Data Sheet

L2 Services - Availability
IEEE 802.3ad - LAGs
LACP
LACP automatically reverts to and from Static LAG
Static LAGs
Local Preference per LAG
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Up to 128 LAGs and up to 8 ports per group
LAG Hashing Yes
LAG Member Port Flaps Tracking Yes
LAG Local Preference Yes
Known unicast trafc egresses only out of
local blade LAG interfarce members
Distributed Link Aggregation Yes LAGs across the stack
Storm Control Yes
IEEE 802.3x (Full Duplex and ow control)
Per port Flow Control
Yes
Yes
Asymmetric and Symmetric Flow Control
Priority Flow Control (PFC) Standardized by IEEE
802.1Qbb
M4300-12X12F, 24X, 24XF, 24X24F, 48X,
48XF and 96X only
Enables Flow Control per trafc class, full-
duplex, CLI
UDLD Support (Unidirectional Link Detection)
Normal-Mode
Aggressive-Mode
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link Dependency Yes Allow the link status of specied ports to be dependent on the link status of other ports
IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol Yes
IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Yes
IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Yes
Per VLAN STP (PVSTP) with FastUplink and FastBackbone Yes (CLI only) PVST+ interoperability
Per VLAN Rapid STP (PVRSTP) Yes (CLI only) RPVST+ interoperability
STP Loop Guard Yes
STP Root Guard Yes
STP BPDU Guard Yes
STP BPDU Filtering Yes
STP BPDU Flooding Yes
Private VLAN Yes
IEEE 802.1x
Guest VLAN
RADIUS based VLAN assignment via .1x
RADIUS based Filter ID assignment via .1x
MAC-based .1x
Unauthenticated VLAN
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
802.1x-2004
IP phones and PCs can authenticate on the
same port but under different VLAN assignment
policies
Double VLAN Tagging
Enabling dvlan-tunnel makes interface
Global ethertype (TPID)
Interface ethertype (TPID)
Customer ID using PVID
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
GARP with GVRP/GMRP Yes
Automatic registration for membership
in VLANs or in multicast groups
Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) Yes Can replace GARP functionality
Multicast VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP) Yes Can replace GARP functionality
MVR (Multicast VLAN registration) Yes
Intelligent Edge Managed Switches
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