Skylight Flex 100 Release Notes 21.09 Demo 2

Overview

Accedian is pleased to announce Demo 2 for release 21.09 of Skylight Flex 100.

The purpose of this article is to explain the key features, guidelines and procedures supported in this 21.09 Demo 2 release of Skylight Flex 100.

The following topics are covered in this article:

• Supported Features
  Covers Skylight Flex 100’s supported features.

• Scalability Support in this Release
  Details the scalability tested for this release.

• Guidelines and Procedures
  Explains certain guidelines and procedures related to Skylight Flex 100.

Supported Features

The following key features are supported by Skylight Flex 100 in Demo 2 of release 21.09:

Device Infrastructure and Management Features

• SNMP (v2c, v3) agent and MIB support
• Configuration Save and Restore
• CLI (Console, SSH), multiple user privilege levels
• DHCP client - IPv4
• DNS client - IPv4
• Syslog client & relay agent – IPv4
• Configuration upgrade through TFTP file transfer – IPv4 and IPv6
• IP authorized managers – IPv4
• Management RJ45 port 10M, 100M and 1G
• Auxiliary port 10G
• Traffic port 100G
• Jumbo frame support
• Auto-negotiation of speed and duplex modes

Basic Layer 2 Ethernet Connectivity Features

• 802.3x flow control
• Storm control
• Rate limiting
• Port mirroring
• Transparent bridging
• 802.1Q Customer VLAN bridging functionality
• LLDP
• RMONv1 – statistics, history, alarm, event
• ACLs (Access Control Lists) – L2 (Ethernet header) for traffic filtering
• Link Aggregation (802.3ad)

Advanced Layer 2 Ethernet Switching Features

• 802.1Q Provider Bridge Functionality
• Ethernet CFM 802.1ag
• Basic E-LINE Ethernet Services creation
• VLAN translation support
• MEF 10.2 and 10.3 bandwidth regulator
• Layer 2 Flow Filtering based on multiple VLAN headers
• VLAN Header Re-marking in double tagged scenario
• E-LINE Ethernet Services – 2 TAG support
• Active Standby Link Protection using LAG (LACP)
• E-SAT – Y.1564
• Simple CIR Test
• Step Load CIR Test
• EIR Configuration Test
• Traffic Policing Test
• Facility Loopback for SAT testing
• SLM and DMM
• ETH-CSF
• Zero Touch Provisioning

Scalability Support in this Release

The following table contains the details of scalability tested in this Demo 2 release:

100GE Flex Supported Transceivers

Guidelines and Procedures

This section explains various guidelines and procedures related to Demo 2 of Skylight Flex 100.

Installation Procedure for Accedian Board

Connecting to the Board

There is an RJ45 console as a serial connection, 115200 N81; this console displays boot messages as it is a connection to Flex 100. The default Flex 100 user is root, the default password is admin123.

There is a mini-USB console as a serial connection, 115200 N81. This connects to Linux only and is reserved for Accedian use.

SSH and Telnet connections over IPv4 are supported after IP address configuration.

SSH Procedure

From a Linux server, the following command establishes an SSH client session with the specified OOB
management interface IP address.

• The command should be used for reachability of Flex 100 CLI via management port from a host.

#ssh -c 3des-cbc root@<flex-ip-address>

Initial Configuration Guidelines

The following steps must be done from the console port.

When configuring Skylight Flex 100, use Configure Static IP and Default Gateway or DHCP Client Configuration Procedure.

Configure Static IP and Default Gateway

▶ To configure the IP address

1. After software installation, use the following command on the Flex 100 console:

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product (config)# interface cpu0 
Your Product (config)# shutdown
Your Product (config)# ip address <flex-ip-address> <netmask: 255.255....>
Your Product (config)# no shutdown

• The following command adds a default static route to the OOB management interface.

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 cpu0
Your Product(config)#end
Your Product#

• The following command adds a default static route to the gateway address.

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 <ip-default-gateway>
Your Product(config)#end
Your Product#

• If needed, the no form of the following command deletes a static route.

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# no ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 cpu0
Your Product(config)#end
Your Product#
Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# no ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 <ip-default-gateway>
Your Product(config)#end
Your Product#

The following command verifies the routing table.

Your Product# show ip route

Codes: C - connected, S - static, R - rip, B - bgp, O - ospf, I - isis, E - ECMP
IA - OSPF inter area, N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1,
N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2, E1 - OSPF external type 1,
E2 - OSPF external type 2 L1 - ISIS Level1, L2 - ISIS Level2, ia - ISIS Inter Area

Vrf Name: default
---------
0.0.0.0/0 [0/1] via 16.0.0.254
C 16.0.0.0/8 is directly connected, cpu0

Your Product#

DHCP Client Configuration Procedure

The following command configures the OOB management interface to dynamically acquire IP address from the DHCP server.

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# interface cpu0
Your Product(config-if)# ip address dhcp
Your Product(config-if)# end
Your Product#

• The following command verifies the OOB management interface dynamic address allocation.

Your Product# show ip interface

cpu0 is up, line protocol is up
Internet Address is 0.0.0.0/0
Broadcast Address 255.255.255.255
IP address allocation method is dynamic
IP address allocation protocol is dhcp
Your Product# show ip interface

cpu0 is up, line protocol is up
Internet Address is
Broadcast Address 16.255.255.255
IP address allocation method is dynamic
IP address allocation protocol is dhcp
Your Product#

• The following command verifies the routing table.

Your Product# show ip route

Codes: C - connected, S - static, R - rip, B - bgp, O - ospf, I - isis, E - ECMP
IA - OSPF inter area, N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1,
N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2, E1 - OSPF external type 1,
E2 - OSPF external type 2 L1 - ISIS Level1, L2 - ISIS Level2, ia - ISIS Inter Area
Vrf Name: default
---------
0.0.0.0/0 [0/1] via 16.0.0.254
C 16.0.0.0/8 is directly connected, cpu0

Your Product#

• The following command verifies the DHCP client statistics for the OOB management interface.

Your Product# show ip dhcp client stats

Dhcp Client Statistics
--------------------------

Interface : cpu0
Client IP Address : 16.0.0.10
Client Lease Time : 600
Client Remain Lease Time : 584
Message Statistics
------------------
DHCP DISCOVER : 1
DHCP REQUEST : 2
DHCP DECLINE : 0
DHCP RELEASE : 0
DHCP INFORM : 0
DHCP OFFER : 1

DHCP ACKS IN REQ : 1
     DHCP NACKS IN REQ : 0
DHCP ACKS IN RENEW : 1
DHCP NACKS IN RENEW : 0
DHCP ACKS IN REBIND : 0
DHCP NACKS IN REBIND : 0
DHCP ACKS IN REBOOT : 0
DHCP NACKS IN REBOOT : 0
DHCP COUNT ERROR IN HEADER : 0
DHCP COUNT ERROR IN XID : 0
DHCP COUNT ERROR IN OPTIONS : 0
Your Product#

• The following command enables an OOB interface.

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# interface cpu0
Your Product(config-if)# no shutdown
Your Product(config-if)# end
Your Product#

• MIB Config Save and Restore

• The following command writes the running-config to a startup-configuration file:

Your Product# write startup-config

• The following command restarts the switch:

Your Product# reload

• The no form of the command resets the IP address of the interface to its default value:

Your Product# configure terminal 
Your Product(config)# interface cpu0
Your Product(config-if)# no ip address
Your Product(config-if)# end
Your Product#

• The following command sets the static IP address to the OOB interface:

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# interface cpu0
Your Product(config-if)# ip address <flex-ip-address>
Your Product(config-if)# end

Bridge Mode Configuration Procedure

This step is necessary for changing the bridge mode from customer bridge to Provider Edge Bridge.

▶ To configure Bridge Mode

1. Shutdown the Spanning Tree on Flex 100.

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# shutdown spanning-tree
Your Product(config)#end
Your Product#

2. Disable the ECFM module on Flex 100.

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)#no ethernet cfm start
Your Product(config)#end
Your Product#

3. Set the bridge mode type to Flex 100.

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# bridge-mode provider-edge
Your Product(config)#end
Your Product#

4. Execute the below command to save the running configurations to start-up configuration. This step allows the user to keep the OOB Management interface settings while changing the Bridge Mode.

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# write startup-config
Your Product(config)#end
Your Product#

5. Reload the Flex 100 using the below CLI command.

Your Product# configure terminal
Your Product(config)# reload
Your Product(config)#end
Your Product#

6. Verify the bridge mode type using the below CLI command.

Your Product# show nvram

Upgrade Procedure: Skylight Flex 100 set in TFTP Server Mode

The following procedure is recommended to upgrade a Skylight Flex 100 device from a dev_load_startup to the rc_load_startup 630.

Downloading Accedian Firmware 630 on TFTP Client

▶ To download Accedian firmware

1. Download the file rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup and save it on the TFTP client.

2. Copy the file to your TFTP Client folder.

cd <path_for_the_file_downloaded>
mv <file downloaded>.afl.startup rc_ATOMAS 100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup

Installing Firmware Version 630

The following procedure loads the official rc_ATOMAS 100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup file to the Skylight Flex 100 Hardware platform.

▶ To install firmware version 630

1. Connect to the RJ45 serial console port.

sudo minicom -D /dev/ttyUSBx
Your Product login: root
password: admin123 

2. Reboot the Skylight Flex 100 device and get the board OS.

reload
press any key, when you see the message "Hit any key to stop autoboot" on your screen

• You have 10 seconds to do so.

3. Set the Skylight Flex 100 in TFTP server mode to receive the file rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup

• If your Skylight Flex 100 device receives its IP address from a DHCP server, use the following commands:

env set autoload no
dhcp 
tftpsrv

• If your Skylight Flex 100 device has a static IP address set manually, use the following command:

setenv ipaddr <Flex_ip_address>
setenv gateway <gateway>
setenv netmask <mask>
tftpsrv

4. On the TFTP client, transfer the file rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup to the Skylight Flex 100 (which is in TFTP server mode):

• If needed sudo apt-get install tftp:

cd <path_rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup>
tftp  <Flex_ip_address> 
binary
put rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup image

• The prompt on the TFTP client will disappear during the file transfer.

• The Skylight Flex 100 RJ45 Console will show the number of bytes being transferred.

• The file transfer should take approximately two minutes to complete.

• Once the file transfer is complete, the Skylight Flex 100 device reboots automatically.

• On the TFTP client, type the command to quit the TFTP mode:

quit

Verifying the Active Firmware Version

Validate the active firmware version after the Skylight Flex 100 device is rebooted.

▶ To verify the active firmware version

1. Connect to the RJ45 serial console port.

Your Product login: root
password: admin123

2. Show the system information which includes the active firmware version.

Your Product@ show system info

2021-11-26 10:31:57,973 - INFO - [10.247.50.40]: show system information


Hardware Version                  : 500-173-01
Software Version                  : 10.04.006.00.02
Firmware Version                  : rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630

Hardware Serial Number            : C414-0315
Software Serial Number            : 1-0-0
Switch Name                       : C414-0315
System Contact                    : Accedian, Canada
System Name                       : C414-0315
System Location                   : Accedian, Canada
Logging Option                    : Console Logging
Device Uptime                     : 0 Days, 1 Hrs, 3 Mins, 15 Secs
Login Authentication Mode         : Local
Config Save Status                : Successful
Remote Save Status                : Not Initiated
Config Restore Status             : Not Initiated
Traffic Separation Control        : none

The Skylight Flex 100 device upgrade to rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630 is complete.

Alternate Upgrade Procedure: Skylight Flex 100 set in TFTP Client Mode

The following procedure is recommended to upgrade a Skylight Flex 100 unit from a dev_load_startup to the rc_load_startup 630.

Downloading Accedian Firmware 630 on TFTP Server

▶ To download Accedian firmware

1. Download the file rc_ATOMAS-
   100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup on the TFTP server.

2. Copy the file to your TFTP Server folder.

cd <path_for_the_file_downloaded>
mv <file downloaded>.afl.startup rc_ATOMAS 100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup

Installing Firmware Version 630

The following procedure loads the official rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup file to the Skylight Flex 100 Hardware platform.

▶ To install firmware version 630

1. Connect to the RJ45 serial console port.

sudo minicom -D /dev/ttyUSBx
Your Product login: root
password: admin123 

2. Reboot the Skylight Flex 100 device and get the board OS.

reload
press any key, when you see the message "Hit any key to stop autoboot" on your screen 

• You have 10 seconds to do so.

3. Get the file rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup from the TFTP by typing:

set serverip <TFTP_server_ip_address>
set ipaddr <Flex_ip_address>
tftpboot 0xa0000000 rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630.afl.startup

4. Boot the Skylight Flex 100 unit to activate the new firmware:

bootm 0xa0000000

Verifying the Active Firmware Version

Validate the active firmware version after the Skylight Flex 100 device is rebooted.

▶ To verify the active firmware version

1. Connect to the RJ45 serial console port.

Your Product login: root
password: admin123 

2. Show the system information which includes the active firmware version.

Your Product@ show system info

2021-11-26 10:31:57,973 - INFO - [10.247.50.40]: show system information


Hardware Version                  : 500-173-01
Software Version                  : 10.04.006.00.02
Firmware Version                  : rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630

Hardware Serial Number            : C414-0315
Software Serial Number            : 1-0-0
Switch Name                       : C414-0315
System Contact                    : Accedian, Canada
System Name                       : C414-0315
System Location                   : Accedian, Canada
Logging Option                    : Console Logging
Device Uptime                     : 0 Days, 1 Hrs, 3 Mins, 15 Secs
Login Authentication Mode         : Local
Config Save Status                : Successful
Remote Save Status                : Not Initiated
Config Restore Status             : Not Initiated
Traffic Separation Control        : none

The Skylight Flex 100 device upgrade to rc_ATOMAS-100_21.09.0_630 is complete.