Brocade FastIron Ethernet Switch Feature and RFC Support Matrix - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................5
Document history.............................................................................................. 5
Objective........................................................................................................... 5
Administration Features............................................................................................................ 7
Basic software features.....................................................................................7
Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP) and Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
packets........................................................................................................ 9
Hardware component monitoring...................................................................... 9
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and Link Layer Discovery
Protocol-Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED) ......................................9
Management applications .............................................................................. 10
Network monitoring......................................................................................... 10
Operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM)..................................... 11
Power over Ethernet (PoE) ............................................................................ 12
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) ............................................ 13
System monitoring ......................................................................................... 13
Software-based licensing................................................................................ 13
IPv6................................................................................................................. 14
Syslog ............................................................................................................ 14
IP Multicast Features.............................................................................................................. 17
IPv4 Multicast routing......................................................................................17
IP Multicast traffic reduction............................................................................ 18
Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) ............................................................... 18
IPv6 Multicast..................................................................................................19
Platform and Layer 2 Switching Features................................................................................. 21
Basic Layer 2.................................................................................................. 21
GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) ...................................................22
Metro features ................................................................................................ 22
Multi-Chassis Trunking (MCT)........................................................................ 23
Port mirroring and monitoring .........................................................................24
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)........................................................................ 24
Link Aggregation ............................................................................................ 25
Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD) and protected link groups ................... 25
Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) ............................................................ 26
VXLAN............................................................................................................ 27
Layer 3 Routing Features.........................................................................................................29
Layer 3 routing protocols ................................................................................29
Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP4)................................................... 30
Border Gateway Protocol version 4 plus (BGP4+)..........................................31
IP configuration............................................................................................... 32
IPv6 configuration .......................................................................................... 33
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Protocol Version 2..................................... 34
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