Audience Description
Audience Description
Preface-ii
This guide provides the required information to configure the
software running on the Gigabit Ethernet switches.
This guide is intended for use by network administrators who are
responsible for installing and setting up network equipment. It
assumes a basic working knowledge of the following:
Local area networks (LANs)
Ethernet concepts
Ethernet switching and bridging concepts
Routing concepts
Internet Protocol (IP) concepts
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open Shortest Path
First (OSPF)
IP Multicast concepts
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) concepts
Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode (PIM-DM)
concepts
Internet Packet Exchange (IPX) concepts
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)