Introducing What's New In Release 1.2; Ipv6 Switching And Routing - Oracle Sun Blade 6000 Product Notes

Introducing What's New in Release 1.2

Step
2.
3.
4.

Introducing What's New in Release 1.2

These new features are supported for this release.
"IPv6 Switching and Routing" on page 10
■
"ONET Protocol" on page 11
■
"PVRST+ Protocol" on page 11
■
"Server Load Balancer" on page 12
■
"Oracle ILOM 3.0 Features" on page 13
■

IPv6 Switching and Routing

Multicast Listener Discovery
■
Multicast listener discovery (MLD) works with IPv6 to control the reception of multicast
data in a network. MLD functions similarly to IGMP, which manages multicast groups for
IPv4. The MLD snooping (MLDS) function supported in this release enables switches to
forward multicast data to only hosts that need to receive the data, rather than to all ports.
MLDS enables a switch to snoop or capture information from MLD packets that are being
sent back and forth between hosts and a router. Based on this information, the switch adds
or deletes the multicast addresses from its address table, thereby enabling or disabling
multicast traffic that is flowing to individual host ports.
Refer to the Sun Ethernet Fabric Operating System MLDS Administration Guide for more
information about this feature.
Open Shortest Path First version 3
■
Open Shortest Path First version 3 (OSPFv3) adds support for IPv6 in the OSPF protocol.
As described in RFC 2740, the fundamental mechanisms of OSPF (flooding, DR election,
area support, and SPF calculations) remain unchanged in OSPFv3. However, some changes
to OSPF were made to handle changes in protocol semantics between IPv4 and IPv6 and
increased IPv6 address sizes.
Refer to the Sun Ethernet Fabric Operating System OSPFv3 Administration Guide for more
information about this feature.
Routing Information Protocol Next Generation
■
10 Sun Blade 6000 Ethernet Switched NEM 24p 10GbE Release 1.2.2 Product Notes • March 2016
Document Title or Type
Sun Blade 6000 Ethernet Switched NEM 24p 10GbE
User's Guide
Sun Blade 6000 Ethernet Switched NEM 24p 10GbE
Software Configuration Guide
Administration guides
Information Provided
Installation instructions
Software configuration instructions
Reference and administration material for the
software