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LAYER 2 SWITCHING THE FOLLOWING LAYER 2 SERVICES ARE SUPPORTED: VLAN SUPPORT AND TAGGING SUPPORT IEEE 802.1Q (4094 VLAN IDS) AND 2K VLANS SIMULTANEOUSLY JUMBO PACKET SUPPORT IMPROVES THE PERFORMANCE OF LARGE DATA TRANSFERS; SUPPORTS FRAME SIZE OF UP TO 9198 BYTES IEEE 802.1V PROTOCOL VLANS ISOLATE SELECT NON-IPV4 PROTOCOLS AUTOMATICALLY INTO THEIR OWN VLANS RAPID PER-VLAN SPANNING TREE (RPVST+) ALLOWS EACH VLAN TO BUILD A SEPARATE SPANNING TREE TO IMPROVE LINK BANDWIDTH USAGE; IS COMPATIBLE WITH PVST+ MVRP ALLOWS AUTOMATIC LEARNING AND DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT OF VLANS VXLAN ENCAPSULATION (TUNNELLING) PROTOCOL FOR OVERLAY NETWORK THAT ENABLES A MORE SCALABLE VIRTUAL NETWORK DEPLOYMENT BRIDGE PROTOCOL DATA UNIT (BPDU) TUNNELLING TRANSMITS STP BPDUS TRANSPARENTLY, ALLOWING CORRECT TREE CALCULATIONS ACROSS SERVICE PROVIDERS, WANS, OR MANS PORT MIRRORING DUPLICATES PORT TRAFFIC (INGRESS AND EGRESS) TO A MONITORING PORT; SUPPORTS 4 MIRRORING GROUPS 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) CONTROLS AND MANAGES THE FLOODING OF MULTICAST PACKETS IN A LAYER 2 NETWORK LAYER 3 SERVICES THE FOLLOWING LAYER 3 SERVICES ARE SUPPORTED: LOOPBACK INTERFACE ADDRESS DEFINES AN ADDRESS IN OPEN SHORTEST PATH FIRST (OSPF), IMPROVING DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITY ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL (ARP) DETERMINES THE MAC ADDRESS OF ANOTHER IP HOST IN THE SAME SUBNET; SUPPORTS STATIC ARPS; GRATUITOUS ARP ALLOWS DETECTION OF DUPLICATE IP ADDRESSES; PROXY ARP ALLOWS NORMAL ARP OPERATION BETWEEN SUBNETS OR WHEN SUBNETS ARE SEPARATED BY A LAYER 2 NETWORK DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS) PROVIDES A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE THAT TRANSLATES DOMAIN NAMES AND IP ADDRESSES, WHICH SIMPLIFIES NETWORK DESIGN; SUPPORTS CLIENT AND SERVER SUPPORTS INTERNAL LOOPBACK TESTING FOR MAINTENANCE PURPOSES AND INCREASED AVAILABILITY; LOOPBACK DETECTION PROTECTS AGAINST INCORRECT CABLING OR NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS AND CAN BE ENABLED ON A PER-PORT OR PER-VLAN BASIS FOR ADDED FLEXIBILITY ROUTE MAPS PROVIDE MORE CONTROL DURING ROUTE REDISTRIBUTION; ALLOW FILTERING AND ALTERING OF ROUTE METRICS DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL (DHCP) SIMPLIFIES THE MANAGEMENT OF LARGE IP NETWORKS AND SUPPORTS CLIENT; DHCP RELAY ENABLES DHCP OPERATION ACROSS SUBNETS DHCP SERVER CENTRALIZES AND REDUCES THE COST OF IPV4 ADDRESS MANAGEMENT SIMPLIFIED CONFIGURATION AND MANAGEMENT IN ADDITION TO ARUBA CENTRAL, THE ARUBA CX MOBILE APP, ARUBA NETEDIT AND ARUBA NETWORK ANALYTICS ENGINE, THE HPE ARUBA NETWORKING CX 6200 SWITCH SERIES OFFERS THE FOLLOWING: BUILT-IN PROGRAMMABLE AND EASY-TO-USE REST API INTERFACE SIMPLE DAY ZERO PROVISIONING SFLOW (RFC 3176) IS ASIC-BASED WIRE SPEED NETWORK MONITORING AND ACCOUNTING WITH NO IMPACT ON NETWORK PERFORMANCE; NETWORK OPERATORS CAN GATHER A VARIETY OF NETWORK STATISTICS AND INFORMATION FOR CAPACITY PLANNING AND REAL-TIME NETWORK MONITORING PURPOSES MANAGEMENT INTERFACE CONTROL ENABLES OR DISABLES EACH OF THE FOLLOWING DEPENDING ON SECURITY PREFERENCES, CONSOLE PORT, OR RESET BUTTON INDUSTRY-STANDARD CLI WITH A HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE FOR REDUCED TRAINING TIME AND EXPENSE. DELIVERS INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY IN MULTIVENDOR ENVIRONMENTS MANAGEMENT SECURITY RESTRICTS ACCESS TO CRITICAL CONFIGURATION COMMANDS, PROVIDES MULTIPLE PRIVILEGE LEVELS WITH PASSWORD PROTECTION AND LOCAL AND REMOTE SYSLOG CAPABILITIES ALLOW LOGGING OF ALL ACCESS SNMP V2C/V3 PROVIDES SNMP READ AND TRAP SUPPORT OF INDUSTRY STANDARD MANAGEMENT INFORMATION BASE (MIB), AND PRIVATE EXTENSIONS SNMP SUPPORT INCLUDES: WRITE SET SPEED AND DUPLEX, WRITE PORT SECURITY, WRITE POE PRIORITY, WRITE CONFIG MGMT, SNMP-READ SINGLE OID FOR AVERAGE CPU AND MEMORY, SNMP MIB VIEW SNMP TRAP INCLUDE: TRANSCEIVER TRAPS (INSERTION/REMOVAL), SNMP TRAP, SNMP MIB-SNMB AUTHENTICATION, SNMPV2 MIB, PORT SEC MIB-PORT SEC, CONFIG MIB-RUNNING CONFIG CHANGE, CONFIG MIB, AAA SERVER MIB, AAA SERVER STATE REMOTE MONITORING (RMON) WITH STANDARD SNMP TO MONITOR ESSENTIAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS. SUPPORTS EVENTS, ALARMS, HISTORY, AND STATISTICS GROUPS AS WELL AS A PRIVATE ALARM EXTENSION GROUP; RMON, AND SFLOW PROVIDE ADVANCED MONITORING AND REPORTING CAPABILITIES FOR STATISTICS, HISTORY, ALARMS AND EVENTS TFTP AND SFTP SUPPORT OFFERS DIFFERENT MECHANISMS FOR CONFIGURATION UPDATES; TRIVIAL FTP (TFTP) ALLOWS BIDIRECTIONAL TRANSFERS OVER A TCP/ IP NETWORK; SECURE FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (SFTP) RUNS OVER AN SSH TUNNEL TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SECURITY DEBUG AND SAMPLER UTILITY SUPPORTS PING AND TRACEROUTE FOR IPV4 AND IPV6 NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL (NTP) SYNCHRONIZES TIMEKEEPING AMONG DISTRIBUTED TIME SERVERS AND CLIENTS; KEEPS TIMEKEEPING CONSISTENT AMONG ALL CLOCK-DEPENDENT DEVICES WITHIN THE NETWORK IEEE 802.1AB LINK LAYER DISCOVERY PROTOCOL (LLDP) ADVERTISES AND RECEIVES MANAGEMENT INFORMATION FROM ADJACENT DEVICES ON A NETWORK, FACILITATING EASY MAPPING BY NETWORK MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS DUAL FLASH IMAGES PROVIDES INDEPENDENT PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OPERATING SYSTEM FILES FOR BACKUP WHILE UPGRADING MULTIPLE CONFIGURATION FILES CAN BE STORED TO A FLASH IMAGE INGRESS AND EGRESS PORT MONITORING ENABLE MORE EFFICIENT NETWORK PROBLEM SOLVING UNIDIRECTIONAL LINK DETECTION (UDLD) MONITORS THE LINK BETWEEN TWO SWITCHES AND BLOCKS THE PORTS ON BOTH ENDS OF THE LINK IF THE LINK GOES DOWN AT ANY POINT BETWEEN THE TWO DEVICES IP SLA FOR VOICE MONITORS QUALITY OF VOICE TRAFFIC USING THE UDP JITTER FOR VOIP TESTS LAYER 3 ROUTING THE FOLLOWING LAYER 3 ROUTING SERVICES ARE SUPPORTED: ROUTING INFORMATION PROTOCOL VERSION 2 (RIPV2) PROVIDES AN EASY TO CONFIGURE ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR SMALL NETWORKS AS WHILE RIPNG PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR SMALL IPV6 NETWORKS SINGLE-AREA OPEN SHORTEST PATH FIRST (OSPF) DELIVERS FASTER CONVERGENCE; USES LINK-STATE ROUTING INTERIOR GATEWAY PROTOCOL (IGP), WHICH SUPPORTS NSSA, AND MD5 AUTHENTICATION FOR INCREASED SECURITY AND GRACEFUL RESTART FOR FASTER FAILURE RECOVERY OSPF PROVIDES OSPFV2 FOR IPV4 ROUTING AND OSPFV3 FOR IPV6 ROUTING STATIC IP ROUTING PROVIDES MANUALLY CONFIGURED ROUTING STATIC IPV4 ROUTING PROVIDES SIMPLE MANUALLY CONFIGURED IPV4 ROUTING IP PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION PROVIDES A SET OF TOOLS TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF IPV4 NETWORKS; INCLUDES DIRECTED BROADCASTS, CUSTOMIZATION OF TCP PARAMETERS, SUPPORT OF ICMP ERROR PACKETS, AND EXTENSIVE DISPLAY CAPABILITIES 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. MDNS (MULTICAST DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM) GATEWAY ENABLES DISCOVERY OF MDNS GROUPS ACROSS L3 BOUNDARIES EQUAL-COST MULTIPATH (ECMP) ENABLES MULTIPLE EQUAL-COST LINKS IN A ROUTING ENVIRONMENT TO INCREASE LINK REDUNDANCY AND SCALE BANDWIDTH OPEN SHORTEST PATH FIRST (OSPF) DELIVERS FASTER CONVERGENCE; USES LINK-STATE ROUTING INTERIOR GATEWAY PROTOCOL (IGP), WHICH SUPPORTS ECMP, NSSA, AND MD5 AUTHENTICATION FOR INCREASED SECURITY AND GRACEFUL RESTART FOR FASTER FAILURE RECOVERY STATIC IP ROUTING PROVIDES MANUALLY CONFIGURED ROUTING; INCLUDES ECMP CAPABILITY.