Installation guide

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• 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 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
• 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
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• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support
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The BlackDiamond 6800 supports the following I/O modules:
• G4X module
The G4X module has four Gigabit Ethernet ports, using standard Gigabit Interface
Connectors (GBICs). The G4X module supports 1000BASE-SX and 1000BASE-LX.
• G6X module
The G6X module has six Gigabit Ethernet ports, using standard Gigabit Interface
Connectors (GBICs). The G6X module supports 1000BASE-SX and 1000BASE-LX.