Reference Guide

IronWare Software Release 02.8.00a for Brocade BigIron RX Series Swtches
Release Notes v 1.0 Page 8 of 40
Category Feature description
• Security
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.
• CPU protection
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.
• Logging
Multiple SysLogD server logging
• sFlow
sFLow version 5
• Uni-directional Link Detection
(UDLD)
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.
Layer 2 features
• 802.1d
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
and
Single Spanning Tree Protocol (SSTP)
• 802.1p
Quality of Service (QoS) queue mapping
• 802.1q
see VLANs, below
• 802.1s
Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
• 802.1w
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)