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... changed Industry standard management • Industry standard command line interface (CLI), functional NETGEAR web interface (GUI), SNMP, sFlow and RSPAN • Single-pane-of-glass NMS300 management platform with centralized firmware updates and mass-configuration support Industry leading warranty • NETGEAR M6100 series is covered under NETGEAR ProSafe Lifetime Hardware Warranty* • 90 days of Technical Support via phone and email, Lifetime Technical Support through online chat and Lifetime Next Business Day hardware replacement...
... changed Industry standard management • Industry standard command line interface (CLI), functional NETGEAR web interface (GUI), SNMP, sFlow and RSPAN • Single-pane-of-glass NMS300 management platform with centralized firmware updates and mass-configuration support Industry leading warranty • NETGEAR M6100 series is covered under NETGEAR ProSafe Lifetime Hardware Warranty* • 90 days of Technical Support via phone and email, Lifetime Technical Support through online chat and Lifetime Next Business Day hardware replacement...
Product Data Sheet
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...(Ethernet) Management Console (Serial) Storage (image, config, log files) XCM8948 I /O Blade - (service port) 1 x Mini-USB - 24 16 (shared with PoE+/PoE) APS1000W Power Supply PSU 1,000W AC (up to four more PSUs in M6100-3S chassis; Telnet; SSH SNMP, MIBs RSPAN Ingress/egress 1 Kbps shaping Time-based Single Rate Policing * CLI only IPv4/IPv6 Multicast Filtering IGMPv3 MLDv2 Snooping + Querier Control Packet Flooding IPv4/IPv6 Policing and Convergence LAYER 3 PACKAGE Spanning Tree Green Ethernet VLANs Trunking Port Channel Auto-VoIP STP, MTP, RSTP Auto-iSCSI PV(R)STP...
...(Ethernet) Management Console (Serial) Storage (image, config, log files) XCM8948 I /O Blade - (service port) 1 x Mini-USB - 24 16 (shared with PoE+/PoE) APS1000W Power Supply PSU 1,000W AC (up to four more PSUs in M6100-3S chassis; Telnet; SSH SNMP, MIBs RSPAN Ingress/egress 1 Kbps shaping Time-based Single Rate Policing * CLI only IPv4/IPv6 Multicast Filtering IGMPv3 MLDv2 Snooping + Querier Control Packet Flooding IPv4/IPv6 Policing and Convergence LAYER 3 PACKAGE Spanning Tree Green Ethernet VLANs Trunking Port Channel Auto-VoIP STP, MTP, RSTP Auto-iSCSI PV(R)STP...
Product Data Sheet
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... required - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Product Brief Data Sheet M6100 series The M6100 switch series consists of -band Ethernet management (OOB) • Selectable standard RS232 straight-through serial RJ45 and Mini-USB ports for local management console • Standard USB port for local storage, logs, configuration or image files • Dual firmware image and configuration file for updates with minimum service interruption • Industry standard command line interface (CLI) for IT admins used to other vendors commands •...
... required - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Product Brief Data Sheet M6100 series The M6100 switch series consists of -band Ethernet management (OOB) • Selectable standard RS232 straight-through serial RJ45 and Mini-USB ports for local management console • Standard USB port for local storage, logs, configuration or image files • Dual firmware image and configuration file for updates with minimum service interruption • Industry standard command line interface (CLI) for IT admins used to other vendors commands •...
Product Data Sheet
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... services) are performed in hardware at interface line rate for voice, video, and data convergence M6100 series Layer 3 software package provides advanced IPv4/IPv6 fault tolerant routing capabilities for interfaces, VLANs, subnets and multicast Top-of-the-line switching performance 32K MAC address table, 4K concurrent VLANs and 12K Layer 3 route table size for the most demanding enterprise or campus networks Each line-card (I/O blade) provides line-rate local switching and routing capacity Each slot provides 2 x 40G channels (80G half-duplex...
... services) are performed in hardware at interface line rate for voice, video, and data convergence M6100 series Layer 3 software package provides advanced IPv4/IPv6 fault tolerant routing capabilities for interfaces, VLANs, subnets and multicast Top-of-the-line switching performance 32K MAC address table, 4K concurrent VLANs and 12K Layer 3 route table size for the most demanding enterprise or campus networks Each line-card (I/O blade) provides line-rate local switching and routing capacity Each slot provides 2 x 40G channels (80G half-duplex...
Product Data Sheet
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... FastBackbone IP address conflict detection performed by a simple "show hardware" command in CLI - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Distributed Link Aggregation, also called Port Channeling or Port Trunking, offers powerful network redundancy and load balancing between I/O blades • Servers and other network devices benefit from perturbing the overall network stability IP Event Dampening reduces the effect of interface flaps on routing protocols: the routing protocols temporarily disable their...
... FastBackbone IP address conflict detection performed by a simple "show hardware" command in CLI - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Distributed Link Aggregation, also called Port Channeling or Port Trunking, offers powerful network redundancy and load balancing between I/O blades • Servers and other network devices benefit from perturbing the overall network stability IP Event Dampening reduces the effect of interface flaps on routing protocols: the routing protocols temporarily disable their...
Product Data Sheet
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... stack (IPv4 and IPv6), multicasting (MLD for IPv6 filtering and PIM-SM / PIM-DM for IPv6 routing), ACLs and QoS, static routing and dynamic routing (OSPFv3) as well as VLAN creation; Replaceable factory-default configuration file for predictable network reset All major centralized software distribution platforms are supported for dynamically created VLAN by -hop basis and with a synchronous response when initiated from the CLI), clear dynamically learned MAC addresses, counters, IGMP snooping table entries from other vendors switch, server...
... stack (IPv4 and IPv6), multicasting (MLD for IPv6 filtering and PIM-SM / PIM-DM for IPv6 routing), ACLs and QoS, static routing and dynamic routing (OSPFv3) as well as VLAN creation; Replaceable factory-default configuration file for predictable network reset All major centralized software distribution platforms are supported for dynamically created VLAN by -hop basis and with a synchronous response when initiated from the CLI), clear dynamically learned MAC addresses, counters, IGMP snooping table entries from other vendors switch, server...
Product Data Sheet
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... UDP - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) can be used to synchronize network resources and for adaptation of NTP, and can provide synchronized network timestamp either in real time (without caching) PoE power management and schedule enablement Power redundancy for higher availability when mission critical convergent installation, including hot-swap main PSU replacement without interruption Advanced Layer 3 routing package Static Routes/ECMP Static Routes for IPv4...
... UDP - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) can be used to synchronize network resources and for adaptation of NTP, and can provide synchronized network timestamp either in real time (without caching) PoE power management and schedule enablement Power redundancy for higher availability when mission critical convergent installation, including hot-swap main PSU replacement without interruption Advanced Layer 3 routing package Static Routes/ECMP Static Routes for IPv4...
Product Data Sheet
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... Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series In order to facilitate VLAN creation and VLAN routing using Web GUI, a VLAN Routing Wizard offers the following automated capabilities: • Create a VLAN and generate a unique name for VLAN • Add selected ports to the newly created VLAN and remove selected ports from the default VLAN • Create a LAG, add selected ports to a LAG, then add this LAG to the newly created VLAN • Enable tagging on selected ports if the port is in another VLAN • Disable...
... Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series In order to facilitate VLAN creation and VLAN routing using Web GUI, a VLAN Routing Wizard offers the following automated capabilities: • Create a VLAN and generate a unique name for VLAN • Add selected ports to the newly created VLAN and remove selected ports from the default VLAN • Create a LAG, add selected ports to a LAG, then add this LAG to the newly created VLAN • Enable tagging on selected ports if the port is in another VLAN • Disable...
Product Data Sheet
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... malicious users traffic elimination Time-based Layer 2 / Layer 3-v4 / Layer 3-v6 / Layer 4 Access Control Lists (ACLs) can be binded to ports, Layer 2 interfaces, VLANs and LAGs (Link Aggregation Groups or Port channel) for fast unauthorized data prevention and right granularity For in-band switch management, management ACLs on the same switch port but under different VLAN assignment policies (Voice VLAN versus other messages can be used to probe for vulnerable hosts or routers • Rate limiting ICMP error messages protects the local router and the network...
... malicious users traffic elimination Time-based Layer 2 / Layer 3-v4 / Layer 3-v6 / Layer 4 Access Control Lists (ACLs) can be binded to ports, Layer 2 interfaces, VLANs and LAGs (Link Aggregation Groups or Port channel) for fast unauthorized data prevention and right granularity For in-band switch management, management ACLs on the same switch port but under different VLAN assignment policies (Voice VLAN versus other messages can be used to probe for vulnerable hosts or routers • Rate limiting ICMP error messages protects the local router and the network...
Product Data Sheet
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... enables support for Single Rate Policer as an identifier • A list of authorized MAC addresses of client NICs is maintained on the RADIUS server for MAB purpose • MAB can restrict the configuration such that no other users' traffic Secure Shell (SSH) and SNMPv3 (with or without MD5 or SHA authentication) ensure SNMP and Telnet sessions are secured TACACS+ and RADIUS enhanced administrator management provides strict "Login...
... enables support for Single Rate Policer as an identifier • A list of authorized MAC addresses of client NICs is maintained on the RADIUS server for MAB purpose • MAB can restrict the configuration such that no other users' traffic Secure Shell (SSH) and SNMPv3 (with or without MD5 or SHA authentication) ensure SNMP and Telnet sessions are secured TACACS+ and RADIUS enhanced administrator management provides strict "Login...
Product Data Sheet
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... share the same link with traffic that receives traffic from other vendors implementations, including port "D-Disable triggering cases in both modes Datacenter Features (CLI only) The Priority Flow Control (PFC) is standardized by the IEEE 802.1Qbb specification and enables flow control per port basis: -- Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) -- ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series UDLD Support UDLD implementation detects unidirectional links physical ports (UDLD must be...
... share the same link with traffic that receives traffic from other vendors implementations, including port "D-Disable triggering cases in both modes Datacenter Features (CLI only) The Priority Flow Control (PFC) is standardized by the IEEE 802.1Qbb specification and enables flow control per port basis: -- Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) -- ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series UDLD Support UDLD implementation detects unidirectional links physical ports (UDLD must be...
Product Data Sheet
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... of 48 ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) Multicast VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP) MVR (Multicast VLAN registration) L2 SERVICES - MULTICAST ROUTING IGMP Proxy MLD Proxy Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (CLI only) Yes (CLI only) Can replace GARP functionality Can replace GVRP functionality Yes Up to 64 LAGs and up to mRouter Ports Remove Flood...
... of 48 ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) Multicast VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP) MVR (Multicast VLAN registration) L2 SERVICES - MULTICAST ROUTING IGMP Proxy MLD Proxy Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (CLI only) Yes (CLI only) Can replace GARP functionality Can replace GVRP functionality Yes Up to 64 LAGs and up to mRouter Ports Remove Flood...
Product Data Sheet
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... Enables the exchange of routing information among different routing protocols operating within a router Page 28 of 48 ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Multicast streams routing between subnets, VLANs Multicast static routes (IPv4, IPv6) DVMRP (Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol) Neighbor discovery PIM-DM (Multicast Routing - sparse mode) PIM-SM (IPv6) PIM multi-hop RP support PIM Timer Accuracy PIM-SM Unhandled Events IPMC replication (hardware support) L3 SERVICES...
... Enables the exchange of routing information among different routing protocols operating within a router Page 28 of 48 ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Multicast streams routing between subnets, VLANs Multicast static routes (IPv4, IPv6) DVMRP (Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol) Neighbor discovery PIM-DM (Multicast Routing - sparse mode) PIM-SM (IPv6) PIM multi-hop RP support PIM Timer Accuracy PIM-SM Unhandled Events IPMC replication (hardware support) L3 SERVICES...
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... Optional user password encryption Multisession Telnet server Auto Image Upgrade Core Switching IEEE 802.1AB - Spanning tree IEEE 802.3ad - IETF RFC STANDARDS AND IEEE NETWORK PROTOCOLS Core Management RFC 854 - User-Based Security Model RFC 855 - Version 2 of 48 Community-based SNMP v2 RFC 1908 - RSVA/1.0 state management cookies - Textual conventions for Transport layer security - Virtual LANs w/ port-based VLANs IEEE 802.3af - Transparent content negotiation RFC 2296 - Flow control...
... Optional user password encryption Multisession Telnet server Auto Image Upgrade Core Switching IEEE 802.1AB - Spanning tree IEEE 802.3ad - IETF RFC STANDARDS AND IEEE NETWORK PROTOCOLS Core Management RFC 854 - User-Based Security Model RFC 855 - Version 2 of 48 Community-based SNMP v2 RFC 1908 - RSVA/1.0 state management cookies - Textual conventions for Transport layer security - Virtual LANs w/ port-based VLANs IEEE 802.3af - Transparent content negotiation RFC 2296 - Flow control...
Product Data Sheet
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...-T IEEE 802.3u - 100Base-T IEEE 802.3ab - 1000Base-T Additional Layer 2 Functionality Broadcast storm recovery Double VLAN/VMAN tagging DHCP Snooping Dynamic ARP inspection Independent VLAN Learning (IVL) support IPv6 classification APIs Jumbo Ethernet frames Port mirroring Static MAC filtering System Facilities Event and error logging facility Runtime and configuration download capability PING utility XMODEM RFC 768 - TFTP RFC 791 - ICMP RFC 793 - Ethernet ARP RFC 894 - DHCP relay ANSI/TIA-1057 - LLDP-MED GARP...
...-T IEEE 802.3u - 100Base-T IEEE 802.3ab - 1000Base-T Additional Layer 2 Functionality Broadcast storm recovery Double VLAN/VMAN tagging DHCP Snooping Dynamic ARP inspection Independent VLAN Learning (IVL) support IPv6 classification APIs Jumbo Ethernet frames Port mirroring Static MAC filtering System Facilities Event and error logging facility Runtime and configuration download capability PING utility XMODEM RFC 768 - TFTP RFC 791 - ICMP RFC 793 - Ethernet ARP RFC 894 - DHCP relay ANSI/TIA-1057 - LLDP-MED GARP...
Product Data Sheet
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... and multicast routing protocol interaction Static RP configuration RFC 4271 - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Quality of Service - An architecture for BGP-4 RFC 5492 - IP DSCP to a specific queue - MLDv2 Core BGP4 RFC 1997 - Stateless autoconfiguration RFC 2464 - An expedited forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior) RFC 3260 - Generate trap log entries containing rule hit counts Auto VoIP RFC3973...
... and multicast routing protocol interaction Static RP configuration RFC 4271 - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Quality of Service - An architecture for BGP-4 RFC 5492 - IP DSCP to a specific queue - MLDv2 Core BGP4 RFC 1997 - Stateless autoconfiguration RFC 2464 - An expedited forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior) RFC 3260 - Generate trap log entries containing rule hit counts Auto VoIP RFC3973...
Product Data Sheet
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... MIB for IPv6 RFC 6164 - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches RFC 3056-Connection of 48 Data Sheet M6100 series View-based Access Control Model for High Capacity Alarms RFC 2576 - Entity MIB (Version 2) IANAifType-MIB - no RFC) RFC 3413 - SNMP Community MIB RFC 2578 - RMON MIB Extensions for SNMP MIB RFC 3434 - The Interfaces Group MIB using SMI v2 FASTPATH-MSRP-MIB - QCN...
... MIB for IPv6 RFC 6164 - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches RFC 3056-Connection of 48 Data Sheet M6100 series View-based Access Control Model for High Capacity Alarms RFC 2576 - Entity MIB (Version 2) IANAifType-MIB - no RFC) RFC 3413 - SNMP Community MIB RFC 2578 - RMON MIB Extensions for SNMP MIB RFC 3434 - The Interfaces Group MIB using SMI v2 FASTPATH-MSRP-MIB - QCN...
Product Data Sheet
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... Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series CLI commands logged to a Syslog server Web-based graphical user interface (GUI) Features without Web GUI support PV(R)STP Authorization List Control Plane ACL DCBX Priority Flow Control ETS FIP Snooping UDLD Policy Based Routing LLPF BGP QoS Policy for Single Rate DHCPv6 Snooping IPv6 DHCP Relay eMail Alerting MMRP Telnet IPv6 management Dual Software (firmware) image Dual Configuration file IS-CLI Scripting Port descriptions SNTP client over UDP port 123 XMODEM SNMP v1/v2 SNMP v3 with multiple IP addresses...
... Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series CLI commands logged to a Syslog server Web-based graphical user interface (GUI) Features without Web GUI support PV(R)STP Authorization List Control Plane ACL DCBX Priority Flow Control ETS FIP Snooping UDLD Policy Based Routing LLPF BGP QoS Policy for Single Rate DHCPv6 Snooping IPv6 DHCP Relay eMail Alerting MMRP Telnet IPv6 management Dual Software (firmware) image Dual Configuration file IS-CLI Scripting Port descriptions SNTP client over UDP port 123 XMODEM SNMP v1/v2 SNMP v3 with multiple IP addresses...
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...-Link down (typical/max) All member ports in a given VPC going down on Primary All member ports in a given VPC going down on Secondary Device Traffic Impact - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Secured protocols for file transfers HTTP Max Sessions SSL/HTTPS Max Sessions HTTP Download (firmware) Email Alerting Syslog (RFC 3164) Persistent log supported USER ADMIN MANAGEMENT User ID configuration Max number of configured users Support multiple...
...-Link down (typical/max) All member ports in a given VPC going down on Primary All member ports in a given VPC going down on Secondary Device Traffic Impact - ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Secured protocols for file transfers HTTP Max Sessions SSL/HTTPS Max Sessions HTTP Download (firmware) Email Alerting Syslog (RFC 3164) Persistent log supported USER ADMIN MANAGEMENT User ID configuration Max number of configured users Support multiple...
Installation Guide
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After installing your device, locate the serial number on the label of your product and use NETGEAR telephone support. In other countries. You can use it to register your product through a link in the United States and/ or other countries, visit http://support.netgear.com/general/contact/default.aspx for phone numbers. All rights reserved. April 2015 NETGEAR, Inc. 350 East Plumeria Drive San Jose...
After installing your device, locate the serial number on the label of your product and use NETGEAR telephone support. In other countries. You can use it to register your product through a link in the United States and/ or other countries, visit http://support.netgear.com/general/contact/default.aspx for phone numbers. All rights reserved. April 2015 NETGEAR, Inc. 350 East Plumeria Drive San Jose...