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Fabric OS v6.3.1_dcb5 for DELL M8428-k Release Notes 1.0 Draft Page 8 of 23
Supported Mezzanine Cards
Brocade 2-Port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter
Intel Dual-Port Niantic SIKKR
Broadcom Quad
Dual-Port 57712 LOM
Dual-Port P3+ LOM
QLogic Dual-Port CNA P3+
BR1741M-k
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)