Owner's manual

Chapter 1 - Introduction

ASUS GigaX2124

1 Introduction

Thank you for buying a GigaX L2 Managed Switch! You may now manage

your LAN (local area network) through a friendly and powerful user inter-

face.

This user manual will show you how to set up the GigaX L2 Managed

Switch, and how to customize its conguration to get the most out of this

product.

1.1 L2 managed switching features

The Asus GigaX2124 provides the following features:

• Total 24 * 10/100/1000BASE-T auto-sensing Gigabit Ethernet switching ports

• Four small form factor (SFP) Gigabit interface converter (GBIC) slots

• Automatic MDI/MDIX support for All ports

• Compliant with 802.3z and 802.3ab specications

• 802.1D transparent bridge

• 16K MAC address cache with hardware-assisted aging

• Loop back detection

• STP/RSTP/MSTP

• L2 to L4 Access Control List

• IGMP snooping

• DHCP client

• DHCP snooping

• 802.3ad link aggregation (trunking), up to 8 trunk groups

• Port Mirroring

• 802.1Q-based tagged VLAN, up to 4096 VLANs

• GVRP

• LACP

• 802.1p (COS) tagging

• 802.3x ow control

• 8 priority queues per port with port-based priority

• Bandwidth control

• WRR(Weighted Round Robin)