Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide - Manual (Page 55)

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Rate Limiting ARP Packets This new feature allows you to rate-limit ARP traffic
that is destined for CPU of the BigIron RX router. Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
“Configuring IP”
Section: “Applying a rate
limit to ARP packets on an
interface”
Layer 2 features
VSRP Fast Start Non-Brocade or non-VSRP aware devices connected
to a VSRP master can now quickly switch over to the
new master when a VSRP failover occurs. Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
“Virtual Switch
Redundancy Protocol
(VSRP)”
Section: “VSRP fast start”
LACP Enhancements Beginning with release 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service
IronWare software, all trunking and link aggegation
configuration has been revamped and placed under
a single interface. This new interface allows you to
configure either of the previously supported LAG
types: Static LAGs and Dynamic LAGs as well as the
new “Keep Alive” LAGs.
The new LAG configuration procedures supersede
the previous configurations procedures for Trunks
and Dynamic Link Aggregation. Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
“Link
Aggregation”
Multicast Layer 2 Filter Beginning with release 02.6.00, you can define
multicast boundaries on a per VLAN basis. Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
“Configuring IP
Multicast Protocols”
Section: “Layer 2 multicast
filters”
Layer 3 features
IPv6 PIM-SM In Release 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service IronWare
software, the BigIron RX supports IPv6 Protocol
Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse. IPv6 PIM
Sparse provides multicasting that is especially
suitable for widely distributed multicast
environments Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
“Configuring IPv6
Multicast Features”
Section: “IPv6 PIM-sparse
mode”
IPv6 Embedded RP This release supports Embedded RP which allows
the switch to learn RP information using the
multicast group destination address instead of the
statically configured RP. Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
“Configuring IPv6
Multicast Features”
Section: “Embedded
Rendezvous Point (RP)”
IPv4 PIM Snooping PIM SM traffic snooping eliminates the superfluous
traffic by configuring the device to forward IP
multicast group traffic only on the ports that are
attached to receivers for the group Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:
“Configuring IP
Multicast Protocols”
Section: “PIM SM traffic
snooping”
TABLE 9 Summary of enhancements in release 02.6.00 (Continued)
Enhancement Description See page