Management Guide - Kamery IP

1Introductionforwarding traffic based on this information. The address table supports up to 8Kaddresses.Store-and-Forward Switching – The switch copies each frame into its memorybefore forwarding them to another port. This ensures that all frames are a standardEthernet size and have been verified for accuracy with the cyclic redundancy check(CRC). This prevents bad frames from entering the network and wasting bandwidth.To avoid dropping frames on congested ports, the switch provides 4 Mbits for framebuffering. This buffer can queue packets awaiting transmission on congestednetworks.Spanning Tree Algorithm – The switch supports these spanning tree protocols:Spanning Tree Protocol (STP, IEEE 802.1D) – This protocol provides loop detectionand recovery by allowing two or more redundant connections to be created betweena pair of LAN segments. When there are multiple physical paths between segments,this protocol will choose a single path and disable all others to ensure that only oneroute exists between any two stations on the network. This prevents the creation ofnetwork loops. However, if the chosen path should fail for any reason, an alternatepath will be activated to maintain the connection.Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP, IEEE 802.1D-2004) – This protocol reducesthe convergence time for network topology changes to 3 to 5 seconds, compared to30 seconds or more for the older IEEE 802.1D STP standard. It is intended as acomplete replacement for STP, but can still interoperate with switches running theolder standard by automatically reconfiguring ports to STP-compliant mode if theydetect STP protocol messages from attached devices.Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP, IEEE 802.1D-2004) – This protocol is adirect extension of RSTP. It can provide an independent spanning tree for differentVLANs. It simplifies network management, provides for even faster convergencethan RSTP by limiting the size of each region, and prevents VLAN members frombeing segmented from the rest of the group (as sometimes occurs with IEEE 802.1DSTP).Virtual LANs – The switch supports up to 255 VLANs. A Virtual LAN is a collectionof network nodes that share the same collision domain regardless of their physicallocation or connection point in the network. The switch supports tagged VLANsbased on the IEEE 802.1Q standard. Members of VLAN groups can be dynamicallylearned via GVRP, or ports can be manually assigned to a specific set of VLANs.This allows the switch to restrict traffic to the VLAN groups to which a user has beenassigned. By segmenting your network into VLANs, you can:• Eliminate broadcast storms which severely degrade performance in a flat network.• Simplify network management for node changes/moves by remotely configuringVLAN membership for any port, rather than having to manually change the networkconnection.• Provide data security by restricting all traffic to the originating VLAN.1-4