This Web Smart Gigabit Ethernet Switch User Manual is structured as follows: Section 2, Installation It explains the functions of GSW-1602SF/2404SF and how to physically install the GSW-1602SF/2404SF. Section 3, Configuration It contains information about the Smart function of GSW-1602SF/2404SF.
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32/48Gbps switch fabric, non-blocking switch architecture 9K Jumbo Frame support at all speed (10/100/1000 Mbps) Layer-2 Switching Support port-based and 802.1q VLAN function, up to 64 VLAN groups 802.1w Rapid-Spanning Tree protocol support Link Aggregation support static mode and LACP (802.3ad) - up to 8 Trunk groups, each trunk for up to maximum 12 ports IGMP Snooping –...
The GSW-1602SF /GSW-2404SF could recognize up to 8K MAC Address table and provides 340KB /500 KB on-chip frame buffer. The GSW-1602SF /GSW-2404SF offers wire-speed packet transfer performance without risk of packet loss.
Blinks to indicate the Switch is receiving or sending data. Figure 2-3 PLANET GSW-2404SF LED panel To press and release the RESET button. The GSW-1602SF/ 2404SF will back to the factory default Note mode. Be sure that you backup the current configuration of GSW-1602SF/2404SF; else the entire configuration will be erased when pressing the “RESET”...
To install the switch in a 19-inch standard rack, follow the instructions described below. Step1: Place your GSW-1602SF/2404SF on a hard flat surface, with the front panel positioned towards your front side. Step2: Attach a rack-mount bracket to each side of the switch with supplied screws attached to the package. Figure 2-4 shows how to attach brackets to one side of the switch.
Step3: Secure the brackets tightly. Step4: Follow the same steps to attach the second bracket to the opposite side. Step5: After the brackets are attached to the Switch, use suitable screws to securely attach the brackets to the rack, as shown in Figure 2-5 Figure 2-6 Mounting the Switch in a Rack Step6: Precede with the steps 4 and steps 5 of session 2.2.1 Desktop Installation to connect the network cabling and...
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PLANET GSW-1602SF/GSW-2404SF support both single mode and multi mode SFP transceiver. The following list of approved PLANET SFP transceivers is correct at the time of publication: MGB-SX SFP (1000BASE-SX SFP transceiver ) MGB-LX SFP (1000BASE-LX SFP transceiver ) It recommends using PLANET SFPs on the Switch. If you insert a SFP transceiver that is not Note supported, the Switch will not recognize it.
- Assigning an IP address to the GSW-1602SF/2404SF - Logging on to the GSW-1602SF/2404SF 3.1 Overview This chapter gives an overview of switch management. The GSW-1602SF/2404SF provides a simply WEB browser interface. Using this interface, you can perform various switch configuration and management activities, including: System...
Ethernet connection, make sure the manager PC must be set on same the IP subnet address. For example, the default IP address of the GSW-1602SF/2404SF is 192.168.0.100, then the manager PC should be set at 192.168.0.x (where x is a number between 2 and 254), and the default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. Use Internet Explorer 5.0 or above Web browser.
Switch operate more effectively - They can be configured through the Web Browser. A network administrator can manage and monitor the GSW-1602SF /2404SF from the local LAN. This section indicates how to configure the Switch to enable its smart function.
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Status – Port Statistics Overview / Port Statistics Detail / LACP Status / RSTP Status / IGMP Snooping Status / Multicast Group Status...
4.2 System 4.2.1 System Info The System Info page provides information for the current device information. System Info page helps a switch manager to identify the versions and IP Address etc. The screen in Figure 4-2 appears. Figure 4-2 System Information screen The page includes the following fields: •...
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Figure 4-3 Misc Configuration screen The page includes the following configurable data: Choose what the switch should do following power-up: transmit a DHCP request, DHCP Enable - or manual setting (Disable). The factory default is Disable. The IP address of the interface. The factory default value is 192.168.0.100 IP Address - The IP subnet mask for the interface.
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After change the default password, if you forget the password. Please press and release the Note “Reset” button in the front panel of GSW-1602SF/2404SF, the current setting includes VLAN, will be lost and the GSW-1602SF/2404SF will restore to the default mode.
4.3 Port Configuration This function allows displaying each port’s status. The Link Status in the screen displays the current connection speed and duplex mode; else this function will show down when the port is disconnected. Press the “Refresh” button to renew the screen.
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Backpressure is enabled on Half-Duplex mode. • Disable – No flow control or backpressure function on no matter Full-Duplex or Half-Duplex mode • Ingress Rate Limit The value of inbound traffic limitation in kilobit-per-second (kbps). Per port in step of 128 kbps. Default : No Limit The range between 128 Kbps to 3968 kbps.
Configuring the port mirroring by assigning a source port from which to copy all packets and a destination port where those packets will be sent. With the Chipset specification – the GSW-1602SF/2404SF port mirroring support RX (receive) Note mode only - this mode will duplicate the data that send to the source and forward to the destination...
Layer 2 switch. However, all the network devices are still plug into the same switch physically. The GSW-1602SF/2404SF switch supports 802.1Q (tagged-based) and Port-Base VLAN setting in web management page. In the default configuration, VLAN support is “802.1Q”.
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Figure 4-6 VLAN Membership screen The page includes the following items: • VLAN ID - Specify the VLAN Identifier for the new VLAN. (You can only enter data in this field when you are creating a new VLAN.) The range of the VLAN ID is (1 to 4094). •...
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Figure 4-8 VLAN Member Setup screen 4.5.1.2 Modify the VLAN Group Member Once you want to modify the existence VLAN Group member or delete a existence VLAN Group. Refer to the following steps. To modify the members of an existence VLAN Group, check the VLAN Group ID and press “Modify” button. the ID VLAN Setup screen will pop out.
Figure 4-9 VLAN Group – member modify and delete VLAN Group screen Once the VLAN Group be deleted, the Ports with the PVID set to this VLAN Group have to Note re-configure the PVID. Or the PVID will be set to “None” 4.5.2 Per Port Configuration The VLAN Per Port Configuration page contains fields for managing ports that are part of a VLAN.
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• VLAN Type - There’re two VLAN mode support – 802.1Q VLAN and Port-Bas VLAN • 802.1Q – Packets income will be tagged with VID as the PVID setting. All ports on the switch belong to default VLAN (VID 1). •...
4.5.3 VLAN setting example: 4.5.3.1 Two separate 802.1Q VLAN The diagram shows how the switch handle Tagged and Untagged traffic flow for two VLANs. VLAN Group 2 and VLAN Group 3 are separated VLAN. Each VLAN isolate network traffic so only members of the VLAN receive traffic from the same VLAN members.
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While the packet leaves Port-1 and Port-2, it will be stripped away it tag becoming an untagged packet. Untagged packet entering VLAN 3 While [PC-4] transmit an untagged packet enters Port-4, the switch will tag it with a VLAN Tag=3. [PC-5] and [PC-6] will received the packet through Port-5 and Port-6.
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Figure 4-13 Assign VLAN members for VLAN 2 and VLAN 3 Remember to remove the Port 1 – Port 6 from VLAN 1 membership, since the Port 1 – Port 6 had be assigned to VLAN 2 and VLAN 3. Figure 4-14 Remove specify ports from VLAN 1 member It’s import to remove the VLAN members from VLAN 1 configuration.
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Assign PVID for each port: Port-1,Port-2 and Port-3 : PVID=2 Port-4,Port-5 and Port-6 : PVID=3 Port-7~Port-24 : PVID=1 Enable VLAN Tag for specific ports Link Type : Port-3 (VLAN-2) and Port-6 (VLAN-3) The Per Port VLAN configuration in Figure 4-15 appears. Figure 4-15 Port 1-Port 6 VLAN Configuration 4.5.3.2 Two VLANs with overlap area Follow the example of 4.5.3.1.
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Figure 4-16 A Server connect to the VLAN overlap area Specify Port-7 on the device to connect to the server. Assign Port-7 to both VLAN 2 and VLAN 3 at the VLAN Member configuration page. The screen in Figure 4-17 appears.
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Setup Port-7 with “PVID=1” at VLAN Per Port Configuration page. The screen in Figure 4-19 appears. Figure 4-19 Setup Port-7 with PVID-1 That is, although the VLAN 2 members: Port-1 to Port-3 and VLAN 3 members: Port-4 to Port-6 also belong to VLAN 1. But with different PVID settings, packets form VLAN 2 or VLAN 3 is not able to access to the other VLAN.
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About the VLAN ports connect to the hosts, please refer to 4.5.3.1 and 4.5.3.2 examples. The following steps will focus on the VLAN Trunk port configuration. Specify Port-8 to be the 802.1Q VLAN Trunk port, and the Trunking port must be a Tagged port while egress. The Port-8 configuration as the following screen in Figure 4-21.
‧ Normal -- Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) : Detects and uses of network topologies that provide faster spanning tree convergence, without creating forwarding loops. The GSW-1602SF/GSW-2404SF implement the Rapid Spanning Protocol as the default spanning Note tree protocol. While select “Compatibles” mode, the system use the RSTP(802.1w) to compatible and co work with another STP(802.1d)’s BPDU control packets.
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Figure 4-24 RSTP System Configuration The page includes the following fields: • System Priority - Specifies the bridge priority value. When switches or bridges are running STP, each is assigned a priority. After exchanging BPDUs, the switch with the lowest priority value becomes the Root Bridge.
4.6.2 RSTP Port Configuration The RSTP Port Configuration page contains fields for assigning RSTP properties to individual ports. The screen in Figure 4-25 appears. Figure 4-25 RSTP Port Configuration The page includes the following fields: • Port Indicate port 1 to port 24. •...
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To open RSTP Status screen perform the folling: Click Status -> RSTP Status The “RSTP VLAN Bridge Overview” and “RSTP Port Status” screen is displayed as in Figure 4-26. Figure 4-26 RSTP Status screen RSTP VLAN Bridge Overview The information of the RSTP Root shows in the Bridge overview table. The screen in Figure 4-27 appears. Figure 4-27 RSTP Status screen The page includes the following fields: •...
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RSTP Port Status The information of the RSTP Per Port and Trunk group shows in the RSTP Port Status table. The screen in Figure 4-28 appears. Figure 4-28 RSTP Status screen The page includes the following fields: • Port/Group Port or Link Aggregation group on which Rapid STP is enabled •...
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A port transitions from one state to another as follows: Note • From initialization (switch boot) to blocking • From blocking to listening or to disabled • From listening to learning or to disabled • From learning to forwarding or to disabled •...
This function provides to cascade two Switch devices with a double bandwidth (maximum up to 1.6/2.4Gbps in full duplex mode). Eight Trunk Group per system For GSW-1602SF, up to 8 ports per Trunk Group For GSW-2404SF, up to 12 ports per Trunk Group The Port Trunking configuration screen in Figure 4-29 appears.
Specify the Joined Trunk Group. There’re maximum eight trunk groups per system. With different switch model, the maximum number of ports are as follow: GSW-1602SF – Up to 8 ports per Trunk Group GSW-2404SF – Up to 12 ports per Trunk Group A port can be assigned to only one Trunk Group.
The default setting is “Auto” When using a port link aggregation, note that: Note • The ports that can be assigned to the same link aggregation have certain other restrictions (see below). • Ports can only be assigned to one link aggregation. •...
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The LACP Aggregation Overview Table lists the active LACP ports and mapped Group. It also indicate the Partner Port number of the other LACP aware switches. The screen in Figure 4-32 appears. Figure 4-32 LACP Aggregation Overview The page includes the following fields: •...
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Figure-4-33 LACP Port Status The page includes the following fields: • Port Indicate port 1 to port 24. • Protocol Active Indicate the LCAP protocol is enable or not on the port. Yes- LACP is enabled and active on the port No- LACP is not enabled, or LACP is enabled but not active on the port.
4.8 IGMP Snooping The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) lets host and routers share information about multicast groups memberships. IGMP snooping is a switch feature that monitors the exchange of IGMP messages and copies them to the CPU for feature processing. The overall purpose of IGMP Snooping is to limit the forwarding of multicast frames to only ports that are a member of the multicast group.
the case where there is more than one multicast router on a sub network, one router is elected as the ‘queried’. This router then keeps track of the membership of the multicast groups that have active members. The information received from IGMP is then used to determine if multicast packets should be forwarded to a given sub network or not.
• Queries Statistics of IGMP Query packets transmitted from the VLAN. Only the “IGMP Querying Enabled” be checked, the counter is active. transmitted • Queries received Statistics of IGMP Query packets received at the VLAN –from another switches or routers. •...
802.1p Mode –The output queue assignment is determined by the IEEE802.1p VLAN priority tag. DSCP Mode - The output queue assignment is determined by the DSCP field. The current version of GSW-1602SF/2404SF support QoS Strict mode only. The strict mode is to Note specifies if traffic scheduling is based strictly on the queue priority.
Figure 4-37 QoS Configuration screen 4.9.1 802.1p QoS Mode QoS settings allow customization of packet priority in order to facilitate delivery of data traffic that might be affected by latency problems. The IEEE 802.1p Priority specification uses 8 priority levels to classify data packets. The screen in Figure 4-38 and Figure 4-39 appears.
The page includes the following fields: • Prioritize Traffic The draw menu allows customization of 802.1p to Traffic classifiers. Total 5 selections for the Prioritize Traffic. • Custom – Manual mapping the 802.1p priority to the 4-level queues. Setup at the next table. •...
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The page includes the following fields: • Prioritize Traffic The draw menu allows customization of DSCP to Traffic classifiers. Total 5 selections for the Prioritize Traffic. • Custom – Manual mapping the DSCP to the 4-level queues. Setup at the next table.
802.1X authentication, each of these clients would have to be authenticated by RADIUS server. If the client is authorized, GSW-1602SF/GSW-2404SF would be notified to open up a communication port to be used for the client. There are 2 Extensive Authentication Protocol (EAP) methods supported: (1) MD5 and (2) TLS.
The RADIUS server sends Web-Smart Switch a RADIUS ACCEPT message. 10. Web-Smart Switch sends the client an EAP Success message along with the broadcast key and key length. This section is to control the access of the switch, includes the user access and management control. The 802.1X Management page contains links to the following topics: •...
• RADIUS UDP Port The UDP port used by this server. The valid range is 0 - 65535. The default UDP Port No. is 1812 • RADIUS Secret Indicates if the shared secret for this server has been configured. Setup the RADIUS server and assign the client IP address to the Web-Smart switch. In this case, field in the default IP Address of the Web-Smart switch with 192.168.0.100.
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Figure 4-45 802.1X Network access control mode selection The Network Access Control port configuration table includes the following fields: • Port Selects the port to be configured. When the selection is changed, a screen refresh will occur causing all fields to be updated for the newly selected port. •...
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Figure 4-46 802.1X Parameter configuration screen The 802.1X Parameters table includes the following fields: • Reauthentication This select field allows the user to enable or disable reauthentication of the supplicant for the specified port. If “Enabled” be checked, reauthentication will Enabled occur.
4.11 Filter Configuration The GSW-1602SF/GSW2404SF support per-Port IP Filter function to management the IP traffic flow. With the IP Filter configuration, administrator can block the specify source IP Address range. The screen in Figure 4-47 appears. Figure 4-47 Filter Configuration screen The Filter Configuration page includes the following fields: •...
4.12 MAC Addresses 4.12.1 Dynamic Address Table Use this page to set the Address Ageing Timeout for the MAC Address database, and to display information about entries in the MAC Address database. These entries are used by the transparent bridging function to determine how to forward a received frame.
• MAC-Address Specifies the MAC address for which the table is queried. 4.12.2 Static MAC Address The Static MAC Address page contains a list of static MAC addresses. Static Address can be added and removed from the page. In addition, several MAC Addresses can be defined for a single port. The screen in Figure 4-49 appears. Figure-4-49 Static MAC Address Configuration The configable filelds includes the following items: •...
4.13.2 Factory Reset The Factory Reset button can reset the GSW-1602SF/2404SF back to the factory default mode. Be aware that the entire configuration will be reset; expect the IP address of the GSW-1602SF/2404SF. Once the Factory Reset item be pressed, the screen in Figure 4-50 appears.
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Figure 4-51 Firmware Upgrade screen Once the software be loaded to the system successfully. The following screen appears. Click the “Yes” button to activate the new software immediately. The system will load the new software after reboot. Figure 4-52 Software successfully loaded notice screen Do not power off the switch until the update progress is complete.
4.13.4 Configuration Upload This function allows backup and reload the current configuration of GSW-1602SF /2404SF to the local management station. The screen in Figure 4-53 appears. Configuration Upload: Upload the existed configuration file to the GSW-1602SF/2404SF. The configuration file had been saved at the local machine already.
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Select on the configuration file then click “Upload”, the bottom of the browser shows the upload status. After down, the main screen appears “Transfer Completed”. Configuration Download Press the “Download” button to save the current configuration in manager workstation. The following screens in Figure 4-55 and 4-56 appear Figure 4-55 File Download screen Chose the file save path in management workstation.
4.13.5 Ping Use this screen to tell the switch to send a Ping request to a specified IP address. You can use this to check whether the switch can communicate with a particular IP station. Once you click the Apply button, the switch will send n pings and the results will be displayed below the configurable data.
Be sure the target IP Address is within the same network subnet of the switch, or you had setup the Note correct gateway IP address. 4.13.6 Cable Diagnostics The Cable Diagnostics page contains fields for performing tests on copper cables. These functions have the ability to identify the cable length and operating conditions, and to isolate a variety of common faults that can occur on the Cat5 twisted-pair cabling.
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The Cable status includes the following items: • Pair The twist pair of the UTP cable. The pair groups as follow: A (Pin 1,2) B (Pin 3,6) C (Pin 4,5) D (Pin 7,8) • Length[m] When properly terminated, Cable Diagnostics reports the approximate cable length in meters of each of the four cable pair A, B, C, and D.
4.14 Status Click on the “Status” to present the Switch status on this screen, it displays the following status: Port Statistics Overview Port Statistics Detail LACP Status RSTP Status IGMP Snooping Status Multicast Group Table 4.14.1 Port Statistics Overview The Port Statistic Overview page displays the status of packet count from each port. The Port statistics overview screen in Figure 4-60 appears.
4.14.2 Port Statistics Detail The Port Statistic detail page displays the status of packet count from each port. Press the port ID for detail packet information on each port. The screen in Figure 4-61 appears. Figure 4-61 Per port detail Statistics screen The page includes the following fields: •...
• TX Errors Packets The number of error packets transmitted from the selected port. 4.14.3 LACP Status The LACP Status page display the current LACP aggregation Groups and LACP Port status. Please refer to Chapter 4.7.3 at page-39 for more detail. 4.14.4 RSTP Status The RSTP Status page display the current STP bridge , roor bridge and per port stp status.
5. SWITCH OPERATION 5.1 Address Table The Switch is implemented with an address table. This address table composed of many entries. Each entry is used to store the address information of some node in network, including MAC address, port no, etc. This information comes from the learning process of Ethernet Switch.
5-6 IGMP Snooping Theory Computers and network devices that want to receive multicast transmissions need to inform nearby routers that they will become members of a multicast group. The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used to communicate this information. IGMP is also used to periodically check the multicast group for members that are no longer active. In the case where there is more than one multicast router on a sub network, one router is elected as the ‘queried’.
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The Time-to-Live (TTL) field of query messages is set to 1 so that the queries will not be forwarded to other sub networks. IGMP version 2 introduces some enhancements such as a method to elect a multicast queried for each LAN, an explicit leave message, and query messages that are specific to a given group.
7. TROUBLESHOOTING This chapter contains information to help you solve problems. If the Switch is not functioning properly, make sure the Ethernet Switch was set up according to instructions in this manual. The Link LED is not lit Solution: Check the cable connection and remove duplex mode of the Switch. Some stations cannot talk to other stations located on the other port Solution: Please check the VLAN, port trunking function that may introduce this kind of problem.
APPENDIX A A.1 Switch‘s RJ-45 Pin Assignments 1000Mbps, 1000Base T Contact MDI-X BI_DA+ BI_DB+ BI_DA- BI_DB- BI_DB+ BI_DA+ BI_DC+ BI_DD+ BI_DC- BI_DD- BI_DB- BI_DA- BI_DD+ BI_DC+ BI_DD- BI_DC- Implicit implementation of the crossover function within a twisted-pair cable, or at a wiring panel, while not expressly forbidden, is beyond the scope of this standard.
Please make sure your connected cables are with same pin assignment and color as above picture before deploying the cables into your network. A.4 Available Modules The following list the available Modules for GSW-1602SF / GSW-2404SF SFP-port 1000Base-T Module MGB-GT...