Product:
IxANVL
Version Number:
7.70 EA
Release Date:
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
IxANVL Release 7.70 EA Overview (December 2009)

IxANVL 7.70 EA is an "Early Adopter" release. This release introduces three new test suites in the areas of Routing, High Availability and Carrier Ethernet.

The following new test suites and features are supported in IxANVL 7.70 EA:

  1. MVRP/MMRP

    This test suite is based on "Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks - Amendment 07: Multiple Registration Protocol" and the associated Corrigendum 1: "Corrections to the Multiple Registration Protocol". The IxANVL test suite supports RSTP and MSTP as underlying bridging protocols.

  2. BFD

    This test suite is based on BFD drafts - drafts draft-ietf-bfd-base-09.txt, draft-ietf-bfd-generic-05.txt, draft-ietf-bfd-v4v6-1hop-09.txt and draft-ietf-bfd-mpls-07.txt. BFD is a protocol intended to detect faults in the bidirectional path between two forwarding engines, including physical interfaces, sub-interfaces, data link(s), and to the extent possible the forwarding engines themselves, with potentially very low latency. The IxANVL BFD test suite supports a rich variety of routing and label switching applications like OSPF, OSPFv3, OSPF-GR, ISIS, BGP and MPLS.

  3. OSPF-GR

    This test suite is based on RFC 3623 which specifies standard for an OSPF router to stay on the forwarding path even as its OSPF software is restarted.

Product Compatibility

IxANVL 7.70 EA requires IxOS 5.50 EA SP3 and IxOS 5.60 EA, or a later version of IxOS 5.60 EA, if operating with VNIC (v2.70) on Ixia load modules.

NOTE: When you are using one or more of the applications below on a single chassis configuration, please use the correct application versions so they align to a common version of IxOS.

For IxANVL 7.70 EA product compatibility information please refer to the following online utility. An Ixia website account is required before accessing.

http://www.ixiacom.com/support/product_compatibility_matrix/

IxANVL Workstation Requirements

CPU: 32 bit 1.5Ghz Pentium or better
RAM: 1GB or more
Disk: 500MB Free or more
OS:
Windows OS: Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server. (IxANVL supports US English versions of the Windows operating system)
Linux OS: Enterprise 4.0 with kernel 2.6.9-11 or 2.6.22.0.2.EL, Centos 5.3 with kernel 2.6.18-128.e15xen, Redhat Enterprise 5.0 with 2.6.18-53.el5

Supported Test Interfaces

Network interface cards directly attached to a Linux or Windows PC:

  • Ethernet 10/100
  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • Async serial
  • Sync serial
  • T1/E1
  • PPPoE

Ixia Load Modules (port CPU required) accessed via Virtual Network Interface Card (VNIC):

  • 10/100/1000 Ethernet Modules:
    • LM100TXS8
    • LM100STSXS2
    • LM1000STXS4
    • OLM1000STXS24
    • LM1000STXR4
    • LSM1000XMS12-01/LSM1000XMSR12-01
    • ALM1000T8
    • LSM1000XMV16-01/LSM1000XMV12-01/LSM1000XMV8-01/LSM1000XMV4-01
    • LSM1000XMVR16-01/LSM1000XMVR12-01/LSM1000XMVR8-01/LSM1000XMVR4-01
    • ASM1000XMV12X-01, non-Aggregate Mode
    • ELM1000ST2
  • 10G Modules:
    • LSM10G1-01/LSM10gL1-01
    • LSM10GXL6-01/LSM10GXL6-02
    • LSM10GXM3-01/LSM10GXMR3-01
    • MSM10G1-01
    • LSM10GXM3-01/LSM10GXMR3-01
    • LSM10GXM4-01/LSM10GXMR4-01
    • LSM10GXM8-01/LSM10GXMR8-01
    • LSM1000XMV8-01/LSM1000XMVR8-01
    • LSM1000XMV12-01/LSM1000XMVR12-01
    • LSM10GXM2XP-01/LSM10GXMR2-01
    • LSM10GXM4XP-01
    • LSM10GXM8XP-01
    • LSM10GXM8-01/LSM10GXM8S-01
  • POS/ATM Modules:
    • MSM2.5G1-1
    • MSM10G1-01
    • LM622MR

Release Notes [ click here ]

If you would like to upgrade your current IxANVL software, please send an email to our Support Department ([email protected] ) and be sure to include your registration number.

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