Management Features - Motorola RFS Series Reference Manual

• Network interfaces operate in either trunk or access modes.
• A network interface in access mode can only send and receive untagged packets.
• A trunk port can now receive both tagged and untagged packets. Each ethernet port is assigned a native
VLAN.
• You can now configure a set of allowed VLANs on a trunk port. Packets received on this port that belong
to other VLANs are discarded.
1.2.3.5 Interface Management
The switch's physical interfaces auto-negotiate speed and duplex. The switch also allows:
• Manual bandwidth configuration of a physical interface speed to 10/100/1000Mbps.
• Manual duplex configuration of a physical interface to Full Duplex or Half Duplex.
• Manual configuration of administrative shutdown of a physical interface.

1.2.4 Management Features

The switch supports the following management features:
• A secure, browser-based management console
• A Command Line Interface (CLI) accessible via the serial port or through Telnet or a Secure Shell (SSH)
application
• A CLI Service mode enabling the capture of system status information that can be sent to Motorola
personnel for use in problem resolution
• The support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) version 3 as well as SNMP version 2
• Upload and download of Access Port firmware and configuration files using TFTP, FTP, SFTP and HTTP.
• Transfer of firmware and configuration files using Compact Flash (RFS7000 only) or USB (RFS6000 and
RFS7000 platforms only)
• The graphing of wireless statistics
• A GUI dashboard summary of system status
• Multi switch management via MSP application
• Heat map support for RF deployment
• Secure guest access with specific permission intervals
• Switch discovery enabling users to discover each Motorola switch on the specified network.
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