10/100 Auto Negotiation Switch User’s Guide
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Introduction
This chapter gives a physical and functional overview of the DES-3216. The DES-3216 is an intelligent, managed switch, designed for use on medium sized networks as part of the backbone or for use with other switches and hubs on a larger network.
The chapter is divided into the following sections. Each section briefly describes the features of the DES-3216. Most of the topics discussed will be explained in greater detail later in the manual.
The topics covered are:
∙Summary of Features
∙Panels of the DES-3216
∙Management Methods
∙Updating Firmware
Features
The DES-3216 has the following features:
∙All 16 ports auto-negotiate 10/100 Mbps.
∙The DES-3216 can be configured and customized to your network.
∙The DES-3216 can be managed in three ways: Local Console Management, Telnet and SNMP.
∙Supports Cut-through and Store-and-Forward switching.
∙Supports Full and Half Duplex for both 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps. .
∙Wire-speed packet filtering and forwarding for up to 16 ports.
∙Eight thousand active MAC address table entries per device with self-learning and table aging.
∙The DES-3216 supports SNMP for RFC 1213, RFC 1757, and RFC 1493.
∙VLAN support for eight broadcast domains.
∙Port Trunking support for bandwidth aggregation between two DES-3216 switches.
