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filtering, and routing protocols. Each of the setup screens provided by these
configuration menus is described in the following sections.
Menu Description
System Mode³ Sets the switch to operate as a Layer 2 switch or as a multilayer
routing switch.
Layer 2 Menu Configures port communication mode, mirror ports, port trunking,
and static addresses.
Bridge Menu Configures the Spanning Tree Protocol for the bridge or for specific
ports, GMRP and GVRP for automatic registration of multicast and
VLAN groups, traffic class priority threshold, and address aging
time.
VLAN Menu Configures VLAN settings for specific ports, and defines the port
membership for VLAN groups.
IGMP Snooping
Configuration¹
Configures IGMP multicast filtering.
IP Menu² Configures the subnets for each VLAN group, global configuration
for ARP and Proxy ARP, unicast and multicast protocols, static ARP
table entries, static routes and the default route.
Security Menu Configures MAC and IP² address filtering.
1. Only displayed if the intelligent switch is set to Layer 2 mode or the switch is
management model.
2. Only displayed if the intelligent switch is set to multilayer mode. (Note that this menu
includes IGMP Snooping Configuration.)
3. Only displayed in intelligent switch.
3.6.1.Setting the System Operation Mode This switch can be set to operate as a Layer 2 switch, making all filtering and forwarding
decisions based strictly on MAC addresses. Or, it can be set to operate as a multilayer
routing switch, whereby it switches packets for all non-IP protocols (such as NetBUEI,
NetWare or AppleTalk) based on MAC addresses (see “Virtual LANs” on chapter 4), and
routes all IP packets based on the specified routing protocol. The System Mode menu is
shown below. Note that the switch will be automatically rebooted whenever the system
operation mode is changed.