LevelOne GSW-2493 - Manuals

4 Stacking The switch provide Stack Grouping feature and through master switch interface can manage and stack up to 8 units. 802.1x Support IEEE802.1x User-Authentication and can report to RADIUS server. „ Reject „ Accept „ Authorize „ Disable DHCP DHCP Client Packet filter Broadcast storm Package C...

5 Rack-mounted Kit Power Cord User Manual Figure 1-2. Package Contents Compare the contents of your GSW-2493 package with the standard checklist above. IF any item is missing or damaged, please contact your local dealer for service. Ethernet Switching Technology Ethernet Switching Technology dramati...

6 2. Hardware Description This Section mainly describes the hardware of the GSW-2493, and gives a physical and functional overview of the switch. Physical Dimension The GSW-2493 physical dimension is 440mm(W) x 280mm(D) x 44mm(H) . Front Panel The Front Panel of the GSW-2493 consists of 3 module slo...

7 Green The port is connecting with the device. Blinks The port is receiving or transmitting data. LNK/ACT Off No device attached. Orange The port is operating in Full-duplex mode. Blinks Collision of Packets occurs in the port. FDX/COL Off In half-duplex mode Table 2-1. The Description of LED Indic...

8 Attaching Rubber Feet A. Make sure mounting surface on the bottom of the Switch is grease and dust free. B. Remove adhesive backing from your Rubber Feet. C. Apply the Rubber Feet to each corner on the bottom of the Switch. These footpads can prevent the Switch from shock/vibration. Rack-mounted I...

9 3. Network Application GSW-2493 is designed as a segment switch. That is, with its large address table (8000 MAC address) and high performance, it is ideal for interconnecting networking segments. PC, workstations, and servers can communicate each other by directly connecting with GSW-2493. The sw...

10 devices to manage); management applications represent the Stack as a single device, and simple point and click management. Stackable technology allows you to increase the resiliency and the versatility of your network edge to accommodate evolution for speed and converged applications. Following f...

11 4. Console Management Login in the Console Interface When the connection between Switch and PC is ready, turn on the PC and run a terminal emulation program or Hyper Terminal and configure its communication parameters to match the following default characteristics of the console port: Baud Rate: ...

12 Console login screen Main Menu There are five selections as follow. „ Status and Counters: Show the status of the switch. „ Switch Static Configuration: Configure the switch. „ Protocol Related Configuration: Configure the protocol function. „ System Reset Configuration: Restart the system or res...

13 Main menu line interface Control Key description: The control keys provided in all menus: Tab: Move the vernier to next item. Backspace: Move the vernier to previous item. Enter: Select item. Space: Toggle selected item to next configure or change the value. Esc: to exit the current action mode.

14 Function Description Status and Counters In Status and Counters, you can view Port status, counters, and configure system parameter. You can press the “ Tab ” or “ Backspace ” to choose item, and press “ Enter ” key to select item. Status and Counters interface Port Status It displays status of p...

15 „ Negotiation: display the auto negotiation status. „ FC: display the flow control status is “enable” or “disable”. „ BP: display backpressure status. „ Bandwidth In/Out: display bandwidth In/out control status. „ Priority: display the port priority status. „ Security: display the port security s...

16 Port counter information interface System Information It displays the system parameter. 1. System Name: the name of device. 2. System Location: where the device is located. 3. System Description: the name of device type. 4. Firmware Version: the switch’s firmware version. 5. Kernel Version: the s...

18 Switch Static Configuration In Switch Static Configuration, it has 8 main functions – Administration, Port, Trunk, Port Mirroring, VLAN, Priority, MAC Address, and Misc Configuration. Under each function, there are more sub-functions. We will describe in following paragraph. Switch Configuration ...

19 Administration Configuration main interface Device Information You can configure the device information. 1. Select <Edit> action to configure. 2. Name: assign the name for the switch. 3. Description: a short description for the switch. 4. Location: the switch location, ex: Taipei. 5. Contac...

20 Device Information interface IP Configuration You can configure the IP for this switch. The system has the default IP address. You can re-configure or use the default value. 1. Select the <Edit> 2. DHCP Client: disable or enable the DHCP client function. 3. IP Address: assign the switch IP ...

21 IP Configuration interface User Name Configuration You can change the console and web management login user name. 1. Select the <Edit> 2. Enter the new user name 3. Select the <Save> User Name Configuration interface

22 Password Configuration You can change the console and web management login password. 1. Select the <Edit> 2. Old Password: enter the old password. 3. New Password: enter the new password. 4. Enter Again: reenter the new password for confirmation. 5. Select the <Save> Password Configur...

23 mode). 7. BP: enable or disable Back Pressure function (Backpressure for half duplex mode). 8. Bandwidth In/ Out: per port packet transmission rate control. Per level is 100Kbps. It supports individual control method of TX and RX. 9. Priority: set port to high or low priority. 10. Security: enabl...

24 Trunk Configuration interface Port Mirroring Configuration The port mirroring is a method for monitor traffic of switched networks. The specific port can monitor traffic through the mirror ports. The monitored ports in or out traffic will be duplicated into monitoring port. 1. Select the <Edit...

25 Port Mirroring interface 3. Analysis port: Set the destination port of mirroring packet. All of the packets of mirroring port will be duplicated and sent to Analysis port. 4. Port State: use “ Space ” key to mark the port that wanted to be mirrored. 5. Select the <Save> . Port Mirroring int...

26 VLAN Configuration You can configure VLAN in VLAN Configuration. There are four functions in VLAN Configuration mode: VLAN Configuration, Create a VLAN Group, Edit/Delete VLAN Group and Group Sorted Node. Follow the below description to configure VLAN. VLAN Configuration Main interface VLAN Confi...

28 Create VLAN Group: PortBase interface „ Create 802.1Q VLAN 1. Enable security VLAN setting: select to enable or disable security VLAN group. When you select to enable security VLAN group, only the members in this VLAN group can access to the switch. The steps of setting security VLAN refer to the...

32 Priority Configuration You can configure port priority level. There are 0~7-priority level can map to high or low queue. 1. Select <Edit> . 2. Press “ Space ” key to select the priority level mapping to high or low queue. 3. Qos Mode: select the mode to process incoming packets. „ First com...

33 Priority Configuration interface MAC Address Configuration When you add a static MAC address, it remains in the switch's address table, regardless of whether the device is physically connected to the switch. This saves the switch from having to re-learn a device's MAC address when the disconnecte...

36 Add Filtering MAC Address interface „ Edit Filtering MAC address 1. Select <Edit> key to modify a static Filtering address. 2. Choose the MAC address that you want to modify and then press “ Enter ”. 3. Select <Edit> key to modify. 4. Press “ ESC ” to go back action menu line 5. Selec...

37 „ MAC Address Ageing Time: MAC address table refresh time setting. Type the number of seconds that an inactive MAC address remains in the switch’s address table. The valid range is 0, 300~765 seconds. Default is 300 seconds. „ Broadcast Storm Filter mode: configure the broadcast storm filter mode...

38 in stacking group. When the stacking group is set up, you can only configure the slave switches through the master switch. Note: 1. Before configuring the stacking function, make sure all stack switches are in the same network. 2. Configure stacking function; you must configure the master switch ...

39 Protocol Related Configuration You can configure Spanning Tree Protocol, SNMP, LACP, IGMP/GVRP, and 802.1x in Protocol Relate Configuration section. Protocol Relate Configuration interface STP Spanning tree is a link management protocol that provides path redundancy while preventing undesirable l...

40 STP Setup You must enable Spanning Tree function before configure STP function. 1. Select <Edit> 2. Use “ Space ” key to select the option. 3. Select <Save> . STP Setup interface System Configuration You can configure the STP system parameter after enable the STP function. You can vie...

41 STP System Configuration interface Per Port Setting 1. Select <Edit> . 2. Path Cost: specifies the path cost of the port that switch uses to determine which port are the forwarding ports. 3. Priority: This is mean port priority; you can make it more or less likely to become the root port. 4...

42 Per Port Setting interface SNMP To define management stations as trap managers and to enter SNMP community strings. You can also define a name, location, and contact person for the switch. SNMP Configuration interface

43 SNMP System Options 1. Press <Edit> . 2. Name: assign a name for the switch. 3. Contact: Type the name of contact person or organization. 4. Location: Type the location of the switch. 5. Press “ ESC ” goes back action menu line. 6. Press <Save> to save configure value. SNMP System Opt...

44 Add Community Strings interface „ Edit Community Name 1. Select <Edit> 2. Choose the item that you want to modify and then press “ Enter ” . 3. Community Name: type the new name. 4. Write Access: Press “ Space ” key to change the right. 5. Select <Save> . Edit Community Strings interf...

46 Add Trap Manager interface „ Delete Trap Manager 1. Select <Delete> 2. Choose the trap manager that you want to delete and then press “ Enter ”. 3. When pressing “ Enter ” will complete deletion. LACP The Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) provides a standardized means for exchanging ...

47 LACP Configuration interface Working Ports Setting 1. Select <Edit> 2. Group: Display the trunk group ID. 3. LACP: Press “ Space ” key to enable or disable LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) support. When LACP enable, the group is LACP static trunk group. When LACP disable, the group ...

48 LACP Working Ports configuration interface LACP State Activity 1. Select <Edit> 2. Use “ Space ” key to select the Port State Activity. „ Active: The port automatically sends LACP protocol packets. „ Passive: The port does not automatically send LACP protocol packets, and responds only if i...

49 Group Status When you setting trunk group, you can see the relation information in here. LACP Group State interface IGMP/GVRP You can enable or disable the IGMP/GVRP (GARP VLAN Registration Protocol). 1. Select <Edit> 2. Use “ Space ” key to change the value 3. Select <Save>

52 802.1x System Configuration interface Per Port Configuration You can configure 802.1x authentication state for each port. The State provides Disable, Accept, Reject and Authorize. Use “ Space ” key change the state value. 802.1x Per Port Setting interface

54 System Reset Configuration System Reset Configuration interface Factory Default Reset switch to default configuration. Press “ Y ”, switch will load default setting. After finished load default setting, switch will reboot automatically. Factory Default interface

55 System Reboot Reboot the switch in software reset. TFTP Configuration It provides user to update firmware or restore EEPROM value or upload current EEPROM value. TFTP Update Firmware interface Update Firmware It provides user uses TFTP to update firmware. 1. Start the TFTP server, and copy firmwa...

56 Update Firmware interface TFTP Restore Configuration You can restore EEPROM value, which saved in TFTP server, from TFTP server. 1. Start the TFTP server. 2. Select <Edit> . 3. TFTP Server IP: type the IP of TFTP server. 4. Restore File Name: type the image file name. 5. Press “ ESC ” back ...

57 TFTP Restore Configuration interface TFTP Backup Configuration You can save current EEPROM value to TFTP server as backup. The backup file can be restore from TFTP server when you need. 1. Start the TFTP server. 2. Select <Edit> . 3. TFTP Server IP: type the IP of TFTP server. 4. Backup Fil...

58 TFTP Backup Configuration interface X-modem Upgrade Before using X-modem upgrade, disconnect terminal and modify baud rate to 57600bps, then connect again. 1. Press “ X ” key to start upgrading from X-modem. 2. You will see the following screen displays. 3. Select “ send file " under Transfer...

60 5. Web-Based Management This section introduces the configuration and functions of the Web-Based management. If your OS is Windows XP with Service Pack 2, please disable the windows firewall before connecting to UI. About Web-based Management Inside the CPU board of the switch exists an embedded ...

61 Password: root Online Help You can click Help button when you have any configuration question during the configuring. System Login 1. Launch the Internet Explorer. 2. Type http:// and the IP address of the switch. Press “ Enter ”. 3. The login screen appears. 4. Key in the user name and password....

62 GSW-2493 Port status In Port status, you can view every port status that depended on user setting and the negotiation result. 1. Port: display the number of port. The first integer is the module slot number. The second integer is the port number in the module. For example: Port 1-1, it means the ...

63 8. Back Pressure: Display the Back Pressure status setting. “Config” means the value that user configured. “Actual” means the current value of the port. 9. Bandwidth In/ Out: display the port incoming and outgoing bandwidth. 10. Priority: display the port static priority status is “High” or “Low”...

64 Port information interface Port Statistics The following information provides a view of the current port statistic information. Click Clear button to clean all counts.

65 Port Statistics Administrator In Administrator function, it provides the following functions: IP Configuration, Switch Settings, Console Port Information, Port Controls, Trunking, Forwarding and Filtering, VLAN Configuration, Spanning Tree, Port Mirroring, SNMP Management, Security Manager, and 8...

66 IP configuration interface Switch Setting In Switch setting, it has three parts of setting – Basic, Advance, and Misc Config. We will describe the configure detail in following. Basic Switch Settings In Basic Switch Setting, it displays the switch basic information. „ System Name: the name of swi...

67 Switch basic setting interface Advanced Setting In Advanced setting, it has two sections – MAC Table Address Entry and Priority Queue Service. After the configuration, click Apply button to complete the configuration. „ Enable MAC address Aging Out: to enable the MAC address age out function. Whe...

68 port's total bandwidth used by broadcast traffic. When broadcast traffic for a port rises above the threshold you set, broadcast storm control becomes active. The valid threshold value are 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% and off. Switch Advanced setting interface „ 802.1p Priority: select the priority que...

69 Misc Config „ Collisions Retry Forever: disable is in half duplex. If happen collision will retry 48 times and then drop frame. Enable is in half duplex. If happen collision will retry forever. „ Hash Algorithm: CRC Hash or Direct Map for MAC address learning algorithm „ IFG Compensation: Interna...

72 Console Port Information Console is a standard UART interface to communicate with Serial Port. User can use windows HyperTerminal program to link the switch. Please refer to Console Management Æ Console login for detail steps. Console port information shows as follow: Bits per seconds: 9600 Data ...

73 Pressure to confine the ingress rate to meet the specified rate. „ In: fill in the port effective ingress rate. The valid range is 0 ~ 1000. The unit is 100K. 0: disable rate control. 1 ~ 1000: valid rate value. „ Out: fill in the port effective egress rate. The valid range is 0~1000. The unit is...

74 Group, and enable its transmission and reception functions in an orderly manner. Link aggregation lets you group up to eight consecutive ports into a single dedicated connection. This feature can expand bandwidth to a device on the network. LACP operation requires full-duplex mode, more detail in...

75 Trunking—Aggregator Setting interface Aggregator Information When you had setup the LACP aggregator, you will see relation information in here. Trunking – Aggregator Information interface

76 Aggregator Information State Activity When you had setup the LACP aggregator, you can configure port state activity. You can mark or un-mark the port. When you mark the port and click Apply button the port state activity will change to Active . Opposite is Passive . 1. Active: The port automatica...

77 Forwarding and Filtering IGMP Snooping The switch support IP multicast, you can enable IGMP protocol on web management’s switch setting advanced page, then display the IGMP snooping information in this page, you can view difference multicast group VID and member port in here, IP multicast address...

78 IGMP Snooping interface Static MAC Address When you add a static MAC address, it remains in the switch's address table, regardless of whether the device is physically connected to the switch. This saves the switch from having to re-learn a device's MAC address when the disconnected or powered-off...

79 Static MAC Address interface MAC filtering MAC address filtering allows the switch to drop unwanted traffic. Traffic is filtered based on the destination addresses. 1. In MAC Address box, enter the MAC address that wants to filter. 2. VLAN ID: If tag-based (802.1Q) VLAN are set up on the switch, ...

80 MAC Filtering interface VLAN configuration A Virtual LAN (VLAN) is a logical network grouping that limits the broadcast domain. It allows you to isolate network traffic so only members of the VLAN receive traffic from the same VLAN members. Basically, creating a VLAN from a switch is logically eq...

82 VLAN – PortBase interface 1. Click Add>> to create a new VLAN group. 2. Enter the VLAN name, group ID and select the members of VLAN group. 3. Click Apply .

84 5. If the groups’ list is over one page, you can click Next Page to view other VLAN groups. 6. Use Delete button to delete unwanted VLAN. 7. Use Edit button to modify existing VLAN group. 802.1Q VLAN Tagged-based VLAN is an IEEE 802.1Q specification standard. Therefore, it is possible to create a...

85 802.1q VLAN interface „ Basic 1. Click Add button. 2. Enable GVRP Protocol: check the check box to enable GVRP protocol. 3. Group Name: assign a name for the new VLAN. 4. VLAN ID: fill in a VLAN ID (between 2-4094). The default is 1. 5. Protocol VLAN: choose the protocol type. Default is NONE. 6....

87 Apply . „ Tag: outgoing frames with VLAN-Tagged. „ Untag: outgoing frames without VLAN-Tagged. „ Port VID: Configure port VID settings 1. Port VLAN ID: enter the port VLAN ID. 2. Ingress Filtering: Ingress filtering lets frames belonging to a specific VLAN to be forwarded if the port belongs to t...

88 802.1q VLAN – Port VLAN ID interface Spanning Tree The Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP) is a standardized method (IEEE 802.1d) for avoiding loops in switched networks. When STP enabled, to ensure that only one path at a time is active between any two nodes on the network. We are recommended that you ...

90 3. Assign the port priority value. The value range is from 0 to 255. The lowest value has higher priority. 4. Click Apply button. SPT – Per Port Configuration interface Port Mirroring The Port mirroring is a method for monitor traffic in switched networks. Traffic through ports can be monitored b...

91 2. Analysis Port: It’s mean mirror port can be used to see all monitor port traffic. You can connect mirror port to LAN analyzer or Netxray. 3. Monitor Port: the ports you want to monitor. All monitor port traffic will be copied to mirror port. You can select max 25 monitor ports in the switch. U...

92 You can define management stations as trap managers and to enter SNMP community strings. You also can define a name, location, and contact person for the switch. Fill in the system options data, and then click Apply to update the changes. „ System Options 1. Name: enter a name for the switch. 2. ...

93 MIB-object information. 3. RW: Read write. Enables requests accompanied by this string to display MIB-object information and to set MIB objects. 4. Click Add . „ Trap Manager A trap manager is a management station that receives traps, the system alerts generated by the switch. If no trap manager ...

94 802.1X When enabling the IEEE 802.1X function, you can configure the parameters of this function. System Configuration 1. Radius Server IP: set the Radius Server IP address. 2. Server Port: set the UDP destination port for authentication requests to the specified Radius Server. 3. Accounting Port...

96 Misc Configuration 1. Quiet period: Set the period during which the port doesn’t try to acquire a supplicant. 2. TX period: Set the period the port waits to retransmit next EAPOL PDU during an authentication session. 3. Supplicant timeout: Set the period of time the switch waits for a supplicant ...

97 1. TFTP Server IP Address: fill in your TFTP server IP. 2. Firmware File Name: the name of firmware image. 3. Click Apply . TFTP Update Firmware interface Configuration Backup In Configuration Backup, you can restore the backup configuration into the switch. Also, you can backup the configuration...

98 TFTP Restore Configuration interface TFTP Backup Configuration You can save current EEPROM value from the switch to TFTP server, then go to the TFTP restore configuration page to restore the EEPROM value. 1. TFTP Server IP Address: fill in the TFTP server IP 2. Backup File Name: fill the file nam...

99 „ Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 „ The other setting value is back to disable or none. Click Default button to reset switch to default setting. Factory Default interface System Reboot Reboot the Switch in software reset. Click Apply button to reboot the switch. System Reboot interface Panel List Disp...

100 IP Stacking This function allows switch to stack up to 8 stackable switches as a unit group. When configuring the stacking function, beware the following points. „ Any port on the switch can be used to stack. „ Before configuring the stacking function, make sure all stack switches are in the sam...

102 communicate and collect the data from the slave switches. 6. Connect to the master switch through the Web. You will see the following screen display. 7. Click any function in the menu bar of the master switch to configure the switch in the stacking group. You will see the IP of stacking group li...

104 6. Troubleshooting This section is intended to help you solve the most common problems on the GSW-2493. Incorrect connections The switch port can auto detect straight or crossover cable when you link switch with other Ethernet device. For the RJ-45 connector should use correct UTP or STP cable, ...

105 at any time. Data path loops will cause broadcast storms that will severely impact your network performance. Diagnosing LED Indicators The Switch can be easily monitored through panel indicators to assist in identifying problems, which describes common problems you may encounter and where you ca...

106 7. Technical Specification This section provides the specifications of the GSW-2493, and the following table lists these specifications. Standard IEEE802.3 10BASE-T IEEE802.3u 100BASE-TX/100BASE-FX IEEE802.3z Gigabit SX/LX IEE802.3ab Gigabit 1000T IEEE802.3x Flow Control and Back pressure IEEE80...