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FASTPATH® SMB Networking Software

FASTPATH SMB 8.2

A 48-port managed Ethernet switch devel-oped with FASTPATH SMB can providefull-featured layer-2 switching with layer-3static routing and advanced Quality-of-Ser-vice in fixed or stackable configurations.

FULL-FEATURED SWITCHING WITHBASIC ROUTING & ADVANCED QOSThe Broadcom® FASTPATH® SMB production-ready networking software offers impressivetime-to-market advantages for manufacturers,introducing new managed Ethernet productsfor Small-to-Medium Business markets. FAST-PATH SMB has been developed for use in busi-nesses with 50 – 500 users, requiring full-featured switching and basic routing withadvanced QoS.

SCALABLE FLEXIBILITYThe unique architecture of FASTPATH SMB soft-ware is modular and scalable, and it providesgreat flexibility for Broadcom’s OEM customers.FASTPATH SMB has been integrated with Broad-com's market-leading switching silicon. The soft-ware provides an extensive feature set fordeveloping layer-2 switches with layer-3 staticrouting.

FASTPATH SMB also supports advanced stack-ing functionality for “buy as you grow” deploy-ments and network resiliency applications. Inaddition, FASTPATH SMB can support integratedunified wireless switching functionality, offeringsophisticated control of wireless deployments.

FASTPATH SMB supports numerous industry-standard RFCs, standards, and protocols. Theproduct uses Linux as the operating system fordeveloping the most cost-effective solutions.

FASTPATH SMB FEATURESFASTPATH SMB Release 8.2 includes thefollowing software modules:

• Switching

• Management

• Layer-3 Routing

• Quality of Service

• Stacking

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• IEEE 802.1AB—Link Layer DiscoveryProtocol (LLDP)

• IEEE 802.1D—Spanning tree compati-bility

• IEEE 802.1p—Ethernet priority withuser provisioning and mapping

• IEEE 802.1s—Multiple spanning treecompatibility

• IEEE 802.1Q—Virtual LANs with port-based VLANs

• IEEE 802.1X—Port-based authentica-tion with Guest VLAN support

• IEEE 802.1W—Rapid spanning treecompatibility

• IEEE 802.3—10BASE-T

• IEEE 802.3u—100BASE-T

• IEEE 802.3ab—1000BASE-T

• IEEE 802.1ak—Virtual Bridged LocalArea Networks - Amendment 07: Multi-ple Registration Protocol

• IEEE 802.3ac—VLAN tagging

• IEEE 802.3ad—Link aggregation

• IEEE 802.3x —Flow control

• GARP—Generic Attribute RegistrationProtocol: clause 12, IEEE 802.1D-2004

• GMRP—Dynamic L2 multicast registra-tion: clause 10, IEEE 802.1D-2004

• GVRP—Dynamic VLAN registration:clause 11.2, IEEE 802.1Q-2003

• RFC 4541—Considerations for InternetGroup Management Protocol (IGMP)Snooping Switches

• ANSI/TIA-1057—LLDP-Media EndpointDiscovery (MED)

• RFC 5171—Unidirectional Link Detec-tion (UDLD) Protocol

Advanced Layer-2 Features

• Authentication, Authorization, andAccounting (AAA)

• Broadcast Storm Recovery

• Broadcast/Multicast/Unknown unicaststorm recovery

• DHCP Snooping

• IGMP Snooping Querier

• Port MAC locking

• Port mirroring

• Protected ports

• Static MAC filtering

• TACACS+

• Voice VLANs

• Unauthenticated VLAN

• Internal 802.1X Authentication Server

• CLI Filtering

• Switchport mode configuration

• Link Dependency

• IPv6 RA Guard (Stateless)

SYSTEM FACILITIES• Event and error logging facility

• Run-time and configuration downloadcapability

• PING utility

• Xmodem

• FTP Transfers via IPv4/IPv6

• Malicious Code Detection

• RFC 768—UDP

• RFC 783—TFTP

• RFC 791—IP

• RFC 792—ICMP

• RFC 793—TCP

• RFC 826—ARP

• RFC 894—Transmission of IP data-grams over Ethernet networks

• RFC 896—Congestion control in IP/TCP networks

• RFC 951—BOOTP

• RFC 1034—Domain names - conceptsand facilities

• RFC 1035—Domain names - implemen-tation and specification

• RFC 1321—Message digest algorithm

• RFC 1534—Interoperability betweenBOOTP and DHCP

• RFC 2021—Remote network monitoring

vendor extensions

• RFC 2819—Remote Network Monitor-ing Management Information Base

• RFC 2865—RADIUS client

• RFC 2866—RADIUS accounting

• RFC 2868—RADIUS attributes for tun-nel protocol support

• RFC 2869—RADIUS Extensions

• RFC 3579—RADIUS support for EAP

• RFC 3580—IEEE 802.1X RADIUSusage guidelines

• RFC 3164—The BSD syslog protocol

• RFC 3580—802.1X RADIUS UsageGuidelines

• RFC 5176—Dynamic AuthorizationServer (Disconnect-Request process-ing only)

• RFC 5424—The Syslog Protocol

MANAGEMENT• Industry-standard CLI

• IPv6 management

• Password management

• Autoinstall support for firmware imagesand configuration files

• SNMP v1, v2, and v3

• SSH 1.5 and 2.0

– RFC 4252: SSH authenticationprotocol

– RFC 4253: SSH transport layerprotocol

– RFC 4254: SSH connection protocol– RFC 4251: SSH protocol architecture– RFC 4716: SECSH public key file

format– RFC 4419: Diffie-Hellman group

exchange for the SSH transport layerprotocol

• SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0

– RFC 2246: The TLS protocol, version1.0

– RFC 2818: HTTP over TLS– RFC 3268: AES cipher suites for

transport layer security

• Secure Copy (SCP)

SWITCHINGCore Switching Features

• Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)

• Independent VLAN Learning (IVL)support

• IPv6 Classification APIs

• Jumbo Ethernet frame support

management information base version 2

• RFC 2030—Simple Network Time Pro-tocol (SNTP)

• RFC 2131—DHCP relay

• RFC 2132—DHCP options and BOOTP

• Telnet

• Web

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• Java Plug-in 1.6.0_01 and JavaScript 1.3

• RESTCONF

• RFC 6020—A Data Modeling Languagefor NETCONF

• RFC 6415—Web Host Metadata

• RFC 6536—NETCONF Access ControlModel

• RFC 7223—YANG Data Model for Inter-face Management

• RFC 7277—YANG Data Model for IPManagement

• RFC 7317—YANG Data Model for Sys-tem Management

• draft-ietf-netmod-syslog-model-03

• draft-ietf-netconf-yang-library-00

• draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-03

Advanced Management Features

• Industry Standard CLI with the followingfeatures:

– Scripting capability– Command completion– Context sensitive help

• Optional user password encryption

• Multi-session Telnet server

LAYER-3 ROUTING• Policy Based Routing

• RFC 1256—ICMP router discoverymessages

• RFC 1812—Requirements for IP Ver-sion 4 routers

• RFC 2131—DHCP Relay

• RFC 3021—Using 31-bit prefixes onipv4 point-to-point links

• RFC 3046—DHCP relay agent informa-tion option

QUALITY OF SERVICEAccess Control Lists (ACLs)

• Permit/deny actions for inbound IP andLayer-2 traffic classification based on:

– Time-Based ACL– Source/Destination IP address– TCP/UDP Source/Destination port– IP Protocol Type– Type of Service (ToS) or differentiated

services (DSCP) field– Source/Destination MAC address– EtherType– IEEE 802.1p user priority (outer and/

or inner VLAN tag)– VLAN ID (outer and/or inner VLAN

tag)

• RFC 1858—Security Considerations forIP Fragment Filtering

Optional ACL Rule Attributes

• Assign flow to a specific Class of Ser-vice (CoS) queue

• Redirect matching traffic flows

Differentiated Services (DiffServ)

• Classify traffic based on same criteriaas ACLs and optionally:

– Mark the IP DSCP or Precedenceheader fields

– Police the flow to a specific rate withtwo-color aware support

• RFC 2474—Definition of the differenti-ated services field (DS field) in the IPv4and IPv6 headers

• RFC 2475—An architecture for differen-tiated services

• RFC 2597—Assured forwarding Per-Hop Behavior (PHB) group

• RFC 2697—Single-rate policing

• RFC 3246—An expedited forwardingPHB

• RFC 3260—New terminology andclarifications for DiffServ

Class of Service (CoS) Queue Mapping

Configuration

• AutoVoIP–Automatic CoS settings forVoIP

• IP DSCP-to-queue mapping

• Configurable interface trust mode(IEEE 802.1p, DSCP, or untrusted)

• Interface egress shaping rate

• Strict priority versus weighted schedul-ing per queue

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PLATFORM SPECIFICATIONS• VLANs: 255

• MAC Addresses:

– 16k

• MSTP instances: 4

• LAGs: 6

• ACLs: 50 with 10 rules per port

• Traffic Classes (Queues): 8 (7 withstacking)

ADVANCED STACKING• Single IP management of entire stack

• Cross-stack functionality such as LAGs,MSTP instances, VLANs, etc., spanningstack member units

• Centralized control plane

• Configuration and firmware synchroni-zation

• Automatic stack initialization and unitaddition/removal and master failover

• Four member units supported in a stack

• Serviceability features for monitoringand diagnosing unit status

SNMP MIBSSwitching MIBs

• IEEE 802.1X MIB (IEEE 802.1-PAE-MIB 2004 Revision)

• IEEE 802.3AD MIB (IEEE 802.3-AD-MIB)

• IANAifType-MIB

• FASTPATH Enterprise MIBs for full con-figuration support of switching features

• RFC 1213—MIB II

• RFC 1493—Bridge MIB

• RFC 1612—DNS resolver MIB exten-sions

• RFC 1643—Definitions of managedobjects for the Ethernet-like interfacetypes

• RFC 2233—Interfaces group MIB usingSMI v2

• RFC 2613—SMON MIB

• RFC 2618—RADIUS authenticationclient MIB

• RFC 2620—RADIUS accounting MIB

• RFC 2674—VLAN MIB

• RFC 2737—Entity MIB version 2

• RFC 2819—RMON groups 1, 2, 3, and9

• RFC 2863—IF-MIB

• RFC 2925—Definitions of ManagedObjects for Remote Ping, Traceroute,and Lookup Operations

• RFC 3273—RMON Groups 1, 2, and 3

• RFC 3291—Textual conventions forInternet network addresses

• RFC 3434—RMON Groups 1, 2, and 3

• RFC 4022—TCP-MIB

• RFC 4113—UDP-MIB

Routing MIBs

• FASTPATH Enterprise MIBs for full con-figuration support of routing features

• RFC 2096—IP forwarding table MIB

• RFC 3636—MAU MIB

Quality of Service MIBs

• FASTPATH Enterprise MIBs for full con-figuration support of DiffServ, ACL, andCoS functionality

• RFC 3289—Management informationbase for the DiffServ architecture (read-only)

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