Brocade FastIron Ethernet Switch Platform and Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide User Manual
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Contents
Text formatting conventions................................................................ 11
Command syntax conventions............................................................ 11
Notes, cautions, and warnings............................................................ 12
Brocade resources.......................................................................................... 13
Contacting Brocade Technical Support...........................................................13
Document feedback........................................................................................ 14
What’s new in this document.......................................................................... 15
Supported Hardware....................................................................................... 15
How command information is presented in this guide.....................................16
Supported basic Layer 2 features................................................................... 17
About port regions...........................................................................................19
FastIron X Series device port regions................................................. 19
FCX device port regions......................................................................19
ICX 6610 device port regions..............................................................19
ICX 6430 device port regions..............................................................20
ICX 6450 device port regions..............................................................20
ICX 6650 device port regions..............................................................20
ICX 7750 device port regions..............................................................20
Enabling or disabling the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)................................20
Modifying STP bridge and port parameters........................................ 21
Management MAC address for stackable devices..........................................21
MAC learning rate control............................................................................... 21
Changing the MAC age time and disabling MAC address learning................ 22
Disabling the automatic learning of MAC addresses.......................... 22
Displaying the MAC address table...................................................... 23
Multi-port static MAC address............................................................. 24
VLAN-based static MAC entries configuration................................................ 24
Configuring a VLAN to drop static MAC entries.................................. 25
Flow-based learning overview.............................................................26
Flow-based learning configuration considerations.............................. 27
Configuring flow-based MAC address learning...................................27
Displaying information about flow-based MACs..................................28
Clearing flow-based MAC address entries..........................................29
Assigning IEEE 802.1Q tagging to a port............................................30
Defining MAC address filters...........................................................................30
Monitoring MAC address movement...............................................................31
Configuring the MAC address movement threshold rate.................... 31
Viewing the MAC address movement threshold rate configuration.... 32
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