GLOSSARY
Management Information Base (MIB)
An acronym for Management Information Base. It is a set of database objects that contains information about a specific device.
Multicast Switching
A process whereby the switch filters incoming multicast frames for services for which no attached host has registered, or forwards them to all ports contained within the designated multicast VLAN group.
Management of the network from a station not attached to the network.
Port Authentication
See IEEE 802.1x
Port Mirroring
A method whereby data on a target port is mirrored to a monitor port for troubleshooting with a logic analyzer or RMON probe. This allows data on the target port to be studied unobstructively.
Port Trunk
Defines a network link aggregation and trunking method which specifies how to create a single
Private VLAN
Private VLANs segregate traffic into a
Rate-Limit
This function allows the network manager to control the maximum rate for traffic transmitted or received on an interface. Rate limiting is configured on interfaces at the edge of a network to limit traffic