1 Introduction

Congratulations on becoming the owner of the ASUS GigaX L3 managed switch! You may now manage your LAN (local area network) through a friendly and powerful user interface.

This user guide tells you how to set up the GigaX L3 managed switch, and how to customize its configuration to get the most out of this product.

1.1L3 managed features

24 10/100BASE-TX auto-sensing Fast Ethernet ports

Two 10/100/1000BASE-T auto-sensing Gigabit Ethernet switching ports

Two small form factor (SFP) Gigabit interface converter (GBIC) slots

Automatic MDI/MDIX support for 10/100BASE-TX and 10/100/1000BASE-T ports

Layer 3 switching for IP packets

2K IP address cache with hardware-accelerated forwarding

Static route

RIP v1, v2

Compliant with 802.3u, 802.3z and 802.3ab specifications

802.1D transparent bridge/spanning tree protocol

802.1w RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)

IEEE 802.1x authentication (with dynamic VLAN assignment)

RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service)

8K MAC address cache with hardware-assisted aging

802.3x flow control

802.1Q-based tagged VLAN, up to 255 VLANs

802.1p class of service, 4 queues per port

IGMP snooping support

802.3ad link aggregation (trunking), up to 6 trunk groups

Port Mirroring

Access Control List

RMON: support 4 groups (1, 2, 3, 9)

SNMP v1, v2, v3

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