PLANET WGSW-48000 User Manual

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addresses. Dynamic entries are removed from the MAC table if no frame with the corresponding SMAC address have

been seen after a configurable age time.

MD5

MD5 is an acronym for Message-Digest algorithm 5. MD5 is a message digest algorithm, used cryptographic hash

function with a 128-bit hash value. It was designed by Ron Rivest in 1991. MD5 is officially defined in RFC 1321 - The

MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm.

Mirroring

For debugging network problems or monitoring network traffic, the switch system can be configured to mirror frames

from multiple ports to a mirror port. (In this context, mirroring a frame is the same as copying the frame.)

Both incoming (source) and outgoing (destination) frames can be mirrored to the mirror port.

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NetBIOS

NetBIOS is an acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. It is a program that allows applications on separate

computers to communicate within a Local Area Network (LAN), and it is not supported on a Wide Area Network (WAN).

The NetBIOS giving each computer in the network both a NetBIOS name and an IP address corresponding to a

different host name, provides the session and transport services described in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)

model.

NFS

NFS is an acronym for Network File System. It allows hosts to mount partitions on a remote system and use them as

though they are local file systems.

NFS allows the system administrator to store resources in a central location on the network, providing authorized users

continuous access to them, which means NFS supports sharing of files, printers, and other resources as persistent

storage over a computer network.

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Optional TLVs.

A LLDP frame contains multiple TLVs

For some TLVs it is configurable if the switch shall include the TLV in the LLDP frame. These TLVs are known as

optional TLVs. If an optional TLVs is disabled the corresponding information is not included in the LLDP frame.

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