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GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 9 List of Figures Figure 1. GigaX L3 managed switch package contents ................ 15 Figure 2. Front panel ..................................................................... 16 Figure 3. Rear panel.........................................................

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 11 Figure 55. Removing the fan module ............................................ 121 Figure 56. Detaching the fan from the module .............................. 122 List of Tables Table 1. Front panel labels and LEDs...........................................

12 1 Introduction Congratulations on becoming the owner of the ASUS GigaX L3 managed switch! You may now manage your LAN (local area network) through a friendly and powerful user interface. This user guide tells you how to set up the GigaX L3 managed switch, and how to customize its configuration to...

14 1.2 Conventions used in this document 1.2.1 Notations • Acronyms are defined the first time they appear in text and in the glossary. • For brevity, the GigaX switch is referred to as “the switch.” • The terms LAN and network are used interchangeably to refer to a group of Ethernet-connected compu...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 15 2 Getting to know the GigaX 2.1 Package contents The GigaX switch package comes with the following items: • 24-port L3 managed switch • AC Power cord • Null modem cable for console interface (DB9) • Rack installation kit (two brackets with six #6-32 screw...

16 2.2 Front Panel The front panel includes LED indicators that show the system, RPS, fan, and port status. Figure 2. Front panel

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 17 Table 1. Front panel labels and LEDs Label Color Status Description On Unit is powered on Green Flashing Self-test, INIT, or downloading Amber On Abnormal temperature or voltage SYSTEM Off No power Green On The PSU is working properly and the switch has a...

18 2.3 Rear Panel The switch rear panel contains the ports for the data and power connections. Figure 3. Rear panel Table 2. Rear panel labels No. Label Description 1 Power Connector Connects to the supplied power cord 2 RPS Redundant Power Supply connector 3 FAN1 – FAN2 Replaceable system fans 2.4 ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 19 3 Quick start guide This section provides the basic instructions to set up the GigaX environment. Refer also to the GigaX Series Installation Guide. Part 1 shows you how to install the GigaX on a flat surface or on a rack. Part 2 provides instructions to ...

20 3.2 Part 2 — Setting up the switch Connect the device to the power outlet, and your computer or network. See Figure 4. 3.2.1 Connect the console port For console management, use an RS232 (DB9) or a USB cable to connect the switch. If you want to use WEB interface, connect your PC to the switch us...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 21 Figure 4. Overview of Hardware Connections Console Management Expansion hub/switch LAN computers RPS RS-232 USB Cat 5 Ethernet cables

22 Table 4. LED Indicators No. LED Description 1 System Solid green indicates that the device is turned on. If this light is off, check if the power adapter if attached to the switch and plugged into a power source. 2 Switch ports [1] to [26] Solid green indicates that the device can communicate wit...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 25 3.3.2 Setting up through the Web interface To successfully connect your PC to the switch, your PC must a valid IP in your network. Contact your network administrator to obtain a valid IP for the switch. If you wish to change the default IP address of the ...

26 Enter your user name and password, and then click to enter the Configuration Manager. Use the following defaults the first time you log into this interface: Default User Name: admin Default Password: (no password) You can change the password at any time (see section 5.3.1 System Commands). 3. To ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 27 4 Management with the Web Interface The switch provides Web pages that allow switch management through the Internet. The program is designed to work best with Microsoft Internet Explorer® 5.5, or later versions. NOTE: Netscape is not supported. 4.1 Log in...

28 The home page appears each time you log into the program. (See Figure 9.) Figure 9. Home page 4.2 Functional layout Typical web page consists of three separate frames. The top frame has a switch logo and front panel as shown in Figures 10. This frame remains on the top of the browser window all t...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 29 Figure 10. Top Frame Table 5. Port color description Port Color Description Green port Ethernet link is established Black No Ethernet link Amber port Link is present but port is disabled manually or by spanning tree Clicking on the port icon of the switch...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 31 The above frame displays configuration pages or graphics for the statistics. See section 4.3 for details. 4.2.1 Menu navigation tips • To expand a group of related menus, click on the corresponding group name. The sign will change to after expansion. • To...

32 4.3 System Pages System pages include management, IP setup, administration, reboot, and firmware update function. 4.3.1 Management The Management page contains the following information: Model Name: product name MAC Address: switch MAC address System Name: user assigned name to identify the syste...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 33 4.3.2 IP Setup The switch supports only static IP assignment. The IP Setup page contains the following editable information: VLAN ID: Specify a VLAN ID to system management interface. It is necessary to be within the same VLAN for management usages. IP Ad...

34 4.3.3 Administration The Administration page allows you enable or disable the authentication for web user by password protection . The default setting for web access does not require any authentication. To save any changes and make it effective immediately, click . Use to refresh the setting, as ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 35 4.3.5 Firmware Upgrade The Firmware page contains the following information: Hardware Version: shows the hardware revision number. Boot ROM Version: shows the version of the boot code Firmware Version: shows the current running firmware version. This numb...

36 4.4 Physical Interface The Physical Interface displays the Ethernet port status in real time. You can configure the port in following fields: Port: select the port to configure Admin: disable/enable the port Mode: set the speed and duplex mode Flow Control: enable/disable 802.3x flow control mech...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 37 Figure 16. Physical Interface

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 39 Select the corresponding interface and configure the interface parameters. To save any changes and make it effective immediately, click . Use to refresh the setting. The field you changed will update the content in the display window. By default, Layer 3 ...

40 4.5.2 Static Route Static routing is the simplest form of network routing. It makes available to a switch/router to forward packets from predetermined ports through a predictable path into and out of a network. Static routing is solid, but does not address to the fluctuation in the network, there...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 41 Figure 18. Static Route 4.5.3 RIP The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is documented in RFC 1058 , RFC 1388 and RFC 1723 . In short, RIP is a distance-vector routing protocol that exchange routing information using UDP packets. RIP configuration include...

42 By default, RIP process is disabled and two of RIP Versions are assigned for the switch. All Layer 3 interfaces are classified as RIP enabled interfaces. Once the RIP process has been enabled, the current state of the active process will be displayed. You can click to refresh the updated status. ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 43 4.6.1 Spanning Tree/Rapid Spanning Tree The configuration page for Spanning Tree Protocol can disable and enable the feature in runtime. This page consists of three parts. The first part shows the root information. It tells user the STP setting about the ...

44 Point to Point: Auto/Yes/No. A full duplex link is considered as a point to point link. Otherwise, it is a shared link. Point to point link may have less convergence time. Auto is recommended in most cases. Click to effect the settings. Click to refresh the settings to the current value. Figure 2...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 45 Port Selection Criterion: the algorithm to distribute packets among the ports of the link aggregation group according to source MAC address, destination MAC address, source and destination MAC address, source IP address, destination IP address, or source ...

46 aggregation could operate abnormally. • All the ports in the link aggregation group MUST have the same VLAN setting. • All the ports in the link aggregation group are treated as a single logical link. That is, if any member changes an attribute, the others will change too. For example, a trunk gr...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 47 Monitor Port: Receives the copies of all the traffics in the selected mirrored ports. GigaX 3024X has only one monitor port. The port can monitor 24 Fast Ethernet ports and two Gigabit ports. The monitor port can not belong to any link aggregation group. ...

48 4.6.4 Static Multicast This page can add multicast addresses into the multicast table. The switch can hold up to 256 multicast entries. All the ports in the group will forward the specified multicast packets to other ports in the group. Show Group: selects “Add a new Group” to enter a new entry. ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 49 Figure 24. IGMP Snooping 4.6.6 Traffic Control Traffic control prevents the switch bandwidth from flooding packets including broadcast packets, multicast packets and the unicast packets because of destination address lookup failure. The limit number is a ...

50 Figure 25. Traffic Control 4.6.7 Dynamic Addresses This page displays the result of dynamic MAC address lookup by port, VLAN ID, or specified MAC address. The dynamic address is the MAC address learned by switch, it will age out from the address table if the address is not learned again during th...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 51 Figure 26. Dynamic Address

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 53 Figure 27. Static Address 4.6.9 Tagged VLAN You can set up to 255 VLAN groups and show VLAN group in this page. There is a default VLAN created by the switch. It cannot be removed at all. This feature prevents the switch from malfunctions. You can remove ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 55 4.6.10 Default Port VLAN and CoS Some VLAN tag related field settings for each port are included in this page. It includes: Port: select the port to configure PVID: port-based VLAN ID. Every untagged packet received from this port will be tagged with this...

56 4.6.11 CoS Queue Mapping The switch supports 4 egress queues for each port with a strict priority schedule. That is, each CoS value can map into one of the four queues. The queue 4 has the highest priority to transmit the packets. Click to save the configuration. To make the configuration effecti...

58 4.7 SNMP This group offers the SNMP configuration including Community Table, Host Table, and Trap Setting. To provide more secure management and access control, SNMPv3 is supported. 4.7.1 Community Table You can type different community names and specify whether the community has the privilege to...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 59 4.7.2 Host Table This page links host IP address to the community name that is entered in Community Table page. Type an IP address and select the community name from the drop-down list. Click to save the configuration permanently or to refresh the page. F...

60 4.7.3 Trap Setting By setting trap destination IP addresses and community names, you can enable SNMP trap function to send trap packets in different versions (v1 or v2c). Click to save the configuration permanently or to refresh the page. Figure 34. Trap Setting 4.7.4 VACM Group VACM (View-based ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 61 Security level: enter the Security level Name that the Group belongs. Only NoAuth, AuthNopriv, AuthPriv can be chosen. Click on the when you create a new VACM group entry by the above information. Then you will see the new added entry shows in the group w...

62 View Name: enter the security group name. View Type: enter the View Type that the View belongs. Included or Excluded when View Subtree matches the Oid in the SNMPv3 message. View Subtree: enter the View Subtree that the View belongs. The Subtree is the Oid to match the Oid in the SNMPv3 message. ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 63 4.7.6 USM User USM (User-based Security Model) User is used to configure the information of SNMPV3 USM User. Engine Id: enter the Engine Id that should match the ID in the Manager. Name: enter Name combined with Engine ID that should match the Name and En...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 65 4.8 Filters The switch can filter certain traffic types according to packet header information from Layer 2 to Layer 4. Each filter set includes a couple of rules. You have to attach the filter set to certain ports to make the filter work. 4.8.1 Filter Se...

66 Figure 38. Filter Set The Filter Rule page provides options for rule modes, one is MAC rule (Figure 39) and the other is IP rule (Figure 40). If you did not enter the MAC address in the blank box, it means the rule doesn’t care the MAC value. In IP rule setup, you can enter any of the 5 types, so...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 67 Figure 39. Filter Rule in MAC mode Figure 40. Filter Rule in IP mode

68 4.8.2 Filter Attach A filter set is idle if you did not attach it to any ingress or egress port. Use the Filter Attach page to attach a filter set to ingress and egress ports. Click to save the configuration. To make the configuration effective, go to the “Save Configuration” page, then click , o...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 69 Figure 41. Filter Attach

70 4.9 Security The switch has the 802.1x port-based security feature. Only authorized hosts are allowed to access the switch port. Traffic is blocked for hosts failed to authenticate themselves. The authentication service is provided by a RADIUS server or the local database in the switch. The switc...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 71 • Multi-host: If enabled, ALL hosts connected to the selected port are allowed to use the port if ONE of the hosts passed the authentication. If disabled, only ONE host among other hosts passed the authentication is allowed to use the port. • Authenticati...

74 4.10 Statistics Chart The Statistics Chart pages provide network flow in different charts. You can specify the period time to refresh the chart. You can monitor the network traffic amount in different graphic chart by these pages. Most MIB-II counters are displayed in these charts. Click Refresh ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 75 Figure 45. Traffic comparison 4.10.2 Error Group Selecting the Port and display Color , then clicking Draw , the statistics window shows you all the discards or error counts for the specified port. The data is updated periodically. Figure 46. Error group ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 77 4.11 Save Configuration To save configuration permanently, you have to click . The setting also takes effective after a successful save. Sometimes you may want to reset the switch configuration, you can click on to reset the configuration file to factory ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 79 5.1 Power On Self Test POST is executing during the system booting time. It tests system memory, LED and hardware chips on the switchboard. It displays system information as the result of system test and initialization. You can ignore the information unti...

80 5.1.1 Boot ROM Command Mode During the POST process, you can enter a “ Boot ROM Command ” mode by pressing <ENTER> key as shown in Figure 50. Figure 50 shows dual images in the switch. One firmware is in Slot 0 and the other firmware is in Slot 1. The later version will be selected to boot ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 81 5.1.2 Boot ROM Commands Type “?” in the boot mode to display the valid commands list. Table 7. Boot ROM commands Command Parameters Usage Notes d Address [,length] Dump memory contents by giving address and length. p NONE Display current boot parameters g...

82 5.2 Login and Logout By typing “ login ” to enter the CLI mode, you have to give a valid user name and password. As the first time login, you can enter “ admin ” as the user name and bypass the password. For security reason, please change the user name and password after login. Once you forget th...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 83 [System Contact] Displays the detail information of contact about the switch. This is an RFC-1213 defined MIB object in System Group, and provides contact information on the managed node. CLI command : sys info contact <system contact description> I...

84 [VLAN ID] Displays the VLAN ID for the switch. It is necessary to be within the same VLAN for management usages. CLI command: l3 interface vlan sw0 <VLAN ID> [IP Address] Displays the static IP address for the switch. This IP address is used for manageable purpose, i.e. network applications...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 85 password (old password, no password by default): <new password> [Reboot] User can reboot the switch by issuing the reboot command. CLI command : sys reboot [Upload] No CLI command for this function. Refer to Boot ROM commands for this function. 5.3....

88 [RIP-disabled interfaces] You can specify an L3 interface as RIP-disabled interface if you do not want this interface to deal with any RIP message, either incoming or outgoing. CLI command : l3 rip interface remove <interface name/* for all> 5.3.4 Bridge Commands [Spanning Tree is] [ STP En...

90 6: select port by source and destination IP CLI command: l2 trunk create <trunk id> <rtag (1-6)> <trunk name> <lacp (enable/disable)> <port list> [Add/Remove Trunk] Trunk group port members can be added to or removed from an existing trunk group. CLI command : l2 tru...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 93 [Aging Time] User can set the ARL(Address Resolution Logic) entries aging time by setting the aging time value. CLI command : l2 arl age [aging time value] [Query by Port] ARL entries existed in ARL table can be queried according to port number. CLI comma...

96 [Add/Remove Trusted Port] Allows user to add or remove specific ports for DHCP snooping. CLI command : l2 dhcpsnoop add <port list> CLI command : l2 dhcpsnoop remove <port list> [Retrieve] Restores the previous saved settings from configuration file. CLI command : l2 dhcpsnoop retriev...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 97 CLI command : snmp community delete Allows user to delete a community entry from community table. Community entry (table index): <entry id to delete> This action will delete all hosts in community string with ' delete community '. Are you sure? (y/n...

98 Entry id (table index): <entry id to delete> [Retrieve] Restores the previous saved settings from configuration file. CLI command : snmp host retrieve [Trap Version] [v1/v2c] [Destination] [Community for Trap] A trap entry contains SNMP version (currently support version 1 and version 2c), ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 103 5.3.5 Filters Commands [New] Creates a new filter set with specifying a unique ACL ID and its description name. CLI command : filter set new <acl id> <acl name> [Remove] User can delete a filter set by indicating the ACL ID. CLI command : fil...

104 [Rule Mode] [IP Rule] [Action] [Permit/Deny] [Source IP] [Type/IP, Mask] [Destination IP] [Type/IP, Mask] [Source Port] [Type/Port] [Destination Port] [Type/Port] [Protocol] [ICMP/TCP/UDP/ANY] [Add] User can add a new IP rule associated to a filter set. These filter rule works with ICMP, TCP or ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 105 CLI command : filter rule modify <set id> <rule id> <protocol: ICMP/TCP/UDP/any> <action: permit/deny> CLI command : filter rule dstmac <set id> <rule id> <type: (any/[mac address])> CLI command : filter rule src...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 111 [Show Generating Status] Show the SSH key generating status. It will display “success” or “SSH keys generated fail” or “system is generating keys ...”. CLI command : security sshkey show

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 113 6 IP Addresses, Network Masks, and Subnets 6.1 IP Addresses This section pertains only to IP addresses for IPv4 (version 4 of the Internet Protocol). IPv6 addresses are not covered. This section assumes basic knowledge of binary numbers, bits, and bytes....

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 115 6.1.2 Network classes The three commonly used network classes are A, B, and C. (There is also a class D but it has a special use beyond the scope of this discussion.) These classes have different uses and characteristics. Class A networks are the Interne...

116 6.2 Subnet masks A mask looks like a regular IP address, but contains a pattern of bits that tells what parts of an IP address are the network ID and what parts are the host ID: bits set to 1 mean "this bit is part of the network ID" and bits set to 0 mean "this bit is part of the ho...

118 7 Troubleshooting This section gives instructions for using several IP utilities to diagnose problems. A list of possible problems with suggestion actions is also provided. All the known bugs are listed in the release note. Read the release note before you set up the switch. Contact Customer Sup...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 119 Figure 52. Using the ping utility If the target computer cannot be located, you will receive the message “Request timed out.” Using the ping command, you can test whether the path to the switch is working (using the pre-configured default LAN IP address ...

120 7.1.2 nslookup You can use the nslookup command to determine the IP address associated with an Internet site name. You specify the common name, and the nslookup command looks up the name on your DNS server (usually located with your ISP). If that name is not an entry in your ISP’s DNS table, the...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 121 7.2 Replacing defective fans Turn off the power of the switch when you remove the fan module on the rear side of the switch. When any one of the switch fans (located on the rear panel) becomes defective, you can easily replace it following these steps. 1...

122 3. Carefully pull the two power cables from the fan connectors. 4. Loosen the screws that secure the fan to the module. Remove the defective fan. Figure 56. Detaching the fan from the module 5. Fasten the new fan with the screws that you removed earlier. Make sure that the fan cable is near the ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 123 7.3 Simple fixes The following table lists some common problems that you may encounter when installing or using the switch, and the suggested actions to solve the problems. Table 9. Troubleshooting Problem Suggested Action LEDs SYSTEM LED does not light ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 125 8 Glossary 10BASE-T A designation for the type of wiring used by Ethernet networks with a data rate of 10 Mbps. Also known as Category 3 (CAT 3) wiring. See also data rate, Ethernet . 100BASE-T A designation for the type of wiring used by Ethernet networ...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 131 STP Spanning Tree Protocol The bridge protocol to avoid packet looping in a complicate network. subnet A subnet is a portion of a network. The subnet is distinguished from the larger network by a subnet mask which selects some of the computers of the net...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 133 Web browser A software program that uses Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to download information from (and upload to) web sites, and displays the information, which may consist of text, graphic images, audio, or video, to the user. Web browsers use H...

134 9 Index 100BASE-T, 136 10BASE-T, 136 Administration page, 39 Attach page, 77 Binary numbers, 136 Bits, 136 Boot Rom Command Mode, 90 Boot Rom Commmands, 91 Bridge Commands, 96 Bridge page, 47 Broadcast, 137 CLI Commands, 92 Community Commands, 106 Community Table page, 67 Configuration Manager t...

GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 137 Trap Setting page, 69 Troubleshooting, 128 Trunk, 143 Trunk Commands, 97 TTL, 143 Twisted pair, 143 Upstream, 144 Username default, 28, 31 WAN, 144 Web browser, 144 Web function layout, 33 Web Interface, 27 Web page, 144 Web site, 144 Web top frame, 33 W...