Features Switch Management • Non-Blocking Switch Fabric Assures Fast Packet Delivery by Utilizing a 1K Entry Forwarding Table and a Store-and-Forward Architecture • Fully Compliant with IEEE 802.3u Standards • Full-Duplex IEEE 802.3x Flow Control (Pause) with Force Mode Option • Half-Duplex Back Pressure Flow Control Advanced Switch Management • IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Support for Up to 16 Groups (Full Range of VLAN IDs) • VLAN ID Tag/Untag Options, on a Per Port Basis • IEEE 802.1p/Q Tag Insertion or Removal on a Per Port Basis (Egress) • Programmable Rate Limiting at the Ingress and Egress Ports • Broadcast Storm Protection • IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol Support • MAC Filtering Function to Filter or Forward Unknown Unicast Packets • Direct Forwarding Mode Enabling the Processor to Identify the Ingress Port and to Specify the Egress Port • Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v1/ v2 Snooping Support for Multicast Packet Filtering • IPV6 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Support Monitoring • Port Mirroring/Monitoring/Sniffing: Ingress and/or Egress Traffic to Any Port • MIB Counters for Fully Compliant Statistics Gathering - 34 MIB Counters Per Port • Loopback Modes for Remote Failure Diagnostics Comprehensive Register Access • Control Registers Configurable On-the-Fly (PortPriority, 802.1p/d/Q) QoS/CoS Packets Prioritization Support • Per Port, 802.1p and DiffServ-Based • Remapping of 802.1p Priority Field on a Per Port Basis