IBM ZG09-0629 - Manual (Page 14)

IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Hardware Announcement ZG09-0629
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Brunei Malawi Serbia Myanmar (Burma)
Burundi Maldives Somalia Papua New Guinea
Cameroon Mali Suriname
Chad Mauritania Tanzania Sierra Leone
Djibouti Moldavia Togo United Arab Emirates
Eritrea Mongolia Uganda Wallis and Futuna
Ethiopia Montenegro Venezuela West Bank
Gabon Mozambique Yemen South Africa
Gambia Nepal Zambia Tajikistan
Ghana Nicaragua Kazakhstan Turkmenistan
Armenia China Kyrgyzstan Ukraine
Azerbaijan Georgia Lebanon Uzbekistan
Cambodia Iraq Mexico Vietnam
In Japan, customers need to notify their telecommunication service provider of
their intent to attach any of the networking products in this announcement to the
public telephone network. Such notification should include a detailed description
of the product to be used, date and time of installation, and a completed public
telecommunications networks service request form.
Hardware requirements
Supported servers
The IBM Ethernet Switches B04R, B08R, B16R, and B32R are designed to support
network connectivity for the following servers:
• IBM System z® servers
• IBM Power® Systems
• IBM System p® servers
• IBM System i® servers
• IBM System x® servers
Software requirements
Compatibility
The IBM Ethernet Switch B04R, B08R, B16R, and B32R supports the following
features:
IEEE
• IEEE 802.3ae 10-Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
• IEEE 802.1D Bridging
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid STP
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
• IEEE 802.1X User authentication
• IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Like MIB
BGP-4
• RFC 4271 BGPv4
• RFC 1745 OSPF interactions
• RFC 1997 Communities & Attributes
• RFC 2439 route flap dampening
• RFC 2796 route reflection