NETGEAR FSM726v2 - 10/100 Mbps Managed Switch Setup Manual page 70

700 Series Software Manual v2.1
• "Advanced > Disable Advanced Alerting" on page 4-22
• "Advanced > Port Mirroring" on page 4-22
• "Advanced > Port Trunking" on page 4-23
• "Advanced > Virtual Cable Tester" on page 4-23
• "Advanced> Advanced Security" on page 4-24
• "Advanced > Advanced Tools " on page 4-28
• "Advanced > Traffic Management" on page 4-31
• "Advanced> VLANS" on page 4-32
• "Advanced> Spanning Tree" on page 4-35
• "Advanced> MAC" on page 4-37
• "Advanced> Multimedia Support" on page 4-39
• "Advanced> SNMP" on page 4-40
The Advanced page allows professional users to operate more complicated features of the device,
which include VLAN, Spanning Tree, Port Trunking, Multimedia support (IGMP), traffic
prioritization, SNMP, and port mirroring. These features are powerful and can degrade or disable a
network if improperly used.
• Disable Advanced Alerting: When you select a feature in the Advanced menu, an alert will
pop up to inform you that the changes you are about to make may have adverse effect on your
network. Experienced users may use this option to disable these alerts.
• Port Mirroring: You can designate a port for monitoring traffic from one or more other ports or
of a single VLAN configured on the switch. The switch monitors the network activity by
copying all traffic from the specified monitoring sources to the designated monitoring port, to
which a network analyzer can be attached.
• Port Trunking: A feature that allows multiple links between switches to work as one virtual
link (aggregate link). Trunks can be defined for similar port types only. For example, a 10/100
port cannot form a Port Trunk with a gigabit port. For 10/100 ports, trunks can only be formed
within the same bank. A bank is a set of eight ports. Up to four trunks can be operating at the
same time. Toggle the ports to the correct trunk number to set up a trunk. After clicking Apply,
the trunk will be enabled. Spanning Tree will treat trunked ports as a single virtual port.
• Virtual Cable Tester (available on some models): You can use this feature to test the continuity
of the cable circuit.
• Advanced Security: You can configure the security settings of the switch by choosing either to
use basic password or RADIUS server to authenticate the user attempting to configure the
switch. In addition, you can also set up IP filtering to allow only approved users on the
network to configure the switch.
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