Back to Contents PageIntroductionDell™ PowerConnect™ 3248 Systems User's GuideFeaturesFront-Panel ComponentsBack-Panel DescriptionsManagementFeaturesThe Dell™ PowerConnect™ 3248 Fast Ethernet Managed Switch offers the following features:l 48 10/100BASE-TX auto-sensing Fast Ethernet switching portsl Two 10/100/1000BASE-T auto-sensing Gigabit Ethernet switching ports that operate in combination with two Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP)transceiver slotsl IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3z, and IEEE 802.3ab compliantl Up to 8 kilobyte (KB)-entry, media access control (MAC) address cachel IEEE 802.3x flow control for full duplex operationl IEEE 802.1Q based tagged virtual local area network (VLAN)l IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) through four priority queues for each portl IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation, up to six aggregated trunks per switchl Spanning tree protocoll Broadcast storm controll Internet group management protocol (IGMP) snooping supportl Back pressure flow control for half-duplex operationl Port mirroringl Auto MDI/MDIX support for the 10/100BASE-TX and the 10/100/1000BASE-T portsl MAC addresses lookup based on port, VLAN ID, and MAC addressesl Redundant power supply (RPS) support for uninterrupted operationl System light-emitting diode (LED) and per port LEDsl Standard 1U chassisl 19-inch rack-mountableManagement Featuresl W e b-based management with embedded HTTP serverl Text-based management through four in-band Telnet sessions and an out-of-band RS-232 console port (VT100)l Simple network management protocol (SNMP)-based network management through an SNMP management console programl RADIUS access controll Software upload through Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)l Dual firmware image supportl Supports Boot Protocol (BOOTP) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for IP address assignmentl Hardware-assisted remote monitoring (RMON) statistic collectionl Management information base (MIB) II (RFC 1213)l Interfaces Evolution MIB (RFC 2863)l Ethernet-like MIB (RFC 2665)l Bridge MIB (RFC 1493)l Extended Bridge MIB (RFC 2674)l RMON MIB (RFC 2819)l Entity MIB (RFC 2737)l RADIUS authentication client MIB (RFC 2618)l Dell PowerConnect 3248 Private MIB