Installation guide

1-2 BlackDiamond Switch Hardware Installation Guide
B
LACK
D
IAMOND
6800 S
WITCH
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VERVIEW
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Up to 224 switched 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet ports
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Up to 96 switched Gigabit Ethernet ports
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Fully nonblocking operation
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All ports transmit and receive packets at wire speed
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Autonegotiation for half- or full-duplex operation on 10/100 Mbps ports
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Load-sharing on multiple ports
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Virtual local area networks (VLANs), including support for IEEE 802.1Q
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Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) (IEEE 802.1D) with multiple STP domains
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Policy-based Quality of Service (QoS)
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Wire-speed Internet Protocol (IP) routing
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IP Multinetting
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol/Bootstrap Protocol (DHCP/BOOTP) Relay
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Routing Information Protocol (RIP) version 1 and RIP version 2
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Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol
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IPX routing, including RIP and Service Advertisement Protocol (SAP)
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Wire-speed IP multicast routing support
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Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP) and IGMP snooping
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Distance Vector Multicast Routing protocol (DVMRP)
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IGMP snooping to control IP multicast traffic
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Console (RS-232) command-line interface (CLI) connection
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Telnet CLI connection
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ExtremeWare
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Vista
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Web-based management interface
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support