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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 5 Table of Contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................... 11 1.1 L2 managed features ..................................................... 11 1.2 Conventions used in this document ........................

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 8 List of Figures Figure 1. GigaX L2 managed switch package contents ................ 13 Figure 2. Front panel ..................................................................... 14 Figure 3. Rear panel ........................................................

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 10 List of Tables Table 1. Front panel labels and LEDs .......................................... 15 Table 2. Technical specifications ................................................. 16 Table 3. LED Indicators .................................................

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 11 1 Introduction Congratulations on becoming the owner of the ASUS GigaX L2 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 L2 managed switch,...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide • LEDs for port link status • LEDs system, redundant power supply (RPS), and fan status 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 re...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 2 Getting to know the GigaX 2024X 2.1 Package contents The GigaX 2024X switch package comes with the following items: • GigaX 2024X ( 26-port) L2 managed switch • AC Power cord • Null modem cable for console interface (DB9) • Rack installation kit (two brack...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 2.2 Front Panel The front panel includes LED indicators that show the system, RPS, fan, and port status. Figure 2. Front panel 14

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 15 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...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 2.3 Rear Panel The switch rear panel contains the ports for the data and power connections. Figure 3. Rear panel No. Label Description 1 Power Connector Connects to the supplied power cord 2 RPS Redundant Power Supply connector 3 FAN1 – FAN2 Replaceable syst...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 17 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 ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 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 in...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Console Management RS-232 RPS USB Cat 5 Ethernet cables Expansion hub/switch LAN computers Figure 4. Overview of Hardware Connections 19

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 20 Table 3. 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 i...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 3. Make sure the settings of your terminal emulation software as follows: a) Choose the appropriate serial port number b) Set the data baud rate to 9600 c) Set the data format to no parity, 8 data bits and 1 stop bit d) No flow control e) Set VT1000 for emul...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 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 s...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 7. IP Setup 24

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 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 into ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Use the following defaults the first time you log into the program. You can change the password at any time through CLI interface (see section 5.3.1 ) Default User Name: admin Default Password: <no password> The home page appears each time you log in...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 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 the times and updates the LED status periodically. See ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 11. Expanded Menu List The right frame displays configuration pages or graphics for the statistics. See section 4.3 for details. 28

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 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 contract a group of related menus: click on the corresponding group name. The sign will appear next to the g...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 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:...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 12. Management 31

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 4.3.2 IP Setup The switch supports dynamic IP and static IP assignment. The dynamic IP is get from a DHCP server within the same VLAN. The IP Setup page contains the following editable information: VLAN ID: Specify a VLAN ID to system management interface....

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 13. IP Setup 33

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 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...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.3.4 Reboot The Reboot page contains a button. Clicking the button reboots the system. Rebooting the system stops the network traffic and terminates the Web interface connection. Figure 15. Reboot 4.3.5 Firmware Upgrade The Firmware page contains the follow...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Enter the firmware location into the firmware space directly, or click to choose the file name of the firmware from prompt window. Click to update the switch firmware. See Figure 16 for reference. Clicking the upload button loads the assigned firmware to t...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 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: ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 17. Physical Interface 38

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.5 Bridge The Bridge page group contains most layer 2 configurations, like link aggregation, STP etc.. 4.5.1 Spanning Tree The configuration page for Spanning Tree Protocol can disable and enable the feature in runtime. This page consists of three parts. Th...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Edge Port: All ports are set to be edge ports by default. Edge port becomes STP port when BPDU is received. Also, it takes very short time for an edge port to be in forwarding state. Point to Point: Auto/Yes/No. A full duplex link is considered as a point ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Name: the group name. Trunk ID: a number to identify the trunk group besides the group name. LACP: Enable/Disable LCAP on selected trunk. LACP mode is fixed to be Active. Remove Trunk: Remove the selected trunk. Port Icons: these port icons are listed in a w...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide group consists of port 1 and 2. If the VLAN of port 1 changes, the VLAN of port 2 also changes with port 1. Figure 19. Link aggregation 4.5.3 Mirroring Mirroring, together with a network traffic analyzer, helps you monitor network traffics. You can monitor...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Monitor Port: Receives the copies of all the traffics in the selected mirrored ports. The monitor port can not belong to any link aggregation group. The monitor port can not operate as a normal switch port. It does not switch packets or do address learning. ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 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 ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.5.4 IGMP Snooping IGMP snooping helps to reduce the multicast traffics on the network by allowing the IGMP snooping function to be turned on or off. When turned on, the switch snoops the IGMP packets and puts the new group into the multicast table. However...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 23. Traffic Control 4.5.6 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 t...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 24. Dynamic Address 47

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 25. Static Address 4.5.8 Tagged VLAN You can set up to 256 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 any...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide If one untagged port belongs to two or more VLAN groups at the same time, it will confuse the switch and cause flooding traffics. To prevent it, the switch only allows one untagged port belongs to one VLAN at the same time. That is, the untagged port belon...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 26. Tagged VLAN 51

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 4.5.9 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 V...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 28. Cos Queue Mapping 54

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.6 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. 4.6.1 Community Table You can type different community names and specify whe...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 4.6.2 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. Fi...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.6.3 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 31. Trap Sett...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 32. VACM Group 4.6.5 VACM View VACM (View-based Access Control Model) View is used to view the information of SNMPV3 VACM Group . View Name: enter the security group name. View Type: select the View Type that the View belongs. Included or Excluded whe...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Click on the when you create a new VACM View entry by the above information. Then you will see the new added entry shows in the view window. You can remove the existed views by selecting the entry with the mouse, then clicking on . The button updates the e...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.7 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 ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 67 4.8 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 ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 38. Traffic comparison 4.8.2 Error Group Select the Port and display Color , then click the Draw , the statistics window shows you all the discards or error counts for the specified port. The data is updated periodically. 68

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 39. Error group 4.8.3 Historical Status You can display information for different ports and statistics items in this chart. Since this shows the history of the statistics information, the chart can keep the old data even it is refreshed. 69

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 40. Historical Status 70

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.9 Save Configuration To save configuration permanently, you should 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 defau...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 72 5 Console Interface This chapter describes how to use console interface to configure the switch. The switch provides RS232 and USB connectors to connect your PC. Use a terminal emulator on your PC such as HyperTerminal and command line interpreter to co...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 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 until t...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 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 43. Figure 43 shows dual images in the switch. Enter the “?” key to show the help messages for all available com...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 75 5.1.2 Boot ROM Commands Type “?” in the boot mode to display the valid commands list. Table 6. Boot ROM commands Command Parameters Usage Notes c IP address Configure TFTP client IP address g NONE Load and execute firmware h NONE Display online help m mas...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 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...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 77 If you put a name in the name description field, the switch system name will be changed into the new one. [System Contact] Displays the detail information of contact about the switch. This is an RFC-1213 defined MIB object in System Group, and provides co...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 44. SYS commands [VLAN ID] Display the VLAN ID for the switch. It is necessary to be within the same VLAN for management . CLI command: net interface vlan sw0 <VLAN ID> [ DHCP Client ] Enable DHCP to get a dynamic IP address, or disable DHCP t...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 79 [Network Mask] Displays the subnet mask for the switch. CLI command: net interface ip sw0 < IP address> <netmask> [Default Gateway] Displays the IP address of the default gateway. This field is necessary if the switch network contains one or m...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 80 5.3.2 Physical Interface Commands [Admin] [Enable/Disable] Displays the port admin status and allows user to turn the port on or off. CLI command : l2 port admin <port number> <enable/disable> [Mode] [Auto/10M-Half/10M-Full/100M-Half/100M-Fu...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 81 [Hello Time] [Forward Delay] [Max Age] [Bridge Priority] Displays the current STP/RSTP bridge parameters setting. CLI command : l2 stp bridge set Hello Time (1..10 seconds):[ old Hello Time ] <new Hello Time> Max Age (6..40 seconds):[ old Max Age ] ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 83 CLI command : l2 port lacppri <priority> <port list / * for all ports> [Reload] Restores the previous saved settings of trunk from configuration file. CLI command : l2 trunk retrieve [Mirror Mode] [ Enable/Disable ] [Monitor Port] [ port numbe...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 86 [MAC Address] [VLAN ID] [Port Selection] User can add or modify a static ARL entry by specifying a MAC address, VLAN ID, port number, and trunk ID. CLI command : l2 arl static <mac> <vlan id> <port no> <trunk id> [Remove] Static ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 88 CLI command : l2 port retrieve [CoS] [Map] Allows user to map the CoS priority (with range of 0-7) for a buffer queue (total of 4, with queue ID of 1-4). CLI command : l2 cos map <queue id (1-4)> <cos (0-7)> [Scheduling Algorithm] [Strict/WR...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 91 Community (old community string): <new community string> Allows user to delete a trap entry from trap table. CLI command : snmp trap delete Trap table entry ( table index ): <entry id to delete> [Reload] Restores the previous saved settings fr...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 94 [Engine Id] [Name] [Auth Protocol] [Auth Password] [Priv Protocol] [Priv Password] USM(User-based Security Model) User is used to configure the information of SNMPV3 USM User. A USM User entry contains a engine Id, name, auth protocol, auth password, pr...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 99 [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 L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 100 5.4 Miscellaneous Commands sys time uptime: shows the time since the system boot up. sys time date: shows the current date and time sys time settime: sets the current time sys files config backup: backup configuration files sys files config default: re...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 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. For...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 102 Table 7. IP address structure Field1 Field2 Field3 Field4 Class A Network ID Host ID Class B Network ID Host ID Class C Network ID Host ID Following are examples of valid IP addresses: Class A: 10.30.6.125 (network = 10, host = 30.6.125) Class B: 129.8...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 103 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...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 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 t...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 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...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 45. 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 192....

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 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 n...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 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. Un...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 3. Carefully pull the two power cables from the fan connectors. 4. Loosens the screws that secure the fan to the module. Remove the defective fan. Figure 49. Detaching the fan from the module 5. Fastens the new fan with the screws that you removed earlier....

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 111 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 8. Troubleshooting Problem Suggested Action LEDs SYSTEM LED does not light ...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 113 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 L2 Managed Switch User Guide 117 SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol The TCP/IP protocol used for network management. 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 distinguishe...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 118 Telnet/SSH An interactive, character-based program used to access a remote computer. While HTTP (the web protocol) and FTP only allow you to download files from a remote computer, Telnet / SSH allows you to log into and use a computer from a remote loc...