Enhancements in release 02.2.00 – Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide User Manual
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Enhancements in release 02.2.00
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Summary of emhancements in 02.2.00
Enhancement
Description
See page
Quality of Service (QoS)
Support
QoS support on the BigIron RX is different than for the
BigIron MG8.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
Rate-limiting Support
Rate-limiting can be performed based on ACL matching of
flows and L2/L3 priority. It operates as on the BigIron
MG8 except:
•
Only Inbound rate limiting is supported.
•
802.1p packet priority is used by default
•
Rate limit accounting is available if WRED is not
enabled.
CLI changes required for these differences are described
in the page referenced on the next column.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
Hardware Forwarding of
Packets
Default behavior on BigIron RX is hardware unknown
unicast and multicast flooding.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
Section:
flooding for Layer 2
multicast and broadcast
packets”
802.1s Multiple Spanning
Tree Protocol (MSTP)
Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) as defined in IEEE
802.1s-2002 allows you to configure multiple STP
instances.
Switching and Routing
Packets
Operation of packet switching and routing have changed
with the BigIron RX. Details are described in the page
referenced on the next column.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
Section:
unicast flooding on VLAN
ports”
No Support for Core
Device to Copy the QoS
Priority
This feature is not supported on BigIron RX.
N/A
Trunk Support
On the BigIron RX, the switch, server, and per-packet
options for trunking are not supported.
N/A
Multicast Entry Limit
1542 multicast entries are limited to IPv4 1542 entries
provided every group has only one destination.
N/A
WAN PHY Mode Support
This release supports WAN PHY Mode per 10 GB Ethernet
port.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
Section: