Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001761-01, June 2010)

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
How this document is organized
This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.
The document contains the following components:
• Chapter 1, “Introducing FCoE,” provides an overview of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) on
the Brocade FCoE hardware.
• Chapter 2, “Using the CEE CLI,” describes the Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) CLI.
• Chapter 3, “Standard CEE Integrations and Configurations,” describes some basic switch
configurations for command SAN and LAN environments.
• Chapter 4, “Configuring VLANs Using the CEE CLI,” describes how to configure VLANs.
• Chapter 5, “Configuring STP, RSTP, and MSTP using the CEE CLI,” describes how to configure
the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Rapid STP (RSTP), and Multiple STP (MSTP).
• Chapter 6, “Configuring Link Aggregation using the CEE CLI,” describes how to configure Link
Aggregation and Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).
• Chapter 7, “Configuring LLDP using the CEE CLI,” describes how to configure the Link Layer
Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and the Data Center Bridging (DCB) Capability Exchange Protocol
(DCBX).
• Chapter 8, “Configuring ACLs using the CEE CLI,” describes how to configure Access Control
Lists (ACLs).
• Chapter 9, “Configuring QoS using the CEE CLI,” describes how to configure Quality of Service
(QoS).
• Chapter 10, “Configuring 802.1x Port Authentication,”describes how to configure the 802.1x
Port Authentication protocol.