Reference Guide

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 OS, the system 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.

Topics:

• IEEE Compliance

• RFC and I-D Compliance

• MIB Location

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+

SFF-8431 SFP+ Direct Attach Cable (10GSFP+Cu)

MTU 9,252 bytes

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