Description

Physical Port

Layer 2 Features

Prevents packet loss with back pressure (half-duplex) and IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control (full-duplex)
High performance Store and Forward architecture, broadcast storm control, runt/CRC filtering eliminates erroneous packets to optimize the network bandwidth
Supports VLAN
- IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLAN
- Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q) support (IEEE 802.1ad)
- Protocol VLAN
- Voice VLAN
- Private VLAN (Protected port)
- Management VLAN
- GVRP

Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
- STP (Spanning Tree Protocol)
- RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
- MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol)
- STP BPDU Guard, BPDU Filtering and BPDU Forwarding

Supports Link Aggregation
- IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
- Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)
- Maximum 1 trunk group, up to 2 ports per trunk group

Quality of Service

Ingress/Egress Rate Limit per port bandwidth control
Storm Control support
- Broadcast/Unknown-Unicast/Unknown-Multicast
Traffic classification
- IEEE 802.1p CoS
- TOS/DSCP/IP Precedence of IPv4/IPv6 packets
Strict priority and Weighted Round Robin (WRR) CoS policies

Multicast

Security

Authentication
- IEEE 802.1X Port-based network access authentication
- Built-in RADIUS client to co-operate with the RADIUS servers
- RADIUS/TACACS+ login user access authentication
Access Control List
- IPv4/IPv6 IP-based ACL/ACE
- MAC-based ACL/ACE
MAC Security
- Static MAC
- MAC Filtering
Port Security for Source MAC address entries filtering
DHCP Snooping to filter distrusted DHCP messages
Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding
IP Source Guard prevents IP spoofing attacks
DoS Attack Prevention

Management

IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack management
Switch Management Interface
- Web switch management
- Console/Telnet Command Line Interface
- SNMP v1 and v2c switch management
- SSHv2, TLSv1.2 and SNMP v3 secure access
User Privilege Levels Control
Built-in Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client
BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
System Maintenance
- Firmware upload/download via HTTP/TFTP
- Configuration upload/download via HTTP/TFTP
- Dual Images
- Hardware reset button for system reboot or reset to factory default
SNTP Network Time Protocol
Cable Diagnostics
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Protocol and LLDP-MED
SNMP trap for interface Link Up and Link Down notification
Event message logging to remote Syslog server
Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events)
PLANET NMS System and Smart Discovery Utility for deployment management