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Enhancements in release 02.7.00
TABLE 6 Summary of enhancements in release 02.7.00
Enhancement Description See page
True Remote Console  The new rconsole feature provides a true 
connection to the MP/LP console port. While the 
old session-based rconsole is a remote X-Window 
which is connected  to one of the windows on the 
target system, the new rconsole is a remote 
desktop.
N/A
Limited/Fixed Boot Code Book: Foundry BigIron RX 
Configuration Guide
Chapter: 
Section:
True Remote Console  The new rconsole feature provides a true 
connection to the MP/LP console port. While the 
old session-based rconsole is a remote X-Window 
which is connected  to one of the windows on the 
target system, the new rconsole is a remote 
desktop.
N/A
Limited/Fixed Boot Code Book: Foundry BigIron RX 
Configuration Guide
Chapter: 
Section:
Layer 1 features
New Optics Support The SFP-compliant E1MG-TX fiber-optic module now 
supports speeds of 10/100/1000.
Book: Brocade BigIron RX 
Series Installation Guide
UDLD Start-up Mode In this release, after UDLD is enabled on a port, 
UDLD can be configured to be kept in a newly 
created suspended state until it receives its first 
keep-alive message from the other end. 
Book: BigIron RX Series 
Configuration Guide
Chapter:“Configuring 
Uni-Directional Link 
Detection (UDLD)”
Multicast, Broadcast, and 
Unknown Unicast Rate 
Limiting per Module
This release introduces a new hardware (module) 
based Multicast/Broadcast/Unknown Unicast 
Rate-Limiting for both CPU based flooding and 
Hardware based flooding.
Book: BigIron RX Series 
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Configuring 
Traffic Reduction”
Section: “NP based 
multicast, broadcast, and 
unknown-unicast  rate 
limiting”
Link Layer Discovery Protocol 
(LLDP)
Beginning with release 02.7.00, Link Layer 
Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is supported. This 
protocol enables a station to advertise its 
capabilities to, and to discover other LLDP-enabled 
stations in the same 802.1AB LAN segments.
Book: BigIron RX Series 
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Configuring 
LLDP”