Switches November 20, 2008 These release notes contain important information about the Cisco SFE2000 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switch family and any limitations, restrictions, or caveats that apply to the firmware in the following Cisco SFE2000 Series models: • • Contents These release notes contain the following sections: •...
Introduction Formerly Linksys Business Series, now Cisco Small Business Managed Switches, the Cisco SFE2000 Managed Switch plays a central role in keeping your data safe. It supports a wide assortment of features, including dual firmware images and redundant power configuration when using an external RPSU to maximize your system's availability.
Devices that are factory loaded with firmware version 1.0. 1 . 1 should not be downgraded to earlier versions of the firmware: These devices may not function properly in a stack. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches Cisco Download Software Image Name linksys_bp24_boot-10005.bin...
Transmissions are temporarily halted to prevent buffer overflows. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches Firmware Features, page 4 Layer 2 Features, page 6...
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MAC Address Supported Features • • Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches MAC Address Capacity Support—This device supports up to 8K MAC addresses. It reserves specific MAC addresses for system use. Static MAC Entries— MAC entries can be manually entered in the Bridging Table, as an alternative to learning them from incoming frames.
– that is, ports that are members of the relevant multicast group. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches Automatic Aging for MAC Addresses—MAC addresses from which no traffic is received for a given period are aged out.
Boot time of the software, and can only be changed by a unit reset. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches Single point of control and management for every member of the stack,...
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Master fails. If this happens, the Backup Master takes its place and continues to operate the Stack normally. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches A stack is comprised of units based on the same types of Packet Processors.
“Spanning Tree Protocol Features” topology. Private VLAN Edge A port can be defined as a Private VLAN Edge port of an uplink port, so that it will be isolated from other ports. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches...
Tree selects a controlling Root Bridge and Port for the entire bridged LAN, and a Designated Bridge and Port for each individual LAN segment. When traffic passes from one end station to another across the LAN, it is forwarded through the Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches...
The following lists are supported: • • • Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches Fault tolerance protection from physical link disruption Higher bandwidth connections Improved bandwidth granularity High bandwidth server connectivity LAG is composed of ports with the...
The system logs events with severity codes and timestamps. Events are sent as SNMP traps to a Trap Recipient List. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches Quality of Service Basic Mode In basic QoS mode, it is possible to activate a trust mode (to trust VPT, DSCP, TCP/UDP or none).
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The system sends notifications of significant events in real time, and keeps a record of these events for after-the-fact usage. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches...
RADIUS Client RADIUS is a client/server-based protocol. A RADIUS server maintains a user database, which contains per-user authentication information, such as user name, password and accounting information. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches...
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• • • Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches Single-host/Multiple-hosts— Single-host mode enables only the host that has been authorized to get access to the port. Filtering is based on the source MAC address. Multiple-hosts mode enables multiple hosts to be attached to a single 802.
SNMP community entity at a time. Combo ports MGBSX1(T) 100M SFP registers its speed as 1000M. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches Management & System Caveats, page 16 Layer 2 Caveats, page 18...
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4. Quit Registry Editor. • • Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches Cable length for Fast Ethernet Copper Ports is not displayed. In a stacked configuration, running an optical test may result in traffic lost on the GE port.
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In Add RMON Alarm, if a value is related to the GVRP counter name, the message 'Illegal Object' is displayed, and the entry is not added to the ‘AlarmTable'. Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches...
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• • • Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches When the default settings are restored using the web interface or the Menu CLI interface, the configuration file reverts to default settings, but stacking settings are not restored.
Safety Information Cisco Partner Central Site for Small Business Release Notes for Cisco Small Business SFE2000 Series 24-port 10/100 Ethernet Switches User cannot set an IP address for which Martian Address protection will be defined, in addition to preconfigured IP addresses.
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