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Brocade FastIron Ethernet Switch Platform and Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide User Manual

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Contents

Preface...................................................................................................................................11

Document conventions....................................................................................11

Text formatting conventions................................................................ 11
Command syntax conventions............................................................ 11
Notes, cautions, and warnings............................................................ 12

Brocade resources.......................................................................................... 13
Contacting Brocade Technical Support...........................................................13
Document feedback........................................................................................ 14

About This Document.............................................................................................................. 15

What’s new in this document.......................................................................... 15
Supported Hardware....................................................................................... 15
How command information is presented in this guide.....................................16

Basic Layer 2 Features ........................................................................................................... 17

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

Static MAC entry configuration........................................................................23

Multi-port static MAC address............................................................. 24

VLAN-based static MAC entries configuration................................................ 24

Configuring a VLAN to drop static MAC entries.................................. 25

Clearing MAC address entries........................................................................ 25
Flow-based MAC address learning................................................................. 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

Enabling port-based VLANs............................................................................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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