Chapter 11

Avaya P330 Layer 2 Features

This section describes the Avaya P330 Layer 2 features. It provides the basic procedures for configuring the P330 for Layer 2 operation.

Overview

The P330 family supports a range of Layer 2 features. Each feature has CLI commands associated with it. These commands are used to configure, operate, or monitor switch activity for each of the Layer 2 features.

This section of the User’s Guide explains each of the features. Specifically, the topics discussed here include:

Ethernet

VLAN

Spanning Tree Protocol

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

MAC Aging

Link Aggregation Group (LAG)

Port Redundancy

IP Multicast Filtering

Weighted Queuing

Stack Health

Stack Redundancy

Port Classification

Ethernet

Ethernet is one of the most widely implemented LAN standards. It uses the Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) access method to handle simultaneous demands. CSMA/CD is a multi-user network allocation procedure in which every station can receive the transmissions of every other station. Each station waits for the network to be idle before transmitting and each station can detect collisions by other stations.

The first version of Ethernet supported data transfer rates of 10 Mbps, and is therefore known as 10BASE-T.

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