DWS-3160 Series Gigabit Ethernet Unified Switch Hardware Installation Guide
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Features
This Switch series is action packed with an abundance of networking features that span inside and outside of the
traditional Layer 2 framework making it truly a Layer 2+ Switch. The list below highlights the significant protocols and
features supported by this Switch.
Local Area Networking (LAN) features that can be found on this Switch series are:
Virtual Stacking otherwise known as Clustering.
Flow Control with Head-Of-Line blocking prevention.
Jumbo Frame of up to 13Kb.
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
Snooping Versions 1, 2, and 3.
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Version
1 and 2.
Spanning Tree Protocols like 802.1D STP, 802.1w
RSTP, and 802.1s MSTP.
D-Link Loopback Detection Version 4.0.3
Link Aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad).
Port Mirroring that includes RSPAN.
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP).
Network Load Balancing (NLB).
Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling (L2PT).
PPPoE Circuit-ID Tag Insertion.
• Virtual LAN (VLAN) using the IEEE 802.1Q protocol.
Voice VLAN and Guest VLAN.
Port-based, MAC-based, and Protocol-based VLAN.
Asymmetric VLAN and ISM VLAN.
VLAN Trunking and Private VLAN.
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).
Queue Handling (Strict and Weighted Round Robin).
Layer 3, Control Packet Filtering.
Access Control Lists (ACLs), Ingress and Egress
ACLs.
CPU Interface Filtering (Software ACL).
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
Storm Control (Unicast/Broadcast/Multicast).
Filter Database (FDB) Security.
NetBIOS/NetBEUI Filtering.
Access Authentication Control.
IEEE 802.1X Network Access Control.
• MAC-based Access Control (MAC).
• Compound Authentication.
Network Access Protection (NAP).
RADIUS Accounting and Authentication.
Authentication Database Failover Enhancement.
Web-based GUI Management.
Command Line Interface (CLI) Management.
Telnet Server/Client and TFTP Client.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
Trap/Alarm/Log Severity Control.
DHCP Auto-configuration, Client and Relay.
Multiple Image and Configuration support.
Password Encryption and Recovery.
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND).
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP).
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
Ethernet Link OAM (IEEE 802.3ah).
Time-based Power-over-Ethernet (PoE).
Wi-Fi Multimedia Power Save (WMM-PS).
Intelligent Green Network (D-Link Green 3.0).
D-Link License Management System (DLMS).