UNH-IOL Bridge Functions Consortium (BFC) FAQ Test Suites Members Equipment List Tools Join Us Founded in 1997 as an extension to member companies' internal laboratories, the Bridge Functions Consortium offers testing services focused on switching products implementing IEEE 802.1 and 802.3ad standards. The consortium test suites address both interoperability and conformance testing needs for "Layer 2" technologies. An overview of services provided to members of the Bridge Functions Consortium can be found here.

Testing Services

By joining the Bridge Functions consortium, you gain access to interoperability and/or operations test suites for the following protocols:

• STP - Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1D-1998)
• RSTP - Rapid Spanning Tree (802.1D-2004 AND 802.1w-2001)
• MSTP - Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1s-2003)
• FDB - Filtering Databases (802.1D-1998 and 802.1q)
• VLAN - Virtual Local Area Networks (802.1q)
• LACP - Link Aggregation Control Protocol (802.3ad) Interoperability
• LLDP - Link Layer Discovery Protocol (802.1ab) and LLDP-MED Interoperability
• 802.1X - Port Based Network Access Control Authenticator Interoperability/Supplicant Operations
• Rate Limiting - Feature Verification
• QoS - Quality of Service Feature Verification
• Jumbo Frames - Feature Verification