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Catalyst 4000 Series Switch Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
Switch Features
Table 1-1
Features of the Catalyst 4003 Switch
Feature
Description
Ethernet speeds
•
Ethernet (10BASE-T) interface to workstations and repeaters
•
Fast Ethernet (100BASE-T) interface to workstations, servers, switches,
and routers
Note
Autonegotiation of link speed on each 10/100 port allows migration
to 100BASE-T from a 10BASE-T installed base.
Standard equipment
•
Three-slot modular chassis with one slot reserved for a supervisor
engine and two slots for switching modules
•
Two power supply bays that support one required and one optional
redundant AC-input power supply
•
One hot-swappable fan assembly
Standard management
and support
•
Layer 2 forwarding with an aggregate forwarding rate of greater than
17.8 million pps
•
16,000 MAC addresses per system
•
Up to 1,024 VLANs with IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging on all ports and
support for VTP
1
•
Port aggregation using PAgP
2
for 100-Mbps and 1000-Mbps
EtherChannel
Software management
•
CLI
3
and SNMP interfaces consistent with the Catalyst 6500 series
switches
•
Out-of-band management (SNMP, Telnet client, and TFTP) through the
10BASE-T management port on the supervisor engine
•
RMON
4
with RMON 1
•
Standard Layer 2 features:
–
802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
–
CDP
5
–
VTP version 2 with pruning extensions
–
CGMP
6
client
