Page 2 - Trademarks Used in this Manual; Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 2 Trademarks Used in this Manual We‘re here to help! If you have any questions about your application or our products, contact Black Box Tech Support at 724-746-5500 or go to blackbox.com and click on “Talk to Black Box.” You’ll be live with one of our technical expe...
Page 3 - FCC and IC RFI Statements; Statements
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 3 FCC and IC RFI Statements Federal Communications Commission and Industry Canada Radio Frequency Interference Statements This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio-frequency energy, and if not installed and used properly, that is, in strict accordance wit...
Page 4 - NOM Statement; Todas las instrucciones de operación y uso deben ser seguidas.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 4 NOM Statement Instrucciones de Seguridad(Normas Oficiales Mexicanas Electrical Safety Statement) 1. Todas las instrucciones de seguridad y operación deberán ser leídas antes de que el aparato eléctrico sea operado. 2. Las instrucciones de seguridad y operación debe...
Page 5 - Table of Contents
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 5 Table of Contents Table of Contents 1. Specifications ......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 1.1 General ..............................
Page 7 - Chapter 1: Specifications
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 7 Chapter 1: Specifications 1. Specifications 1.1 General Aging — Auto-aging with programmable inter-age time Auto-Negotiation — Supports auto-negotiation for configuring speed and duplex mode Blocking Prevention — Supports Head of Line (HOL) blocking prevention Buff...
Page 8 - auto detection function; Management Software Specifications; Supports by-port Egress/Ingress rate control
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 8 Chapter 1: Specifications VLAN — Supports Port-based VLAN and Tag-based (IEEE 802.1Q) VLAN Connectors — LGB2118A: (16) 10-/100-/1000-Mbps Gigabit Ethernet (TP) switching ports, (2) Gigabit SFP fiber module ports; LGB2124A: (20) 10-/100-/1000-Mbps Gigabit Ethernet (...
Page 9 - media autosensing ports.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 9 Chapter 2: Overview 2. Overview 2.1 Introduction The Gigabit Smart Switch Eco Fanless is a standard switch that meets all IEEE 802.3/u/x/z Gigabit and Fast Ethernet specifications. The LGB2118A switch has (16) 10-/100-/1000-Mbps TP ports and (2) Gigabit SFP fiber t...
Page 11 - Hardware Description
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 11 Chapter 2: Overview 2.4 Hardware Description 2.4.1 18-Port Gigabit Smart Switch Eco Fanless (LGB2118A) Figures 2-1 ad 2-2 show the front and back panels of the switch. Table 2-2 describes its components. Table 2-3 describes the LEDs in detail. 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 Fi...
Page 15 - Chapter 3: Installation; Starting Up the Switch; TP Port and Cable Installation
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 15 Chapter 3: Installation 3. Installation 3.1 Starting Up the Switch This section will give users a quick start for: • Hardware and cable installation. • Management station installation. • Software booting and configuration. 3.1.1 Hardware and Cable Installation CAU...
Page 16 - The switch is ready to operate.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 16 Chapter 3: Installation Connect CAT5 grade RJ-45 TP cable to a TP port of the switch and connect the other end to a network-aware device such as a workstation or a server. Repeat the above steps, as needed, to connect each RJ-45 port to a Gigabit 10/100/1000 TP de...
Page 17 - Switch Cascading Topology
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 17 Chapter 3: Installation Table 3-1. Fiber supported by the switch. Fiber cable type Multimode Fiber Cable and Modal Bandwidth IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-SX, 850 nm Multimode 62.5- /125-µm Multimode 50- /125-µm Modal Bandwidth Distance Modal Bandwidth Dis...
Page 18 - Typical Network Topology in Deployment
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 18 Chapter 3: Installation Typical Network Topology in Deployment A hierarchical network with minimum levels of switches may reduce the timing delay between the server and the client station. This approach will minimize the number of switches in any one path, lower t...
Page 19 - VLAN 1
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 19 Chapter 3: Installation 3. The switch manager has to assign different names for each VLAN group at one switch. Case 2b: Port-based VLAN (See Figure 3-4). VLAN 1 VLAN 2 VLAN 3 VLAN 4 Figure 3-4. Port-based VLAN diagram. 1. VLAN1 members cannot access VLAN2, VLAN3, ...
Page 20 - 4-Port Gigabit Smart Switch Eco Fanless
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 20 Chapter 3: Installation 3.1.3 Configuring the Management Agent of the Gigabit Smart Switch Eco Fanless Via the Web, the switch can set up the management function. Use any one of them to monitor and configure the switch. Configuring the Management Agent of the Giga...
Page 22 - Please refer to RFC 1597 and RFC 1466 for more information.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 22 Chapter 3: Installation Class B: A Class B IP address ranges between 128.0.0.0 and 191.255.255.255. Each class B network has a 16-bit network prefix followed by a 16-bit host address. There are 16,384 (2 14 )/16 networks able to be defined with a maximum of 65534 ...
Page 24 - Typical Applications; The switch is suitable for the following applications.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 24 Chapter 3: Installation For different network applications, the subnet mask may be 255.255.255.240. It is a small network that accommodates a maximum of 15 nodes in the network. Default gateway: For the routed packet, if the destination is not in the routing table...
Page 27 - Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management; Basic Concepts and Management; Ethernet originated and was implemented at Xerox
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 27 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management 4. Basic Concepts and Management This chapter describes the features used to manage this switch and how they work. 4.1 Ethernet Ethernet originated and was implemented at Xerox ® in Palo Alto, CA in 1973 and was successfull...
Page 29 - For more information about SAP, refer to the IEEE 802.2 standard.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 29 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management Table 4-2. SSAP address field options. OxAAAA SNAP 0xE0E0 Novell ® IPX 0x F0F0 NetBios 0xFEFE IOS network layer PDU 0xFFFF Novell IPX 802.3 RAW packet 0x4242 STP BPDU 0x0606 IP 0x9898 ARP LLC type 1 is a connectionless serv...
Page 30 - Bit
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 30 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management The first three bytes are Organizational Unique Identifier (OUI) codes assigned by IEEE. The last three bytes are the serial number assigned by the vendor of the network device. All six bytes are stored in non-volatile memo...
Page 31 - Frame transmission
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 31 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management • 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 notat...
Page 34 - Collision
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 34 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management 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...
Page 35 - What if VLAN tagging is applied?
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 35 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management What if 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 change slightly. Collision domain 1 Collision ...
Page 37 - Terminology
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 37 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management 4.5 How Does a Switch Work? The LGB2118A switch is a layer 2 Ethernet Switch equipped with (16) TP Gigabit Ethernet ports and (2) slots for optional SFP fiber modules. The LGB2124A switch has (20) TP ports and (4) slots for...
Page 38 - How does a switch operate?
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 38 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management How does a switch operate? A Layer 2 switch uses some features of the Data Link layer in the OSI model to forward the packet to the destination port(s). Here we introduce some important features of switches and how they wor...
Page 41 - Untagged frame: An Ethernet frame carries no VLAN tag information.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 41 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management Figure 4-10. Tag format. VLAN Protocol ID: 8100 is reserved for VLAN-tagged frame. User Priority: 3 bits long. User priority is defined from 7–0. 0 is the lowest priority. CFI: Canonical Format Indicator is 1 bit long. It e...
Page 42 - How does a Tagged VLAN work?
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 42 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management 2. If the VID is not a null VID (VID is not equal to 0), 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 V...
Page 43 - Buy new network equipment with higher throughput, or
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 43 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management Next, the switch assigns an IP address to each VLAN. Usually, we use 10.x.x.x as the internal IP block. Because there are a total of four VLANs in the network, we must assign four IP blocks to each of them. Table 4-8. Netwo...
Page 44 - There are also some constraints when applying LACP:
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 44 Chapter 4: Basic Concepts and Management 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...
Page 45 - Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management; Web Management Home Overview
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 45 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management 5. Operation of Web-based Management This chapter explains how to manage your Gigabit Smart Switch Eco Fanless and how to configure the 10-/100-/1000-Mbps TP Ports and Gigabit SFP Fiber ports on the switch via Web user ...
Page 46 - Page Layout Information
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 46 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management Page Layout Information The top part of the information page, shows the front panel of the switch. Linked ports will be displayed in green, and linked-off ports will be in black. For the optional modules, the slots with...
Page 48 - Parameter description:
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 48 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management Figure 5-4. System Configuration menu. Function name: System Configuration Function description: Show system description, firmware version, hardware version, MAC address, serial number, active IP address, active subnet ...
Page 49 - Lease Time Left: Shows the lease time left for the DHCP client.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 49 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management DHCP Server: Shows the IP address of the DHCP server. The default is 0.0.0.0. Lease Time Left: Shows the lease time left for the DHCP client. Device Name: Set a special name for this switch. Up to 16 characters are allo...
Page 51 - Function name: VLAN Mode Setting
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 51 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management Table 5-2. Media supported. Media Type Auto-negotiation 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, there is no default value. In Forced mo...
Page 53 - All: Forward all tagged and untagged packets.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 53 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management Packet Type: All: Forward all tagged and untagged packets. Tagged Only: Forward tagged packets only and discard untagged packets. PVID: This PVID range will be 1–4094. Before you set a number x as PVID, you have to crea...
Page 56 - Function name: IGMP Snooping Configuration
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 56 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management 5.2.7 IGMP Snooping Function name: IGMP Snooping Configuration Function description: IGMP Snooping lets administrators configure a switch to constrain multicast traffic by listening to Internet Group Management Protocol...
Page 57 - Function name: SNMP Configuration
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 57 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management Figure 5-15. Mirror ports configuration. 5.2.9 SNMP Any Network Management System (NMS) running the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) can manage the managed devices equipped with an SNMP agent, provided that the...
Page 58 - Parameters description:
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 58 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management Figure 5-16. SNMP Configuration. Parameters description: SNMP enable: The term SNMP enable here is used for the activation or deactivation of SNMP. The default is “Disable.” Get/Set/Trap Community: Community name is use...
Page 59 - Function name: Loop Detection Configuration
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 59 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management 5.2.10 Loop Detection Function name: Loop Detection Configuration Function description: The loop detection is used to detect the presence of traffic. When a packet’s looping detection frame is received by the switch and...
Page 60 - Function name: Broadcast Storm Protection configuration
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 60 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management State: Show the status on the port. Protocol Enabled: Controls whether Loop Detection is enabled on this switch port. When a port number is chosen and Loop detection is enabled, the port detects the loop and the port wi...
Page 62 - Function name: QoS Configuration
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 62 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management Unlock port: Tick the checkbox next to the locked port and it will be opened and changed to unlocked. If you don’t tick the port checkbox, it remains locked. 5.2.12 Quality of Service (QoS) Configuration The QoS functio...
Page 63 - Function name: DSCP QoS Mode
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 63 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management Figure 5-20. 802.1p Setting. Function name: DSCP QoS Mode 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). Und...
Page 64 - There are four functions contained in the monitoring function.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 64 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management Figure 5-21. DSCP Setting. 5.3 Monitoring There are four functions contained in the monitoring function. Figure 5-22. Monitoring menu tree. 5.3.1 Statistics Overview Function name: Statistics Overview for all ports Func...
Page 66 - Tx Packets: The counting number of the packet transmitted.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 66 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management 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 pack...
Page 67 - Function name: IGMP Status
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 67 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management 5.3.3 IGMP Status Function name: IGMP Status Function description: Display IGMP status. In Fig. 5-26, the window shows the VLAN ID for each multicast group. Figure 5-25. IGMP Status. Parameter description: VLAN ID: Show...
Page 69 - There are five functions contained in the maintenance function.
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 69 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management 5.4 Maintenance There are five functions contained in the maintenance function. Figure 5-27. Maintenance menu tree. 5.4.1 Warm Restart You can reboot the switch in three ways: power up, hardware reset, and software rese...
Page 70 - Function name: Factory Default
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 70 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management 5.4.2 Factory Default Function name: Factory Default Function description: Factory Default provides the function to retrieve default settings and replace the current configuration. Except for the IP address setting, all...
Page 71 - Function name: Logout
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 71 Chapter 5: Operation of Web-based Management 5.4.5 Logout In addition to the auto logout function we just mentioned in the system configuration section, the switch also allows administrators to logout manually using the Logout function. Function name: Logout Funct...
Page 72 - Chapter 6: Troubleshooting; Resolving a No Link Condition
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 72 Chapter 6: Troubleshooting 6. Troubleshooting 6.1 Resolving a No Link Condition There are four possible causes for a no-link LED status: • The attached device is not powered on. • The cable may not be the correct type or is faulty. • The installed building premise...
Page 73 - Appendix: MIB Specifications
724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 73 Appendix: MIB Specifications Appendix: MIB Specifications A brief description of the MIB II Enterprise MIB brief appears next. For technical support or the latest version of MIB download, contact Black Box Technical Support at 724-746-5500 or [email protected]. PR...
Page 74 - NOTES
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