8325 Switch Series

QuickSpecs
Aruba 8325 Switch Series
Overview
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• IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
Advertises and receives management information from adjacent devices on a network, facilitating easy mapping by
network management applications
• Dual flash images
Provides independent primary and secondary operating system files for backup while upgrading
• Multiple configuration files
Stores easily to the flash image
Layer 2 switching
• VLAN
• Supports up to 4,096 port-based or IEEE 802.1Q-based VLANs; and supports MAC-based VLANs, protocol-based
VLANs, and IP-subnet-based VLANs for added flexibility
• VXLAN
Supports static VXLAN. Allows you to manually connect two or more VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEP).
• Port mirroring
Duplicates port traffic (ingress and egress) to a local or remote monitoring port; supports 4 mirroring groups, with an
unlimited number of ports per group
• STP
Supports standard IEEE 802.1D STP, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) for faster convergence, and
IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
Controls and manages the flooding of multicast packets in a Layer 2 network
• Rapid Per-VLAN spanning tree plus (RPVST+)
Allows each VLAN to build a separate spanning tree to improve link bandwidth usage in network environments with
multiple VLANs
Layer 3 services
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Determines the MAC address of another IP host in the same subnet; supports static ARPs; gratuitous ARP allows
detection of duplicate IP addresses; proxy ARP allows normal ARP operation between subnets or when subnets are
separated by a Layer 2 network
• IP Directed Broadcast
Support directed broadcast on configured network subnets.
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
DHCP services are offered within a client network to simplify network management. DHCP Relay enables DHCP operation
across subnets
• Domain Name System (DNS)
Provides a distributed database that translates domain names and IP addresses, which simplifies network design; supports
client and server
Layer 3 routing
• Policy Based Routing (PBR)
Enables using a classifier to select traffic that can be forwarded based on policy set by the network administrator.
• Static IPv4 routing
Provides simple manually configured IPv4 routing
• Open shortest path first (OSPF)
Delivers faster convergence; uses link-state routing Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), which supports ECMP, NSSA, and
MD5 authentication for increased security and graceful restart for faster failure recovery
• Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Delivers an implementation of the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) utilizing path vectors; uses TCP for enhanced