Lenovo RackSwitch G8124E Product Manual page 10

IP v4 Layer 3 functions
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Host management
o IP forwarding
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IP filtering with ACLs, up to 127 IPv4 ACLs supported
o VRRP for router redundancy
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Support for up to 128 static routes
o Routing protocol support (RIP v1, RIP v2, OSPF v2, BGP)
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Support for DHCP Relay
o Support for IGMP snooping
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Support for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) in Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) and Dense Mode
(PIM-DM).
IPv6 Layer 3 functions
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IPv6 host management
o IPv6 forwarding
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Support for OSPF v3 routing protocol
o IPv6 filtering with ACLs, up to 128 IPv6 ACLs supported
Virtualization
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o Virtual NICs (vNICs) with Ethernet, iSCSI, or FCoE traffic on vNICs
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Virtual link aggregation groups (vLAGs)
o VMready support
Up to 2,048 virtual entities (VEs)
Automatic VE discovery
Up to 1,024 local or distributed VM groups for VEs
NMotion™ feature for automatic network configuration migration
Converged Enhanced Ethernet
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o Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC) (IEEE 802.1Qbb) extends 802.3x standard flow control to
allow the switch to pause traffic based on the 802.1p priority value in each packet's VLAN tag.
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Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) (IEEE 802.1Qaz) provides a method for allocating link
bandwidth based on the 802.1p priority value in each packet's VLAN tag.
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Data Center Bridging Capability Exchange Protocol (DCBX) (IEEE 802.1AB) allows neighboring
network devices to exchange information about their capabilities.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
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o FC-BB5 FCoE specification compliant
o FCoE transit switch operations
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FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) support for automatic ACL configuration
o Link Aggregation Group (LAG) support for FCoE traffic
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Supports 2,048 FCoE sessions with FIP Snooping by using Class ID ACLs
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