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Layer 2 switching
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
supports standard IEEE 802.1D STP, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) for faster convergence, and IEEE 802.1s
Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) protocol snooping
controls and manages the flooding of multicast packets in a Layer 2
network
Port mirroring
duplicates port traffic (ingress and egress) to a local or remote monitoring port
VLANs
supports IEEE 802.1Q-based VLANs
sFlow
allows traffic sampling
Define port as switched or routed
supports command switch to easily change switched ports to routed (maximum four Fast Ethernet ports)
Layer 3 routing
Static IPv4 routing
provides simple manually configured IPv4 routing
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
uses a distance vector algorithm with UDP packets for route determination; supports RIPv1 and RIPv2 routing; includes loop
protection
Open shortest path first (OSPF)
delivers faster convergence; uses this link-state routing Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), which supports ECMP, NSSA, and MD5
authentication for increased security and graceful restart for faster failure recovery
Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
delivers an implementation of the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) utilizing path vectors; uses TCP for enhanced reliability for
the route discovery process; reduces bandwidth consumption by advertising only incremental updates; supports extensive
policies for increased flexibility; scales to very large networks
Intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS)
uses a path vector Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), which is defined by the ISO organization for IS-IS routing and extended by
IETF RFC 1195 to operate in both TCP/IP and the OSI reference model (Integrated IS-IS)
Static IPv6 routing
provides simple manually configured IPv6 routing
Dual IP stack
maintains separate stacks for IPv4 and IPv6 to ease the transition from an IPv4-only network to an IPv6-only network design
Routing Information Protocol next generation (RIPng)
extends RIPv2 to support IPv6 addressing
OSPFv3
provides OSPF support for IPv6
BGP+
extends BGP-4 to support Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP), including support for IPv6 addressing
IS-IS for IPv6
extends IS-IS to support IPv6 addressing
IPv6 tunneling
allows IPv6 packets to traverse IPv4-only networks by encapsulating the IPv6 packet into a standard IPv4 packet; supports
manually configured, 6to4, and Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) tunnels; is an important element for
the transition from IPv4 to IPv6
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