IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Hardware Announcement ZG09-0629
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In Japan, customers need to notify their telecommunication service provider of
their intent to attach any of the networking products in this announcement to the
public telephone network. Such notification should include a detailed description
of the product to be used, date and time of installation, and a completed public
telecommunications networks service request form.
Hardware requirements
Supported servers
The IBM Ethernet Switches B04R, B08R, B16R, and B32R are designed to support
network connectivity for the following servers:
• IBM System z® servers
• IBM Power® Systems
• IBM System p® servers
• IBM System i® servers
• IBM System x® servers
Software requirements
Compatibility
The IBM Ethernet Switch B04R, B08R, B16R, and B32R supports the following
features:
IEEE
• IEEE 802.3ae 10-Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
• IEEE 802.1D Bridging
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid STP
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
• IEEE 802.1X User authentication
• IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Like MIB
BGP-4
• RFC 4271 BGPv4
• RFC 1745 OSPF interactions
• RFC 1997 Communities & Attributes
• RFC 2439 route flap dampening
• RFC 2796 route reflection