Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your Switch

Shared resources such as a server can be used by all ports in the same VLAN as the server. In the following figure only ports that need access to the server need to be part of VLAN 1. Ports can belong to other VLAN groups too.

Figure 4 Shared Server Using VLAN Example

1.1.5 IPv6 Support

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), is designed to enhance IP address size and features. The increase in IPv6 address size to 128 bits (from the 32-bit IPv4 address) allows up to 3.4 x 1038 IP addresses. At the time of writing, the Switch supports the following features.

•Static address assignment and stateless auto-configuration

•Neighbor Discovery Protocol (a protocol used to discover other IPv6 devices in a network)

•Remote Management using ping SNMP, telnet, HTTP and FTP services

•ICMPv6 to report errors encountered in packet processing and perform diagnostic functions, such as "ping”

•IPv4/IPv6 dual stack; the Switch can run IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time

•DHCPv6 client and relay

•Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) snooping and proxy

For more information on IPv6, refer to the CLI Reference Guide.

1.2 Ways to Manage the Switch

Use any of the following methods to manage the Switch.

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