About This Document

In this chapter

Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Getting technical help or reporting errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Audience

This document is designed for system administrators with a working knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and routing.

If you are using a Brocade Layer 3 Switch, you should be familiar with the following protocols if applicable to your network: IP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, ISIS, IGMP, PIM, and VRRP.

Supported hardware and software

This guide describes software release 2.1.0.x of the Brocade 6910 Ethernet Access Switch.

Document conventions

This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this document.

Text formatting

The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:

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