Brocade Communications Systems Brocate Ethernet Access Switch 6910 - Manual (Page 54)

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Description of Software Features
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Description of Software Features
The switch provides a wide range of advanced performance enhancing features. Flow control
eliminates the loss of packets due to bottlenecks caused by port saturation. Broadcast storm
suppression prevents broadcast traffic storms from engulfing the network. Untagged (port-based),
tagged, and protocol-based VLANs, plus support for automatic GVRP VLAN registration provide
traffic security and efficient use of network bandwidth. CoS priority queueing ensures the minimum
delay for moving real-time multimedia data across the network. While multicast filtering provides
support for real-time network applications.
Some of the management features are briefly described below.
Configuration
Backup and
Restore
You can save the current configuration settings to a file on the management station (using the web
interface) or an FTP/SFTP/TFTP server (using the web or console interface), and later download
this file to restore the switch configuration settings.
Port Mirroring 8 sessions, one or more source ports to one analysis port
Congestion Control Rate Limiting
Throttling for broadcast, multicast, unknown unicast storms
Random Early Detection
Address Table 16K MAC addresses in the forwarding table, 1K static MAC addresses,
1K L2 multicast groups
IP Version 4 and 6 Supports IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and management
IEEE 802.1D Bridge Supports dynamic data switching and addresses learning
Store-and-Forward
Switching Supported to ensure wire-speed switching while eliminating bad frames
Spanning Tree Algorithm Supports standard STP, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), and Multiple Spanning
Trees (MSTP)
Virtual LANs Up to 4093 using IEEE 802.1Q, port-based, protocol-based, private VLANs,
voice VLANs, and QinQ tunnel
Traffic Prioritization Default port priority, traffic class map, queue scheduling, IP Precedence, or
Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
Qualify of Service Supports Differentiated Services (DiffServ)
Link Layer Discovery
Protocol Used to discover basic information about neighboring devices
Multicast Filtering Supports IGMP snooping and query, and Multicast VLAN Registration
Connectivity Fault
Management Connectivity monitoring using continuity check messages, fault verification through
loop back messages, and fault isolation by examining end-to-end connections
(IEEE 802.1ag)
ERPS Supports Ethernet Ring Protection Switching for increased availability of Ethernet rings
(G.8032)
IP Routing Static routes
Ethernet OAM Supports OAM functions for attached CPEs (IEEE 802.3ah, ITU-T Y.1731)
TABLE 1 Key Features (Continued)
Feature Description