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Advanced Security
• TACACS+ and RADIUS, which enable centralized control of the switch and restrict unauthorized users from altering the configuration
• Standard and extended ACLs on all ports
• 802.1x user authentication (with VLAN assignment and guest VLAN extensions)
• Trusted boundary
• Router ACLs (RACLs) on all ports (no performance penalty)
• VLAN ACLs (VACLs)
• Port ACLs (PACLs)
• Private VLANs (PVLANs) on access and trunk ports
• DHCP snooping and Option 82 insertion
• Port security
• SSHv1 and SSHv2
• VLAN Management Policy Server (VMPS) client
• Unicast MAC filtering
• Unicast port flood blocking
• Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) inspection
• IP source guard
• Community private VLAN
CISCO CATALYST 4500 SERIES NETFLOW SERVICES CARD FOR SUPERVISOR ENGINE IV
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 NetFlow Services Card (Figure 2) is an optional daughter card for the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine IV or
V, providing Layer 3 and VLAN statistics without affecting the forwarding performance rates on the supervisor engine (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Cisco Catalyst 4500 NetFlow Services Card
NetFlow Services Card Product Description
NetFlow allows customers to monitor traffic flows for the purpose of billing, network planning, or security. The Cisco Catalyst 4500 NetFlow
Services Card supports per-packet statistics capture in hardware for flow- and VLAN-based statistics monitoring. NetFlow captures and caches
detailed information about each data flow (a stream of packets traveling in one direction from one endpoint to another across the network). Data in
the NetFlow cache includes information about specific flows, including the IP address, packet and byte count, time stamp, and application port. Data










