SMC Networks SMC8624/48T manual Description of Software Features

INTRODUCTION

	Table 1-1. Key Features
Feature	Description
Broadcast Storm	Supported
Control
Static Address	Up to 16K MAC addresses in the forwarding table
IEEE 802.1D	Supports dynamic data switching and addresses learning
Bridge
Store-and-Forward	Supported to ensure wire-speed switching while eliminating
Switching	bad frames
Spanning Tree	Supports standard STP, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
Protocol	(RSTP), and Multiple Spanning Trees (MSTP)
Virtual LANs	Up to 255 using IEEE 802.1Q, port-based, protocol-based, or
	private VLANs
Traffic	Default port priority, traffic class map, queue scheduling, IP
Prioritization	Precedence, or Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
Multicast Filtering	Supports IGMP snooping and query

Description of Software Features

The switch provides a wide range of advanced performance enhancing features. Flow control eliminates the loss of packets due to bottlenecks caused by port saturation. Broadcast storm suppression prevents broadcast traffic storms from engulfing the network. Port-based and protocol-based VLANs, plus support for automatic GVRP VLAN registration provide traffic security and efficient use of network bandwidth. CoS priority queueing ensures the minimum delay for moving real-time multimedia data across the network. While multicast filtering provides support for real-time network applications. Some of the management features are briefly described below.

Configuration Backup and Restore – You can save the current configuration settings to a file on a TFTP server, and later download this file to restore the switch configuration settings.

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