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Cisco IE 3000 Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
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Automatic discovery of candidate switches and creation of clusters of up to 16 switches that can
be managed through a single IP address.
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Extended discovery of cluster candidates that are not directly connected to the command switch.
Performance Features
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Cisco EnergyWise manages the energy usage of power over Ethernet (PoE) entities.
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Autosensing of port speed and autonegotiation of duplex mode on all switch ports for optimizing
bandwidth
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Automatic-medium-dependent interface crossover (auto-MDIX) capability on 10/100 and
10/100/1000 Mb/s interfaces and on 10/100/1000 BASE-TX SFP module interfaces that enables the
interface to automatically detect the required cable connection type (straight-through or crossover)
and to configure the connection appropriately
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Support for up to 9000 bytes for frames that are bridged in hardware, and up to 2000 bytes for frames
that are bridged by software
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IEEE 802.3x flow control on all ports (the switch does not send pause frames)
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EtherChannel for enhanced fault tolerance and for providing up to 8 Gb/s (Gigabit EtherChannel)
or 800 Mb/s (Fast EtherChannel) full-duplex bandwidth among switches, routers, and servers
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Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) and Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) for automatic
creation of EtherChannel links
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Forwarding of Layer 2 packets at Gigabit line rate
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Per-port storm control for preventing broadcast, multicast, and unicast storms
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Port blocking on forwarding unknown Layer 2 unknown unicast, multicast, and bridged broadcast
traffic
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Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping for IGMP Versions 1, 2, and 3 for
efficiently forwarding multimedia and multicast traffic
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IGMP report suppression for sending only one IGMP report per multicast router query to the
multicast devices (supported only for IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 queries)
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IGMP snooping querier support to configure switch to generate periodic IGMP general query
messages
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IPv6 host support for basic IPv6 management
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Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) snooping to enable efficient distribution of IP version 6 (IPv6)
multicast data to clients and routers in a switched network
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Multicast VLAN registration (MVR) to continuously send multicast streams in a multicast VLAN
while isolating the streams from subscriber VLANs for bandwidth and security reasons
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IGMP filtering for controlling the set of multicast groups to which hosts on a switch port can belong
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IGMP throttling for configuring the action when the maximum number of entries is in the IGMP
forwarding table
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IGMP leave timer for configuring the leave latency for the network
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Switch Database Management (SDM) templates for allocating system resources to maximize
support for user-selected features