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Standards Compliance
This chapter describes standards compliance for Dell Networking products.
NOTE: Unless noted, when a standard cited here is listed as supported by the Dell Networking
Operating System (OS), Dell Networking OS also supports predecessor standards. One way to
search for predecessor standards is to use the http://tools.ietf.org/ website. Click “Browse and
search IETF documents,” enter an RFC number, and inspect the top of the resulting document for
obsolescence citations to related RFCs.
IEEE Compliance
The following is a list of IEEE compliance.
802.1AB LLDP
802.1D Bridging, STP
802.1p L2 Prioritization
802.1Q VLAN Tagging, Double VLAN Tagging, GVRP
802.1s MSTP
802.1w RSTP
802.1X Network Access Control (Port Authentication)
802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE-T)
802.3ac Frame Extensions for VLAN Tagging
802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBASE-W, 10GBASE-X)
802.3af Power over Ethernet
802.3ak 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBASE-CX4)
802.3i Ethernet (10BASE-T)
802.3u Fast Ethernet (100BASE-FX, 100BASE-TX)
802.3x Flow Control
802.3z Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE-X)
ANSI/TIA-1057 LLDP-MED
Force10 FRRP (Force10 Redundant Ring Protocol)
Force10 PVST+
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