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ABOUT THIS GUIDE
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ERMS
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VERVIEW OF THIS
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SER
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UIDE
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1
INTRODUCTION
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G
IGABIT
E
THERNET
T
ECHNOLOGY
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S
WITCHING
T
ECHNOLOGY
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F
EATURES
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Ports
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Performance features
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Management
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UNPACKING AND SETUP
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U
NPACKING
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S
ETUP
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D
ESKTOP OR
S
HELF
I
NSTALLATION
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R
ACK
I
NSTALLATION
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P
OWER ON
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Power Failure
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IDENTIFYING EXTERNAL COMPONENTS
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F
RONT
P
ANEL
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R
EAR
P
ANEL
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S
IDE
P
ANELS
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LED I
NDICATORS
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CONNECTING THE SWITCH
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PC
TO
S
WITCH
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S
WITCH TO
S
WITCH
(
OTHER DEVICES
)
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SWITCH MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS
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L
OCAL
C
ONSOLE
M
ANAGEMENT
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Console port (RS-232 DCE)
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IP Addresses and SNMP Community Names
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Traps
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MIBs
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Packet Forwarding
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Aging Time
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Spanning Tree Algorithm
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STA Operation Levels
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On the Bridge Level
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On the Port Level
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User-Changeable Parameters
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Illustration of STA
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Port Trunking
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VLANs & MAC-based Broadcast Domains
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MAC-Based Broadcast Domains
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IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
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802.1Q VLAN Segmentation
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Sharing Resources Across 802.1Q VLANs
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802.1Q VLANs Spanning Multiple Switches
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