IBM BladeCenter Layer 2-7 Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module

Interface options
Part Number	32R1859
External ports	Four ports: 10/100/1000 Mbps Base TX
Internal ports	14 ports: 1000 Mbps Base TX to the server blades Two management ports: 100 Mbps
Full Line rate performance	36 Gbps
Power	40 W
Layer 2 and Layer 3 throughput	Line rate
Concurrent sessions	300,000
Layer 4 sessions per second	Up to 64,000 (with zero session loss)
Layer 7 sessions per second	Up to 28,000 (with zero session loss)
IP routing interfaces	128
Virtual server support	64
Real server support	64
Policy filters	1,024
VLANs	1,024
Default gateways	255
Trunk groups (for external ports)	4
Network protocol and standards compatibility
10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000 Base-TX	IEEE 802.3-2000
Spanning Tree	IEEE 802.1d
Logical link control	IEEE 802.2
Flow control	IEEE 802.3x
Link negotiation	IEEE 802.3z
VLANs	IEEE 802.1Q
Frame tagging on all ports when VLANs
Enabled	IEEE 802.1Q
SNMP support	RFC 1213 MIB-II, RFC 1493 Bridge MIB,
RFC 1398 Ethernet-like MIB, RFC 1757
RMON1 (groups 1-4), and RFC 1573 MIB compliant.
BLADEOS Enterprise MIB
High Availability and Routing
Layer 2 failover	VLAN based failover Ability to monitor static and dynamic (LACP) trunks Ability to failover when a subset of links fail (Failover Limit) Ability to failover based on Spanning Tree state Ability to control failover on a subset of ports, based on VLAN membership
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)	Active-Active redundancy Active-Standby redundancy Hot-Standby redundancy
Dynamic/Static Routing	RIP v1/2 OSPF OSPF equal cost routing BGP Static routing (128 static routes) Gateways per VLAN
Spanning Tree	Spanning Tree (802.1d) 32 groups Multiple Spanning Tree (802.1s) Fast Uplink Convergence Port Fast Forwarding
Security	RADIUS and TACACS+ Wire Speed Filtering ACL Filtering (SMAC, DMAC, SIP, DIP, Sport, Dport) Allow, Deny SSH v1, v2 HTTPS Secure BBI Secure Interface Login and Password IP-based Denial of Service attack prevention
VLAN	Port-based VLAN Protocol based VLANs 4096 VLAN IDs supported 1k VLANs (802.1Q)
Trunking	IEEE 802.3-2002 (LACP) LACP support for server ports Configurable Hash Algorithm Cisco EtherChannel Trunk Failover Configurable Trunk Hash algorithm