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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3120 for HP Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
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Support for the maximum packet size or maximum transmission unit (MTU) size for these types of
frames:
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Up to 9216 bytes for routed frames
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Up to 9216 bytes for frames that are bridged in hardware and software through Gigabit Ethernet
ports and 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports
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IEEE 802.3x flow control on all ports (the switch does not send pause frames)
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Up to 64 Gb/s of throughput in a switch stack
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EtherChannel for enhanced fault tolerance and for providing up to 8 Gb/s (Gigabit EtherChannel)
or 80 Gb/s (10-Gigabit 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 and Layer 3 packets at Gigabit line rate
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Forwarding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 packets at Gigabit line rate across the switches in the stack
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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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Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) server support and Internet Group Management
Protocol (IGMP) snooping for IGMP Versions 1, 2, and 3:
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(For CGMP devices) CGMP for limiting multicast traffic to specified end stations and reducing
overall network traffic
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(For IGMP devices) IGMP snooping 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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IIGMP Helper to allow the switch to forward a host request to join a multicast stream to a specific
IP destination address
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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
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Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) for redirecting traffic to wide-area application
engines, for enabling content requests to be fulfilled locally, and for localizing web-traffic patterns
in the network (requires the IP services image)