Part No. 013001-01, Rev. AMarch 201

Part No. 013001-01, Rev. A
March 2011
OmniSwitch Feature
Guidelines
AOS Release 6.4.3.R01
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Table of Contents
1. About This Guide............................................................................................................................................3
2. New Feature Guidelines .................................................................................................................................4
2.1. Traffic Storm Control ................................................................................................................................5
2.2. BPDU Shutdown Auto-Recovery Timer ...................................................................................................7
2.3. Dual Home Link Aggregation ...................................................................................................................9
2.4. Load Balancing Non-Unicast on a Link Aggregate.................................................................................15
2.5. MVRP......................................................................................................................................................17
2.6. LLDP – VLAN Assignment ....................................................................................................................21
2.7. Recursive Static Route.............................................................................................................................23
2.8. Extended Ping and Traceroute Functionality...........................................................................................26
2.9. Egress Policy Support..............................................................................................................................28
2.10. Tri-Color Marking (srTCM/trTCM) Support ........................................................................................30
2.11. Ingress Policy Rule Statistics Enhancements.........................................................................................32
2.12. 802.1ad DEI/CFI Bit Support ................................................................................................................34
2.13. Egress Port/Queue QoS and Statistics Enhancements ...........................................................................35
2.14. Policy Condition Enhancements............................................................................................................36
2.15. Map Several Inner DSCP/ToS Values to Same Outer 802.1p...............................................................37
2.16. DHCP Option-82 ASCII Enhancement .................................................................................................38
2.17. MAC-Forced Forwarding (Dynamic Proxy ARP).................................................................................40
2.18. VLAN Stacking –Tunneling L2 Protocols ............................................................................................42
2.19. SVLAN Routing ....................................................................................................................................46
2.20. Wire-Speed Ethernet Loopback.............................................................................................................49
2.21. Ethernet OAM 802.1ag Version 8 and ITU Y1731 ...............................................................................52
2.22. SAA for ETHOAM................................................................................................................................67
2.23. VPLS-MPLS..........................................................................................................................................71
2.24. Internal DHCP Server............................................................................................................................72
2.25. DHCP Client..........................................................................................................................................84
2.26. Out-of-the-Box Auto-Configuration......................................................................................................87
2.27. RADIUS Service-Type Attribute...........................................................................................................93
2.28. IP Managed Interface.............................................................................................................................97
2.29. XNI-U12E............................................................................................................................................102
3.