Labnario Huawei From Scratch

Huawei ATN950B routers are designed and intended for Metropolitan Area Networks. They are relatively new devices and often used in IP RAN solutions for 2G, 3G and LTE.

But I would not like to describe this product. Let’s focus on console cable for ATN950B.

Let’s imagine you have such router, power it on and try to connect to console port. And … nothing …, no any prompt. A standard console cable, you used for NE40E or CX600, does not work.

Do not panic, do it yourself using standard console cable. How to do this? Look below:

And after the holidays …

We can bring up a subject of 10GE interfaces on Huawei CX600-X1-X2 platform. The short subject but can be useful.

Let’s imagine that you have NPUI board installed on the router:

<CX600>display elabel 1

BoardType=CX67NPUI20
Item=03030MDQ
Description=CX600,CX67NPUI20,Network Processing Unit Integrated with 2-Port 10GBase LAN/WAN-XFP

SCP is a secure file transfer, based on SSH2.0, which supports downloading and uploading files between SCP client and server, in batches as well. If you would like to know more, just visit Huawei support website. I will focus on practice and show this feature, using simple lab:

Configure communication between loopback interfaces of the server and the client. Below the SCP_server as an example. As this is a simple topology, I used RIP protocol for communication (long unused by me):

#
sysname SCP_server
#
vlan batch 100
#
interface Vlanif100
 ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
#
interface MEth0/0/1
#
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
 port link-type trunk
 port trunk allow-pass vlan 100
#
interface LoopBack0
 ip address 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.255
#
rip 1
 network 10.0.0.0
 network 1.0.0.0
#

How to filter advertised and received routes on Huawei router?

Let’s try to check it based on the following topology:

1. Configure basic OSPF functions on all routers.
2. Configure static routes on AR1 router and import them to OSPF.
3. Use filter-policy for advertised routes on AR1.
4. Use filter-policy for received routes on AR3.

A new version of Huawei simulator eNSP has been released. One of new features is AR CPU reduction. Besides that, reboot functionality of AR router has been provided. Also a few features have been modified. All information you can find in a release notes for this version.

Download, test and enjoy!