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Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide User Manual

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True Remote Console

The new rconsole feature provides a true
connection to the MP/LP console port. While the
old session-based rconsole is a remote X-Window
which is connected to one of the windows on the
target system, the new rconsole is a remote
desktop.

N/A

Limited/Fixed Boot Code

Book: Foundry BigIron RX
Configuration Guide

Layer 1 features

New Optics Support

The SFP-compliant E1MG-TX fiber-optic module now
supports speeds of 10/100/1000.

Book: Brocade BigIron RX
Series Hardware
Installation Guide

UDLD Start-up Mode

In this release, after UDLD is enabled on a port,
UDLD can be configured to be kept in a newly
created suspended state until it receives its first
keep-alive message from the other end.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring

Uni-Directional Link
Detection”

Multicast, Broadcast, and
Unknown Unicast Rate
Limiting per Module

This release introduces a new hardware (module)
based Multicast/Broadcast/Unknown Unicast
Rate-Limiting for both CPU based flooding and
Hardware based flooding.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring

Traffic Reduction”

Section:

“NP based

multicast, broadcast, and
unknown-unicast rate
limiting”

Link Layer Discovery Protocol
(LLDP)

Beginning with release 02.7.00, Link Layer
Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is supported. This
protocol enables a station to advertise its
capabilities to, and to discover other LLDP-enabled
stations in the same 802.1AB LAN segments.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring

LLDP”

CLI Change

To globally enable MAC port security, the
global-port security command has been added. The
port security command is now only used when
configuring MAC port security on specific interfaces.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Using the MAC

Port Security Feature
and Transparent Port Flood
ing”

Section:

“Enabling the MAC

Port Security feature”

Network management

DHCP Relay Enhancement

Beginning with this release, the IP subnet
configured on the port which is directly connected
to the device sending a BootP/DHCP request, does
not have to match the subnet of the IP address
given by the DHCP server.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP”

Section:

“Configuring

BootP/DHCP forwarding
parameters”

TABLE 8

Summary of enhancements in release 02.7.00 (Continued)

Enhancement

Description

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