IBM Flex System and PureFlex System Network Implementation with Juniper Networks

Layer 2 Overview

This chapter describes the Layer 2 fundamental networking protocols and terminology that is related to topics that are covered in this book.

3.1 Layer 2 Network protocols and technologies

For the scope of this book, this section provides information about the following topics:

•Basic Frame Forwarding

•Virtual local area network (VLAN) and Tagging

•Spanning Tree: STP, RSTP, MST, VSTP

•Link Aggregation

•Virtual Link Aggregation (VLAG)

•Juniper Virtual Chassis (VC)

•Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

•IBM Layer 2 fail over

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