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Page 1: Black Box
Order toll-free in the U.S.: Call 877-877-BBOX (outside U.S. call 724-746-5500) Customer FREE technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: Call 724-746-5500 or fax 724-746-0746 Support Mailing address: Black Box Corporation, 1000 Park Drive, Lawrence, PA 15055-1018 Information Web site: www.blackbox.com • E-mail: info@blackbox.com ACR1000A Reference Guide... - Page 2 Trademarks Used in this Manual Trademarks Used in this Manual Black Box and the Double Diamond logo are registered trademarks, and ServSwitch is a trademark, of BB Technologies, Inc. Apple and Mac are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc. Cisco is a registered trademark of Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Page 3 ServSwitch Agility Network Configuration Reference Guide This reference guide applies to the following ServSwitch Agility units: • ServSwitch Agility, KVM over TCP/IP Transmitter and Receiver Kit (ACR1000A) • ServSwitch Agility, KVM over TCP/IP Transmitter (ACR1000A-T) • ServSwitch Agility, KVM over TCP/IP Receiver (ACR1000A-R) •...
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Make Sure that All ServSwitch Agility Units are Fully Updated................10 Troubleshooting ................................11 Glossary ...................................13 Switch Setups ..................................17 Cisco Catalyst 2960S and 3750 ...........................17 Cisco 6500 ................................18 Extreme X460-24t ..............................19 HP ProCurve 2810 and 2910 ..........................21 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 4 ACR1000A Reference Guide... -
Page 5: Choosing Layer 2 Switches
As a result, the switches can then deter- mine exactly which of their own hosts have requested to receive a multicast—and only pass on multicast data to those hosts. 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 5 ACR1000A Reference Guide... -
Page 6: Specific Layer 2 Switches Known To Work With Servswitch Agility
® • HP ProCurve 2810 ® ® • HP ProCurve 2910 For specific details on configuring each of these switches for efficient operation with ServSwitch Agility, refer to Chapter 6: Switch Setups. 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 6 ACR1000A Reference Guide... -
Page 7: Designing The Network Layout
The advantage of arranging switches as a line cascade is that the communication links between them effectively form a simple bus structure that avoids the IGMP traps encountered by the pyramid arrangement. 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 7 ACR1000A Reference Guide... - Page 8 The links between switches could either be multiple Gigabit Ethernet connections or, preferably Fibre Channel connections. Because a large amout of interlink bandwidth is required to prevent bottlenecks, we strongly recommend that there be no more than two cascade levels in any single line cascade arrangement. 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 8 ACR1000A Reference Guide...
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Page 9: Configuring Switches And The Servswitch Agility System
These settings can be accessed either through the Transmitter tab of IPATH or directly via the ServSwitch Agility browser-based configuration utility. Please refer to the relevant Black Box user guides for details. • If color quality is important, then leave Colordepth at 24 bits and adjust other controls, •... -
Page 10: Make Sure That All Servswitch Agility Units Are Fully Updated
(that is, network congestion) in certain configurations. Ensure that all ServSwitch Agility units are fully updated to the latest firmware version. If you encounter problems during installation or operation, please refer to Chapter 4: Troubleshooting for possible remedies. 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 10 ACR1000A Reference Guide... -
Page 11: Troubleshooting
When dithering is enabled and/or VGA-to-DVI converters are used, this can have the effect of changing almost every pixel between each frame, thus forcing the ServSwitch Agility transmitter to send the whole of every frame, resulting in greatly increased network traffic. 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 11 ACR1000A Reference Guide... - Page 12 • Enable portfast on all switch ports that have ServSwitch Agility units attached to them or try temporarily disabling STP on the switches while IPATH is attempting to locate ServSwitch Agility units. 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 12 ACR1000A Reference Guide...
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Page 13: Glossary
Layer 0. In general, think of the functions carried out by the layers at the top as being complex, becoming less complex as you go down lower through the model. 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 13 ACR1000A Reference Guide... - Page 14 1500 bytes. This standard was set during the original speed era (10 Mbps) and offered the best compromise at that speed between the time taken to process each packet and the time required to resend faulty packets caused by transmission errors. 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 14 ACR1000A Reference Guide...
- Page 15 So which one to choose? The cut-through method has the least latency so it’s usually the best to use with Infinity units. However, if the network components and/or cabling generate a lot of errors, the store-and-forward method should probably be used. On higher-end store-and-forward switches, latency is rarely an issue. 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 15 ACR1000A Reference Guide...
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Page 17: Switch Setups
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to globally enable IGMP Snooping on the switch, first globally and then on VLAN1: Globally: 1. configure terminal 2. ip igmp snooping 3. end 4. copy running-config startup-config 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 17 ACR1000A Reference Guide... -
Page 18: Cisco 6500
To enable IGMPv3-snooping fast-leave processing, use the ip igmp snooping fast-leave command in interface configuration mode. To disable fast-leave processing, use the no form of this command: • ip igmp snooping fast-leave • no ip igmp snooping fast-leave 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 18 ACR1000A Reference Guide... -
Page 19: Extreme X460-24T
When you have successfully logged in to the switch, the command line prompt displays the name of the switch. 5. Assign an IP address and subnetwork mask for the default VLAN by using the following command: configure {vlan} <vlan_name> ipaddress [<ipaddress> {<ipNetmask>} | ipv6-linklocal| {eui64} <ipv6_address_mask>] 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 19 ACR1000A Reference Guide... - Page 20 4 bytes of CRC plus another 4 bytes if 802.1Q tagging is being used. Set the MTU size for the VLAN by using the following command: configure ip-mtu <mtu> vlan <vlan_name 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 20 ACR1000A Reference Guide...
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Page 21: Hp Procurve 2810 And 2910
Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP) STP is disabled by default on ProCurve 2810 and 2910 switches. • To determine the current STP configuration on the switch use the command: show spanning-tree 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 21 ACR1000A Reference Guide... - Page 22 NOTES 724-746-5500 | blackbox.com Page 22 ACR1000A Reference Guide...
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- Page 24 About Black Box Black Box provides an extensive range of networking and infrastructure products. You’ll find everything from cabinets and racks and power and surge protection products to media converters and Ethernet switches all supported by free, live 24/7 Tech Support available in 30 seconds or less.