IBM Ethernet Switch B48Y
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Layer 3
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Up to 16,000 IPv4 routes
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Routing Information Protocol (RIP) v1/v2
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Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) v2
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Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v1/v2/v3
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Protocol Independent Multicast Dense Mode (PIM-DM) v1/v2 and Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) v2
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Equal Cost Multi Path (ECMP) for load balancing across up to eight paths
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Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and VRRP-E (Enhanced)
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Policy-based routing (PBR) enables ACLs to be applied to routing decisions
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Security
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802.1x authentication, accounting, port security, and dynamic assignment for ACLs, MAC
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filtering, and VLANs
Up to 1,534 inbound, rule-based (hardware-based) access control list (ACL) entries
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Standard ACLs based on source IP address
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Extended ACLs based on source and destination IP addresses or IP protocol information
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Authorization, authentication, and accounting (AAA) support on RADIUS, TACACS, and
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Multi-device authentication validates and applies security policies based on MAC address
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information from a RADIUS server
AES encryption for SSHv2 and SNMPv3
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Denial of service protection against Smurf (ICMP) and TCP SYN attacks
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IP Source Guard permits traffic only after a valid IP address is learned on a port
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DHCP Snooping prevents man-in-the-middle attacks against untrusted DHCP sources
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Dynamic ARP inspection prevents man-in-the-middle attacks against invalid ARP bindings
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Management
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Industry-standard CLI via Telnet and SSHv2
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Easy-to-use web-based GUI for device management over HTTP/HTTPS
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Fault management integration with IBM Systems Director v6.2
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Network-wide management of all IBM b-type system networking switches using Brocade
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IronView Network Manager (INM)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1/v2/v3
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DHCP client-based auto-configuration for automatic retrieval of configuration files and
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firmware images
sFlow v5 for hardware-based packet sampling
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Ties into industry tools such as Brocade INM and InMon products for trend analysis
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and automated policy application
Remote Monitoring (RMON) protocol
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Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP), LLDP-MED (Media Endpoint Detection), Cisco
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Discovery Protocol (CDP), and Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP)
Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
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Firmware image update via TFTP and SCP
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