User's Manual

Configuration Guide of XGS-5240-Series
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 Layer 2 Features
 Prevents packet loss flow control
- IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control in full-duplex mode
- Back-pressure flow control in half-duplex mode
 High performance Store-and-Forward architecture, broadcast storm control and port
loopback detection
 32K MAC address table, automatic source address learning and aging
 Supports VLAN
- IEEE 802.1Q tag-based VLAN
- Up to 4K VLAN IDs
- Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q, IEEE 802.1ad) supported
- Private VLAN Edge (PVE) supported
- Protocol-based VLAN
- MAC-based VLAN
- IP subnet VLAN
 Supports Link Aggregation
- Maximum 128 trunk groups, up to 8 ports per trunk group
- IEEE 802.3ad LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)
- Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)
 Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
- STP, IEEE 802.1D (Classic Spanning Tree Protocol)
- RSTP, IEEE 802.1w (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
- MSTP, IEEE 802.1s (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, spanning tree by VLAN)
- Supports BPDU & root guard
 Port mirroring to monitor the incoming or outgoing traffic on a particular port (many to many)
 Provides port mirror (many-to-1)
 Quality of Service
 8 priority queues on all switch ports
 Support for strict priority and WRR (Weighted Round Robin) CoS policies
 Traffic classification
- IEEE 802.1p CoS/ToS
- IPv4/IPv6 DSCP
- Port-based WRR
 Strict priority and WRR CoS policies
 Multicast
 Supports IPv4 IGMP snooping v1, v2 and v3; IPv6 MLD v1 and v2 snooping
 Querier mode support
 Supports Multicast VLAN Register (MVR)
 DHCP