Description of software features, Escription, Oftware – LevelOne GTL-2691 User Manual

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The switch provides a wide range of advanced performance enhancing

features. Flow control eliminates the loss of packets due to bottlenecks

caused by port saturation. Broadcast storm suppression prevents

broadcast traffic storms from engulfing the network. Untagged (port-

based), tagged, and protocol-based VLANs, plus support for automatic

GVRP VLAN registration provide traffic security and efficient use of network

bandwidth. CoS priority queueing ensures the minimum delay for moving

real-time multimedia data across the network. While multicast filtering and

routing provides support for real-time network applications.

Some of the management features are briefly described below.

Address Table

Up to 16K MAC addresses in the forwarding table, 1024 static MAC

addresses;

Up to 8K IPv4 and 4K IPv6 entries in the host table;
8K entries in the ARP cache, 256 static ARP entries;
8K IPv4 and 4K IPv6 entries in the IP routing table, 512 static IP

routes, 512 IP interfaces;

1024 L2 multicast groups

IP Version 4 and 6

Supports IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, and management

IEEE 802.1D Bridge

Supports dynamic data switching and addresses learning

Store-and-Forward

Switching

Supported to ensure wire-speed switching while eliminating bad

frames

Spanning Tree Algorithm Supports standard STP, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), and

Multiple Spanning Trees (MSTP)

Virtual LANs

Up to 256 using IEEE 802.1Q, port-based, protocol-based, private

VLANs, voice VLANs, and QinQ tunnel

Traffic Prioritization

Default port priority, traffic class map, queue scheduling, IP

Precedence, or Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP), and

TCP/UDP Port

Qualify of Service

Supports Differentiated Services (DiffServ)

Switch Clustering

Supports up to 16 member switches in a cluster

Router Redundancy

Router backup is provided with the Virtual Router Redundancy

Protocol (VRRP)

IP Routing

Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First

(OSPFv2/v3), static routes, Equal-Cost Multipath Routing (ECMP)

ARP

Static and dynamic address configuration, proxy ARP

Multicast Filtering

Supports IGMP snooping and query for Layer 2, MLD snooping and

query, IGMP for Layer 3, and Multicast VLAN Registration

Multicast Routing

Supports PIM-DM and PIM-SM for IPv4 and PIM-DM for IPv6

Table 1: Key Features (Continued)

Feature

Description

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