Product Overview; Description; Layer 3 Switching - Enterasys Vertical Horizon VH-2402-L3 User Manual

Product Overview

This chapter provides the following information:
Product Description
Features
Front and Rear Panel Component Descriptions
Feature Summaries
Application Example

Description

This installation guide describes Enterasys Networks'
Vertical Horizon VH-2402-L3 Fast Ethernet switch. The
switch provides 24 10Base-T/100Base-TX ports, plus
one slot for optional slide-in 1000Base-SX 1000Base-T
and GBIC modules. The switch features a built in
SNMP-based Management agent. The VH-2402-L3
support both Layer 2 as well as Layer 3 functionality.

Layer 3 Switching

Layer 3 switching is an integration of two proven
technologies: switching and routing. In fact, Layer 3
switches are running the same routing routines and
protocols as traditional routers. The main difference
between traditional routing and Layer 3 switching is the
addition of a group of Layer 2 switching domains and
the execution of routing routines for most packets via
an ASIC – in hardware instead of software.
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