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Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 10 About This Guide 0 A BOUT T HIS G UIDE This User’s Guide tells you how to install your Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch, how to connect it to yourEthernet network, and how to set its configuration using either the built-in console interface or Web-basedma...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Introduction 11 1 1 I NTRODUCTION This section describes the features of the Switch, as well as giving some background information aboutEthernet/Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and switching technology. Fast Ethernet Technology The growing importance of L...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 12 Introduction Switching Technology Another key development pushing the limits of Ethernet technology is in the field of switching technology. Aswitch bridges Ethernet packets at the MAC address level of the Ethernet protocol transmitting amongconnected E...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Introduction 13 ♦ One slide-in module interface in the front panel for 1 or 2 ports 10/100M Ethernet connection. Threeoptional modules are available: 2-port TX, 2-port FX (MT-RJ), and 1-port FX (SC). ♦ Stacking Input/Output port slide-in module in the rear...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 14 Unpacking and Setup 2 2 U NPACKING AND S ETUP This chapter provides unpacking and setup information for the Switch. Unpacking Open the shipping carton of the Switch and carefully unpack its contents. The carton should contain thefollowing items: ♦ One S...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Unpacking and Setup 15 Figure 2-1. Switch installed on a Desktop or Shelf Rack Installation The Switch can be mounted in an EIA standard size, 19-inch rack, which can be placed in a wiring closet withother equipment. To install, attach the mounting bracket...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 16 Unpacking and Setup Power On The Switch can be used with AC power sources 100 - 240 VAC, 50 - 60 Hz. The power switch is located at therear of the unit adjacent to the AC power connector and the system fan. The Switch’s power supply will adjustto the lo...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Identifying External Components 17 3 3 I DENTIFYING E XTERNAL C OMPONENTS This chapter describes the front panel, rear panel, optional plug-in modules, and LED indicators of the Switch Front Panel The front panel of the Switch consists of either 22 or 20 (...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 18 Identifying External Components Rear Panel The rear panel of the DES-3624, DES-3624F, and DES-3624FM consist of a slot (labeled Slot2) for a Stackinginput/output port and an AC power connector. The rear panel of the DES-3624i, DES-3624iF, and DES-3624iF...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Identifying External Components 19 Figure 3-3. Side panel views of the Switch ♦ The system fans are used to dissipate heat. The sides of the system also provide heat vents to serve the same purpose. Do not block these openings, and leave adequate space at ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 20 Identifying External Components Figure 3-5. Switch stack with example of possible connections Optional Plug-in Modules The DES-3624i/DES-3624iF/DES-3624iFM Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch is able to accommodate a rangeof plug-in modules in order to incre...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Identifying External Components 23 62.5 µµµµ m 62.5 µµµµ m 50 µµµµ m 50 µµµµ m Modal bandwidth (min. overfilled launch) Unit: MHz*km 160 200 400 500 Operating distance Unit: meters 220 275 500 550 Channel insertion loss Unit: dB 2.33 2.53 3.25 3.43 1000BAS...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 24 Identifying External Components LED Indicators The LED indicators of the Switch include Power, Console, Slot, Giga, Speed, and Link/Act. The followingshows the LED indicators for the Switch along with an explanation of each indicator. Figure 3-12. The S...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 26 Connecting The Switch 4 4 C ONNECTING T HE S WITCH This chapter describes how to connect the Switch to your Ethernet network. Switch to End Node End nodes include PCs outfitted with a 10, 100 or 10/100 Mbps RJ-45 Ethernet/Fast Ethernet NetworkInterface ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Connecting The Switch 27 ♦ A 10BASE-T hub or switch can be connected to the Switch via a two-pair Category 3, 4 or 5 UTP/STPstraight cable. ♦ A 100BASE-TX hub or switch can be connected to the Switch via a four-pair Category 5 UTP/STPstraight cable. If the...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 28 Switch Management Concepts 5 5 S WITCH M ANAGEMENT C ONCEPTS This chapter discusses many of the features used to manage the switch, and explains many concepts andimportant points regarding these features. Configuring the Switch to implement these concep...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Switch Management Concepts 29 IP Addresses and SNMP Community Names Each Switch has its own IP Address, which is used for communication with an SNMP network manager orother TCP/IP application (for example BOOTP, TFTP). You can change the default Switch IP ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 30 Switch Management Concepts Topology Change Timer the new root trap is sent out immediately after the Switch’s selection as a newroot. ♦ Topology Change A Topology Change trap is sent by the Switch when any of its configured ports transitions from the Le...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Switch Management Concepts 31 The Aging Time can be from 10 seconds to 9999 seconds. A very long Aging Time can result with the out-of-date Dynamic Entries that may cause incorrect packet filtering/forwarding decisions. On the other hand, if the Aging Time...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 32 Switch Management Concepts STA Operation Levels STA operates on two levels: the bridge level and the port level. On the bridge level, STA calculates the BridgeIdentifier for each Switch, then sets the Root Bridge and the Designated Bridges. On the port ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Switch Management Concepts 33 Root Bridge. If you set a Hello Time for your Switch, and it is not the Root Bridge, the set Hello Timewill be used if and when your Switch becomes the Root Bridge. Note: The Hello Time cannot be longer than the Max. Age. Othe...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 34 Switch Management Concepts Figure 5-2. After Applying the STA Rules STA parameters Settings Effects Comment Bridge Priority lower the #,higher thepriority Increases chance ofbecoming the RootBridge Avoid, if the switch isused in workgroup levelof a larg...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Switch Management Concepts 35 Figure 5-3. Port trunking example The switch treats all ports in a trunk group as a single port. As such, trunk ports will not be blocked bySpanning Tree (unless a redundant link with higher STP priority is present). Data tran...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 36 Switch Management Concepts IEEE 802.1Q VLANs The Switch supports up to 96 IEEE 802.1Q (port-based) VLANs. Port-based VLANs limit traffic that flowsinto and out of switch ports. Thus, all devices connected to a port are members of the VLAN(s) the portbel...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Switch Management Concepts 37 Port PVID VID Ports Port 1 1 1 1,2,3,7 Port 2 1 Port 3 1 Port 7 3 3 1,2,3,7,11,1 2 Port 11 2 2 11,12,7 Port 12 2 Table 5-2. Example of possible VLAN assignments The server attached to Port 7 is shared by VLAN 1 and VLAN 2 beca...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 38 Switch Management Concepts VLANs Over 802.1Q-compliant Switches When switches maintaining the same VLANs are 802.1Q-compliant, it is possible to use tagging. Tagging puts802.1Q VLAN information into each packet header, enabling other 802.1Q-compliant sw...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Switch Management Concepts 39 Broadcast Storms Broadcast storms are a common problem on today’s networks. Basically, they consist of broadcast packets thatflood and/or are looped on a network causing noticeable performance degradation and in extreme cases,...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 40 Using the Console Interface 6 6 U SING THE C ONSOLE I NTERFACE Your Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch supports a console management interface that allows you to set upand control your Switch, either with an ordinary terminal (or terminal emulator), or over...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 41 Figure 6-1. Example of a console connection Connecting to the Switch Using Telnet Once you have set an IP address for your Switch, you can use a Telnet program (in a VT-100 compatible terminal mode) to access and control the ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 42 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-2. Initial Screen, first time connecting to the Switch Note: There is no initial username or password. Leave the username and password fields blank. Press <Enter> or <Return> in the username and password ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 43 Figure 6-3. Main Menu The first user automatically gets Administrator privileges (See Table 6-1). It is recommended to create at least one Administrator-level user for the Switch. User Accounts Management From the screen abov...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 44 Using the Console Interface There are two levels of user privileges: Administrator and Normal User. Some menu selections available to users with Administrator privileges may not be available to Normal Users. The main menus shown are the menus for the tw...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 45 Figure 6-4. Save Changes screen After the settings have been saved to NV-RAM, they will become the default settings for the Switch, and theywill be used every time it is powered on, reset or rebooted. The only exception to th...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 46 Using the Console Interface 1. Choose Users Accounts Management from the main menu. The following User AccountsManagement menu appears: Figure 6-5. User Accounts Management menu 2. Choose Create/Modify User Accounts. The following screen appears:

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 47 Figure 6-6. Add/Modify User Accounts screen 3. Type in your Username and press Enter. 4. If you are an old user, type in the Old Password and press Enter. 5. Type in the New Password you have chosen, and press Enter. Type in ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 48 Using the Console Interface Choose View/Delete User Accounts from the User Accounts Management menu. The following screen appears: Figure 6-7. View/Delete User Accounts screen To delete your user password: 1. Toggle the Delete field of the user you wish...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 49 Figure 6-8. System Configuration menu You will need to change some settings to allow you to be able to manage the Switch from an SNMP-basedNetwork Management System such as SNMP v1 or to be able to access the Switch using the...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 50 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-9. IP Address Configuration screen The fields listed under the Current Settings heading are those that are presently being used by the Switch.Those fields listed under the Restart Settings heading will be used after ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 51 Configure Console You can use the Console Options screen to choose whether to use the Switch’s RS-232C serial port for console management or for out-of-band TCP/IP communications using SLIP, and to set the bit rate used forSL...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 52 Using the Console Interface The top of the screen displays the current settings for Console Timeout and Serial Port as well as theBaud Rate, Character Size, and Stop Bit for Out of Band and Console settings, respectively. Configure Switch Stack The Swit...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 53 Information of Individual Switch Unit This screen allows you to view information for each Switch in your stack, including the Module, Type, andHardware Version. Press Information of Individual Switch Unit on the Switch Stack ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 54 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-12B. Information of Individual Switch Unit screen Advance Settings The Configure Advanced Switch Features screen allows you to set an expiration time for MAC address entries and enable or disable auto-partitioning on...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 55 Figure 6-13. Configure Advanced Switch Features screen The fields you can set are: ♦ Port Auto-Partition Capability on All Ports When this function is enabled, if too many consecutive collisions occur on an individual port, t...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 56 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-14. Port Configuration screen Items in the above window are defined as follows: ♦ Switch Specifies the Switch where the port is being configured. ♦ Module Specifies the module where the port is being configured. ♦ Po...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 57 such as video or audio data, where latency can produce distorted sounds and images. Packets in the lowpriority queue will not be processed unless the High priority queue is empty. Setting the port priority toHigh will deliver...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 59 Configure Port Mirroring The Switch allows you to copy frames transmitted and received on a port and redirect the copies to anotherport. You can attach a monitoring device to the mirrored port, such as a sniffer or an RMON pr...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 60 Using the Console Interface recommended that you read this, as well as the introductory section in the same chapter entitled SpanningTree Algorithm, before changing any of the parameters. STP Parameter Settings To change the Protocol Parameters: 1. Choo...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 61 Figure 6-18. STP Parameter Setting screen 3. Change the Disabled setting to Enabled in the Spanning Tree Protocol field. 4. Enter the Bridge Max Age in the Max Age(6-40 sec) field. 5. Enter the Bridge Hello Time in the Hello ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 62 Using the Console Interface ♦ Root Cost Read-only object displays the cost for the path between the switch and the root bridge. If the switch is the root bridge, then the root cost is zero. ♦ Root port Read-only object identifies the port (on the bridge...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 63 Figure 6-19. STP Custom Settings screen Items in the above window are described as follows: ♦ STP State Sets the Spanning Tree Protocol on a particular port to Enabled or Disabled. ♦ Cost Defines the cost for the connection. ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 64 Using the Console Interface is defined as static entries that may be added and removed from the Filtering Database by the user. They arenot automatically removed by any timeout mechanism. The Configure Filtering and Forwarding table screen allows you to...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 65 Please refer to the Packet Forwarding section of the “Switch Management Concepts” chapter of this manual for more detailed information. Configure Static Forwarding Table Entry The Static Forwarding Table displays a list of ma...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 66 Using the Console Interface ♦ Switch, Module, and Port The Switch, module, and port number are entered in these fields at the top of the screen. The Switch will always forward traffic to the specified device through this port. Thebottom of the screen wi...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 67 Configure Permanent Multicast Filtering Multicast filtering allows you to block or forward traffic over each port for one multicast group. To access the Static Multicast Filtering Table Configuration screen, select Configure ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 70 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-26. Add/Remove IGMP Entry screen The above screen is used to specify an agent to interface between IGMP and VLAN. The agents are assignedto a VLAN and allow IGMP query and report packets to be present on the given VL...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 71 Figure 6-27. IEEE 802.1Q IGMP Configuration screen This allows you to enable/disable these agents and set aging timers for them. Items in the above screen are defined as follows: ♦ VLAN ID This is the VID number for the VLAN ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 72 Using the Console Interface Choose Configure VLANs & MAC-based Broadcast Domains on the System Configuration menu to access the VLANs & MAC-based Broadcast Domains Configuration screen: Figure 6-28. VLANs & MAC-based Broadcast Domains Config...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 74 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-30. Add/Remove MAC-based Broadcast Domains screen The fields you can set are: ♦ Action Select the desired action by toggling between Add and Remove. ♦ Domain Name Enter the name of the broadcast domain. Press APPLY t...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 76 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-32. Add/Remove MAC-based Broadcast Domain Members screen The fields you can set are: ♦ Action Select the desired action by toggling between Add and Remove. ♦ MAC Address The MAC address of the broadcast domain member...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 78 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-34. Ingress Filtering Check screen This screen allows you to set Ingress filtering for each port to either Enabled or Disabled. When a packet arrives at the port and Ingress filtering is Enabled, the port will check ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 79 Figure 6-35. Default port VLAN assignment screen This screen allows you to set a Default port VLAN ID number (PVID) for each port. Press CTRL+S to let thechanges take effect. Note: If a port is a member of a trunk group but i...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 80 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-36. 802.1Q Static VLAN Settings screen The fields you can set are: ♦ V-ID Enter a VLAN ID from 1 to 4094. This is the VLAN that will be defined on this screen. ♦ VLAN Name Description of the VLAN. ♦ Tag/Untag Toggle ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 81 Figure 6-37. Browse 802.1Q VLAN Entries screen This table displays the current V-ID and VLAN Name as well as Tag/Untag and Egress (membership) status for all 802.1Q static VLAN entries. Use the F3 key to move to the next page...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 82 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-38. Update Firmware and Configuration Files screen After making your changes in the fields above, press REBOOT TO START UPDATE to initiate the updatesequence. The fields you can set are: ♦ Software Update Mode Set to...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 83 Special Note Concerning Firmware Updates 1. Never download new firmware through a trunked port. Doing so may result in a failed download,broadcast storm, or other network problems. 2. Avoid changing active links and do not ma...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 84 Using the Console Interface Ping Test Choose Ping Test to access the following screen: Figure 6-40. Ping Test screen After filling in the fields above, press START to initiate the Ping test. The fields you can set are: ♦ Destination IP Address The IP ad...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 85 Figure 6-41. Save Settings to TFTP Server screen Press START to begin the upload. The result will be displayed in the lower part of the screen. The fields you can set are: ♦ Server IP Address The IP address of the TFTP server...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 86 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-42. Save Switch History to TFTP Server screen Press START to begin the file save. The result will be displayed in the lower part of the screen. The fields you can set are: ♦ Server IP Address The IP address of the TF...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 87 SNMP (version 1) implements a rudimentary form of security by requiring that each request include acommunity name. A community name is an arbitrary string of characters used as a “password” to control access to the Switch. If...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 88 Using the Console Interface ♦ IP Address The IP address of the network management station to receive traps. Switch Monitoring The Switch uses an SNMP agent which monitors different aspects of network traffic. The SNMP agent keepscounters and statistics ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 89 Traffic Statistics To display the Traffic Statistics menu, choose the first item on the Network Monitoring menu. The following menu appears: Figure 6-45. Traffic Statistics menu Port Utilization To access the first item on th...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 90 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-46. Port Utilization screen Select the desired device in the Switch field and the desired increment setting in the Update Interval field:5 sec, 15 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, or Suspend. The statistic counters displayed are ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 91 Figure 6-47. Port Traffic Statistics screen Select the desired device in the Switch field, the desired setting in the Ports field, and the desired increment setting in the Update Interval field: 5 sec, 15 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 92 Using the Console Interface Port Packet Error Statistics To access the third item on the Traffic Statistics menu, choose Port Packet Error Statistics. The following table appears: Figure 6-48. Port Packet Error Statistics table Select the desired device...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 93 ♦ Mac Rx Error The number of frames with received MAC Errors. ♦ Dropped Frames The number of frames which are dropped by this port since the last Switch reboot. ♦ Undersize Frames The number of frames detected that are less t...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 94 Using the Console Interface ♦ RX (GOOD) The number of good frames received. This also includes local and dropped packets. ♦ TX (GOOD) The number of good frames sent from the respective port. ♦ Total RX The number of frames received, good and bad. ♦ TX O...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 95 Figure 6-50. Browse Address Table To browse by MAC address, fill in the MAC address field, and then press FIND. To browse by port number, select the desired Switch and Module in the respective fields, enter the number of the ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 96 Using the Console Interface Figure 6-51. Switch History screen The switch history entries are listed chronologically from the last time the Switch was rebooted. Use thefollowing keys to move around the screen above: F3 – Page down, F4 – Page up, B – Beg...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 97 Figure 6-52. IP Multicast Information screen This screen displays the number of IGMP queries and reports for each active IP multicast group detected bythe Switch. You can also view which Switch ports support each multicast gr...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 98 Using the Console Interface Resetting the Switch You can use the console interface to reset the Switch, either performing a Restart System or a FactoryReset (which sets all of the Switch’s parameters to what they were when the Switch was delivered from ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Using the Console Interface 99 Note: After performing the Factory Reset, make sure to redefine the IP settings for the Switch in the Configure IP Address menu. Then perform a Restart System on the Switch. After these three procedures are performed, your Fa...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 100 Web-Based Network Management 7 7 W EB -B ASED N ETWORK M ANAGEMENT Introduction The Switch offers an embedded Web-based (hypertext) interface allowing users to manage the Switch fromanywhere on the network through a standard browser such as Netscape Na...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 101 Clicking on one of the ports opens a configuration window for that particular port. Each page contains the following list of buttons in the panel on the left side: Configuration, Management,Monitoring, and Maintenance. Thes...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 102 Web-Based Network Management You can change the IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway on the Switch. If your are not using BOOTP, enter the IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway of the Switch. If you enable BOOTPService, you do not need t...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 103 To set basic Switch settings, enter a System Name in the first field, the physical location of the Switch in theSystem Location field, and the name of the contact person responsible for the Switch in the SystemContact field...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 104 Web-Based Network Management Advanced Figure 7-3. Configure Switch Stack – Advanced window The first setting allows you to enable or disable port auto-partitioning by the Port’s Auto-PartitionCapability on All Ports function. If you enable auto-partiti...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 105 Switch Unit Figure 7-4. Information Of Individual Switch Unit window This window displays the Module, Type, and Hardware Revision of each individual Switch unit. Select the desired Switch in the field in the lower left-hand...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 107 4. Configure the Locked setting to prevent the port from learning the MAC addresses of new hosts. This will help keep intruders off your network since any packet coming from an unknown sourceaddress will be dropped by the S...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 108 Web-Based Network Management The Switch supports up to three trunk groups. Trunks are groups of ports that are banded together to form asingle, logical, high-bandwidth data pipe. Items in the above window are defined as follows: ♦ Anchor The Anchor por...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 109 To configure a mirror port, select the Switch, Slot, and source Port from where you want to copy frames in the Source section. Next, select the Switch, Slot and target Port which will receive the copies from the source port...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 110 Web-Based Network Management The information above is described as follows: ♦ Spanning Tree Protocol This option offers Disabled or Enabled to implement the Spanning Tree Protocol. ♦ Max Age: (6 . . 40 sec) The Maximum Age can be from 6 to 40 seconds. ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 111 Enter the desired Spanning Tree custom settings on this window and then click Apply. The information above is described as follows: ♦ STP State The Spanning Tree Protocol state for a selected port can either be Enabled or D...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 112 Web-Based Network Management ♦ Lock Address Table(Stop Learning) Mostly used for security purposes, when the forwarding table is locked the Switch will no longer learn the MAC addresses for new hosts. If your network configurationdoesn’t change, lockin...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 114 Web-Based Network Management MAC Address Filtering Table Figure 7-13. Static MAC Address Filtering window The static filtering function allows the Switch to block inbound traffic from unknown or unwanted devices bymapping a port to a source MAC address...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 116 Web-Based Network Management Permanent Multicast Filtering Figure 7-15. Static Permanent Multicast Filtering window Static multicast filtering blocks or forwards traffic over each port for one multicast group. You can configureeach port on the Switch t...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 117 Figure 7-16. Static Permanent Multicast Filtering--Edit window To edit or create a new filter, enter the MAC address in the MAC Address field, select the desired Switch and Port in the next two fields. Next, select Forward ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 118 Web-Based Network Management IGMP Settings Figure 7-17. Configure IGMP window To configure the IGMP, enter a value between 30 and 999 seconds in the IP Multicast Filtering Age-outTimer field and then change the IP Multicast Filtering (IGMP Snooping) se...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 121 Figure 7-20. Configure VLAN window To use one of these two modes, select MAC-based Broadcast Domains or IEEE 802.1Q VLANs under RestartVLAN Mode--otherwise, leave the setting at Disabled. Then specify the VLAN ID number in ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 122 Web-Based Network Management Figure 7-21. Add/Remove MAC-based Broadcast Domains window Items in this window are defined as follows: ♦ Description Lists all MAC-based broadcast domains. ♦ Number of MAC address members The number of MAC addresses belong...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 123 Figure 7-22. Add/Remove MAC-based Broadcast Domains --- Edit window To add a MAC-based broadcast domain, enter a Description in the field offered. Click Apply to let the change take effect. ♦ Description The name of the Bro...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 124 Web-Based Network Management Figure 7-23. Add/Remove MAC-based Broadcast Domain Member window Items in this window are defined as follows: ♦ MAC Address The MAC Address of the broadcast domain member. ♦ Description Lists all MAC-based broadcast domains...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 125 Figure 7-24. Add/Remove MAC-based Broadcast Domain Member ---Edit window To add or edit a MAC-based broadcast domain member, enter the MAC Address in the first field and use the drop-down Description menu to select the desi...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 126 Web-Based Network Management IEEE 802.1Q VLANs Figure 7-25. Default Port VLAN ID window Use this window to assign a default VLAN ID for each desired port. Click Apply to let the settings take effect.

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 127 Figure 7-26. Port Ingress Filtering Check window Use this window to enable or disable the ingress filtering check for each desired port. Ingress filtering meansthat a receiving port will check to see if it is a member of th...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 129 Figure 7-28. 802.1Q Static VLAN Entry window (number two) To configure an 802.1Q VLAN entry, enter a V-Id number and Description in the first two fields. Next, select the desired Switch. Finally, check Tag for each member p...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 130 Web-Based Network Management Community Strings and Trap Stations Figure 7-29. Community Strings and Trap Stations window To use the functions on this window, enter the appropriate SNMP information in the Community Stringsand Trap Receiving Stations sec...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 131 User Account Figure 7-30. User Accounts window Click the pointer icon on the right-hand side to access the User Account - Edit window:

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 133 Console Figure 7-32. Configure Console window This window allows you to choose the refresh rate in the Console Timeout field (15 minutes, 30minutes, 45 minutes, 60 minutes or Never). Select the protocol for communicating th...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 134 Web-Based Network Management Monitoring This third main category of the Switch Web-based management program includes: Switch Overview, PortUtilization, Port Traffic Statistics, Port Error Packet Statistics, Port Packet Analysis Statistics,Browse Addres...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 136 Web-Based Network Management Port Traffic Statistics Figure 7-35. Port Traffic Statistics window The port statistics shown by default are those for the port you last configured. Once in the individualwindow, you can click any port on the Switch graphic...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 137 Traffic in Frames: ♦ Frames Sent Counts the total number of frames transmitted from the port. ♦ Frames Received Counts all valid frames received on the port. ♦ Total Frames Received Counts the number of frames received on t...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 138 Web-Based Network Management ♦ Fragments The number of packets less than 64 bytes with either bad framing or an invalid CRC. These are normally the result of collisions. ♦ Jabber The number of frames with length more than 1536 bytes and with CRC error ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 139 Port Packet Analysis Statistics Figure 7-37. Port Packet Analysis window The information is described as follows: ♦ Update Interval Choose the desired setting: 5 seconds, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds orSuspend. ♦ 64 T...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 140 Web-Based Network Management ♦ Rx (good) The number of good frames received. This also includes local and dropped packets. ♦ Tx (good) The number of good frames sent from the respective port. ♦ Total Rx The number of frames received, good and bad. ♦ Tx...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 141 The Switch allows you to display a table containing Switch ports, MAC addresses, and respective learnedstatuses. If the table doesn’t display the information you want, fill in the requested information in the Findby MAC Add...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 142 Web-Based Network Management Switch History Figure 7-40. Switch History window This window allows you to view the Switch history. This works like a trap and event receiver except it onlycaptures trap/events generated by the Switch itself. Click the Nex...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 143 Firmware and Configuration Update Figure 7-41. Firmware and Configuration Update window To update firmware or change a configuration file, fill in the requested information above and then clickthe Apply button. The informat...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 144 Web-Based Network Management Change Configuration File: ♦ Use Config File Determines whether or not the Switch should download its configuration file the next time it is booted. ♦ Config File Name The path and configuration name on the TFTP server. Sav...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 145 Save Switch History To TFTP Server Figure 7-43. Save Switch History To TFTP Server window To save a switch history file to your TFTP server, fill the fields in above and then click Apply. The information is described as fol...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Web-Based Network Management 147 Factory Reset Figure 7-45. Factory Reset to Default Value window Doing a remote reset is equivalent to turning the Switch off and on again. All parameters are returned to thevalues stored in EEPROM. Click the Reset to Facto...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Technical Specifications 149 A 8 T ECHNICAL S PECIFICATIONS General Standards: IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T Ethernet IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE Ethernet IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-SX/LX Gigabit Ethernet IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ether...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 150 Technical Specifications General Network Cables: 10BASE-T: 2-pair UTP Cat. 3,4,5 (100 m) EIA/TIA- 568 100-ohm STP (100 m) 100BASE-TX: 2-pair or 4-pair UTP Cat. 5 (100 m) EIA/TIA-568 100-ohm STP (100 m) 100BASE-FX 50 µ m and 62.5 µ m multi-mode fiber 10...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Technical Specifications 151 Performance Transmission Method: Store-and-forward RAM Buffer: 12 Mbytes per device Filtering Address Table: 12K MAC addresses per device (optimized condition) Packet Filtering/Forwarding Rate: 148,800 pps per port (for 100Mbps...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 152 RJ-45 Pin Specification B 9 RJ-45 P IN S PECIFICATION When connecting the DES-3624 Switch to another switch, a bridge or a hub, a modified crossover cable isnecessary. Please review these products for matching cable pin assignment. The following diagra...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide RJ-45 Pin Specification 153 RJ-45 Connector pin assignment Contact Media Direct Interface Signal 1 Tx + (transmit) 2 Tx - (transmit) 3 Rx + (receive) 4 Not used 5 Not used 6 Rx - (receive) 7 Not used 8 Not used Table B-1. The standard Category 3 cable, RJ-...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 154 Sample Configuration File C 10 S AMPLE C ONFIGURATION F ILE This appendix provides a sample configuration file that can be used with the Update Firmware andConfiguration Files screen in the console program. The configuration file is a simple text file ...

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide 156 Runtime Software Default Settings D 11 R UNTIME S OFTWARE D EFAULT S ETTINGS Load Mode Network Configuration update Disable Firmware update Disable Out-of-band baud rate 9600 Rs232 mode Console Ip address 0.0.0.0 Subnet mask 0.0.0.0 Default router 0.0....

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide Index 157 12 I NDEX 64, 9565-127, 95100BASE-TX networks, 12100Mbps Fast Ethernet, 11128-255, 95256-511, 95512-1023, 951024-1536, 95 AC inputs, 151AC Power Connector, 18AC power cord, 14Access Rights read only, 88read/write, 88 Accessory pack, 14Adding and ...

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