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

Reliability, 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