Installation guide

1-2 Alpine 3800 Series Switch Hardware Installation Guide

LPINE

3800 S

ERIES

WITCH

VERVIEW

• Up to 128 switched 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet ports (model 3804), or up to

256 switched 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet ports (model 3808)

• Up to 96 switched 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet ports (model 3804), or up to 192

switched 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet ports (model 3808)

• Up to 16 switched Gigabit Ethernet ports (model 3804), or up to 32 switched Gigabit

Ethernet ports (model 3808)

• Fully nonblocking operation

— All ports transmit and receive packets at wire speed

• Autonegotiation for half- or full-duplex operation on 10/100 Mbps ports

• Load-sharing on multiple ports

• Virtual local area networks (VLANs), including support for IEEE 802.1Q

• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) (IEEE 802.1D) with multiple STP domains

• Policy-Based Quality of Service (QoS)

• Wire-speed Internet Protocol (IP) routing

• IP Multinetting

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol/Bootstrap Protocol (DHCP/BOOTP) Relay

• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) version 1 and RIP version 2

• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol

• IPX routing, including RIP and Service Advertisement Protocol (SAP)

• Wire-speed IP multicast routing support

• Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP) and IGMP snooping

• Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)

• IGMP snooping to control IP multicast traffic

• Console (RS-232) command-line interface (CLI) connection

• Telnet CLI connection

• ExtremeWare

™

Vista

™

Web-based management interface

• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support

• Dedicated 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX port for out-of-band management via CLI,

ExtremeWare Vista, and/or SNMP