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ZyXEL Communications Dimension ES-3124 Support Notes

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ZyXEL ES-3100 Series
(ES-3124/ES-3124PWR/ES-3148)
Ethernet Switch

Support Notes

Version 3.60
March 2006

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  • Page 1: Support Notes

    ZyXEL ES-3100 Series (ES-3124/ES-3124PWR/ES-3148) Ethernet Switch Support Notes Version 3.60 March 2006...
  • Page 2 What is the default setting of the IP parameters? What is the default login Name and Password of the Web Configuration? How to access the Switch through the console port? All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 3 What is default login password of the console, telnet, and FTP? How to change the password? How to access the Command Line Interface? If I forgot the Switch password, how can I reset the password to default? How do I configure an IP address?

  • Page 4: Firmware Upgrade

    Click on the “Click Here” link of the Firmware Upgrade to bring up the following screen. Browse the firmware located or type in the path into the “File Path” field. Click on the Upgrade button. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 5 Enter “ATGO” to restart the switch after done uploading the firmware. From Command Line FTP: Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer. Launch the FTP client on your PC to login to Switch. (From the command prompt, type “ftp <Switch IP>” Press “Enter” for the User name Enter password to get the ftp prompt.

  • Page 6: Restore A Configuration File

    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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 7 From Command Line FTP: Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer. Launch the FTP client on your PC to login to Switch. (From the command prompt, type “ftp <Switch IP>”. Press “Enter” for the User name Enter password to get the ftp prompt.

  • Page 8: Backing Up A Configuration File

    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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 9 From Command Line FTP: Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer. Launch the FTP client on your PC to login Switch. (From the command prompt, type “ftp <Switch IP>” Press “Enter” for the User name Enter password to get the ftp prompt.

  • Page 10: Load Factory Defaults

    Click OK to go to the following dialog. Click on the OK button. Now, all switch configurations has been reset to the factory defaults and the system will be restarted. Please note that the switch IP address is now 192.168.1.1.
  • Page 11 Physical Switch connection How to connect two switches via Fiber Channel Your Switch may come with one or many mini-Gb ports. ZyXEL offers Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers for Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel applications. These small, modular optical interface transceivers offer...
  • Page 12 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Here is the photo of the SFP-SX Transceiver & the LC/LC Fiber Cable. Steps to complete this scenario 1. Find both Mini-GB ports on your Switch first. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 13 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes 2. Get one transceiver and plug it into the Mini-GB Port of your Switch 3. Plug another transceiver into the Mini-GB Port of the other Switch All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 14 4. Remove both side of the protection cap from the LC/LC Fiber Cable. 5. Plug the LC/LC Fiber Cable into the transceivers on both Switch. If you connected the cable correctly, the LED of the “LINK” will light up. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 15 6. Now, connect the first PC “Alpha” to the Switch on the left and the second PC “Delta” to the Switch on the right via the regular Ethernet cable. 7. Set the NICs in both computers to the same IP Domain.

  • Page 16: General Networking

    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.

  • Page 17: How To Set Up Dhcp Relay Option 82 Environment

    Here, we will set up an environment to allow a PC to get DHCP IP address in specific IP pool according to its Switch port, VLAN ID and the option 82 string. In this case, we are using GS-3012 for the demonstration. PC is behind 25 Switch port and the option 82 string is a string “GS-3012”.
  • Page 18 3. IP Commander settings Open IP Commander. Right click “IP commander and then click “connect new 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.
  • Page 19 ES-3100 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.
  • Page 20 ES-3100 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.
  • Page 21 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Give a name and description to the new rule. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 22 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.
  • Page 23 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.
  • Page 24 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes After you finish above step, you will see the following figure. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 25 ES-3100 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.
  • Page 26 ES-3100 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.
  • Page 27 ES-3100 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.
  • Page 28 ES-3100 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.

  • Page 29: What Is Virtual Lan

    Tagged VLAN can across Layer-2 switch but Port-based VLAN cannot. 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes You must define...
  • Page 30 An egress port is an outgoing port, that is, a port through which a data packet leaves. There are 5 hosts (Host A, B, C, D and E) connected to a 5-port layer-2 switch which supported port-based VLAN.
  • Page 31 Port-based VLAN across different switch • Port-based VLAN is specific only to the switch on which it was created. Definitely, Port-based VLAN can't across different switches. As the following network diagram shown in most MTU case, for the sake of security, subscribers are isolated with each other except for the gateway.
  • Page 32 Switch-2 VLAN 3 member port: port 4 and port 1 • Host A can't talk to Host B due to the port-based VLAN in Switch-2, and Host C can't talk to Host D due to the port-based VLAN in Switch-3. But both Switch-2 and Switch-3 uplink to the none VLAN Switch-1.
  • Page 33 For Switch-1, port 1, port2, and port 3 are allowed to communicate back and forth with uplink port 4, but not with other ports. Switch-1 VLAN 1 member port: port 1 and port 4 • Switch-1 VLAN 2 member port: port 2 and port 4 •...
  • Page 34 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Scenario In this scenario, Port Based VLAN is used to separate one physical Switch into two smaller logical 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.
  • Page 35 6. After you login successfully, you will see a similar screen like below. 7. First, we need to tell the Switch to run VLAN as port based instead of 802.1q based. In order to do so, we first click on the “Basic Setting”, then “Switch Setup”;...
  • Page 36 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes 8. Now, you need to tell the Switch how you are going to separate the physical Switch into some logical small Switches. Thus, we click “Advanced Application” then “VLAN”. On the right screen, check the boxes to suit your need.
  • Page 37 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 38 ES-3100 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.
  • Page 39 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.
  • Page 40 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 41 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 42 How 802.1Q VLAN works • According to the VID information in the tag, the switch forward and filter the frames among ports. These ports with same VID can communicate with each other. IEEE 802.1Q VLAN function contains the following three tasks, Ingress Process, Forwarding Process and Egress Process.
  • Page 43 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 44 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Port...
  • Page 45 7 VLAN on second switch. Trunk port will be port 25 on both switches as well. I made VLAN s on both switch, but I did not find trunk options on both switches. How can I use Port 25 as trunk port?
  • Page 46 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.
  • Page 47 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 48 1 can communicate with PC2 with another VLAN tag frames in switch 2 via VLAN trunking port. In our example, we set up port 5 in switch 1 as the VLAN Trunking port while in switch 2, we set up port 10 as the VLAN Trunking port.
  • Page 49 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes In the switch 2, the configuration is In the switch 1, we set port 2 as VLAN 2 untag All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 50 In the switch 2, we set port 6 as VLAN 2 untag. The switch 1 IP address: 192.168.1.31 The switch 2 IP address: 192.168.1.21 After the configuration, we can observe that in the switch 1, the PC running on port 2 can find the PC running on port 6 in the switch 2.
  • Page 51 VLAN10/20/30 dynamically. Please Note: all clients connecting to switches in this scenario should be located in the same subnet (in this example, the subnet is 192.168.1.0/24) How to configure this scenario: 1. For Switch A on Floor 2: All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 52 VLAN” to bring up the following screen, adding VLAN 10: port 3, fixed, untag; port 23, fixed, Tx tagging”. Add VLAN 20 to this switch, VLAN 20: port 4, fixed, untag; port 23, fixed, Tx tagging. Please click VLAN port setting to bring up the following screen, setup PVID 10 for port 3, PVID 20 for port 4, and enable GVRP on the top of the screen and port 1, port 2, port 23.
  • Page 53 Please follow the same steps to adding VLAN 10: port 3, fixed, untag; port 23, fixed, Tx tagging; port 24, fixed, Tx tagging”. Add VLAN 20 to this switch, VLAN 20: port 4, fixed, untag; port 23, fixed, Tx tagging; port 24, fixed, Tx tagging.
  • Page 54 3, PVID 20 for port 4, and enable GVRP on the top of the screen and port 1, port 2, port 23, port 24. 3. For Switch C on Basement: Please set static VLAN 10: port 23, fixed, untag. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 55 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Please set static VLAN 20: port 23, fixed, untag. Please add VLAN 30: port 1, fixed, untag; port23, fixed, untag; port 24, fixed, Tx tagging. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 56 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Please setup PVID 30 for port 1 and enable GVRP on port 3 and port 24. Then, this scenario is done here. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 57 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.

  • Page 58: Configuration Of Igmp Snooping By Web

    In this example, we enable the IGMP function on the GS-4024 (an IGMP router) to connect to a multimedia server. Also, we enable IGMP snooping function on the ES-3124 or other ZyXEL L2 Switch to connect to the multimedia clients. Figure 2: IGMP snooping Example...

  • Page 59: Configuration Of Igmp And Igmp Snooping By Cli

    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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 60 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...

  • Page 61: Overview Of Mvr

    6 times. In the Figure 2, on the contrary, with MVR, a media server is required to transmit multicast traffic once to clients in different VLANs. Figure 1 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.

  • Page 62: Operation Mode

    Multicast router must be statically configured. Operation Mode Join Operation A subscriber sends an IGMP report message to the switch to join the appropriate multicast. Whether IGMP report matches the switch All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...

  • Page 63: Scenario Of Mvr

    Immediate Leave Operation Subscriber sends an IGMP leave message to the switch to leave the multicast. Subscribers do not need to wait the switch CPU to send an IGMP group-specific query through the receiver port VLAN. The switch will immediately eliminate this receiver port.

  • Page 64: Configuration Via Web

    VLAN. In the VLAN port Setting, please be noted to set the PVID of the port 10 to 100 as the multicast traffic that flowing from media server in port 10 must be tagged with PVID=100 to communicate with the port in MVR VLAN 100 in ES-3124. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 65 22 as a source port to receive traffic from the media server. Also, we select mode as dynamic mode. The switch sends IGMP report message to multicast router through its source port. Figure 6 MVR Configuration All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 66 Application to browse the VLAN Status and see we have add a new VLAN 100 in the VLAN list. We also create three separate VLANs, 20, 30, 40 and assign their PVID as 20, 30 and 40 respectively. Figure 7 VLAN Status All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 67 Step 5: Before we start to use the MVR, it is quite fundamental to enable the IGMP Snooping first. In the ES-3124 Menu, click the Multicast and go toe the Multicast Setting, activate the IGMP Snooping. Figure 10 Multicast Setting All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 68 Here, we configure 233.1.1.1~ 233.1.1.100 as the range of multicast address and only the clients belong to that range of multicast group will receive the multicast traffic. Figure 11 Group Configuration All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 69 ES-3124(config-vlan)# untagged 6 ES-3124(config-vlan)# fixed 6 ES-3124(config-vlan)# untagged 16 ES-3124(config-vlan)# fixed 16 Step 6: On the ES-3124, set the PVID of specific VLAN 20 ES-3124(config)# interface port-channel 4 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 70 233.1.1.100 Step 13: In the MVR 100, specify receiver ports on port 14~16 as tagged ports ES-3124(config-mvr)# receiver-port 14-16 ES-3124(config-mvr)# untagged 14-16 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes group test start-address 233.1.1.1...
  • Page 71 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Step 14: Then, specify the source port 22 and assign it to be tagged ports ES-3124(config-mvr)# source-port 22 ES-3124(config-mvr)# tagged 22 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.

  • Page 72: What Is Spanning Tree Protocol

    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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 73 2. Filtering Database Instability: When multiple copies of a frame arrive at different ports of a switch, the MAC entry instability in Filtering Database will occur. Host sends an unicast frame to Router (source MAC address is Host's MAC, destination MAC address is Router's MAC). Both Switch A and Switch B will receive this frame and learn MAC address of Host on Port 2.

  • Page 74: How Stp Works

    STP operation is listed as the following: 1. Select a root bridge Only one switch/ bridge can be selected as the root bridge in a given network. All other decisions in the network, such as which port is blocked and which port is put in forwarding mode, are made regarding this root bridge.
  • Page 75 2. Select a root port for the non-root bridge For the non-root switch/bridge, there will be one root port. The root port is the port through which this non-root switch / bridge communicates with the root bridge (the "leaf"...
  • Page 76 Priority = 32768 Port 1 Port 2 Cost Cost Priority 128 Priority 128 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Switch C: MAC = 00A0C5333333 Priority = 1 Port 1 Port 2 Port 1...
  • Page 77 For non-root bridge Switch A, Port 1 path cost to root bridge is 19, Port 2 path cost is 119, 100 (Switch A Port 2) + 19 (Switch B Port 1). For Switch B, Port 1 path cost is 19, Port 2 path cost is 119. Root port = Port 1 of Switch A and Switch B because it has the lowest path cost to the root bridge Switch C.

  • Page 78: Switching Security

    ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Switching security MAC freeze As an added protection against network intrusion attacks, ZyXEL has implemented the MAC Freeze feature on ES-2108 Series, ES-3124, ES-2024, ES-3100 Series and ES-4024A. Security has been the focus of our Ethernet switch design.
  • Page 79 MAC addresses. Figure 2: Displaying MAC Addresses From MAC Freeze 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.
  • Page 80 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 81 Authentication and click Apply button to enable 802.1x authentication. Check Enable to turn on 802.1x authentication on that port. You can leave other settings as default values. Click Apply to save your changes. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 82 MUST use the account in RADIUS server. Windows XP(Supplicant) settings: There are many supplicants we can choose like MeetingHouse Aegis client, Funk Odyssey client and Microsoft 802.1x client. We take Microsoft All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 83 MD5-challenge in EAP type combobox. Please see the following figure. When the 802.1x starts, it will prompt you to enter the user name and password. Please see the following figure. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 84 After click the icon, there will be a dialog for entering the user name and password. Click ok after input the correct user name and password that are in the database of authentication server. The settings of client site are finished. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 85 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes After finishing the above procedures, we can allow the authenticated port the access the server. If the switch port doesn’t be authenticated, the PCs behind the port can’t access the network. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 86 Finally, the last policy rule is set to forward the traffic that is ARP packet format. Below is the configuration of classifier and policy rule. Classifier 1 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 87 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Classifier 2 3. Classifier 3 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.

  • Page 88: Policy Rule Configuration

    ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Policy Rule Configuration 1. Policy rule on Classifier 1 2. Policy rule on classifier 2 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 89 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes 3. Policy rule on classifier 3 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.

  • Page 90: Centralized Management

    SNMPc manager to perform network configuration, system management, event/alarm management, performance management and security for all ZyXEL’s Ethernet Switch solutions. SNMPc is network management software produced by Castle Rock that constantly probe the network element (NE) and collect information of those NE for EMS.
  • Page 91 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 92 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 93 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.
  • Page 94 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.
  • Page 95 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.
  • Page 96 ES-3100 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.
  • Page 97 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...
  • Page 98 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Step 9: After the selection, a pop-up menu will display the NetAtlas switch manager diagram. Click the Switch Manager to enter the EMS Mapping shown in Figure 11 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.
  • Page 99 ES-3100 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.
  • Page 100 VLAN2 in GS-4024. Here are the procedures. Step 1: In the device panel list shown in Figure 12, right-click Configuration, Switch Configuration and then Switch Setup tab as shown in Figure 12 and Figure 13. Step 2: Define the VLAN type, there are two types of VLAN, one is 802.1Q and the other is Port-based VLAN.
  • Page 101 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.
  • Page 102 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.
  • Page 103 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes For more information, reference the user guide of NetAtlas. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.

  • Page 104: Cluster Management Overview

    To discover the clustering members, the clustering Manager broadcasts a HDAP (Host Discovery and Address assignment Protocol) Discover request. Step 2: Cluster manager (Master device) All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes 1. HDAP Discover REQ 2. HDAP Discover RSP Cluster member...

  • Page 105: Cluster Member

    "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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Cluster member...
  • Page 106 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.
  • Page 107 ES-3100 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.
  • Page 108 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.
  • Page 109 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.
  • Page 110 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes checking the remove checkbox and then, click on the Remove button to remove a cluster member. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.

  • Page 111: Overview Of Rmon

    The SMON MIB extends RMON by providing RMON analysis for switched networks. RMON Groups RMON delivers information in nine RMON groups of monitoring elements, each providing specific sets of data to meet common network-monitoring All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 112 HostTopN Prepares tables that describe the top hosts. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Elements Packets dropped, packets sent, bytes sent (octets), broadcast packets, multicast packets, CRC errors, runts,...
  • Page 113 Matrix (1.3.6.1.2.1.16.6) Filter (1.3.6.1.2.1.16.7) Capture (1.3.6.1.2.1.16.8) All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation. ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Source and destination address pairs and packets, bytes, and errors for each pair. Bit-filter type (mask or not mask), filter expression (bit level), conditional expression (and, or not) to other filters.
  • Page 114 PC. And this PC is defined as “RMON management console”. This PC can ping both ZyXEL ES-3148 (both Switch A & Switch B). And there are some probes / networking devices to generate the traffic to the ZyXEL Switches in order to verify the RMON result.
  • Page 115 Packets by using SNMPc Enterprise Edition Version 5.1.6c. Methodology of Scenario Verification 1.Open your SNMPc program first, then pick the ZyXEL-3148 Switch (it is first named as device “root”) and give it the correct IP information to get the SNMP information. Also, you can rename it to whatever you want.
  • Page 116 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Secondly, click on the “Mib” tab and expend the SNMP Mibs’ tree. You will find that there is an “rmon” group over there and again you can expend its sub-tree. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 117 ES-3100 Series Switch Support Notes Right click the “etherStatsTable” and choose “View Table” All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 118 Find the interface or port that you are looking for. And you can look at the corresponding field and therefore find the value that you want to monitor. In this case, we are looking for the Broadcast Packets. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 119 Switch RMON Group(s), otherwise, it will return 0 and always stays 0. Without the supporting of RMON, then it is impossible to monitor those elements in the RMON MIB Group All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
  • Page 120 Connect the male 9-pin end of the console cable to the console port of the Switch. Connect the female end to a serial port (COM1, COM2 or other COM port) of your computer, which has terminal emulation software configured to...
  • Page 121 How to access the Command Line Interface? There are two ways to access the Command Line Interface. One is “Telnet to the switch” and another is “Connect a computer to the console port and use the terminal emulation software.” Please check “How to access the Switch through the console port?”...
  • Page 122 Power off and then power on the Switch, and press any key to enter the debug mode when the screen shows “Press any key to enter Debug Mode within 3 seconds.” Type “atlc” and press the enter key When the message “starting XMODEM upload” appears, do XMODEM upload of the default rom file to the Switch After it is done uploading the rom file successfully, type “atgo”...
  • Page 123 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-3100 Series Switch Support Notes...
  • Page 124 Dual-Personality GbE interface means that one 1000Base-T Copper port and one SFP port share the same physical interface. Only one of them can be used at one of a time. Dual-Personality interface is also called "Combo Port" in some cases. All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.

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