This book covers switching from the basics to advanced features, such as multilayer switching, as they pertain to Cisco's Catalyst products. Because of the rapidly changing Catalyst product line, I was unable to include all the latest products. However, I am sure that this is one of the most up-to-date reference materials available. | Page i Cisco Catalyst LAN Switching Page ii McGRAW-HILL CISCO TECHNICAL EXPERT SERIES Albritton Cisco IOS Essentials 0-07-134743-7 Caputo Cisco Packetized Voice and Data Integration 0-07-134777-1 Fischer Configuring Cisco Routers for ISDN 0-07-022073-5 Held and Hundley Cisco Security Architectures 0-07-134708-9 Lewis Cisco Switched Internetworks VLANs ATM and Voice Data Integration 0-07-134646-5 Lewis Cisco TCP IP Routing Professional Reference 21 e 0-07-041130-1 Parkhurst Cisco Multicast Routing and Switching 0-07134647-3 Parkhurst Cisco Router OSPF 0-07-048626-3 Rossi Cisco and IP Addressing 0-07-134925-1 Sackett Cisco Router Handbook 0-07-058098-7 Slattery Advanced IP Routing with Cisco Networks 0-07-058144-4 Van Meter Cisco and Fore ATM Internetworking 0-07-134842-5 Page iii Cisco Catalyst LAN Switching Louis R. Rossi Louis D. Rossi and Thomas L. Rossi McGraw-Hill New York San Francisco Washington . Auckland Bogotá Caracas Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi San Juan Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto Page iv McGraw-Hill gg A Dhjíñcm eT 1 AJíGnnU ffití I j T Copyright 2000 by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976 no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means or stored in a data base or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 DOC DOC 9 0 4 3 2 1 0 9 0-07-134982-0 The sponsoring editor for this book was Steven Elliot the editing supervisor was Ruth W. Mannino and the production supervisor was Claire Stanley. It was set in New Century Schoolbook by Victoria Khavkina of McGraw-Hill s desktop composition unit in cooperation with Spring Point Publishing Services. Printed and bound by R R. Donnelley Sons Company Throughout this book trademarked names are used. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked .
