
HP 100Base-T Hubs Installation and Reference Guide
Product Overview 1-9
Features of HP AdvanceStack Switch Port Modules
Features of the HP AdvanceStack 10/100TX and 100FX Switch
Port Modules are:
Networking Flexibility
(via Switch Port Modules)
• One Expansion Slot supports optional slide-in Switch Port
Modules for connection to 10Base-T, 100Base-TX or
100Base-FX (on a separate collision domain)
• Transparent bridging (between stack and external device) via
optional Switch Port Modules
• Uses adaptive cut-through switching (which dynamically
changes among standard cut-through, fragment-free cut-through,
and store-and-forward depending on the CRC error rate)
• Two transmission modes: full duplex or half duplex
• Auto-detects transmission speed at 100 Mbit/s or 10 Mbit/s
(10/100TX Switch Port Module only)
• Auto-negotiates transmission mode for full duplex and half
duplex (if same feature is supported by attached device);
otherwise can be manually configured (10/100TX Switch
Port Module only)
•
Automatically learns MAC addresses to build a routing
information database
•
Automatically filters local traffic
• Transparent to all higher level protocols
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