Contents 7
Layer 2 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
MAC Multicast Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
IGMP Snooping Querier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
MLD Snooping
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Multicast VLAN Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Layer 3 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
. . . . 84
Internet Group Management Protocol . . . . . . . 84
IGMP Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Protocol Independent Multicast—Dense
Mode
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Protocol Independent Multicast—Sparse
Mode
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Protocol Independent Multicast—Source
Specific Multicast
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Protocol Independent Multicast IPv6 Support
. . . 85
MLD/MLDv2 (RFC2710/RFC3810) . . . . . . . . . . 85
3 Hardware Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
PowerConnect 8000-series and 8100-series Front
Panel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
PowerConnect 8024 Front Panel
. . . . . . . . . . 87
PowerConnect 8024F Front Panel
. . . . . . . . . 88
PowerConnect 8132 Front Panel
. . . . . . . . . . 89
PowerConnect 8132F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 89
PowerConnect 8164 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 90
PowerConnect 8164F Front Panel
. . . . . . . . . 91
Hot-Pluggable Interface Modules . . . . . . . . . 92
USB Port (Power Connect 8100-series
switches only)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Port and System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94