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Auto-negotiation
The INS-806 Industrial Switch’s 10/100 Mbps switched
RJ-45 port auto negotiates with the connected device for
the fastest data transmission rate supported by both
devices. This helps make the Switch plug-and-play
device. The switch’s RJ-45 ports support full or half
duplex, depending on which transmission speed is
supported by the attached device.
Switching, Filtering, and Forwarding
Packets entering the INS-806 Switch with source and
destination addresses belonging to the same port
segment will be filtered, constraining those packets to
one port, and relieving the rest of the network from the
need to process them. A packet with destination address
on another port segment will be forwarded to the
appropriate port, and will not be sent to the other ports
where it is not needed. Packets that are used in
maintaining the operation of the network (such as the
occasional multi-cast packet) are forwarded to all ports.
As with all VOLKTEK switches, the INS-806 Industrial
Switch operates in the store-and-forward switching mode,
which eliminates bad packets and enables peak
performance to be achieved when there is heavy traffic
on the network.
