Physical Port

-       24 port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit RJ45 copper.

-       2 100/1000BASE-X mini-GBIC/SFP slots.

-       RJ45 console interface for switch basic management and setup.

-       Reset button for system factory default.

Switching

-       Hardware based 10/100Mbps, half / full duplex and 1000Mbps full duplex mode, flow control and auto-negotiation and auto MDI/MDI-X

-       Features Store-and-Forward mode with wire-speed filtering and forwarding rates.

-       IEEE 802.3x flow control for full duplex operation and back pressure for half duplex operation.

-       9K Jumbo frame.

-       Automatic address learning and address aging.

-       Supports CSMA/CD protocol.

Layer 2 Features

-       Supports VLAN

-       IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLAN.

-       Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q) support (IEEE 802.1ad).

-       Protocol VLAN.

-       Voice VLAN.

-       Private VLAN (Protected port).

-       Management VLAN.

-       GVRP.

-       Supports Spanning Tree Protocol

-       STP (Spanning Tree Protocol).

-       RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol).

-       MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol).

-       STP BPDU Guard, BPDU Filtering and BPDU Forwarding.

-       Supports Link Aggregation

-       IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

-       Cisco ether-channel (Static Trunk).

-       Maximum 8 trunk groups, up to 8 ports per trunk group.

-       Provides port mirror (many-to-1).

-       Loop protection to avoid broadcast loops.

Quality of Service

-       Ingress / Egress Rate Limit per port bandwidth control.

-       Traffic classification.

-       IEEE 802.1p CoS.

-       DSCP / IP Precedence of IPv4 / IPv6 packets.

-       Strict priority and Weighted Round Robin (WRR) CoS policies.

Multicast

-       Supports IPv4 IGMP snooping v2 and v3.

-       Supports IPv6 MLD snooping v1, v2.

-       IGMP querier mode support.

-       IGMP snooping port filtering.

-       MLD snooping port filtering.

Security

-       Storm Control support: Broadcast/ Unknown-Unicast/ Unknown-Multicast.

-       Authentication

-       IEEE 802.1X port-based network access authentication.

-       Built-in RADIUS client to co-operate with the RADIUS servers.

-       DHCP Option 82.

-       RADIUS / TACACS+ authentication.

-       Access Control List

-       IPv4 / IPv6 IP-based ACL.

-       IPv4 / IPv6 IP-based ACE.

-       MAC-based ACL.

-       MAC-based ACE.

-       MAC Security

-       Static MAC.

-       MAC Filtering.

-       Port security for source MAC address entries filtering.

-       DHCP snooping to filter distrusted DHCP messages.

-       Dynamic ARP inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding.

-       IP source guard prevents IP spoofing attacks.

-       DoS attack prevention.

Management

-       IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack management.

-       Switch Management Interface.

-       Local Command Line Interface.

-       IPv4 / IPv6 Web switch management.

-       Telnet Command Line Interface.

-       SNMP v1, v2c and v3.

-       HTTPs secure access.

-       Built-in Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client.

-       Static and DHCP for IP address assignment.

-       System Maintenance

-       SNTP Network Time Protocol.

-       Cable diagnostics.

-       Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Protocol and LLDP-MED.

-       SNMP trap for interface Link Up and Link Down notification.

-       Event message logging to remote Syslog server.

-       Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms and events).

-       PLANET Smart Discovery Utility.