Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide User Manual

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BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide

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Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP)

Enables Brocade devices to advertise themselves to other Brocade
devices on the network.

High Availability

OS Layer 2 Hitless Software Upgrade

Management Options

Serial and Telnet access to industry-standard Command Line
Interface (CLI)
SSHv2
TFTP
Web-based GUI
SNMP versions 1, 2, and 3
Brocade Network Advisor

Security

AAA Authentication
Local passwords
RADIUS
Secure Shell (SSH) version 2
Secure Copy (SCP)
TACACS and TACACS+
User accounts
802.1x: All EAP types, including MD5, TLS, TTLS, and PEAP
Multi-device port authentication
AES for SNMPv3, SSHv2, SCP, and HTTPS
Note:Telnet, SSH, Web and SNMP servers are disabled by default,
and can be enabled selectively.

CPU protection

On the BigIron RX device, broadcast, unknown-unicast and multicast
(BUM) traffic processing on MCT VLANs is handled by software due to
hardware limitations. To protect the CPU against BUM traffic in the
MCT configuration, software rate limits the BUM traffic that can be
forwarded to the CPU from hardware; therefore, the CPU is protected
from handlling too many packets.

SysLogD Server Logging

Multiple SysLogD server logging

sFlow

sFLow version 5

Uni-directional Link Detection (UDLD)

Monitors a link between two Brocade devices and brings the ports on
both ends of the link down if the link goes down at any point between
the two devices.

Layer 2 features

802.1d

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
and
Single Spanning Tree Protocol (SSTP)

802.1p

Quality of Service (QoS) queue mapping

802.1q

See VLANs, below

802.1s

Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)

802.1w

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)

802.3ad

Dynamic Link Aggregation on tagged and untagged trunks

Jumbo packets

Layer 2 jumbo packet support

TABLE 1

Supported features (Continued)