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FAQs

                Answers to commonly asked questions about BriLAN

 What, Why, How....

About BriLAN

1. What is BriLAN NOS?

2. What are the functions supported by BriLAN NOS?

3. What is the current version of BriLAN ?

4. Which hardware  interfaces are supported by BriLAN NOS?

5. What are the hardware requirements for BriLAN based devices ?

Compatibility

1. IEEE standards implemented in BriLAN NOS ?

2. How secure is  the transmition of Management data ?

3. Which protocols are supported within BriLAN for remote communication?

About BriLAN

A.1 What is BriLAN ?
 BriLAN is software, which turns a common PC hardware based devices with  at least  two supported network interfaces into fully manageable multiport network device. Part of the package is BriLAN NMS - management software for remote on-line monitoring and management. BriLAN is one of the first all-in one multipurpose network administering and management suite:

• top speed and efficiency,
• continuous network monitoring with selectable alarm levels,
• graphical network traffic trend analysis down to node level,
• uninterrupted network history logging
• wide scale security filtering,
• user management,
• support for variety of wireless and wired Interfaces

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A.2 What are the functions supported by BriLAN NOS ?
BriLAN NOS supports following functions:

• Bridging

• Routing

• Switching

• Multiplexing

• Bandwidth Management

• Firewall (on MAC and IP level)

• Prioritization of the packets (Quality of Service)

• Wireless Point-to-Point.

• Wireless Point-to-Multipoint

• Wireless Access Point

• Support for Radius Authentication and Accounting

• Analog Voice line extension (extension of the analog phone lines over data networks)

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A.3 What is the current version of BriLAN ?
The current available version of BriLAN NOS is 4.81 and BriLAN NMS 1.7.0.4

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A.5 Which hardware  interfaces are supported by BriLAN?

Ethernet and Fast Ethernet interfaces

 Asynchronous interfaces

Synchronous interfaces

Wireless Ethernet interfaces

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A.9 What are the hardware requirements for BriLAN bridges ?
 

Motherboard, BIOS, CPU, Memory, Ports and Storage Media

-       Motherboard: standard PC AT type or higher with the support for 32-bit OS

-       BIOS: support for plug-and-play OS required

-       CPU: Intel compatible (Intel, AMD) - 80386 or higher (depends on required    performance)  [min. 4x86, 100 MHz recommended]

 -       RAM: min. 8 MB

 -       Boot media: DiskOnChip, IDE Flash Disk,  FDD or HDD to boot up the system with at least 1.4 MB. (DiskOnChip min. 2 Mb recommended to avoid problems with mechanical parts - FDD or HDD)

 -       Ports:

Serial port (RS 232) - used as console port for setting-up the device properties

and  for HW key (software licensing and security)

Note: When minimum hardware is used (no keyboard, no HDD, no VGA nor monitor) appropriate BIOS support  is necessary, which means there should be possibility to switch off  boot error checking.

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    Compatibility

c1IEEE standards implemented in BriLAN ?

• Ethernet 802.3 and 802.3 u - with „store and forward" algorithm and 256kB internal shared buffer.

•  802.11 is supported for wireless communication. 

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c2How secure is transmition of management data?
 Highly secure. The communication between  the BriLAN based devices and the  management station is encrypted.

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c3 Which protocols are supported in BriLAN for remote communication?
 BriLAN based devices are remotely managed using PC station with BriLAN NMS (Network Management System) installed. Highly encrypted - proprietary  protocol is used for communication.

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