Owner's manual

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide
1 Introduction
Congratulations on becoming the owner of the ASUS GigaX L2 managed
switch! You may now manage your LAN (local area network) through a
friendly and powerful user interface.
This user guide tells you how to set up the GigaX L2 managed switch, and how
to customize its configuration to get the most out of this product.
1.1 L2 managed features
• (GigaX 2048) 48 10/100BASE-TX auto-sensing Fast Ethernet ports
• (GigaX 2024) 24 10/100BASE-TX auto-sensing Fast Ethernet ports
• Two 10/100/1000BASE-T auto-sensing Gigabit Ethernet switching
ports
• Two small form factor (SFP) Gigabit interface converter (GBIC) slots
• Automatic MDI/MDIX support for 10/100BASE-TX and
10/100/1000BASE-T ports
• Compliant with 802.3u, 802.3z and 802.3ab specifications
• 802.1D transparent bridge/spanning tree protocol
• 802.1w RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
• 802.1X port-based network access control
• RADIUS remote authentication dial-in user service
• 8K MAC address cache with hardware-assisted aging
• 802.3x flow control
• 802.1Q-based tagged VLAN, up to 255 VLANs
• 802.1p class of service, 4 queues per port
• IGMP snooping support
• 802.3ad link aggregation (trunking), up to 6 trunk groups
• LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)
• Port Mirroring
• Access Control List
• RMON: support 4 groups (1, 2, 3, 9)
• SNMP v1, v2, v3
• MIB-II