lii BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide
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Digital Optical Monitoring Beginning with release 0 2.6.00, Digital Optical
Monitoring will only support newly qualified
1Gigabit optics. Digital Optical Monitoring for
previous 1Gigabit optics that do not include "OM"
after the model numbers will not be able to use this
feature.
Book: Brocade BigIron RX
Series Installation Guide
Chapter: Connecting a
BigIron RX Series Switch
to a Network Device
Section:Digital Optical
Monitoring
BFD for IS-IS, OSPFv2 and
OSPF v3
BigIron RX provides support for Bidirectional
Forwarding Detection (BFD) in Version 02.6.00 of
the Multi-Service IronWare software.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “BiDirectional
Forwarding Detection
(BFD)”
LACP Continous Fast Timer In a dynamic or keep-alive LAG, a port's timeout can
be configured as short or long
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Link
Aggregation”
Section: “Configuring an
LACP timeout”
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
TABLE 7 Summary of enhancements in release 02.6.00 (Continued)
Enhancement Description See page
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