Digisol DG-GS4826S, Management Manual

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C
HAPTER
1 | Introduction
Description of Software Features
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dynamic configuration of local clients from a DHCP server located in a
different network.
P
ORT
C
ONFIGURATION
You can manually configure the speed and duplex mode, and flow control
used on specific ports, or use auto-negotiation to detect the connection
settings used by the attached device. Use the full-duplex mode on ports
whenever possible to double the throughput of switch connections. Flow
control should also be enabled to control network traffic during periods of
congestion and prevent the loss of packets when port buffer thresholds are
exceeded. The switch supports flow control based on the IEEE 802.3x
standard (now incorporated in IEEE 802.3-2002).
R
ATE
L
IMITING
This feature controls the maximum rate for traffic transmitted or received
on an interface. Rate limiting is configured on interfaces at the edge of a
network to limit traffic into or out of the network. Packets that exceed the
acceptable amount of traffic are dropped.
P
ORT
M
IRRORING
The switch can unobtrusively mirror traffic from any port to a monitor port.
You can then attach a protocol analyzer or RMON probe to this port to
perform traffic analysis and verify connection integrity.
P
ORT
T
RUNKING
Ports can be combined into an aggregate connection. Trunks can be
manually set up or dynamically configured using Link Aggregation Control
Protocol (LACP – IEEE 802.3-2005). The additional ports dramatically
increase the throughput across any connection, and provide redundancy by
taking over the load if a port in the trunk should fail. The switch supports
up to 32 trunks per switch or stack.
B
ROADCAST
S
TORM
C
ONTROL
Broadcast suppression prevents broadcast traffic from overwhelming the
network. When enabled on a port, the level of broadcast traffic passing
through the port is restricted. If broadcast traffic rises above a pre-defined
threshold, it will be throttled until the level falls back beneath the
threshold.
S
TATIC
A
DDRESSES
A static address can be assigned to a specific interface on this switch.
Static addresses are bound to the assigned interface and will not be
moved. When a static address is seen on another interface, the address will
be ignored and will not be written to the address table. Static addresses
can be used to provide network security by restricting access for a known
host to a specific port.
IP A
DDRESS
F
ILTERING
Access to insecure ports can be controlled using DHCP Snooping which
filters ingress traffic based on static IP addresses and addresses stored in
the DHCP Snooping table. Traffic can also be restricted to specific source IP