Chapter 55 Product Specifications

Table 170 Firmware Specifications (continued)

FEATURE

DESCRIPTION

CPU Protection

You can limit the rate of protocol control packets (such as ARP,

 

BPDU and/or IGMP) to be delivered to the CPU on a port.

 

 

Error Disable

You can set the Switch to take an action (such as to shut down

 

a port or stop sending packets) on a port when the Switch

 

detects a pre-configured error. You can also configure the

 

Switch to automatically undo the action after the error is gone.

 

 

Policy Routing

Policy routing lets you override the default routing behavior and

 

alter the packet forwarding based on the pre-defined policy.

 

 

ARP Learning

You can configure the Switch to update the ARP table with with

 

an ARP reply or a gratuitous ARP request and/or an APR

 

request.

 

 

Load Sharing

Load sharing allows the Switch to forward packets destined to

 

the same device through different routing paths of equal path

 

cost.

 

 

 

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