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• Supports different tagged VLANs - Shared, Independent, and Hybrid - as per IEEE 802.1Q
• Supports Port-based, MAC-based, and Port-and-Protocol-based VLAN configuration on per port basis
• Supports 802.1q Tunneling/1q in 1q/VLAN Stacking, thus expanding the VLAN space in the service provider networks
• Supports Inter VLAN Routing
• Supports port type configuration as trunk port, access port and hybrid port
• Supports Ingress and Egress rules that define how to handle incoming and outgoing frames
• Provides a set of GARP (Generic Attribute Registration Protocol) libraries, which can be used to build GARP applications
• Supports automatic configuration and management of VLANs by means of GVRP (GARP VLAN Registration Protocol)
• Supports Extended Filtering services using the GARP Multicast Registration Protocol (GMRP)
• Supports Expedited traffic forwarding, using service classes of multiple levels of priorities
• Provides interfaces to Spanning Tree (RSTP and MSTP) software
• Provides support for easy configuration of VLANs by the Network Administrator using SNMP and CLI
• Exploits the VLAN features, if available in the hardware, for learning and forwarding of VLAN tagged frames
• Highly portable code, which uses flexible buffer and timer management libraries

Last updated : June 13, 2006