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- Page 1 ALLOY 8-Port Gigabit Web Smart Switch (GSS-8T2SFP) User’s Manual Version: 1.0.6 Oct 12, 2004...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENT Introduction..........................4 Main Features......................5 Initial Setup ......................... 6 Main Configuration Functions .................. 7 Configuration ..........................8 Port Status ........................8 Port Configuration....................10 About the Copper/ Fibre Media Auto-Detection............11 Port-Based VLAN ..................... 12 2.4.1 Add Port-Based VLAN Groups ............... 13 2.4.2 Delete Port-Based VLAN Groups .............. - Page 3 2.9.2 Ingress Rate Control Common Config............45 2.9.3 Ingress Rate Limit Config for Buckets............46 2.10 Address Management ....................48 2.10.1 Get/Refresh the Latest Address Management Settings ......... 49 2.10.2 Add a New Entry ....................50 2.10.3 Modify an Existing Entry ................. 51 2.10.4 Delete an Existing Entry ...................
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Page 4: Introduction
1. Introduction The GSS-8T2SFP is a high performance web-smart switch that provides up to 8 10/100/1000Mbps copper Ethernet ports and 2 mini-GBIC ports. The versatility of this switch allows users to migrate easily from existing Ethernet or Fast Ethernet networks while providing an easy upgrade path to a Gigabit Ethernet network. -
Page 5: Main Features
1.1 Main Features This switch provides the following main features: Non-blocking, full- line speed, store-and-forward Jumbo frame support, Max. packet length 9728 bytes Auto-Negotiation and Auto-MDIX on all 10/100/1000M copper ports Up to 8x 10/100/1000 RJ-45 copper ports and 2 mini- GBIC ports with optional fibre transceivers. -
Page 6: Initial Setup
Now you can use a web browser to launch the user- friendly web management interface for this switch. Currently (October 2004) the switch only supports Microsoft Internet Explorer for web interface configuration. Please check with Alloy to determine support for other Web Browser systems. -
Page 7: Main Configuration Functions
1.3 Main Configuration Functions After the login is successfully validated, the switch’s home page – System Configuration will be displayed. The left section of the page provides various function menus to activate the individual configuration page s. The home page is shown below: The function menu contains two parts: Switch for setting up the switch functions and System for maintaining the system parameters. -
Page 8: Configuration
2 Configuration 2.1 Port Status This page provides the current link status for all 8 ports. This page provides the following information: Port No. – The specific port on the switch Link Status – Show the port link status : Up / Down / Disable Ø... - Page 9 Duplex – Indicates the port as Full or Half duplex mode while the link is up. Flow Control –Shows the flow control capability as Enabled / Disabled for this port. Protected – Shows the protected capability as Enabled / Disabled for this port. Defining a port as Protected, is like defining a simple port based VLAN.
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Page 10: Port Configuration
Port Configuration If you need to edit the port configuration, select one of the desired ports by clicking its radio button in the Select column of the Port Status page. The Configure button will be enabled when any port is selected. -
Page 11: About The Copper/Fibre Media Auto-Detection
Flow Control Ø Enable – Enable flow control for this port Ø Disable -- Disable flow control for this port Protected Port Ø Enable – to enable this function for the port (to be a protected port) Ø Disable -- to disable this function for the port (to be an unprotected port) Jumbo Frame Support Ø... -
Page 12: Port-Based Vlan
Port-Based VLAN Port-based VLAN segregates ports into various groups. Once you define Port Based VLAN groups only ports that are members of the same VLAN group can communicate with each other. Broadcast, Multicast and Unicast packets are limited to within their respective ports VLAN group. The initial VLAN setting page is shown below: You can add, delete, and modify the port-based VLAN’s based on your particular requirements. -
Page 13: Add Port-Based Vlan Groups
2.3.1 Add Port-Based VLAN Groups To add a port-based VLAN group, click the Add button in Port-Based VLAN page, the following web page will be shown: (if the default entry had previously been removed): The VLAN NO is automatically configured to the next available. The switch administrator needs to add the VLAN Port Members. -
Page 14: Delete Port-Based Vlan Groups
2.3.2 Delete Port-Based VLAN Groups To delete a port-based VLAN group, just select the desired group to be removed and click the Delete button. As shown in the figure above, there are 2 port-based VLAN groups 1 and 2. Check the radio button at the head of each row and press the Delete Button. -
Page 15: Edit Port-Based Vlan Groups
2.3.3 Edit Port-Based VLAN Groups To edit the current port-based VLAN group, first check the radio button of the group you want to edit and click the Edit button. Then set the member Ports 7 and 8 Press the Submit button to complete the Edit function. The port-based VLAN Group Member changes to Port 7 and 8 from Port 5, 6, 7 and 8. -
Page 16: 802.1Q Vlan
802.1Q VLAN IEEE 802.1Q (tag-based) VLAN operates by reading/writing 802.1Q tags depending on the requirements of the individual transmitting port. To configure this type of VLAN, Click on the 802.1Q VLAN menu. This page provides the following functions to configure the 802.1Q VLAN: Enable / Disable VLAN Frames which VID’s are not in the VLAN table 802.1Q control per port configuration... -
Page 17: Enable/Disable Vlan
2.4.1 Enable/Disable VLAN In the 802.1Q VLAN page, there are two options provided to enable /disable tag-based VLAN functions: Ø Enable – Activate tag-based VLAN functions. If any tag-based VLAN entry is created. Ø Disable – De-activate tag-based VLAN functions, even if there are some VLAN entries created. (i.e. -
Page 18: 802.1Q Control Per Port Config
2.4.3 802.1Q Control Per Port Config The above screen allows you to control individual port 802.1Q settings: Ø Port No – Select the port to be configured. Only the red-colored leading port will been shown in the dropdown if a trunk group has been created. Ø... -
Page 19: 802.1Q Vlan Table Config
2.4.4 802.1Q VLAN Table Config The following screen capture shows the page used to add/delete/edit the 802.1Q VLAN entry. Each VLAN entry has 3 parameters, VID, Members and UnTag Members . After clicking the Add button, the figure shown below will be displayed: Ø... - Page 20 Here is an example showing how to configure the 802.1Q VLAN Table Config parameters. There are four existing 802.1Q VLAN entries as shown below. To delete the 802.1Q VLAN entry, click a radio button on the Select column (e.g. Entry No.2, VID = 285), then click the Delete button to do perform the deletion. Once the above has been completed, the 802.1Q VLAN table will be changed accordingly: The VID entry (No.2, VID=285) has been successfully deleted.
- Page 21 If you would like to edit the parameters of an 802.1Q VLAN entry, select the entry that you require changed (e.g. entry No.2, VID = 3) then click the Edit button to perform the modifications: VID is changed to 333 and port 1 and port 8 are selected to be members of this group. Then select the port 1 as a Untagged Member for the 802.1Q VLAN entry.
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Page 22: Trunk
The GSS-8T2SFP supports MAC-based trunking. This allows more than one port to be grouped together as a single link connection between two switch devices. The GSS-8T2SFP allows one trunk group that can accommodate up to 4 trunk members. This feature provides redundancy and increases the effective bandwidth through the link. -
Page 23: Trunking Rules
2.5.1 Trunking Rules The following rules are applied to ports defined within a Trunk Group: The attributes of all trunk member ports in Port Status, Mirror, QOS and Rate Control functions must be the same. All trunk member ports can not be a capture port within the Mirror function. If port 7 or port 8 are in use as fibre media and you want to truncate them with ports using copper (port1—port6) as a trunk group, the n the auto-negotiation option should always be Enabled;... -
Page 24: Get/Refresh The Latest Trunk Settings
2.5.2 Get/Refresh the Latest Trunk Settings Click the Trunk menu on the web page to review the current trunk settings on the switch. -
Page 25: Enable Trunk
2.5.3 Enable Trunk Ø Step 1: Choose the member port(s) up to 4 within a trunk group. Ø Step 2: Check the corresponding checkbox for these member ports (ex: port1, port2, port4, port5). Ø Step 3: Click the Enable radio button. Ø... -
Page 26: Modify Trunk Settings
2.5.4 Modify Trunk Settings Ø Step 1: Choose the member port(s) up to 4 within the trunk group. Ø Step 2: Check the corresponding checkbox for these member ports (ex: port3, port4, port6). Ø Step 3: Click the Apply button to modify the trunk settings. -
Page 27: Disable Trunk
2.5.5 Disable Trunk Ø Step 1: Uncheck the checkboxes. Ø Step 2: Click the Disable radio button. Ø Step 3: Click the Apply button to disable the trunk. -
Page 28: Port Mirroring
Port mirroring allows ingress and/or egress (Received and/or Transmitted) traffic to be monitored by a single port. The single port is a “mirror capture port”. The GSS-8T2SFP can be configured to mirror the ingress and/or egress traffic of any other port(s). Several filter rules are used to avoid congestion when multiple ports are mirrored at the same time. -
Page 29: Get/Refresh The Latest Mirror Settings
2.6.1 Get/Refresh the Latest Mirror Settings Click the Mirror menu on the web page, the latest mirror settings on the switch will be displayed. This page provides the following parameters Enable/Disable – Click the Enable option to enable mirroring function or the Disable option to disable it. -
Page 30: Enable Mirror
2.6.2 Enable Mirror Ø Step 1: Choose the Capture port (ex: port2). Ø Step 2: Check the corresponding checkbox for monitored ports (ex: port4 Ingress&Egress, port6 Ingress Only, port8 Egress Only, and other ports OFF). Ø Step 3: Click the Enable radio button. Ø... -
Page 31: Modify Mirror Settings
2.6.3 Modify Mirror Settings Ø Step 1: Change the capture or monitored ports (ex: port3 Capture , port5 Ingress/Egress, port7 Ingress Only, port8 Egress Only, and other ports OFF). Ø Step 2: Click the Apply button to modify the mirroring settings. -
Page 32: Disable Mirror
2.6.4 Disable Mirror Ø Step 1: Click the Disable button. Ø Step 2: Click OFF for all ports. Ø Step 3: Click the Apply button to disable mirroring. -
Page 33: Get/Refresh The Latest Mirror Filter Settings
2.6.5 Get/Refresh the Latest Mirror Filter Settings Click the Mirror menu and click the Filter button. The latest mirror filter settings on the switch will be displayed. This page provides the following parameters: Ingress/Egress Filter Ø All Frames – to mirror all frames of monitored port(s) for ingress/egress direction. Ø... -
Page 34: Configure Mirror Filter
2.6.6 Configure Mirror Filter Ø Step 1: Choose Ingress Filter to be a Source Address, and choose Egress Filter to be a Destination Address. Ø Step 2: Enter Ingress MAC Address (00-01-02-03-04-05), and Egress MAC Address (0A-0B-0C-0D-0E-0F). Ø Step 3: Enter Ingress Divider as 5, and enter Egress Divider as 8. Ø... -
Page 35: Disable Mirror Filter
2.6.7 Disable Mirror Filter Ø Step 1: Change Ingress/Egress Filter to All Frames. Ø Step 2: Set Ingress/Egress Divider equal to 0. Ø Step 2: Click the Apply button to modify mirroring filter settings. -
Page 36: Qos (Quality Of Service)
For sensitive traffic, minimizing the delay time can be very important. The GSS-8T2SFP provides three types of QOS. It can assign packets to one of four transmit queues according to Port-Based QOS, 802.1P QOS or MAC-Based QOS. Port-Based QOS arranges packets into one of four transmit queues by priority id of 802.1Q VLAN tag set in 802.1Q... -
Page 37: Get/Refresh The Latest Qos Settings
802.1P QOS and enables the QOS function, then the GSS-8T2SFP will handle packets with an 802.1Q tags as a 802.1P QOS type, and handle packets without 802.1Q tags as a MAC-Based QOS type. If user select no QOS type and enables the QOS function, the GSS-8T2SFP will handle all packets as MAC-Based QOS type. -
Page 38: Enable Qos
2.7.2 Enable QOS Ø Step 1: Choose the Transmit Queue Algorithm (ex: Highest Queue Preempt). Ø Step 2: Choose the QOS Type (ex: Port-Based QOS). Ø Step 3: Click the Enable radio button. Ø Step 4: Click the Apply button to enable the QOS settings. -
Page 39: Modify Qos Settings
2.7.3 Modify QOS Settings Ø Step 1: Choose the Transmit Queue Algorithm (ex: Weight-Round Robin). Ø Step 2: Choose the QOS Type (ex: 802.1P QOS). Ø Step 3: Click the Apply button to modify QOS settings. -
Page 40: Disable Qos
2.7.4 Disable QOS Ø Step 1: Click the Disable button. Ø Step 2: Click the Apply button to disable QOS. -
Page 41: Get/Refresh The Latest Qos Detailed Settings
2.7.5 Get/Refresh the Latest QOS Detailed Settings Select the QOS menu and click the Configure button, the latest detailed QOS settings on the switch will be displayed. The parameters provided are: Priority ID to Tx Queue ID Map – Enter the corresponding Tx Queue ID (0 ~ 3) for each Priority ID. -
Page 42: Configure Detailed Qos Settings
2.7.6 Configure Detailed QOS Settings Ø Step 1: Enter Tx Queue ID by the following order (e.g. 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3) Ø Step 2: Enter Priority ID by the following order (e.g. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) Ø... -
Page 43: Rate Control
Rate Control The GSS-8T2SFP’s rate control works on a credit-based rate system that figuratively uses buckets to track the bandwidth of each port. You can set a bucket bit rate to control the bandwidth of each port, and set which packet type you want to monitor with this bucket. -
Page 44: Enable/Disable Rate Control
2.8.1 Enable/Disable Rate Control In the following page, you can enable/disable the rate control function on a per port basis. Use the Enable option to define the port(s) speed limit for forwarding traffic based on the rate value of the ingress port. -
Page 45: Ingress Rate Control Common Config
2.8.2 Ingress Rate Control Common Config To configure this function, click the Ingress Rate Control Common Config button. The following page is presented. You can monitor four types of packets and choose which bucket to monitor the specified packets from Unicast Frame : Unicast are directed point-to-point packets, choose Bucket 0 and/or Bucket 1. -
Page 46: Ingress Rate Limit Config For Buckets
2.8.3 Ingress Rate Limit Config for Buckets To limit the traffic rate for specified port(s), click the Ingress Rate Limit Config for Bucket0 or Ingress Rate Limit Config for Bucket1 button in the Rate Control page to open the page for configuring the ingress rate limit for Bucket0 or Bucket1 respectively. - Page 47 The maximum forwarding traffic rate will be limited by the percentage of rate for the current link speed on the specified ingress port. The following table shows the limited traffic speeds based on the different rates in different link speeds (10/100/1000Mbps). Rate Link Speed 10Mbps...
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Page 48: Address Management
300 seconds.) If the switch administrator adds a static MAC address entry in to the switch and a 802.1Q VLAN is not enabled, the GSS-8T2SFP will search for the MAC address in the address table according to the MAC address. -
Page 49: Get/Refresh The Latest Address Management Settings
Get/Refresh the Latest Address Management Settings Click the Address Management menu on the web page, the latest Address Management settings on the switch will be displayed. The following options are provided: Add : Add a new entry into the static MAC entry table. Delete: Remove an existing entry from the static MAC entry table. -
Page 50: Add A New Entry
2.9.1 Add a New Entry Ø Step 1: Click the Add button. Ø Step 2: Choose the Port No. (e.g. : Port 3) Ø Step 3: Enter the MAC Address. (e.g.: 31-32-33-34-34-36) Ø Step 4: Enter the VLAN ID. (e.g. : 3333) (Range: 1 ~ 4094) Ø... -
Page 51: Modify An Existing Entry
2.9.2 Modify an Existing Entry Ø Step 1: Choose Entry No 1 and click the Edit button in the Static MAC Entry Table page. Ø Step 2: Modify Port No to be Port 6. Ø Step 3: Modify MAC Address to be 61-62-63-64-65-66. Ø... -
Page 52: Delete An Existing Entry
2.9.3 Delete an Existing Entry Choose a desired entry to be removed (e.g. entry1) and click the Delete button to complete the deletion. After deletion, the content in the Static MAC Entry Table will be refreshed. -
Page 53: System Configuration
2.10 System Configuration The System Configuration page provides the management information for the switch. The page shown below can be activated by clicking the Setup menu under the System section. The following parameters can be configured / displayed: IP Address – the IP address used to manage this switch through the configuration port. Subnet Mask –... -
Page 54: Account Settings
2.11 Account Settings Account setting is used to maintain the username and password for login validation. The switch provides only one login account for configuration management. Click the Account menu to activate the Account Setting page shown below: User Name – Set the username string (max. 6 characters) Password –... -
Page 55: Reset System
All customized settings will be lost and unless manually reentered, will not be recoverable. The GSS-8T2SFP also provides two alternatives to perform a Reboot after Write Default option by using the Reset button on the front panel of the switch: Ø... -
Page 56: Firmware Update
2.13 Firmware Update This switch provides the capability to update the firmware for new features, customized requests and system fault recovery. Click the Firmware Update menu to activate this page shown as below: Before you update the firmware, it is required to correctly prepare the BOOTP server (e.g. haneWIN DHCP server) and have the firmware file which will be uploaded to the switch by the BOOTP server available. -
Page 57: Application Notes
3 Application Notes 3.1 In-Band/Out-of-Band Switch Management n Out-of-Band Management To configure the switch, a network management station (NMS) normally can connect directly via the the Cfg Port. This kind of connection can be regarded as an out-of-band switch management as the configuration traffic is totally separate from the normal (in-band) traffic through the switch ports. - Page 58 n In-Band Management It is possible to achieve in-band management for the switch if necessary. The switch administrator needs to connect the Cfg Port to any of the normal switch ports (e.g. Port 1), then the NMS can be located anywhere within the network. The following figure shows a connection example for in-band switch management.
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