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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.
1.1 L3 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