ZyXEL ES-2000 Series (ES-2024A / ES-2024PWR / ES-2048) Ethernet Switch Support Notes Version 3.60 September 2006...
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If I forgot the Switch password, how can I reset the password to default? How do I configure an IP address? Is Online Help available on the Web GUI? All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
How to restart device from Web? How to check the current running firmware version? Is the mini GBIC transceiver hot-swappable? What are the differences between ES-2024 and ES-2024A? How much PoE Power can ES-2024PWR supply concurrently? Remaining: Some demonstration in this support note may not use the exact model that you are using.
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Use “put” to transfer the firmware from the computer to the switch, for example: “put firmware.bin ras” transfers the firmware on your computer (firmware.bin) to the switch and renames it “ras”. Enter “quit” to exit the ftp prompt. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
Browse to locate the file with the file name or type in the path and the file name into the “File Path” field. Click on the Restore button. From Console Port: Connect to the console port and open the Terminal Emulation Software. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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“put comfig.rom rom-0” transfers the firmware on your computer (config.rom) to the switch and renames it “rom-0”. Enter “quit” to exit the ftp prompt. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
From Console Port: Connect to the console port and open the Terminal Emulation Software. Restarting the Switch to enter the debug mode via the terminal. Enter “ATTD” All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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Use “get” to transfer the firmware from the computer to the switch, for example: “get rom-0 config.rom” transfers the firmware on your computer (config.rom) to the switch and renames it “config.rom”. Enter “quit” to exit the ftp prompt. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
Connect to the console port and open the Terminal Emulation Software. Type in the correct password to bring up the prompt. Type “erase run” to load the factory default configurations. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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Port with a LC/LC Fiber cable (62.5/125MM). PC “Alpha” is connected to ES-2108-LC and another PC “Delta” is connected to the GS-4024 Switch via the RJ45 Port. What you need here to complete this scenario: All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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ZyXEL Switch with Mini-GB port (note: ES-2024A / ES-2024PWR / ES-2048 comes with 2 Mini-GB Port) SFP-SX Transceiver LC/LC Fiber Cable (62.5/125MM) Here is the photo of the SFP-SX Transceiver & the LC/LC Fiber Cable. Steps to complete this scenario 1.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Photo of the ES-2108-LC Switch 2. Find both Mini-GB Port on ES-2108-LC and GS-4024. 3. Get one transceiver and plug it into the Mini-GB Port of ES-2108-LC All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes 4. Plug another transceiver into the Mini-GB Port of GS-4024 Switch All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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5. Remove both side of the protection cap from the LC/LC Fiber Cable. 6. Plug the LC/LC Fiber Cable into the transceivers on both ES-2108-LC and GS-4024 Switch. If you connected the cable correctly, the LED of the “LINK” will light up. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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10. From PC “Delta”, PING PC” Alpha” at 192.168.1.4 11. Now you can confirm that the network connection between ES-2108-LC and GS-4024 is up and running. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes PC “Delta” : 192.168.1.5/24)
Switch port, VLAN ID and option 82 string. They can easily to achieve this with DHCP Relay Option 82 feature and a DHCP server supporting Option 82 function. Network DHCP Server 192.168.1.99 Ethernet Port Port 25 DHCP Client All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
Now we can connect PC to the 25 SWITCH port. Please see former applications for detailed settings. 3. IP Commander settings Open IP Commander. Right click “IP commander and then click “connect new All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes server”. Input the DHCP IP address or domain name and click “ok”. Our IP is 192.168.1.99. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Input user name and password. The default user name is “administrator” and password is “incognito”. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes It will bring up the following screen, please make sure that your DHCP is in “online” status. Then click “wizard” in the top tool bars and select “rule wizard”. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Give a name and description to the new rule. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Assign a range of IP addresses or just one IP address to this rule. In our case, we set the IP pool from 192.168.1.201 to 192.168.1.203. After input IP pool, we select “DHCP Option” in Keywords combobox. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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25, VLAN 1, “GS-3012”, please key in “0019000147532d33303132” as the key value and click OK. Please note that the first 2 bytes define port number, the second 2 bytes is VLAN ID and the other bytes are the Option 82 string. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes After you finish above step, you will see the following figure. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Then pop up the following screen and you can just press Next button. Then you can add DHCP template (option) such as gateway, DNS server and so on. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Here we use “192.168.1.1” as gateway IP address of DHCP client PC. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes You can apply DDNS service to DHCP server or not. The rule creation has been finished. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes After finishing all above procedures, your PC will get the IP address 192.168.1.201 when you send a DHCP request. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
IEEE 802.1q Tagged VLAN. ES-2000 series supports both VLAN implementations. The most difference between both VLAN implementations is Tagged VLAN can across Layer-2 switch but Port-based VLAN cannot. Port-based VLAN All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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VLAN group 1. Host B and Host C are in VLAN group 2. Host A, Host D and Host E are in VLAN group 3. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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MTU case, for the sake of security, subscribers are isolated with each other except for the gateway. There are two switches, Switch-2 and Switch-3, supported port-based VLAN and uplink to a none-port-based VLAN switch, Switch-1. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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VLAN, except for the port to the gateway. So subscribers only can talk to the gateway for Internet access but not communicate with each other. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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Switch-1 VLAN 3 member port: port 3 and port 4 How to configure Port-Based VLAN Port-based VLANs are VLANs where the packet forwarding decision is based on the destination MAC address and its associated port. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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Switches. Port 1~4 and 9, 10 are in one group. And Port 5~10 are in another group. Port-based VLANs are specific only to the switch on which they were created. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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802.1q based. In order to do so, we first click on the “Basic Setting”, then “Switch Setup”; on your right screen the VLAN Type, choose “Port Based” instead of “802.1Q”, and click “Apply” to save your changes. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes http://192.168.1.1...
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Therefore, both groups can pass data to Port 9 and Port 10. In another word, these two ports belong to both of the groups on the same time. Please confirm if your setting looks similar to below. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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10. For example, PC A: 192.168.1.4/24 PC B: 192.168.1.5/24 PC C: 192.168.1.6/24 PC D: 192.168.1.7/24 PC Z: 192.168.1.99/24 11. PING PC B from PC A (Should work) All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes 12. PING PC Z from PC A (Should work) 13. PING PC C from PC A (Should NOT work) All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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5. Put “en” or “enable” to go into the privileged mode. Then put “config” to go into the configuration mode. 6. Put the following commands to setup Port Based VLAN on your Switch in this All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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VLAN and QoS (Quality of Service) priority identification. The VLANs can be created statically by hand or dynamically through GVRP. The VLAN ID associates a frame with a specific VLAN and provides the information that switches need to All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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VID (VLAN Identifier) of null (0) is called a priority frame, meaning that only the priority level is significant and the default VID of the ingress port is given as the VID of the frame. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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VID. Ingress Process directly pass the tagged frame to Forwarding Process. An untagged frame doesn't carry any VID to which it belongs. When a All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Ingress Process...
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VID: VLAN ID Port: The switch port number Ad Control: Registration administration control. There are 3 type of ad control, including forbidden registration, fixed registration and normal registration. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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3. Egress Process: The Egress Process decides if the outgoing frames but be sent tagged or untagged. The Egress Process refers to the egress tag control information in All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Port...
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Where the configurations of VLAN in this two switches are: VLAN 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 on switch A VLAN 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on switch B Configuration of VLAN on switch A All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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VID:103 (port 7,8,9,10,"25 TAG") VID:104 (port 23,24,"25 TAG") VID:105 (port 11,12,13,14,"25 TAG") VID:106 (port 15,16,17,"25 TAG") VID:107 (port 18,19.20,21,"25 TAG") ------------------------------------- In switch B, add port 25 in each VLAN VID:101 (port 1,2,3,,4,"25 TAG") All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Port 1, 2, 3, 4 : Port 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, : Port 11, 12, 13, 14, : Port 15, 16, 17, 18: Port 19, 20, 21, 22, 23: Port 25:PVID=any All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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IGMP router. Thus this significantly reduces the multicast traffic forwarded down to the clients. Another advantage of IGMP snooping is to allow the intermediate switch to learn multicast group information without manually configuring switches. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
Figure 2: IGMP snooping Example Step one : In the GS-4024, click the IP Application, select IGMP where, IGMP function can be enabled and we can select either IGMP-v1 or IGMP-v2. Figure 3: IGMP Setup All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
Figure 4: IGMP Snooping Setup Configuration of IGMP and IGMP snooping by CLI Step one: Enable IGMP function In the configure mode GS-4024(config)# router igmp Step two: Enable IGMP snooping All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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In the exec mode of CLI L2Switch# show igmp-snooping ______________________________________________________________ Note: One thing needs to be mentioned is that in the IGMP router, we do not need to enable IGMP snooping function. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
When the broadcast frame arrives at Switch B, Switch will repeat above process, flood it to Segment A. The broadcast frame will endlessly travel around the loop network even Router has already received this frame. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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Port 1. Switch B incorrectly learn Host MAC address on Port 1. Switch B can't forward frames properly because the instability of mapping MAC address to Port. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
One of the important field included in the BPDU is the bridge ID. Each bridge has unique bridge ID. The root bridge is the bridge with the lowest bridge ID in the spanning tree network. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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When multiple ports have the same path cost to root bridge, the port with lowest port priority is selected as root port. 3. Select a designated port on each segment All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Recommended...
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Priority = 32768 Port 1 Port 2 Cost Cost Priority 128 Priority 128 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Switch C: MAC = 00A0C5333333 Priority = 1 Port 1 Port 2 Port 1...
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2 of Switch A is designated port. Blocking = Port 2 of Switch B, the non designated port on the segment. Forwarding = All designated ports and root ports. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
The following figure shows an example where the MAC freeze feature is enabled on port 6. The switch automatically copies all dynamically learnt MAC address on port 6 to the static MAC address. Figure 1: Enable MAC Freeze Example All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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After you enabled MAC freeze on port 6 using the CLI command, the switch automatically disables MAC address learning on that port. Display the Port Security screen to verify this. Figure 3: Disabled Automatic MAC Address Learning After MAC Freeze All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
Castle Rock that constantly probe the network element (NE) and collect information of those NE for EMS. Underneath the EMS is Postgres SQL, the enterprise relational database system, provides query for EMS Figure 1 System Architecture All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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View Window Area: Map View, Mib Tables and Mib Graph windows are displayed here. View Window Area: Map View, Mib Tables and Mib Graph windows. Figure 2 Main elements of SNMPc All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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Green is working and Rd is no response from the device. System message Panel: View the alarm Status and port status of the selected switch. Figure 3 Overview of EMS All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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Netatlas with adding a new device. Follow the procedures from Step 1 to Step Step 1: In the edit button bar shown in the Figure 4 where you may select the icon to insert a new element. Figure 4 Adding a new Device All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Figure 5 Map Object Properties Step 4: In the map object properties, select Access tab to set the parameters of Read Access Mode to SNMP V2c shown in Figure 6. Change the value of All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Step 5: In the map object properties, select Access tab to set the parameters of Read /Write Access Mode to SNMP V2c shown in Figure 7. Change the value of Read/write Access Mode to SNMP V2c. Figure 7 Read/Write Access Mode All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Step 6: In the map object properties, select Access tab to set the parameters of Read community to public as shown in Figure 8. Figure 8 Read Community All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Read community to public in Figure 9. Change the value of Read//write Community to Public. Figure 9 Read/write Community Step 8: In the Selection tool menu, Click the name of your Switch to manage the device. Figure 10 Device Selection All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Figure 11 Device Selection Step 10: In the EMS mapping, it display a logical hierarchy for the device. In the device list, you may see the devices are added in the Rootmap shown in All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Figure 12. Figure 12 Rootmap Step 11: Click the your Switch to configure the device shown in Figure 13. Figure 13 Device mapping All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Step 2: Define the VLAN type, there are two types of VLAN, one is 802.1Q and the other is Port-based VLAN. Select 802.1Q as the VLAN type and click Apply in the Figure 14. Figure 12 Device panel list Figure 13 Switch Configuration All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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After the VLAN type selection, a pop-up window indicates that you have finished the configuration. Then after we have defined the VLAN type to be the 802.1Q, go back to click the Configuration and then VLAN configuration in All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Click the New button to create a new VLAN ID in Figure 16. Figure 16 Creating a new VLAN ID Selecting Egress ports and defines them to be tagged or untagged in Figure 17 Figure 17 Selecting the ports All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes For more information, reference the user guide of NetAtlas. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
"Set Address" request. The hardware address uniquely identifies the sender of this response. After the processes are done, the cluster master will be able to manage the All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Cluster member...
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Cluster Manager. In the middle of this page, there is a table shows all the clustering candidates which can be selected and added as the clustering members. Step 2: All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Select a device in the Clustering Candidate table and enter the password which is the admin password for the candidate device to add the clustering member. Step 3: All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Click on the index number to manage the selected clustering member. Step 4: In “Member Menu” pages, you can change any setting of the clustering member, except Cluster Management, Firmware Upgrade and Restore Configuration. Step 5: All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Enter “Management”->”Cluster Management”->”Clustering Management Status:” In “Clustering Management Status” pages, you can check the status for each member. Step 6: Enter “Management”->”Cluster Management”->”Clustering Management Configuration:” In “Clustering Management Configuration” pages , by All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Terminal emulation: VT100 Baud rate: 9600 bps Data bits: 8 Parity: none Stop bit: 1 Flow control: none What is default login password of the console, telnet, and FTP? All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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If you forget the password, you will need to reload the factory default configuration. Please be aware that you will lose all previous configurations. Connect the console cable to your computer and open the terminal All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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Click Basic Setting and then IP Setup to display the next screen. *ES-2000 series does NOT have the Out-of-band Management interface. *ES-2048 is an exception; it has an Out-of Band Management interface. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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Is the mini GBIC transceiver hot-swappable? Yes, it is hot-swappable. You can change transceivers while the switch is All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes...
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What are the differences between ES-2024 and ES-2024A? ES-2024A 8K MAC addresses 10K MAC addresses 8K MAC uplifts system Bridging VLAN PVID Support up to 3 802.3ad groups (2 FE+ 1GbE) Port maximum links up to Aggregation 4 ports (GbE 2 ports) per group.
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How much PoE Power can ES-2024PWR supply concurrently? It supports 180W in total, which means that not every Fast Ethernet Switch port on ES-2024PWR can provide PoE Power on the same time. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes ZyXEL Style...