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Layer 3 enhancements – Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide User Manual

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Layer 3 enhancements

VSRP Slow-Start

This feature allows for a hold down time before the
backup returns ownership to the master after the
link is seen.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Virtual Switch

Redundancy Protocol
(VSRP)”

Section:

“VSRP slow

start”

802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
Protocol (MSTP)

With this release, you can configure multiple STP
instances using MSTP protocol, as defined in IEEE
802.1s

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Multiple

Spanning Tree Protocol
(MSTP) 802.1s”

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Layer 3 enhancements

Enhancement

Description

See...

OSPF NBMA

You can configure an interface to send OSPF
unicast packets rather than broadcast packets to
its neighbor by configuring non-broadcast
multi-access (NBMA) networks.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring

OSPF Version 2 (IPv4)”

Section:

“Configuring an

OSPF non-broadcast
interface”

Layer 3 VSRP

VSRP redundancy and sub-second failover for
Layer 3 topologies is available in this release.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Virtual Switch

Redundancy Protocol
(VSRP)”

Section:

“Enabling Layer 3

VSRP”

VSRP Delay Link Events

This is a new VSRP command that will delay the
sending of port "up"/"down" events.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring

Interface Parameters”

Section:

“Port transition

hold timer”

IPv6 Hardware Forwarding

Forwarding for Layer 3 IP switching technology for
the forwarding of IPv6 packets.See the
"Configuring Basic IPv6 Connectivity" chapter of
the BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring

Basic IPv6 Connectivity”

ICMPv6

As with the Internet Control Message Protocol
(ICMP) for IPv4, ICMP for IPv6 provides error and
informational messages.

Foundry BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide

IPv6 NDP, RDP

ICMP Router Discovery Protocol (IRDP) to
advertise the IP addresses of its router interfaces
to directly attached hosts.

Foundry BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide

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Layer 2 enhancements (Continued)

Enhancement

Description

See...