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Chapter
9
Management VRF
Table 67 displays the individual devices and the management Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
features they support.
Management VRF overview
The management VRF is used to provide secure management access to the device by sending
inbound and outbound management traffic through the VRF specified as a global management
VRF and through the out-of-band management port, thereby isolating management traffic from the
network data traffic.
By default, the inbound traffic is unaware of VRF and allows incoming packets from any VRF,
including the default VRF. The outbound traffic is only through the default VRF. The default VRF
consists of out-of-band management port and all the LP ports that do not belong to any other VRFs.
Any VRF, except the default VRF, can be configured as a management VRF. When a management
VRF is configured, the management traffic is allowed through the ports belonging to the specified
VRF and the out-of-band management port. The management traffic through the ports belonging to
the other VRFs and the default VRF are dropped and the rejection statistics are incremented.
If the management VRF is not configured, the management applications will follow the default
behavior. The management VRF configuration is applicable for both IPv4 and IPv6 management
traffic.
NOTE
The IPv6 management VRF is not supported on Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER
devices.
The management VRF is supported by the following management applications:
TABLE 67 Supported NetIron management Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) features
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
IPv4 management
VRF Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 management
VRF Yes Yes No No No No No
Configuring
Management
Interface under a
user defined VRF Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes