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Advanced Network Configuration Examples 83

Advanced Network Configuration

Examples

This section shows some network examples that illustrate how you can

set up your network for optimum performance using some of the

features supported by your Switch.

Improving the

Resilience of Your

Network

Figure 24 shows how you can set up your net work to improve its

resilience by enabling Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). Aggregated links

have also been setup from the Core Switch, this increases the bandwidth

available for the backbone connection, and also provides extra resilience.

Figure24 Network set up to provide resilience

Endstationson

10/100Mbps connections

1000Mbps

100Mbps

Servers on

1000 Mbps connections

withresilient links set up

1000Mbps with

aggregatedlinks

setup

Server on 1000 Mbps

connection- link blocked by

SpanningTree Protocol

CoreSwitch

Switch4200 unit

Endstationson

10/100Mbps connections

Switch4900 Series

Endstationson

10/100Mbps connections

Stackof four Switch 4200 units

Endstationson

10/100Mbps connections

Switch4900 Series

Aggregatedlink

Server on 1000 Mbps

connection- link blocked by

SpanningTree Protocol

Contents

Main 3Com Corporation 5400 Bayfront Plaza Santa Clara, California 95052-8145 C ABOUT THIS GUIDE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C G I A BOUT T HIS G Conventions Tabl e 1 Notice Icons Tabl e 2 Text Conventions Related Documentation Documentation Comments Product Registration I Page 1 What is Management Software? Switch Features Explained Page Page Page Page Page 2 Port Features Page Page Aggregated Links Page Page Page Page 3 What is an IP Multicast? Multicast Filtering Page IGMP Multicast Filtering Page Page 4 Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) What is STP? Page How STP Works Page Page Page Page Page Default Behavior Using STP on a Network with Multiple VLANs Page Page 5 What is the Switch Database? How Switch Database Entries Get Added Switch Database Entry States 6 What is Traffic Prioritization? How Traffic Prioritization Works Page Traffic Prioritization and your Switch Page Page 7 S RMON What is RMON? Benefits of RMON RMON and the Switch Page Page Hardware Status Monitoring Hardware Status Monitoring 59 Figure13 Example CLI screen text Figure14 Example of an individual unit system summary screen Page 8 What are VLANs? Benefits of VLANs VLANs and Your Switch Page Page VLAN Configuration Page Page 9 How Your Switch Obtains IP Information How Automatic IP Configuration Works Page Important Considerations II Page A 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 Page Page B 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 Page Advanced Network Configuration Page C IP Addresses Page Page Subnets and Subnet Masks Page Default Gateway s G Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page I Numbers A B C L M N O P T V