Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide User Manual

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BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide

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Rate Limiting ARP Packets

This new feature allows you to rate-limit ARP traffic
that is destined for CPU of the BigIron RX router.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP”

Section:

“Applying a rate

limit to ARP packets on an
interface”

Layer 2 features

VSRP Fast Start

Non-Brocade or non-VSRP aware devices connected
to a VSRP master can now quickly switch over to the
new master when a VSRP failover occurs.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Virtual Switch

Redundancy Protocol
(VSRP)”

Section:

“VSRP fast start”

LACP Enhancements

Beginning with release 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service
IronWare software, all trunking and link aggegation
configuration has been revamped and placed under
a single interface. This new interface allows you to
configure either of the previously supported LAG
types: Static LAGs and Dynamic LAGs as well as the
new “Keep Alive” LAGs.
The new LAG configuration procedures supersede
the previous configurations procedures for Trunks
and Dynamic Link Aggregation.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Link

Aggregation”

Multicast Layer 2 Filter

Beginning with release 02.6.00, you can define
multicast boundaries on a per VLAN basis.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Protocols”

Section:

“Layer 2 multicast

filters”

Layer 3 features

IPv6 PIM-SM

In Release 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service IronWare
software, the BigIron RX supports IPv6 Protocol
Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse. IPv6 PIM
Sparse provides multicasting that is especially
suitable for widely distributed multicast
environments

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IPv6

Multicast Features”

Section:

“IPv6 PIM-sparse

mode”

IPv6 Embedded RP

This release supports Embedded RP which allows
the switch to learn RP information using the
multicast group destination address instead of the
statically configured RP.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IPv6

Multicast Features”

Section:

“Embedded

Rendezvous Point (RP)”

IPv4 PIM Snooping

PIM SM traffic snooping eliminates the superfluous
traffic by configuring the device to forward IP
multicast group traffic only on the ports that are
attached to receivers for the group

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Protocols”

Section:

“PIM SM traffic

snooping”

TABLE 9

Summary of enhancements in release 02.6.00 (Continued)

Enhancement

Description

See page

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