Physical Ports
- 8 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet ports with auto-MDI/MDI-X supported
- 2 100/1000Base-X mini-GBIC/SFP slots
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- 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 8 trunk groups, up to 8 ports per trunk group
- Provides Port Mirror (many-to-1)
- Loop protection to avoid broadcast loops
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
- Supports IGMP Snooping v2 and v3
- Supports MLD Snooping v1, v2
- IGMP Querier mode support
- IGMP Snooping port filtering
- MLD Snooping port filtering
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- MAC-based ACL - 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
- SSH/SSL
Management
- IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack management
- Switch Management Interface
- Web switch management
- Telnet Command Line Interface
- SNMP v1, v2c and v3
- SSH / SSL 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 through Web interface- 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 Smart Discovery Utility
