1 MIB
- IEEE 802.1AB LLDP DOT3 MIB
- ruzin-mstp-mib-02 MSTP MIB (traps)
- FORCE10-BGP4-V2-MIB
- FORCE10-FIB-MIB
- FORCE10-CS-CHASSIS-MIB
- FORCE10-IF-EXTENSION-MIB
- FORCE10-LINKAGG-MIB
- FORCE10-CHASSIS-MIB
- FORCE10-COPY-CONFIG-MIB
- FORCE10-MON-MIB
- FORCE10-PRODUCTS-MIB
- FORCE10-SS-CHASSIS-MIB
- FORCE10-SMI
- FORCE10-SYSTEM-COMPONENT-MIB
- FORCE10-TC-MIB
- FORCE10-TRAP-ALARM-MIB
- Industry-standard CLI
- XML configuration and command output
- Telnet, SSHv1/v2
- TFTP, FTP, scp
- NTPv3
- SNMPv1/v2/v3
- Syslog
- sFlow traffic accounting
- RADIUS/TACACS+ authentication
- RMON (groups 1, 2, 3, 9)
- Port monitoring
- HP OpenView support
Feature capabilities vary between the E-Series, C-Series and S-Series due to hardware differences. Consult the data sheets and product manuals for specific details on supported software features for each platform.
FTOS Literature
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Business Technical
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Last updated: 7/8/2008 12:08:26 PM