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Supports integrated Physical Coding
Sub-layer (TBI) logic to interface-directly with Gigabit
transceivers
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32-bit wide bi-directional pipe at 100Mhz
provides 6.4Gbps pipe to connect two DS213 chips
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Supports up to 6.548 Mpps system
throughput using non-blocking architecture
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High performance Layer 2 packet
forwarding and filtering at full-wire speed.
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Very low latency through single store and
forward at ingress port and cut-through switching at
destination ports
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Port Trunking and Load Sharing for high
bandwidth links between switches
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Supports up to 4k MAC addresses
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Up to 16K using external buffer memory
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Supports packet filtering and port
security
-System wide filtering
-Static MAC destination and source address filtering
-VLAN for multicast/broadcast filtering
-Protocol filtering
-Local port filtering
-Aging control for secure MAC addresses
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Provides 256-port and ID Tagged Virtual
LANs (VLANs) 802.1Q
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ID Tagging Insertion/Extraction
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Supports IP Multicasting through IGMP
Snooping
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Full duplex Ethernet IEEE 803.2x flow
control minimizes traffic congestion
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Supports back-pressure flow control for
half duplex mode
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Flooding and Broadcasting control
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Link status and TX/RX activity through
serial LED interface
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Browser, GUI, and text menu
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IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree Algorithm
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SNMP management
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Remote Monitoring (RMON) and storage for
a management agent
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IGMP for IP multicast
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GVRP, GMRP