
BROCADE MLX SERIES SPECIFICATIONS
IEEE Compliance
• 802.3-2005 CSMA/CD Access Method and Physical Layer
Specications
• 802.3ab 1000BASE-T
• 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• 802.3u 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-T4, 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet at
100 Mbps with Auto-Negotiation
• 802.3x Flow Control
• 802.3z 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet over ber optic at 1 Gbps
• 802.3ad Link Aggregation
• 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile
• 802.1Q Virtual Bridged LANs
• 802.1D MAC Bridges
• 802.1w Rapid STP
• 802.1s Multiple Spanning Trees
• 802.1ad Provider Bridges; partial support: port-based and S-tagged
service interface
• 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)
• 8023.ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet
• 802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol
• 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging
• 802.1ae MAC Security standard
ITU Compliance
• Y.1731 OAM functions and mechanisms for Ethernet-based networks
• G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP version 1 and 2)
RFC Compliance
BGPv4 • RFC 4271 BGPv4
• RFC 1745 OSPF Interactions
• RFC 1997 Communities and Attributes
• RFC 2439 Route Flap Dampening
• RFC 2796 Route Reection
• RFC 1965 BGP4 Confederations
• RFC 2842 Capability Advertisement
• RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability
• RFC 1269 Managed Objects for BGP
• RFC 2385 BGP Session Protection via TCP MD5
• RFC 3682 Generalized TTL Security Mechanism,
for eBGP Session Protection
• RFC 4273 BGP-4 MIB
• RFC 4893 BGP Support for Four-octet AS
Number Space
• RFC 4724 Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
OSPF • RFC 2328 OSPF v2
• RFC 3101 OSPF NSSA
• RFC 1745 OSPF Interactions
• RFC 1765 OSPF Database Overow
• RFC 1850 OSPF v2 MIB
• RFC 2370 OSPF Opaque LSA Option
• RFC 3630 TE Extensions to OSPF v2
• RFC 3623 Graceful OSPF Restart
RFC Compliance (continued)
IS-IS • RFC 1195 Routing in TCP/IP and Dual
Environments
• RFC 1142 OSI IS-IS Intra-domain Routing
Protocol
• RFC 2763 Dynamic Host Name Exchange
• RFC 2966 Domain-wide Prex Distribution
• RFC 5120 IS-IS Multi-Topology Support
• RFC 5306 Restart Signaling for IS-IS
RIP • RFC 1058 RIP v1
• RFC 2453 RIP v2
• RFC 1812 RIP Requirements
IPv4 Multicast • RFC 1122 Host Extensions
• RFC 1112 IGMP
• RFC 2236 IGMP v2
• RFC 3376 IGMP v3
• RFC 3973 PIM-DM
• RFC 4601 PIM-SM
• RFC 2858 BGP-MP
• RFC 3618 MSDP
• RFC 3446 Anycast RP
General Protocols • RFC 791 IP
• RFC 792 ICMP
• RFC 793 TCP
• RFC 1350 TFTP
• RFC 826 ARP
• RFC 768 UDP
• RFC 894 IP over Ethernet
• RFC 903 RARP
• RFC 906 TFTP Bootstrap
• RFC 1027 Proxy ARP
• RFC 951 BootP
• RFC 1122 Host Extensions for IP Multicasting
• RFC 1256 IRDP
• RFC 1519 CIDR
• RFC 1542 BootP Extensions
• RFC 1812 Requirements for IPv4 Routers
• RFC 1541 and 1542 DHCP
• RFC 2131 BootP/DHCP Helper
• RFC 3768 VRRP
• RFC 854 TELNET
• RFC 1591 DNS (client)
• RFC 5905 Network Time Protocol
QoS • RFC 2475 An Architecture for Differentiated
Services
• RFC 3246 An Expedited Forwarding PHB
• RFC 2597 Assured Forwarding PHB Group
• RFC 2698 A Two-Rate Three-Color Marker
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