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MS453522M

8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

User's Manual

Release 2.14

Issue 12.2006

MICROSENS 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch User’s Manual

Table of Contents

CAUTION------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IV ELECTRONIC EMISSION NOTICES ---------------------------------------------------------------------IV

CHAPTER

1-1. OVERVIEW OF 8 PORT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH----------------------------------------- 2 1-2. CHECKLIST ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 1-3. FEATURES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 1-4. VIEW OF 8 PORT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH ----------------------------------------------- 6

1-4-1. User Interfaces on the Front Panel (Button, LEDs and Plugs) ------------ 6 1-4-2. User Interfaces on the Rear Panel ------------------------------------------------ 7

1-5. VIEW OF THE OPTIONAL MODULES ----------------------------------------------------------- 8

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2-1. STARTING 8 PORT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH UP ------------------------------------------ 9

2-1-1. Hardware and Cable Installation-------------------------------------------------- 9 2-1-2. Installing Chassis to a 19-Inch Wiring Closet Rail ---------------------------11 2-1-3. Cabling Requirements---------------------------------------------------------------11

2-1-4. Configuring the Management Agent of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2-1-5. IP Address Assignment --------------------------------------------------------------20

2-2. TYPICAL APPLICATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------25

1. INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2

2. INSTALLATION -------------------------------------------------------------------- 9

2-1-3-1. Cabling Requirements for TP Ports ----------------------------------------12 2-1-3-2. Cabling Requirements for 1000SX/LX SFP Module -------------------12 2-1-3-3. Switch Cascading in Topology ----------------------------------------------13

2-1-4-1. Configuring the Management Agent of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch through the Serial RS-232 Port --------------------------------2-1-4-2. Configuring the Management Agent of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch through the Ethernet Port---------------------------------------

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3-1. WEB MANAGEMENT HOME OVERVIEW -----------------------------------------------------29

3-1-1. System Information ------------------------------------------------------------------32 3-1-2. IP Configuration-----------------------------------------------------------------------34 3-1-3. Time Configuration ------------------------------------------------------------------37 3-1-4. Account Configuration--------------------------------------------------------------40 3-1-5. Management Policy ------------------------------------------------------------------41 3-1-6. Virtual Stack ----------------------------------------------------------------------------44

3-2. PORT CONFIGURATION-------------------------------------------------------------------------46

3-2-1.Port Status -------------------------------------------------------------------------------46 3-2-2. Port Configuration -------------------------------------------------------------------51 3-2-3. Simple Counter ------------------------------------------------------------------------53 3-2-4. Detail Counter -------------------------------------------------------------------------54

3. OPERATION OF WEB-BASED MANAGEMENT ---------------------- 27

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3-3. MIRROR------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------57 3-4. BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT------------------------------------------------------------------58 3-5. QOS(QUALITY OF SERVICE) CONFIGURATION ----------------------------------------------60 3-6. SNMP CONFIGURATION -----------------------------------------------------------------------70 3-7. IGMP SNOOPING-------------------------------------------------------------------------------72 3-8. MAX. PACKET LENGTH ------------------------------------------------------------------------74 3-9. DHCP BOOT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------75 3-10. VLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------76

3-10-1. VLAN Mode ---------------------------------------------------------------------------76 3-10-2. Tag-based Group --------------------------------------------------------------------79 3-10-3. Port-based Group -------------------------------------------------------------------81

3-10-4. Tag Rule --------------------------------------------------------------------------------83 3-11. MAC TABLE -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------85 3-12. GVRP CONFIGURATION----------------------------------------------------------------------92 3-13. STP CONFIGURATION-------------------------------------------------------------------------98

3-13-1. STP Status ------------------------------------------------------------------------------98

3-13-2. STP Configuration----------------------------------------------------------------- 100

3-13-3. STP Port Configuration ---------------------------------------------------------- 102 3-14. TRUNKING CONFIGURATION--------------------------------------------------------------- 105 3-15. 802.1X CONFIGURATION ------------------------------------------------------------------ 112 3-16. ALARM CONFIGURATION------------------------------------------------------------------- 122 3-17. CONFIGURATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 125

3-17-1. Save/Restore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 126

3-17-2. Config File --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 129 3-18. DIAGNOSTICS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 130 3-19. TFTP SERVER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 133 3-20. LOG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 134 3-21. FIRMWARE UPGRADE----------------------------------------------------------------------- 135 3-22. REBOOT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 136 3-23. LOGOUT-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 137

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4. OPERATION OF CLI MANAGEMENT---------------------------------- 138

4-1. CLI MANAGEMENT--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 138

4-1-1. Login ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------138 4-2. COMMANDS OF CLI -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 140

4-2-1. Global Commands of CLI --------------------------------------------------------- 141

4-2-2. Local Commands of CLI ----------------------------------------------------------- 147

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5. MAINTENANCE--------------------------------------------------------------- 226

5-1. RESOLVING NO LINK CONDITION----------------------------------------------------------- 226 5-2. Q&A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 226

APPENDIX A TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS------------------------------------------- 227

APPENDIX B NULL MODEM CABLE SPECIFICATIONS ---------------------------- 231

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Caution

Circuit devices are sensitive to static electricity, which can damage their delicate electronics. Dry weather conditions or walking across a carpeted floor may cause you to acquire a static electrical charge.

To protect your device, always:

• Touch the metal chassis of your computer to ground the static electrical charge before you pick up

the circuit device.

• Pick up the device by holding it on the left and right edges only.

Electronic Emission Notices

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class A computing device pursuant to Subpart J of part 15 of FCC Rules, which are designed to provide reasonable protection against such interference when operated in a commercial environment.

European Community (CE) Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the protection requirements of European Emission Standard EN55022/EN60555-2 and the Generic European Immunity Standard EN50082-1.

EMC:

EN55022(1988)/CISPR-22(1985) class A EN60555-2(1995) class A EN60555-3 IEC1000-4-2(1995) 4K V CD, 8KV, AD IEC1000-4-3(1995) 3V/m IEC1000-4-4(1995) 1KV – (power line), 0.5KV – (signal line)

About this user’s manual

In this user’s manual, it will not only tell you how to install and connect your network system but configure and monitor the 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch through the built-in CLI and web by RS-232 serial interface and Ethernet ports step-by-step. Many explanation in detail of hardware and software functions are shown as well as the examples of the operation for web-based interface and command-line interface (CLI).

Overview of this user’s manual

 Chapter 1 “Introduction” describes the features of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch  Chapter 2 “Installation”  Chapter 3 “Operation of Web-based Management”  Chapter 4 “Operation of CLI Management”  Chapter 5 “Maintenance”

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1. Introduction

1-1. Overview of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

8-port Gigabit L2 Managed Switch, is a standard switch that meets all IEEE 802.3/u/x/z Gigabit, Fast Ethernet specifications. The switch included 6-Port 10/100/1000Mbps TP and 2-Port Gigabit TP/SFP Fiber management Ethernet switch. The switch can be managed through RS-232 serial port via directly connection, or through Ethernet port using CLI or Web-based management unit, associated with SNMP agent. With the SNMP agent, the network administrator can logon the switch to monitor, configure and control each port’s activity in a friendly way. The overall network management is enhanced and the network efficiency is also improved to accommodate high bandwidth applications. In addition, the switch features comprehensive and useful function such as QoS (Quality of Service), Spanning Tree, VLAN, Port Trunking, Bandwidth Control, Port Security, SNMP/RMON, IGMP Snooping capability via the intelligent software. It is suitable for both metro-LAN and office application.

In this switch, Port 7 and Port 8 include two types of media --- TP and SFP Fiber (LC, BiDi LC…); this port supports 10/100/1000Mbps TP or 1000Mbps SFP Fiber with auto-detected function. 1000Mbps SFP Fiber transceiver is used for high-speed connection expansion.

⎯ 1000Mbps LC, Multi-Mode, SFP Fiber transceiver ⎯ 1000Mbps LC, 10km, SFP Fiber transceiver ⎯ 1000Mbps LC, 30km, SFP Fiber transceiver ⎯ 1000Mbps LC, 50km, SFP Fiber transceiver ⎯ 1000Mbps BiDi LC, 20km, 1550nm SFP Fiber WDM transceiver ⎯ 1000Mbps BiDi LC, 20km, 1310nm SFP Fiber WDM transceiver

10/100/1000Mbps TP is a standard Ethernet port that meets all IEEE 802.3/u/x/z Gigabit, Fast Ethernet specifications. 1000Mbps SFP Fiber transceiver is a Gigabit Ethernet port that fully complies with all IEEE 802.3z and 1000Base-SX/LX standards.

1000Mbps Single Fiber WDM (BiDi) transceiver is designed with an optic Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology that transports bi-directional full duplex signal over a single fiber simultaneously.

For upgrading firmware, please refer to the Section 3-21 or Section 4-2-2 for more details. The switch will not stop operating while upgrading firmware and after that, the configuration keeps unchanged.

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• Key Features in the Device

QoS:

Support Quality of Service by the IEEE 802.1P standard. There are two priority queue and packet transmission schedule.

Spanning Tree:

Support IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1w (RSTP: Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol) standards.

VLAN:

Support Port-based VLAN and IEEE802.1Q Tag VLAN. Support 256 active VLANs and VLAN ID 1~4094.

Port Trunking:

Support static port trunking and port trunking with IEEE 802.3ad LACP.

Bandwidth Control:

Support ingress and egress per port bandwidth control.

Port Security:

Support allowed, denied forwarding and port security with MAC address.

SNMP/RMON:

SNMP agent and RMON MIB. In the device, SNMP agent is a client software which is operating over SNMP protocol used to receive the command from SNMP manager (server site) and echo the corresponded data, i.e. MIB object. Besides, SNMP agent will actively issue TRAP information when happened.

RMON is the abbreviation of Remote Network Monitoring and is a branch of the SNMP MIB.

The device supports MIB-2 (RFC 1213), Bridge MIB (RFC 1493), RMON MIB (RFC 1757)statistics Group 1,2,3,9, Ethernet-like MIB (RFC 1643), Ethernet MIB (RFC 1643) and so on.

IGMP Snooping:

Support IGMP version 2 (RFC 2236): The function IGMP snooping is used to establish the multicast groups to forward the multicast packet to the member ports, and, in nature, avoid wasting the bandwidth while IP multicast packets are running over the network.

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1-2. Checklist

Before you start installing the switch, verify that the package contains the following:

⎯ A set of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ⎯ Modules (optional) ⎯ This User's Manual in CD-ROM ⎯ AC Power Cord ⎯ RS-232 Cable

Please notify your sales representative immediately if any of the aforementioned items is missing or damaged.

1-3. Features

The 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch, a standalone off-the-shelf switch, provides the comprehensive features listed below for users to perform system network administration and efficiently and securely serve your network.

• Hardware

• 6 10/100/1000Mbps Auto-negotiation Gigabit Ethernet TP ports

• 2 10/100/1000Mbps TP or 1000Mbps SFP Fiber dual media auto sense

• 144KB on-chip frame buffer

• Jumbo frame support

• Programmable classifier for QoS (Layer 4/Multimedia)

• 8K MAC address and 4K VLAN support (IEEE802.1Q)

• Per-port shaping, policing, and Broadcast Storm Control

• IEEE802.1Q-in-Q nested VLAN support

• Full-duplex flow control (IEEE802.3x) and half-duplex backpressure

• Extensive front-panel diagnostic LEDs; System: Power, TP Port1-8: LINK/ACT,

10/100/1000Mbps, SFP Port 7, 8: SFP(LINK/ACT)

• Management

• Supports concisely the status of port and easily port configuration

• Supports per port traffic monitoring counters

• Supports a snapshot of the system Information when you login

• Supports port mirror function

• Supports the static trunk function

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• Supports 802.1Q VLAN

• Supports user management and limits three users to login

• Maximal packet length can be up to 9208 bytes for jumbo frame application

• Supports DHCP Broadcasting Suppression to avoid network suspended or

crashed

• Supports to send the trap event while monitored events happened

• Supports default configuration which can be restored to overwrite the

current configuration which is working on via web browser and CLI

• Supports on-line plug/unplug SFP modules

• Supports Quality of Service (QoS) for real time applications based on the

information taken from Layer 2 to Layer 4, such as VoIP

• Built-in web-based management and CLI management, providing a more

convenient UI for the user

• Supports port mirror function with ingress traffic

• Supports rapid spanning tree (802.1w RSTP)

• Supports 802.1X port security on a VLAN

• Supports user management and only first login administrator can configure

the device. The rest of users can only view the switch

• SNMP access can be disabled and prevent from illegal SNMP access

• Supports Ingress, Non-unicast and Egress Bandwidth rating management

with a resolution of 1Mbps

• The trap event and alarm message can be transferred via e-mail and mobile

phone short message

• Supports diagnostics to let administrator knowing the hardware status

• Supports external loopback test to check if the link is ok

• TFTP for firmware upgrade, system log upload and config file import/export

• Supports remote boot the device through user interface and SNMP

• Supports network time synchronization and daylight saving

• Supports 120 event log records in the main memory and display on the local

console

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1-4. View of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Fig. 1-1 Full View of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

1-4-1. User Interfaces on the Front Panel (Button, LEDs and Plugs)

There are 8 TP Gigabit Ethernet ports and 2 SFP fiber ports for optional removable modules on the front panel of the switch. LED display area, locating on the left side of the panel, contains a Power LED, which indicates the power status and 8 ports working status of the switch.

TP Port Status: Link/ACT TP Port Status: SPEED

Gigabit Ethernet Port

Power Indication LED

Fiber Port Status Indication LEDs

RESET Button:

RESET button is used to reset the management system.

Fig. 1-2 Front View of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

SFP Fiber Port

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• LED Indicators

LED Color Function

System LED

POWER Green Lit when +5V DC power is on and good CPU LED Green Blinks when CPU is activity

10/100/1000Ethernet TP Port 1 to 8 LED

Lit when connection with remote device is good

LINK/ACT Green

10/100/1000Mbps

1000SX/LX Gigabit Fiber Port 7, 8 LED

SFP(LINK/ACT) Green

Green/ Amber

Blinks when any traffic is present Off when cable connection is not good Lit green when 1000Mbps speed is active Lit ember when 100Mbps speed is active Off when 10Mbps speed is active

Lit when connection with the remote device is good Blinks when any traffic is present Off when module connection is not good

Table1-1

1-4-2. User Interfaces on the Rear Panel

One RS-232 DB-9 interface is offered for configuration or management.

RS-232 DB-9 Connector

Fig. 1-3 Rear View of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

C Line 100-240V 50/60 Hz

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1-5. View of the Optional Modules

In the switch, Port 7~8 includes two types of media --- TP and SFP Fiber (LC, BiDi LC…); this port supports 10/100/1000Mbps TP or 1000Mbps SFP Fiber with auto-detected function. 1000Mbps SFP Fiber transceiver is used for high-speed connection expansion; the following are optional SFP types provided for the switch:

⎯ 1000Mbps LC, MM, SFP Fiber transceiver

⎯ 1000Mbps LC, SM 10km, SFP Fiber transceiver

⎯ 1000Mbps LC, SM 30km, SFP Fiber transceiver

⎯ 1000Mbps LC, SM 50km, SFP Fiber transceiver

⎯ 1000Mbps BiDi LC, type 1, SM 20km, SFP Fiber WDM transceiver

⎯ 1000Mbps BiDi LC, type 2, SM 20km, SFP Fiber WDM transceiver

⎯ 1000Mbps LC, SM 10km, SFP Fiber transceiver with DDM

Fig. 1-4 Front View of 1000Base-SX/LX LC, SFP Fiber Transceiver

Fig. 1-5 Front View of 1000Base-LX BiDi LC, SFP Fiber Transceiver

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2. Installation

2-1. Starting 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch Up

This section will give users a quick start for:

- Hardware and Cable Installation

- Management Station Installation

- Software booting and configuration

2-1-1. Hardware and Cable Installation

At the beginning, please do first:

⇒ Wear a grounding device to avoid the damage from electrostatic discharge

⇒ Be sure that power switch is OFF before you insert the power cord to power source

• Installing Optional SFP Fiber Transceivers to the switch

Note: If you have no modules, please skip this section.

• Connecting the SFP Module to the Chassis:

The optional SFP modules are hot swappable, so you can plug or unplug it before or after powering on.

1. Verify that the SFP module is the right model and conforms to the chassis

2. Slide the module along the slot. Also be sure that the module is properly seated against

the slot socket/connector

3. Install the media cable for network connection

Fig. 2-1 Installation of Optional SFP Fiber Transceive

4. Repeat the above steps, as needed, for each module to be installed into

slot(s)

5. Have the power ON after the above procedures are done

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• TP Port and Cable Installation

⇒ In the switch, TP port supports MDI/MDI-X auto-crossover, so both types of cable, straight-

through (Cable pin-outs for RJ-45 jack 1, 2, 3, 6 to 1, 2, 3, 6 in 10/100M TP; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 in Gigabit TP) and crossed-over (Cable pin-outs for RJ-45 jack 1, 2, 3, 6 to 3, 6, 1, 2) can be used. It means you do not have to tell from them, just plug it.

⇒ Use Cat. 5 grade RJ-45 TP cable to connect to a TP port of the switch and the other end is

connected to a network-aware device such as a workstation or a server.

⇒ Repeat the above steps, as needed, for each RJ-45 port to be connected to a Gigabit

10/100/1000 TP device.

Now, you can start having the switch in operation.

• Power On

The switch supports 100-240 VAC, 50-60 Hz power supply. The power supply will automatically convert the local AC power source to DC power. It does not matter whether any connection plugged into the switch or not when power on, even modules as well. After the power is on, all LED indicators will light up immediately and then all off except the power LED still keeps on. This represents a reset of the system.

• Firmware Loading

After resetting, the bootloader will load the firmware into the memory. It will take about 30 seconds, after that, the switch will flash all the LED once and automatically performs self-test and is in ready state.

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2-1-2. Installing Chassis to a 19-Inch Wiring Closet Rail

Fig. 2-2

Caution: Allow a proper spacing and proper air ventilation for the cooling fan

at both sides of the chassis.

⇒ Wear a grounding device for electrostatic discharge. ⇒ Screw the mounting accessory to the front side of the switch (See Fig. 2-2). ⇒ Place the Chassis into the 19-inch wiring closet rail and locate it at the proper position. Then,

fix the Chassis by screwing it.

2-1-3. Cabling Requirements

To help ensure a successful installation and keep the network performance good, please take a care on the cabling requirement. Cables with worse specification will render the LAN to work poorly.

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2-1-3-1. Cabling Requirements for TP Ports

⇒ For Fast Ethernet TP network connection

⎯ The grade of the cable must be Cat. 5 or Cat. 5e with a maximum length of 100 meters.

⇒ Gigabit Ethernet TP network connection

⎯ The grade of the cable must be Cat. 5 or Cat. 5e with a maximum length of 100 meters.

Cat. 5e is recommended.

2-1-3-2. Cabling Requirements for 1000SX/LX SFP Module

It is more complex and comprehensive contrast to TP cabling in the fiber media. Basically, there are two categories of fiber, multi mode (MM) and single mode (SM). The later is categorized into several classes by the distance it supports. They are SX, LX, LHX, XD, and ZX. From the viewpoint of connector type, there mainly are LC and BIDI LC.

⎯ Gigabit Fiber with multi-mode LC SFP module

⎯ Gigabit Fiber with single-mode LC SFP module

⎯ Gigabit Fiber with BiDi LC 1310nm SFP module

⎯ Gigabit Fiber with BiDi LC 1550nm SFP module

The following table lists the types of fiber that we support and those else not listed here are available upon request.

IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet 1000SX 850nm

1000BaseLX/LHX/XD/ZX

1000Base-LX Single Fiber (BIDI LC)

Multi-mode Fiber Cable and Modal Bandwidth

Multi-mode 62.5/125μm Multi-mode 50/125μm

Modal

Bandwidth

160MHz-Km 220m 400MHz-Km 500m

200MHz-Km 275m 500MHz-Km 550m

Single-mode Fiber 9/125μm

Single-mode transceiver 1310nm 10Km

Single-mode transceiver 1550nm 30, 50Km

Single-Mode

Distance

*20Km

Table2-1

Modal Bandwidth

TX(Transmit) 1310nm

RX(Receive) 1550nm

TX(Transmit) 1550nm

RX(Receive) 1310nm

Distance

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2-1-3-3. Switch Cascading in Topology

• Takes the Delay Time into Account

Theoretically, the switch partitions the collision domain for each port in switch cascading that you may up-link the switches unlimitedly. In practice, the network extension (cascading levels & overall diameter) must follow the constraint of the IEEE 802.3/802.3u/802.3z and other

802.1 series protocol specifications, in which the limitations are the timing requirement from physical signals defined by 802.3 series specification of Media Access Control (MAC) and PHY, and timer from some OSI layer 2 protocols such as 802.1d, 802.1q, LACP and so on.

The fiber, TP cables and devices’ bit-time delay (round trip) are as follows:

1000Base-X TP, Fiber 100Base-TX TP 100Base-FX Fiber

Round trip Delay: 4096 Round trip Delay: 512

Cat. 5 TP Wire: 11.12/m Cat. 5 TP Wire: 1.12/m Fiber Cable: 1.0/m

Fiber Cable : 10.10/m TP to fiber Converter: 56

Bit Time unit : 1ns (1sec./1000 Mega

Bit Time unit: 0.01μs (1sec./100 Mega bit)

Table 2-2

Sum up all elements’ bit-time delay and the overall bit-time delay of wires/devices must be within Round Trip Delay (bit times) in a half-duplex network segment (collision domain). For full-duplex operation, this will not be applied. You may use the TP-Fiber module to extend the TP node distance over fiber optic and provide the long haul connection.

• Typical Network Topology in Deployment

A hierarchical network with minimum levels of switch may reduce the timing delay between server and client station. Basically, with this approach, it will minimize the number of switches in any one path; will lower the possibility of network loop and will improve network efficiency. If more than two switches are connected in the same network, select one switch as Level 1 switch and connect all other switches to it at Level 2. Server/Host is recommended to connect to the Level 1 switch. This is general if no VLAN or other special requirements are applied.

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Case1: All switch ports are in the same local area network. Every port can access each other

(See Fig. 2-3).

If VLAN is enabled and configured, each node in the network that can communicate each other directly is bounded in the same VLAN area.

Here VLAN area is defined by what VLAN you are using. The switch supports both portbased VLAN and tag-based VLAN. They are different in practical deployment, especially in physical location. The following diagram shows how it works and what the difference they are.

Case2a: Port-based VLAN (See Fig.2-4).

Fig. 2-3 No VLAN Configuration Diagram

1. The same VLAN members could not be in different switches.

2. Every VLAN members could not access VLAN members each other.

3. The switch manager has to assign different names for each VLAN groups at one switch.

Fig. 2-4 Port-based VLAN Diagram

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Case 2b: Port-based VLAN (See Fig.2-5).

Fig. 2-5 Port-based VLAN Diagram

1. VLAN1 members could not access VLAN2, VLAN3 and VLAN4 members.

2. VLAN2 members could not access VLAN1 and VLAN3 members, but they could access VLAN4 members.

3. VLAN3 members could not access VLAN1, VLAN2 and VLAN4.

4. VLAN4 members could not access VLAN1 and VLAN3 members, but they could access VLAN2 members.

Case3a: The same VLAN members can be at different switches with the same VID (See Fig. 2-6).

Fig. 2-6 Attribute-based VLAN Diagram

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2-1-4. Configuring the Management Agent of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

We offer you three ways to startup the switch management function. They are RS-232 console, CLI, and Web. Users can use any one of them to monitor and configure the switch. You can touch them through the following procedures.

Section 2-1-4-1: Configuring the Management Agent of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch through

the Serial RS-232 Port

Section 2-1-4-2: Configuring the Management Agent of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch through

the Ethernet Port

Note: Please first modify the IP address, Subnet mask, Default gateway and DNS through RS-232

console, and then do the next.

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2-1-4-1. Configuring the Management Agent of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

through the Serial RS-232 Port

To perform the configuration through RS-232 console port, the switch’s serial port must be directly connected to a DCE device, for example, a PC, through RS-232 cable with DB-9 connector. Next, run a terminal emulator with the default setting of the switch’s serial port. With this, you can communicate with the switch.

In the switch, RS-232 interface only supports baud rate 57.6k bps with 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity check and no flow control.

C Line 100-240V 50/60 Hz RS-232 DB-9 Connector

Fig. 2-7

RS-232

Terminal or Terminal Emulato

8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch Default IP Setting: IP address = 192.168.1.1 Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway = 192.168.1.254

RS-232 cable with female DB-9 connector at both ends

To configure the switch, please follow the procedures below:

1. Find the RS-232 DB-9 cable with female DB-9 connector bundled. Normally, it just uses

pins 2, 3 and 7. See also Appendix B for more details on Null Modem Cable Specifications.

2. Attaches the DB-9 female cable connector to the male serial RS-232 DB-9 connector

on the switch.

3. Attaches the other end of the serial RS-232 DB-9 cable to PC’s serial port, running a

terminal emulator supporting VT100/ANSI terminal with The switch’s serial port default settings. For example, Windows98/2000/XP HyperTerminal utility.

Note: The switch’s serial port default settings are listed as follows:

Baud rate 57600 Stop bits 1 Data bits 8 Parity N Flow control none

4. When you complete the connection, then press <Enter> key. The login prompt will

be shown on the screen. The default username and password are shown as below:

Username = admin Password = admin

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• Set IP Address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway IP Address

Please refer to Fig. 2-7 CLI Management for details about the ex-factory setting. They are default setting of IP address. You can first either configure your PC IP address or change IP address of the switch, next to change the IP address of default gateway and subnet mask.

For example, your network address is 10.1.1.0, and subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. You can change the switch’s default IP address 192.168.1.1 to 10.1.1.1 and set the subnet mask to be

255.255.255.0. Then, choose your default gateway, may be it is 10.1.1.254.

Default Value 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Your Network IP Address

Subnet Default

After completing these settings in the switch, it will reboot to have the configuration taken effect. After this step, you can operate the management through the network, no matter it is from a web browser or Network Management System (NMS).

255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0

192.168.1.254 10.1.1.254

Table 2-3

Fig. 2-8 the Login Screen for CLI

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2-1-4-2. Configuring the Management Agent of 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

through the Ethernet Port

There are three ways to configure and monitor the switch through the switch’s Ethernet port. They are CLI, Web browser and SNMP manager. The user interface for the last one is NMS dependent and does not cover here. We just introduce the first two types of management interface.

8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch Default IP Setting: IP = 192.168.1.1 Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway = 192.168.1.254

ssign a reasonable IP address, For example: IP = 192.168.1.100 Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway = 192.168.1.254

• Managing 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch through Ethernet Port

Before you communicate with the switch, you have to finish first the configuration of the

IP address or to know the IP address of the switch. Then, follow the procedures listed below.

1. Set up a physical path between the configured the switch and a PC by a qualified UTP Cat. 5 cable with RJ-45 connector.

Ethernet LAN

Fig. 2-9

Note: If PC directly connects to the switch, you have to setup the same subnet mask between them. But, subnet mask may be different for the PC in the remote site. Please refer to Fig. 2-9 about the switch’s default IP address information.

2. Run CLI or web browser and follow the menu. Please refer to Chapter 3 and Chapter 4.

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Fig. 2-10 the Login Screen for Web

2-1-5. IP Address Assignment

For IP address configuration, there are three parameters needed to be filled in. They are

IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway and DNS.

IP address:

The address of the network device in the network is used for internetworking communication. Its address structure looks is shown in the Fig. 2-11. It is “classful” because it is split into predefined address classes or categories.

Each class has its own network range between the network identifier and host identifier in the 32 bits address. Each IP address comprises two parts: network identifier (address) and host identifier (address). The former indicates the network where the addressed host resides, and the latter indicates the individual host in the network which the address of host refers to. And the host identifier must be unique in the same LAN. Here the term of IP address we used is version 4, known as IPv4.

32 bits

Network identifier Host identifier

Fig. 2-11 IP address structure

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With the classful addressing, it divides IP address into three classes, class A, class B and class C. The rest of IP addresses are for multicast and broadcast. The bit length of the network prefix is the same as that of the subnet mask and is denoted as IP address/X, for example,

192.168.1.0/24. Each class has its address range described below.

Class A:

Address is less than 126.255.255.255. There are a total of 126 networks can be defined because the address 0.0.0.0 is reserved for default route and 127.0.0.0/8 is reserved for loopback function.

Bit # 0 1 7 8 31

Network address Host address

Class B:

IP address range between 128.0.0.0 and 191.255.255.255. Each class B network has a 16-bit network prefix followed 16-bit host address. There are 16,384 (2^14)/16 networks able to be defined with a maximum of 65534 (2^16 –2) hosts per network.

Bit # 01 2 15 16 31

Network address Host address

Class C:

IP address range between 192.0.0.0 and 223.255.255.255. Each class C network has a 24-bit network prefix followed 8-bit host address. There are 2,097,152 (2^21)/24 networks able to be defined with a maximum of 254 (2^8 –2) hosts per network.

Bit # 0 1 2 3 23 24 31

110

Network address Host address

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Class D and E:

Class D is a class with first 4 MSB (Most significance bit) set to 1-1-1-0 and is used for IP Multicast. See also RFC 1112. Class E is a class with first 4 MSB set to 1-1-1-1 and is used for IP broadcast.

According to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), there are three specific IP address blocks reserved and able to be used for extending internal network. We call it Private IP address and list below:

Please refer to RFC 1597 and RFC 1466 for more information.

Subnet mask:

It means the sub-division of a class-based network or a CIDR block. The subnet is used to determine how to split an IP address to the network prefix and the host address in bitwise basis. It is designed to utilize IP address more efficiently and ease to manage IP network.

For a class B network, 128.1.2.3, it may have a subnet mask 255.255.0.0 in default, in which the first two bytes is with all 1s. This means more than 60 thousands of nodes in flat IP address will be at the same network. It’s too large to manage practically. Now if we divide it into smaller network by extending network prefix from 16 bits to, say 24 bits, that’s using its third byte to subnet this class B network. Now it has a subnet mask 255.255.255.0, in which each bit of the first three bytes is 1. It’s now clear that the first two bytes is used to identify the class B network, the third byte is used to identify the subnet within this class B network and, of course, the last byte is the host number.

Class A 10.0.0.0 --- 10.255.255.255 Class B 172.16.0.0 --- 172.31.255.255 Class C 192.168.0.0 --- 192.168.255.255

Not all IP address is available in the sub-netted network. Two special addresses are reserved. They are the addresses with all zero’s and all one’s host number. For example, an IP address 128.1.2.128, what IP address reserved will be looked like? All 0s mean the network itself, and all 1s mean IP broadcast.

10000000.00000001.00000010.1 0000000

etwork

25 bits

All 0s = 128.1.2.128

All 1s= 128.1.2.255

Subne

1 0000000 1 1111111

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In this diagram, you can see the subnet mask with 25-bit long, 255.255.255.128, contains 126 members in the sub-netted network. Another is that the length of network prefix equals the number of the bit with 1s in that subnet mask. With this, you can easily count the number of IP addresses matched. The following table shows the result.

Prefix Length No. of IP matched No. of Addressable IP

/32 1 -

/31 2 -

/30 4 2

/29 8 6

/28 16 14

/27 32 30

/26 64 62

/25 128 126

/24 256 254

/23 512 510

/22 1024 1022

/21 2048 2046

/20 4096 4094

/19 8192 8190

/18 16384 16382

/17 32768 32766

/16 65536 65534

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According to the scheme above, a subnet mask 255.255.255.0 will partition a network with the class C. It means there will have a maximum of 254 effective nodes existed in this subnetted network and is considered a physical network in an autonomous network. So it owns a network IP address which may looks like 168.1.2.0.

With the subnet mask, a bigger network can be cut into small pieces of network. If we want to have more than two independent networks in a worknet, a partition to the network must be performed. In this case, subnet mask must be applied.

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For different network applications, the subnet mask may look like 255.255.255.240. This means it is a small network accommodating a maximum of 15 nodes in the network.

Default gateway:

For the routed packet, if the destination is not in the routing table, all the traffic is put into the device with the designated IP address, known as default router. Basically, it is a routing policy. The gateway setting is used for Trap Events Host only in the switch.

For assigning an IP address to the switch, you just have to check what the IP address of the network will be connected with the switch. Use the same network address and append your host address to it.

Fig. 2-12

First, IP Address: as shown in the Fig. 2-12, enter “192.168.1.1”, for instance. For sure, an IP address such as 192.168.1.x must be set on your PC.

Second, Subnet Mask: as shown in the Fig. 2-12, enter “255.255.255.0”. Any subnet mask such as 255.255.255.x is allowable in this case.

DNS:

The Domain Name Server translates human readable machine name to IP address. Every machine on the Internet has a unique IP address. A server generally has a static IP address. To connect to a server, the client needs to know the IP of the server. However, user generally uses the name to connect to the server. Thus, the switch DNS client program (such as a browser) will ask the DNS to resolve the IP address of the named server.

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2-2. Typical Applications

The 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch implements 8 Gigabit Ethernet TP ports with auto MDIX and two slots for the removable module supporting comprehensive fiber types of connection, including LC and BiDi-LC SFP modules. For more details on the specification of the switch, please refer to Appendix A.

The switch is suitable for the following applications.

⎯ Central Site/Remote site application is used in carrier or ISP (See Fig. 2-13) ⎯ Peer-to-peer application is used in two remote offices (See Fig. 2-14) ⎯ Office network(See Fig. 2-15)

Central Site

Fig. 2-13 Network Connection between Remote Site and Central Site

Fig. 2-13 is a system wide basic reference connection diagram. This diagram demonstrates how the switch connects with other network devices and hosts.

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Fig. 2-14 Peer-to-peer Network Connection

Fig. 2-15 Office Network Connection

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3. Operation of

Web-based Management

This chapter instructs you how to configure and manage the switch through the web user interface it supports, to access and manage the 6-Port 10/100/1000Mbps TP and 2-Port Gigabit TP/SFP Fiber management Ethernet switch. With this facility, you can easily access and monitor through any one port of the switch all the status of the switch, including MIBs status, each port activity, Spanning tree status, port aggregation status, multicast traffic, VLAN and priority status, even illegal access record and so on.

The default values of the managed switch are listed in the table below:

IP Address

Subnet Mask Default

192.168.1.1

255.255.255.0

192.168.1.254

Username

Password

After the managed switch has been finished configuration in the CLI via the switch’s serial interface, you can browse it. For instance, type it will show the following screen (see Fig.3-1) and ask you inputting username and password in order to login and access authentication. The default username and password are both “admin”. For the first time to use, please enter the default username and password, then click the <Login> button. The login process now is completed.

Just click the link of “Forget Password” in WebUI (See Fig. 3-1) or input “Ctrl+Z” in CLI’s login screen (See Fig. 4-1~4-2) in case the user forgets the manager’s password. Then, the system will display a serial No. for the user. Write down this serial No. and contact your vendor, the vendor will give you a temporary password. Use this new password as ID and Password, and it will allow the user to login the system with manager authority temporarily. Due to the limit of this new password, the user only can login the system one time, therefore, please modify your password immediately after you login in the system successfully.

In this login menu, you have to input the complete username and password respectively, the switch will not give you a shortcut to username automatically. This looks inconvenient, but safer.

admin

Table 3-1

http://192.168.1.1 in the address row in a browser,

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In the switch, it supports a simple user management function allowing only one administrator to configure the system at the same time. If there are two or more users using administrator’s identity, the switch will allow the only one who logins first to configure the system. The rest of users, even with administrator’s identity, can only monitor the system. For those who have no administrator’s identity, can only monitor the system. There are only a maximum of three users able to login simultaneously in the switch.

To optimize the display effect, we recommend you use Microsoft IE 6.0 above, Netscape V7.1 above or FireFox V1.00 above and have the resolution 1024x768. The switch supported neutral web browser interface.

In Fig. 3-2, for example, left section is the whole function tree with web user interface and we will travel it through this chapter.

Fig. 3-1

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3-1. Web Management Home Overview

After you login, the switch shows you the system information as Fig. 3-2. This page is default and tells you the basic information of the system, including “Model Name”, “System Description”, “Location”, “Contact”, “Device Name”, “System Up Time”, “Current Time”, “BIOS Version”, “Firmware Version”, “Hardware-Mechanical Version”, “Serial Number”, “Host IP Address”, “Host Mac Address”, “Device Port”, “RAM Size” and “Flash Size”. With this information, you will know the software version used, MAC address, serial number, how many ports good and so on. This is helpful while malfunctioning.

Fig. 3-2

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• The Information of Page Layout

⎯ On the top side, it shows the front panel of the switch. In the front panel, the linked ports

will display green; as to the ports, which are link off, they will be dark. For the optional modules, the slot will show only a cover plate if no module exists and will show a module if a module is present. The image of module depends on the one you inserted. The same, if disconnected, the port will show just dark, if linked, green.

In this device, there are clicking functions on the panel provided for the information of the ports. These are very convenient functions for browsing the information of a single port. When clicking the port on the front panel, an information window for the port will be pop out. (See Fig. 3-3)

Fig. 3-3 port detail information

In Fig. 3-3, it shows the basic information of the clicked port. With this, you’ll see the information about the port status, traffic status and bandwidth rating for egress and ingress respectively.

⎯ On the left-top corner, there is a pull-down list for Auto Logout. For the sake of security,

we provide auto-logout function to protect you from illegal user as you are leaving. If you do not choose any selection in Auto Logout list, it means you turn on the Auto Logout function and the system will be logged out automatically when no action on the device 3 minutes later. If OFF is chosen, the screen will keep as it is. Default is ON.

⎯ On the left side, the main menu tree for web is listed in the page. They are hierarchical

menu. Open the function folder, a sub-menu will be shown. The functions of each folder are described in its corresponded section respectively. When clicking it, the function is performed. The following list is the full function tree for web user interface.

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Root

System

Port

Mirror

Bandwidth

QoS

SNMP

IGMP Snoopin

Max. Packet Length

DHCP Boot

VLAN

MAC Table

STP

802.1X

Configuration

TFTP Server

Firmware Upgrade

Logout

GVRP

Trunk

larm

Diagnostics

Reboot

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3-1-1. System Information

Function name:

System Information

Function description:

Show the basic system information.

Parameter description:

Model name:

The model name of this device.

System description:

As it is, this tells what this device is. Here, it is “L2 Managed Switch”.

Location:

Basically, it is the location where this switch is put. User-defined.

Contact:

For easily managing and maintaining device, you may write down the contact person and phone here for getting help soon. You can configure this parameter through the device’s user interface or SNMP.

Device name:

The name of the switch. User-defined. Default is MICROSENS.

System up time:

The time accumulated since this switch is powered up. Its format is day, hour, minute, second.

Current time:

Show the system time of the switch. Its format: day of week, month, day, hours : minutes : seconds, year. For instance, Wed, Apr. 23, 12:10:10, 2004.

BIOS version:

The version of the BIOS in this switch.

Firmware version:

The firmware version in this switch.

Hardware-Mechanical version:

The version of Hardware and Mechanical. The figure before the hyphen is the version of electronic hardware; the one after the hyphen is the version of mechanical.

Serial number:

The serial number is assigned by the manufacturer.

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Host IP address:

The IP address of the switch.

Host MAC address:

It is the Ethernet MAC address of the management agent in this switch.

Device Port:

Show all types and numbers of the port in the switch.

RAM size:

The size of the DRAM in this switch.

Flash size:

The size of the flash memory in this switch.

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3-1-2. IP Configuration

IP configuration is one of the most important configurations in the switch. Without the proper setting, network manager will not be able to manage or view the device. The switch supports both manual IP address setting and automatic IP address setting via DHCP server. When IP address is changed, you must reboot the switch to have the setting taken effect and use the new IP to browse for web management and CLI management.

Fig. 3-4 IP Address Configuration

Function name:

IP Configuration

Function description:

Set IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS for the switch.

Parameter description:

DHCP Setting:

DHCP is the abbreviation of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Here DHCP means a switch to turn ON or OFF the function.

The switch supports DHCP client used to get an IP address automatically if you set this function “Enable”. When enabled, the switch will issue the request to the DHCP server resided in the network to get an IP address. If DHCP server is down or does not exist, the switch will issue the request and show IP address is under requesting, until the DHCP server is up. Before getting an IP address from DHCP server, the device will not continue booting procedures. If set this field “Disable”, you’ll have to input IP address manually. For more details about IP address and DHCP, please see the Section 2-1-5 “IP Address Assignment” in this manual.

Default: Disable

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IP address:

Users can configure the IP settings and fill in new values if users set the DHCP function “Disable”. Then, click <Apply> button to update.

When DHCP is disabled, Default: 192.168.1.1

If DHCP is enabled, this field is filled by DHCP server and will not allow user manually set it any more.

Subnet mask:

Subnet mask is made for the purpose to get more network address because any IP device in a network must own its IP address, composed of Network address and Host address, otherwise can’t communicate with other devices each other. But unfortunately, the network classes A, B, and C are all too large to fit for almost all networks, hence, subnet mask is introduced to solve this problem. Subnet mask uses some bits from host address and makes an IP address looked Network address, Subnet mask number and host address. It is shown in the following figure. This reduces the total IP number of a network able to support, by the amount of 2 power of the bit number of subnet number (2^(bit number of subnet number)).

32 bits

Subnet mask is used to set the subnet mask value, which should be the same value as that of the other devices resided in the same network it attaches.

For more information, please also see the Section 2-1-5 “IP Address Assignment” in this manual.

Default: 255.255.255.0

Default gateway:

Set an IP address for a gateway to handle those packets that do not meet the routing rules predefined in the device. If a packet does not meet the criteria for other predefined path, it must be forwarded to a default router on a default path. This means any packet with undefined IP address in the routing table will be sent to this device unconditionally.

Default: 192.168.1.254

Network ID

Network ID Host ID

Subnet numbe

Host ID

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DNS:

It is Domain Name Server used to serve the translation between IP address and name address.

The switch supports DNS client function to re-route the mnemonic name address to DNS server to get its associated IP address for accessing Internet. User can specify a DNS IP address for the switch. With this, the switch can translate a mnemonic name address into an IP address.

There are two ways to specify the IP address of DNS. One is fixed mode, which manually specifies its IP address, the other is dynamic mode, which is assigned by DHCP server while DHCP is enabled. DNS can help you easily remember the mnemonic address name with the meaningful words in it. Default is no assignment of DNS address.

Default: 0.0.0.0

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3-1-3. Time Configuration

The switch provides manual and automatic ways to set the system time via NTP. Manual setting is simple and you just input “Year”, “Month”, “Day”, “Hour”, “Minute” and “Second” within the valid value range indicated in each item. If you input an invalid value, for example, 61 in minute, the switch will clamp the figure to 59.

NTP is a well-known protocol used to synchronize the clock of the switch system time over a network. NTP, an internet draft standard formalized in system is version 3 protocol. The switch provides four built-in NTP server IP addresses resided in the Internet and an user-defined NTP server IP address. The time zone is Greenwich-centered which uses the expression form of GMT+/- xx hours.

Function name:

Time

Function description:

Set the system time by manual input or set it by syncing from Time servers. The function also supports daylight saving for different area’s time adjustment.

Parameter description:

Current Time:

RFC 1305, has been adopted on the

Show the current time of the system.

Manual:

This is the function to adjust the time manually. Filling the valid figures in the fields of Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute and Second respectively and press <Apply> button, time is adjusted. The valid figures for the parameter Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute and Second are >=2000, 1-12, 1-31, 0-23, 0-59 and 0-59 respectively. Input the wrong figure and press <Apply> button, the device will reject the time adjustment request. There is no time zone setting in Manual mode.

Default: Year = 2000, Month = 1, Day = 1

Hour = 0, Minute = 0, Second = 0

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NTP:

NTP is Network Time Protocol and is used to sync the network time based Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). If use the NTP mode and select a built-in NTP time server or manually specify an user-defined NTP server as well as Time Zone, the switch will sync the time in a short after pressing <Apply> button. Though it synchronizes the time automatically, NTP does not update the time periodically without user’s processing.

Time Zone is an offset time off GMT. You have to select the time zone first and then perform time sync via NTP because the switch will combine this time zone offset and updated NTP time to come out the local time, otherwise, you will not able to get the correct time. The switch supports configurable time zone from –12 to +13 step 1 hour.

Default Time zone: +8 Hrs.

Daylight Saving:

Daylight saving is adopted in some countries. If set, it will adjust the time lag or in advance in unit of hours, according to the starting date and the ending date. For example, if you set the day light saving to be 1 hour. When the time passes over the starting time, the system time will be increased one hour after one minute at the time since it passed over. And when the time passes over the ending time, the system time will be decreased one hour after one minute at the time since it passed over.

The switch supports valid configurable day light saving time is –5 ~ +5 step one hour. The zero for this parameter means it need not have to adjust current time, equivalent to in-act daylight saving. You don’t have to set the starting/ending date as well. If you set daylight saving to be non-zero, you have to set the starting/ending date as well; otherwise, the daylight saving function will not be activated.

Default for Daylight Saving: 0.

The following parameters are configurable for the function Daylight Saving and described in detail.

Day Light Saving Start :

This is used to set when to start performing the day light saving time.

Mth:

Range is 1 ~ 12.

Default: 1

Day:

Range is 1 ~ 31.

Default: 1

Hour:

Range is 0 ~ 23.

Default: 0

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Day Light Saving End :

This is used to set when to stop performing the daylight saving time.

Mth:

Range is 1 ~ 12.

Default: 1

Day:

Range is 1 ~ 31.

Default: 1

Hour:

Range is 0 ~ 23.

Default: 0

Fig. 3-5

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3-1-4. Account Configuration

In this function, only administrator can create, modify or delete the username and password. Administrator can modify other guest identities’ password without confirming the password but it is necessary to modify the administrator-equivalent identity. Guest-equivalent identity can modify his password only. Please note that you must confirm administrator/guest identity in the field of Authorization in advance before configuring the username and password. Only one administrator is allowed to exist and unable to be deleted. In addition, up to 4 guest accounts can be created.

The default setting for user account is:

Username : admin

Password : admin

The default setting for guest user account is:

Username : guest

Password : guest

Fig. 3-6

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3-1-5. Management Policy

Through the management security configuration, the manager can do the strict setup to control the switch and limit the user to access this switch.

The following rules are offered for the manager to manage the switch:

Rule 1) : When no lists exists, then it will accept all connections.

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Rule 2) : When only “accept lists” exist, then it will deny all connections, excluding the connection inside of the accepting range.

Accept Deny Accept Deny Accept

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Rule 3) : When only “deny lists” exist, then it will accept all connections, excluding the connection inside of the denying range.

Deny Accept Deny Accept Deny

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Rule 4) : When both “accept and deny” lists exist, then it will deny all connections, excluding the connection inside of the accepting range.

Accept Deny Deny Deny Accept

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Rule 5) : When both “accept and deny” lists exist, then it will deny all connections, excluding the connection inside of the accepting range and NOT inside of the denying range at the same time.

Deny

Deny| Acc | Deny | Acc | Deny

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Function name:

Management Security Configuration

Function description:

The switch offers Management Security Configuration function. With this function, the manager can easily control the mode that the user connects to the switch. According to the mode, users can be classified into two types: Those who are able to connect to the switch (Accept) and those who are unable to connect to the switch (Deny). Some restrictions also can be placed on the mode that the user connect to the switch, for example, we can decide that which VLAN VID is able to be accepted or denied by the switch, the IP range of the user could be accepted or denied by the switch, the port that the user is allowed or not allowed to connect with the switch, or the way of controlling and connecting to the switch via Http, Telnet or SNMP.

Parameter description:

Name:

A name is composed of any letter (A-Z, a-z) and digit (0-9) with maximal 8 characters.

VID:

The switch supports two kinds of options for managed valid VLAN VID, including “Any” and “Custom”. Default is “Any”. When you choose “Custom”, you can fill in VID number. The valid VID range is 1~4094.

Fig. 3-7

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IP Range:

The switch supports two kinds of options for managed valid IP Range, including “Any” and “Custom”. Default is “Any”. In case that ”Custom” had been chosen, you can assigned effective IP range. The valid range is 0.0.0.0~255.255.255.255.

Incoming Port:

The switch supports two kinds of options for managed valid Port Range, including “Any” and “Custom”. Default is “Any”. You can select the ports that you would like them to be worked and restricted in the management security configuration if ”Custom” had been chosen.

Access Type:

Action:

Edit/Create:

Delete:

The switch supports two kinds of options

for managed valid Access Type, including “Any”

and “Custom”. Default is “Any”. “Http”, “Telnet” and “SNMP” are three ways for the access and managing the switch in case that” Custom” had been chosen.

The switch supports two kinds of options

for managed valid Action Type, including

“Deny” and “Accept”. Default is “Deny”. When you choose “Deny” action, you will be restricted and refused to manage the switch due to the “Access Type” you choose. However, while you select “Accept” action, you will have the authority to manage the switch.

A new entry of Management Security Configuration can be created after the parameters as mentioned above had been setup and then press <Edit/Create> button. Of course, the existed entry also can be modified by pressing this button.

Remove the existed entry of Management Security Configuration from the management security table.

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3-1-6. Virtual Stack

Function name:

Virtual Stack

Function description:

Virtual Stack Management(VSM) is the group management function. Through the proper configuration of this function, switches in the same LAN will be grouped automatically. And among these switch, one switch will be a master machine, and the others in this group will become the slave devices.

VSM offers a simple centralized management function. It is not necessary to remember the address of all devices, manager is capable of managing the network with knowing the address of the Master machine. Instead of SNMP or Telnet UI, VSM is only available in Web UI. While one switch become the Master, two rows of buttons for group device will appear on the top of its Web UI. By pressing these buttons, user will be allowed to connect the Web UI of the devices of the group in the same window without the login of these device.

The most top-left button is only for Master device(See Fig.3-9). The background color of the button you press will be changed to represent that the device is under your management.

Note: It will remove the grouping temporarily in case that you login the switch via the console.

The device of the group will be shown as station address ( the last number of IP Address) + device name on the button (e.g. 196_MICROSENS), otherwise it will show ” ---- “ if no corresponding device exists.

Once the devices join the group successfully, then they are merely able to be managed via Master device, and user will fail to manage them via telnet/console/web individually.

Up to 16 devices can be grouped for VSM, however, only one Master is allowed to exist in each group. For Master redundancy, user may configure more than two devices as Master device, however, the Master device with the smaller MAC value will be the Master one. All of these 16 devices can become Master device and back up with each other .

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Parameter description:

State:

It is used for the activation or de-activation of VSM. Default is Enable.

Role:

The role that the switch would like to play in virtual stack. Two types of roles, including master and slave are offered for option. Default is Master.

Group ID:

It is the group identifier (GID) which signs for VSM. Valid letters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, “ “ and “_” characters. The maximal length is 15 characters.

Fig. 3-8

Fig. 3-9

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3-2. Port Configuration

Four functions, including Port Status, Port Configuration, Simple Counter and Detail Counter are contained in this function folder for port monitor and management. Each of them will be described in detail orderly in the following sections.

Port Configuration

Status

Configuration

Simple Counter

Detail Counter

3-2-1.Port Status

The function Port Status gathers the information of all ports’ current status and reports it by the order of port number, link status, port state, Auto-Negotiation status, speed/duplex and flow control. An extra media type information for the module ports 7 and 8 is also offered (See Fig. 3-11).

Fig. 3-10

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Function name:

Port Status

Function Description:

Report the latest updated status of all ports in this switch. When any one of the ports in the switch changes its parameter displayed in the page, it will be automatically refreshed the port current status about every 5 seconds.

Parameter Description:

Port No:

Display the port number. The number is 1 – 8. Both port 7 and 8 are optional modules.

Media:

Show the media type adopted in all ports. The Port 7 and Port 8 are optional modules, which support either fiber or UTP media with either Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbps) or 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet port. They may have different media types and speed. Especially, fiber port has comprehensive types of connector, distance, fiber mode and so on. The switch describes the module ports with the following page.

Link:

Show that if the link on the port is active or not. If the link is connected to a workingwell device, the Link will show the link “Up”; otherwise, it will show “Down”. This is determined by the hardware on both devices of the connection.

No default value.

State:

Show that the communication function of the port is “Enabled” or “Disabled”. When it is enabled, traffic can be transmitted and received via this port. When it is disabled, no traffic can be transferred through this port. Port State is configured by user.

Default: Enabled.

Auto Negotiation:

Show the exchange mode of Ethernet MAC. There are two modes supported in the switch. They are auto-negotiation mode “Enabled” and forced mode “Disabled”. When in “Enabled” mode, this function will automatically negotiate by hardware itself and exchange each other the capability of speed and duplex mode with other site which is linked, and comes out the best communication way. When in “Disabled” mode, both parties must have the same setting of speed and duplex, otherwise, both of them will not be linked. In this case, the link result is “Down”.

Default: Enabled

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Speed / Duplex Mode:

Display the speed and duplex of all port. There are three speeds 10Mbps, 100Mbps and 1000Mbps supported for TP media, and the duplex supported is half duplex and full duplex. If the media is 1Gbps fiber, it is 1000Mbps supported only. The status of speed/duplex mode is determined by 1) the negotiation of both local port and link partner in “Auto Speed” mode or 2) user setting in “Force” mode. The local port has to be preset its capability.

Default: None, depends on the result of the negotiation.

Flow Control:

Show each port’s flow control status.

There are two types of flow control in Ethernet, Backpressure for half-duplex operation and Pause flow control (IEEE802.3x) for full-duplex operation. The switch supports both of them.

Default: Disabled

Wait State:

For 10/100M ports, there is no side effect on this setting.

For Gigabit ports, setting of Wait-State will remove the issue with ignored pause frames but resolve in the minimum interframe gap being at least 14 bytes instead of the usual 12 bytes. This applies for uncongested traffic as well. The larger interframe gap will result in throughput rates less than 100%. For example, a stream of 64-byte frames and a stream of 1518-byte frames, their maximum throughput is 97.7% and

99.9% respectively.

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Fig. 3-11

Parameter description of Port 7 and Port 8:

Connector Type:

Display the connector type, for instance, UTP, SC, ST, LC and so on.

Fiber Type:

Display the fiber mode, for instance, Multi-Mode, Single-Mode.

Tx Central Wavelength:

Display the fiber optical transmitting central wavelength, for instance, 850nm, 1310nm, 1550nm and so on.

Baud Rate:

Display the maximum baud rate of the fiber module supported, for instance, 10M, 100M, 1G and so on.

Vendor OUI:

Display the Manufacturer's OUI code which is assigned by IEEE.

Vendor Name:

Display the company name of the module manufacturer.

Vendor P/N:

Display the product name of the naming by module manufacturer.

Vendor Rev (Revision):

Display the module revision.

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Vendor SN (Serial Number):

Show the serial number assigned by the manufacturer.

Date Code:

Show the date this SFP module was made.

Temperature:

Show the current temperature of SFP module.

Vcc:

Show the working DC voltage of SFP module.

Mon1(Bias) mA:

Show the Bias current of SFP module.

Mon2(TX PWR):

Show the transmit power of SFP module.

Mon3(RX PWR):

Show the receiver power of SFP module.

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3-2-2. Port Configuration

Port Configuration is applied to change the setting of each port. In this configuration function, you can set/reset the following functions. All of them are described in detail below.

Fig. 3-12

Function name:

Port Configuration

Function description:

It is used to set each port’s operation mode. The switch supports 3 parameters for each port. They are state, mode and flow control.

Parameter description:

State:

Set the communication capability of the port is Enabled or Disabled. When enabled, traffic can be transmitted and received via this port. When disabled, the port is blocked and no traffic can be transferred through this port. Port State is configurable by the user. There are only two states “Enable” and “Disable” able to choose. If you set a port’s state “Disable”, then that port is prohibited to pass any traffic, even it looks Link up.

Default: Enable.

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Mode:

Set the speed and duplex of the port. In speed, if the media is 1Gbps fiber, it is always 1000Mbps and the duplex is full only. If the media is TP, the Speed/Duplex is comprised of the combination of speed mode, 10/100/1000Mbps, and duplex mode, full duplex and half duplex. The following table summarized the function the media supports.

Media type NWay Speed Duplex

1000M TP ON/OFF 10/100/1000M Full for all, Half for 10/100 1000M Fiber ON/OFF 1000M Full

In Auto-negotiation mode, no default value. In Forced mode, default value depends on your setting.

Flow Control:

There are two modes to choose in flow control, including Enable and Disable. If flow control is set Enable, both parties can send PAUSE frame to the transmitting device(s) if the receiving port is too busy to handle. When it is set Disable, there will be no flow control in the port. It drops the packet if too much to handle.

Default: Enable.

Wait State:

For more details about this parameter please refer to section 3-2-1.

Default: Disable.

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3-2-3. Simple Counter

The function of Simple Counter collects any information and provides the counting about the traffic of the port, no matter the packet is good or bad.

In the Fig. 3-13, the window can show all ports’ counter information at the same time. Each data field has 20-digit long. If the counting is overflow, the counter will be reset and restart counting. The data is updated every time interval defined by the user. The valid range is 3 to 10 seconds. The Refresh Interval is used to set the update frequency. Default update time is 3 seconds.

Fig. 3-13

Function name:

Simple Counter

Function description:

Display the summary counting of each port’s traffic, including Tx Byte, Rx Byte, Tx Packet, Rx Packet, Tx Collision and Rx Error Packet.

Parameters description:

Tx Byte:

Total transmitted bytes.

Rx Byte:

Total received bytes.

Tx Packet:

The counting number of the packet transmitted.

Rx Packet:

The counting number of the packet received.

Tx Collision:

Number of collisions transmitting frames experienced.

Rx Error Packet:

Number of bad packets received.

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3-2-4. Detail Counter

The function of Detail Counter collects any information and provides the counting about the traffic of the port, no matter the packet is good or bad.

In the Fig. 3-14, the window can show only one port counter information at the same time. To see another port’s counter, you have to pull down the list of Select, then you will see the figures displayed about the port you had chosen.

Each data field has 20-digit long. If the counting is overflow, the counter will be reset and restart counting. The data is updated every time interval defined by the user. The valid range is 3 to 10 seconds. The Refresh Interval is used to set the update frequency. Default update time is 3 seconds.

Fig. 3-14

Function name:

Detail Counter

Function description:

Display the detailed counting number of each port’s traffic. In the Fig. 3-14, the window can show all counter information of each port at one time.

Parameter description:

Rx Packets:

The counting number of the packet received.

RX Octets:

Total received bytes.

Rx High Priority Packets:

Number of Rx packets classified as high priority.

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Rx Low Priority Packets:

Number of Rx packets classified as low priority.

Rx Broadcast:

Show the counting number of the received broadcast packet.

Rx Multicast:

Show the counting number of the received multicast packet.

Tx Packets:

The counting number of the packet transmitted.

TX Octets:

Total transmitted bytes.

Tx High Priority Packets:

Number of Tx packets classified as high priority.

Tx Low Priority Packets:

Number of Tx packets classified as low priority.

Tx Broadcast:

Show the counting number of the transmitted broadcast packet.

Tx Multicast:

Show the counting number of the transmitted multicast packet.

Rx 64 Bytes:

Number of 64-byte frames in good and bad packets received.

Rx 65-127 Bytes:

Number of 65 ~ 126-byte frames in good and bad packets received.

Rx 128-255 Bytes:

Number of 127 ~ 255-byte frames in good and bad packets received.

Rx 256-511 Bytes:

Number of 256 ~ 511-byte frames in good and bad packets received.

Rx 512-1023 Bytes:

Number of 512 ~ 1023-byte frames in good and bad packets received.

Rx 1024-Bytes:

Number of 1024-max_length-byte frames in good and bad packets received.

Tx 64 Bytes:

Number of 64-byte frames in good and bad packets transmitted.

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Tx 65-127 Bytes:

Number of 65 ~ 126-byte frames in good and bad packets transmitted.

Tx 128-255 Bytes:

Number of 127 ~ 255-byte frames in good and bad packets transmitted.

Tx 256-511 Bytes:

Number of 256 ~ 511-byte frames in good and bad packets transmitted.

Tx 512-1023 Bytes:

Number of 512 ~ 1023-byte frames in good and bad packets transmitted.

Tx 1024-Bytes:

Number of 1024-max_length-byte frames in good and bad packets transmitted.

Rx CRC/Alignment:

Number of Alignment errors and CRC error packets received.

Rx Undersize:

Number of short frames (<64 Bytes) with valid CRC.

Rx Oversize:

Number of long frames(according to max_length register) with valid CRC.

Rx Fragments:

Number of short frames (< 64 bytes) with invalid CRC.

Rx Jabber:

Number of long frames(according tomax_length register) with invalid CRC.

Rx Drops:

Frames dropped due to the lack of receiving buffer.

Rx Errors:

Number of the error packet received.

Tx Collisions:

Number of collisions transmitting frames experienced.

Tx Drops:

Number of frames dropped due to excessive collision, late collision, or frame aging.

Tx FIFO Drops:

Number of frames dropped due to the lack of transmitting buffer.

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3-3. Mirror

Function name:

Mirror Configuration

Function description:

Mirror Configuration is to monitor the traffic of the network. For example, we assume that Port A and Port B are Monitoring Port and Monitored Port respectively, thus, the traffic received by Port B will be copied to Port A for monitoring.

Note:

When configuring the mirror function, you should avoid setting a port to be a sniffer port and aggregated port at the same time. It will cause something wrong.

Parameter description:

Mode:

Used for the activation or de-activation of Port Mirror function. Default is disable.

Monitoring Port:

Set up the port for monitoring. Valid port is Port 1~8 and default is Port 1.

Monitored Port:

Set up the port for being monitored. Just tick the check box ( valid port is Port 1~8.

Fig. 3-15

) beside the port x and

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3-4. Bandwidth Management

Function name:

Bandwidth Management

Function description:

Bandwidth Management function is used to set up the limit of Ingress and Egress bandwidth for each port.

Note:

Each port of the switch owns 16KB packet buffer. The packet buffer size will be reduced when the bandwidth rate limitation is enabled, which may cause that jumbo frame cannot be forwarded.

Please avoid enabling jumbo frame and bandwidth rating functions at the same time.

Parameter description:

Port Number:

Choose the port that you would like this function to work on it. Valid range of the port is 1~8.

All Traffic for Ingress Rate Limiting(Policing):

Set up the limit of Ingress bandwidth for the port you choose. Incoming traffic will be discarded if the rate exceeds the value you set up in Data Rate field. Pause frames are also generated if flow control is enabled. The format of the packet limits to unicast, broadcast and multicast. Valid range is 0~1000.

Fig. 3-16

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Broadcast & Multicast for Ingress Rate Limiting (Policing):

Set up the limit of Ingress bandwidth for the port you choose. Incoming traffic will be discarded if the rate exceeds the value you set up in Data Rate field. The format of the packet limits to broadcast and multicast. Valid range is 0~1000.

All Traffic for Egress Rate Limiting(Shaping):

Set up the limit of Egress bandwidth for the port you choose. Packet transmission will be delayed if the rate exceeds the value you set up in Data Rate field. Traffic may be lost if egress buffers run full. The format of the packet limits to unicast, broadcast and multicast. Valid range is 0~1000.

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3-5. QoS (Quality of Service) Configuration

The switch offers powerful 5 kinds of QoS functions. There are Per Port Priority that you can assign each port to different precedence, VLAN Tag priority that can make precedence of 8 priorities, IP TOS Classification, IP TCP/UDP Port Classification and IP DiffServe Classification.

In Quality of Service (QoS) Configuration, there is one option named” Default Class”. As you had selected one of the five QoS functions, then some packets that did not belong to this QoS setting would be viewed as Default Class. For instance, if you set QoS function as VLAN Tag Priority mode, and then choose Default Class as High, finally, the priority of the packets with no tag will be considered as High priority precedence. The initial value of the Default Class is High.

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Function name:

Per Port Priority

Function description:

We can assign QoS Priority, including High and Low for each port. For example, if we transmit IP packets from Port 2 and Port 3 at the speed of 1Gbps to Port 1, and set the Class of Port 2 as High and Port 3 as Low, then the packets of Port 3 will be dropped when the congestion happens because Port 2 owns higher precedence of transmitting packets.

Parameter description:

Port No:

User can choose the port (1~8) respectively with Priority Class on Per Port Priority function.

Class:

User can set up High Priority or Low Priority for each port respectively.

Fig. 3-18

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Function name:

VLAN Tag Priority

Function description:

In vlan tag, there are 3 bits belonging to priority. According to these 3 bits, we could arrange 8 traffics –0 0 0, 0 0 1, 0 1 0, 0 1 1, 1 0 0, 1 0 1, 1 1 0, 1 1 1. We can set High priority or Low priority for each traffic class. For instance, if we let VLAN-tagged priority 0 0 0 be high priority and VLAN-tagged priority 0 0 1 be Low Priority, and then make port 1, 2, 3 be in the vlan 2. We sent the packets that have the value 0 0 0 in vlan-tagged field and VID equals 2 from the port 2 and the packets that have the value 0 0 1 in vlan-tagged field and VID equals 2 from the port 3 into the switch. We let the two kinds of packets be transmitted for port 1 until the port results in congestion. The result is that the packets will be dropped partially from the port 3 because the packets that belong to Low Priority. For the use of VLAN Tag Priority function, please press <Configure> button at the right section for setting in advance.

Parameter description:

Quality of Service (QoS) Vlan Tag Configuration:

Used for setting up the QoS belongs to Vlan operation.

Port:

User can set up the port (1~8) respectively to let Vlan Tag QoS function work on them. If you would like to set up all ports at a time, user is also allowed to choose “All” in the selection list to simplify the procedure of configuration.

Fig. 3-19

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Bit 0, Bit 1, Bit 2:

According to the arrangement of VLAN-tagged priority, it can form 8 kinds of traffics, including 0 0 0, 0 0 1, 0 1 0, 0 1 1, 1 0 0, 1 0 1, 1 1 0 and 1 1 1.

Class:

8 kinds of traffic as mentioned above, user can set up High Priority or Low Priority for each port respectively.

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Function name:

IP ToS Classification

Function description:

Another QoS function is the application of Layer 3 on network framework. We focus on TOS field of IP header. There are three bits in TOS field. We means bit 5~7 of TOS field that we will use. According to these 3 bits, we could arrange 8 traffics –0 0 0, 0 0 1, 0 1 0, 0 1 1, 1 0 0, 1 0 1, 1 1 0, 1 1 1. As long as we change bit 5~7 of TOS field of IP header, we will create the 8 traffic packets we meant before. Moreover, we can set High priority or Low priority for each traffic class. For instance, if we let TOS 0 0 0 be high priority and TOS 0 0 1 be Low Priority, we sent in the packets that have bit 5~7 of TOS Field appears 0 0 0 from the port 2 and the packets that have bit 5~7 of TOS Field appears 0 0 1 from the port 3. We let the two kinds of packets be transmitted for port 1 until the port results in congestion. The result is that the packets will be dropped partially from the port 3 because the packets that belong to Low Priority.

Parameter description:

Quality of Service (QoS) ToS Configuration:

Used for setting up the QoS in Layer 3.

Port:

User can set up the port (1~8) respectively to let TOS QoS function work on them. If you would like to set up all ports at a time, user is also allowed to choose “All” in the selection list to simplify the procedure of configuration.

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Bit 0, Bit 1, Bit 2:

According to the arrangement of Bit 5 ~ Bit 7 in TOS Field of IP Header, it can form 8 kinds of traffics, including 0 0 0, 0 0 1, 0 1 0, 0 1 1, 1 0 0, 1 0 1, 1 1 0 and 1 1 1.

Class:

8 kinds of traffic as mentioned above, user can set up High Priority or Low Priority for each port respectively.

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Function name:

IP TCP/UDP Port Classification

Function description:

In L4 QoS Configuration, you can enter one of these special network transmission events, for example we use” Down prioritize web browsing, e-mail, FTP and news “L4 QoS Configuration and click <Apply> button, and then click <Advance >>> find Special TCP/UDP port 80, 280, 443, 25, 110, 20, 21, 69, 119, 2009 have already existed and defined for your using but it is fine that you modify this pre-defined TCP/UDP port with other port number you prefer. In ” Down prioritize web browsing, e-mail, FTP and news “ L4 QoS Configuration with default setting, special defined TCP/UDP port possesses lower QoS traffic than Default class ( all other TCP/UDP ports such as port 81,82,83,84,85, etc.). Giving an example, when we transmit TCP packets with port number 80 at each of port 2 and port number 81 at port 3 to port 1 until the congestion happens. The packets from port 3 will be dropped by port 1 because the TCP packets have port number 80 is high priority and will have higher precedence to be sent out from port 1.

Parameter description:

Disable IP TCP/UDP Port Classification:

Belong to the QoS in L4. Just tick the option button and press <Apply> button to have this function taken affect. Then, click

TCP/UDP port for QoS.

<Advance >>> button to set up Special

button. We can

Down prioritize web browsing, e-mail, FTP and news:

Belong to the QoS in L4. Just tick the option button and press <Apply> button to have this function taken affect. Then, click

TCP/UDP port for QoS.

Prioritize IP Telephony (VoIP):

Belong to the QoS in L4. Just tick the option button and press <Apply> button to have this function taken affect. Then, click

TCP/UDP port for QoS.

Prioritize iSCSI:

Belong to the QoS in L4. Just tick the option button and press <Apply> button to have this function taken affect. Then, click

TCP/UDP port for QoS.

Prioritize web browsing, e-mail, FTP transfers and news:

Belong to the QoS in L4. Just tick the option button and press <Apply> button to have this function taken affect. Then, click

TCP/UDP port for QoS.

<Advance >>> button to set up Special

<Advance >>> button set up Special

<Advance >>> button to set up Special

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Prioritize Streaming Audio/Video:

Belong to the QoS in L4. Just tick the option button and press <Apply> button to have this function taken affect. Then, click

TCP/UDP port for QoS.

Prioritize Databases (Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL, Microsoft):

Belong to the QoS in L4. Just tick the option button and press <Apply> button to have this function taken affect. Then, click

TCP/UDP port for QoS.

Advanced Mode:

Display the TCP/UDP port number in L4 QoS. In “Disable IP TCP/UDP Port Classification” mode, user can randomly choose TCP/UDP port number that L4 QoS will affect. As to other special L4 QoS events, Special TCP/UDP port number will be took action. Of course, user could be allowed to add or modify the port number at random. For instance, if we choose “Down prioritize web browsing, e-mail, FTP and news” as the QoS of L4 and enter the “Advanced Mode”, then we can see that some special port number 80, 280, 443, 25, 110, 20, 21, 69, 119, 2009 have been configured already. User also has the right to modify these port numbers. The display is shown as Fig. 3-21.

<Advance >>> button set up Special

<Advance >>> button to set up Special

Special TCP/UDP class:

There are two modes for selection, including Low and High.

Default class (all other TCP/UDP ports):

There are two modes for selection, including Low and High.

Port:

User can set up the port (1~8) respectively to let Special TDP/UDP class function work on them. If you would like to set up all ports at a time, user is allowed to choose “All” selection to simplify the procedure of configuration.

Special UDP/TCP Port Selection:

The following are port numbers defined by six specific networks in L4:

⎯ Down prioritize web browsing, e-mail, FTP and news:

port number 80,280,443,25,110,20,21,69,119,2009

⎯ Prioritize IP Telephony (VoIP):1718,1719,1720

⎯ Prioritize iSCSI:3225,3260,3420

⎯ Prioritize web browsing, e-mail, FTP transfers and news:

80,280,443,25,110,20,21,69,119,2009

⎯ Prioritize Streaming Audio/Video: 2979,1755,7070,7071,554,8000

⎯ Prioritize Databases (Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL, Microsoft):

66,1571,1575,523,118,156,3306,1232,1433,1434

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Fig. 3-21 Advanced Mode

Fig. 3-22

Simple Mode:

Press <Simple<<> button is to return to the screen that all L4 port number will disappear (See Fig. 3-22).

Simple Mode

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Function name:

IP Diffserv Classification

Function description:

In the late 1990s, the IETF redefined the meaning of the 8-bit SERVICE TYPE field to accommodate a set of differentiated services (DS). Under the differentiated services interpretation, the first six bits comprise a codepoint, which is sometimes abbreviated DSCP, and the last two bits are left unused.

IP Diffserve Classification function, it can form total 64 (0~63) kinds of Traffic Class based on the arrangement of 6-bit field in DSCP of the IP packet. In the switch, user is allowed to set up these 64 kinds of Class that belong to High or Low Priority.

Parameter description:

IP Differentiated Services (DiffServ) Configuration:

Used for setting up the IP Differentiated Services Configuration QoS.

Diffserv:

Display 64 (0~63) DiffServ Priority items.

Class:

64 kinds of traffic as we mentioned above, user can set up High Priority or Low Priority for each port respectively.

Fig. 3-23

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3-6. SNMP Configuration

Any Network Management System (NMS) running the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) can manage the Managed devices equipped with SNMP agent, provided that the Management Information Base (MIB) is installed correctly on the managed devices. The SNMP is a protocol that is used to govern the transfer of information between SNMP manager and agent and traverses the Object Identity (OID) of the management Information Base (MIB), described in the form of SMI syntax. SNMP agent is running on the switch to response the request issued by SNMP manager.

Basically, it is passive except issuing the trap information. The switch supports a switch to turn on or off the SNMP agent. If you set the field SNMP “Enable”, SNMP agent will be started up. All supported MIB OIDs, including RMON MIB, can be accessed via SNMP manager. If the field SNMP is set “Disable”, SNMP agent will be de-activated, the related Community Name, Trap Host IP Address, Trap and all MIB counters will be ignored.

Function name:

SNMP Configuration

Function description:

This function is used to configure SNMP settings, community name, trap host and public traps as well as the throttle of SNMP. A SNMP manager must pass the authentication by identifying both community names, then it can access the MIB information of the target device. So, both parties must have the same community name. Once completing the setting, click <Apply> button, the setting takes effect.

Parameters description:

SNMP:

The term SNMP here is used for the activation or de-activation of SNMP. Default is Enable.

Get/Set/Trap Community:

Community name is used as password for authenticating if the requesting network management unit belongs to the same community group. If they both don’t have the same community name, they don’t belong to the same group. Hence, the requesting network management unit can not access the device with different community name via SNMP protocol; If they both have the same community name, they can talk each other.

Community name is user-definable with a maximum length of 15 characters and is case sensitive. There is not allowed to put any blank in the community name string. Any printable character is allowable.

The community name for each function works independently. Each function has its own community name. Say, the community name for GET only works for GET function and can’t be applied to other function such as SET and Trap.

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Default SNMP function : Enable

Default community name for GET: public

Default community name for SET: private

Default community name for Trap: public

Default Set function : Enable

Default trap host IP address: 0.0.0.0

Default port number :162

Trap :

In the switch, there are 6 trap hosts supported. Each of them has its own community name and IP address; is user-definable. To set up a trap host means to create a trap manager by assigning an IP address to host the trap message. In other words, the trap host is a network management unit with SNMP manager receiving the trap message from the managed switch with SNMP agent issuing the trap message. 6 trap hosts can prevent the important trap message from losing.

For each public trap, the switch supports the trap event Cold Start, Warm Start, Link Down, Link Up and Authentication Failure Trap. They can be enabled or disabled individually. When enabled, the corresponded trap will actively send a trap message to the trap host when a trap happens. If all public traps are disabled, no public trap message will be sent. As to the Enterprise (no. 6) trap is classified as private trap, which are listed in the Trap Alarm Configuration function folder.

Default for all public traps: Enable.

Fig. 3-24 Community and trap host setting

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3-7. IGMP Snooping

The function, IGMP Snooping, is used to establish the multicast groups to forward the multicast packet to the member ports, and, in nature, avoids wasting the bandwidth while IP multicast packets are running over the network. This is because a switch that does not support IGMP or IGMP Snooping can not tell the multicast packet from the broadcast packet, so it can only treat them all as the broadcast packet. Without IGMP Snooping, the multicast packet forwarding function is plain and nothing is different from broadcast packet.

A switch supported IGMP Snooping with the functions of query, report and leave, a type of packet exchanged between IP Multicast Router/Switch and IP Multicast Host, can update the information of the Multicast table when a member (port) joins or leaves an IP Multicast Destination Address. With this function, once a switch receives an IP multicast packet, it will forward the packet to the members who joined in a specified IP multicast group before.

The packets will be discarded by the IGMP Snooping if the user transmits multicast packets to the multicast group that had not been built up in advance.

Fig. 3-25

Function name:

IGMP Snooping

Function description:

IGMP is used to snoop the status of IP multicast groups and display its associated information in both tagged VLAN and non-tagged VLAN networks. Enabling IGMP with either passive or active mode, you can monitor the IGMP snooping information, which contains the multicast member list with the multicast groups, VID and member port.

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Parameter description:

IGMP snooping mode selection:

The switch supports three kinds of IGMP Snooping status, including “Passive”, “Active” and “Disable”.

Disable:

Default: Disable

Active:

Passive:

Set “Disable” mode to disable IGMP Snooping function.

In Active mode, IGMP snooping switch will periodically issue the Membership Query message to all hosts attached to it and gather the Membership report message to update the database of the Multicast table. By the way, this also reduces the unnecessary multicast traffic.

In Passive Snooping mode, the IGMP snooping will not periodically poll the hosts in the groups. The switch will send a Membership Query message to all hosts only when it has received a Membership Query message from a router.

IP Address:

Show all multicast groups IP addresses that are registered on this device.

VLAN ID:

Show VLAN ID for each multicast group.

Member Port:

Show member ports that join each multicast group. Member port may be only or more than one.

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3-8. Max. Packet Length

Function name:

Max. Packet Length

Function description:

The switch is capable of dealing with 9k Jumbo Frames, which suits the transmission for a large amount of data in the network environment.

Parameter description:

Jumbo Frame(bytes):

Set up the maximum length of the packet that each port of the switch can accept. Maximum length can be up to 1532 bytes or 9208 bytes. The default is 1532 bytes.

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3-9. DHCP Boot

The DHCP Boot function is used to spread the request broadcast packet into a bigger time frame to prevent the traffic congestion due to broadcast packets from many network devices which may seek its NMS, boot server, DHCP server and many connections predefined when the whole building or block lose the power and then reboot and recover. At this moment, a bunch of switch or other network device on the LAN will try its best to find the server to get the services or try to set up the predefined links, they will issue many broadcast packets in the network.

The switch supports a random delay time for DHCP and boot delay for each device. This suppresses the broadcast storm while all devices are at booting stage in the same time. The maximum user-defined delay time is 30 sec. If DHCP Broadcasting Suppression function is enabled, the delay time is set randomly, ranging from 0 to 30 seconds, because the exactly delay time is computed by the switch itself. The default is “Disable”.

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3-10. VLAN

The switch supports Tag-based VLAN (802.1q) and Port-based VLAN. Support 256 active VLANs and VLAN ID 1~4094. VLAN configuration is used to partition your LAN into small ones as your demand. Properly configuring it, you can gain not only improving security and increasing performance but greatly reducing VLAN management.

3-10-1. VLAN Mode

Function name:

VLAN Mode Setting

Function description:

The VLAN Mode Selection function includes five modes: Port-based, Tag- based, Metro Mode, Double-tag and Disable, you can choose one of them by pulling down list and selecting an item. Then, click <Apply> button, the settings will take effect immediately.

Parameter description:

VLAN Mode:

Disable:

Stop VLAN function on the switch. In this mode, no VLAN is applied to the switch. This is the default setting.

Port-based:

Port-based VLAN is defined by port. Any packet coming in or outgoing from any one port of a port-based VLAN will be accepted. No filtering criterion applies in port-based VLAN. The only criterion is the physical port you connect to. For example, for a port-based VLAN named PVLAN-1 contains port members Port 1&2&3&4. If you are on the port 1, you can communicate with port 2&3&4. If you are on the port 5, then you cannot talk to them. Each port-based VLAN you built up must be assigned a group name. This switch can support up to maximal 8 port-based VLAN groups.

Tag-based:

Tag-based VLAN identifies its member by VID. This is quite different from portbased VLAN. If there are any more rules in ingress filtering list or egress filtering list, the packet will be screened with more filtering criteria to determine if it can be forwarded. The switch supports supplement of 802.1q. For more details, please see the section VLAN in Chapter 3.

Each tag-based VLAN you built up must be assigned VLAN name and VLAN ID. Valid VLAN ID is 1-4094. User can create total up to 64 Tag VLAN groups.

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Metro Mode:

The Metro Mode is a quick configuration VLAN environment method on Portbased VLAN. It will create 6 or 7 Port-based VLAN groups.

Double-tag:

Double-tag mode belongs to the tag-based mode, however, it would treat all frames as the untagged ones, which means that tag with PVID will be added into all packets. Then, these packets will be forwarded as Tag-based VLAN. So, the incoming packets with tag will become the double-tag ones.

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Up-link Port:

This function is enabled only when metro mode is chosen in VLAN mode.

Except Port 7, each port of the switch cannot transmit packets with each other. Each port groups a VLAN with Port 7, thus, total 7 groups consisting of 2 members are formed.

Except Port 8, each port of the switch cannot transmit packets with each other. Each port groups a VLAN with Port 8, thus, total 7 groups consisting of 2 members are formed.

7&8:

Except Port 7 and Port 8, each port of the switch cannot transmit packets with each other. Each port groups a VLAN with Port 7 and Port 8, thus, total 6 groups consisting of 3 members are formed.

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3-10-2. Tag-based Group

Function name:

Tag-based Group Configuration

Function description:

It shows the information of existed Tag-based VLAN Groups, You can also easily create, edit and delete a Tag-based VLAN group by pressing <Add>, <Edit> and <Delete> function buttons. User can add a new VLAN group by inputting a new VLAN name and VLAN ID.

Parameter description:

VLAN Name:

The name defined by administrator is associated with a VLAN group. Valid letters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, “

VID:

VLAN identifier. Each tag-based VLAN group has a unique VID. It appears only in tagbased and Double-tag mode.

SYM-VLAN:

- “ and “_” characters. The maximal length is 15 characters.

While the SYM-VLAN function of the group is enabled, all packets with this group VID will be dropped in case they are transmitted from the ports that do not belong to this group.

Member:

This is used to enable or disable if a port is a member of the new added VLAN, “Enable” means it is a member of the VLAN. Just tick the check box (

port x to enable it.

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Add Group:

Create a new Tag-based VLAN. Input the VLAN name as well as VID, configure the SYM-VLAN function and choose the member by ticking the check box beside the port No., then, press the <Apply> button to have the setting taken effect.

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Delete Group:

Just press the <Delete> button to remove the selected group entry from the Tagbased group table.

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Edit a group:

Just select a group entry and press the <Edit> button, then you can modify a group’s description, SYM-VLAN and member set.

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3-10-3. Port-based Group

Function name:

Port-based Group Configuration

Function description:

It shows the information of the existed Port-based VLAN Groups. You can easily create, edit and delete a Port-based VLAN group by pressing <Add>, <Edit> and <Delete> function buttons. User can add a new VLAN group by inputting a new VLAN name.

Parameter description:

VLAN Name:

The name defined by administrator is associated with a VLAN group. Valid letters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, “

Member:

This is used to enable or disable if a port is a member of the new added VLAN, “Enable” means it is a member of the VLAN. Just tick the check box (

port x to enable it.

- “ and “_” characters. The maximal length is 15 characters.

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Add Group:

Create a new Port-based VLAN. Input the VLAN name and choose the member by ticking the check box beside the port No., then, press the <Apply> button to have the setting taken effect.

Delete Group:

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Just press the <Delete> button to remove the selected group entry from the Portbased group table.

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Edit a group:

Just select a group entry and press the <Edit> button, then you can modify a group‘s description and member set.

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3-10-4. Tag Rule

Function name:

Tag Rule

Function description:

In VLAN Tag Rule Setting, user can input VID number to each port. The range of VID number is from 1 to 4094. User also can choose ingress filtering rules to each port. There are two ingress filtering rules which can be applied to the switch. The Ingress Filtering Rule 1 is “forward only packets with VID matching this port’s configured VID”. The Ingress Filtering Rule 2 is “drop untagged frame”. You can also select the Role of each port as Access, Trunk, or Hybrid.

Parameter description:

Port 1-8:

Port number.

PVID:

This PVID range will be 1-4094. Before you set a number x as PVID, you have to create a Tag-based VLAN with VID x. For example, if port x receives an untagged packet, the switch will apply the PVID (assume as VID y) of port x to tag this packet, the packet then will be forwarded as the tagged packet with VID y.

Rule 1:

Forward only packets with VID matching this port’s configured VID. You can apply Rule 1 as a way to a given port to filter unwanted traffic. In Rule 1, a given port checks if the given port is a member of the VLAN on which the received packet belongs to, to determine forward it or not. For example, if port 1 receives a tagged packet with VID=100 (VLAN name=VLAN100), and if Rule 1 is enabled, the switch will check if port 1 is a member of VLAN100. If yes, the received packet is forwarded; otherwise, the received packet is dropped.

Rule 2:

Drop untagged frame. You can configure a given port to accept all frames (Tagged and Untagged) or just receive tagged frame. If the former is the case, then the packets with tagged or untagged will be processed. If the later is the case, only the packets carrying VLAN tag will be processed, the rest packets will be discarded.

Note: If Rule 1 is enabled and port 1, for example, receives an untagged packet, the switch will

apply the PVID of port 1 to tag this packet, the packet then will be forwarded. But if the PVID of port 1 is 100 and port 1 is not member of VLAN 100, the packet will be dropped.

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Role:

This is an egress rule of the port. Here you can choose Access, Trunk or Hybrid. Trunk means the outgoing packets must carry VLAN tag header. Access means the outgoing packets carry no VLAN tag header. If packets have double VLAN tags, one will be dropped and the other will still be left. As to Hybrid, it is similar to Trunk, and both of them will tag-out. When the port is set to Hybrid, its packets will be untagged out if the VID of the outgoing packets with tag is the same as the one in the field of Untag VID of this port.

Untag VID:

Valid range is 1~4094. It works only when Role is set to Hybrid.

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3-11. MAC Table

MAC Table Configuration gathers many functions, including MAC Table Information, MAC Table Maintenance, Static Forward, Static Filter and MAC Alias, which cannot be categorized to some function type. They are described below.

Function name:

MAC Table Information

Function Description:

Display the static or dynamic learning MAC entry and the state for the selected port.

Parameter description:

Port:

Select the port you would like to inquire.

Search:

Set up the MAC entry you would like to inquire.

The default is ??-??-??-??-??-??

MAC:

Display the MAC address of one entry you selected from the searched MAC entries table.

Alias:

Set up the Alias for the selected MAC entry.

Set Alias:

Save the Alias of MAC entry you set up.

Search:

Find the entry that meets your setup.

Move to the previous page.

Move to the next page.

Alias:

The Alias of the searched entry.

MAC Address:

The MAC address of the searched entry.

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Port:

The port that exists in the searched MAC Entry.

VID:

VLAN Group that MAC Entry exists.

State:

Display the method that this MAC Entry is built. It may show “Dynamic MAC” or “Static MAC”.

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Function Name:

MAC Table Maintenance

Function Description:

This function can allow the user to set up the processing mechanism of MAC Table. An idle MAC address exceeding MAC Address Age-out Time will be removed from the MAC Table. The range of Age-out Time is 10-65535 seconds, and the setup of this time will have no effect on static MAC addresses.

Parameter description:

Aging Time:

Delete a MAC address idling for a period of time from the MAC Table, which will not affect static MAC address. Range of MAC Address Aging Time is 10-65535 seconds. The default Aging Time is 300 seconds.

Flush:

Remove all entries that do not belong to the static Mac Entry from the MAC Table.

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Function Name:

Static Forward

Function Description:

Static Forward is a function that allows the user in the static forward table to access a specified port of the switch. Static Forward table associated with a specified port of a switch is set up by manually inputting MAC address and its alias name.

When a MAC address is assigned to a specific port, all of the switch’s traffics sent to this MAC address will be forwarded to this port.

For adding a MAC address entry in the allowed table, you just need to fill in four parameters: MAC address, associated port, VID and Alias. Just select the existed MAC address entry you want and click <Delete> button, you also can remove it.

Parameter description:

MAC:

It is a six-byte long Ethernet hardware address and usually expressed by hex and separated by hyphens. For example,

00 – 60 - A7 - D6 – 00 - 01

Port No:

Port number of the switch. It is 1~8.

VID:

VLAN identifier. This will be filled only when tagged VLAN is applied. Valid range is 1 ~ 4094.

Alias:

MAC alias name you assign.

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Function name:

Static Filter

Function Description:

Static Filter is a function that denies the packet forwarding if the packet’s MAC Address is listed in the filtering Static Filter table. User can very easily maintain the table by filling in MAC Address, VID (VLAN ID) and Alias fields individually. User also can delete the existed entry by clicking <Delete> button.

Parameter description:

MAC:

It is a six-byte long Ethernet hardware address and usually expressed by hex and separated by hyphens. For example,

00 – 60 - A7 - D6 – 00 - 02

VID:

VLAN identifier. This will be filled only when tagged VLAN is applied. Valid range is 1 ~ 4094.

Alias:

MAC alias name you assign.

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Function name:

MAC Alias

Function description:

MAC Alias function is used to let you assign MAC address a plain English name. This will help you tell which MAC address belongs to which user in the illegal access report. At the initial time, it shows all pairs of the existed alias name and MAC address.

There are three MAC alias functions in this function folder, including MAC Alias Add, MAC Alias Edit and MAC Alias Delete. You can click <Create/Edit> button to add/modify a new or an existed alias name for a specified MAC address, or mark an existed entry to delete it. Alias name must be composed of A-Z, a-z and 0-9 only and has a maximal length of 15 characters.

Function name:

MAC Alias Create/Edit or Delete

Function description:

In the MAC Alias function, MAC Alias Add/Edit function is used to let you add or modify an association between MAC address and a plain English name. User can click <Create/Edit> button to add a new record with name.

As to MAC Alias Delete function is used to let you remove an alias name to a MAC address. You can select an existed MAC address or alias name to remove.

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Parameter description:

MAC Address:

It is a six-byte long Ethernet hardware address and usually expressed by hex and separated by hyphens. For example,

– 60 - A7 - D6 – 00 - 01

Alias:

MAC alias name you assign.

Note: If there are too many MAC addresses learned in the table, we recommend you inputting

the MAC address and alias name directly.

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3-12. GVRP Configuration

GVRP is an application based on Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP), mainly used to automatically and dynamically maintain the group membership information of the VLANs. The GVRP offers the function providing the VLAN registration service through a GARP application. It makes use of GARP Information Declaration (GID) to maintain the ports associated with their attribute database and GARP Information Propagation (GIP) to communicate among switches and end stations. With GID information and GIP, GVRP state machine maintain the contents of Dynamic VLAN Registration Entries for each VLAN and propagate these information to other GVRP-aware devices to setup and update their knowledge database, the set of VLANs associated with currently active members, and through which ports these members can be reached.

In GVRP Configuration function folder, there are three functions supported, including GVRP Config, GVRP Counter and GVRP Group explained below.

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Function name:

GVRP Config

Function description:

In the function of GVRP Config, it is used to configure each port’s GVRP operation mode, in which there are seven parameters needed to be configured described below.

Parameter description:

GVRP State Setting:

This function is simply to let you enable or disable GVRP function. You can pull down the list and click the <Downward> arrow key to choose “Enable” or “Disable”. Then, click the <Apply> button, the system will take effect immediately.

Join Time:

Used to declare the Join Time in unit of centisecond. Valid time range: 20 –100 centisecond, Default: 20 centisecond.

Leave Time:

Used to declare the Leave Time in unit of centisecond. Valid time range: 60 –300 centisecond, Default: 60 centisecond.

Leave All Time:

A time period for announcement that all registered device is going to be deregistered. If someone still issues a new join, then a registration will be kept in the switch. Valid range: 1000-5000 unit time, Default: 1000 unit time.

Default Applicant Mode:

The mode here means the type of participant. There are two modes, normal participant and non-participant, provided for the user’s choice.

Normal:

It is Normal Participant. In this mode, the switch participates normally in GARP protocol exchanges. The default setting is Normal.

Non-Participant:

It is Non-Participant. In this mode, the switch does not send or reply any GARP messages. It just listens messages and reacts for the received GVRP BPDU.

Default Registrar Mode:

The mode here means the type of Registrar. There are three types of parameters for registrar administrative control value, normal registrar, fixed registrar and forbidden registrar, provided for the user’s choice.

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Normal:

It is Normal Registration. The Registrar responds normally to incoming GARP messages. The default setting is Normal.

Fixed:

It is Registration Fixed. The Registrar ignores all GARP messages, and all members remain in the registered (IN) state.

Forbidden:

It is Registration Forbidden. The Registrar ignores all GARP messages, and all members remain in the unregistered (EMPTY) state.

Restricted Mode:

This function is used to restrict dynamic VLAN be created when this port received GVRP PDU. There are two modes, disable and enable, provided for the user’s choice.

Disabled:

In this mode, the switch dynamic VLAN will be created when this port received GVRP PDU. The default setting is Normal.

Enabled:

In this mode, the switch does not create dynamic VLAN when this port received GVRP PDU. Except received dynamic VLAN message of the GVRP PDU is an existed static VLAN in the switch, this port will be added into the static VLAN members dynamically.

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Function name:

GVRP Counter

Function description:

All GVRP counters are mainly divided into Received and Transmitted two categories to let you monitor the GVRP actions. Actually, they are GARP packets.

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Parameter description:

Received:

Total GVRP Packets:

Total GVRP BPDU is received by the GVRP application.

Invalid GVRP Packets:

Number of invalid GARP BPDU is received by the GARP

application.

LeaveAll Message Packets:

Number of GARP BPDU with Leave All message is received by the GARP application.

JoinEmpty Message Packets:

Number of GARP BPDU with Join Empty message is received by the GARP application.

JoinIn Message Packets:

Number of GARP BPDU with Join In message is received by the GARP application.

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