Table Of Contents
Apollo Domain Configuration Task List
Configuring Apollo Domain Routing
Enabling Apollo Domain Routing
Enabling Apollo Domain Routing on an Interface
Enabling Concurrent Routing and Bridging
Controlling Access to the Apollo Domain Network
Tuning Apollo Domain Network Performance
Setting Routing Table Update Timers
Configuring Apollo Domain over WANs
Monitoring the Apollo Domain Network
Apollo Domain Configuration Examples
Routing Table Update Timer Example
Configuring Apollo Domain
The Apollo Domain routing protocol is the native-mode networking protocol for Apollo workstations. This chapter describes how to configure Apollo Domain routing and provides configuration examples. For a complete description of the Apollo Domain commands discussed in this chapter, refer to the "Apollo Domain Commands" chapter in the Cisco IOS Apollo Domain, Banyan VINES, DECnet, ISO CLNS, and XNS Command Reference publication. To locate documentation of other commands that appear in this chapter, use the command reference master index or search online.
To identify the hardware platform or software image information associated with a feature, use the Feature Navigator on Cisco.com to search for information about the feature or refer to the software release notes for a specific release. For more information, see the "Identifying Supported Platforms" section in the "Using Cisco IOS Software" chapter.
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The Apollo Domain networking protocol will no longer be offered after Cisco IOS Release 12.2. Information about this protocol will not appear in future releases of the Cisco IOS software documentation set.
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Apollo Domain Addresses
Apollo Domain network addresses are 32-bit quantities represented in hexadecimal numbers in the format network.host. Each host has a single address that is used for all its network connections.
The network number is a 12-bit number, expressed in hexadecimal, that identifies a physical network. Network numbers must be unique throughout an Apollo Domain internetwork.
The host number is a 20-bit quantity expressed in hexadecimal. An Apollo Domain host can have interfaces on more than one physical network (Ethernet, Domain Token Ring, serial line, and so on).
For the network address 5fe.1293c in Figure 2, 5fe identifies a physical network and 1293c identifies a host.
Figure 2 Apollo Domain Addresses
Apollo Domain Configuration Task List
To configure Apollo Domain routing, perform the tasks in the following sections:
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See the "Apollo Domain Configuration Examples" section at the end of this chapter for configuration examples.
Configuring Apollo Domain Routing
You configure Apollo Domain routing by first enabling it on the router and then configuring it on each interface.
To configure the Apollo Domain routing protocol, perform the tasks in the following sections:
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Enabling Apollo Domain Routing
To enable Apollo Domain routing, use the following command in global configuration mode:
For an example of how to enable Apollo Domain routing, see the "Apollo Domain Routing Example" section at the end of this chapter.
Enabling Apollo Domain Routing on an Interface
To enable Apollo Domain routing on an interface, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
Router(config-if)# Router(config-if)# apollo network number
Enables Apollo Domain routing on an interface.
For an example of how to enable Apollo Domain routing, see the "Apollo Domain Routing Example" section at the end of this chapter.
Enabling Concurrent Routing and Bridging
You can route Apollo Domain on some interfaces and transparently bridge it on other interfaces simultaneously. To enable this type of routing, you must enable concurrent routing and bridging. To configure an interface for concurrent routing and bridging, you use the bridge crb command to enable concurrent routing and bridging on the router.
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To enable concurrent routing and bridging, use the following command in global configuration mode:
Controlling Access to the Apollo Domain Network
To control access to Apollo Domain networks, you create access lists and then apply them to individual interfaces. Apollo Domain access lists control access based on a range of network numbers. The conditions defined in access lists are applied to outgoing routed packets.
Remember the following when you configure Apollo Domain network access control:
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To create an access list, use the following command in global configuration mode:
Router(config)# apollo access-list access-list-name {deny | permit} [firstnet-]lastnet.host [wildcard-mask]
Creates an Apollo Domain access list.
To apply an access list to an interface and activate it on that interface, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
Router(config-if)# apollo access-group access-list-name
Applies an access list name to an interface.
For an example of creating and applying an access list, see the "Access List Example" section at the end of this chapter.
To display the filters defined on an interface, use the show apollo interface command.
Tuning Apollo Domain Network Performance
To tune Apollo Domain network performance, perform one or more of the following tasks:
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Configuring Static Routes
Cisco IOS software uses metrics to determine the best path over which packets should be sent. However, you may want to add static routes to the routing table to explicitly specify paths to certain destinations. Static routes always override any paths determined by metrics.
Be careful when assigning static routes. When links associated with static routes are lost, traffic may stop being forwarded, or traffic may be forwarded to a nonexistent destination, even though an alternative path might be available.
To add a static route to Cisco IOS software routing table, use the following command in global configuration mode:
Router(config)# apollo route destination-network network.host
Adds a static route to the routing table.
Setting Routing Table Update Timers
You can set how often the entries in the routing table are updated. Note, however, that you should set this interval only in a configuration in which all routers are Cisco routers.
To set how often the entries in the routing table are updated, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
Router(config-if)# apollo update-time interval
Sets the interval after which the routing table should be updated.
For an example of setting routing table update timers, see the "Routing Table Update Timer Example" section at the end of this chapter.
Setting the Maximum Paths
You can set the maximum number of equal-cost, parallel paths to a destination. (Note that when paths have differing costs, Cisco IOS software chooses lower-cost routes in preference to higher-cost routes.) The software distributes output on a packet-by-packet basis in round-robin fashion. That is, the first packet is sent along the first path, the second packet along the second path, and so on. If the final path is reached before all packets are sent, the next packet is sent to the first path, the next to the second path, and so on. This round-robin scheme is used regardless of whether fast switching is enabled.
Limiting the number of equal-cost paths can save memory on routers with limited memory or very large configurations. Additionally, in networks with a large number of multiple paths and systems with limited ability to cache out-of-sequence packets, performance might suffer when traffic is split between many paths.
To set the maximum number of paths, use the following command in global configuration mode:
Router(config)# apollo maximum-paths paths
Sets the maximum number of equal-cost paths to a destination.
For an example of setting the maximum number of equal-cost, parallel paths to a destination, see the section "Apollo Domain Routing Example" later in this chapter.
Configuring Apollo Domain over WANs
You can configure Apollo Domain over X.25 networks by configuring the appropriate address mappings as described in the "Configuring X.25 and LAPB" chapter in the Cisco IOS Wide-Area Networking Configuration Guide.
Monitoring the Apollo Domain Network
To monitor an Apollo Domain network, use one or more of the following commands in EXEC mode:
Apollo Domain Configuration Examples
For help in configuring Apollo Domain routing, use the configuration examples in the following sections:
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Apollo Domain Routing Example
The following example shows how to configure Apollo Domain routing on a router with two Ethernet interfaces. The first set of commands does the following:
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Create an access list called doc that denies access to networks 2a through 2f, and apply this access list to Ethernet interface 1. In this example, packets destined for these networks that are sent out Ethernet interface 1 will be blocked.
apollo routing 23d5ainterface ethernet 0apollo network 5finterface ethernet 1apollo network 4e!apollo route 35 23d5aapollo maximum-paths 4interface ethernet 0apollo update-time 40apollo access-list doc deny 2a-2finterface ethernet 1apollo access-group docAccess List Example
The following example shows how to create an Apollo Domain access list and applies it to Ethernet interface 0. In this example, the first line denies access to networks 3a through 3f, the second line denies access to the host 5fe.1293.c, and the third line permits access to all other networks and hosts. The access list conditions will be applied to all routed packets going out Ethernet interface 0.
apollo access-list eng deny 3a-3f.0 ffffapollo access-list eng deny 5fe.1293capollo access-list eng permit -1.0 ffff!interface ethernet 0apollo access-group engRouting Table Update Timer Example
The following example shows how to set the update timers on two interfaces in the router. The update timer granularity would be 20 seconds, because this is the lowest value specified.
interface serial 0apollo update-time 40interface ethernet 0apollo update-time 20interface ethernet 1apollo update-time 25
