Preface

About This Guide

This guide describes routing protocols supported by the 7705 SAR and provides configuration and implementation examples.

This guide is organized into functional chapters and provides concepts and descriptions of the implementation flow, as well as Command Line Interface (CLI) syntax and command usage.

Note: This manual generically covers Release 23.x content and may contain some content that will be released in later maintenance loads. Please refer to the 7705 SAR 23.x.Rx Software Release Notes, part number 3HE19533000xTQZZA, for information about features supported in each load of the Release 23.x software.
Note: As of Release 23.4, software support for the following hardware has been deprecated:
  • 8-port Ethernet Adapter card, version 2 (a8-ethv2) (3HE02776)

  • 12-port Serial Data Interface card, version 1 (a12-sdi) (3HE03391)

  • 7705 SAR-W (3HE07349)

These components are no longer recognized in the release.

If information about any of the above components is required, please see the applicable installation guides in Release 22.10.

Audience

This guide is intended for network administrators who are responsible for configuring the 7705 SAR routers. It is assumed that the network administrators have an understanding of networking principles and configurations. Concepts described in this guide include the following:

  • IP multicast

  • Interior Gateway Protocols (IGP)

  • Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol

  • Intermediate system to Intermediate system (IS-IS) routing protocol

  • traffic engineering extensions to IGP

  • Constrained Shortest Path First (CSPF)

  • Border Gateway Protocols (BGP)

  • Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

Technical Support

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