Blade ICE BMD00178 manual Stacking Limitations

BLADEOS 6.3 Application Guide

Stacking Limitations

The GbESM with BLADEOS 6.3 can operate in one of two modes:

￿Default mode, which is the regular stand-alone (or non-stacked) mode.

￿Stacking mode, in which multiple physical switches aggregate functions as a single switching device.

When in stacking mode, the following stand-alone features are not supported:

￿Active Multi-Path Protocol (AMP)

￿SFD

￿sFlow port monitoring

￿Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD)

￿Port flood blocking

￿BCM rate control

￿Link Layer Detection Protocol (LLDP)

￿Protocol-based VLANs

￿RIP

￿OSPF and OSPFv3

￿IPv6

￿Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

￿Loopback Interfaces

￿Router IDs

￿Route maps

￿Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

￿MAC address notification

￿Static MAC address adding

￿Static multicast

￿MSTP

￿IGMP Relay and IGMPv3

Note – In stacking mode, switch menus and commands for unsupported features may be unavailable, or may have no effect on switch operation.

14 BMD00178, April 2010