4.5 Device Control Menu

The Device Control menu is used to control a broad range of functions, including port mode, port mirroring, port trunking, Spanning Tree, Virtual LANs, IP subnets, multicast filtering, and routing protocols. Each of the setup screens provided by these configuration menus is described in the following sections.

Menu

Description

System Mode

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, and port trunking.

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

Configures IGMP multicast filtering.

Configuration *1

 

IP Menu *2

Configures the subnets for each VLAN group, global configuration for unicast

 

and multicast routing protocols, IGMP snooping

Security

Restrict access through MAC address or IP address*2

Jumbo Packet Menu

Allow the WGS3-404 to send up to 9k jumbo packet

1:Only displayed for Layer 2 mode of WGS3-2620.

2:Only displayed for Multilayer mode of WGS3-2620 and WGS3-404.

3:Only displayed for WGS3-404

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