Enterasys Networks 9034313-07 manual Structure of This Guide

Structure of This Guide

Chapter 5, Configuring System Power and PoE, describes the commands used to review and set system power and PoE parameters on devices that offer Power over Ethernet.

Chapter 6, Discovery Protocol Configuration provides how to configure discovery protocols supported by the device.

Chapter 7, Port Configuration, describes how to review and configure console port settings, and how to enable or disable switch ports and configure switch port settings, including port speed, duplex mode, auto‐negotiation, flow control, port mirroring, link aggegation and broadcast suppression.

Chapter 8, SNMP Configuration, describes how to configure SNMP users and user groups, access rights, target addresses, and notification parameters.

Chapter 9, Spanning Tree Configuration, describes how to review and set Spanning Tree bridge parameters for the device, including bridge priority, hello time, maximum aging time and forward delay; and how to review and set Spanning Tree port parameters, including port priority and path costs. Configuring the SpanGuard and Loop Protect functions is also described.

Chapter 10, 802.1Q VLAN Configuration, describes how to create static VLANs, select the mode of operation for each port, establish VLAN forwarding (egress) lists, route frames according to VLAN ID, display the current ports and port types associated with a VLAN and protocol, create a secure management VLAN, and configure ports on the device as GVRP‐aware ports.

Chapter 11, Policy Classification Configuration, describes how to create, change or remove user roles or profiles based on business‐specific use of network services; how to permit or deny access to specific services by creating and assigning classification rules which map user profiles to frame filtering policies; how to classify frames to a VLAN or Class of Service (CoS); and how to assign or unassign ports to policy profiles so that only ports activated for a profile will be allowed to transmit frames accordingly.

Chapter 12, Port Priority Configuration, describes how to set the transmit priority of each port and configure a rate limit for a given port and list of priorities.

Chapter 13, IGMP Configuration, describes how to configure Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) settings for multicast filtering.

Chapter 14, Logging and Network Management, describes how to configure Syslog, how to manage general switch settings, how to monitor network events and status,and how to configure SNTP and node aliases.

Chapter 15, RMON Configuration, describes how to use RMON (Remote Network Monitoring), which provides comprehensive network fault diagnosis, planning, and performance tuning information and allows for interoperability between SNMP management stations and monitoring agents.

Chapter 16, DHCP Server Configuration, describes how to review and configure DHCP server parameters, how to review and configure DHCP address pools, and how to display DHCP server information.

Chapter 17, DHCP Snooping and Dynamic ARP Inspection, describes two security features: DHCP snooping, which monitors DHCP messages between a DHCP client and DHCP server to filter harmful DHCP messages and to build a database of authorized address bindings, and Dynamic ARP inspection, which uses the bindings database created by the DHCP snooping feature to reject invalid and malicious ARP packets.

Chapter 18, Preparing for Router Mode, provides information about router modes.

Chapter 19, IP Configuration, describes how to enable IP routing for router mode operation, how to configure IP interface settings, how to review and configure the routing ARP table, how to review and configure routing broadcasts, how to configure PIM, and how to configure IP routes.

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