- STP (Spanning Tree Protocol)- RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)- MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol)- STP BPDU Guard, BPDU Filtering and BPDU Forwarding
SupportsLink Aggregation
- IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)- Cisco ether-channel (Static Trunk)- Maximum 8 trunk groups, up to 8 ports per trunk group
Provides port mirror (many-to-1)
Loop protection to avoid broadcast loops
Quality of Service
Ingress / Egress Rate Limit per port bandwidth control
Storm control support
- Broadcast / Unknown-unicast / Unknown-multicast
Traffic classification
- IEEE 802.1p CoS- TOS / DSCP / IP Precedence of IPv4 / IPv6 packets
Strict priority and Weighted Round Robin (WRR) CoS policies
Multicast
Supports IGMP snooping v2 and v3
Supports MLD snooping v1, v2
IGMP querier mode support
IGMP snooping port filtering
MLD snooping port filtering
Security
Authentication
- IEEE 802.1X port-based network access authentication- Built-in RADIUS client to co-operate with the RADIUS servers- RADIUS / TACACS+ login user access authentication
Access Control List
- IPv4 / IPv6 IP-based ACL- MAC-based ACL
MAC Security
- Static MAC- MAC Filtering
Port security for source MAC address entries filtering
DHCP snooping to filter distrusted DHCP messages
Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding
IP Source Guard prevents IP spoofing attacks
DoS attack prevention
SSH/SSL
Management
IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack management
Switch management interface
- Web switch management- Console / Telnet command line interface- SNMP v1, v2c and v3- SSH / SSL secure access
User privilege levels control
Built-in Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client
BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
System maintenance
- Firmware upload / download via HTTP / TFTP- Configuration upload / download through Web interface- Dual images- Hardware reset button for system reboot or reset to factory default
SNTP Network Time Protocol
Cable diagnostics
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Protocol and LLDP-MED
SNMP trap for interface link up and link down notification
Event message logging to remote Syslog server
Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms and events)