Brocade Communications Systems PowerConnect B-RX Release Note page 8

Category
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Security
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CPU protection
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Logging
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sFlow
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Uni-directional Link Detection
(UDLD)
Layer 2 features
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802.1d
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802.1p
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802.1q
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802.1s
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802.1w
IronWare Software Release 02.8.00a for Brocade BigIron RX Series Swtches
Release Notes v 1.0
Feature description
AAA Authentication
Local passwords
RADIUS
SSHv2
Secure Copy (SCP)
TACACS/TACACS+
User accounts
802.1x: All EAP types, including MD5, TLS, TTLS, and PEAP
Multi-device port authentication
Note: Telnet, SSH, Web and SNMP servers are disabled by default, and can
be enabled selectively.
There are no CLI commands for CPU protection. The BigIron RX forwards
unknown unicast, broadcast, and multicast packets in hardware; therefore, the
CPU is automatically protected from having to handle too many packets.
Multiple SysLogD server logging
sFLow version 5
Monitors a link between two devices and brings the ports on both ends of the
link down if the link goes down at any point between the two devices.
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
and
Single Spanning Tree Protocol (SSTP)
Quality of Service (QoS) queue mapping
see VLANs, below
Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
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