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Appendix A Product Specifications Table 104 Firmware Specifications FEATURE DESCRIPTION Differentiated Services (DiffServ) With DiffServ, the Switch marks packets so that they receive specific perhop treatment at DiffServ-compliant network devices along the route based on the application types and traffic flow. Queuing Queuing is used to help solve performance degradation when there is network congestion. Three scheduling services are supported: Strict Priority Queuing (SPQ), Weighted Round Robin (WRR) and Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ). This allows the Switch to maintain separate queues for packets from each individual source or flow and prevent a source from monopolizing the bandwidth. Port Mirroring Port mirroring allows you to copy traffic going from one or all ports to another or all ports in order that you can examine the traffic from the mirror port (the port you copy the traffic to) without interference. Static Route Static routes tell the Switch how to forward IP traffic when you configure the TCP/IP parameters manually. Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) is designed for applications (such as Media-on-Demand (MoD)) using multicast traffic across a network. MVR allows one single multicast VLAN to be shared among different subscriber VLANs on the network. This improves bandwidth utilization by reducing multicast traffic in the subscriber VLANs and simplifies multicast group management. STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) / RSTP (Rapid STP) (R)STP detects and breaks network loops and provides backup links between switches, bridges or routers. It allows a Switch to interact with other (R)STP -compliant switches in your network to ensure that only one path exists between any two stations on the network. MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol) Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1s) is backward-compatible with STP/RSTP. In MSTP, switching devices are grouped into a region which appears as a single network to the outside world. With MSTP, a switch can set up more than one spanning tree. In addition, more than one VLAN can exist in a spanning tree. Loop Guard Use the loop guard feature to protect against network loops on the edge of your network. IP Source Guard Use IP source guard to filter unauthorized ARP packets in your network. Link Aggregation Link aggregation (trunking) is the grouping of physical ports into one logical higher-capacity link. You may want to trunk ports if for example, it is cheaper to use multiple lower-speed links than to under-utilize a highspeed, but more costly, single-port link. Port Authentication and Security For security, the Switch allows authentication using IEEE 802.1x with an external RADIUS server and port security that allows only packets with dynamically learned MAC addresses and/or configured static MAC addresses to pass through a port on the Switch. Authentication and Accounting The Switch supports authentication and accounting services via RADIUS and TACACS+ AAA servers. Device Management Use the web configurator or commands to easily configure the rich range of features on the Switch. Port Cloning Use the port cloning feature to copy the settings you configure on one port to another port or ports. Syslog The Switch can generate syslog messages and send it to a syslog server. 252 ES-2108 Series User's Guide