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Address Resolution Protocol
– The switch uses ARP and Proxy ARP to
convert between IP addresses and MAC (i.e., hardware) addresses. This
switch supports conventional ARP, which locates the MAC address
corresponding to a given IP address. This allows the switch to use IP
addresses for routing decisions and the corresponding MAC addresses to
forward packets from one hop to the next. You can configure either static
or dynamic entries in the ARP cache.
Proxy ARP allows hosts that do not support routing to determine the
MAC address of a device on another network or subnet. When a host
sends an ARP request for a remote network, the switch checks to see if it
has the best route. If it does, it sends its own MAC address to the host. The
host then sends traffic for the remote destination via the switch, which
uses its own routing table to reach the destination on the other network.
Quality of Service
– Differentiated Services (DiffServ) provides
policy-based management mechanisms used for prioritizing network
resources to meet the requirements of specific traffic types on a per-hop
basis. Each packet is classified upon entry into the network based on
access lists, IP Precedence or DSCP values, or VLAN lists. Using access
lists allows you select traffic based on Layer 2, Layer 3, or Layer 4
information contained in each packet. Based on network policies, different
kinds of traffic can be marked for different kinds of forwarding.
Multicast Filtering
– Specific multicast traffic can be assigned to its own
VLAN to ensure that it does not interfere with normal network traffic and
to guarantee real-time delivery by setting the required priority level for the
designated VLAN. The switch uses IGMP Snooping and Query to manage
multicast group registration.
Summary of Contents for WPCI-G - annexe 1
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Page 36: ...GETTING STARTED ...
Page 72: ...MANAGING SYSTEM FILES 2 24 ...
Page 74: ...SWITCH MANAGEMENT ...
Page 90: ...CONFIGURING THE SWITCH 3 16 ...
Page 245: ...SHOWING PORT STATISTICS 8 33 Figure 8 12 Port Statistics ...
Page 252: ...ADDRESS TABLE SETTINGS 9 6 ...
Page 318: ...CLASS OF SERVICE 12 16 ...
Page 330: ...QUALITY OF SERVICE 13 12 ...
Page 348: ...DOMAIN NAME SERVICE 15 8 ...
Page 404: ...IP ROUTING 17 44 ...
Page 406: ...COMMAND LINE INTERFACE ...
Page 608: ...MIRROR PORT COMMANDS 26 4 ...
Page 644: ...SPANNING TREE COMMANDS 29 28 ...
Page 668: ...VLAN COMMANDS 30 24 ...
Page 686: ...CLASS OF SERVICE COMMANDS 31 18 ...
Page 700: ...QUALITY OF SERVICE COMMANDS 32 14 ...
Page 792: ...IP INTERFACE COMMANDS 36 50 ...
Page 818: ...APPENDICES ...
Page 824: ...SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS A 6 ...
Page 828: ...TROUBLESHOOTING B 4 ...
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