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There are two interface backup modes:

1. Active/standby
2. Load balancing

In common active/standby mode only one interface transmit services at any time. When active interface works properly, it transmit all the traffic. In case of fault of the primary interface, a backup interface with the highest priority starts transmitting packets. If primary interface recovers, traffic is switched back to active interface.

In load balancing mode, in case traffic volume exceeds an upper threshold set for active interface, a backup interface with the highest priority starts transmitting packets and load balancing is performed.

Which mode we have is determined by upper and lower thresholds. If thresholds are not set, active/standby mode is used. Otherwise, load balancing mode is used.

Let’s assume that we have the following topology:

As you already know you can assign a different privilege level for each user, configured on a Huawei device. How to configure local user and how to access Huawei device you can read in one of my previous posts.

user privilege level

Today I want to focus on the privilege level of local user. Each year lots of accidents in IP networks are caused by inexperienced employees. We can decrease the number of such accidents setting privilege level for local users, logging into network devices. Setting a lower privilege level for such employees increases networks’ safety. For more experienced engineers  we can either configure higher privilege level or set a super password, to let them to perform advanced operation.

Let’s assume that we have created a local user with the lowest priority:

#
local-user labnario password cipher &EU15O"Q3/;Q=^Q`MAF4<1!!
 local-user labnario service-type telnet
 local-user labnario level 0
#

If you want to look into packets sent or received by a router, and there is no possible to display them by command, the simplest and fastest way is to use mirroring. Unfortunately, in case of AR routers, you have to go on-site to connect packets’ analyser (for example Wireshark). Comparing to NE routers, AR routers do not support remote mirroring.

There are two types of mirroring on AR routers:

• port mirroring

Port mirroring is to copy all packets from mirroring port to another port, which is called monitor port. Monitor port is that where a monitoring device is connected to. AR routers support local port mirroring for inbound and outbound direction.

• traffic mirroring

Traffic mirroring is to copy specified packets, by QoS policy, to a specific destination and send them to an interface for analysis. Traffic mirroring is supported on AR29 and AR49 routers.

What is NQA?

It is a feature that functions above link layer to measure performance of protocols running at the network layer, transport layer and application layer. It is useful to monitor network and locate faults occurring in the network. NQA can accurately test the network and collect statistics as well. You can configure and display NQA statistics through CLI but, as NQA is fully supported by Huawei NMS, you can also do this in GUI.

Most of Huawei devices support NQA but configuration can vary a little bit between NE routers, AR routers and switches. Of course we can perform more advanced test on carrier class devices. In this post we will focus on CLI and use CX600 router as an example.

NQA tests supported by CX600:

• • ICMP test
  • DHCP test
  • FTP test
  • HTTP test
  • DNS test
  • Traceroute test
  • SNMP test
  • TCP test
  • UDP test
  • ICMP Jitter test
  • UDP Jitter test
  • LSP Ping test
  • LSP Traceroute test
  • LSP Jitter test

reset recycle-bin

Sometimes new engineers, not familiar with Huawei devices, complain that there is not enough space in flash to upload a new software by FTP. The reason of it is that files from flash haven’t been deleted permanently from the memory. They use “delete name of file” command to delete files. Actually this command causes that deleted file is moved to recycle bin and “dir” command does not display it in flash, but it still occupies memory of flash. To display all files stored in flash you should use “dir /all” command.

<labnario>dir
Directory of flash:/
1  -rw-     12017319  Jan 19 2012 17:30:51   labnario.bin
2  -rw-     12017553  Aug 12 2008 18:02:39   ar28-vrp340-r0201p20.bin
3  -rw-         9018  Dec 05 2011 16:22:11   config.cfg

31877 KB total ( 7843 KB free)

Look what will happen if we use “delete labnario.bin” command:

<labnario>delete labnario.bin
Delete flash:/labnario.bin?[Y/N]:y
...
%Delete file flash:/labnario.bin...Done.