Layer 2 Features
■ Prevents packet loss with back pressure (half-duplex) and IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control (full-duplex)
■ High performance Store and Forward architecture, broadcast storm control, and runt/CRC filtering that eliminates
erroneous packets to optimize the network bandwidth
■ Supports VLAN
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IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLAN
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Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q) support (IEEE 802.1ad)
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Protocol VLAN
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Voice VLAN
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Private VLAN
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Management VLAN
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GVRP
■ Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
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STP (Spanning Tree Protocol)
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RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
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MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol)
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STP BPDU Guard, BPDU filtering and BPDU forwarding
■ Supports Link Aggregation
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)
■ Provides port mirror (many-to-1)
■ Loop protection to avoid broadcast loops
■ Supports ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching)
Quality of Service
■ Ingress and egress rate limit per port bandwidth control
■ Storm control support
Broadcast/Unknown unicast/Unknown multicast
■ Traffic classification
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IEEE 802.1p CoS
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TOS/DSCP/IP precedence of IPv4/IPv6 packets
■ Strict priority and Weighted Round Robin (WRR) CoS policies
Multicast
■ Supports IPv4 IGMP snooping v2 and v3
■ Supports IPv6 MLD snooping v1, v2
■ IGMP querier mode support
■ IGMP snooping port filtering
■ MLD snooping port filtering
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