ZyXEL Communications ES-4024A User Manual

ZyXEL ES-4024A Series

(ES-4024A)

Ethernet Switch

Support Notes

Version 3.60

March 2006

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

INDEX

How to manage & maintain your Switch?

Firmware Upgrade Restore a Configuration File Backing Up a Configuration File Load Factory Defaults

Physical Switch connection

Connecting two switches via Fiber Channel

General Networking

DHCP option 82 (Relay Agent Information Option)

Separating a physical network into many virtual networks

Introduction to Virtual LAN Port Based Virtual LAN Setting up Port Based VLAN IEEE 802.1Q Tag-based VLAN Setting up Tag-based VLAN Setting up VLAN Trunking

IP Multicasting

IGMP Snooping Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)

To ring a network by building reducdent link s and connections between Switch

Introduction to Spanning Tree Protocol How does Spanning Tree Protocol Work?

Switching Security

Setting up 802.1x Radius Authentication

Fault Free Protection

Introduction to Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

Scenario 1 – Redundancy Scenario 2 – Load Sharing

CLI for VRRP

Centralized Management

Introduction of SNMPc and NetAtlas *Current version of NetAtlas does not support ES-4024A Series Cluster Management -- iStacking Remote Monitoring (RMON)

FAQ

What is the default setting of the IP parameters?

What is the default login Name and Password of the Web Configuration?

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

How to access the Switch through the console port? What is default login password of the console, telnet, and FTP? How to change the password? How to access the Command Line Interface? If I forgot the Switch password, how can I reset the password to default? How do I configure an IP address? Is Online Help available on the Web GUI? How to restart device from Web? How to check the current running firmware version? Is the mini GBIC transceiver hot-swappable? What is so called "Dual-Personality interface" in Ethernet Switching?

Remaining: Some demonstration in this support note may not use the exact model that you are using. However, their functions and settings work the same way.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

How to manage & maintain your Switch? Firmware Upgrade

From Web GUI:

1. Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer.

2. Click Management and then Maintenance in the navigator panel to bring up the following screen.

3. Click on the “Click Here” link of the Firmware Upgrade to bring up the following screen.

4. Browse the firmware located or type in the path into the “File Path” field.

5. Click on the Upgrade button.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

From Console Port:

1. Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer.

2. Connect to the console port and open the Terminal Emulation Software.

3. Restarting the switch to enter the debug mode via the terminal.

4. Enter “ATUR”.

5. Use X-modem protocol to transfer (Send File) the firmware.

6. Enter “ATGO” to restart the switch after done uploading the firmware.

From Command Line FTP:

1. Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer.

2. Launch the FTP client on your PC to login to Switch. (From the command prompt, type “ftp <Switch IP>”

3. Press “Enter” for the User name

4. Enter password to get the ftp prompt.

5. Enter “bin” to set transfer mode to binary.

6. Use “put” to transfer the firmware from the computer to the switch, for example: “put firmware.bin ras” transfers the firmware on your computer (firmware.bin) to the switch and renames it “ras”.

7. Enter “quit” to exit the ftp prompt.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Restore a Configuration File

From Web GUI:

1. Click Management and then Maintenance in the navigator panel to bring up the following screen.

2. Click on the “Click Here” link of the Restore Configuration to bring up the following screen.

3. Browse to locate the file with the file name or type in the path and the file name into the “File Path” field.

4. Click on the Restore button.

From Console Port:

1. Connect to the console port and open the Terminal Emulation Software.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

2. Restarting the Switch to enter the debug mode via the terminal.

3. Enter “ATLC”

4. Use X-modem protocol to transfer (Send File) the firmware.

5. Enter “ATGO” to restart the Switch after done uploading the configuration file.

From Command Line FTP:

1. Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer.

2. Launch the FTP client on your PC to login to Switch. (From the command prompt, type “ftp <Switch IP>”.

3. Press “Enter” for the User name

4. Enter password to get the ftp prompt.

5. Enter “bin” to set transfer mode to binary.

6. Use “put” to transfer the the configuration file from the computer to the switch, for example: “put comfig.rom rom-0” transfers the firmware on your computer (config.rom) to the switch and renames it “rom-0”.

7. Enter “quit” to exit the ftp prompt.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Backing Up a Configuration File

From Web GUI:

1. Click Management and then Maintenance in the navigator panel to bring up the following screen.

2. Click on the “Click Here” link of the Backup Configuration to bring up the following screen.

3. Click on the “Backup” button to bring up the File Download dialog. Then, clicking on the Save button to backup the configuration rom file to a proper location.

From Console Port:

1. Connect to the console port and open the Terminal Emulation Software.

2. Restarting the Switch to enter the debug mode via the terminal.

3. Enter “ATTD”

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

4. Use X-modem protocol to transfer (Receive File) the firmware.

5. Enter “ATGO” to restart the Switch after done uploading the configuration file.

From Command Line FTP:

1. Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer.

2. Launch the FTP client on your PC to login Switch. (From the command prompt, type “ftp <Switch IP>”

3. Press “Enter” for the User name

4. Enter password to get the ftp prompt.

5. Enter “bin” to set transfer mode to binary.

6. Use “get” to transfer the firmware from the computer to the switch, for example: “get rom-0 config.rom” transfers the firmware on your computer (config.rom) to the switch and renames it “config.rom”.

7. Enter “quit” to exit the ftp prompt.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Load Factory Defaults

From Web GUI:

1. Click Management and then Maintenance in the navigator panel to bring up the following screen.

2. Click on the “Click Here” button of the Load Factory Defaults to bring up the following screen.

3. A dialog pops up with the message “Are you sure you want to load factory defaults?”.

4. Click OK to go to the following dialog.

5. Click on the OK button. Now, all switch configurations has been reset to the factory defaults and the system will be restarted.

6. Please note that the switch IP address is now 192.168.1.1.

From Console Port:

1. Connect to the console port and open the Terminal Emulation Software.

2. Type in the correct password to bring up the prompt. Type “erase run” to load the factory default configurations.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Physical Switch connection How to connect two switches via Fiber Channel

Your Switch may come with one or many mini-GB ports. ZyXEL offers Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers for Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel applications. These small, modular optical interface transceivers offer a convenient and cost effective solution for the adoption of Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel in data center, campus, metropolitan area access, ring networks, and storage area networks. It supports full duplex Gigabit speeds

and hot-pluggable feature.

Scenario

In this scenario, ES-2108-LC is connected to GS-4024 via the mini-GB

Port with a LC/LC Fiber cable (62.5/125MM). PC “Alpha” is connected to ES-2108-LC and another PC “Delta” is connected to the GS-4024 Switch via the RJ45 Port.

What you need here to complete this scenario:

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

z ZyXEL Switch with Mini-GB port x2

(note: Each ES-4024A Series Switch comes with 2 Mini-GB Port)

z SFP-SX Transceiver x2 z LC/LC Fiber Cable (62.5/125MM) x1

Here is the photo of the SFP-SX Transceiver & the LC/LC Fiber Cable.

Steps to complete this scenario

1. First, pick up your ES-2108-LC and GS-4024Switch and power them up.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Photo of the ES-2108-LC Switch

2. Find both Mini-GB Port on ES-2108-LC and GS-4024.

3. Get one transceiver and plug it into the Mini-GB Port of ES-2108-LC

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

4. Plug another transceiver into the Mini-GB Port of GS-4024 Switch

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

5. Remove both side of the protection cap from the LC/LC Fiber Cable.

6. Plug the LC/LC Fiber Cable into the transceivers on both ES-2108-LC and

GS-4024 Switch.

If you connected the cable correctly, the LED of the “LINK” will light up.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

7. Now, connect the first PC “Alpha” to ES-2108-LC and the second PC

“Delta” to the GS-4024 via the regular Ethernet cable.

8. Set the NICs in both computers to the same IP Domain.

(ex, PC “Alpha” :192.168.1.4/24; PC “Delta” : 192.168.1.5/24)

9. From PC “Alpha”, PING PC “Delta” at 192.168.1.5

10. From PC “Delta”, PING PC” Alpha” at 192.168.1.4

11. Now you can confirm that the network connection between ES-2108-LC

and GS-4024 is up and running.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

General Networking

DHCP Relay Option 82 Application

ISP may want to limit the number of IP address or deliver some specific IP addresses according to certain Switch port, VLAN ID and option 82 string. They can easily to achieve this with DHCP Relay Option 82 feature and a DHCP server supporting Option 82 function.

Network

DHCP

Server

192.168.1.99

Ethernet Port

Port 25

DHCP Client

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

How to set up DHCP Relay Option 82 Environment

Here, we will set up an environment to allow a PC to get DHCP IP address in specific IP pool according to its Switch port, VLAN ID and the option 82 string. In this case, we are using GS-3012 for the demonstration. PC is behind 25th Switch port and the option 82 string is a string “GS-3012”. We use the IP Commander as DHCP server. Its IP is 192.168.1.99 and the IP pool is between

192.168.1.201 and 192.168.1.203 for VID=1, Switch port=25 and the option 82

string is “GS-3012”.

1. Switch (GS-3012) settings

Click IP Application, DHCP Relay in the navigation panel to display configuration screen as shown. You will see the DHCP Relay setup page. Active

the DHCP relay and Option 82 function. Also, click Information to make “GS-3012” as the Option 82 string. Information is READ ONLY here and it is the same as the host name of the Switch.

Now we can connect PC to the 25th SWITCH port. Please see former applications for detailed settings.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

3. IP Commander settings Open IP Commander. Right click “IP commander and then click “connect new server”.

Input the DHCP IP address or domain name and click “ok”. Our IP is

192.168.1.99.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Input user name and password. The default user name is “administrator” and password is “incognito”.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

It will bring up the following screen, please make sure that your DHCP is in “online” status. Then click “wizard” in the top tool bars and select “rule wizard”.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Give a name and description to the new rule.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Assign a range of IP addresses or just one IP address to this rule. In our case, we set the IP pool from 192.168.1.201 to 192.168.1.203.

After input IP pool, we select “DHCP Option” in Keywords combobox.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

After select the “DHCP Option”, it will pop up “Add DHCP Option Rule” dialo g. Select “option 82 Relay Agent Information”, sub-option 1, binary data. For port 25, VLAN 1, “GS-3012”, please key in “0019000147532d33303132” as the key value and click OK. Please note that the first 2 bytes define port number, the second 2 bytes is VLAN ID and the other bytes are the Option 82 string.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

After you finish above step, you will see the following figure.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Then pop up the following screen and you can just press Next button.

Then you can add DHCP template (option) such as gateway, DNS server and so on.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Here we use “192.168.1.1” as gateway IP address of DHCP client PC.

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You can apply DDNS service to DHCP server or not.

The rule creation has been finished.

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After finishing all above procedures, your PC will get the IP address

192.168.1.201 when you send a DHCP request.

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

Separating a physical network into many virtual networks

What is Virtual LAN?

• VLAN Overview

A VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) allows a physical network to be partitioned into multiple logical networks. Stations on a logical network belong to one group called VLAN Group. A station can belong to more than one group. The stations on the same VLAN group can communicate with each other. With VLAN, a station cannot directly talk to or hear from stations that are not in the same VLAN group(s); the traffic must first go through a router.

In MTU or IP-DSLAM applications, VLAN is vital in providing isolation and security among the subscribers. When properly configured, VLAN prevents one subscriber from accessing the network resources of another on the same LAN, thus a user will not see the printers and hard disks of another user in the same building.

VLAN also increases network performance by limiting broadcasts to a smaller and more manageable logical broadcast domain. A VLAN group is a broadcast domain. In traditional Layer-2 switched environments, all broadcast packets go to each and every individual port. With VLAN, all broadcasts are confined to a specific broadcast domain.

There are two most popular VLAN implementations, Port-based VLAN and IEEE 802.1q Tagged VLAN. ES-4024A series supports both VLAN implementations. The most difference between both VLAN implementations is Tagged VLAN can across Layer-2 switch but Port-based VLAN cannot.

• Port-based VLAN

Port-based VLANs are VLANs where the packet forwarding decision is based on the destination MAC address and its associated port. You must define

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