Specifications

Chapter 8
Switching
Introduction ................................................................................................... 8-4
Switch Ports ................................................................................................... 8-5
Enabling and Disabling Switch Ports ........................................................ 8-5
Speed and Duplex Mode ......................................................................... 8-7
Switch Instances on 48-Port Switches ...................................................... 8-9
Port Trunking ........................................................................................ 8-10
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) ............................................. 8-11
Packet Storm Protection ........................................................................ 8-12
Port Mirroring ....................................................................................... 8-12
Port Security .......................................................................................... 8-13
Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) ............................................................ 8-14
Dynamic VLAN Assignment ................................................................... 8-14
802.1x Guest VLAN ............................................................................... 8-16
VLAN Tagging ....................................................................................... 8-16
VLAN Membership of Untagged Packets ............................................... 8-19
Creating VLANs ..................................................................................... 8-20
Summary of VLAN Tagging Rules ........................................................... 8-22
VLAN Interaction with Trunk Groups ...................................................... 8-22
Static and Dynamic VLANs ..................................................................... 8-22
Protected VLANs ................................................................................... 8-23
Private VLANs ........................................................................................ 8-23
VLAN Relaying ............................................................................................. 8-25
Configuring VLAN Relaying ................................................................... 8-27
The Layer 2 Switching Process ...................................................................... 8-28
The Ingress Rules ................................................................................... 8-28
The Learning Process ............................................................................. 8-29
The Forwarding Process ......................................................................... 8-30
The Egress Rules .................................................................................... 8-30
Quality of Service .................................................................................. 8-31
Layer 2 Filtering ........................................................................................... 8-31
Securing a Single VLAN through Switch Filters ....................................... 8-32
Hardware Packet Filters ................................................................................ 8-33
Classifier-Based Packet Filters ....................................................................... 8-34
Ordering Filter Entries ............................................................................ 8-35
Configuring Filters ................................................................................. 8-36
Filter Modes in 48-Port Switches ............................................................ 8-36
Layer 3 Based Packet Filters .......................................................................... 8-38
Layer 3 Filter Matches ............................................................................ 8-38
Layer 3 Filter Entries .............................................................................. 8-38
Access Control Lists (ACLs) ........................................................................... 8-39
Triggers ........................................................................................................ 8-40

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