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Layer 3 enhancements
VSRP Slow-Start This feature allows for a hold down time before the
backup returns ownership to the master after the
link is seen.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Virtual Switch
Redundancy Protocol
(VSRP)”
Section:“VSRP slow
start”
802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
Protocol (MSTP)
With this release, you can configure multiple STP
instances using MSTP protocol, as defined in IEEE
802.1s
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Multiple
Spanning Tree Protocol
(MSTP) 802.1s”
TABLE 18 Layer 3 enhancements
Enhancement Description See...
OSPF NBMA You can configure an interface to send OSPF
unicast packets rather than broadcast packets to
its neighbor by configuring non-broadcast
multi-access (NBMA) networks.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Configuring
OSPF Version 2 (IPv4)”
Section:“Configuring an
OSPF non-broadcast
interface”
Layer 3 VSRP VSRP redundancy and sub-second failover for
Layer 3 topologies is available in this release.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Virtual Switch
Redundancy Protocol
(VSRP)”
Section:“Enabling Layer 3
VSRP”
VSRP Delay Link Events This is a new VSRP command that will delay the
sending of port "up"/"down" events.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Configuring
Interface Parameters”
Section:“Port transition
hold timer”
IPv6 Hardware Forwarding Forwarding for Layer 3 IP switching technology for
the forwarding of IPv6 packets.See the
"Configuring Basic IPv6 Connectivity" chapter of
the BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:“Configuring
Basic IPv6 Connectivity”
ICMPv6 As with the Internet Control Message Protocol
(ICMP) for IPv4, ICMP for IPv6 provides error and
informational messages.
Foundry BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
IPv6 NDP, RDP ICMP Router Discovery Protocol (IRDP) to
advertise the IP addresses of its router interfaces
to directly attached hosts.
Foundry BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
TABLE 17 Layer 2 enhancements (Continued)
Enhancement Description See...