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VSR, TiMOS) First Boot Provisioning - Networking in A Service Provider Way

The document discusses the steps required to provision an Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR virtual router after its first boot, including configuring the router name, provisioning hardware such as input/output modules, and bringing ports online.

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VSR, TiMOS) First Boot Provisioning - Networking in A Service Provider Way

The document discusses the steps required to provision an Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR virtual router after its first boot, including configuring the router name, provisioning hardware such as input/output modules, and bringing ports online.

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Alcatel-Lucent virtual 7750 SR (vRR/vSR, TiMOS) first boot


provisioning

I advertised to you recently another great virtual lab environment Unified Networking Lab with tools like
that one I practiced thecool technologies of Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing platform and prepared tomany
certification exams.And I encourage you to go the same way, not just read the books and force the dumps, but
actually build a topology and walk through interesting scenarios.
If you boot a Cisco router like 7210 one, or even Juniper vMX, you could configure some interfaces, protocols
and so on right away. With Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SRthis approach doomed tofail, you should know how bring
to life7750 virtual Service Router (vSR) once you booted it before any further configuration steps.
And this short post will be just about that, what should you configure on 7750 SR after the first boot to make it
running with Unetlab or GNS3?
Once you boot a virtual Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SRrouter it comes up with a crystalclear configuration. To
provision it with basic and necessary configuration follow these steps.

Configure routers name


Everyone wants to have a name, and routers are no exception:

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1 A:vRR# configure system name ALU_R1


2 *A:ALU_R1#

Provision hardware
Virtual Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR router emulates 7750 SR-12 model
and uses the common for this series hardware decomposition:
two Switch Fabric Modules (SFM) are installed in slots A and B
10 slots are available for Input/Output Modules (IOM)
Each IOM can hold up to two Media Dependent Adapters (MDA)
Default configuration has no IOMs and MDAs provisioned, but has
one SFM provisoned in slot A. And system tells us that it feels IOM (
iom3-xp-b

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*A:ALU_R1# show card


===============================================================================
Card Summary
===============================================================================
Slot
Provisioned Type
Admin Operational
Comments
Equipped Type (if different)
State State
------------------------------------------------------------------------------1
(not provisioned)
up
unprovisioned
iom3-xp-b
A
sfm4-12
up
up/active
B
sfm4-12
up
down/standby
(not equipped)
===============================================================================

So, we have SFM which is Central Processing Module for control plane operations and IOM for data plane, but
IOM is not provisioned, fix it:
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*A:ALU_R1# configure card 1


*A:ALU_R1>config>card# card-type "iom3-xp-b"
*A:ALU_R1>config>card# mda 1 mda-type "m5-1gb-sfp-b"
*A:ALU_R1>config>card# info
---------------------------------------------card-type iom3-xp-b
mda 1
mda-type m5-1gb-sfp-b
no shutdown
exit
no shutdown
----------------------------------------------

This configuration emulates MDA with 5 Gigabit Ethernet ports in it, which means you can use ports from
1/1/1

to

1/1/5

You cant use more that 5 GE ports with current release of Virtual 7750 SR.

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Bring ports to life


If you try and configure some interfaces you would fail on the port binding procedure because your ports are in
admin down

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state:

*A:ALU_R1# show port


===============================================================================
Ports on Slot 1
===============================================================================
Port
Admin Link Port
Cfg Oper LAG/ Port Port Port
C/QS/S/XFP/
Id
State
State
MTU MTU Bndl Mode Encp Type
MDIMDX
------------------------------------------------------------------------------1/1/1
Down No
Down
8936 8936
- netw null xcme
GIGE-LX 10KM
1/1/2
Down No
Down
8936 8936
- netw null xcme
GIGE-LX 10KM
1/1/3
Down No
Down
8936 8936
- netw null xcme
GIGE-LX 10KM
1/1/4
Down No
Down
8936 8936
- netw null xcme
GIGE-LX 10KM
1/1/5
Down No
Down
8936 8936
- netw null xcme
GIGE-LX 10KM
===============================================================================

Time to resurrect them:


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*A:ALU_R1# configure port 1/1/[1..5] no shutdown


*A:ALU_R1# show port
===============================================================================
Ports on Slot 1
===============================================================================
Port
Admin Link Port
Cfg Oper LAG/ Port Port Port
C/QS/S/XFP/
Id
State
State
MTU MTU Bndl Mode Encp Type
MDIMDX
------------------------------------------------------------------------------1/1/1
Up
Yes Up
8936 8936
- netw null xcme
GIGE-LX 10KM
1/1/2
Up
Yes Up
8936 8936
- netw null xcme
GIGE-LX 10KM
1/1/3
Up
Yes Up
8936 8936
- netw null xcme
GIGE-LX 10KM
1/1/4
Up
Yes Up
8936 8936
- netw null xcme
GIGE-LX 10KM
1/1/5
Up
Yes Up
8936 8936
- netw null xcme
GIGE-LX 10KM
===============================================================================

Now you are ready to go!

Copy-Paste for a quick provisioning


Dont waste your time on routines, just copy this config and paste it to the booted routers CLI, and you are good
to go.
1 /configure card 1
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card-type iom3-xp-b
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mda 1
4
mda-type m5-1gb-sfp-b
5
no shutdown
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exit
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no shutdown
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exit
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10 /configure port 1/1/[1..5] no shutdown

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lukman prihandika a year ago

nice info UNL supporting vSR now, which version of timos did you try and is it supporting till last version
?
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> lukman prihandika a year ago

Both R12 and R13 are supported


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Kwame > Roman Dodin a year ago

Hi Roman: I've just added R13 and won't boot. I've R12 as well and working great. No
problems. Added R13 following exact procedures for R12.
/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/timos-12.0.R6/hda.qcow2
/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/timos-13.0.R6/hda.qcow2
Is there some special tweaks I need to do to make R13 work?
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> Kwame a year ago

Hi! Do you have any output from R13? Or all you see is just a black screen?
With R13 its necessary to have KVM and -enable-kvm option in timos.php
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Kwame > Roman Dodin a year ago

Here is what is see and looks like something to do with "x2apic is required":
Press any key to stop auto-boot...
0
auto-booting...
boot device : ata=0,2
unit number : 0
processor number : 0
host name : 0.0.0.0
file name : cf3:/timos/i386-boot.tim
ftp password (pw) : *****
flags (f) : 0x8
target name (tn) : vRR
startup script (s) : pl=1

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