Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide - Manual (Page 66)

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Layer 2 enhancements
Enhanced Digital
Optical Monitoring You can configure the BigIron RX to monitor XFPs and SFPs in
the system either globally or by specified port. Book: Brocade BigIron RX
Series Hardware
Installation Guide
Chapter: Connecting a
BigIron RX Series Switch
to a Network Device
Section: Enhanced Digital
Optical Monitoring
Re-distributing CAM
Allocations In releases prior to 02.3.00, CAM partitioning was not
configurable. Starting in BigIron RX software release 02.3.00,
you can specify the CAM assigned to each of the CAM entry
types globally. Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
“Configuring
Basic Parameters”
Section: “Re-distributing
CAM allocations”
Enhanced SFM
(power-off)
command You can disable power to a specified switch fabric module and
then reenable it. Book: Brocade BigIron RX
Series Hardware
Installation Guide
Chapter: Managing the
BigIron RX Series Chassis
and Modules
Section: Disabling and
Reenabling Power to the
Switch Fabric Modules
Enhanced
speed-duplex
command In this release, the speed-duplex command has been
enhanced to include the master and slave parameters. Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
“Configuring
Interface Parameters”
Section: “Speed/Duplex
negotiation”
TABLE 17 Layer 2 enhancements
Enhancement Description See...
Flow based MAC Learning In this release, the cpu-flooding unknown-unicast
command that disables hardware flooding of
unknown unicast on every VLAN has been added.
This will allow MAC learning only where necessary
and at a system level to allow more than 16k MACs. Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
“VLANs”
Section: “Flow based
MAC learning”
TABLE 16 System enhancements (Continued)
Enhancement Description See...