STA Operation Levels................................................................................................................................................. 32
On the Bridge Level ................................................................................................................................................................... 32
On the Port Level ....................................................................................................................................................................... 32
User-Changeable STA Parameters ............................................................................................................................ 32
Illustration of STA ...................................................................................................................................................... 33
............................................................................................................................................................. 34
VLAN............................................................................................................................................................................ 35
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs .................................................................................................................................................. 36
VLAN Segmentation .................................................................................................................................................................. 36
Sharing Resources Across VLANs............................................................................................................................................. 36
VLANs Spanning Multiple Switches ......................................................................................................................................... 37
Broadcast Storms ....................................................................................................................................................... 39
6
USING THE CONSOLE INTERFACE ................................................................................................................. 40
User Accounts Management....................................................................................................................................... 43
Save Changes ............................................................................................................................................................. 44
Create/Modify User Accounts .................................................................................................................................................... 45
View/Delete User Accounts........................................................................................................................................................ 47
System Configuration ................................................................................................................................................. 48
Configure IP Address ................................................................................................................................................................. 49
Configure Console...................................................................................................................................................................... 51
Configure Switch Stack .............................................................................................................................................................. 52
Advance Settings ................................................................................................................................................................. 54
Configure Port ............................................................................................................................................................................ 55
Configure Trunk ......................................................................................................................................................................... 57
Configure Port Mirroring ........................................................................................................................................................... 59
Configure Spanning Tree Protocol ............................................................................................................................................. 59
STP Parameter Settings ..................................................................................................................................................... 60
STP Custom Settings .......................................................................................................................................................... 62
Configure MAC Address Filtering ...................................................................................................................................... 66
Configure IGMP.................................................................................................................................................................... 67
Configure IEEE 802.1Q VLANs ......................................................................................................................................... 76
System Utilities ........................................................................................................................................................... 83
Ping Test..................................................................................................................................................................................... 84
Save Settings to TFTP Server..................................................................................................................................................... 84
Save Switch History to TFTP Server.......................................................................................................................................... 85
Clear Address Table ................................................................................................................................................................... 86
..................................................................................................................................................... 88
Network Monitoring ................................................................................................................................................... 88
Traffic Statistics.......................................................................................................................................................................... 89
Port Utilization....................................................................................................................................................................... 89
Port Traffic Statistics............................................................................................................................................................ 90
Port Packet Error Statistics................................................................................................................................................. 92
........................................................................................................................................... 38
................................................................................................................................................ 40
................................................................................................................. 41
.................................................................................................................................... 41
..................................................................................................................... 41
............................................................................................................................................... 48
............................................................................................ 45