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Appendix
C
Software Specifications
IEEE compliance
The BigIron RX Series switch supports the following standards:
• 802.1d Bridging
• 802.1q VLAN Tagging
• 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP)
• 802.1x User Authentication
• 802.3, 10BaseT
• 802.3ad Link Aggregation
• 802.3ae 10000BaseX
• 802.3u, 100BaseTX, 100BaseFX
• 802.3z 1000BaseSX, 1000BaseLX
• 802.3x Flow Control
RFC support
The following sections list the RFCs supported by the BigIron RX Series switch.
General protocols
• 791 – Internet Protocol (IP)
• 792 – Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
• 793 – Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• 783 – Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
• 768 – User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• 826 – Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
• 854, 855, and 857 – TELNET
• 894 – IP over Ethernet
• 903 – RARP
• 906 – Bootstrap loading using TFTP
• 919 – Broadcast Internet datagrams
• 920 – Domain requirements
• 922 – Broadcast Internet datagrams in the presence of subnets
• 950 – Internet standard subnetting procedure