Asante Technologies 6200 manual Intelligent Forwarding Chassis Design

Introduction

Intelligent

Forwarding

Chassis Design

The Asanté switching engine supports automatic fragment free packet forwarding. Fragment free switch mode allows the switch to make the fastest possible switching decisions without forwarding runt packages on the network.The switch automatically drops (or filters) illegally short packets known as runts, which prevent bad packets from propagating across segments. Runts are usually the result of packet collisions on a congested network.

The Asanté switching engine also supports store and forward switching. It will automatically choose the safest and fastest method of switching if the source and destination are at the same speed. If the speeds are different, such as for a 10Mbps workstation connected to a 100Mbps server, the switch will buffer and read the entire packet, perform a data validity check, then forward the packet at the new speed.With Asanté Intelligent Forwarding your FriendlyNet Switch will automatically pick the best and fastest switching method for you.

ΔNote: Intelligent Forwarding is an automatic fea- ture of the IntraSwitch and cannot be altered by the user.

The IntraSwitch chassis is rack-mountable and is 1.5 RU (rack units) high.

▲Important! Do not remove the IntraSwitch’s cover.This will invalidate the Asanté Limited Lifetime Warranty. Refer service to qualified ser- vice personnel.

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