Page 3 - Contents; Introduction; Getting Started; Operating the Switch; Layer 2 Switching
Contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction Why Read This User Guide? .............................................................................. 5Where To Find More Information ...................................................................... 6Technical support ............................................
Page 4 - Layer 3 Switching; Documentation Roadmap
4 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Port security ............................................................................................. 34 Virtual LANs ...............................................................................................
Page 5 - Chapter 1; Why Read This User Guide?
Introduction 5 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Chapter 1 Introduction Welcome to the Rapier Series Layer 3 Gigabit switch, combining wire speed Layer 2 and Layer 3 IP switching, with a powerful multiprotocol routing software suite. Why Read This User Guide? This User Guide de...
Page 6 - Where To Find More Information; Technical support
6 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Where To Find More Information Before installing the switch and any expansion options, read the important safety information in the Safety and Statutory Information booklet. Follow the Quick Install Guides step-by-st...
Page 7 - What Can the Rapier Switch Do?; Switching Features
Introduction 7 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A What Can the Rapier Switch Do? The Rapier switch software support for the Rapier Series switches and their expansion options provides wirespeed Layer 2 switching, including support for Virtual LANs, wirespeed Layer 3 IP switching...
Page 8 - Routing Features
8 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Routing Features In addition to Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching, the Rapier switch provides a wide array of multiprotocol routing, security and network management features. IP routing is performed at wire-speed. Other ...
Page 9 - Advanced Feature Licence AT-RPFL3Upgrade
Introduction 9 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A ■ Telnet client and server. ■ A sophisticated and configurable event logging facility for monitoring and alarm notification to single or multiple management centres. ■ Triggers for automatic and timed execution of commands in res...
Page 10 - Optional Features
10 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Optional Features Some additional features in the switch software may require special feature licences and passwords. ■ SecureShell Remote Management ■ Nemesis stateful inspection firewall ■ Firewall SMTP Applicatio...
Page 11 - Chapter 2; Simple Switching; Command Line Interface
Getting Started 11 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Chapter 2 Getting Started The Rapier switch is supplied with default settings which allow it to operate immediately as a switch, without any configuration. Even if this is all you want to use the switch for, you should still ...
Page 12 - Logging In; Giving the Switch an IP Address; Entering Commands
12 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Logging In A user accessing the switch from a terminal or PC connected to the front panel RS-232 terminal port (asyn0), or via a Telnet connection, must enter a login name and password to gain access to the command ...
Page 13 - Enabling the GUI
Getting Started 13 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Enabling the GUI To enable the GUI, an IP address must be assigned to a switch interface, and the GUI must be enabled, using the CLI. Use the command: ENABLE GUI Manager account privileges are required to enable the switch GU...
Page 14 - Graphical User Interface; Starting the GUI
14 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Passwords must be ordered from your local distributor or reseller. You must specify the special features to be licenced and the serial number(s) of the switch(s) on which the special feature licences are to be enabl...
Page 15 - Navigating
Getting Started 15 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Figure 2: Rapier 24 Welcome page ■ Save this page as a bookmark in your web browser, so that you can easily find it again. Navigating While using the Rapier GUI, use the buttons on the pages to navigate, not the browser ’s Ba...
Page 16 - Monitoring; Exiting
16 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Monitoring In the Monitoring page, select the kind of monitoring you want to display. A pop-up display page locks the base page from which it was opened. Click OK to close the pop-up window and return to its base wi...
Page 17 - Chapter 3; User Privileges; File Subsystem
Operating the Switch 17 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Chapter 3 Operating the Switch This chapter introduces general operation, management and support features, including user authentication, loading and installing support files, and SNMP MIBs. For more information see Chap...
Page 18 - Online CLI Help
18 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Figure 3: Example output from the SHOW FILE command. The Locks field indicates the number of concurrent processes using the file. The switch automatically compacts FLASH memory when a maximum threshold of deleted fi...
Page 19 - Saving Configuration Entered with the GUI
Operating the Switch 19 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Figure 4: Example of output from the SHOW SYSTEM command Configuration Scripts At boot the switch executes the commands in the boot script to configure the switch. A boot script is a sequence of standard commands that th...
Page 20 - Saving Configuration Entered with the CLI
20 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Saving Configuration Entered with the CLI Subsequent commands entered from the command line or executed from a script affect only the dynamic configuration in memory, which is not retained over a power cycle. Change...
Page 21 - Install Information
Operating the Switch 21 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Install Information The INSTALL module is responsible for maintaining install information and loading the correct install at boot. A release is a binary file containing the code executed by the switches CPU. There may al...
Page 23 - Releases and Patches into the Switch
Operating the Switch 23 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Releases and Patches into the Switch The LOADER module is responsible for loading and storing releases, patches and other files into FLASH. The LOADER module uses the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), Hypertext Tran...
Page 24 - Example: Install Software Upgrade for Rapier Switch; To install a compressed release:
24 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A set to the factory default, which has no value set for HTTPPROXY, clearing any value previously set as default. The METHOD parameter specifies the method to use when downloading the file. If HTTP is specified, HTTP ...
Page 25 - SNMP and MIBs
Operating the Switch 25 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A where proxy-address is the fully qualified domain name (e.g. proxy.mycompany.com) or IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.1) of the proxy server, and proxy-port is the port number of the proxy port on the proxy server. If access f...
Page 27 - Chapter 4; Switch Ports; Enabling and Disabling Switch Ports
Layer 2 Switching 27 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Chapter 4 Layer 2 Switching This section describes the Layer 2 switching features on the Rapier switch, and how to configure them. Switch Ports Each Ethernet switch port is uniquely identified by a port number. The switch s...
Page 29 - Autonegotiation of Port Speed and Duplex Mode
Layer 2 Switching 29 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Autonegotiation of Port Speed and Duplex Mode Each of the switch ports can operate at either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps, in either full duplex or half duplex mode. In full duplex mode a port can transmit and receive data simultane...
Page 30 - Port Trunking
30 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A which speed and mode to use. Autonegotiation allows the ports to adjust their speed and duplex mode to accommodate the devices connected to them. Each switch port can be either configured with a fixed speed and dupl...
Page 32 - Packet Storm Protection
32 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Packet Storm Protection The packet storm protection feature allows the user to set limits on the reception rate of broadcast, multicast and destination lookup failure packets. The software allows separate limits to ...
Page 33 - Port Mirroring
Layer 2 Switching 33 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A If the value NONE or 0 is specified, then packet rate limiting for multicast packets is turned off. If any other value is specified, the reception of multicast packets will be limited to that number of packets per second. S...
Page 34 - Port security
34 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Mirroring four or more ports may significantly reduce switch performance. The MIRROR parameter specifies the role of these port(s) as a source of mirror traffic. If NONE is specified, no traffic received or sent on ...
Page 35 - Virtual LANs
Layer 2 Switching 35 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A discarded. If TRAP is specified, packets received from MAC addresses not on the port’s learn list will be discarded and an SNMP trap will be generated. If DISABLE is specified, the first time a packet is received from a MAC...
Page 37 - Static and dynamic VLANs; Creating VLANs Without VLAN Tags
Layer 2 Switching 37 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Static and dynamic VLANs All VLANs created by the user on the command line are static VLANs. The default VLAN is also a static VLAN. Dynamic VLANs are created by GVRP, a GARP application whose purpose is to propagate VLAN i...
Page 40 - VLAN Tagging
40 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A There are some disadvantages to using VLANs with untagged ports only: ■ It is difficult to share network resources, such as servers and printers, across several VLANs. The routing functions in the switch must be con...
Page 42 - Summary of VLAN Tagging Rules
42 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Figure 11: Tagged VLANs To display the VLANs configured on the switch, use the command: SHOW VLAN[={ vlanname |1..4094|ALL}] Summary of VLAN Tagging Rules When designing a VLAN and adding ports to VLANs, the followi...
Page 43 - The Ingress Rules
Layer 2 Switching 43 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Generic VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) The GARP application GVRP allows routers in a network to dynamically share VLAN membership information, to reduce the need for statically configuring all VLAN membership changes on ...
Page 44 - The Learning Process
44 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A whether or not they are VLAN tagged. The parameters for each port’s Ingress Rules can be configured using the command: SET SWITCH PORT={ port-list |ALL} [ACCEPTABLE={VLAN|ALL}] [INFILTERING={ON|OFF}] [ other-paramet...
Page 45 - The Forwarding Process
Layer 2 Switching 45 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A ENABLE SWITCH LEARNING If the ageing timer for an entry in the Forwarding Database expires before another frame with the same source address is received, the entry is removed from the Forwarding Database. This prevents the ...
Page 46 - Layer 2 Filtering
46 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A This whole process can further be modified by the action of static switch filters. These are configurable filters which allow switched frames to be checked against a number of entries. The Forwarding Process provide...
Page 47 - The Egress Rules
Layer 2 Switching 47 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A For each VLAN, the destination MAC address of a frame to be forwarded is checked against the Forwarding Database. If there is no entry for the destination address and VLAN, the frame is transmitted on all ports in the VLAN ...
Page 48 - Quality of Service
48 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Quality of Service The switch hardware has a number of Quality of Service (QOS) egress queues that can be used to give priority to the transmission of some frames over other frames on the basis of their user priorit...
Page 49 - Spanning Tree Port States
Layer 2 Switching 49 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) makes it possible to automatically disable redundant paths in a network to avoid loops, and enable them when a fault in the network means they are needed to keep...
Page 50 - Configuring STP
50 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A To display the STP state of the switch ports (Figure 15 on page 54), use the command: SHOW STP PORT= port-list A Rapier switch in default LAN configuration has a default Spanning Tree enabled, spanning only a single...
Page 56 - Interfaces to Layer 3 Protocols
56 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A If necessary, all the STP configuration that users have created on the switch can be removed, so that all STPs except the default STP are destroyed, and all other defaults are restored, using the command: PURGE STP ...
Page 58 - Triggers; Event; Description; Parameters
58 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Triggers The Trigger Facility can be used to automatically run specified command scripts when particular triggers are activated. When a trigger is activated by an event, global parameters and parameters specific to ...
Page 61 - Chapter 5
Layer 3 Switching 61 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Chapter 5 Layer 3 Switching The Rapier switch provides Layer 3 switching and routing over VLANs. Once a VLAN has been created (see “Virtual LANs” on page 35), the VLAN name can be used wherever a logical interface is requir...
Page 62 - IP Multicasting
62 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A Figure 18: Example output from the SHOW IP INTERFACE command. IP Multicasting Static multicast forwarding can be configured using the ADD IP INTERFACE or SET IP INTERFACE commands. Full multicast functionality requi...
Page 63 - Novell IPX
Layer 3 Switching 63 Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1C613-02013-00 Rev A Novell IPX The advanced feature licence AT-RPFL3Upgrade is required for this feature. The switch’s implementation of the Novell IPX protocol uses the term circuit to refer to a logical connection over an interface , similar...
Page 64 - AppleTalk
64 Rapier Switch User Guide Rapier Switch Software Release 2.2.1 C613-02013-00 Rev A AppleTalk The advanced feature licence AT-RPFL3Upgrade is required for this feature. To create an AppleTalk port (interface) associated with the admin VLAN, use the command: ADD APPLE PORT INTERFACE= vlan11 The comm...
