Chapter 2: New In This Release; Features; Fabric Attach; Unknown Multicast Filtering - Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 Series Troubleshooting Manual

Chapter 2: New in this release

The following sections indicate what is new in this document for Avaya VSP 7000 Series Release
10.4.

Features

See the following sections for information about features changes.

Fabric Attach

With the Fabric Attach (FA) feature, you can extend the fabric edge to devices that do not have full
Shortest Path Bridging - MAC (SPBM) support. Fabric Attach allows non-SPBM devices to take
advantage of full SPBM support if it is available. FA also decreases the configuration requirements
on SPBM devices by off-loading some configuration to the attached non-SPBM devices and by
automating certain configuration steps that occur most often.
For more information about the FA feature, see the following:
• Configuring Avaya Fabric Connect on Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 Series, NN47202–
510
• Verifying FA settings
• Verifying FA message authentication status
• Verifying FA per-port settings
• Verifying discovered FA elements

Unknown multicast filtering

IGMP unknown multicast filtering is no longer supported on the Avaya Virtual Services Platform
7000 Series starting with the 10.4.0 release. The functionality provided by this feature has been
integrated with IGMP Snooping, see Configuring IP Routing on Avaya Virtual Services Platform
7000 Series, NN47202–511 for more details. When IGMP Snooping is activated on a vlan, unknown
multicast traffic is no longer flooded on all vlan ports but it is forwarded only on mrouter ports.
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