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Appendix A
Configuration R
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Appendix B
Network Configuration Examples
Appendix C
IP Addressing
Glossary
Index
Contents
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Conventions
Tabl e 1 Notice Icons
Tabl e 2 Text Conventions
Related Documentation
Documentation Comments
Product Registration
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What is Management Software?
Switch Features Explained
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Port Features
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Aggregated Links
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What is an IP Multicast?
Multicast Filtering
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IGMP Multicast Filtering
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Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
What is STP?
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How STP Works
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Default Behavior
Using STP on a Network with Multiple VLANs
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What is the Switch Database?
How Switch Database Entries Get Added
Switch Database Entry States
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What is Traffic Prioritization?
How Traffic Prioritization Works
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Traffic Prioritization and your Switch
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RMON
What is RMON?
Benefits of RMON
RMON and the Switch
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Hardware Status Monitoring
Hardware Status Monitoring 59
Figure13 Example CLI screen text
Figure14 Example of an individual unit system summary screen
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What are VLANs?
Benefits of VLANs
VLANs and Your Switch
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VLAN Configuration
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How Your Switch Obtains IP Information
How Automatic IP Configuration Works
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Important Considerations
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Configuration Rules for Gigabit Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet is designed to run over several media:
(3.1 miles). Support for distances over 5 km is supp orted depending on the module specification.
The different types of Gigabit Ethernet media and their s pecifications are detailed in Tabl e 7.
Configuration Rules for Fast Ethernet
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Simple Network Configuration
Simple Network Configuration Examples 81
Collapsed Backbone Switch Example
DualSpeed Hub 500
Switch4400 stack
Switch4200 stack
Figure22 Using the Switch 4200 as a collapsed backbone
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Advanced Network Configuration
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IP Addresses
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Subnets and Subnet Masks
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