
Section 2
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GigaFast
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Tx Bandwidth Control: Controls on speed of packets being
transferred.
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Rx Bandwidth Control: Controls on speed of packets being received.
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Trunking: Trunk ports together to allow increased bandwidth through
the switch, or to connect multiple switches together to increase
VLAN capabilities.
Global Configuration
Global Configuration is used to configure the global port control registers. Press the
‘
Refresh
’ button to read the status of the registers. Press the ‘
Update
’ button to set
the registers as shown in this frame.
Half Duplex Backpressure Flow:
This is used to have nodes verify there is buffer space before packets are sent.
Broadcast Storm Filtering Control:
This is used to set a threshold for the number of broadcast packets to be received
from 1 port before port forwarding is blocked.