KINGSTON KNS3250/R - Manuals

KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Introduction 1 Introduction Intended Audience: This manual assumes that the user has a general working knowledge of networking principles and architecture and is familiar with network systems in general.Congratulations on the purchase of ...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 2 Model Types Model Types KNS3250/R LINK / ACT LINK / ACT FDX / COL POWER FDX / COL Fast EtheRx 10/100TX 32-Port VLAN/Trunking Switch 2/FX2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 1/FX1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 100 Mbps ...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Package Contents 3 Package Contents Your Fast EtheRx package should contain the following items: q One of the following model Fast EtheRx switches: • KNS1650/R • KNS2450/R • KNS3250/R q AC Power Cord q Kingston Switch Conguration Utility ...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 4 Design Features Design Features VLAN VLAN is short for Virtual Local Area Network, and is generally dened as a broadcast domain. It can be viewed as a group of end nodes which can communicate with each other even though they may be loc...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Design Features 5 Full-Duplex Full-Duplex transmission means that dedicated inbound and outbound channels are established for bi-directional transmission of data. This allows the collision detection mechanism (CSMA/CD) to be by-passed, thu...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 6 Hardware Installation Hardware Installation Before you begin installing network cables, please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with Fast EtheRx Switch. The functions on the front and rear panels are illustrated in the followi...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Hardware Installation 7 Full Duplex and Collision LED The FDX/COLL LED uses a single color LED to display two functions. A solid green light indicates that Full-Duplex operation has been detected. A ashing amber light indicates that a col...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 8 Software Installation Software Installation The Fast EtheRx Switch has several advanced features which can be congured from a Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000 workstation using the provided conguration cable. The software utility allows for...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 9 Use this option to open a previously saved conguration le. Save the current conguration to a switch conguration le. Save the current conguration with another le name. Device Type Choose the ty...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 10 Kingston Switch Configuration Utility Use this button to save the current conguration data to the device. After a successful write operation, the device automatically resets and initializes the new conguration. If the write operation...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 11 Device Conguration Properties System Parameters adjusted in this window will control overall system performance. SuperMAC • Enable : When a collision occurs, the port on which the collision occurs ...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 12 Kingston Switch Configuration Utility Aging Time The address-aging timer is built in to the table aging process. The minimum time is 1 second and the maximum is 510 seconds. 255 is the default value, if the number exceeds 255 it must b...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 13 Port Individual port parameters are congured from this window. Select the port from the window on the left hand side and then modify the parameters on the right. Use the Apply to Other Ports button...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 15 Trunk Assignment The Kingston KNS1650R, KNS2450R, and KNS3250R switches support link aggregation/trunking. Trunking is a method of grouping multiple physical links as a single logical link. The bene...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 16 Kingston Switch Configuration Utility Load Balancing Method In a multiple link trunk, the links within a trunk should have an equal amount of trafc in order to achieve maximum efciency. Thus, some sort of load balancing amongst the l...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 17 Sample source MAC address Sample destination MAC address 00:C0:F0:1C:23:48 00:C0:F0:22:32:51 The byte is in hexadecimal format, the chart below shows the binary value and the bit numbers: Byte = Bit...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 18 Kingston Switch Configuration Utility Load Balancing Mapping – Port Based The port-based load balancing method is an explicit port assignment scheme. It requires that all other ports are assigned to a specic link (trunk port) in the t...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 19 VLAN This window allows users to dene VLAN membership by groups of device ports. Any individual port or trunk can be a member of a VLAN group. A VLAN group is basically a broadcast domain, but any ...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 20 Kingston Switch Configuration Utility Disable : This option is selected by default. Packets received with an unknown unicast destination address (DA) will be forwarded to all ports (except the receiving port) within the same VLAN group...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 21 The group count is not limited. Users can specify n VLAN groups or even more groups for any n (n=number of ports on your switch) port switch. But note that after writing to the device, only the info...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 22 Kingston Switch Configuration Utility Explicit Address Table Page The address table of the switch uses address learning (dynamic) or manual entry (static). Static entries are added to the address table of the device in this window. Sta...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 23 In this window, input the MAC address of a workstation, and choose an individual port or a trunk to which the workstation is connected.

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 24 Kingston Switch Configuration Utility Using the Switch Conguration Utility Editing a Conguration File 1. Go to the Start menu, highlight Programs, Kingston Switch Conguration, and click on the Switch Conguration item. 2. In the mai...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 25 4. Click the button Open to open an existing conguration le, if necessary. 5. Click the button Properties to invoke the Properties Window to start or modify conguration settings. 6. Click OK to l...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 27 Assigning Trunks and Setting VLAN Groups Fast EtheRx 10/100TX 24-Port VLAN/Trunking Switch KNS2450/R LINK / ACT FDX / COL POWER LINK / ACT FDX / COL 2/FX2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 1/FX1 3 5 7 9...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 28 Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 2. Select the Trunk Assignment tab to begin assigning trunks. 3. Click the checkboxes to select Trunk 1 and Trunk 6, and assign their trunk ports. Click the relative Port Based buttons 1 and 6 to b...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 29 4. Click the radio boxes to assign trunk port mappings for Trunk 1. For Ports 5 to 24, map them to different trunk ports. 5. Click the radio boxes to assign trunk port mappings for Trunk 6. From Por...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 30 Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 7. Press the Add button to add a VLAN group. 8. Give the name ‘Engineer’ in the edit box and select Trunk 1 and Ports 5 through 8 to be members of this group.

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 31 9. Press Add button to add another VLAN group. 10. Type in ‘SalesMkt’ in the edit box and select Trunk 6, click Ports 9 through 11 to be members of this group.

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 32 Kingston Switch Configuration Utility 11. Two VLAN groups have been created, click OK to leave the Properties Window. 12. To retain the settings after powering off the unit, click the Save button to save current conguration as a le, ...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Troubleshooting 33 Troubleshooting Data cannot be read from or written to the device. 1. Make sure the switch is powered on. 2. Make sure the Conguration Cable is well connected. It should be connected to the PC’s printer port directly. I...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 36 Appendix A - Pin Assignments Appendix A Pin Assignments UTP Port Pin Assignments UTP Ports use RJ-45 Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cabling. RJ-45 modular plugs and their pin numbers and wiring assignments are listed below. Twisted- Pai...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Appendix B - Cabling Guidelines 37 Appendix B Cabling Guidelines UTP Cable Type When installing network cables, the following table shows appropriate cabling guidelines for 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet architecture. Table B-1 Network Cable Gui...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 38 Appendix B - Cabling Guidelines UTP Cable Wiring Standards There are two governmental agencies: the Electronic Industry Association (EIA) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), which set the standard for all cable wirin...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Appendix B - Cabling Guidelines 39 UTP Cable Rating Codes UTP cables meet different UL-NEC requirements based on cable-jacket quality. Below is an explanation of the rating codes for each cable type. UL – The National Electrical Code (NEC)...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 40 Appendix C - Specifications Appendix C - Specications Compliance: IEEE 802.3i 10BASE-T Standard IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Standard IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD Ethernet Standard Media Interface: KNS1650/R 16 auto negotiating 10/100 Mbps UTP ports ...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 42 Appendix D - Fiber FX Modules & Installation Appendix D Fiber FX Modules & Installation There are three different optional ber modules available for use with your Fast EtheRx Switch. KNS150FX/MTRJ The KNS150FX/MTRJ module KNS1...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Appendix D - Fiber FX Modules & Installation 43 KNS150FX/ST The KNS150FX/ST module Installing the ber module 1. Remove the screws holding the metal plate cover located over the Fiber FX Module Port and remove the metal plate cover. 2....

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 44 Appendix E - Mounting Templates Appendix E Mounting Templates The Fast EtheRx dual-speed hubs can be stationed on a at surface using the four rubber feet provided, or mounted in a standard 19” rack by using the mounting brackets and t...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Appendix F - Warranties & Notices 45 Appendix F Warranties and Notices Limited Warranty Statement KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY (“Kingston”) warrants that this product is free from defects in material and workmanship. Subject to the cond...

Kingston Technology Company KNS3250/R User’s Guide - Rev. A00 46 Appendix F - Warranties & Notices Warranty Claim Requirements To obtain warranty service, return the defective product, freight prepaid and insured, to your local authorized Kingston dealer or distributor, or to the Kingston factor...

KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company Appendix F - Warranties & Notices 47 F.C.C. Certication This device has been tested and found to comply with limits for Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions...