Allied Telesis at-8700xl series switch manual Management Features, Layer 3 and Other Features

8 AT-8700XL Series Switch User Guide

■Spanning Tree Protocol and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (“Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)” on page 68).

■Classifiers to sort traffic for QoS and hardware filtering

■Quality of Service

•DSCP configuration enabling management of DiffServ domains

•Priority queuing

•Bandwidth limiting

■Port trunking to spread traffic over several links (“Port Trunking” on page 64).

■Port mirroring (“Port Mirroring” on page 64).

■IGMP snooping and Multicast VLAN Registration

Management Features

The following features enhance management of the switch:

■A sophisticated and configurable event logging facility for monitoring and alarm notification to single or multiple management centres.

■Triggers for automatic and timed execution of commands in response to events.

■Scripting for automated configuration and centralised management of configurations.

■Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for IP and IPv6. DHCP lets you automatically assign IP addresses and other configuration information to PCs and other hosts on TCP/IP networks.

■Support for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), standard MIBs and the Allied Telesyn Enterprise MIB, enabling the switch to be managed by a separate SNMP management station.

■Telnet client and server.

■Secure Shell remote management.

■An HTTP client that allows the direct download of files from a web server to the switch’s FLASH memory.

For complete descriptions of these software features, see the AT-8700XL Series

Software Reference.

Layer 3 and Other Features

AT-8700XL Series Advanced Fast Ethernet Switches provide efficient and cost- effective switching, terminal serving and integrated network management over LANs. All models can run the same software suite and can provide all of the following functions simultaneously (depending on the hardware configuration):

■TCP/IP routing.

■IP multicasting support including Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), IGMP snooping, IGMP proxy and Multicast VLAN Registration.

■Ping Polling for determining device reachability and responding when a device or link goes up or down.

Software Release 2.6.1 C613-02030-00 REV B