Blade ICE G8000 manual What You’ll Find in This Guide

RackSwitch G8000 Application Guide

What You’ll Find in This Guide

This guide will help you plan, implement, and administer RS G8000 software. Where possible, each section provides feature overviews, usage examples, and configuration instructions.

„Chapter 1, “Accessing the Switch,” describes how to access the switch to perform admin- istration tasks. This chapter also discusses different methods to manage the switch for remote administrators using specific IP addresses, authentication, and Secure Shell (SSH).

„Chapter 2, “Port-based Network Access Control,” describes how to authenticate devices attached to a LAN port that has point-to-point connection characteristics. It prevents access to ports that fail authentication and authorization. This feature provides security for switch ports.

„Chapter 3, “VLANs,” describes how to configure Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) for creating separate network segments, including how to use VLAN tagging for devices that use multiple VLANs. This chapter also describes Private VLANs.

„Chapter 4, “Ports and Trunking,” describes how to group multiple physical ports together to aggregate the bandwidth between large-scale network devices.

„Chapter 5, “Spanning Tree,” discusses how Spanning Trees configure the network so that the switch uses the most efficient path when multiple paths exist.

„Chapter 6, “Quality of Service,” discusses Quality of Service features, including IP filter- ing using Access Control Lists, Differentiated Services, and IEEE 802.1p priority values.

„Chapter 7, “Remote Monitoring,” discusses how to configure and use the Remote Moni- toring (RMON) agent on the switch.

„Chapter 8, “Basic IP Routing,” describes how to configure the switch for IP routing using IP subnets, and DHCP.

„Chapter 9, “IGMP,” describes how the RS G8000 software implements IGMP Snooping to handle multicast traffic efficiently.

„Chapter 10, “High Availability,” describes how to use the Uplink Failure Detection (UFD) to ensure that network resources remain available if one switch is removed for service.

„Appendix A, “Troubleshooting,” discusses the main tool for troubleshooting your switch—monitoring ports.

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