Description of Software Features
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• Use private VLANs to restrict traffic to pass only between data ports and the uplink
ports, thereby isolating adjacent ports within the same VLAN, and allowing you to
limit the total number of VLANs that need to be configured.
• Use protocol VLANs to restrict traffic to specified interfaces based on protocol type.
Traffic Prioritization
– This switch prioritizes each packet based on the required
level of service, using eight priority queues with strict or Weighted Round Robin
Queuing. It uses IEEE 802.1p and 802.1Q tags to prioritize incoming traffic based on
input from the end-station application. These functions can be used to provide
independent priorities for delay-sensitive data and best-effort data.
This switch also supports several common methods of prioritizing layer 3/4 traffic to
meet application requirements. Traffic can be prioritized based on the priority bits in
the IP frame’s Type of Service (ToS) octet or the number of the TCP/UDP port.
When these services are enabled, the priorities are mapped to a Class of Service
value by the switch, and the traffic then sent to the corresponding output queue.
IP Routing
– The switch provides Layer 3 IP routing. To maintain a high rate of
throughput, the switch forwards all traffic passing within the same segment, and
routes only traffic that passes between different subnetworks. The wire-speed
routing provided by this switch lets you easily link network segments or VLANs
together without having to deal with the bottlenecks or configuration hassles
normally associated with conventional routers.
Routing for unicast traffic is supported with the Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
and the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol.
RIP – This protocol uses a distance-vector approach to routing. Routes are
determined on the basis of minimizing the distance vector, or hop count, which
serves as a rough estimate of transmission cost.
OSPF – This approach uses a link state routing protocol to generate a shortest-path
tree, then builds up its routing table based on this tree. OSPF produces a more
stable network because the participating routers act on network changes predictably
and simultaneously, converging on the best route more quickly than RIP.
Router Redundancy
– The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) uses a
virtual IP address to support a primary router and multiple backup routers. The
backups can be configured to take over the workload if the master fails or to load
share the traffic. The primary goal of this protocol is to allow a host device which has
been configured with a fixed gateway to maintain network connectivity in case the
primary gateway goes down.
Address Resolution Protocol
– The switch uses ARP and Proxy ARP to convert
between IP addresses and MAC (i.e., hardware) addresses. This switch supports
conventional ARP, which locates the MAC address corresponding to a given IP
address. This allows the switch to use IP addresses for routing decisions and the
corresponding MAC addresses to forward packets from one hop to the next. You can
configure either static or dynamic entries in the ARP cache.
Proxy ARP allows hosts that do not support routing to determine the MAC address
of a device on another network or subnet. When a host sends an ARP request for a
Summary of Contents for 8926EM
Page 6: ...ii ...
Page 34: ...Getting Started ...
Page 44: ...Introduction 1 10 1 ...
Page 62: ...Initial Configuration 2 18 2 ...
Page 64: ...Switch Management ...
Page 76: ...Configuring the Switch 3 12 3 ...
Page 118: ...Basic Management Tasks 4 42 4 ...
Page 164: ...User Authentication 6 28 6 ...
Page 176: ...Access Control Lists 7 12 7 ...
Page 284: ...Quality of Service 14 8 14 ...
Page 294: ...Multicast Filtering 15 10 15 ...
Page 300: ...Domain Name Service 16 6 16 ...
Page 310: ...Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol 17 10 17 ...
Page 320: ...Configuring Router Redundancy 18 10 18 ...
Page 344: ...IP Routing 19 24 19 ...
Page 356: ...Unicast Routing 20 12 20 Web Click Routing Protocol RIP Statistics Figure 20 5 RIP Statistics ...
Page 386: ...Unicast Routing 20 42 20 ...
Page 388: ...Command Line Interface ...
Page 400: ...Overview of the Command Line Interface 21 12 21 ...
Page 466: ...SNMP Commands 24 16 24 ...
Page 520: ...Access Control List Commands 26 18 26 ...
Page 546: ...Rate Limit Commands 30 2 30 ...
Page 612: ...VLAN Commands 34 24 34 ...
Page 626: ...Class of Service Commands 35 14 35 ...
Page 670: ...DHCP Commands 39 16 39 ...
Page 716: ...IP Interface Commands 41 36 41 ...
Page 768: ...IP Routing Commands 42 52 42 ...
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