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1. OxAAAA SNAP OxEOEO Novell IPX OxFOFO NetBios OxFEFE IOS network layer PDU OxFFFF Novell IPX 802 3 RAW packet 0x4242 STP BPDU 0x0606 IP 0x9898 ARP Table 3 2 LLC type 1 connectionless service LLC type 2 connection oriented service and LLC type 3 acknowledge connectionless service are three types of LLC frame for all classes of service In Fig 3 2 it shows the format of Service Access Point SAP Please refer to IEEE802 2 for more details Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 25 User Manual DSAP SSAP lt address field address field gt LSB of address sl Least significant bit Least significant bit of address fields delivered to a received from the MAC sublayer VG 0 Individual DSAP VG 1 Group DSAP Fig 3 2 SAP Format 0 Command 1 Response XODDDDDD DSAP address XOSSSSSS SSAP address X1DDDDDD Reserved for ISO definition X1SSSSSS Reserved for ISO definition 3 2 Media Access Control MAC MAC Addressing Because LAN is composed of many nodes for the data exchanged among these nodes each node must have its own unique address to identify who should send the data or should receive the data In OSI model each layer provides its own mean to identify the unique address in some form for example IP address in network layer The MAC is belonged to Data Link Layer Layer 2 the address is defined to be a 48 bit long and locally unique address Since this type of a
2. Fig 4 11 LACP Port Configuration Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 61 User Manual 4 2 7 RSTP RSTP detects and breaks network loops and provides backup links between switches bridges or routers It allows a switch to interact with other RSTP compliant switches in your network to ensure that only one path exists between any two stations on the network The switch allows you to create multiple STP configurations and assign ports to a specific tree Function name RSTP System Configuration Function description This screen is used to display the RSTP system configuration and set the need of parameters Parameter description System Priority System priority is used in determining the root switch root port and designated port The switch with the highest priority lowest numeric value becomes the STP root switch If all switches have the same priority the switch with the lowest MAC address will then become the root switch Select a vale from the drop down list box The lower the numeric value you assign the higher the priority for this system Default 32768 Hello Time This is the time interval in seconds between BPDU configuration message generations by the root switch The allowed range is 1 to 10 seconds Default 2 Max Age This is the maximum time a switch can wait without receiving a BPDU before attempting to reconfigure The allowed range is 6 to 40 seconds Default 20 Forw
3. Modules optional Mounting Accessory for 19 Rack Shelf This User s Manual in CD ROM AC Power Cord Please notify your sales representative immediately if any of the aforementioned items is missing or damaged 1 3 Features The 24 Port GbE Web Smart 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 20 10 100 1000Mbps Auto negotiation Gigabit Ethernet TP ports 4 10 100 1000Mbps TP or 1000Mbps SFP Fiber dual media auto sense 400KB on chip frame buffer Jumbo frame support Programmable classifier for QoS Layer 2 Layer 3 8K MAC address and support VLAN ID 1 4094 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 24 LINK ACT 10 100 1000Mbps SFP Port 21 22 23 24 SFP LINK ACT Management e Supports concisely the status of port and easily port configuration e Supports per port traffic monitoring counters e Supports a snapshot of the system Information when you login e Supports port mirror function e Supports the static trunk function Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual Supports 802 1Q VLAN Supports user management and limits one user to login Max
4. GS 1224L 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch GS 1224L User s Manual Release 1 01 2007 RubyTech Corporation All rights reserved All brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies The information in this document is subject to change without notice Unless the explicit written permission of RubyTech Corporation this document in whole or in part shall not be replicated or modified or amended or transmitted in any from or by any means manual electric electronic electromagnetic mechanical optical or otherwise for any purpose DURATION OF HARDWARE WARRANTY HARDWARE In accordance with the provisions described under RubyTech Corporation hereinafter called RubyTech warrants its hardware products hereinafter referred to as Product specified herein to be for a period of twelve 12 months from the date of shipment Should a Product fail to perform during the effective warranty period as described above RubyTech shall replace the defective Product or part or delivering a functionally equivalent Product or part in receipt of customer s request provided that the customer complies with the return material authorization RMA procedures and returns all defective Product prior to installation of the replacements to RubyTech All defective Products must be returned to RubyTech with issuance of a Return Material Authorization number RMA number assigned to the reseller from whom the
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6. 2 hosts per network Bit 012 3 23 24 31 110 Network address Host address Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 17 User Manual 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 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 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 cl
7. The community name for each function works independently Each function has its own community name Say the community name for Read only works for Read function and can t be applied to other function such as Write and Trap Default SNMP function Disable Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 61 User Manual Default community name for Get public Default community name for Set private Default community name for Trap public a System Information Boas SNMP Configuration VLANs Sei VLAN Group rare 2 LACP CT IGMP Snooping mirror M Es Qos 1 Filter Rate Limit Control Fig 4 27 SNMP Configuration Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 User Manual 4 3 Monitoring There are six functions contained in the monitoring function Monitoring Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics LACP Status RSTP Status IGMP Status 4 3 1 Statistics Overview The function of Statistics Overview collects any information and provides the counting summary about the traffic of the port no matter the packet is good or bad In the Fig 4 25 the window can show all ports counter information at the same time If the counting is overflow the counter will be reset and restart counting Function name Statistics Overview Function description Display the summary counting of each port s traffic including Tx Bytes Tx Frame
8. 0 1 Mbps 100Kbps and ranges from 0 to 100Mbps Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 38 User Manual 3 5 Virtual LAN What is a VLAN It is a subset of a LAN Before we discuss VLAN we must understand what LAN is In general a LAN is composed of different physical network segments bridged by switches or bridges which attach to end stations in the same broadcast domain The traffic can reach any station on the same LAN Beyond this domain the traffic cannot go without router s help This also implies that a LAN is limited If you need to communicate with the station outside the LAN a router is needed which always lies on the edge of the LAN For a layer 2 VLAN it assumes it is a logical subset of a physical LAN separated by specific rules such as tag port MAC address and so on In other words they can communicate with each other between separated small physical LANs within a LAN but can not be between any two separated logical LANs Ethern itch lt A ep H AN i ii z e Printer p mi lon de Printer 50 S ry EST cop DRE RE ARE MERE eS ARE Workstation Fig 3 7 In the figure above all stations are within the same broadcast domain For these stations it is obviously that the traffic is getting congested while adding more stations on it With the more and more users joining the LAN broadcast traffic will rapidly decrease the performance of the network Finally the n
9. 3 4 Ethernet parameters for half duplex mode D minFrameSize slotTime _____ _ D FCS Coverage H ale collision threshold slotTime Duration of Carrier Event In full duplex operation mode both transmitting and receiving frames are processed simultaneously This doubles the total bandwidth Full duplex is much easier than half duplex because it does not involve media contention collision retransmission schedule padding bits for short frame The rest functions follow the specification of IEEE802 3 For example it must meet the requirement of minimum inter frame gap between successive frames and frame format the same as that in the half duplex operation Because no collision will happen in full duplex operation for sure there is no mechanism to tell all the involved devices What will it be if receiving device is busy and a frame is coming at the same time Can it use backpressure to tell the source device A function flow control is introduced in the full duplex operation Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 31 User Manual 3 3 Flow Control Flow control is a mechanism to tell the source device stopping sending frame for a specified period of time designated by target device until the PAUSE time expires This is accomplished by sending a PAUSE frame from targ
10. All switch ports are in the same local area network Every port can access each other See Fig 2 2 D Fig 2 2 No VLAN Configuration Diagram 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 port based 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 3 Fig 2 3 Port based VLAN 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 Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 User Manual Case 2b Port based VLAN See Fig 2 4 Fig 2 4 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 5 Fig 2 5 A
11. Converter Chassis ae ET R Copper Twisted paif nn Fiber Optic AAAG E EC IT ICICICIDIG mm or sm fiber Fiber Optic GESM SW24 Copper Twisted pair Links M Fiber Optic Links ae a a Fig 2 10 Network Connection between Remote Site and Central Site Fig 2 10 is a system wide basic reference connection diagram This diagram demonstrates how the switch connects with other network devices and hosts Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 21 User Manual Fig 2 12 Office Network Connection Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 22 User Manual 3 Basic Concept and Management This chapter will tell you the basic concept of features to manage this switch and how they work 3 1 What s the Ethernet Ethernet originated and was implemented at Xerox in Palo Alto CA in 1973 and was successfully commercialized by Digital Equipment Corporation DEC Intel and Xerox DIX in 1980 In 1992 Grand Junction Networks unveiled a new high speed Ethernet with the same characteristic of the original Ethernet but operated at 100Mbps called Fast Ethernet now This means Fast Ethernet inherits the same frame format CSMA CD software interface In 1998 Gigabit Ethernet was rolled out and provided 1000Mbps Now 10G s Ethernet is under approving Although these Ethernet have different speed they still use the same basic functions So they are compatible in software
12. IP Address 192 168 1 1 IGMP Snooping CERES 255 255 2550 oe Active Gateway 192 168 1 254 Filter DHCP Server 0 0 0 0 Rate Limit Lease Time Left 0 secs Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics G5 12241 F B LACP Status DHCP Enabled RSIR SMES Fallback IP Address 192 168 1 1 IGMP Status S Ping F Fallback Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 FRERES PT Warm Restart see peeks Factorv Default Mv lt il gt hl Fig 2 9 First IP Address as shown in the Fig 2 9 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 9 enter 255 255 255 0 Any subnet mask such as 255 255 255 x is allowable in this case Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 20 User Manual 2 2 Typical Applications The 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch implements 24 Gigabit Ethernet TP ports with auto MDIX and four 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 10 Peer to peer application is used in two remote offices See Fig 2 11 Office network See Fig 2 12 GESM SW24 sige a 1 1
13. LACP The switch supports the link aggregation IEEE802 3ad standard This standard describes the Link Aggregate Control Protocol LACP which is a protocol that dynamically creates and manages trunk groups When you enable LACP link aggregation on a port the port can automatically negotiate with the ports at the remote end of a link to establish trunk groups LACP also allows port redundancy that is if an operational port fails then one of the standby ports become operational without user intervention Function name LACP Port Configuration Function description Enable or disable LACP protocol user is allowed to set the aggregation key value Parameter description Protocol Enabled Just tick the check box M1 to enable LACP protocol then press the lt Apply gt button to apply Key Value It s key for an aggregation This must be an integer value between 1 and 255 or auto select by switch Configuration System Information Ports LACP Port Configuration VLANs VLAN Mode Key Value VLAN Group Port Protocol Enabled 0 255 Aggregation 1 auto RSTP 2 Fi auto 802 1X IGMP Snooping 3 auto Mirror 4 o ao Qos Filter 5 v auto Rate Limit Storm Control 6 Ml auto en En Statistics Overview 8 M rain Detailed Statistics o 9 auto LACP Status RSTP Status 10 oO auto IGMP Status Ping a oot al o at Warm Restart Factorv Default y 13 oO auto L a Lie
14. LACP Aggregation Overview VLANs VLAN Mode frye 11213141516 71819110 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 VLAN Group aogregation ___ JE EERE RR LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos E Down Port link down Bf Blocked Port Blocked by RSTP Number is Partner port number if other switch has LACP enabled SNMP Dies acer Statistics Overview i Forwarding Port link up and forwarding frames Legend Detailed Statistics LAC Status Forwarding poe ane forwarding by RSTP Number is Partner port number if other switch has RSTP Status IGMP Status Ping F Warm Restart LACP Port Status Factorv Default hd Fig 4 30 LACP Status Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 88 User Manual 4 3 4 RSTP Status Function name RSTP Status Function description Display the RSTP status In the Fig 4 28 the window can show the VLAN bridge information and status of 1 24 ports Parameter description RSTP VLAN Bridge Overview VLAN Id Show the VLAN Id Bridge Id Show this switch s current bridge priority setting and bridge ID which stands for the MAC address of this switch Hello Time Show the current hello time of the root bridge Hello time is a time interval specified by root bridge used to request all other bridges periodically sending hello message every hello time seconds to the bridge attached to its designated port Max Age Show the
15. MAC entry is authorized Port Mode Port Control Authentication Port Status Disable Don t Care Don t Care Port Uncontrolled Enabled Auto Successful Port Authorized Enabled Auto Failure Port Unauthorized Enabled ForceUnauthorized Don t Care Port Unauthorized Enabled ForceAuthorized Don t Care Port Authorized Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 67 User Manual Function name 802 1X Configuration Function description This function is used to configure the global parameters for RADIUS authentication in 802 1x port security application Parameter description Mode Enable or disable 802 1X function RADIUS IP RADIUS server IP address for authentication Default 0 0 0 0 RADIUS UDP Port The port number to communicate with RADIUS server for the authentication service The valid value ranges 1 65535 Default port number is 1812 RADIUS Secret The secret key between authentication server and authenticator It is a string with the length 1 15 characters The character string may contain upper case lower case and 0 9 It is character sense It is not allowed for putting a blank between any two characters Default None Admin State This is used to set the operation mode of authorization There are three type of operation mode supported Force Unauthorized Force Authorized Auto e Force Unauthorized The controlled port is forced to hold in the unauthorized state e
16. SFP Fiber transceiver SFP OLC 212 50 1000Mbps LC SM 70km SFP Fiber transceiver SFP OLC 212 70 1000Mbps LC SM 110km SFP Fiber transceiver SFP OLC 212 B0 1000Mbps BiDi SC type 1 SM 20km SFP Fiber WDM transceiver SFP 0BS 621 201 1000Mbps BiDi SC type 2 SM 20km SFP Fiber WDM transceiver SFP 0BS 621 202 1000Mbps LC SM 10km SFP Fiber transceiver with DDM SFP DLC 212 10 Fig 1 5 Front View of 1000Base LX BiDi SC SFP Fiber Transceiver Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 2 Installation 2 1 Starting 24 Port GbE Web Smart 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 gt 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 e Installing Optional SFP Fiber Transceivers to the 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch Note If you have no modules please skip this section Fig 2 1 Installation of Optional SFP Fiber Transceiver 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 modul
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18. WEB SMART Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual LED Indicators LED Color Function System LED POWER Green Lit when 3 3V power is coming up 10 100 1000Ethernet TP Port 1 to 24 LED Lit when connection with remote device is good Blinks when any traffic is present LINK ACT Green Lit Green when TP link on 1000Mbps speed Green Lit Amber when TP link on 100Mbps speed 10 100 1000Mbps Amber Off when 10Mbps or no link occur Blinks when any traffic is present 1000SX LX Gigabit Fiber Port 21 22 23 24 LED Lit when SFP connection with remote device is SFP LINK ACT Green good Blinks when any traffic is present Table1 1 1 4 2 User Interfaces on the Rear Panel AC Line 100 240V 50 60 Hz Fig 1 3 Rear View of 24 PORT GBE WEB SMART SWITCH Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 1 5 View of the Optional Modules In the switch Port 21 24 includes two types of media TP and SFP Fiber LC BiDi SC 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 nine optional SFP types provided for the switch are listed below 1000Mbps LC MM SFP Fiber transceiver SFP OLC 202 1000Mbps LC SM 10km SFP Fiber transceiver SFP OLC 212 10 1000Mbps LC SM 30km SFP Fiber transceiver SFP OLC 212 30 1000Mbps LC SM 50km
19. due to excessive collision late collision or frame aging Tx Overflow Number of frames dropped due to the lack of transmitting buffer EEE Statistics for Port 1 System Information Poti Port2 Ports Ports Ports Port Ponz Ports Poto Port10 Porti1 Port12 Port13 Port14 Port15 Port16 VLAN Group portaz Porte port19 Port20 port21 Port22 Port23 Port24 Agorepation ire 33215 et 21520 802 1X a323 Te IGMP Snooping Bl Tx High Priority Packets 4 Mirror Bl Tx Low Priority Packets z Dix Broadcast Filter Rate Limit CCI Dix mures O Storm Control abe y SNMP lix Error Packeis 0 from M E UT Mr ixus z IGMP Status fxzsesnienes i E256 511 eves I _ Ping J EST BE 1024 nes 4 a Receive Error Counters Factorv Default w ee Re lt i gt z Fig 4 29 Detailed Statistics for each port Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 4 3 3 LACP Status Function name LACP Status Function description Display the LACP status In the Fig 4 30 the window can show LACP information and status each port at one time Parameter description LACP Aggregation Overview Show the group port status Default will set to red sign for port link down user can check legend table below for all reference LACP Port Status Group Port Show the port number Normal as Legend Configuration _E System Information 5 a Ports
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21. for verification If success the authentication server will notice the authenticator the grant PC A then is allowed to access B and C via the switch If there are two switches directly connected together instead of single one for the link connecting two switches it may have to act two port roles at the end of the link authenticator and supplicant because the traffic is bi directional Authentication server Supplicant Fig 4 14 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 65 User Manual The Fig 4 15 shows the procedure of 802 1x authentication There are steps for the login based on 802 1x port access control management The protocol used in the right side is EAPOL and the left side is EAP 1 At the initial stage the supplicant A is unauthenticated and a port on switch acting as an authenticator is in unauthorized state So the access is blocked in this stage Initiating a session Either authenticator or supplicant can initiate the message exchange If supplicant initiates the process it sends EAPOL start packet to the authenticator PAE and authenticator will immediately respond EAP Request Identity packet The authenticator always periodically sends EAP Request Identity to the supplicant for requesting the identity it wants to be authenticated If the authenticator doesn t send EAP Request Identity the supplicant will initiate EAPOL Start the process by sending to the authenticator And next the Su
22. forward the packet to the proper port Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 37 User Manual Mac address aging There is a field in MAC address table used to put the entry s Age time which determines how long a MAC entry can reside in a switch The age time is refreshed when a packet with that SA Usually the age time is programmable Transmission schedule In most layer 2 switches the QoS is supported QoS in a switch must associate a transmission schedule to transmit the packet This function is much to do with the priority level a packet has With the given priority the scheduler will do the proper action on it The scheduler has many ways to implement and different chips may support different schedule algorithms Most common schedulers are FCFS First Come First Service Strictly Priority All High before Low Weighted Round Robin Set a weight figure to the packet with a priority level say 5 7 and next set another weight to the packet with a priority level say 2 4 and so on The WRR will transmit the packet with the weight So the packet of each priority level can be allocated a fixed bandwidth Bandwidth rating Bandwidth rating is the limitation set by administrator and it can be applied to those with SLA Bandwidth rating can be total bandwidth types of service of a port with many steps The switch supports by port Ingress and Egress total bandwidth rate control capacity The bandwidth rate resolution is
23. message packets encapsulated by Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN EAPOL are exchanged between an authenticator PAE and a supplicant PAE The Authenticator exchanges the message to authentication server using EAP encapsulation Before successfully authenticating the supplicant can only touch the authenticator to perform authentication message exchange or access the network from the uncontrolled port Supplicant s uthentication System rver s System i i I i i t Supplicant i i PAE i i i i 4 i i i I i i i a MAC Enable Pr Services Offered port Uncontrolled port 4 Port Authorize 4 a i 4 1 i by Authenticator Authenticator Authentication i 6 9 Bridge Relay PAE Server i oi i i i i 1 I i i i i i 1 i i 1 I LAN Fig 4 13 In the Fig 4 14 this is the typical configuration a single supplicant an authenticator and an authentication server B and C is in the internal network D is Authentication server running RADIUS switch at the central location acts Authenticator connecting to PC A and Ais a PC outside the controlled port running Supplicant PAE In this case PC A wants to access the services on device B and C first it must exchange the authentication message with the authenticator on the port it connected via EAPOL packet The authenticator transfers the supplicant s credentials to Authentication server
24. over and automatically reconfigure Administrator does not have to do anything and may see the trap message of LACP changed in NMS TD 4 x 100Mb s gp 2 x 1000Mb s 2 x 100Mb s 4 x 100Mb s gt mme Fig 3 10 Example of Link Aggregation Application Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 46 User Manual 4 Operation of Web based Management This chapter instructs you how to configure and manage the 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch through the web user interface it supports to access and manage 20 10 100 1000Mbps TP Port and 4 Gigabit TP SFP Fiber dual media port The switch provides 20 fixed Gigabit Ethernet TP ports and four optional Gigabit dual media ports supporting either fiber or TP media 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 multicast traffic and so on The default values of 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch are listed in the table below IP Address 192 168 1 1 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Default Gateway 192 168 1 254 Password admin Table 4 1 After the 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch has been finished configuration you can browse it by using the IP address you set up For instance type http 192 168 1 1 in the address row in a browser it will show the following screen see Fig 4 1 and ask you inputting password in order to log
25. root bridge s current max age time Fwd Delay Show the root bridge s forward delay time Topology Show the root bridge s spanning tree topology Root Id Show root bridge ID of this network segment If this switch is a root bridge the This switch is Root will show this switch s bridge ID Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 89 User Manual 3 System Information x i Ports RSTP VLAN Bridge Overview VLANs VLAN Mode ian id EE EE EE VLAN Group 1 32769 00 40 c7 3c 00 01 2 120 Steady This switch is Root Aggregation E 802 1X IGMP Snooping RSTP Port Status Mirror 4 Qos Port Group om Path Cost Edge Port P2p Port Protocol Port State H Porti Non STP fe Limi r 1 Storm Control portal Non s EEE SNMP Port 3 Non STP Port 4 Non STP Statistics Overview Ports Non STP Detailed Statistics Port 6 Non STP LACE Stas Port 7 Non STP IGMP Status Port 8 Non STP Ping a Port 9 Non STP Port 10 Non STP Warm Restart Port 11 Non STP _ pi Default bd Port 12 Non STP Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 Fig 4 31 RSTP Status 90 User Manual 4 3 5 IGMP Status Function name IGMP Status Function description Display the IGMP status In the Fig 4 29 the window can show VLAN ID for each multicast group Parameter description VLAN Id Show VLAN Id for each multicast group Q
26. whether regular authentication will take place in this port Default disable Reauthentication Period 1 65535 s A non zero number seconds between the periodic re authentication of the supplicant Default 3600 EAP timeout 1 255 s A timeout condition in the exchange between the authenticator and the supplicant The valid range 1 255 Default 30 seconds 802 1X Parameters Reauthentication Enabled T Enabled Reauthentication Period 1 3600 seconds S600 EAP timeout Zo 1 255 seconds 20 Fig 4 18 802 1X Parameters Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 70 User Manual 4 2 9 IGMP Snooping Function name IGMP Snooping Configuration Function description IGMP snooping enable group multicast traffic to be only forwarded to ports that are members of that group thus allowing you to significantly reduce multicast traffic passing through the switch All the functions should press lt Apply gt button to start up after you tick the check box Parameter description IGMP Enabled Just tick the check box MI to enable this function Default disable Router Ports Just tick the check box M1 beside the port x to enable router ports then press the lt Apply gt button to start up Default none Unregistered IGMP Flooding enabled Just tick the check box M to enable this function Default enable VLAN ID At the IGMP Enable mode being selected it will list the VLAN ID n
27. 16384 16382 117 32768 32766 116 65536 65534 Table 2 3 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 sub netted 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 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 19 User Manual 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 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 System Configuration System Information vias DO 22 cvs gp VLAN Mode Firmware Version U VLAN Group Co a v 02 as COTE 00 40 c7 3c 00 00 one CE 031201000001 802 1X Active
28. 192 168 1 1 Fallback 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 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 52 User Manual 32 bits i Network Hosto Network 1D Subnet number 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 4 IP Address Assignment in this manual Default 255 255 255 0 Fallback 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 pre defined path it must be forwarded to a default router on a default path This means any packet with undefined I
29. 2007 Revision A1 36 User Manual 100Mb s 1000Mb s 100Mb s a Fig 3 6 How does a switch operate A Layer 2 switch uses some features of the Data Link layer in OSI model to forward the packet to the destination port s Here we introduce some important features of a switch and how they work MAC address table When a packet is received on a port of switch the switch first checks if the packet good or bad and extracts the source MAC address SA and destination MAC address DA to find 1 if SA is existed in the MAC address table if no puts it in the MAC address table if yes 2 looks up DA and its associated port to which the traffic is forwarded If DA does not exist have the packet broadcasted Due to the size of the MAC address limited MAC address aging function is applied When the MAC address has resided and keeps no update in the table for a long time this means the traffic using that entry has yet come for a while If this time period is more than the aging time the entry will be marked invalid The vacancy is now available for other new MAC Both learning and forwarding are the most important functions in a switch Besides that VLAN can be one of the rules to forward the packet There are ingress rule and egress rule applied The ingress rule is used to filter the incoming packet by VLAN ID and so on and to decide whether the packet is allowed to enter the switch or not The egress rule is used to
30. 8 a 9 Oo 10 FI 11 oO 12 o 13 o Fig 4 20 Mirror ports configuration Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 72 User Manual 4 2 11 QoS Quality of Service Configuration The switch offers powerful QoS function This function supports VLAN tagged priority that can make precedence of 8 priorities and DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point on Layer 3 of network framework configuration System Information z Ports QoS Configuration VLANs VLAN Mode YEN Qos Disabled VLAN Group QoS Disabled Aggregation 802 1p LACP DSCP RSTP ae Apply _ IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP Fig 4 21 QoS Configuration Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 73 User Manual Function name QoS Configuration Function description When you want to use QoS function please select QoS Mode by use drop down menu in advance Then you can use 802 1p Priority and DSCP Priority functions to take effect In this function you can disable QoS Mode and choose any of Priority Control and enable it such as 802 1p DSCP The switch only support Strict Priority and high priority queue is always passed first Function name Prioritize Traffic Function description Five kinds of default value The user can select custom or all low priority or all normal priority or all medium priority or all high priority for QoS default value Function name 802 1p Setti
31. Access Reject it will send an EAP Failure to the supplicant This means the supplicant is failed to authenticate The port it connected is in the unauthorized state the supplicant and the devices connected to this port won t be allowed Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 66 User Manual to access the network 10 When the supplicant issue an EAP Logoff message to Authentication server the port you are using is set to be unauthorized Port connect Access blocked Authenticator EAP Request ldentity Radius Access Request EAP Response ldentity Radius Access Challenge EAP Request EAP Response Radius Access Request EAP Success Radius Access Accept EAP F ailure EAP Logoff p Access allowed Fig 4 15 The 802 1X Enabled is the type of authentication supported in the switch In this mode for the devices connected to this port once a supplicant is authorized the devices connected to this port can access the network resource through this port 802 1x Port based Network Access Control function supported by the switch is little bit complex for it just support basic Enabled mode which can distinguish the device s MAC address and its VID The following table is the summary of the combination of the authentication status and the port status versus the status of port mode set in 802 1x Port mode port control state set in 802 1x port setting Here Entry Authorized means
32. Automatic configuration Rapid configuration and reconfiguration Deterministic behavior Low risk of duplication or mis ordering Support existing IEEE 802 3 MAC Clients Backwards compatibility with aggregation unaware devices Loos There are also some constraints when applying LACP 1 LACP does not support inter switch bandwidth aggregation 2 The ports aggregated must operate in full duplex mode 3 The ports in the same Link Aggregation Group must have the same speed for example all with 100Mbps or all 1000Mbps You cannot aggregate a 1000Mbps and two 100Mbps for a 1 2Gbps trunk port Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 45 User Manual Terminology Link Aggregation It is a method to have multiple physical links with the same media and speed bundled to be a logical link forming a Link Aggregation Group with a group ID With the viewpoint of MAC client each Link Aggregation Group is an independent link There are three cases of link used in the network which are switch to switch switch to station and station to station Here station may be a host or a router Link Aggregation called port trunking sometimes has two types of link configuration including static port trunk and dynamic port trunk Static Port Trunk When physical links are changed administrator needs to manually configure the switches one by one Dynamic Port Trunk When physical links are changed LACP takes
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34. E802 1Q VLAN Auto aging with programmable inter age time Supports 802 1p Class of Service with 2 level priority queuing Supports port trunking with flexible load distribution and failover function Supports port sniffer function Programmable maximum Ethernet frame length of range from 1518 to 9600 bytes jumbo frame Supports port based VLAN 802 1Q tag based VLAN Efficient self learning and address recognition mechanism enables forwarding rate at wire speed Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 101 User Manual Hardware Specifications Standard Compliance IEEE802 3 802 3ab 802 3z 802 3u 802 3x Network Interface 10 100 1000Mbps Gigabit TP NWay TP RJ 45 1 24 1000Base SX Gigabit Fiber 1000 FDX SFP 21 22 23 24 Option 1000Base LX Gigabit Fiber 1000 FDX SFP 21 22 23 24 Option 1000Base LX Single Fiber WDM BiDi 1000 FDX SFP 21 22 23 24 Option Port 21 22 23 24 are TP SFP fiber dual media ports with auto detected function Optional SFP module supports LC or BiDi SC transceiver Transmission Mode 10 100Mbps support full or half duplex 1000Mbps support full duplex only Transmission Speed 10 100 1000Mbps for TP 1000Mbps for Fiber Full Forwarding Filtering Packet Rate PPS packets per second Forwarding Rate Speed 1 488 000PPS 1000Mbps 148 800PPS 100Mbps 14 880PPS 10Mbps MAC Address and Self learning 8K MAC address Buffer Memory Em
35. Force Authorized The controlled port is forced to hold in the authorized state e Auto The controlled port is set to be in authorized state or unauthorized state depends on the result of the authentication exchange between the authentication server and the supplicant Default Force Authorized Port State Show the port status of authorization Re authenticate Specify if subscriber has to periodically re enter his or her username and password to stay connected to the port Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 68 User Manual Re authenticate All Re authenticate for all ports in at once Force Reinitialize Force the subscriber has to reinitialize connected to the port Force Reinitialize All Force Reinitialize for all ports in at once 802 1X Configuration CN Enabied I RADIUS UDP Port fi 812 RADIUS Secret Port Admin state Port State Po Force Authorized Link Down Force Reinitialize Statistics a Re authenticate 2 Force Authorized Link Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics HE Force Authorized gt Link Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics a Force Authorized gt Link Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics s Force authorized L
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37. 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 lt Apply gt button the setting takes effect Parameters description SNMP enable The term SNMP enable here is used for the activation or de activation of SNMP Default is Disable 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
38. P 0x8137 IPX datagram Ox86DD IPv6 Data Less than or equal to 1500 bytes and greater or equal to 46 bytes If data is less than 46 bytes the MAC will automatically extend the padding bits and have the payload be equal to 46 bytes The length of data field must equal the value of the Length field when the Length Type acts as Length Frame check sequence FCS This field contains a 32 bit cyclic redundancy check CRC value and is a check sum computed with DA SA through the end of the data field with the following polynomial 10 4x8 4 xl 4 x xt 4 x exe I It is created by the sending MAC and recalculated by the receiving MAC to check if the packet is damaged or not Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 28 User Manual How does a MAC work The MAC sub layer has two primary jobs to do 1 Receiving and transmitting data When receiving data it parses frame to detect error when transmitting data it performs frame assembly 2 Performing Media access control It prepares the initiation jobs for a frame transmission and makes recovery from transmission failure Frame transmission As Ethernet adopted Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect CSMA CD it detects if there is any carrier signal from another network device running over the physical medium when a frame is ready for transmission This is referred to as sensing carrier also Listen If there is signal on the medium the MAC defe
39. P address in the routing table will be sent to this device unconditionally Default 192 168 1 254 Management VLAN Show the management VLAN number Password Set a password for this switch Up to 16 characters are allowed in this parameter Any alphanumeric character is acceptable Default admin Inactivity Timeout secs Set the auto logout timer The valid value is 0 60 in the unit of minute and a decimal point is not allowed The value 0 means auto logout timer is disabled Default 0 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 53 User Manual 4 2 2 Ports Configuration Function name Ports Configuration Function description Ports Configuration is applied to change the setting of each port In this configuration function you can set reset the following parameters Mode and Flow Control All of them are described in detail below Parameter description Enable Jumbo Frames Link This function support jumbo frames of up to 9600 bytes Just tick the check box M to enable it Default disable Show link status of this port Mode Set the speed and duplex of the port If the media is 1Gbps fiber there are three modes to choose Auto Speed 1000 Full and Disable 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 AED
40. P 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 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 6 about the 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch default IP address information 2 Run web browser and follow the menu Please refer to Chapter 4 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 15 User Manual Please enter password to login lt Fig 2 7 the Login Screen for Web 2 1 4 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 8 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
41. T Speed Duplex 1000M TP ON OFF _ 10 100 1000M _ Full for all Half for 10 100 1000M Fiber ON OFF 1000M Full In Auto Speed mode no default value In Forced mode default value depends on your setting Flow Control You can Just tick the check box M to enable flow control 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 Disable Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 54 User Manual COTE Port Configuration System Information Enable Jumbo Frames fs support jumbo frames of up to 9600 bytes VLAN Group Aggregation LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP Auto Speed Vv Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics LACP Status RSTP Status IGMP Status Ping Warm Restart Factorv Default M 13 a O Dn DA HW amp WIN E d Auto Speed Auto Speed v Auto Speed bi hi m N 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 0 01010010 Auto Speed Y Fig 4 4 Port Configuration 4 2 3 VLAN Mode Configuration The switch supports Port based VLAN and Tag based VLAN 802 1q Support 24 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 c
42. TP Configuration 63 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 4 2 8 802 1X 802 1x port based network access control provides a method to restrict users to access network resources via authenticating user s information This restricts users from gaining access to the network resources through a 802 1x enabled port without authentication If a user wishes to touch the network through a port under 802 1x control he she must firstly input his her account name for authentication and waits for gaining authorization before sending or receiving any packets from a 802 1x enabled port Before the devices or end stations can access the network resources through the ports under 802 1x control the devices or end stations connected to a controlled port send the authentication request to the authenticator the authenticator pass the request to the authentication server to authenticate and verify and the server tell the authenticator if the request get the grant of authorization for the ports According to IEEE802 1x there are three components implemented They are Authenticator Supplicant and Authentication server shown in Fig 4 13 Supplicant It is an entity being authenticated by an authenticator It is used to communicate with the Authenticator PAE Port Access Entity by exchanging the authentication message when the Authenticator PAE request to it Authenticator An entity facilitates the authentication of the s
43. Tx bad packet over the Tx Error Threshold The OID value means the port number 3 END Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 105 RUBY Networking amp Communications 155555 2000 Copyright 2005 RubyTech Corporation All rights reserved 2F No 7 Lane 50 Nan Kang Road Section 3 Taipei Taiwan R O C Tel 886 2 27853961 Fax 886 2 27863012 E mail rubytech mail rubytech com tw http www rubytech com tw
44. again After a collision happens MAC increases the transmission attempts If the count of the transmission attempt reaches 16 times the frame in MAC s queue will be discarded Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 29 User Manual Ethernet MAC transmits frames in half duplex and full duplex ways In half duplex operation mode the MAC can either transmit or receive frame at a moment but cannot do both jobs at the same time As the transmission of a MAC frame with the half duplex operation exists only in the same collision domain the carrier signal needs to spend time to travel to reach the targeted device For two most distant devices in the same collision domain when one sends the frame first and the second sends the frame in worst case just before the frame from the first device arrives The collision happens and will be detected by the second device immediately Because of the medium delay this corrupted signal needs to spend some time to propagate back to the first device The maximum time to detect a collision is approximately twice the signal propagation time between the two most distant devices This maximum time is traded off by the collision recovery time and the diameter of the LAN In the original 802 3 specification Ethernet operates in half duplex only Under this condition when in 10Mbps LAN it s 2500 meters in 100Mbps LAN it s approximately 200 meters and in 1000Mbps 200 meters According to the theo
45. ails 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 24 Tag 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 Metro Mode The Metro Mode is a quick configuration VLAN environment method on Port based VLAN It will create 21 22 23 or 24 Port based VLAN groups OO VLAN Mode System Information Ports VLANS VLAN Mode VLAN Group Apply Aggregation LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping Fig 4 5 Select VLAN Mode Qa VLAN Mode System Information Ports ere Metro modek VLANs VLAN Mode Metro mode BA VLAN Mode iid 210 20 30 240 VLAN Group Aggregation LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 56 User Manual Fig 4 6 Metro mode 4 2 4 VLAN Group Configuration Function name VLAN Group Configuration Function description It shows the existed information of VLAN Groups List and maintains them i e modify and delete one of them User also can add a new VLAN group by inputting a new VLAN name and VLAN ID If you are in port based VLAN it will ju
46. al Frame Reception In essence the frame reception is the same in both operations of half duplex and full duplex except that full duplex operation uses two buffers to transmit and receive the frame independently The receiving node always listens if there is traffic running over the medium when it is not receiving a frame When a frame destined for the target device comes the receiver of the target device begins receiving the bit stream and looks for the PRE Preamble pattern and Start of Frame Delimiter SFD that indicates the next bit is the starting point of the MAC frame until all bit of the frame is received For a received frame the MAC will check 1 If it is less than one slotTime in length i e short packet and if yes it will be discarded by MAC because by definition the valid frame must be longer than the slotTime If the length of the frame is less than one slotTime it means there may be a collision happened somewhere or an interface malfunctioned in the LAN When detecting the case the MAC drops the packet and goes back to the ready state If the DA of the received frame exactly matches the physical address that the receiving MAC owns or the multicast address designated to recognize If not discards it and the MAC passes the frame to its client and goes back to the ready state If the frame is too long If yes throws it away and reports frame Too Long If the FCS of the received frame is valid If n
47. an gain not only improving security and increasing performance but greatly reducing VLAN management Function name VLAN Mode Setting Function description The VLAN Mode Selection function includes four modes Port based Tag based Metro mode or Disable you can choose one of them by pulling down list and pressing the lt Downward gt arrow key Then click lt Apply gt button the settings will take affect immediately Parameter description VLAN Mode 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 amp 2 amp 3 amp 4 If you are on the port 1 you can communicate with port 2 amp 38 amp 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 Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 55 User Manual support up to maximal 24 port based VLAN groups Tag based Tag based VLAN identifies its member by VID This is quite different from port based 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 det
48. and can connect each other almost without limitation The transmission media may be the only problem Application Presentation Upper layer protocols Session Transport Network MAC client IEEE 802 specific Data link Media Access MAC IEEE 802 3 specific Physical Physical PHY Media specific Fig 3 1 IEEE 802 3 reference model vs OSI reference mode In Fig 3 1 we can see that Ethernet locates at the Data Link layer and Physical layer and comprises three portions including logical link control LLC media access control MAC and physical layer The first two comprises Data link layer which performs splitting data into frame for transmitting receiving acknowledge frame error checking and re transmitting when not received correctly as well as provides an error free channel upward to network layer Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 23 User Manual CES Coaxial STP UTP Fiber This above diagram shows the Ethernet architecture LLC sub layer and MAC sub layer which are responded to the Data Link layer and transceivers which are responded to the Physical layer in OSI model In this section we are mainly describing the MAC sub layer Logical Link Control LLC Data link layer is composed of both the sub layers of MAC and MAC client Here MAC client may be logical link control or bridge relay entity Logical link control supports the interface between the Ethernet MAC and upper layer
49. ard Delay This is the maximum time in seconds a switch will wait before changing states The general rule 2 Forward Delay 1 gt Max Age gt 2 Hello Time 1 Default 15 Force version Select RSTP or STP protocol from the drop down list box Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 62 User Manual Function name RSTP Port Configuration Function description Enable or disable RSTP protocol on the port which being selected and set path cost Parameter Proto description col Enabled Just tick the check box M beside the port x to enable RSTP protocol then press the lt Apply gt button to apply Edge Just tick the check box MJ beside the port x to enable edge function Path Cost Path cost is the cost of transmitting a frame on to a LAN through that port It is assigned according to the speed of the bridge The slower the media the higher the cost user can select auto or set the rage from 1 to 200000000 RSTP System Configuration System Priority 32768 CRC a moa E Forward oo KE Force version CO I RSTP Port Configuration oe a jauto La auto auto o auto auto OOO ONCE ON QIuUIBIUWIN auto continue 20 auto Poa l lauo Jauto 23 auto 1 01000 Fr 24 auto Apply Fig 4 12 RS
50. ass 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 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 Os mean the network itself and all 1s mean IP broadcast Network Subnet All Os 128 1 2 128 All 1s 128 1 2 255 Titi Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 18 User Manual 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 132 1 131 2 130 4 2 129 8 6 128 16 14 127 32 30 126 64 62 125 128 126 124 256 254 123 512 510 122 1024 1022 121 2048 2046 120 4096 4094 119 8192 8190 118
51. atistics Overview Fig 4 7 Port Based VLAN Configuration Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 57 User Manual Add Group Create a new port based VLAN or tag based VLAN which depends on the VLAN mode you choose in VLAN mode function 4 System Information Ports VLAN Setup VLANs VLAN Mode VLAN Group Aggregation LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP ill Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics IGMP Status Ping Warm Restart Select All Apply Fig 4 8 Add or Remove VLAN Member Port 24 A Delete Group Just tick the check box M1 beside the ID then press the lt Delete gt button to delete the group Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 58 System Information Ports VLANs VLAN Mode VLAN Group Aggregation LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics Add a VLAN gt ci Ea VLAN Configuration List User Manual configuration Port Based VLAN Configuration h O 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 Fig 4 9 Port Based VLAN Configuration 59 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 4 2 5 Aggregation The Aggregation Port Trunking Configuration is used to configure the settings of Link Aggregation You can bundl
52. bedded 400 KB frame buffer Flow Control IEEE802 3x compliant for full duplex Backpressure flow control for half duplex Cable and Maximum Length Cat 5 UTP cable up to 100m Up to 220 275 500 550m 1000Base SX which depends on Multi Mode Fiber type 1000Base LX Single Mode Fiber up to10 30 50Km 1000Base LX WDM BiDi Single Mode Single Fiber up to 20Km Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 102 User Manual Diagnostic LED System LED Power Per Port LED 10 100 1000M TP Port 1 to 24 LINK ACT 10 100 1000Mbps 1000M SFP Fiber Port 21 22 23 24 SFP LINK ACT Power Requirement AC Line Voltage 100 240 V Frequency i 50 60 Hz Consumption 30W Ambient Temperature 0 to 50 C Humidity 5 to 90 Dimensions 44 H x 442 W x 209 D m Comply with FCC Part 15 Class A amp CE Mark Approval Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 103 User Manual Management Software Specifications Auto negotiation support on 10 100Base TX ports Web browser can set transmission speed 10 100Mbps and operation mode Full Half duplex on each port enable disable any port set VLAN group set Trunk Connection Port Base 802 1Q Tagged allowed up to 24 active VLANs in one switch Ports trunk connections allowed Supports by port Egress Ingress rate control Referred as Class of Service CoS by the IEEE 802 1P standard Two queues per por
53. cation date March 2007 Revision A1 97 User Manual 4 4 4 Configuration File Transfer Function name Configuration File Transfer Function description You can backup the switch configuration file into your computer folder in accident On the other hand upload the backup configuration file into the crash or new switch can save much time and avoid mistakes to happen VLANs AN VLAN Mode VLAN Group Configuration Upload Aggregation LACP r RSTP l 802 1X IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics LACP Status RSTP Status IGMP Status Ping Warm Restart Factory Default Software Upgrade Logout v I lt amp Configuration Download Fig 4 37 Configuration Upload Download Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 98 User Manual 4 4 5 Logout Besides the auto logout function as we mentioned above in the section of system configuration the switch also allows the user to logout manually by performing the Logout function Function name Logout Function description The switch allows you to logout the system to prevent other users from the system without the permission If you do not logout and exit the browser the switch will automatically have you logout Besides this manually logout and implicit logout you can set up the parameter of Auto Logout Timer in system configuration function to explicitly ON OFF this logou
54. ddress is applied only to the Ethernet LAN media access control MAC they are referred to as MAC addresses The first three bytes are Organizational Unique Identifier OUI code assigned by IEEE The last three bytes are the serial number assigned by the vendor of the network device All these six bytes are stored in a non volatile memory in the device Their format is as the following table and normally written in the form as aa bb cc dd ee ff a 12 hexadecimal digits separated by hyphens in which the aa bb cc is the OUI code and the dd ee ff is the serial number assigned by manufacturer Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 26 User Manual Bit 47 bit 0 1st byte 2nd byte 3rd byte Ath byte 5th byte 6th byte OUI code Serial number Table 3 3 Ethernet MAC address The first bit of the first byte in the Destination address DA determines the address to be a Unicast 0 or Multicast frame 1 known as I G bit indicating individual 0 or group 1 So the 48 bit address space is divided into two portions Unicast and Multicast The second bit is for global unique 0 or locally unique address The former is assigned by the device manufacturer and the later is usually assigned by the administrator In practice global unique addresses are always applied A unicast address is identified with a single network interface With this nature of MAC address a frame transmitted can exactly be received b
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56. e 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 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 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 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 and then all off except the power LED still keep
57. e more than one port with the same speed full duplex and the same MAC to be a single logical port thus the logical port aggregates the bandwidth of these ports This means you can apply your current Ethernet equipments to build the bandwidth aggregation For example if there are three Fast Ethernet ports aggregated in a logical port then this logical port has bandwidth three times as high as a single Fast Ethernet port has Function name Aggregation Configuration Function description Display the current setup of Aggregation Trunking With this function user is allowed to add a new trunking group or modify the members of an existed trunking group Parameter description Normal Set up the ports that do not join any aggregation trunking group Group 1 8 Group the ports you choose together Up to 12 ports can be selected for each group CT Aggregation Trunking Configuration System Information Ports Group ort 1 2 3 Jas 6 7 8 o 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 12 24 ZAAR Noia Normal 0 0 olololoelolololololololelololele Gama Groupt 0 o o o olololololololololololololololo LMP Group 2 RSTP 802 1X Group 3 IGMP Snooping Mirror Group 4 Qos Filter Group 5 Rate Limit Storm Control Group 6 SNE Group 7 Statistics Overview Group 8 Detailed Statistics LACP Stat RSTP ma EN Fig 4 10 Aggregation Trunking Configuration Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 60 User Manual 4 2 6
58. e the packet comes from It is also referred to as 802 1Q VLAN Protocol based VLAN It identifies the VLAN membership by layer 3 protocol types for example IPX Appletalk IP etc Other VLAN technologies not mentioned above are MAC based VLAN IP based VLAN and so on Terminology Tagged Frame A frame carrying a tag field following the source MAC address is four bytes long and contains VLAN protocol ID and tag control information composed of user priority Canonical Format Indicator CFI and optional VLAN identifier VID Normally the maximal length of a tagged frame is 1522 bytes 802 1Q VLAN tagged Ethernet frame 6 6 2 2 2 DA SA VLAN Protocol Tag Control Length ID Information Type ee ae VLAN Protocol ID an 0x8100 User Priority CFI VLAN identifier Fig 3 9 Tag Format VLAN Protocol ID 8100 is reserved for VLAN tagged frame User Priority 3 bits long User priority is defined to 7 0 0 is the lowest priority CFI Canonical Format Indicator 1 bit long It is used to encapsulate a token ring packet to let it travel across the Ethernet Usually it is set to 0 VLAN ID 12 bits long 0 means no VLAN ID is present 1 means default VLAN 4095 reserved Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 41 User Manual VLAN tagged frame An Ethernet frame carrying VLAN tag field contains VLAN identification without the value of 0 and 4095 and pri
59. ed 3 The console interface cannot appear on the console port connection v 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch has no console port so you cannot use console interface to connect with 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch 4 How to configure the 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch v User can use IE browser program in window series of computer to control the web smart functions in 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch First choose any port in 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch Then use IE and type default IP address 192 168 1 1 to connect to 24 Gigabit with RJ45 network line Finally the login screen will appear at once Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 100 User Manual Appendix A Technical Specifications Features 20 10 100 1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet TP switching ports are compliant with IEEE802 3 802 3u 802 3z and 802 3ab 4 Gigabit TP SFP fiber are dual media ports with auto detected function Non blocking store and forward shared memory Web Smart switched Supports auto negotiation for configuring speed duplex mode Supports 802 3x flow control for full duplex ports Supports collision based and carrier based backpressure for half duplex ports Any ports can be in disable mode force mode or auto polling mode Supports Head of Line HOL blocking prevention Supports broadcast storm filtering Web based management provides the ability to completely manage the switch from any web browser Supports Port based VLAN and Tag based IEE
60. efault is No Limit The setting range is 1k 1024k per second Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 79 User Manual Multicast Rate To enable the Multicast Storm capability User can use drop down menu to select number of frames Default is No Limit The setting range is 1k 1024k per second Flooded unicast Rate To enable the Flooded unicast Storm capability User can use drop down menu to select number of frames Default is No Limit The setting range is 1k 1024k per second NOTE After completing the function s setting press lt Apply gt button to have this function taken effect Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 60 User Manual 4 2 15 SNMP 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
61. er with BiDi SC 1550nm SFP module The following table lists the types of fiber that we support and those else not listed here are available upon request Multi mode Fiber Cable and Modal Bandwidth Multi mode 62 5 125um Multi mode 50 125um IEEE 802 3z Modal Modal Gigabit Ethernet Bandwidth Distance Bandwidth Distance 1000SX 850nm 160MHz Km 220m 400MHz Km 500m 200MHz Km 275m 500MHz Km 550m Single mode Fiber 9 125um 100003567 Single mode transceiver 1310nm 10Km LX LHX XD ZX lil bs Single mode transceiver 1550nm 30 50Km Single Mode TX Transmit 1310nm 1000Base LX 20Km RX Receive 1550nm Single Fiber ES e Single Mode TX Transmit 1550nm 20Km RX Receive 1310nm Table2 1 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 10 User Manual 2 1 2 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 amp 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
62. ess 00 40 c7 3c 00 00 RSTP Serial Number 031801000001 802 1X Active IP Address 192 168 1 1 IGMP Snooping CES 255 255 2550 CELTIC I 192 160 1 254 Filter DHCP Server 0 0 0 0 Rate Limit E 0 lt ecs Storm Control SNMP Detailed Statistics LACP Status DHCP Enabled BSTP Stats Fallback IP Address 192 168 1 1 IGMP Status Ping 4 Fallback Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 meee Fallback Gateway ke 1683 254 Fig 4 2 Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 48 User Manual 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 On the left side the main menu tree for web is listed in the page According to the function name in boldface all functions can be divided into three parts including Configuration Monitoring and Maintenance The functions of each folder are described in its corresponded section respectively As to the function names in normal type are the sub functions When clicking it the function is performed The following list is the main function tree for web user interface Configuration Mo
63. ess port s PVID is applied to the packet VLAN bridge will then look up the MAC address table and determine to which ports the packet should be forwarded Next it will check to see if the destination ports belong to the same VLAN with that PVID If the destination ports are members of the VLAN used by ingress port the packet will be forwarded Note VID can not be 0 or 4095 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 42 User Manual Ingress Rule Each packet received by a VLAN aware bridge will be classified to a VLAN The classification rule is described as follows 1 If the VID of the packet is null VID VID 0 or this packet is an untagged packet a If there are still some other ways e g protocol MAC address application IP subnet etc to classify the incoming packets beside port based classification in implement and these approaches can offer non zero VID then use the value of VID offered by other classifications for VLAN s classification b If there is only port based classification in implement or other classification approaches cannot offer non zero VID for the incoming packets then assign the PVID to the incoming packets as VID for the classification of the VLAN group 2 If the VID is not a null VID VID40 then use the value to classify the VLAN group Egress Rule An egress list is used to make the tagging and forwarding decision on an outgoing port It specifies the VLANs whose packets can be transmi
64. et device to source device When the target is not busy and the PAUSE time is expired it will send another PAUSE frame with zero time to wait to source device After the source device receives the PAUSE frame it will again transmit frames immediately PAUSE frame is identical in the form of the MAC frame with a pause time value and With a special destination MAC address 01 80 C2 00 00 01 As per the specification PAUSE operation can not be used to inhibit the transmission of MAC control frame Normally in 10Mbps and 100Mbps Ethernet only symmetric flow control is supported However some switches e g 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch support not only symmetric but asymmetric flow controls for the special application In Gigabit Ethernet both symmetric flow control and asymmetric flow control are supported Asymmetric flow control only allows transmitting PAUSE frame in one way from one side the other side is not but receipt and discard the flow control information Symmetric flow control allows both two ports to transmit PASUE frames each other simultaneously Inter frame Gap time After the end of a transmission if a network node is ready to transmit data out and if there is no carrier signal on the medium at that time the device will wait for a period of time known as an inter frame gap time to have the medium clear and stabilized as well as to have the jobs ready such as adjusting buffer counter updating counter and so on in the receiver
65. etwork may get down Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 39 User Manual 3b Fig 3 8 Now we apply VLAN technology to configure the system shown as the figure above We can partition the users into the different logical networks which have their own broadcast domain The traffic will not disturb among these logical networks The users 1x x denotes a d are members of VLAN 1 Any traffic within VLAN 1 does not flow to VLAN 2 and others This helps us configure the network easily according to the criteria needed for example financial accounting R amp D and whatever you think it necessary You can also easily move a user to a different location or join a new user somewhere in the building to VLAN Without VLAN it is very hard to do Basically VLAN can afford offering at least 3 benefits move and change users reduce broadcast traffic and increase performance Security Besides VLAN can highly reduce the traffic congestion and increase total performance because there are no more too many users in the same broadcast domain Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 40 User Manual There are many types of VLAN applied Most popular is port based VLAN tag based VLAN and protocol based VLAN Port based VLAN Some physical ports are configured as members of a VLAN All stations attached on these ports can communicate with each other Tag based VLAN It identifies the membership by VLAN ID no matter wher
66. imal packet length can be up to 9600 bytes for jumbo frame application Supports 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 UI and Reset button of the switch 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 3 Built in web based management instead of using CLI interface providing a more convenient GUI for the user Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 1 4 View of 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch Fig 1 1 Full View of 24 PORT GBE WEB SMART SWITCH 1 4 1 User Interfaces on the Front Panel Button LEDs and Plugs There are 24 TP Gigabit Ethernet ports and 4 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 24 ports working status of the switch TP Port Status Indication LEDs SFP Fiber Port DS E 3 dl CLR dh dh d rey e mi T F FU WSs eo nann RESET Bution RESET button is used to restore the system default setting Gigabit Ethernet Port Power Indication LED Fiber Port Status Indication LEDs Fig 1 2 Front View of 24 PORT GBE
67. in and access authentication The default password is admin For the first time to use please enter the default password then click the lt Apply gt button The login process now is completed In the switch it supports a simple user management function allowing only one administrator to configure the system at the same time To optimize the display effect we recommend you use Microsoft IE and have the resolution 1024x768 Here is the whole function tree with web user interface and we will travel it through this chapter Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 47 User Manual Please enter password to login Por Fig 4 1 4 1 Web Management Home Overview After you login the switch shows you the system status information as Fig 4 2 This page is default and tells you the basic information of the system including Switch Status TP Port Status Fiber Port Status Aggregation VLAN Mirror SNMP and Maximum Packet Length With this information you will know the software version used MAC address how many ports good and so on This is helpful while malfunctioning For more details please refer to Section 4 4 1 II System Configuration a System Information Ports a 24 Port Gigabit Web Smart Switch VLANs BEN 4 Dual Media with SFP VLAN Mode Firmware Version VO 91 Hardware Version v1 01 oe MAC Addr
68. ink Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics J 6 Force Authorized gt Link Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics Fi Force Authorized gt Authorized _ Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics 8 Force Authorized gt Link Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics J 9 Force Authorized gt Link Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics 10 Force Authorized gt Link Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics 11 Force authorized gt Link Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics 12 Force authorized gt Link Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics continue Le 23 pue Authorized te Down f apply Refresh Fig 4 16 802 1X Configuration Statistics Z Force Reinitialize Reinitialize Force Force Authorized 7 Link Down Re authenticate Force Reinitialize Statistics Re authenticate All Force Reinitialize All Choose the port which you want to show of 802 1X statistics the screen include Authenticator counters backend Authenticator counters dot1x MIB counters and Other statistics Press the lt Refresh gt button will fresh the screen and see the newer counters 69 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 802 1X Statistics for Port 1 Poti otz Pots Pots Pots Pote Potz pons Porto Patio Porti Port12 Poti3 Portis Port 15 Po
69. irty 30 seconds to complete the system boot VLANs VLAN Mode VLAN Group Aggregation LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics LACP Status RSTP Status IGMP Status Ping Factory Default Software Upgrade Configuration File Transfer Logout Warm Restart Are you sure you want to perform a Warm Restart g Fig 4 34 Warm Restart Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 95 User Manual 4 4 2 Factory Default Function name Factory Default Function description Factory Default Configuration function can retrieve default setting to replace the working configuration VLANs Le VLAN Mode VLAN Group Factory Default Aggregation LACP RSTP 802 1X Are you sure you want to perform a Factory Default IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics LACP Status RSTP Status IGMP Status Ping It Software Upgrade Configuration File Transfer Logout Fig 4 35 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 96 User Manual 4 4 3 Software Upgrade Function name Software Upgrade Function description You can use the browser button to select the newer version file in your system to update your device Software Upgrade Upgrade Cancel Fig 4 36 Software Upgrade Publi
70. l 4 2 14 Storm Control Function name Storm Control Function description Storm Control is used to block unnecessary frames of the multicast and broadcast reducing the switch s performance When the frames of the multicast or broadcast are over the rate and Strom Control enables they could be determined to drop the frames of exceeded rate Configuration a System Information x A Ports Storm Control Configuration VLANs VLAN Mode Storm Control VLAN Group Number of frames per second Aggregation ICMP Rate No Limit v LACP RSTP Learn Frames Rate No Limit v 802 1X Broadcast Rate No Limit IGMP Snoopi SSS ugg Multicast Rate No Limit Qos Flooded unicast Rate No Limit Y Filter Rate Limit Appt Refresh RE Apply Refresh SNMP Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics LACP Status RSTP Status IGMP Status Ping F Warm Restart Factorv Default Ms Fig 4 26 Storm Control Configuration Parameter description ICMP Rate To enable the ICMP Storm capability User can use drop down menu to select number of frames Default is No Limit The setting range is 1k 1024k per second Learn Frames Rate To enable the Learn Frames Storm capability User can use drop down menu to select number of frames Default is No Limit The setting range is 1k 1024k per second Broadcast Rate To enable the Broadcast Storm capability User can use drop down menu to select number of frames D
71. n vanishes The host owns a dedicated bandwidth of the port The switch port can run at different speed such as 10Mbps 100Mbps or 1000Mbps A shared hub cannot afford this Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 35 User Manual E f Hi w a V ue V im V e Collision domain 2 er sii Collision domain 1 CE eh im ERP e ee SS me gt gt Fig 3 5 Collision Domain Collision Collision Collision domain3 domain4 domain5 Extended Distance Limitations The diameter of a half duplex LAN segment is determined by its maximum propagation delay time For example in 10M LAN the most distance of a LAN segment using yellow cable is 2500 meters and 185 meters when using coaxial cable The switch with its per port per collision domain can extend the distance like a bridge does And what s more when operating in full duplex mode the distance can reach farther than half duplex because it is not limited by the maximum propagation delay time 512 bits time If fiber media is applied the distance can be up to tens of kilometers Traffic Aggregation Traffic aggregation is to aggregate the bandwidth of more than one port and treat it as a single port in the LAN This single port possesses the features of a normal port but loading balance This is a great feature for the port needing more bandwidth but cannot afford paying much cost for high bandwidth port Publication date March
72. ng Function description This function will affect the priority of VLAN tag Based on priority of VLAN tag it can arrange 0 7 priorities priorities can map to 4 queues of the switch low normal medium high and possess different bandwidth distribution according to your weight setting Parameter description 802 1p Priority Mapping Each Priority can select any of Queue In Default Priority 0 is mapping to Queue normal Priority 1 is mapping to Queue low Priority 2 is mapping to Queue low Priority 3 is mapping to Queue normal mapping to Queue medium Priority 5 is mapping to Queue medium Priority 6 is mapping to Queue high and Priority 0 is mapping to Queue high a System Information Ports VLANs VLAN Mode VLAN Group Aggregation LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP Monitoring ____ Statistics Overview QoS Configuration smod Eee 802 1p Configuration eee ip De 1p 802 1p 802 en CR ES EE ES SE normal w 1 low _ 4 medium 5 medium a normal v S m d Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 Fig 4 22 802 1p Setting 74 Priority 4 is User Manual Function name DSCP Setting 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 bit
73. nitoring Maintenance Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 49 User Manual 4 2 Configuration Fifteen functions including System Configuration Ports Configuration VLAN Mode Configuration VLAN Group Configuration Aggregation LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping Mirror QoS Filter Rate Limit Storm Control and SNMP are contained in this function folder for system and network management Each of them will be described in detail orderly in the following sections Configuration System Configuration Ports Configuration VLAN Mode Configuration VLAN Group Configuration Aggregation LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping Mirror n Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP Publication date March 2007 Revision Al NH User Manual 4 2 1 System Configuration System 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 manual IP address setting GS 1224L o 192 168 1 1 Device Name DHCP Enabled Fallback IP Address Fallback Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Fallback Gateway 192 168 1 254 Management VLAN Aaea a a o 3 1 Password Inactivity Timeout secs i I Apply Fig 4 3 Function name System Configuration Function description Sh
74. nly tell you how to install and connect your network system but configure and monitor the 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch through the 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 Overview of this user s manual E Chapter 1 Introduction describes the features of 24 Gigabit Web Smart Switch Chapter 2 Installation Chapter 3 Operating Concept and Management Chapter 4 Operation of Web based Management Chapter 5 Maintenance Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 1 Introduction 1 1 Overview of 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch 24 port Gigabit Web Smart Switch is a standard switch that meets all IEEE 802 3 u x z Gigabit Fast Ethernet specifications The switch included 20 Port 10 100 1000Mbps TP and 4 Port Gigabit TP SFP Fiber Web Smart management Ethernet Switch The switch can be managed through Ethernet port using Web based management unit associated with web based management the network administrator can logon the switch to monitor configure and control each port s activity In addition the switch implements the QoS Quality of Service VLAN and Trunking It is suitable for office application In this switch Port 21 22 23 24 includes two types of media TP and SFP Fiber LC BiDi SC this port supports 10 100 1000Mbps TP or 1000Mbps SFP Fiber with au
75. nsecutive 1s bit to indicate that the next bit is the start of the data packet and the left most bit in the left most byte of the destination address The SFD pattern is 10101011 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 27 User Manual Destination address DA The DA field is used to identify which network device s should receive the packet It is a unique address Please see the section of MAC addressing Source addresses SA The SA field indicates the source node The SA is always an individual address and the left most bit in the SA field is always 0 Length Type This field indicates either the number of the data bytes contained in the data field of the frame or the Ethernet type of data If the value of first two bytes is less than or equal to 1500 in decimal the number of bytes in the data field is equal to the Length Type value i e this field acts as Length indicator at this moment When this field acts as Length the frame has optional fields for 802 3 802 2 SNAP encapsulation 802 3 802 2 encapsulation and Netware 802 3 RAW encapsulation Each of them has different fields following the Length field If the Length Type value is greater than 1500 it means the Length Type acts as Type Different type value means the frames with different protocols running over Ethernet being sent or received For example gt ag 7 Y i G x x37 x78 4 D 72 lE I ye Ke x 0x0800 IP datagram 0x0806 ARP 0x0835 RAR
76. o make forwarding decision Filtering Database Referred to as FID It can provide the information where the packet will be sent to Filtering database will supply the outgoing port according to the request from forwarding process with VID and DA When a packet is received if it has a non zero VID then FID will offer the associated outgoing ports information to the packet In SVL VLANs use the same Filtering Database In IVL VLANs use different FIDs Any VID can be assigned to the same FID by administrator Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 43 User Manual How does a Tagged VLAN work If the ingress filtering is enabled and when a packet is received VLAN bridge will first check if the VID of the packet presents 1 If the packet has a non zero VID VLAN bridge will apply this VID as the VLAN ID of the packet in the network 2 For a packet with null tag or no VLAN tag if VLAN bridge provides rules to decide its VID then apply this VID to the packet If VLAN bridge does not support any rule for VID then apply the PVID of the port to the packet which came from that port VLAN bridge checks to see if the ingress port and the received packet are on the same VLAN If not drops it If yes forwards it to the associated ports Meanwhile this VLAN must be applied to the egress port or the packet will be dropped If ingress filtering is disabled VLAN bridge will only check the MAC address table to see if the des
77. ontrol Protocol LACP Why 802 3ad LACP Network is varying For example if a port malfunctioned or unplugged accidentally in a static trunk port administrator has to reconfigure it or the network will get trouble Therefore offering a tool with automatic recovery capability is necessary for an administrator LACP is a protocol that allows a switch able to know whether its partner has the capability to co setup a trunk between them Usually if administrator wishes to increase the bandwidth of a specific link he may 1 Buy new network equipments with higher throughput or 2 Aggregate the bandwidth of more than one port to a logical link If the item 1 is the case you will pay much more cost beyond your budget and the solution caused by the limitation of hardware performance may not be scalable If the item 2 is the case now you do not have to pay much more extra cost and can keep flexible according to the demand of bandwidth because all equipments are there already And what s more you can avoid worrying about the interoperability issue Applying LACP in your network you will not only gain benefits below to improve the performance of your network but also have these investments usable to future new products 1 Public standardized specification 2 No interoperability issue 3 No change to IEEE 802 3 frame format no change in software and management Increased bandwidth and availability Load sharing and redundancy
78. ority information Priority tagged frame An Ethernet frame carrying VLAN tag field contains VLAN identification with the value of 0 and priority information Untagged frame An Ethernet frame carries no VLAN tag information VLAN Identifier Also referred to as VID It is used to identify a member whether it belongs to the VLAN group with the VID The assignable number is 1 4094 If VID 0 the tagged frame is a priority packet Both the value of 0 and 4095 also cannot be assigned in VLAN management Port VLAN Identifier VLAN identifier of a port It also can be referred to as PVID When an untagged frame or a priority tagged frame is received the frame will be inserted the PVID of that port in the VLAN tag field The frame with VID assigned by a port is called PVID Each port can only be assigned a PVID The default value for PVID is 1 the same as VID Ingress filtering The process to check a received packet and compare its VID to the VLAN membership of the ingress port The ingress filtering can be set by per port When receiving a packet VLAN bridge examines if the VID in the frame s header presents If the VID of the received packet presents the VID of the packet is used And VLAN bridge will check its MAC address table to see if the destination ports are members of the same VLAN If both are members of the tagged VLAN then the packet will be forwarded If the packet is an untagged or a null tag packet the ingr
79. ort 1 24 ranges from 128 3968 kbps Default No Limit Egress Set up the limit of Egress bandwidth for the port you choose Outgoing 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 value of Port 1 24 ranges from 128 3968 kbps Default No Limit configurations System Information 7 Ports Rate Limit Configuration VLANS VLAN Mode Port Ingres Earess re 1 noimt No Limit Aggregation ae LACP 2 256 kbps No Limit Y RSTP 384 kbps pe ni 802 1X 2 512 kbps 640 kbps imi IGMP Snooping 4 768 dees or Mirror 5 896 kbps No Limit Qos 1024 kbps ii Filter 6 1152 kbps No Limit v 1280 kbps n Rate Limit 7 1408 kbps NoLimit Y Storm Control 1536 kbps por SNMP 8 1664 kbps No Limit v Monitoring 9 1520 kbps Notimit 1920 kbps _ Statistics Overview 10 ae kbps No Limit amp Detailed Statistics ne n CP Stat 11 2304 kbps No Limit EASE Sans 2432 kbps El RSTP Status 12 2560 kbps v IGMP Status 2688 kbps sn Li 13 2816 kbps v ing 2944 kbps m 14 3072 kbps x 3200 kb Warm Restart 15 Sas Me v Factorv Default sa 3456 kbps a amp 16 3584 kbps _ No Limit Fig 4 25 Rate Limit Configuration Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 78 User Manua
80. ot for 10M and 100M Ethernet discards the frame For Gigabit Ethernet or higher speed Ethernet MAC has to check one more field i e extra bit field if FCS is invalid If there is any extra bits existed which must meet the specification of IEEE802 3 When both FCS and extra bits are valid the received frame will be accepted otherwise discards the received frame and reports frameCheckError if no extra bits appended or alignmentError if extra bits appended If the length type is valid If not discards the packet and reports lengthError If all five procedures above are ok then the MAC treats the frame as good and de assembles the frame Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 33 User Manual What if a VLAN tagging is applied VLAN tagging is a 4 byte long data immediately following the MAC source address When tagged VLAN is applied the Ethernet frame structure will have a little change shown as follows VLAN Tag control Length Only two fields VLAN ID and Tag control information are different in comparison with the basic Ethernet frame The rest fields are the same The first two bytes is VLAN type ID with the value of 0x8100 indicating the received frame is tagged VLAN and the next two bytes are Tag Control Information TCI used to provide user priority and VLAN ID which are explained respectively in the following table Bits 15 13 User Priority 7 0 0 is lowest priority CFI Canonical Forma
81. ow system description firmware version hardware version MAC address serial number active IP address active subnet mask active gateway DHCP server and Lease time left Set device name DHCP enable fallback IP address fallback subnet mask fallback gateway management VLAN password and inactivity timeout Parameter description System Description The simple description of this switch Firmware Version The firmware version of this switch Hardware Version The hardware version of this switch MAC Address It is the Ethernet MAC address of the management agent in this switch Serial Number Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 51 User Manual The serial number is assigned by the manufacturer Active IP Address Show the active IP address of this switch Active Subnet Mask Show the active subnet mask of this switch Active Gateway Show the active gateway of this switch DHCP Server Show the IP address of the DHCP server Default 0 0 0 0 Lease Time Left Show the lease time left of DHCP client Device Name Set a special name for this switch Up to 16 characters are allowed in this parameter Any alphanumeric character and null are acceptable Default Giga Switch DHCP Enabled Enable DHCP snooping Just tick the check box M to enable it Default disable Fallback IP Address Users can configure the IP settings and fill in new values Then click lt Apply gt button to update Default
82. pplicant replies an EAP Response Identity to the authenticator The authenticator will embed the user ID into Radius Access Request command and send it to the authentication server for confirming its identity After receiving the Radius Access Request the authentication server sends Radius Access Challenge to the supplicant for asking for inputting user password via the authenticator PAE The supplicant will convert user password into the credential information perhaps in MD5 format and replies an EAP Response with this credential information as well as the specified authentication algorithm MD5 or OTP to Authentication server via the authenticator PAE As per the value of the type field in message PDU the authentication server knows which algorithm should be applied to authenticate the credential information EAP MD5 Message Digest 5 or EAP OTP One Time Password or other else algorithm If user ID and password is correct the authentication server will send a Radius Access Accept to the authenticator If not correct the authentication server will send a Radius Access Reject When the authenticator PAE receives a Radius Access Accept it will send an EAP Success to the supplicant At this time the supplicant is authorized and the port connected to the supplicant and under 802 1x control is in the authorized state The supplicant and other devices connected to this port can access the network If the authenticator receives a Radius
83. r 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 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 Rx Broad and Multicast Show the counting number of the received broadcast with multicast packet Rx Error Packets Show the counting number of the received error packets 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 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 85 User Manual Tx Multicast Show the counting number of the transmitted multicast packet Tx Broad and Multicast Show the counting number of the transmitted broadcast with multicast packet Tx Error Packets Show the counting number of the received error packets 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
84. 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 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 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 66 User Manual Number of short frames lt 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 lt 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 Tx Collisions Number of collisions transmitting frames experienced Tx Drops Number of frames dropped
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86. rs the traffic to avoid a transmission collision and waits for a random period of time called backoff time then sends the traffic again After the frame is assembled when transmitting the frame the preamble PRE bytes are inserted and sent first then the next Start of frame Delimiter SFD DA SA and through the data field and FCS field in turn The followings summarize what a MAC does before transmitting a frame 1 MAC will assemble the frame First the preamble and Start of Frame delimiter will be put in the fields of PRE and SFD followed DA SA tag ID if tagged VLAN is applied Ethertype or the value of the data length and payload data field and finally put the FCS data in order into the responded fields 2 Listen if there is any traffic running over the medium If yes wait 3 If the medium is quiet and no longer senses any carrier the MAC waits for a period of time i e inter frame gap time to have the MAC ready with enough time and then start transmitting the frame 4 During the transmission MAC keeps monitoring the status of the medium If no collision happens until the end of the frame it transmits successfully If there is a collision happened the MAC will send the patterned jamming bit to guarantee the collision event propagated to all involved network devices then wait for a random period of time i e backoff time When backoff time expires the MAC goes back to the beginning state and attempts to transmit
87. rt 16 Port 17 Port 18 Port 19 Port20 Port21 Port22 Port23 Port 24 Authenticator counters authEntersConnecting Fj authEapLogoffsWhileConnecting 0 authEntersAuthenticating 0 authAuthSuccessesWhileAuthenticating 0 authAuthTimeoutsWhileAuthenticating 3 authAuthFailWhileAuthenticating 0 authAuthEapStarts WhileAuthenticating 0 authAuthEapLogoffWhileAuthenticating 0 authAuthReauthsWhileAuthenticated 0 authAuthEapStartsWhileAuthenticated 0 authAuthEapLogoffWhileAuthenticated 0 Backend Authenticator counters backendResponses 0 backendAccessChallenges 0 backendOtherRequestsToSupplicant 4 backendAuthSuccesses 0 backendauthFails 0 dot1x MIB counters dotixAuthEapolFramesRx 0 dotixAuthEapolFramesTx 7 dotixAuthEapolStartFramesRx 0 dotixAuthEapolLogoffFramesRx 0 dotixAuthEapolRespIdFramesRx 0 dotixAuthEapolRespFramesRx 0 dotixAuthEapolRegIdFramesTx 4 dotixAuthEapolRegFramesTx 0 dotixAuthInvalidEapolFramesRx 0 dotixAuthEapLengthErrorFramesRx 0 dotixAuthLastEapolFrameYersion 0 dotixAuthLastEapolFrameSource Other statistics Last Supplicant identity Fig 4 17 802 1X Statistics Function name 802 1x Parameters Function description In here user can enable or disable Reauthentication function and specify how often a client has to re enter his or her username and password to stay connected to the port Parameter description Reauthentication Enabled Choose
88. rted in a shared hub Terminology Separate Access Domains As per the description in the section of What s the Ethernet Ethernet utilizes CSMA CD to arbitrate who can transmit data to the station s attached in the LAN When more than one station transmits data within the same slot time the signals will collide referred to as collision The arbitrator will arbitrate who should gain the media The arbitrator is a distributed mechanism in which all stations contend to gain the media Please refer to What s the Ethernet for more details In Fig 3 5 assumed in half duplex you will see some ports of the switch are linked to a shared HUB which connects many hosts and some ports just are individually linked to a single host The hosts attached to a shared hub will be in the same collision domain separated by the switch and use CSMA CD rule For the host directly attached to the switch because no other host s joins the traffic contention hence it will not be affected by CSMA CD These LAN segments are separated in different access domains by the switch Micro segmentation To have a port of the switch connected to a single host is referred to as micro segmentation It has the following interesting characteristics There is no need the access contention e g Collision They have their own access domain But collision still could happen between the host and the switch port When performing the full duplex the collisio
89. ry it should be 20 meters But it s not practical so the LAN diameter is kept by using to increase the minimum frame size with a variable length non data extension bit field which is removed at the receiving MAC The following tables are the frame format suitable for 10M 100M and 1000M Ethernet and some parameter values that shall be applied to all of these three types of Ethernet Actually the practice Gigabit Ethernet chips do not feature this so far They all have their chips supported full duplex mode only as well as all network vendors devices So this criterion should not exist at the present time and in the future The switch s Gigabit module supports only full duplex mode 416 bytes for 1000Bass X 520 bytes for 1000Base T 64 bytes Fig 3 4 Gigabit Ethernet Frame Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 30 User Manual Parameter value LAN Max collision domain DTE to 100 meters DTE Max collision domain with 2500 meters 205 meters 200 meters repeater Slot time 512 bit times 512 bit times 512 bit times Interframe Gap 9 6us 0 96us 0 096us AttemptLimit 16 16 16 BackoffLimit 10 10 10 JamSize 32 bits 32 bits 32 bits EV dal e latlesed 742 1518 1518 1518 MinFrameSize 64 64 64 BurstLimit Not applicable Not applicable 65536 bits 10Base 100Base 1000Base 100 meters for UTP 100 meters for UTP 412 meters for fiber 316 meters for fiber Table
90. s 105 Revision History Release Date Revision 1 00 02 10 2007 A1 1 01 03 13 2007 A1 vi vii 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 e Touch the metal chassis of your computer to ground the static electrical charge before you pick up the circuit device e 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 IEC 1000 4 2 1995 4K V CD 8KV AD IEC 1000 4 3 1995 3V m IEC1000 4 4 1995 1KV power line 0 5KV signal line viii About this user s manual In this user s manual it will not o
91. s Rx Bytes Rx Frames Tx Errors and Rx Errors Parameters description Tx Bytes Total transmitted bytes Tx Frames The counting number of the packet transmitted Rx Bytes Total received bytes Rx Frames Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 83 User Manual The counting number of the packet received Tx Errors Number of bad packets transmitted Rx Errors Number of bad packets received eo Statistics Overview for all ports System Information Ports VLANs VLAN Mode f Port ET Tx Frames Rx Rx Frames Tx Errors TT pe a 1 5083670 21357 3365327 32968 o o UNE 2 o o o o o o RSTP Ess o ol o o of o 802 1X 4 0 o 0 o o o IGMP Snooping 5 0 0 0 0 o 0 Mirror 6 o o o o o o Qos 7 0 0 0 0 o 0 Filter 8 0 o 0 0 ol o Rate Limit 9 o o o o of 0 Storm Control 10 o o o o ol ny ne 11 0 o 0 o o 0 12 o 0 0 o o o Detailed Statistics 5 0 9 9 o 2l 9 LACP Status 14 a o a 2 n RSTP Status 15 o 0 o o o 0 IGMP Status 16 0 0 0 0 o 0 Ping 17 o o o o o o 18 of of o 0 o o Warm Restart 19 0 o o o ol 0 Factory Default x 20 0 o 0 0 o 0 Fig 4 28 Statistics Overview for all ports Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 84 User Manual 4 3 2 Detailed Statistics Function name Detailed Statistics Function description Display the detailed counting number of each port s traffic In the Fig 4 26 the window can show all counter information each port at one time Paramete
92. s comprise a codepoint which is sometimes abbreviated DSCP and the last two bits are left unused DSCP 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 any of queue low normal medium high Parameter description DSCP Priority Mapping 64 kinds of priority traffic as mentioned above user can set up any of Queue low normal medium high In default Priority O 63 are mapping to Queue high Configuration Le System Information Ports QoS Configuration VLANs VLAN Mode Qos Mode VLAN Group Aggregation DT SET AN High Priority Y LACP RSTP 802 1X IGMP Snooping DSCP Configuration Mirror 3 DSCP Value 0 63 Qos Filter high s Rate Limit high Storm Control ee SNMP high a i v Statistics Overview Late Detailed Statistics high v LACP Status RSTP Status high ov IGMP Status oma 3 high v Ping mg All others high Warm Restart A 2 Fig 4 23 DSCP Setting Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 75 User Manual 4 2 12 Filter Function name Filter Configuration Function description This function can set management s source IP Address to each port simple and raise safety After completing the function s setting press lt Apply gt button to have this func
93. s in the protocol stack usually Network layer which is nothing to do with the nature of the LAN So it can operate over other different LAN technology such as Token Ring FDDI and so on Likewise for the interface to the MAC layer LLC defines the services with the interface independent of the medium access technology and with some of the nature of the medium itself Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual DSAP SSAP u address address Control Information DSAP address SSAP address Control Information M Destination service access point address field Source service access point address field Control field 16 bits for formats that include sequence numbering and 8 bits for formats that do not see 5 2 Information field Multiplication An Nea r value equal to or greater than 0 Upper bound of M is a function of the medium access control methodobgy used Table 3 1 LLC Format The table 3 1 is the format of LLC PDU It comprises four fields DSAP SSAP Control and Information The DSAP address field identifies the one or more service access points in which the I G bit indicates it is individual or group address If all bit of DSAP is 1s it s a global address The SSAP address field identifies the specific services indicated by C R bit command or response The DSAP and SSAP pair with some reserved values indicates some well known services listed in the table below
94. s 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 2 1 2 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 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 2 1 2 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 2 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 SC Gigabit Fiber with multi mode LC SFP module Gigabit Fiber with single mode LC SFP module Gigabit Fiber with BiDi SC 1310nm SFP module Gigabit Fib
95. seconds VLANs a VLAN Mode VLAN Group Ping Parameters Aggregation LACP ast IGMP Snooping 7 lt Mirror Time Out in secs Qos Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP a D 0 0 0 0 ai ICS LACP Status CT frest complete RSTP Status Received replies U IGMP Status Request timeouts NS Average Response Time inms SN Warm Restart Factory Default Software Upgrade Refresh Configuration File Transfer eeren Logout Fig 4 33 Ping Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 93 User Manual 4 4 Maintenance There are five functions contained in the maintenance function Maintenance Warm Restart Factory Default Software Upgrade Configuration File Transfer Logout Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 User Manual 4 4 1 Warm Restart We offer you many ways to reboot the switch including power up hardware reset and software reset You can press the RESET button in the front panel to reset the switch and to retrieve default setting After upgrading software then you must reboot to have the new configuration taken effect Here we are discussing is software reset for the reboot in the main menu Function name Warm Restart Function description Reboot the switch Reboot takes the same effect as the RESET button on the front panel of the switch Press lt Yes gt button to confirm warm restart function and it will take around th
96. site Once the inter frame gap time expires after the de assertion of carrier sense the MAC transmits data In IEEE802 3 specification this is 96 bit time or more Collision Collision happens only in half duplex operation When two or more network nodes transmit frames at approximately the same time a collision always occurs and interferes with each other This results the carrier signal distorted and un discriminated MAC can afford detecting through the physical layer the distortion of the carrier signal When a collision is detected during a frame transmission the transmission will not stop immediately but instead continues transmitting until the rest bits specified by jamSize are completely transmitted This guarantees the duration of collision is enough to have all involved devices able to detect the collision This is referred to as Jamming After jamming pattern is sent MAC stops transmitting the rest data queued in the buffer and waits for a random period of time known as backoff time with the following formula When backoff time expires the device goes back to the state of attempting to transmit frame The backoff time is determined by the formula below When the times of collision is increased the backoff time is getting long until the collision times excess 16 If this happens the frame will be discarded and backoff time will also be reset where k min n 10 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 32 User Manu
97. 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 Fiber Cable 10 10 m TP to fiber Converter 56 Bit Time unit 1ns 1sec 1000 Mega bit Bit Time unit 0 01us 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 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 11 User Manual Case1
98. st show the ID gt Member of the existed port based VLAN group If you are in tag based VLAN it will show the ID gt VID gt Member of the existed tag based VLAN group The switch can store the configuration of port based VLAN and tag based VLAN separately When you choose one of VLAN mode the switch will bring you the responded VLAN configuration which keeps the default data You can easily create and delete a VLAN group by pressing lt Add gt and lt Delete gt function buttons or click the Group ID directly to edit it Parameter description ID Group ID When you want to edit a VLAN group you must select the Group ID field Then you will enter Tag Base VLAN Group Setting or Port Base VLAN Group Setting page which depends on your VLAN mode selection VID VLAN identifier Each tag based VLAN group has a unique VID It appears only in tag based mode Member In modify function 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 MI beside the port x to enable it Configuration System Information 7 Ports Port Based VLAN Configuration VLANs VLAN Mode Add a VLAN VLAN Group Aggregation no f 2 LACP RSTP 802 1X Ada IGMP Snooping Mirror VLAN Configuration List Qos Filter Rate Limit ME Storm Control 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 SNMP Modify f Refresh St
99. t Web browser support based on HTTP Server Note Any specification is subject to change without notice Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 104 User Manual Appendix B MIB Specifications MIB II Enterprise MIB brief description is listed as below A MIB file in a readable electronic media floppy disk or CD ROM is packed with the product box For technical support or the latest version of MIB download please visit our web site http www rubytech com tw PRIVATE GS1224L MIB DEFINITIONS BEGIN IMPORTS mib 2 DisplayString iflndex FROM RFC1213 MIB enterprises Counter TimeTicks Gauge lpAddress FROM RFC1155 SMI OBJECT TYPE FROM RFC 1212 TRAP TYPE FROM RFC 1215 privatetech OBJECT IDENTIFIER enterprises 5205 switch OBJECT IDENTIFIER privatetech 2 gs1224LProductld OBJECT IDENTIFIER switch 7 gs1224LProduces OBJECT IDENTIFIER gs1224LProductld 1 gs1224LIllegallogin TRAP TYPE ENTERPRISE gs1224LProductld DESCRIPTION Send this trap when the illegal user try to login the Web management UI n 1 gs1224LRxErrorThreshold TRAP TYPE ENTERPRISE gs1224LProductld VARIABLES ifindex DESCRIPTION Send this trap when the number of the Rx bad packet over the Rx Error Threshold The OID value means the port number n 2 gs1224LTxErrorThreshold TRAP TYPE ENTERPRISE gs1224LProductld VARIABLES ifindex DESCRIPTION Send this trap when the number of the
100. t Indicator Bit 12 1 RIF field is present in the tag header 0 No RIF field is present VID VLAN Identifier 0x000 Null VID No VID is present and only user Bits 11 0 priority is present 0x001 Default VID OxFFF Reserved Table 3 5 Note RIF is used in Token Ring network to provide source routing and comprises two fields Routing Control and Route Descriptor When MAC parses the received frame and finds a reserved special value 0x8100 at the location of the Length Type field of the normal non VLAN frame it will interpret the received frame as a tagged VLAN frame If this happens in a switch the MAC will forward it according to its priority and egress rule to all the ports that is associated with that VID If it happens in a network interface card MAC will deprive of the tag header and process it in the same way as a basic normal frame For a VLAN enabled LAN all involved devices must be equipped with VLAN optional function At operating speeds above 100 Mbps the slotTime employed at slower speeds is inadequate to accommodate network topologies of the desired physical extent Carrier Extension provides a means by which the slotTime can be increased to a sufficient value for the desired topologies without increasing the minFrameSize parameter as this would have deleterious effects Nondata bits referred to as extension bits are appended to frames that are less than slotTime bits in length so tha
101. t function Parameter description Auto Manual Logout If no action and no key is stroke as well in any function screen more than the minutes you set up in Auto Logout Timer the switch will have you logout automatically Or press the lt Logout gt button in Logout function to exit the system manually Warm Restart Factory Default Software Upgrade Lago ae Transfer Fig 4 38 Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 99 User Manual 5 Maintenace 5 1 Resolving No Link Condition The possible causes for a no link LED status are as follows e The attached device is not powered on The cable may not be the correct type or is faulty The installed building premise cable is faulty e The port may be faulty 5 2 Q amp A 1 Computer A can connect to Computer B but cannot connect to Computer C through the 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch v The network device of Computer C may fail to work Please check the link act status of Computer C on the LED indicator Try another network device on this connection v The network configuration of Computer C may be something wrong Please verify the network configuration on Computer C 2 The uplink connection function fails to work v The connection ports on another must be connection ports Please check if connection ports are used on that 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch y Please check the uplink setup of the 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch to verify the uplink function is enabl
102. t the resulting transmission is at least one slotTime in duration Carrier Extension can be performed only if the underlying physical layer is capable of sending and receiving symbols that are readily distinguished from data symbols as is the case in most physical layers that use a block encoding decoding scheme Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 34 User Manual The maximum length of the extension is equal to the quantity slotTime minFrameSize The MAC continues to monitor the medium for collisions while it is transmitting extension bits and it will treat any collision that occurs after the threshold slotTime as a late collision 3 4 How does a switch work The switch is a layer 2 Ethernet Switch equipped with 24 Fast Ethernet ports and 2 optional modules which support Gigabit Ethernet or 100M Ethernet Each port on it is an independent LAN segment and thus has 26 LAN segments and 26 collision domains contrast to the traditional shared Ethernet HUB in which all ports share the same media and use the same collision domain and thus limit the bandwidth utilization With switch s separated collision domain it can extend the LAN diameter farther than the shared HUB does and highly improve the efficiency of the traffic transmission Due to the architecture the switch can provide full duplex operation to double the bandwidth per port and many other features such as VLAN bandwidth aggregation and so on not able to be suppo
103. 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 e a Network identifier Host identifier Fig 2 8 IP address structure Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 16 User Manual 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 O1 78 31 0 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 2414 16 networks able to be defined with a maximum of 65534 216 2 hosts per network Bit 012 15 16 31 10 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 2421 24 networks able to be defined with a maximum of 254 2 8
104. then the party so affected shall be executed from any further performance for a period of time after the occurrence as may reasonably be necessary to remedy the effects of that occurrence but in no event more than sixty 60 days If any of the stated events should occur Party A shall promptly notify Party B in writing as soon as commercially practicable but in no event more than twenty 20 business days and provide documentation evidencing such occurrence In no event shall the maximum liability of RubyTech under this warranty exceed the purchase price of the Product covered by this warranty DISCLAIMER EXCEPT AS SPECIFICALLY PROVIDED ABOVE AS REQUIRED AS IS AND THE WARRANTIES AND REMEDIES STATED ABOVE ARE EXCLUSIVE AND IN LIEU OF ALL OTHERS ORAL OR WRITTEN EXPRESS OR IMPLIED ANY AND ALL OTHER WARRANTIES INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OR THIRD PARTY RIGHTS ARE EXPRESSLY EXCLUDED RUBYTECH SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT NOTICE Please carefully read this Software License Agreement hereinafter referred to as this Agreement before copying or using the accompanying software or installing the hardware unit with pre enabled software or firmware each of which is referred to as Software in this Agreement BY COPYING OR USING THE SOFTWARE YOU ACCEPT ALL OF THE PROVISIONS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT THE PROVISIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS AGREEMENT ARE THE ONLY PROVISION
105. tination VLAN exists If VLAN does not exist then drop the packet and if both DA and VLAN do not exist forwards the packet If just knows VLAN existed then floods the packet to all the ports the VLAN covers If we plan to deploy four VLANs in an office and use a switch to partition them we should check which ports belong to which VLAN first Assuming a 24 port switch is applied Name VID Port Members Marketing 2 1 2 3 4 5 Service 3 6 7 20 21 22 Sales 4 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Administration 1 17 18 19 23 24 Table 3 6 Next assigns IP address to each VLAN Usually we use 10 x x x as internal IP block Because there are total four VLANs in the network we must assign 4 IP blocks to each of them Name VID Network Address Marketing 2 10 1 2 0 24 Service 3 10 1 3 0 24 Sales 4 10 1 4 0 24 Administration 1 10 1 1 0 24 Table 3 7 Here we apply the subnet mask 255 255 255 and each VLAN is capable of supporting 254 nodes Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 User Manual 3 6 Link Aggregation Basically Link Aggregation is to aggregate the bandwidth of more than one port to an assigned logical link This highly increases total bandwidth to the targeted device There is more than one Link Aggregation technology in many vendors switch products already which may cause the problem of interoperability This is the reason why now we have 802 3ad Link Aggregation C
106. tion taken effect Parameter description Source IP Filter Mode There are three types of mode in this drop down menu Default is disabled Disabled Allow all IP Address login to this switch and manage it Static Just allow the IP Address which set by administrator to login to this switch and manage it DHCP Allow the IP Address get from DHCP server can login to this switch and manage it IP Address Setting up the IP Address it can be one IP Address or a LAN IP Mask Setting up the IP Subnet Mask related with the IP Address DHCP Server Allowed Just tick the check box MI under the port x to allow the DHCP Server on this port and valid port is Port 1 24 Default enable Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 76 User Manual Filter Configuration Fig 4 24 Filter Configuration Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 77 User Manual 4 2 13 Rate Limit Function name Ingress and Egress Bandwidth Setting Function description Ingress and Egress Bandwidth Setting function are used to set up the limit of Ingress or Egress bandwidth for each port Parameter description Ingress 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 value of P
107. to 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 SC 20km 1550nm SFP Fiber WDM transceiver 1000Mbps BiDi SC 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 32 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 e Key Features in the Device Qos The switch offers powerful QoS function This function supports 802 1p VLAN tag priority and DSCP on Layer 3 of network framework VLAN Supports Port based VLAN IEEE802 1Q Tag VLAN And supports 24 active VLANs and VLAN ID 1 4094 Port Trunking Allows one or more links to be aggregated together to form a Link Aggregation Group by the static setting Publication date March 2007 Revision Al User Manual 1 2 Checklist Before you start installing the switch verify that the package contains the following A24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch
108. tted out and specifies if the packet should be tagged or not It can be configured for port s VLAN membership and tagged or untagged for a transmitted packet When a packet is transmitted out the VLAN bridge checks the port s egress list If the VLAN of the packet is on the egress list of the port on which the packet transmits out the packet will be transmitted with the priority accordingly If enabled an egress port will transmit out a tagged packet if the port is connected to a 802 1Q compliant device If an egress port is connected to a non 802 1Q device or an end station VLAN bridge must transmit out an untagged packet i e the tag has been stripped off in an egress port Egress rule can be set by per port Independent VLAN Learning IVL It specifies the mode how to learn MAC address For a specified VLAN it will use an independent filtering database FID to learn or look up the membership information of the VLAN and decide where to go Shared VLAN Learning SVL It specifies the mode how to learn MAC address In this mode some VLAN or all VLANs use the same filtering database storing the membership information of the VLAN to learn or look up the membership information of the VLAN In 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch you can choose a VID for sharing filtering database in Shared VID field if you wish to use the existed filtering database For a specified VLAN when a MAC address is learned by a switch VLAN will use this formation t
109. ttribute based VLAN Diagram Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 13 User Manual 2 1 3 Configuring the Management Agent of 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch In the way of web user is allowed to startup the switch management function Users can use any one of them to monitor and configure the switch You can touch them through the following procedures Section 2 1 3 1 Configuring Management Agent of 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch through Ethernet Port Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 14 User Manual 2 1 3 1 Configuring Management Agent of 24 Port GbE Web Smart Switch through Ethernet Port There are two ways to configure and monitor the switch through the switch s Ethernet port They are Web browser and SNMP manager The user interface for the last one is RubyView dependent and does not cover here We just introduce the first type of management interface Web based UI for the switch is an interface in a highly friendly way 24 PORT GBE WEB SMART SWITCH Default IP Setting IP 192 168 1 1 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Default Gateway 192 168 1 254 m dH Assign a reasonable IP address For example IP 192 168 1 100 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Default Gateway 192 168 1 254 TT Ethernet LAN Fig 2 6 Managing 24 Port GbE Web Smart 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 I
110. uerier Show the group membership queries status Queries transmitted To count the group membership queries transmitted Queries received To count the group membership queries received V1 Reports When a host receives a group membership query it identifies the groups associated with the query and determines to which groups it belongs The host then sets a timer with a value less than the Max Response Time field in the query for each group to which it belongs It Calculate the number of times of IGMPV1 report V2 Reports When a host receives a group membership query it identifies the groups associated with the query and determines to which groups it belongs The host then sets a timer with a value less than the Max Response Time field in the query for each group to which it belongs It Calculate the number of times of IGMPV2 report V3 Reports When a host receives a group membership query it identifies the groups associated with the query and determines to which groups it belongs The host then sets a timer with a value less than the Max Response Time field in the query for each group to which it belongs It Calculate the number of times of IGMPV3 report V2 Leaves When a host leaves a group it sends a leave group membership message to multicast routers on the network it show the leaves number Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 91 User Manual Configuration B System Information Ports IGMP Stat
111. umber IGMP Snooping Enabled After IGMP Enabled function start up then user can tick the check box 1 to enable this function Default enable IGMP Querying Enabled After IGMP Enabled function start up then user can tick the check box 1 to enable this function Default enable Information pes IGMP Configuration VLANS VLAN Mode o be Co es Router Ports 10 20 30 40 sO 60 70 s0 LACP 90 0D 10 120 30 up 150 160 RST 7020 0 20 A0 20 20 wo IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos VLAN ID IGMP Snooping Enbblad IGMP Querying Ennbled Filter Rate Limit Storm Control on oo Fig 4 19 IGMP Configuration Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 71 User Manual 4 2 10 Mirror Configuration Function name Mirror Configuration Function description Mirror Configuration is to monitor the traffic of the network this switch support one port mirror multi ports For example we assume that Port and Port B are Source Ports and Port C is Mirror Port respectively thus the traffic passed by Port and Port B will be copied to Port C for monitoring Parameter description Source Port Set up the port for being monitored Just tick the check box M beside the port x and valid port is Port 1 24 Mirror Port Use the drop down menu to select a mirror port Mirroring Configuration Port Mirror Source 1 Oo 2 a 3 d a O 5 O 6 a 7 O
112. upplicant entity It controls the state of the port authorized or unauthorized according to the result of authentication message exchanged between it and a supplicant PAE The authenticator may request the supplicant to re authenticate itself at a configured time period Once start re authenticating the supplicant the controlled port keeps in the authorized state until re authentication fails A port acting as an authenticator is thought to be two logical ports a controlled port and an uncontrolled port A controlled port can only pass the packets when the authenticator PAE is authorized and otherwise an uncontrolled port will unconditionally pass the packets with PAE group MAC address which has the value of 01 80 c2 00 00 03 and will not be forwarded by MAC bridge at any time Authentication server A device provides authentication service through EAP to an authenticator by using authentication credentials supplied by the supplicant to determine if the supplicant is authorized to access the network resource The overview of operation flow for the Fig 4 13 is quite simple When Supplicant PAE issues a request to Authenticator PAE Authenticator and Supplicant exchanges authentication message Then Authenticator passes the request to RADIUS server to verify Finally RADIUS server Publication date March 2007 Revision Al 64 User Manual replies if the request is granted or denied While in the authentication process the
113. us VLANS te Pow a uti aan VLAN Group transmitted received Reports Reports Reports Leaves Aggregation Idle o 0 o 0 0 0 LACP RSTP EE Refresh IGMP Snooping Mirror Qos Filter Rate Limit Storm Control SNMP Monitoring ____ Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics LACP Status Fig 4 32 IGMP Status 4 3 6 Ping Status Function name Ping Status Function description To setting up the target IP address for ping function of ICMP protocol and display the pinging status In the Fig 4 30 the window can show the pinging information Parameter description Ping Parameters Target IP address Set up a Target IP address to ping Count Use drop down menu to set number of echo requests to send Four type of number can choose there are 1 5 10 and 20 Default 1 Time Out in secs Use drop down menu to set number of echo requests time out in second Four type numbers can choose there are 1 5 10 and 20 Default 1 NOTE All the functions should press lt Apply gt button to start up after you set up the parameters Publication date March 2007 Revision A1 92 User Manual Ping Results Target IP address Show the active target IP address Status Show the result of the ping status Received replies Show the received replies number of times Request timeouts Show the timeout of request Average Response times In ms Show the average response time in milli
114. vied re ea ue 64 4 2 9 IGMP SNORING die eds ed eee 71 4 2 10 Mirror Configuration ss 72 4 2 11 QoS Quality of Service Configuration eee cece ee eeeeeeeeetneeeeeetaeeeeeeenaeeeeeeaaes 73 4 2 12 Fier nine Tan A a en tn ances ni ee 76 4 2 13 Rate Limit sh nent na Men ee note 78 42714 Storm CONtrol 2228 ths ar e th coke tn ne ET tt At R o aa aee aaas 79 422 10 SNMP iaa berne M duree duels idee ute litre tentes 81 4 3 MONO aeaiee ten nine entendeur nette lb nettes 83 4531 StatistiGS OVErVIGW meierier td ees thes a ie Manet tte e estate iles ent trust 83 423 2 Detailed Stat StS eaa a aa thts haces a aa a a a a aaa a aaa ea Ea aiast 85 423 3 LACP SAUS e e E E E E E AIREA 88 4 3 4 RSTP STATUS aa E EE E TERA 89 423 9 IGMP Status wicca At Sis Gace Ges anneal Bonde et tr anis 91 4 23 26 PING status a a A AARE EEEE OREA E EE N 92 4 4 Maintenance eee 94 4 4 1 Warm Restart EEEEESEEEEEEEEARESEEEEEEEE EEES n EEEE EEEE 95 4 4 2 Factory Deal o eoa aR A EA iste RETANA cantusts AKERE ER ARTAR 96 4 4 3 Software Upgrade vic nement hein nel and yee 97 4 4 4 Configuration File Transfer 98 4 4 5 Logoul eeii ayeni done rates a tant den net stat dura su Et 99 D MaINtenaCe ss ne ER Sn nn nn a tee hat 100 5 1 Resolving No Link Condition ss 100 DZ GOA EE seas tein mentee et E E a se ee P ca HR eh da An E Ama 100 Appendix A Technical Specifications 101 Appendix B MIB Specification
115. y the target an interface the destination MAC points to A multicast address is identified with a group of network devices or network interfaces In Ethernet a many to many connectivity in the LANs is provided It provides a mean to send a frame to many network devices at a time When all bit of DA is 1s it is a broadcast which means all network device except the sender itself can receive the frame and response Ethernet Frame Format There are two major forms of Ethernet frame type encapsulation and length encapsulation both of which are categorized as four frame formats 802 3 802 2 SNAP 802 3 802 2 Ethernet Il and Netware 802 3 RAW We will introduce the basic Ethernet frame format defined by the IEEE 802 3 standard required for all MAC implementations It contains seven fields explained below PRE SFD DA SA Type Length Data Padbitifany FCS 7 7 6 6 2 46 1500 4 Fig 3 3 Ethernet frame structure Preamble PRE The PRE is 7 byte long with alternating pattern of ones and zeros used to tell the receiving node that a frame is coming and to synchronize the physical receiver with the incoming bit stream The preamble pattern is 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 Start of frame delimiter SFD The SFD is one byte long with alternating pattern of ones and zeros ending with two consecutive 1 bits It immediately follows the preamble and uses the last two co

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