EverFocus ESM316T002R - Manuals

6     Logging In Please follow the steps to configure this Web Smart switch. The configure procedure is as follows: Step 1: Use Ethernet Category 5 cable to connect this switch to your PC. Step 2: Check that your PC has an IP address on the same subnet as the switch. For example, the PC and the swit...

8     CHAPTER 2 System System Information To lookup System Information in the Web browser, click System, then Information. Web Smart switch interface Figure 4: System Information IP Address Setting To set up static IP address of the switch. Web Smart switch interface 1. Click System, then IP Setting...

9     IPv6 Address Setting IPv6 is an Internet Layer protocol for packet-switched internetworking and provides end-to-end datagram transmission across multiple IP networks. IPv6 includes two distinct address types; link-local unicast and global unicast. Web Smart switch interface Figure 6: IPv6 Addr...

10     User Account To set up the System Password in the Web browser: Web Smart switch interface 1. Click System, then User Account. 2. Enter the new user name. 3. Enter the new password. 4. Enter the new password again to confirm your input. 5. Click Save. Figure 7: User Account Setting Port Settin...

11     Figure 8: Port Setting Hint§ The following parameters are displayed on the Port Setting configuration: ■ Port— Set up one or more ports. Hold down the CTRL key and click port numbers to select multiple ports. Hold down the SHIFT key to select a range of ports. ■ State— Set the link state of p...

12     CHAPTER 3 Configuration Trunk Group Setting To configure a trunk group. Web Smart switch interface 1. Click Configuration, Link Aggregation, Trunk Group Setting. 2. Select the trunk group ID to be created or modified. 3. Select the trunk type; Static or LACP. 4. Assign up to four port members...

13     Trunk Distribution Algorithm Setting To configure a trunk’s load-balancing settings. Web Smart switch interface 1. Click Configuration, Link Aggregation, Trunk Setting. 2. Select the trunk group ID to be configured or modified. 3. Select the trunk Distribution Algorithm Parameters as required...

14     ■ Destination MAC - All traffic with the same destination MAC address is output on the same link in a trunk. This mode works best for switch-to-switch trunk links where traffic through the switch is destined for many different hosts. Do not use this mode for switch-to-router trunk links where...

15     LACP Setting The LACP (link aggregation control protocol) dynamically aggregates ports and removes aggregations. LACP interacts with its peer by sending LACPDUs (link aggregation control protocol data units). Web Smart switch interface To arrange LACP settings, 1. Click Configuration, Link Ag...

16     Static VLAN Table Setting The VLAN (virtual local area network) technology is developed for switches to control broadcast operations in LANs. By creating VLANs in a physical LAN, you can divide the LAN into multiple logical LANs, each of which has a broadcast domain of its own. Hosts in the s...

17     ■ VLAN Name – Name of the VLAN (1-100 characters) VLAN Port Setting Arranging VLAN attributes for specific interfaces, including the default Port VLAN identifier (PVID). Web Smart switch interface To specify attributes for VLAN port members, 1. Click Configuration, VLAN, VLAN Setting. 2. Sele...

18     VLAN-Stacking Table Setting Set the stacking VLAN membership for selected interfaces to be part of the Service Provider VLAN (S-VLAN), that is uplink ports for a 802.1Q Tunnel. This stacking VLAN is used to segregate and preserve customer VLAN IDs for traffic crossing the service provider net...

19     Vlan Stacking Setting After configuring port members for stacking VLANs on the switch, the ports connected to a service provider network need to be enabled as doubled tagged ports. Also the Tag Protocol Identifier (TPID) value must be set for the doubled-tagged ports to identify 802.1Q tagged...

20     Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the VLAN-Stacking Table Setting: ■ Tag Protocol ID - Tag Protocol Identifier specifies the Ether type of incoming packets on a tunnel port. (Range: 0x0600~0xFFFF hexadecimal, Default: 0x88a8) ■ PVID - The stacking VLAN Port VLAN Identifier. The PVID...

21     IGMP Multicast Group Information To display multicast group and router port information, click Configuration, IGMP Snooping, Multicast Entry Table. The IGMP Multicast Router Information table displays the current multicast groups learned through IGMP Snooping. Multicast routers that are attac...

22     IGMP Snooping IGMP Snooping (Internet Group Management Protocol Snooping) is a multicast constraining mechanism that runs on Layer 2 switch to manage and control multicast groups. Figure 17: IGMP Snooping

23     IGMP Global Setting Web Smart switch interface To manage IGMP Snooping global settings, 1. Click Configuration, IGMP Snooping, IGMP Snooping Setting. 2. Enable IGMP Snooping on the switch. 3. Modify other IGMP global settings as required. 4. Click Update. Hint§ The following parameters are sh...

24     IGMP VLAN Setting Web Smart switch interface To manage IGMP Snooping settings, 1. Click Configuration, IGMP Snooping, IGMP Snooping Setting. 2. Specify the VLAN ID. 3. Enable IGMP Snooping on the VLAN. 4. Enable IGMP Querier on the VLAN if you want this switch to be elected as querier. 5. Cli...

25     Spanning Tree The spanning tree protocol is used to eliminate loops in a local area network. A switch running this protocol detects any loop in the network by exchanging information with one another and eliminates the possible loop by blocking certain ports until the loop network is pruned in...

26     configuration messages at regular intervals. Any port that ages out STP information (provided in the last configuration message) becomes the designated port for the attached LAN. If it is a root port, a new root port is selected from among the switch ports attached to the network. (Note that ...

27     Spanning Tree Port Setting Use the STP Port Setting page to configure Spanning Tree attributes for specific interfaces, including path cost, port priority, edge port (for fast forwarding), automatic detection of an edge port, and point-to-point link type. Web Smart switch interface To configu...

29     Quality of Service (QoS) QoS is the evaluation on the service ability of network delivery or on the capacity of dealing with situations such as delay, delay jitter and packet loss rate in packet delivery. Port-based Priority Setting Management of the default port priority for each port on the...

30     DSCP-based Priority Setting The Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) is a six-bit field in the IP header, allowing coding for up to 64 different forwarding behaviors. The DSCP replaces the ToS bits, but it retains backward compatibility with the three precedence bits so that non-DSCP com...

31     Priority to Queue Mapping Setting The QoS technique known as class of service (CoS), is a 3-bit field within an Ethernet frame header when using tagged frames on an 802.1 network. So up to eight separate traffic priorities are defined in IEEE 802.1p. Always can map the priority levels to the ...

32     Packet Scheduling Setting You can set the switch to service the queues based on a strict rule that requires all traffic in a higher priority queue to be processed before lower priority queues are serviced, Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), or Weighted Round-Robin (WRR) queuing that specifies a rel...

33     to the sum of the weights of all queues. (This is the default selection.) ■ Weight-round-robin - Share bandwidth at the egress ports by using the scheduling weights for queues 1 through 8 respectively. WRR specifies a relative weight for each queue that determines the percentage of service ti...

34     ■ LLDP Status - Enable LLDP on the switch. (Default: Disabled) ■ Transmission Interval - Configure the periodic transmit interval for LLDP advertisements. (Range: 5-32768 seconds; Default: 30 seconds) This attribute must comply with the following rule: (Transmission Interval * Transmission Ho...

35     SNMP Setting SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) monitor network switches through TCP/IP protocol suite. It offers automatic network management and avoids the physical differences between various switches, and thus provides automatic management of products from different manufacturers. ...

36     Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the SNMP Setting, Community Strings Setting. ■ SNMP Status - Enable or disable SNMP service. (Default: Disabled) ■ System Name - A name assigned to the switch system. ■ System Location - Specify the system location. ■ System Contact - An administrat...

37     Port Mirroring Setting Port mirroring includes local mirroring groups, remote source mirroring groups and remote destination mirroring groups. Web Smart switch interface To configure port mirroring: 1. Click Configuration, Port Mirroring. 2. Select the Mirror Set Index. 3. Select the Mirror D...

38     Port Security Setting Port security is a feature that allows you to configure a switch port with a maximum number of MAC addresses that are authorized to access the network through that port. When port security is enabled on a port, the switch stops learning new MAC addresses on the specified...

40     Bandwidth Control Setting This function allows the network manager to control the maximum rate for traffic received on a port or transmitted from a port. Rate limiting is configured on ports at the edge of a network to limit traffic into or out of the switch. Packets that exceed the acceptabl...

42     Jumbo Frame Setting The switch provides more efficient throughput for large sequential data transfers by supporting jumbo frames up to 9216 bytes. Web Smart switch interface To configure Jumbo Frames: 1. Click Configuration, Jumbo Frame. 2. Select the frame size to configure. 3. Click Apply. ...

43     Management Access Filter To create up to eight IP addresses or IP address groups that are allowed access to the switch through the Web browser. Web Smart switch interface 1. Click Configuration, Management Access Filter. 2. Enter an IP address 3. Specify a netmask to define a single IP addres...

44     Power over Ethernet Setting Power over Ethernet (PoE) means that power sourcing equipment (PSE) supplies power to powered devices (PD) such as IP telephone, wireless LAN access point, and web camera from Ethernet interfaces through twisted pair cables. Web Smart switch interface 1. Click Conf...

45     CHAPTER 4 Security MAC Address Information To display the MAC address forwarding table. Web Smart switch interface 1. Click Configuration. 2. Then click Security, MAC Address, MAC Forwarding Table. Figure 33: MAC Address Information Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the MAC Address ...

46     Static MAC Setting A static address can be assigned to a specific interface on the switch. Static addresses are bound to the assigned interface and will not be moved. Web Smart switch interface To configure static MAC addresses: 1. Click Security, MAC Address, Static MAC. 2. Specify the MAC a...

47     MAC Filtering Setting The MAC Filtering pages are used to filter service to clients attempting to access the Internet based on protocol type, destination/source MAC address, and the direction of traffic for each packet. Web Smart switch interface To configure MAC Address Filtering: 1. Click S...

50     IP Filter Configurations IP Filter Security is a feature that filters IP traffic on port interfaces based on manually configured entries in the IP Filter table, or allowed IP address assignment through DHCP. IP Filter Security can be used to prevent traffic attacks caused when a host tries to...

52     Storm Control settings Broadcast storms may occur when a device on your network is malfunctioning, or if application programs are not well designed or properly configured. If there is too much broadcast traffic on your network, performance can be severely degraded or everything can come to co...

53     Port Isolation The feature provides port-based security and isolation of local ports. The switch isolates port traffic by specifying those ports to which it can forward or receive traffic. Web Smart switch interface To configure Port Isolation settings: 1. Click Security, Port Isolation. 2. S...

54     Defence Engine Defence Engine is a advanced feature that can prevent switch’s CPU from being overwhelmed by flooded packets, such as unknown unicast, unknown multicast, or broadcast packets. This function can be used to prevent malicious viruses or worm attacks. Web Smart switch interface To ...

55     CHAPTER 5 Monitoring Port Statistics Information You can display standard statistics on network traffic passing through each port. This information can be used to identify potential problems with the switch, such as a faulty port or unusually heavy loading. All values displayed have been accu...

56     CHAPTER 6 Tools Http Upgrade Use the HTTP Upgrade page to upgrade the switch’s system firmware by specifying a new software file. You can also use the HTTP Upgrade page to save the current configuration to a file on your computer, or to restore previously saved configuration settings to the s...

57     Reset Factory Defaults To restore factory defaults. Web Smart switch interface To click Tools, Reset, then click the Reset button. The reset will be complete when the Web browser displays the login page. Figure 44: Reset

58     Reboot To restart the switch. Web Smart switch interface To click Tools, Reboot, then click the Reboot button. The reboot will be complete when the web interface displays the login page. Figure 45: Reboot SPECIFICATIONS Standards  •  IEEE  802.1d  (Spanning  Tree  Protocol)  •  IEEE  802.1p  ...