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MULTINET4 MULTI-PORT SERIAL SERVER & MANAGED SWITCH – INSTRUCTION MANUAL
OVERVIEW
CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW
Terminal Server
• Active, passive, and mixed connection modes
• Telnet and raw TCP sessions
• Multiple incoming connections per serial port
Ethernet Port Management
• Supported media types include 10/100BaseTX and 100FX
• 10, 100, or Auto speed selections for 10/100BaseTX
Auto-Negotiation and Auto-MDIX
• Half or full duplex operation for 10/100BaseTX
• Ethernet frame statistics
• Port Rate Limiting based on packet type (broadcast,
multicast, flood, all)
• Port Mirroring
Ethernet Switching
• Maximum Station Cache capacity of 1,024 random MAC
addresses
• Up to 64 static MAC addresses
• Purge Dynamic Cache Entries
• 802.1D-compliant Learning Bridge
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
(RSTP))
• STP
• RSTP
VLANs
• Up to 16 different VLANs
• Tagged and untagged operation
• VLAN security (tag-based filtering)
• Optional egress tag stripping
QoS
• Flexible flow-based DiffServ marking for all routed packets
• Configurable mapping of DiffServ marking to 802.1p priority
tag for all routed packets
• 4-Level priority queuing for Ethernet switching based on IEEE
802.1p tag, IP DiffServ marking, or ingress port.
Security
• Secure Web Server using HTTP over SSL (https://)
• User authentication via RADIUS
• Authenticated and encrypted terminal server connections
over SSL
• RSA public key and X.509 certificate management and
generation
• Web-based upload of new keys and certificates
• Supports a number of SSL and TLS cipher suites that include
support for RSA public keys, 3DES/AES/RC4 encryption, and
MD5/SHA1 hashing
Table 1–11: Software Features Summary
Feature
Details