Blade ICE BMD00098 manual ISL Layer 2 Protocol Enhancements, STP Fast Uplink Bridge Priority

BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes

ISL Layer 2 Protocol Enhancements

BLADEOS 5.1 now supports additional Layer 2 protocols on Inter-Switch Link (ISL) ports:

￿VRRP

￿STP

￿RSTP/MSTP

￿802.1Q VLAN Tagging

￿802.1p QoS/CoS

￿802.1X Port-Based Access Control

￿ACLs

STP Fast Uplink Bridge Priority

With BLADEOS 5.1, the Fast Uplink Convergence bridge priority has been set to 65535.

CLI List and Range Inputs

For CLI commands that allow an individual item to be selected from within a numeric range, lists and ranges of items can now be specified. For example, the /info/vlan command permits the following options:

# /info/vlan	(show all VLANs)
# /info/vlan 1	(show only VLAN 1)
# /info/vlan 1,3,4095	(show listed VLANs)
# /info/vlan 1-20	(show range 1 through 20)
# /info/vlan 1-5,90-99,4090-4095	(show multiple ranges)
# /info/vlan 1-5,19,20,4090-4095	(show a mix of lists and ranges)

The numbers in a range must be separated by a dash: <start of range>-<end of range>

Multiple ranges or list items are permitted using a comma: <range or item 1>,<range or item 2> Do not use spaces within list and range specifications.

Ranges can also be used to apply the same command option to multiple items. For example, to enable multiple ports with one command:

# /cfg/port 1-4/ena (Enable ports 1 though 4)

Note – Port ranges accept only port numbers, not aliases such as INT1 or EXT1

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