IP Routing Features

• Supports maximum 128 static routes and route summarization
• Supports dynamic routing protocol: RIP and OSPF

Layer 2 Features

• Auto-MDI/MDI-X detection on each RJ45 port
• Prevents packet loss flow control
  • - IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control in full-duplex mode
  
  
  - Back-pressure flow control in half-duplex mode
• High performance Store-and-Forward architecture, broadcast storm control, port loopback detect
• 32KC MAC address table, automatic source address learning and aging
• Supports VLAN
  • - IEEE 802.1Q tag-based VLAN
  
  
  • - GVRP for dynamic VLAN management
  
  
  • - Up to 4094 active VLANs
  
  
  • - Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q, IEEE 802.1ad) supported
  
  
  • - Private VLAN Edge (PVE) supported
  
  
  • - GVRP protocol for Management VLAN
  
  
  • - Protocol-based VLAN
  
  
  - MAC-based VLAN
• Supports Link Aggregation
  • - Maximum 32 trunk groups with up to 8 ports per trunk group
  
  
  • - IEEE 802.3ad LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)
  
  
  - Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)
• Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
  • - STP, IEEE 802.1D (Classic Spanning Tree Protocol)
  
  
  • - RSTP, IEEE 802.1w (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
  
  
  • - MSTP, IEEE 802.1s (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, spanning tree by VLAN)
  
  
  - BPDU & root guard
• Port mirroring to monitor the incoming or outgoing traffic on a particular port (many to many)
• Provides port mirror (many-to-1)

Quality of Service

• 8 priority queues on all switch ports
• Supports strict priority and WRR (Weighted Round Robin) CoS policies
• Traffic classification
  • - IEEE 802.1p CoS/ToS
  
  
  • - IPv4/IPv6 DSCP
  
  
  - Port-based WRR
• Strict priority and WRR CoS policies

Multicast

• Supports IPv4 IGMP snooping v1, v2 and v3; and IPv6 MLD v1 and v2 snooping
• Querier mode supports
• Supports Multicast VLAN Register (MVR)

Security

• IEEE 802.1x port-based network access authentication
• MAC-based network access authentication
• Built-in RADIUS client to co-operate with the RADIUS servers for IPv4 and IPv6
• TACACS+ login users access authentication
• IP-based Access Control List (ACL)
• MAC-based Access Control List
• Supports DHCP snooping
• Supports ARP inspection
• IP Source Guard prevents IP spoofing attacks
• Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding

Management

• Management IP for IPv4 and IPv6
• Switch Management Interface
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• BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
• Firmware upload/download via TFTP or HTTP Protocol for IPv4 and IPv6
• SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) for IPv4 and IPv6
• User privilege levels control
• Syslog server for IPv4 and IPv6
• Four RMON groups 1, 2, 3, 9 (history, statistics, alarms and events)
• Supports ping, trace route function for IPv4 and IPv6