Page 3 - Configuring the Switch; ProConnect II; Table of Contents; Introduction; Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Configuring the Switch 11 Overview 11 Web-Based Conf iguration and Management 11 Logging On to the Switch 11 Basic Management Activities 12 General Management Conf iguration 13 Changing the System Name 13 Changing the Contact 14 Changing the Location 14 Changing the Administration Password 15 Changi...
Page 5 - SNMP and RMON Management; ProConnect II Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit
ProConnect II ® Series SNMP and RMON Management 106 Overview 106 SNMP Agent and MIB-2 (RFC 1213) 106 RMON MIB (RFC 1757) and Bridge MIB (RFC 1493) 107 RMON Groups Supported 107 Bridge Groups Supported 108 Appendix 109 About Fast Ethernet 109 About Gigabit Ethernet 110 Fiber Optic Cabling 110 Twisted...
Page 6 - Getting to Know the Switch; The Gigabit Expansion Ports
3 ProConnect II ® Series Getting to Know the Switch Act Green. Lights to indicate that the switch is successfully connect-ing to the network. Blinks to indicate the switch is activelyreceiving or sending the data over the port. 10 Amber. Lights to indicate that the port is operating at 10 Mbps. 100 ...
Page 7 - Installing the Switch; Fast Ethernet Considerations; Pre-Installation Considerations
Installing the Switch Fast Ethernet Considerations If you will be using the Switch for Fast Ethernet (100Mbps) applications, youmust observe the following guidelines: Full-Duplex Considerations As previously mentioned, the Switch provides full-duplex support for its RJ-45 ports. Full-duplex operatio...
Page 8 - The installation is complete.; Powering On and Resetting the Switch
7 ProConnect II ® Series 1. Place the Switch on a desktop or shelf near an AC power source and fol- lowing the guidelines of the preceding paragraph, Positioning the Switch. 2. Connect one end of a standard network cable to one of the 10/100/1000 RJ-45 ports on the front of the Switch. 3. Connect th...
Page 9 - S w i t c h M a n a g e m e n t; Local Console Management; None; CURSOR EMULATION: VT100; The Gigabit Expansion Module installation is complete.; Overview
S w i t c h M a n a g e m e n t The Switch offers an easy-to-use, menu-driven console interface. Using thisinterface, you can perform various switch conf iguration and managementactivities, including: • Conf iguring system and port parameters • Assigning an IP address to the Switch • Conf iguring ro...
Page 10 - C o n f i g u r i n g t h e S w i t c h; Linksys ProConnect II 2604 Gigabit Switch; Remote Console Management
C o n f i g u r i n g t h e S w i t c h The Switch features a menu-driven console interface for switch conf igura-tion. The Switch can be conf igured locally through the console port using ter-minal emulation software, such as Hyperterminal, or remotely via a Telnetconnection. This User Guide provid...
Page 11 - • LAN Port allows you to conf igure line speed and flow control, Admin; Control, and view the physical address of the Switch.; General Management Configuration; Changing the System Name; The Enter System Name screen appears.; Basic Management Activities
• General allows you to change the system name, contact, location, admin- istration and guest passwords, statistics collection, reboot-on-error, remoteTelnet login, and remote HTTP login. • LAN Port allows you to conf igure line speed and flow control, Admin Control, and view the physical address of...
Page 13 - Disabled (prevents active statistic collection for each port); Changing the Guest Password
2. Enter a new guest password. If you make a mistake, use the Backspace key to delete the error. The password is case-sensitive, can be no morethan 16 characters (only alphanumeric characters and the underscore “_”character can be used). 3. Press Enter to return to the General screen. Statistic Coll...
Page 14 - Remote Telnet Login; Remote Http Login
19 ProConnect II ® Series Reboot-on-Error 1. From the General screen, highlight Reboot-On-Error and press the Enter key. The following screen will appear. 2. Highlight one of the following choices: Disabled (prevents the Switch from automatically resetting when a fatal error is detected. This settin...
Page 15 - To set the line speed, proceed to the Setting the Line Speed section; Setting the Line Speed; the line speed setting you selected appears next to Line Speed.; LAN Port Configuration; Changing the Speed and Flow Control; From the LAN Port Configurations screen, highlight Speed & Flow
3. Proceed to the appropriate section: To set the line speed, proceed to the Setting the Line Speed section To set the flow control, go to the section on Changing the Flow Control. Setting the Line Speed 1. Press Enter with the Speed & Flow Control value highlighted . The Speed & Flow Contro...
Page 16 - Returning to the Basic Management Screen; Console Port Configuration; Changing the Flow Control; Control screen to return to the LAN Port Configurations screen.; Admin Control
23 ProConnect II ® Series 22 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch Returning to the Basic Management Screen After completing the general management activities, press the Esc key to exitthe General screen and return to the Basic Management screen. You can thenselect another option from th...
Page 17 - Enabling or Disabling Modem Control Options; either enable or disable a modem connection to the console port.; Specifying a Modem Setup String; Highlight the desired modem setup string option.; Changing the Console Baud Rate
Enabling or Disabling Modem Control Options 1. From the Console Port Configurations screen, highlight Modem Control and press the Enter key. A screen similar to the following will showwhether a console modem connection is enabled or disabled. 2. Highlight Enabled or Disabled in the Modem Control Opt...
Page 18 - Enabling or Disabling SLIP; Specifying a SLIP Subnet Mask; If you are using SLIP, enter a suitable SLIP subnet mask.; After you enter the SLIP subnet mask, press the Enter key. You will
27 ProConnect II ® Series 3. Press the Enter key. If you highlight Default Setup String, you will return to the Console Port Configurations screen and the default modem stringwill appear in the Modem Setup String f ield. If you highlight CustomSetup String, enter the custom string in the Enter Modem...
Page 19 - Switching Database Configuration; Advanced Management Activities
• Other Protocols lets you view and change GVRP and IGMP settings. • Port Trunking allows you to assign a range of ports to trunking groups. • Port Mirroring lets you mirror one port to another. • QoS Setup allows for the conf iguration of Quality of Service. • File Transfer allows you to upgrade yo...
Page 20 - Creating a New VLAN; VLAN ID screen will appear.; VLAN & PVID PERSPECTIVE
Creating a New VLAN 1. From the VLAN Perspective screen in, hold down the Shift key and press the “+” key. The New VLAN Settings screen will appear. . 2. With the VLAN ID f ield highlighted, press the Enter key. The Enter New VLAN ID screen will appear. 3. Enter a new VLAN ID as either a decimal or ...
Page 21 - Arrow and Down Arrow keys to highlight an individual port.; Adding New Switch Ports
If you highlight Tagged Ports, the screen window reads Select TaggedPorts, as in the following screen. 3. In the Select Untagged Ports or Select Tagged Ports screen, use the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys to highlight an individual port. 4. Press Enter. An asterisk appears to the right of the selected...
Page 22 - Viewing VLAN Activities; Deleting a VLAN ID
Viewing VLAN Activities The following procedure describes how to use the VLAN Perspective screento view activities for a particular VLAN. Using this procedure, you can view: • Active ports.• Active MAC addresses associated with a VLAN.• A transient address, if any.• Filtering and port information. T...
Page 23 - Searching for MAC Addresses; Search screen will appear.; Obtaining Additional Information
Exiting the VLAN Screens When you f inish performing VLAN activities, press the Esc key until youreturn to the desired screen. Viewing VLAN Settings Using the VLAN Configuration screen, you can view VLAN settings. 1. From the VLAN Perspective screen, highlight an existing VLAN and press the Enter ke...
Page 24 - Deleting Ports; Adding Ports
To select tagged ports: • Highlight Tagged Ports and press Enter. The Select Tagged Ports screen will appear, along with a list of the tagged ports. • To select an individual port, highlight it and press Enter. An asterisk will appear next to each port you select (to deselect it, press Enter again t...
Page 25 - IP MULTICAST GROUP PERSPECTIVE; Configuring PVID; The following steps will show you how to set the PVID.
IP MULTICAST GROUP PERSPECTIVE The IP multicast group perspective provides information associated with anIP multicast group. Use the following procedure to obtain an IP multicastgroup perspective (prior to this process, set the IGMP in the Other Protocolssection, step 2.): 1. From the L2 Switching D...
Page 26 - PORT PERSPECTIVE; MAC ADDRESS PERSPECTIVE; Multicast Group Membership screen.
43 ProConnect II ® Series 42 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch PORT PERSPECTIVE The port perspective lets you view VLAN activities, Port Statistics, and MACLimit. To obtain a port perspective: 1. From the L2 Switching DataBase screen, highlight Port Perspective and press the Enter ke...
Page 27 - Per Port Statistics; Scrolling Through MAC Addresses
Per Port Statistics If you select Per Port Statistics from the Port Perspective screen, a screensimilar to the following Per Port VLAN Activities will appear. 1. To reset counters for all ports, press the “R” key. When the following screen appears, highlight Yes. Press Enter to reset the counters or...
Page 28 - IP Networking; Per Port MAC Limit
47 ProConnect II ® Series 46 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch 2. Highlight the desired option, and then press the Enter key. 3. If you selected Set Learning Limit, the Enter New Limit screen appears. 4. Type the new limit, and press the Enter key. IP Networking If you select IP Netw...
Page 33 - Delay; shows any preferred servers that have been def ined.; Relays; the following will appear.; Press the Down Arrow key and press Enter to conf igure the maximum-
57 ProConnect II ® Series Delay shows the number of seconds that must elapse before aDHCP request broadcast is relayed to the next IP subnetwork. Servers shows any preferred servers that have been def ined. Relays shows the outbound IP subnetwork for relaying a DHCPrequest broadcast. The following p...
Page 34 - PING SETTINGS; Packet Count screen will appear.; Preferred Field options.
PING SETTINGS If you select Ping from the IP Networking screen, a Ping screen similar to thefollowing will appear, with the Host f ield highlighted. Use the following procedure to change the ping settings: 1. Press Enter. The Enter IP Address screen will appear. 2. Type the IP address of the compute...
Page 35 - ing a remote IP address.
BRIDGING If you select Bridging from the Advanced Management screen, the followingBridging Parameters screen will appear. 1. To change the aging time, highlight Aging Time <seconds> and press Enter. The following prompt will ask you to enter a bridge aging period,in seconds. Enter a new aging ...
Page 36 - From each of these screens, you are able to:; • Hold down the Shift key and press the “+” key to add a specif ic MAC; address to be f iltered.; • Press the “-” (hyphen) key to delete a specif ic MAC address from being; database. The static f iltering database maximum capacity is 64.; SPANNING TREE FUNCTIONS; STATIC FILTERING
From each of these screens, you are able to: • Hold down the Shift key and press the “+” key to add a specif ic MAC address to be f iltered. • Press the “-” (hyphen) key to delete a specif ic MAC address from being f iltered. Since there is no precautionary message that appears before youdelete a sp...
Page 37 - Spanning Tree Port States
65 ProConnect II ® Series Use the following procedure to modify the selections shown: 1. With the Spanning Tree Protocol f ield highlighted, press Enter. The fol- lowing choices will appear (see next page). 2. Select either Disabled or Enabled and press Enter. Your selection will appears next to Spa...
Page 38 - Spanning Tree Path Costs
Spanning Tree Path Costs Highlight Spanning Tree Path Costs in the Spanning Tree Protocol screen andpress the Enter key. A Spanning Tree Path Costs screen similar to the follow-ing will appear. Use the following procedure to change the costs in the Spanning Tree PathCosts screen: 1. Use the Up Arrow...
Page 39 - SNMP FUNCTIONS; Enter. The Enter Get Community Name screen will appear.; Spanning Tree Port Priorities
SNMP FUNCTIONS If you select SNMP from the Advanced Management screen, the followingSNMP Configurations screen will appear, with the SNMP value highlighted. The SNMP Configurations screen lets you view all SNMP-related informa-tion. As this screen shows, the factory default SNMP value is Enabled and...
Page 40 - Enter. The Enter Set Community Name screen will appear.
11. Type an IP address for trap host 1. The address consists of numbers sepa- rated by periods (e.g., 129.32.0.11). 12. Press Enter. The IP address you typed will appear next to Trap Host 1 IP Address. 13. To specify up to two additional trap community names, repeat steps 10 through 12. 14. To chang...
Page 41 - STACKING
Stacking Basic Setting enables you to set stack ID, stack size, and stack port.Stack IP Settings lets you to set the IP address of the stacked switches. StackPort Mapping shows information about all ports. Stacking Basic SettingSelect Stack Basic Settings from the Stacking screen and press the Enter...
Page 43 - OTHER PROTOCOLS; PORT TRUNKING
77 ProConnect II ® Series OTHER PROTOCOLS Highlight Other Protocols from the Advanced Management screen and pressthe Enter key. The Other Protocol Settings screen will appear, with theGVRP value highlighted. 1. To change the GVRP setting, press Enter with GVRP highlighted. When the following screen ...
Page 44 - SETTING QUALITY OF SERVICE PARAMETERS; parameters in the QoS menu.
79 ProConnect II ® Series 3. Highlight the range of ports you want to associate with the trunk group, then press Enter. The port range appears next to the selected trunk group,as in the following screen. 4. For each trunk port you want to select, highlight it and press Enter. An asterisk will appear...
Page 45 - The Global Setting menu appears.
5. Highlight whether you want to enable or disable DiffServ Expedite Forwarding, and then press the Enter key. Your selection appears next toDiffServ Expedite. 6. Press the Down Arrow key to highlight Tos/VLAN Tag. 7. Press the Enter key. The ToS/VLAN Priority Tag menu appears. 8. Highlight the desi...
Page 46 - Percentage highlighted. The following screen appears.
13. Highlight the appropriate percentage and press the Enter key. 14. Press the Esc key to return to the WRED Drop Priority screen. 15. To change the high-drop percentage, press the Down Arrow key to high- light High Drop Percentage, then press the Enter key. The followingscreen appears. 16. Level 3...
Page 47 - Specifying TCP/UDP Logical Port Settings
1. Use the Down Arrow key to highlight the appropriate port, and then press the Enter key. The User-Def ine menu appears for the port you selected. 2. With the highlight on Port Number, press the Enter key. The port Number screen appears under the User Def ined port 2 screen. 3. Type a port number, ...
Page 48 - Range Port
Well-Known Port To set well-known port settings: 1. From the Logical Port menu, highlight Well-Known Port and press the Enter key. The Well-Known Port Index menu appears. 2. The Well-Known Port Index screen works the same way the User-Def ine Port Index Screen works, except that the well-known port ...
Page 49 - Press the Esc key until you return to the desired screen.; Specifying the QoS VLAN Priority; To specify the QoS VLAN priority:
5. To change the transmit priority setting, press the Down Arrow key to highlight Transmit Priority, then press the Enter key. When the TransmitPriority screen appears, highlight the desired priority and press the Enterkey. Your selection appears next to Transmit Priority. 6. Press the Esc key until...
Page 50 - Specifying the ToS Priority
6. Highlight the desired transmit priority, then press the Enter key. The trans- mit priority you selected appears next to Transmit Priority. 7. Press the Esc key to return to the VLAN Priority Index screen. 8. To specify other VLAN priority settings, repeat steps 2 through 7. 9. When you f inish, p...
Page 51 - Megabit Profile; Selecting a QoS Profile
2. Perform one of the following steps: • To specify a megabit prof ile that is used by a 10/100 Megabit port, refer to "Megabit Prof ile". • To specify a gigabit prof ile that is used by a Gigabit port, refer to "Gigabit Prof iles". Megabit Profile To select a megabit prof ile: 1. Wi...
Page 52 - Press the Esc key until you return to the desired screen.; Gigabit Profiles; To select a gigabit prof ile:; prof ile for their QoS scheduling algorithm.
NotePorts Using This Prof ile, Strict Priority, Delay Sensitive Application, andProf ile Status are all read-only parameters that cannot be changed. 6. To change the setting for QoS flow control setting, press the Down Arrow key to select QoS with Flow Control and press the Enter key. When theQoS Fl...
Page 53 - Specifying the Port Configuration; To specify port conf iguration parameters:; key. The Gigabit Prof ile Attributes screen appears.
Specifying the Port Configuration To specify port conf iguration parameters: 1. From the QoS screen, use the Down Arrow key to highlight Port Conf iguration, and then press the Enter key. The Port Conf igurationscreen appears. NotePorts 1 through 24 are 10/100 Megabit ports, while ports 25 and 26 ar...
Page 54 - Selecting Rate Control Parameters
2. Use the Down Arrow key to highlight Rate Control and press the Enter key. The Rate Control Status screen appears. 3. Highlight the desired setting, then press the Enter key. Your selection appears next to Rate Control in the Rate Control screen. 4. To change the port number setting, press the Dow...
Page 55 - appears next to Average Rate.; Sending and Receiving Files; Press the Enter key. The Receive File Via TFTP screen appears.
101 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series 6. To change the average rate setting, press the Enter key. The Average Rate screen appears. 7. Highlight the desired rate and press the Enter key. The rate you selected appears next to Average Rate. 8. To change the traff ...
Page 56 - Sending Files via TFTP; Enter key. The Send File Via TFTP screen appears.; Press the Enter key. The IP address appears next to IP Address.
6. Highlight Yes and press the Enter key to transfer the f ile now, or press the Esc key or highlight No and press the Enter key to not transfer the f ile atthis time. Sending Files via TFTP The following procedure describes how to send f iles using the TFTP protocol. NoteThe TFTP protocol is used t...
Page 57 - Receiving Files via Kermit
105 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series 3. Highlight the f ile type you want to send and press the Enter key. The f ile type you selected appears next to File Name. 4. Use the Down Arrow key to highlight IP Address, then press the Enter key. When the Enter IP Add...
Page 58 - RMON GROUPS SUPPORTED; S N M P a n d R M O N M a n a g e m e n t
• Warm start • Cold start • Link up • Link down • Authentication failure • Rising alarm • Falling alarm • Topology change MIB-2 def ines a set of manageable objects in various layers of the TCP/IPprotocol suites. MIB-2 covers all manageable objects from layer 1 to layer 4and, as a result, is the maj...
Page 59 - A p p e n d i x; BRIDGE GROUPS SUPPORTED; cable to all types of bridges.; About Fast Ethernet
A p p e n d i x As the demand for desktop video, multimedia development, imaging, andother speed-intensive applications continues to rise, the need for high per-formance, fault tolerant LAN technology will become more critical. Standard Ethernet, which has been the most popular networking technology...
Page 60 - About Gigabit Ethernet
111 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series Gigabit Ethernet runs at speeds of 1Gbps (Gigabit per second), ten timesfaster than 100Mbps Fast Ethernet, but it still integrates seamlessly with100Mbps Fast Ethernet hardware. Users can connect Gigabit Ethernet hard-ware ...
Page 61 - 0BaseT - An Ethernet standard that uses twisted wire pairs.
113 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series 112 10BaseT - An Ethernet standard that uses twisted wire pairs. 100BaseTX - IEEE physical layer specif ication for 100 Mbps over two pairsof Category 5 UTP or STP wire. 1000BASE-T - provides half-duplex (CSMA/CD) and full-...
Page 62 - Bridge - A device that interconnects different networks together.
Broadband - A data-transmission scheme in which multiple signals share thebandwidth of a medium. This allows the transmission of voice, data and videosignals over a single medium. Cable television uses broadband techniques todeliver dozens of channels over one cable. Browser - A browser is an applic...
Page 65 - Hop - The link between two network nodes.
IKE (Internet Key Exchange) - A negotiation and key exchange protocolspecif ied by the Internet Engineering Task Force. An IKE security association(SA) automatically negotiates encryption and authentication keys. With IKE,an initial exchange authenticates the VPN session and automatically negoti-ate...
Page 69 - Customer Support
129 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series 128 Customer Support For help with the installation or operation of your ProConnect II ® Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch, contact Linksys CustomerSupport at one of the phone numbers or Internet addresses b...
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