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Standards
The Gigabit Ethernet switch module supports the following standards:
v IEEE standards
– IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol
– IEEE 802.1P Tagged Packets
– IEEE 802.1Q Tagged VLAN (frame tagging on all ports when VLANs are
enabled)
– IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control
– IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T Ethernet
– IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet
– IEEE 802.3x Full-duplex Flow Control for external ports only
Related documentation
In addition to this document, the following related documentation is provided
in PDF format on the Documentation CD and available at
http://www.ibm.com/pc/support.
v Safety Information
This document is in Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Documentation
CD. It contains translated caution and danger statements. Each caution and
danger statement that appears in the documentation has a number that you
can use to locate the corresponding statement in your language in the Safety
Information document.
v Installation and User’s Guide for your BladeCenter unit type
This document contains general information about your BladeCenter unit,
including how to install options in the BladeCenter unit.
v
Cisco Systems Intelligent Gigabit Ethernet Switch Modules for the IBM
Eserver
BladeCenter Software Configuration Guide
This document contains software configuration information for the Gigabit
Ethernet switch module.
v
Cisco Systems Intelligent Gigabit Ethernet Switch Modules System Message Guide
This document contains information about the switch-specific system
messages. During operation, the system software sends these messages to
the console or logging server on another system.
v
Cisco Systems Intelligent Gigabit Ethernet Switch Modules System Command
Reference Guide
This document contains information about the command line interface (CLI)
commands, the CLI modes, and related commands.
v Cisco IOS Release 12.1 documentation at http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/
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