HP BladeSystem bc2800 HP BladeSystem PC Blade Switch Installation Guide - Page 34

Feature Summary, Switch Performance, Switch Network Features

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A Feature Summary Switch Performance ● Non-blocking full wire speed architecture ● Store and forward mode layer 2 switching standard ● Auto-negotiation and auto-sensing with full-duplex support and ability to manually force port speed and duplex mode ● Auto-MDI/MDIX on all ports enabled with auto-negotiation ● 16K MAC addresses per switch with automatic MAC address learning ● ARP for IP to MAC address resolution Switch Network Features ● IEEE 802.3 10Base-T Ethernet, IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3ab 1000BaseT Ethernet ● IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.s, and IEEE 802.w spanning tree protocol (mono-spanning tree) ● Spanning tree bypass fast forwarding mode on a per port basis (recommend disabling for CCI solutions) ● Spanning Tree RSTP-to-MSTP Compatibility feature (allows interoperability with PVST/PVST+) is enabled by default ● IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation (excluding LACP) supporting up to 8 multilink trunk groups with 8 ports per group; compatible with Cisco EtherChannel trunking (Fast EtherChannel, Gigabit EtherChannel) ● IEEE 802.1Q addressable VLAN ID range 1-4094 ● IEEE 802.3ac VLAN Ethernet frame extensions for 802.1Q tagging on a per port basis ● Ports may be tagged or untagged members of a VLAN ● GARP VLAN registration protocol (GVRP) providing 802.1Q compliant VLAN pruning and dynamic VLAN creation ● IEEE 802.1p QoS with 8 classes of service mapped to 8 priority levels ● IGMP snooping v1 and v2 ● IGMP state enabling and disabling on a per VLAN basis 28 Appendix A Feature Summary ENWW

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A
Feature Summary
Switch Performance
Non-blocking full wire speed architecture
Store and forward mode layer 2 switching standard
Auto-negotiation and auto-sensing with full-duplex support and ability to manually force port speed
and duplex mode
Auto-MDI/MDIX on all ports enabled with auto-negotiation
16K MAC addresses per switch with automatic MAC address learning
ARP for IP to MAC address resolution
Switch Network Features
IEEE 802.3 10Base-T Ethernet, IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-
T Ethernet
IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.s, and IEEE 802.w spanning tree protocol (mono-spanning tree)
Spanning tree bypass fast forwarding mode on a per port basis (recommend disabling for CCI
solutions)
Spanning Tree RSTP-to-MSTP Compatibility feature (allows interoperability with PVST/PVST+) is
enabled by default
IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation (excluding LACP) supporting up to 8 multilink trunk groups with 8
ports per group; compatible with Cisco EtherChannel trunking (Fast EtherChannel, Gigabit
EtherChannel)
IEEE 802.1Q addressable VLAN ID range 1–4094
IEEE 802.3ac VLAN Ethernet frame extensions for 802.1Q tagging on a per port basis
Ports may be tagged or untagged members of a VLAN
GARP VLAN registration protocol (GVRP) providing 802.1Q compliant VLAN pruning and dynamic
VLAN creation
IEEE 802.1p QoS with 8 classes of service mapped to 8 priority levels
IGMP snooping v1 and v2
IGMP state enabling and disabling on a per VLAN basis
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Appendix A
Feature Summary
ENWW