Traffic Management

• Auto Negotiation of speed and duplex modes
• 802.3x Flow Control
• DHCP Client
• Dynamic MAC address management
• IEEE 802.1Q-based or port-based VLAN
• QoS based on WRR, strict priority, or both
• Port-based and IEEE 802.1p-based QoS
• QoS based on ToS (Type-of-Service)
• DSCP Support (GS105E and GS105PE only)
• Rate Limiting • Link Aggregation / Port Trunking (Static LAGs on 16 ports and 24 ports, Static LAGs and LACP on 48 ports)

Switch Management

• Switch discovery on MAC or PC using the NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool
• Advanced configuration and management using web browser-based GUI Manage or deploy multiple switches using ProSAFE Plus Utility (requires Windows PC) Firmware upgrade thru ProSAFE Plus Utility (TFTP) or web browser-based GUI Configuration upload (to Server) System password protection Multi-language support (varies by model, see datasheet for specifics

IGMP snooping, v1, v2 and v3 Blocking of unknown multicast traffic Act as static multicast router port

PERFORMANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING

• Port mirroring both on ingress and egress traffic
• Jumbo frame support
• Broadcast Storm control
• Cable diagnostics
• Loop Detection
• DoS Prevention
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az) compliant (Selected models)
• Power savings with short cable detection and auto power-down when ports are in idle mode