GLOSSARY

Management Information Base (MIB)

An acronym for Management Information Base. It is a set of database objects that contains information about a specific device.

Multicast Switching

A process whereby the switch filters incoming multicast frames for services for which no attached host has registered, or forwards them to all ports contained within the designated multicast VLAN group.

Out-of-Band Management

Management of the network from a station not attached to the network.

Port Authentication

See IEEE 802.1x

Port Mirroring

A method whereby data on a target port is mirrored to a monitor port for troubleshooting with a logic analyzer or RMON probe. This allows data on the target port to be studied unobstructively.

Port Trunk

Defines a network link aggregation and trunking method which specifies how to create a single high-speed logical link that combines several lower-speed physical links.

Private VLAN

Private VLANs segregate traffic into a non-broadcast domain. Traffic from a promiscuous port can pass between all ports that belong to the same primary VLAN. Traffic from a host port in a secondary VLAN can be forwarded to a promiscuous port in the associated primary VLAN or to other ports that belong to the same community VLAN.

Rate-Limit

This function allows the network manager to control the maximum rate for traffic transmitted or received on an interface. Rate limiting is configured on interfaces at the edge of a network to limit traffic

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