User guide

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UMMARY OF
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EATURES
The features of the BlackDiamond 6800 include the following:
• A 10-slot chassis that can be populated with up to 8 input/output (I/O) modules
and 2 Management Switch Fabric Modules (MSMs)
• MSM and I/O modules are hot-swappable
• I/O modules include Gigabit Ethernet or 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports
• Redundant, load-sharing, hot-swappable power supplies
• Field-replaceable fan tray
• Up to 256 switched 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports
• Up to 48 switched Gigabit Ethernet ports
• Fully nonblocking operation
— All ports transmit and receive packets at wire speed
• Autonegotiation for half- or full-duplex operation (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX ports,
only)
• Load sharing on multiple ports
• Virtual local area networks (VLANs) including support for IEEE 802.1Q and IEEE
802.1p
• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) (IEEE 802.1D) with multiple STP domains
• Policy-Based Quality of Service (PB-QoS)
• Wire-speed Internet Protocol (IP) routing
• IP Multinetting
• DHCP/BOOTP Relay
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) version 1 and RIP version 2
• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol
• Wire-speed IP multicast routing support
• IGMP snooping to control IP multicast traffic
• Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)
• Console command-line interface (CLI) connection
• Telnet CLI connection
• ExtremeWare Vista Web-based management interface