Linksys Etherfast User Manual

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EtherFast

Managed 24-Port with Dual Gigabit Switch

Layer 2 Menu

The Layer 2 Menu contains options for port configuration, port mirroring,
and port trunking.

• Port Configuration - Enables any port, enables/disables flow control,

and sets communication mode to auto-negotiation, full duplex, or half
duplex.

• Mirror Port Configuration - Sets the source and target ports for mir-

roring.

• Port Trunking Configuration - Specifies ports to group into aggregate

trunks.

• Static Unicast Address Configuration - Used to manually configure

host MAC addresses in the unicast table.

• Static Multicast Address Configuration - Used to manually configure

host MAC addresses in the multicast table.

Select OK to return to the previous panel.

EtherFast

Series

System Mode

The System Mode screen lets you set the Switch to operate as a Layer 2
switch or as a multilayer routing switch. As a Layer 2 switch, the Switch
makes all filtering and forwarding decisions based strictly on MAC address-
es. As a multilayer routing switch, it switches packets for all non-IP protocols
based on MAC addresses, and routes all IP packets based on the specified
routing protocol.

• Layer 2 - Filtering and forwarding decisions will be based on MAC

addresses for all protocol traffic.

• Multilayer - Switching based on MAC addresses will be used for all

non-IP protocol traffic, and routing will be used for all IP protocol
traffic.

Select OK to return to the previous panel.