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Related Documentation • Quick Start Guide The Quick Start Guide shows how to connect the Switch and access the Web Configurator. • More Information Go to support.zyxel.com to find other information on the Switch GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Icons Used in Figures Figures in this user guide may use the following generic icons. The Switch icon is not an exact representation of your device. Switch Generic Switch Generic Router IP Camera Firewall Cell Tower Printer Server GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
3.3 LEDs ..............................18 Chapter 4 Web Configurator..........................19 4.1 Overview ............................19 4.2 System Login ............................ 19 4.3 Web Configurator Layout ......................20 4.3.1 Change Your Password ......................22 4.4 Switch Lockout / Resetting the Switch ..................22 GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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8.1.1 What You Need to Know ..................... 44 8.2 Port Settings ............................. 46 8.2.1 Advanced Settings ....................... 47 Chapter 9 VLAN..............................50 9.1 Overview ............................50 9.1.1 IEEE 802.1Q Tagged VLANs ....................50 9.2 VLAN Settings ..........................51 Chapter 10 Link Aggregation ..........................53 GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Chapter 15 Troubleshooting..........................67 15.1 Power, Hardware Connections, and LEDs ................. 67 15.2 Switch Access and Login ......................68 15.3 Switch Configuration ........................70 Appendix A Customer Support ....................... 71 Appendix B Legal Information ......................77 Index ..............................81 GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
H A P T E R Getting to Know Your Switch 1.1 Introduction This chapter introduces the main features and applications of the Switch. The GS1200 Series consists of the following models: • GS1200-5 • GS1200-5HP v2 • GS1200-8 • GS1200-8HP v2 You can easily connect different devices, such as computers, network storage devices, IP cameras, print servers to your home network.
Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your Switch Table 1 GS1200 Series Comparison Table (continued) MODEL GS1200-5 GS1200-5HP V2 GS1200-8 GS1200-8HP V2 PoE Feature – IEEE 802.3 af PoE – IEEE 802.3 af PoE IEEE 802.3at High IEEE 802.3at High Power over...
• Change the password. Use a password that is not easy to guess and that consists of different types of characters, such as numbers and letters. • Write down the password and put it in a safe place. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Switch to its factory default settings. If you backed up an earlier configuration file, you would not have to totally re-configure the Switch. You could simply restore your last configuration. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Make sure there is enough space around the Switch to allow the attachment of cables and the power cord and allow sufficient air circulation. Note: Make sure you are using the correct type of Ethernet cable (Category 5e, 6UTP/STP, or better Ethernet cable). GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Switch with the connection cables. Use the mounting holes on the Switch to hang the Switch on the screws. Wall mount the Switch with the Ethernet ports facing down and the ventilation holes on the side. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
The following figures show the front panels of the Switch. Figure 6 Front Panel: GS1200-5 Figure 7 Front Panel: GS1200-5HP v2 Figure 8 Front Panel: GS1200-8 Figure 9 Front Panel: GS1200-8HP v2 3.2 Rear Panel The following figures show the rear panels of the Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
To connect power to the Switch, insert the female end of the power cord to the AC power receptacle on the rear panel. Connect the other end of the supplied power cord to a power outlet. Make sure that no objects obstruct the airflow. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
More than 50 W has been supplied to the PoE-enabled devices, and the PoE power output is approaching the power budget. (GS1200-5HP Less than 50 W has been supplied to the PoE-enabled devices. v2 & GS1200- 8HP v2) GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
("a – z", "A – Z", "0 – 9"). The password must be 8 to 15 characters long. Retype it to confirm and click Apply to view the first Web Configurator screen. For GS1200-5HP and GS1200-8HP, you can enter the default password 1234 again, if you do not want to change your password. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
The System screen is the first screen that displays when you access the Web Configurator. This guide uses the GS1200-8 and GS1200-5HP v2 screens as examples. The screens may vary slightly for different models. The following figure shows the navigating components of a Web Configurator screen. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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PoE on a port. VLAN This link takes you to a screen where you can set the PVID (Port VLAN ID) on a port and create/ modify/delete IEEE 802.1Q VLAN for the Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
4.4 Switch Lockout / Resetting the Switch You could block yourself (and all others) from managing the Switch if you do one of the following: Remove all ports from VLAN1 and you do not configure other VLAN groups. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Web Configurator. You have to log in with your password again after you log out. This is recommended after you finish a management session for security reasons. Note: You are automatically logged out of the Web Configurator after 5 minutes of inactivity. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Enter the new IP address 192.168.1.5 in the IP Address field. Click Apply. The following screen appears. Click OK to save the setting. Connection to the Web Configurator will be lost. Figure 19 Lost Connection Warning GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Enter the new password again to in the Confirm Password field for confirmation. Click Apply. You will automatically be logged out of the Web Configurator. A Log in screen appears. Enter the new password and click SIGN IN to log in using the new password. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Chapter 5 Initial Setup Example GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
If you want to have a port (for example port 1) belong to another VLAN as well, say VLAN 2, you need to create a VLAN first, and then add the port to the VLAN. Figure 21 Initial Setup Network Example: VLAN Click VLAN in the navigation panel and click the Create New VLAN button. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Switch to remove VLAN tags before sending. Clicking the port’s check box loops between untagging, non-member, and tagging. Change the box color of other ports not a member of the VLAN group to gray. Click Apply to save the settings. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
VLAN 2. Figure 22 Initial Setup Network Example: Port VID Click VLAN in the navigation panel. Enter 2 in the PVID field for port 2 and click Apply to save your changes back to the Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
In the example network, configure three computers (connect to ports 1, 2, and 3) to share 512 Kbps egress bandwidth and 4 Mbps ingress bandwidth. Click Port in the navigation panel and click the Advanced Settings button. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Enter 4000 in the Ingress Rate field and 512 in the Egress Rate field for Port 1. Click the radio button for both. Do the same for Ports 2 and 3. Click Apply to save the settings. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
The Switch allows four priority levels, shown in the table below. Table 5 Priority Queuing Levels in QoS QUEUE NAME PRIORITY LEVEL Queue 0 Low Priority Queue 1 Normal Priority Queue 2 Medium Priority Queue 3 High Priority GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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To apply IEEE 802.1p QoS to the Switch, follow these steps: Click the IEEE 802.1p QoS radio button. Choose which priority tags will carry the sensitive data, using the priority queuing levels given. Click on each priority tag’s radio button to assign a priority queue. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Type the path and file name of the firmware file you wish to upload to the Switch in the text box or click path to locate it. After you select the firmware file, click the Upgrade button to load the new firmware. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Click Management in the navigation panel and click the Backup button. Specify the location where you want to save the backup file. The default filename is switch_cfg.bin. Click the Save button to save and store your current Switch settings. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
You can upload a previously saved configuration file from your computer to your Switch to restore that previous configuration. Click Management in the navigation panel. Click path and select a .bin file to restore. Figure 27 Restore Configuration Click Restore. The following message appears after a successful restore. Figure 28 Successful Restore GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
PoE. Note: The total power the Switch can supply is 60 W, and it is shown in the PoE Total Power field. The maximum power a PoE port can supply is 30 W. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Note: The Switch allocates power to PDs in the order that they were connected. Note: When the total power requested by the PDs exceeds the total PoE power budget on the Switch, the last PD connected to the Switch will not be powered up. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
7.2 System Screen The System screen displays when you log into the Switch or click System at the top of the Web Configurator. The System screen displays the Switch’s general device information, PoE status, and the port statistics. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Chapter 7 System Figure 29 System The following table describes the labels in this screen. Table 6 System LABEL DESCRIPTION System Information Model Name This field displays the model name of this Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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2 requires 20 W, and the third one connected to port 3 requires 25 W. In this case, the total power consumption is 65 W which exceeds the maximum power the Switch can supply. Therefore, the third PoE-enabled device will not be powered up as it was connected last. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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This field displays the amount of power the Switch is currently supplying to the PoE-enabled device connected to the port. (GS1200-5HP v2 & GS1200-8HP Clear Click this button to clear the statistics in the TX(Pkts) and RX(Pkts) fields. Refresh Click this button to update the information in this screen. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Loop Detection allows the Switch to discover a loop if it happens, and create a log. Loop Prevention allows the Switch to shut down a port automatically if it discover a loop on that port. See Section 3.3 on page 18 for more information about LEDs. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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In the figure below, the IP camera and IP phone are PDs getting their power directly from the Switch PSE. Aside from minimizing the need for cables and wires, PoE removes the hassle of trying to find a nearby electric outlet to power up devices. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Chapter 8 Port Figure 34 Powered Device Example 8.2 Port Settings Click Port in the navigation panel to open the following screen. Figure 35 Port GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
GS1200-8HP v2) Advanced Click this button to set up Port Isolation and Bandwidth Control. Settings Apply Click this button to save your changes to the Switch. 8.2.1 Advanced Settings Click Advanced Settings to open the following screen. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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All incoming ports are selected while only the uplink port is selected. See Section 8.1.1.3 on page 45 for more details. Otherwise, select Disabled. Apply Click this button to save your changes to the Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Specify the maximum bandwidth allowed in kilobits per second (kbps) for the out-going traffic (kbps) flow on a port. Select Unlimited to have the Switch obtain the connection speed of up to 1000 Mbps. Apply Click this button to save your changes to the Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
A broadcast frame (or a multicast frame for a multicast group that is known by the system) is duplicated only on ports that are members of the VID (except the incoming port itself), thus confining the broadcast to a specific domain. Figure 37 Tagged VLAN GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Enter a number between 1 and 4094 as the port VLAN ID. Apply Click this button to save your PVID settings to the Switch. Maximum number This shows the maximum number of IEEE 802.1Q VLANs you can have on the Switch. of IEEE 802.1Q VLAN GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Click Modify to edit the VLAN settings. Delete Click Delete to remove the VLAN group. You cannot delete the default VLAN. Create New VLAN Click this button to configure a new IEEE 802.1Q VLAN for the Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
You may want to trunk (link) ports if for example, it is cheaper to use multiple lower-speed links than to under-utilize a high-speed, but more costly, single-port link. Figure 39 Link Aggregation 10.2 Link Aggregation Use this screen to configure static link aggregation. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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3 and 4, and the other contains ports 7 and 8. Note: Make sure the ports in a link aggregation group must have the same PVID and VLAN ID. Apply Click this button to save your changes to the Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Use this screen to select a monitor port and specify the traffic flow to be copied to the monitor port. Note: A port cannot be the monitor port and the mirrored port at the same time. Figure 41 Mirroring GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Note: Select one monitor port. Mirrored Port Select this option to mirror the traffic on a port. Note: Select one or multiple mirrored ports. Apply Click this button to save your changes to the Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Internet radio or streaming video. Figure 42 QoS 12.2 What You Need to Know The Switch can put packets into the queues according to the port on which the packet is received or the priority tag in the packet. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Video, < 100 ms latency and jitter Voice, < 10 ms latency and jitter Internetwork Control 7 (highest) Network Control Note: Frames without an explicit priority tag are treated as system traffic and assigned to Queue0. Figure 43 IEEE 802.1p QoS GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
IEEE 802.1P QoS assigns queuing by PCP priority tags. The Switch’s default settings for IEEE 802.1P QoS are shown in the next figure. The numbers from 0 to 7 refer to the priority tags for each traffic type. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Assign the weight (the number you select in the queue Weight field) to each priority. Bandwidth is divided across the different traffic queues according to their weights. Queues with larger weights get more service than queues with smaller weights. Apply Click Apply to save your changes to the Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
IGMP snooping allows the Switch to learn multicast groups without you having to manually configure them. 13.2 IGMP Snooping Settings Click IGMP Snooping in the navigation panel to display the screen as shown next. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Or, select Auto to allow any port to be used as an IGMP router port after receiving an IGMP query. Note: If link aggregation is enabled, the ports in a link aggregation group will not be available in this field. Apply Click Apply to save your changes to the Switch. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
An administrator is someone who can both view and configure Switch changes. The default administrator password is 1234. Note: It is highly recommended that you change the default administrator password (1234). Click Management in the navigation panel to open the following screen. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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DHCP Client Select Enable if you have a DHCP server that can assign the Switch an IP address, subnet mask, a default gateway IP address and a domain name server IP address automatically. Otherwise, select Disable. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
The following message will appear after you click the Firmware Upgrade button. You will not be able to configure other settings during the firmware upgrade process to avoid system crashes on the Switch. Click OK. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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After a successful upload, the system will reboot, and you will need to log into the Switch again. Figure 50 Firmware Upgrade Confirmation If you click the Cancel button in the Firmware Upgrade page, the Switch will reboot, and you will be directed to the login screen. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Disconnect and re-connect the power adapter or cord to the Switch. If the problem continues, contact the vendor. The PoE LED is off and/or power is not being supplied to my PoE-enabled device. (For GS1200-5HP v2 and GS1200-8HP v2) GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
If this does not work, you have to reset the device to its factory defaults. See Section 4.4 on page I forgot the password. The default password is 1234. If this does not work, you have to reset the device to its factory defaults. See Section 4.4 on page GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Pop-up Windows, JavaScripts and Java Permissions In order to use the Web Configurator you need to allow the following: • Web browser pop-up windows from your device. • JavaScripts (enabled by default). • Java permissions (enabled by default). GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
Select the firmware file that you tried to upload to the Switch before and try upgrading the firmware again in the Firmware Upgrade screen. Wait for the firmware upgrade process to complete. After a successful upload, the system will reboot, and you will need to log into the Switch again. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
• Brief description of the problem and the steps you took to solve it. Corporate Headquarters (Worldwide) Taiwan • Zyxel Communications Corporation • http://www.zyxel.com Asia China • Zyxel Communications (Shanghai) Corp. Zyxel Communications (Beijing) Corp. Zyxel Communications (Tianjin) Corp. • https://www.zyxel.com/cn/zh/ India • Zyxel Technology India Pvt Ltd. • https://www.zyxel.com/in/en/ Kazakhstan •...
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Appendix A Customer Support • https://www.zyxel.com/be/fr/ Bulgaria • Zyxel България • https://www.zyxel.com/bg/bg/ Czech Republic • Zyxel Communications Czech s.r.o • https://www.zyxel.com/cz/cs/ Denmark • Zyxel Communications A/S • https://www.zyxel.com/dk/da/ Estonia • Zyxel Estonia • https://www.zyxel.com/ee/et/ Finland • Zyxel Communications • https://www.zyxel.com/fi/fi/ France •...
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• Zyxel Communications Poland • https://www.zyxel.com/pl/pl/ Romania • Zyxel Romania • https://www.zyxel.com/ro/ro Russia • Zyxel Russia • https://www.zyxel.com/ru/ru/ Slovakia • Zyxel Communications Czech s.r.o. organizacna zlozka • https://www.zyxel.com/sk/sk/ Spain • Zyxel Communications ES Ltd. • https://www.zyxel.com/es/es/ Sweden • Zyxel Communications • https://www.zyxel.com/se/sv/ Switzerland •...
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Appendix A Customer Support Turkey • Zyxel Turkey A.S. • https://www.zyxel.com/tr/tr/ • Zyxel Communications UK Ltd. • https://www.zyxel.com/uk/en/ Ukraine • Zyxel Ukraine • http://www.ua.zyxel.com South America Argentina • Zyxel Communications Corporation • https://www.zyxel.com/co/es/ Brazil • Zyxel Communications Brasil Ltda. • https://www.zyxel.com/br/pt/ Colombia •...
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Appendix A Customer Support Middle East • Zyxel Communications Corporation • https://www.zyxel.com/me/en/ North America • Zyxel Communications, Inc. – North America Headquarters • https://www.zyxel.com/us/en/ Oceania Australia • Zyxel Communications Corporation • https://www.zyxel.com/au/en/ Africa South Africa • Nology (Pty) Ltd. • https://www.zyxel.com/za/en/...
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Attention: Évitez d'utiliser ce produit (autre qu'un type sans fil) pendant un orage. Il peut y avoir un risque de choc électrique de la foudre. • Attention: Toujours débrancher toutes les lignes téléphoniques de la prise murale avant de réparer ou de démonter ce produit. GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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64, 65 certifications firmware version viewing flow control change the password frames clearance received Switch installation transmitted collision signal front panel configuration full duplex mode restore contact information customer support GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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VLAN ID, see PVID out-going traffic Port-Based QoS screen distribution type power connector maximum bandwidth Power over Ethernet (PoE) overheating Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) prevention powered device (PD) product registration PVID (Port VLAN ID) 29, 50, 51 GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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VLAN 1 fanless-type precaution VLAN screen fan-type precaution VLAN tag fan-type usage precaution VLAN-unaware device IP address 42, 65 VOD (Video on Demand) MAC address manage Voice over IP (VoIP) model list model name name GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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Index wall mounting distance warranty note web browser pop-up window Web Configurator browser support home inactivity layout login logout navigation panel overview recommended screen resolution GS1200 Series User’s Guide...
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