Summit Switch Overview
Summary of Features
This section describes the features of the Summit family of switches. If the information in the release
notes differs from the information in this guide, follow the release notes. For more information about
configuring the switch, refer to the ExtremeWare Software User Guide and The ExtremeWare Command
Reference Guide.
Summit "i" series switches
• Virtual local area networks (VLANs), including support for IEEE 802.1Q and IEEE 802.1p
• VLAN aggregation
• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) (IEEE 802.1D) with multiple STP domains
• Policy-Based Quality of Service (PB-QoS)
• Wire-speed Internet Protocol (IP) routing
• IP multinetting
• DHCP/BOOTP relay
• Extreme Standby Router Protocol (ESRP)
• Ethernet Automated Protection Switching (EAPS)
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) version 1 and RIP version 2
• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol
• Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) version 4
• IPX routing, including RIP and Service Advertisement Protocol (SAP)
• Wire-speed IP multicast routing
• DiffServ
• Access-policy support for routing protocols
• Access list support for packet filtering
• IGMP snooping
• Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)
• Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode (PIM-DM)
• Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)
• Wire-speed IPX, IPX/RIP, and IPX/SAP
• Server Load Balancing (SLB)
• RADIUS client and per-command authentication
• TACACS+
• Console command-line interface (CLI) connection
• Telnet CLI connection
• SSH2 connection
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• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
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