BNT Layer 2-3 Copper and Fiber Gigabit Ethernet Switch Modules for IBM BladeCenter

The BNT Layer 2/3 Copper and Fiber Gigabit Ethernet Switch Modules for standard mode of operation includes the following features and functions:

• Internal ports
  • 14 internal full-duplex Gigabit ports, one connected to each of the blade servers in the BladeCenter unit
  • Two internal full-duplex 10/100 Mbps ports connected to the management module
• External ports
  • Copper switch: Six 1000BASE-T copper RJ-45 connections for making 10/100/1000 Mbps connections
  • Fiber switch: Six 1000BASE-SX SFP transceiver-based LC fiber connections for making 1000 Mbps connections
  • An RS-232 serial port that provides an additional means to install software and configure the switch module
• Scalability and performance
  • Autosensing 10/1000/1000 Mbps external Ethernet ports for bandwidth optimization
  • Non-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic
  • Media access control (MAC) address learning: automatic update, supports up to 16 K MAC addresses
  • Up to 128 IP interfaces per switch
  • Static, EtherChannel, and LACP (IEEE 802.3ad) link aggregation, up to 6 Gb of total bandwidth per switch, up to three trunk groups, and 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 V1, V2, and V3)
  • IGMP filtering to control multicast traffic for hosts participating in multicast groups (IGMP V1, V2, and V3)
  • Configurable traffic distribution schemes over trunk links based on source/destination IP addresses, MAC addresses, or both
  • Fast port forwarding and fast uplink convergence for rapid STP convergence
• Availability and redundancy
  • VRRP for Layer 3 router redundancy
  • IEEE 802.1D STP for providing Layer 2 redundancy with PVRST+
  • 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 (Layer 2 and Layer 3)
• VLAN support
  • Up to 1024 VLANs supported per switch; VLAN numbers ranging from 1 to 4095 (4095 is used for the management module’s connection only)
  • 802.1Q VLAN tagging support on all ports
  • Private VLANs
• Security
  • VLAN-based, MAC-based, and IP-based access control lists (ACLs)
  • 802.1X port-based authentication
  • Multiple user IDs and passwords
  • User access control
  • Radius/TACACS+
• Quality of Service (QoS)
  • Up to eight queues per port
  • 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 4096 ACLs supported)
  • VRRP for router redundancy
  • Support for up to 128 static routes
  • Routing protocol support (Router Information Protocol (RIP) v1, RIP v2, OSPF v1, v2, and v3, BGP-4), up to 1024 entries in routing table
  • Support for DHCP Relay
• Manageability
  • Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP; V1, V2, and V3)
  • HTTP/HTTPS browser GUI
  • Industry standard CLI and BLADEOS/AlteonOS CLI
  • 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
  • BNT BLADEHarmony Manager support
• 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
• Serial over LAN (SOL)

The switch module supports the following IEEE standards:

• IEEE 802.1D STP with PVRST+
• IEEE 802.1s MSTP
• IEEE 802.1w 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 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
• IEEE 802.3x Full-duplex Flow Control
• For the copper switch module:
  • 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
• For the fiber switch module:
  • IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet
  • 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Ethernet

 

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