Specifications

Chapter 8
Switching
Introduction ................................................................................................... 8-5
Switch Ports ................................................................................................... 8-6
Enabling and Disabling Switch Ports ........................................................ 8-6
Autonegotiation of Port Speed and Duplex Mode .................................... 8-7
Port Trunking .......................................................................................... 8-8
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) ............................................... 8-9
Packet Storm Protection ........................................................................ 8-10
Port Mirroring ....................................................................................... 8-11
Port Security .......................................................................................... 8-11
Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) ............................................................ 8-12
Dynamic VLAN Assignment ................................................................... 8-13
802.1x Guest VLAN ............................................................................... 8-14
VLAN Tagging ....................................................................................... 8-15
VLAN Membership of Untagged Packets ............................................... 8-18
Creating VLANs ..................................................................................... 8-19
Summary of VLAN Tagging Rules ........................................................... 8-21
VLAN Interaction with Trunk Groups ...................................................... 8-21
Static and Dynamic VLANs ..................................................................... 8-21
Protected VLANs ................................................................................... 8-22
Private VLANs ........................................................................................ 8-22
VLAN Relaying ............................................................................................. 8-25
Configuring VLAN Relaying ................................................................... 8-26
The Layer 2 Switching Process ...................................................................... 8-27
The Ingress Rules ................................................................................... 8-28
The Learning Process ............................................................................. 8-28
The Forwarding Process ......................................................................... 8-29
Quality of Service .................................................................................. 8-30
The Egress Rules .................................................................................... 8-31
Layer 2 Filtering ........................................................................................... 8-31
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) ........................................................................ 8-32
Electing a Root Bridge and Designated Bridge ....................................... 8-33
Spanning Tree Modes ............................................................................ 8-33
Rapid Mode Spanning Tree Types ........................................................... 8-34
Spanning Tree and Rapid Spanning Tree Port States ............................... 8-34
Multiple Spanning Trees and STP Interaction with VLANs ....................... 8-35
Overlapping VLANs belonging to Multiple Spanning Tree Instances ........ 8-36
Configuring STP .................................................................................... 8-36
Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) ....................................................... 8-41
Multiple Spanning Tree Regions ............................................................. 8-41
Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs) ........................................................ 8-42
Compatibility with Previous Spanning Tree Protocols .............................. 8-44

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