GarrettCom S14 Manual De Usuario

S14 Convenient Switches 

 Installation and User Guide (09/04)  

 

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The switched RJ-45 ports are full-duplex and auto-sensing for speed. (See section 

2.2). When the connected device is 10 Mbps, the S14s obeys all the rules of 10 Mbps 

Ethernet configurations. The 10 Mbps users share a 10 Mbps traffic domain, and can 

“communicate with” 100Mbps users as well as 100Mbps domain. Similarly, the 100Mbps 

traffic obeys the rules of 100Mbps Ethernet, and can communicate with 10 Mb domain too. 

Magnum S14-Series units are plug-and-play devices.  There is no software 

configuring to be done at installation or for maintenance. The internal functions of both are 

described below. 

Each time a packet arrives on one of the switched ports, the decision is taken to 

either filter or to forward the packet.  Packets whose source and destination addresses on 

the same port segment will be filtered, constraining them to one port and relieving the rest