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IP Multicast Filtering
A process whereby this switch can pass multicast traffic along to
participating hosts.
Layer 2
Data Link layer in the ISO 7-Layer Data Communications Protocol.
This is related directly to the hardware interface for network
devices and passes on traffic based on MAC addresses.
Layer 3
Network layer in the ISO 7-Layer Data Communications Protocol.
This layer handles the routing functions for data moving from one
open system to another.
Link Aggregation
See Port Trunk.
Management Information Base (MIB)
An acronym for Management Information Base. It is a set of
database objects that contains information about a specific device.
Multicast Switching
A process whereby the switch filters incoming multicast frames for
services for which no attached host has registered, or forwards
them to all ports contained within the designated multicast VLAN
group.
Out-of-Band Management
Management of the network from a station not attached to the
network.
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