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  • Page 2 VigorSwitch G1240 24 Gigabit Port Web Smart Switch User’s Guide Version: 1.0 Firmware Version: V1.47 Date: 05/09/2011 VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 3: Copyright Information

    Web registration is preferred. You can register your Vigor device via Owner http://www.draytek.com. Firmware & Tools Due to the continuous evolution of DrayTek technology, all devices will be regularly Updates upgraded. Please consult the DrayTek web site for more information on newest firmware, tools and documents.
  • Page 4 This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class A computing device pursuant to Subpart J of part 15 of FCC Rules, which are designed to provide reasonable protection against such interference when operated in a commercial environment VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    3.2 System ..........................41 3.2.1 System Information and IP Configuration............... 41 3.3 Port............................43 3.3.1 Port Configuration......................43 3.3.2 Detailed Port Statistics....................44 3.4 VLAN Mode........................... 47 3.4.1 Tag-Based Group ......................48 3.4.2 Port-based Group ......................51 VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 6 3.13.1 Ping..........................73 3.14 Maintenance........................74 3.14.1 Warm Restart........................ 74 3.14.2 Firmware Upgrade ......................75 3.14.3 Factory Defaults......................75 3.15 Logout ..........................76 Trouble Shooting..................77 4.1 Resolving No Link Condition....................77 4.2 Q & A ............................. 77 VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    IEEE 802.3z and 1000Base-SX/LX standards. 1000Mbps Single Fiber WDM (BiDi) transceiver is designed with an optic Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology that transports bi-directional full duplex signal over a single fiber simultaneously. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 8: Features

    Allows one or more links to be aggregated together to form a Link Aggregation Group by the static setting. The VigorSwitch G1240, a standalone off-the-shelf switch, provides the comprehensive features listed below for users to perform system network administration and efficiently and securely serve your network.

  • Page 9: Packing List

    1000Mbps BiDi SC, type 2, SM 20km, SFP Fiber WDM transceiver (SFP.0BS.621.202) 1000Mbps LC, SM 10km, SFP Fiber transceiver with DDM (SFP.DLC.212.10) Front View of 1000Base-SX/LX LC, SFP Fiber Transceiver Front View of 1000Base-LX BiDi LC, SFP Fiber Transceiver VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 10: Led Indicators And Connectors

    Lit when SFP connection with remote device is good SFP(LINK/ACT) Green Blinks when any traffic is present Interface Description RESET Used to restart the management system. LAN P1 – P24 Giga Ethernet Port SFP (21 – 24) SFP Fiber Port VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 11: Hardware Installation

    After the power is on, all LED indicators will light up immediately and then all off except the power LED still keeps on. This represents a reset of the system. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 12: Installing Optional Sfp Fiber Transceivers To The Switch

    To help ensure a successful installation and keep the network performance good, please take a care on the cabling requirement. Cables with worse specification will render the LAN to work poorly. For Fast Ethernet TP network connection VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 13 Media Access Control (MAC) and PHY, and timer from some OSI layer 2 protocols such as 802.1d, 802.1q, LACP and so on. The fiber, TP cables and devices’ bit-time delay (round trip) are as follows: 1000Base-X TP, Fiber 100Base-TX TP/100Base-FX Fiber Round trip Delay: 4096 Round trip Delay: 512 VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 14 Here VLAN area is defined by what VLAN you are using. The switch supports both port-based VLAN and tag-based VLAN. They are different in practical deployment, especially in physical location. The following diagram shows how it works and what the difference they are. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 15 Case 3: Port-based VLAN - 2 VLAN1 members could not access VLAN2, VLAN3 and VLAN4 members. VLAN2 members could not access VLAN1 and VLAN3 members, but they could access VLAN4 members. VLAN3 members could not access VLAN1, VLAN2 and VLAN4. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 16 VLAN4 members could not access VLAN1 and VLAN3 members, but they could access VLAN2 members. Case 4: The same VLAN members can be at different switches with the same VID VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 17: Configuring The Management Agent Of Switch

    Users can monitor and configure the switch through the following procedures. Configuring the Management Agent of VigorSwitch G1240 through the Ethernet Port There are two ways to configure and monitor the switch through the switch’s Ethernet port. They are Web browser and SNMP manager. We just introduce the first type of management interface.

  • Page 18: Ip Address Assignment

    IP address range between 192.0.0.0 and 223.255.255.255. Each class C network has a 24-bit network prefix followed 8-bit host address. There are 2,097,152 (2^21)/24 networks able to be defined with a maximum of 254 (2^8 –2) hosts per network. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 19 They are the addresses with all zero’s and all one’s host number. For example, an IP address 128.1.2.128, what IP address reserved will be looked like? All 0s mean the network itself, and all 1s mean IP broadcast. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 20 For assigning an IP address to the switch, you just have to check what the IP address of the network will be connected with the switch. Use the same network address and append your host address to it. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 21 192.168.1.x must be set on your PC. Second, Subnet Mask: as shown above, enter “255.255.255.0”. Any subnet mask such as 255.255.255.x is allowable in this case. Note: The DHCP Setting is enabled in default. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 22: Typical Applications

    Central Site/Remote site application is used in carrier or ISP It is a system wide basic reference connection diagram. This diagram demonstrates how the switch and the various devices form the network infrastructure in a large-scale network. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 23 Peer-to-peer application is used in two remote offices Office Network Connection VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 24: Basic Concept And Management

    (MAC), and physical layer. The first two comprises Data link layer, which performs splitting data into frame for transmitting, receiving acknowledge frame, error checking and re-transmitting when not received correctly as well as provides an error-free channel upward to network layer. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 25 Information. The DSAP address field identifies the one or more service access points, in which the I/G bit indicates it is individual or group address. If all bit of DSAP is 1s, it’s a global address. The SSAP address field identifies the specific services indicated by C/R bit VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 26: Media Access Control (Mac)

    In OSI model, each layer provides its own mean to identify the unique address in some form, for example, IP address in network layer. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 27 The SFD pattern is 10101011. Destination address (DA) - The DA field is used to identify which network device(s) should receive the packet. It is a unique address. Please see the section of MAC addressing. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 28 After the frame is assembled, when transmitting the frame, the preamble (PRE) bytes are inserted and sent first, then the next, Start of frame Delimiter (SFD), DA, SA and through VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 29 Actually, the practice Gigabit Ethernet chips do not feature this so far. They all have their chips supported full-duplex mode only, as well as all network vendors’ devices. So this criterion should not exist at the present time and in the future. The switch’s Gigabit module supports only full-duplex mode. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 30 What will it be if receiving device is busy and a frame is coming at the same time? Can it use “backpressure” to tell the source device? A function flow control is introduced in the full-duplex operation. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 31: Flow Control

    When the times of collision is increased, the backoff time is getting long until the collision times excess 16. If this happens, the frame will be discarded and backoff time will also be reset. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 32 VLAN ID, which are explained respectively in the following table. Bits 15-13 User Priority 7-0, 0 is lowest priority Bit 12 CFI (Canonical Format Indicator) 1: RIF field is present in the tag header 0: No RIF field is present VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 33: How Does A Switch Work

    As per the description in the section of “What’s the Ethernet”, Ethernet utilizes CSMA/CD to arbitrate who can transmit data to the station(s) attached in the LAN. When more than one station transmits data within the same slot time, the signals will collide, referred to as VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 34 There is no need the access contention (e.g.Collision). They have their own access domain. But, collision still could happen between the host and the switch port. When performing the full duplex, the collision vanishes. The host owns a dedicated bandwidth of the port. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 35 VLAN can be one of the rules to forward the packet. There are ingress rule and egress rule applied. The ingress rule is used to filter the incoming packet by VLAN ID and so on and VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 36: Virtual Lan

    MAC address and so on. In other words, they can communicate with each other between separated small physical LANs within a LAN but can not be between any two separated logical LANs. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 37 ~ d) are members of VLAN 1. Any traffic within VLAN 1 does not flow to VLAN 2 and others. This helps us configure the network easily according to the criteria needed, for example, financial, accounting, R&D and whatever you think it necessary. You can also VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 38 0 and 4095, and priority information. Priority-tagged frame: An Ethernet frame, carrying VLAN tag field, contains VLAN identification with the value of 0 and priority information. Untagged frame: An Ethernet frame carries no VLAN tag information. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 39 It can be configured for port’s VLAN membership, and tagged or untagged for a transmitted packet. When a packet is transmitted out, the VLAN bridge checks the port’s egress list. If the VLAN of the VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 40 VLAN exists. If VLAN does not exist, then drop the packet, and if both DA and VLAN do not exist, forwards the packet. If just knows VLAN existed, then floods the packet to all the ports the VLAN covers. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 41 And what’s more, you can avoid worrying about the interoperability issue. Applying LACP in your network, you will not only gain benefits below to improve the performance of your network but also have these investments usable to future new products. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 42: Link Aggregation

    Dynamic Port Trunk: When physical links are changed, LACP takes over and automatically reconfigure. Administrator does not have to do anything and may see the trap message of LACP changed in NMS. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
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  • Page 45: Operation Of Web-Based Management

    Web Smart Switch supports a simplified user management function which allows only one administrator to configure the switch at one time. To optimize the display effect, we recommend Microsoft IE and 1024x768 display resolution. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 46: Web Management Home Overview

    As to the function names in normal type are the sub-functions. When clicking it, the function is performed. The following list is the main function tree for web user interface. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 47: System

    DHCP server. Set device name, uncheck DHCP setting, IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, management VLAN, password and auto logout. Parameter description: Model name The model name of this device. System description Display what the device’s description. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 48 If a packet does not meet the criteria for other pre-defined path, it must be forwarded to a default router on a default path. This means any packet with undefined IP address in the routing table will be sent to this device unconditionally. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 49: Port

    Port Configuration Function description: Port Configuration is applied for the settings of the ports (TP Ports and Fiber Ports) on the switch. By this function, you can set or reset the values for Mode and Flow Control. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 50: Detailed Port Statistics

    In the following figure, the window can show only one port counter information at the same time. To see another port’s counter, you have to pull down the list of Select, then you will see the figures displayed about the port you had chosen. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 51 Rx High Priority Packets The number of received packets classified as high priority. Rx Low Priority Packets The number of received packets classified as low priority. Rx Broadcast: Show the counting number of the received broadcast VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 52 Tx Broad- and Multicast Show the counting number of the received broadcast with multicast packets. Tx Error Packets Show the counting number of the transmitted error packets. TX 64 Bytes Number of 64-byte frames in good and bad packets VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 53: Vlan Mode

    VLAN will be accepted. No filtering criterion applies in port-based VLAN. The only criterion is the physical port you connect to. For example, for a port-based VLAN named PVLAN-1 contains port members Port 1&2&3&4. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 54: Tag-Based Group

    Member is used to enable or disable if a port is a member of the new added VLAN, “Enable” means it is a member of the VLAN. Just tick the check box ( ) beside the port x to enable it. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 55 Just press the <Delete> button to remove the selected group entry from the Tag-based group table. Port Configuration for the Selected VLAN Press the < Port Configuration > button to open the following page to configure tag-based VLAN group in detail. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 56 VID of the outgoing packets with tag is the same as the one in the field of Untag VID of this port. Untag VID Valid range is 1~4094. It works only when Role is set to Hybrid. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 57: Port-Based Group

    “Enable” means it is a member of the VLAN. Just tick the check box ( beside the port x to enable it. Click <Apply> to have the setting taken effect. Group Display the number for the created group. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 58: Filter

    DHCP: Allow the IP Address get from DHCP server can login to this switch and manage it. IP Address - Setting up the IP Address, it can be one IP Address or a LAN. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 59: Qos

    Priority 1 is mapping to Queue low, Priority 2 is mapping to Queue low, Priority 3 is mapping to Queue normal, Priority 4 is mapping to Queue medium, Priority 5 is mapping to Queue medium, Priority 6 is mapping to Queue high, and Priority 0 is mapping to Queue high. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 60 Traffic Class based on the arrangement of 6-bit field in DSCP of the IP packet. In the switch, user is allowed to set up these 64 kinds of Class that belong to any of queue (low, normal, medium, high). VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 61: Rate Limit

    Priority 0~63 are mapping to High. Priority Function name: Rate Limit Configuration Function description: Ingress and Egress Bandwidth Setting function are used to set up the limit of Ingress or Egress bandwidth for each port. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 62: Storm Control

    Function description: Storm Control is used to block unnecessary multicast and broadcast frames that reduce switch’s performance. When the function is enabled and Storm Control rate settings are detected as exceeded, the unnecessary frames would be dropped VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 63: Snmp

    All supported MIB OIDs, including RMON MIB, can be accessed via SNMP manager. If the field SNMP is set “Disable”, SNMP agent will be de-activated, the related Community Name, Trap Host IP Address, Trap and all MIB counters will be ignored. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 64 Say, the community name for Read only works for Read function and can’t be applied to other function such as Write and Trap. Default community name for Get: public Default community name for Set: private Default community name for Trap: public VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 65 Authenticator: An entity facilitates the authentication of the supplicant entity. It controls the state of the port, authorized or unauthorized, according to the result of authentication message exchanged between it and a supplicant PAE. The authenticator may request the VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 66 B and C via the switch. If there are two switches directly connected together instead of single one, for the link connecting two switches, it may have to act two port roles at the end of the link: authenticator and supplicant, because the traffic is bi-directional. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 67 Radius-Access-Accept to the authenticator. If not correct, the authentication server will send a Radius-Access-Reject. 9. When the authenticator PAE receives a Radius-Access-Accept, it will send an EAP-Success to the supplicant. At this time, the supplicant is authorized and the port VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 68: 802.1X

    ForceUnauthorized Don’t Care Port Unauthorized Enabled ForceAuthorized Don’t Care Port Authorized Function name: 802.1X Configuration Function description: This function is used to configure the global parameters for RADIUS authentication in 802.1x port security application. Parameter description: VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 69 Statistics - Choose the port which you want to show of 802.1X statistics, the screen include Authenticator counters, backend Authenticator counters, dot1x MIB counters and Other statistics. Press the <Refresh> button will fresh the screen and see the newer counters. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 70: Trunk

    Fast Ethernet port’s. Function name: Aggregation Configuration Function description: Display the current setup of Aggregation Trunking. With this function, user is allowed to add a new trunking group or modify the members of an existed trunking group. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 71: Lacp

    “standby” ports become operational without user intervention. Function name: LACP Configuration Function description: Enable or disable LACP protocol, user is allowed to set the aggregation key value. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 72: Rstp

    Function name: RSTP System Configuration Function description: This screen is used to display the RSTP system configuration and set the need of parameters. Parameter description: System priority is used in determining the root switch, System Priority: VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 73 RSTP Port Configuration Function description: Enable or disable RSTP protocol on the ports that are selected and set path cost. Parameter description: Just tick the check box ( ) beside the port x to enable Protected Enabled: VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 74: Mirroring

    Set up the port for being monitored. Just tick the check box ( ) beside the port x and valid port is Port 1~24. Function name: IGMP Snooping Configuration Function description: VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 75: Monitoring

    ( ) to enable this function. Default: enable Function name: LACP Status Function description: Display LACP status. Fig. 4-30 illustrates that LACP Status window can show LACP information and status for all ports in the same time. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 76: Rstp Status

    Operational Part Key Display the value configured for LACP port setting. Function name: RSTP Status Function description: Display RSTP status. Fig. 4-28 shows you that RSTP window can present VLAN bridge information and the status of all ports. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 77: Igmp Status

    Display if such RSTP protocol is enabled or not. Port State: Display the status (including Non-STP / STP / RSTP) for each port. Function name: IGMP Status Function description: Display IGMP status. In Fig. 4-29, the window shows VLAN ID for each multicast group. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...
  • Page 78 IP Address: Display the corresponding IP address for the VLAN ID multicast group. Ports: Display the corresponding port number for the VLAN ID multicast group. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 79: Configuration File

    Import a configuration file stored in the flash. Export: Export the current configuration on switch from Flash. Function name: Ping Configuration Function description: To set up target IP address for ping function and display ping status. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 80: Maintenance

    After upgrading software, you have to reboot the device to have new configuration take effect. The function being discussed here is software reset. Function name: Warm Restart Function description: VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 81: Firmware Upgrade

    (30) seconds to complete the system boot. Function name: Firmware Upgrade Function description: You can just click Browse button to retrieve the file you want in your system to upgrade your switch. Function name: Factory Defaults Function description: VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 82: Logout

    If you do not logout and exit the browser, the switch will automatically have you logout. Besides this manually logout and implicit logout, you can set up the parameter of Auto Logout Timer in system configuration function to explicitly ON/OFF this logout function. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

  • Page 83: Trouble Shooting

    DHCP server setting. When the switch is assigned an IP address, use IE and type the obtained IP address to connect to 24 Gigabit with RJ45 network line. Finally, the login screen will appear at once. VigorSwitch G1240 User’s Guide...

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