SMC Networks SMC6709L2 manual Chapter Introduction, Key Features

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

This switch provides a broad range of features for Layer 2 switching. It includes a management agent that allows you to configure the features listed in this manual. The default configuration can be used for most of the features provided by this switch. However, there are many options that you should configure to maximize the switch’s performance for your particular network environment.

Key Features

Feature	Description
Authentication	Console, Telnet, Web – User name / password
	SNMP – Community strings
Configuration	Backup to TFTP server
Backup / Restore
Port Configuration	Speed, duplex mode and flow control
Port Mirroring	One or more ports mirrored to single analysis port
Static Address	Up to 6K MAC addresses in the forwarding table
Trunks	Static trunks or dynamic Link Aggregation Control Protocol
Spanning Tree	Supported
Protocol
Virtual LANs	Up to 255
Traffic	Supports two priority queues; queuing based on First-In
Prioritization	First-Out (FIFO), high queue before low queue, or Weighted
	Round Robin (WRR)
Multicast Filtering	Supports IGMP snooping and query

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