BNT 1-10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter
The BNT 1/10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module includes the following standard features and functions:
- Internal ports:
- 14 internal full-duplex Gigabit ports, one connected to each of the blade servers
- Two internal full-duplex 10/100 Mbps ports connected to the management module
- External ports:
- Three slots for 10 Gb Ethernet SFP+ transceivers (support for 10GBASE-SR or 10GBASE-LR) or SFP+ copper direct-attach cables (DAC); SFP+ modules are optional
- Six 10/100/1000 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet ports with RJ-45 connectors
- One RS-232 serial port that provides an additional means to install software and configure the switch module
- Scalability and performance:
- Fixed-speed external 10 Gb Ethernet ports for maximum uplink bandwidth
- Autosensing 10/1000/1000 external Gigabit Ethernet ports for bandwidth optimization
- Non-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic
- Media access control (MAC) address learning: automatic update, support of up to 16 K MAC addresses
- Up to 128 IP interfaces per switch
- Static and LACP (IEEE 802.3ad) link aggregation, up to 36 Gb of total bandwidth per switch, up to 16 trunk groups, up to six ports per group
- Support for jumbo frames (up to 9216 bytes)
- Broadcast/multicast storm control
- IGMP snooping for limit flooding of IP multicast traffic
- IGMP filtering to control multicast traffic for hosts participating in multicast groups
- Configurable traffic distribution schemes over trunk links based on source/destination IP or MAC addresses or both
- Fast port forwarding and fast uplink convergence for rapid STP convergence
- Availability and redundancy:
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for Layer 3 router redundancy
- IEEE 802.1D STP for providing L2 redundancy
- IEEE 802.1s Multiple STP (MSTP) for topology optimization, up to 128 STP instances are supported by single switch
- IEEE 802.1w Rapid STP (RSTP) provides rapid STP convergence for critical delay-sensitive traffic like voice or video
- Layer 2 Trunk Failover to support active/standby configurations of network adapter teaming on blades
- Interchassis redundancy (L2 and L3)
- VLAN support:
- Up to 1024 VLANs supported per switch, with VLAN numbers ranging from 1 to 4095 (4095 is used for management module’s connection only)
- 802.1Q VLAN tagging support on all ports
- Private VLANs
- Security:
- VLAN-based, MAC-based, and IP-based ACLs
- 802.1X port-based authentication
- Multiple user IDs and passwords
- User access control
- Radius/TACACS+
- Quality of Service (QoS):
- Support for IEEE 802.1p, IP ToS/DSCP, and ACL-based (MAC/IP source and destination addresses, VLANs) traffic classification and processing
- Traffic shaping and re-marking based on defined policies
- Eight Weighted Round Robin (WRR) priority queues per port for processing qualified traffic
- Layer 3 functions:
- IP forwarding
- IP filtering with ACLs, up to 896 ACLs supported
- VRRP for router redundancy
- Support for up to 128 static routes
- Routing protocol support (RIP v1, RIP v2, OSPF v2, BGP-4), up to 2048 entries in a routing table
- Support for DHCP Relay
- IPv6 host management support
- Manageability:
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP V1 and V3)
- HTTP browser GUI
- Telnet interface for CLI
- SSH
- Serial interface for CLI
- Scriptable CLI
- Firmware image update (TFTP and FTP)
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) for switch clock synchronization
- Monitoring:
- Switch LEDs for external port status and switch module status indication
- Port mirroring for analyzing network traffic passing through switch
- Change tracking and remote logging with syslog feature
- POST diagnostics
- Special functions:
- Support for Serial over LAN (SOL)
- Standards supported:
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The switch module supports the following IEEE standards:
- IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- IEEE 802.1s Multiple STP (MSTP)
- IEEE 802.1w Rapid STP (RSTP)
- IEEE 802.1p Tagged Packets
- IEEE 802.1Q Tagged VLAN (frame tagging on all ports when VLANs are enabled)
- IEEE 802.1x port-based authentication
- IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control
- IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
- IEEE 802.3x Full-duplex Flow Control
- IEEE 802.3ae 10GBASE-SR