IBM B48Y At-A-Glance Reference Manual page 11

Layer 3
Up to 16,000 IPv4 routes
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) v1/v2
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) v2
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v1/v2/v3
Protocol Independent Multicast Dense Mode (PIM-DM) v1/v2 and Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) v2
Equal Cost Multi Path (ECMP) for load balancing across up to eight paths
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and VRRP-E (Enhanced)
Policy-based routing (PBR) enables ACLs to be applied to routing decisions
Security
802.1x authentication, accounting, port security, and dynamic assignment for ACLs, MAC
filtering, and VLANs
Up to 1,534 inbound, rule-based (hardware-based) access control list (ACL) entries
Standard ACLs based on source IP address
Extended ACLs based on source and destination IP addresses or IP protocol information
Authorization, authentication, and accounting (AAA) support on RADIUS, TACACS, and
TACACS+
Multi-device authentication validates and applies security policies based on MAC address
information from a RADIUS server
AES encryption for SSHv2 and SNMPv3
Denial of service protection against Smurf (ICMP) and TCP SYN attacks
IP Source Guard permits traffic only after a valid IP address is learned on a port
DHCP Snooping prevents man-in-the-middle attacks against untrusted DHCP sources
Dynamic ARP inspection prevents man-in-the-middle attacks against invalid ARP bindings
Management
Industry-standard CLI via Telnet and SSHv2
Easy-to-use web-based GUI for device management over HTTP/HTTPS
Fault management integration with IBM Systems Director v6.2
Network-wide management of all IBM b-type system networking switches using Brocade
IronView Network Manager (INM)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1/v2/v3
DHCP client-based auto-configuration for automatic retrieval of configuration files and
firmware images
sFlow v5 for hardware-based packet sampling
Ties into industry tools such as Brocade INM and InMon products for trend analysis
and automated policy application
Remote Monitoring (RMON) protocol
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP), LLDP-MED (Media Endpoint Detection), Cisco
Discovery Protocol (CDP), and Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP)
Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
Firmware image update via TFTP and SCP
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