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1.The Brocade NetIron CES supports Provider Bridges as per IEEE 802.1ad, which supersedes SAV.
2.Refer to the Provider Bridging chapter for additional information.
NOTE
The Brocade NetIron CES devices support the Ethernet Service Instance (ESI) framework. A user
can configure ESIs in the process of configuring Provider Bridges and Provider Backbone Bridging.
By default, the device has a “default ESI” configured in which VLANs 1 - 4090 exist. This chapter
refers to configuration and use VLANs under the default ESI framework. For configuration of
user-defined ESIs, please refer to the ESI framework, which is described in the Ethernet Service
Instance (ESI) for Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER devices chapter.
A Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) lets you segment traffic in a network by placing ports and
interfaces into separate broadcast domains. Each broadcast domain is uniquely identified by a
VLAN ID. These broadcast domains can span multiple devices.
The Brocade device supports two types of VLANs: port-based VLANs and protocol-based VLANs. A
port-based VLAN consists of interfaces that constitute a Layer 2 broadcast domain. (Protocol-based
VLANs are described in
.) By default, all interfaces on a Brocade device are
members of the default VLAN, which is VLAN 1. Thus, by default, all interfaces on all devices on a
Hardware
Flooding for
Layer 2
Multicast and
Broadcast
Packets
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unicast Flooding
on VLAN Ports
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
VLAN CPU
Protection
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
VLAN
Accounting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Extended VLAN
counters
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Multi-port static
MAC address for
the CES/CER
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Transparent
VLAN Flooding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
TVF and PBR to
TVF LAG Load
Balancing
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
VLAN ID Range
1-4090
1-4090
1-4090
1-4090
1-4090
1-4090
1-4090
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Supported Brocade VLAN features (Continued)
Features
supported
Brocade
NetIron
XMR Series
Brocade
MLX Series
Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
BASE
package
Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
ME_PREM
package
Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
L3_PREM
package
Brocade
NetIron CER
2000 Series
Base
package
Brocade
NetIron CER
2000 Series
Advanced
Services
package