Course: Riverstone RapidOS Implementation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting

Course: Riverstone 15000 Family Basic Course

Course Length: 5 days
Pace: Advanced

An advanced overview class on the Riverstone 15000 of products including architecture, configuration and troubleshooting principles. The course describes the commands necessary to administer the 15000 and to enable basic feature sets for each of these items.

Outline:

Introduction
- Features and Benefits
Architecture
- HW Overview (15008, 15100, 15200)
- Speeds and Feeds
- Description of the forwarding function
- Separated control and Forwarding
- Backup CMs
SW Architecture
- Process scheduling on multiple processors
- Software Modules and separate upgrades
- Memory Management
- Process restart - process management
- Message passing between processes
CLI Overview
- CLI Operation
  - Command modes
  - Scratchpad
  - Navigation and searching
  - Config Files
- Basic Configuration
  - Syslog SNMP
  - NTP Loop back
  - En0 Console and CLI adjustments
  - Telnet and SSH on and off Passwords
- Environmental show commands
  - Sh hard
  - Capacities
  - fans
- File system overview
- Upgrade procedure
- Hot swapping
Layer 2
- Port Configuration
- BFD
- VLANS
- GARP - GVRP
- VLAN Contexts and CCTs
- "Q in Q"
- STP
  - STP Modes (w,s and d)
  - STP Configuration
    STP Show commands
- Aggregation
  - LACP
  - No Protocol
  - Troubleshooting
- L2 ACLs
- MAC Limiting
Layer 3
- IP Interfaces
- Static routes
- RIB and FIB
- IGPs
- OSPF
  - OSPF basics
  - OSPF configuration
  - Multiple areas
  - Handling externals
- IS-IS
  - IS-IS basics
  - Addressing
  - L1 & L2
- Redistribution
- VRRP
- ACLs
- Policy routing
Traffic Control
- Qos @ Layer 2
- Classification
- Policing
- Rewrite of fields
- Shaping in and out
- QoS @ Layer 3
- Classification
- Marking
- Policing
- Rewrite
- Shaping in and out
Troubleshooting
- Counters
- Physical State
- Capacity monitoring
- Process Monitoring
- Port Mirroring
  - Classification
  - ACL based
  - Copy to CPU and redirection