Release Notes

Fabric OS v6.4.3_dcb1 for DELL M8428-k Release Notes 2.0 Page 8 of 15
Supported Mezzanine Cards
Refer to support.dell.com for supported mezzanine cards for each server platform.
Standards Compliance
This software conforms to the Fibre Channel Standards in a manner consistent with accepted
engineering practices and procedures. In certain cases, Brocade might add proprietary
supplemental functions to those specified in the standards. For a list of FC standards
conformance, visit the following Brocade Web site: http://www.brocade.com/sanstandards
The DELL M8428-k conforms to the following Ethernet standards:
 IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
 IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
 IEEE 802.1w Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol
 IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
 IEEE 802.3ae 10G Ethernet
 IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
 IEEE 802.1p Class of Service Prioritization and Tagging
 IEEE 802.1v VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port
 IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
 IEEE 802.3x Flow Control (Pause Frames)
The following draft versions of the Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) Standards are also supported on the M8428-k:
 IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority-based Flow Control
 IEEE 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection
 IEEE 802.1 DCB Capability Exchange Protocol (Proposed under the DCB Task
Group of IEEE 802.1 Working Group)
 FC-BB-5 FCoE (Rev 2.0)