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  • Page 1 Signamax™ Connectivity Systems Model 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/100BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch U s e r ’ s G u i d e...
  • Page 2 Signamax™ Connectivity Systems Model 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/100BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch U s e r ’ s G u i d e Release 1.0 Release Date: July, 2005...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTION --------------------------------------------------------- LECTRONIC MISSION OTICES CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION--------------------------------------------------------- 2 1-1. O 16 G --------------------------------- 2 VERVIEW OF IGABIT MART WITCH 1-2. C ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 HECKLIST 1-3. F ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 EATURES 1-4.
  • Page 4 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-4. VLAN Group Configuration-------------------------------------------------58 4-2-5. PVID Configuration-----------------------------------------------------------61 4-2-6. Aggregation Configuration--------------------------------------------------63 4-2-7. Mirror Configuration ----------------------------------------------------------64 4-2-8. Quality of Service Configuration ------------------------------------------65 4-2-9. Bandwidth Management ----------------------------------------------------74 4-2-10. Trap Event Configuration--------------------------------------------------76 4-2-11. Max. Packet Length --------------------------------------------------------77 4-3.

  • Page 5: Revision History

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Revision History Release Date Revision 0.99 12/30/2004 1.03 01/20/2005 1.03 01/26/2005 1.07 05/09/2005...
  • Page 6 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch...

  • Page 7: Caution

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Caution Circuit devices are sensitive to static electricity, which can damage their delicate electronics. Dry weather conditions or walking across a carpeted floor may cause you to acquire a static electrical charge.
  • Page 8 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch About this user’s manual In this user’s manual, it will not only tell you how to install and connect your network system but configure and monitor the 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch through the built-in Ethernet ports step-by-step.

  • Page 9: Chapter 1. Introduction

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 1. Introduction 1-1. Overview of 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch 16-port Gigabit Web Smart Switch is a standard switch that meets all IEEE 802.3/u/x/z Gigabit, Fast Ethernet specifications. The switch included 14-Port 10/100/1000Mbps TP and 2-Port Gigabit TP/SFP Fiber Web Smart management Ethernet Switch.

  • Page 10: Checklist

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 1-2. Checklist Before you start installing the switch, verify that the package contains the following: A set of 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch ⎯ Modules (optional) ⎯ Mounting Accessory (for 19” Rack Shelf) ⎯...
  • Page 11 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch • Supports 802.1Q VLAN • Supports user management and limits one user to login • Maximal packet length can be up to 9216 bytes for jumbo frame application • Supports Broadcasting Suppression to avoid network suspended or crashed •...

  • Page 12: View Of 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 1-4. View of 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch Fig. 1-1 Full View of 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch 1-4-1. User Interfaces on the Front Panel (Button, LEDs and Plugs) There are 16 TP Gigabit Ethernet ports and 2 SFP fiber ports for optional removable modules on the front panel of the switch.

  • Page 13: User Interfaces On The Rear Panel

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch • LED Indicators Color Function System LED POWER Green Lit when +5V DC power is on and good 10/100/1000Ethernet TP Port 1 to 16 LED Lit when connection with remote device is good...

  • Page 14: View Of The Optional Modules

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 1-5. View of the Optional Modules In the switch, Port 15~16 includes two types of media --- TP and SFP Fiber (LC, BiDi LC…); this port supports 10/100/1000Mbps TP or 1000Mbps SFP Fiber with auto-detected function.

  • Page 15: Chapter 2. Installation

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 2. Installation 2-1. Starting 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch Up This section will give users a quick start for: Hardware and Cable Installation - Management Station Installation - Software booting and configuration 2-1-1.

  • Page 16: Cabling Requirements

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch • TP Port and Cable Installation ⇒ In the switch, TP port supports MDI/MDI-X auto-crossover, so both types of cable, straight-through (Cable pin-outs for RJ-45 jack 1, 2, 3, 6 to 1, 2, 3, 6 in 10/100M TP;...

  • Page 17: Cabling Requirements For Tp Ports

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 2-1-2-1. Cabling Requirements for TP Ports ⇒ For Fast Ethernet TP network connection ⎯ The grade of the cable must be Cat. 5 or Cat. 5e with a maximum length of 100 meters.

  • Page 18: Switch Cascading In Topology

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 2-1-2-3. Switch Cascading in Topology • Takes the Delay Time into Account Theoretically, the switch partitions the collision domain for each port in switch cascading that you may up-link the switches unlimitedly. In practice, the network extension (cascading levels &...
  • Page 19 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Case1: All switch ports are in the same local area network. Every port can access each other (See Fig. 2-2). Fig. 2-2 No VLAN Configuration Diagram If VLAN is enabled and configured, each node in the network that can communicate each other directly is bounded in the same VLAN area.
  • Page 20 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Case 2b: Port-based VLAN (See Fig.2-4). Fig. 2-4 Port-based VLAN Diagram 1. VLAN1 members could not access VLAN2, VLAN3 and VLAN4 members. 2. VLAN2 members could not access VLAN1 and VLAN3 members, but they could access VLAN4 members.

  • Page 21: Configuring The Management Agent Of 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 2-1-3. Configuring the Management Agent of 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch In the way of web, user is allowed to startup the switch management function. Users can use any one of them to monitor and configure the switch. You can touch them through the following procedures.

  • Page 22: Configuring Management Agent Of 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch Through Ethernet Port

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 2-1-3-1. Configuring Management Agent of 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch through 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. The user interface for the last one is NMS dependent and does not cover here.

  • Page 23: Ip Address Assignment

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig. 2-7 the Login Screen for Web 2-1-4. IP Address Assignment For IP address configuration, there are three parameters needed to be filled in. They are IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway and DNS.
  • Page 24 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch With the classful addressing, it divides IP address into three classes, class A, class B and class C. The rest of IP addresses are for multicast and broadcast. The bit length of the network prefix is the same as that of the subnet mask and is denoted as IP address/X, for example, 192.168.1.0/24.
  • Page 25 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Class D and E: Class D is a class with first 4 MSB (Most significance bit) set to 1-1-1-0 and is used for IP Multicast. See also RFC 1112. Class E is a class with first 4 MSB set to 1-1-1-1 and is used for IP broadcast.
  • Page 26 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch In this diagram, you can see the subnet mask with 25-bit long, 255.255.255.128, contains 126 members in the sub-netted network. Another is that the length of network prefix equals the number of the bit with 1s in that subnet mask.
  • Page 27 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch For different network applications, the subnet mask may look like 255.255.255.240. This means it is a small network accommodating a maximum of 15 nodes in the network. Default gateway: For the routed packet, if the destination is not in the routing table, all the traffic is put into the device with the designated IP address, known as default router.

  • Page 28: Typical Applications

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 2-2. Typical Applications The 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch implements 16 Gigabit Ethernet TP ports with auto MDIX and two slots for the removable module supporting comprehensive fiber types of connection, including LC and BiDi-LC SFP modules. For more details on the specification of the switch, please refer to Appendix A.
  • Page 29 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig. 2-11 Peer-to-peer Network Connection Fig. 2-12 Office Network Connection...

  • Page 30: Chapter 3. Basic Concept And Management

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 3. Basic Concept and Management This chapter will tell you the basic concept of features to manage this switch and how they work. 3-1. What’s the Ethernet Ethernet originated and was implemented at Xerox in Palo Alto, CA in 1973 and was successfully commercialized by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Intel and Xerox (DIX) in 1980.
  • Page 31 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch IEEE 802.2 LLC Data Link Layer IEEE802.3 CSMA/CD MAC IEEE 802.3 PLS Physical Layer ANSI X3T9.5 PMD IEEE 802.3 Fiber Coaxial/STP/UTP This above diagram shows the Ethernet architecture, LLC sub-layer and MAC sub-layer, which are responded to the Data Link layer, and transceivers, which are responded to the Physical layer in OSI model.
  • Page 32 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Table 3-1 LLC Format The table 3-1 is the format of LLC PDU. It comprises four fields, DSAP, SSAP, Control and 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.

  • Page 33: Media Access Control (Mac)

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig. 3-2 SAP Format 3-2. Media Access Control (MAC) MAC Addressing Because LAN is composed of many nodes, for the data exchanged among these nodes, each node must have its own unique address to identify who should send the data or should receive the data.
  • Page 34 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Bit 47 bit 0 1st byte 2nd byte 3rd byte 4th byte 5th byte 6th byte OUI code Serial number Table 3-3 Ethernet MAC address The first bit of the first byte in the Destination address (DA) determines the address to be a Unicast (0) or Multicast frame (1), known as I/G bit indicating individual (0) or group (1).
  • Page 35 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 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. Source addresses (SA) — The SA field indicates the source node.
  • Page 36 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch How does a MAC work? The MAC sub-layer has two primary jobs to do: 1. Receiving and transmitting data. When receiving data, it parses frame to detect error; when transmitting data, it performs frame assembly.
  • Page 37 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Ethernet MAC transmits frames in half-duplex and full-duplex ways. In half- duplex operation mode, the MAC can either transmit or receive frame at a moment, but cannot do both jobs at the same time.
  • Page 38 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Parameter 10Base 100Base 1000Base value/LAN Max. collision 100 meters for UTP 100 meters for UTP 100 meters domain DTE to 412 meters for fiber 316 meters for fiber Max. collision 2500 meters...

  • Page 39: Flow Control

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 3-3. Flow Control Flow control is a mechanism to tell the source device stopping sending frame for a specified period of time designated by target device until the PAUSE time expires. This is accomplished by sending a PAUSE frame from target device to source device.
  • Page 40 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Frame Reception In essence, the frame reception is the same in both operations of half duplex and full duplex, except that full-duplex operation uses two buffers to transmit and receive the frame independently. The receiving node always “listens” if there is traffic running over the medium when it is not receiving a frame.
  • Page 41 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch What if a VLAN tagging is applied? VLAN tagging is a 4-byte long data immediately following the MAC source address. When tagged VLAN is applied, the Ethernet frame structure will have a little change shown as follows.

  • Page 42: How Does A Switch Work

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch The maximum length of the extension is equal to the quantity (slotTime - minFrameSize). The MAC continues to monitor the medium for collisions while it is transmitting extension bits, and it will treat any collision that occurs after the threshold (slotTime) as a late collision.
  • Page 43 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig.3-5 Collision Domain Extended Distance Limitations: The diameter of a half-duplex LAN segment is determined by its maximum propagation delay time. For example, in 10M LAN, the most distance of a LAN segment using yellow cable is 2500 meters and 185 meters when using coaxial cable.
  • Page 44 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig. 3-6 How does a switch operate? A Layer 2 switch uses some features of the Data Link layer in OSI model to forward the packet to the destination port(s). Here we introduce some important features of a switch and how they work.
  • Page 45 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Mac address aging There is a field in MAC address table used to put the entry’s Age time which determines how long a MAC entry can reside in a switch. The age time is refreshed when a packet with that SA.

  • Page 46: Virtual Lan

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 3-5. Virtual LAN What is a VLAN? It is a subset of a LAN. Before we discuss VLAN, we must understand what LAN is. In general, a LAN is composed of different physical network segments bridged by switches or bridges which attach to end stations in the same broadcast domain.
  • Page 47 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig. 3-8 Now we apply VLAN technology to configure the system shown as the figure above. We can partition the users into the different logical networks which have their own broadcast domain. The traffic will not disturb among these logical networks.
  • Page 48 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch There are many types of VLAN applied. Most popular is port-based VLAN, tag-based VLAN and protocol-based VLAN. Port-based VLAN Some physical ports are configured as members of a VLAN. All stations attached on these ports can communicate with each other.
  • Page 49 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch VLAN-tagged frame: An Ethernet frame, carrying VLAN tag field, contains VLAN identification without the value of 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.
  • Page 50 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Ingress Rule: Each packet received by a VLAN-aware bridge will be classified to a VLAN. The classification rule is described as follows. 1. If the VID of the packet is null VID (VID=0)or this packet is an untagged packet: a.
  • Page 51 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch How does a Tagged VLAN work? If the ingress filtering is enabled and when a packet is received, VLAN bridge will first check if the VID of the packet presents. 1). If the packet has a non-zero VID, VLAN bridge will apply this VID as the VLAN ID of the packet in the network.

  • Page 52: Link Aggregation

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 3-6. Link Aggregation Basically, Link Aggregation is to aggregate the bandwidth of more than one port to an assigned logical link. This highly increases total bandwidth to the targeted device. There is more than one Link Aggregation technology in many vendors’...
  • Page 53 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Terminology Link Aggregation: It is a method to have multiple physical links with the same media and speed bundled to be a logical link forming a Link Aggregation Group with a group ID. With the viewpoint of MAC client, each Link Aggregation Group is an independent link.

  • Page 54: Chapter 4. Operation Of Web-Based Management

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4. Operation of Web-based Management This chapter instructs you how to configure and manage the 16 Gigabit Web Smart Switch through the web user interface it supports, to access and manage 14 10/100/1000Mbps TP Port and 2 Gigabit TP/SFP Fiber dual media port.

  • Page 55: Web Management Home Overview

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig. 4-1 4-1. Web Management Home Overview After you login, the switch shows you the system status information as Fig. 4-2. This page is default and tells you the basic information of the system, including “System Status”, “TP Port Status”, “Fiber Port Status”, “Aggregation”,...
  • Page 56 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch • The Information of Page Layout On the top side, it shows the front panel of the switch. In the front panel, the ⎯ linked ports will display green; as to the ports, which are link off, they will be dark.

  • Page 57: Configuration

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2. Configuration Eleven functions, including System Configuration, Ports Configuration, VLAN Mode Configuration, VLAN Group Configuration, PVID Configuration, Aggregation Configuration, Mirror Configuration, QoS Configuration, Bandwidth Management, Trap Event Configuration and Max. Packet Length are contained in this function folder for system and network management.

  • Page 58: System Configuration

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-1. System Configuration System configuration is one of the most important configurations in the switch. Without the proper setting, network manager will not be able to manage or view the device. The switch supports manual IP address setting.
  • Page 59 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch IP Address: Users can configure the IP settings and fill in new values. Then, click <Apply> button to update. Default: 192.168.1.1 Subnet Mask: Subnet mask is made for the purpose to get more network address because any IP device in a network must own its IP address, composed of Network address and Host address, otherwise can’t communicate with...
  • Page 60 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch System Name: Set a special name for this switch. Up to 16 characters are allowed in this parameter. Any alphanumeric character and null are acceptable. Default: Giga Switch Password: Set a password for this switch. Up to 16 characters are allowed in this parameter.

  • Page 61: Ports Configuration

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-2. Ports Configuration Function name: Ports Configuration Function description: Ports Configuration is applied to change the setting of each port. In this configuration function, you can set/reset the following parameters, Mode and Flow Control.

  • Page 62: Vlan Mode Configuration

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-3. VLAN Mode Configuration The switch supports Port-based VLAN and Tag-based VLAN (802.1q) Support 16 active VLANs and VLAN ID 1~4094. VLAN configuration is used to partition your LAN into small ones as your demand. Properly configuring it, you can gain not only improving security and increasing performance but greatly reducing VLAN management.
  • Page 63 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Metro Mode: The Metro Mode is a quick configuration VLAN environment method on Port-based VLAN. It will create 14 or 15 Port-based VLAN groups. Fig. 4-5 Up-link Port: This function is enabled only when metro mode is chosen in VLAN mode.
  • Page 64 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig. 4-6 Management Interface: State: It works when the tag-based mode is chosen. When this function is enabled, only the tagged packets with this VID can manage the switch. VID: Valid range 1~4094.

  • Page 65: Vlan Group Configuration

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-4. VLAN Group Configuration Function name: VLAN Group Configuration Function description: It shows the existed information of VLAN Groups List and maintains them, i.e. modify and delete one of them. User also can add a new VLAN group by inputting a new VLAN name and VLAN ID.
  • Page 66 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig. 4-7 Add Group: Create a new port-based VLAN or tag-based VLAN, which depends on the VLAN mode you choose in VLAN mode function. Fig. 4-8...
  • Page 67 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Delete Group: Just tick the check box ( beside the ID, then press the <Delete Group> button to delete the group. Fig. 4-9...

  • Page 68: Pvid Configuration

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-5. PVID Configuration Function name: PVID Configuration Function description: In VLAN Port VID Setting, user can input VID number to each port. The range of VID number is from 1 to 4094. User also can choose ingress filtering rules to each port.
  • Page 69 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Untag State: If you checked this function for a Tag out port, the packet form this port may be tag out. But, the packet would be untag out if the VID of its tag is the same as the value of ”Untag VID”...

  • Page 70: Aggregation Configuration

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-6. Aggregation Configuration The Aggregation (Port Trunking) Configuration is used to configure the settings of Link Aggregation. You can bundle more than one port with the same speed, full duplex and the same MAC to be a single logical port, thus the logical port aggregates the bandwidth of these ports.

  • Page 71: Mirror Configuration

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-7. Mirror Configuration Function name: Mirror Configuration Function description: Mirror Configuration is to monitor the traffic of the network. For example, we assume that Port A and Port B are Sniffer Port and Source Port respectively, thus, the traffic passed by Port B will be copied to Port A for monitoring.

  • Page 72: Quality Of Service Configuration

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-8. Quality of Service Configuration offers powerful QoS function. This function supports VLAN-tagged switch priority that can make precedence of 8 priorities, TOS field of IP header (equal DSCP High 3 bits) on Layer 3 of network framework, 6 kinds of special network transmission events on Layer 4 and IP DiffServe QoS service.
  • Page 73 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch In L4 QoS Configuration, you can enter one of these special network transmission events, for example we use” Down prioritize web browsing, e- mail, FTP and news “L4 QoS Configuration and click apply, and then click...
  • Page 74 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Bit 0, Bit 1, Bit 2: According to the arrangement of VLAN-tagged priority, it can form 8 kinds of traffics, including 0 0 0, 0 0 1, 0 1 0, 0 1 0, 1 0 0, 1 0 1, 1 1 0 and 1 1 1.
  • Page 75 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Function name: IP ToS Classification Function description: Another QoS function is the application of Layer 3 on network framework. We focus on TOS field of IP header. There are three bits in TOS field. We means bit 2~4 of TOS field that we will use.
  • Page 76 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Bit 0, Bit 1, Bit 2: According to the arrangement of Bit 5 ~ Bit 7 in TOS Field of IP Header, it can form 8 kinds of traffics, including 0 0 0, 0 0 1, 0 1 0, 0 1 0, 1 0 0, 1 0 1, 1 1 0 and 1 1 1.
  • Page 77 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Function name: IP TCP/UDP Port Classification Function description: In L4 QoS Configuration, you can enter one of these special network transmission events, for example we use” Down prioritize web browsing, e-mail, FTP and news “L4 QoS Configuration and click apply, and then click...
  • Page 78 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Prioritize Databases (Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL, Microsoft): Belong to the QoS in L4. Just tick the option button and press <Apply> button to have this function taken affect. Then, enter Custom L4 to set up Special TCP/UDP port for QoS.
  • Page 79 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Advanced Mode Fig. 4-16 Simple Mode Fig. 4-17 Simple Mode: Press <Simple> button is to return to the screen that all L4 port number will disappear (See Fig 4-17).
  • Page 80 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Function name: IP Diffserv Classification Function description: IP Diffserve Classification function, it can form total 64 (0~63) kinds of 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 High or Low Priority.

  • Page 81: Bandwidth Management

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-9. Bandwidth Management Function name: Bandwidth Management Function description: Bandwidth Management function is used to set up the limit of Ingress and Egress bandwidth for each port. Note: Each port of the switch owns 16KB packet buffer.
  • Page 82 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Broadcast & Multicasat for Ingress Rate Limiting: Set up the limit of Ingress bandwidth for the port you choose. Incoming traffic will be discarded if the rate exceeds the value you set up in Data Rate field.

  • Page 83: Trap Event Configuration

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-10. Trap Event Configuration Function name: Trap Event Configuration Function description: The Trap Events Configuration function is used to enable the Advanced Smart Ethernet Switch to send out the trap information while pre-defined trap events occurred.

  • Page 84: Max. Packet Length

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-2-11. Max. Packet Length Function name: Max. Packet Length Function description: The switch is capable of dealing with 9k Jumbo Frames, which suits the transmission for a large amount of data in the network environment.

  • Page 85: Monitoring

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-3. Monitoring There are two functions contained in the monitoring section. Monitoring Statistics Overview Detailed Statistics 4-3-1. Statistics Overview The function of Statistics Overview collects any information and provides the counting summary about the traffic of the port, no matter the packet is good or bad.

  • Page 86: Detailed Statistics

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig. 4-22 4-3-2. Detailed Statistics Function name: Detailed Statistics Function description: Display the detailed counting number of each port’s traffic. In the Fig. 4-23, the window can show all counter information each port at one time.
  • Page 87 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch TX Octets: Total transmitted bytes. Tx High Priority Packets: Number of Tx packets classified as high priority. Tx Low Priority Packets: Number of Tx packets classified as low priority. Tx Broadcast: Show the counting number of the transmitted broadcast packet.
  • Page 88 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Tx 1024-Bytes: Number of 1024-max_length-byte frames in good and bad packets transmitted. Rx CRC/Alignment: Number of Alignment errors and CRC error packets received. Rx Undersize: Number of short frames (<64 Bytes) with valid CRC.

  • Page 89: Maintenance

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4. Maintenance There are four functions contained in the maintenance section. Maintenance Status Warm Restart Factory Default Logout 4-4-1. Status Eight functions, including System Status, TP Port Status, Fiber Port Status, Aggregation, VLAN, Mirror, Trap Event and Maximum Packet Length are contained in this function folder for port monitor and management.

  • Page 90: 4-4-1-1.System Status

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4-1-1.System Status Fig. 4-24 Function name: System Status Function Description: Display the status information of this switch. Parameter Description: Product Name: To show the product name of this device. Firmware Version: To show the firmware version of this switch.
  • Page 91 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch MAC Address: To show the Ethernet MAC address of this switch. System Name: To show the special name for this switch. Auto Logout Timer: To show the setting of auto-logout timer in the web UI.

  • Page 92: Tp / Fiber Ports Status

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4-1-2. TP / Fiber Ports Status Function name: TP/Fiber Ports Status Function description: TP/Fiber Ports Status function is applied to display the latest updated status of all ports in this switch. In this function, you can view the following setting, link status, speed and flow control.
  • Page 93 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Flow Control: Show each port’s flow control status. There are two types of flow control in Ethernet, Backpressure for half- duplex operation and Pause flow control (IEEE802.3x) for full-duplex operation. The switch supports both of them.

  • Page 94: Aggregation

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4-1-3. Aggregation Function name: Aggregation Status Function description: Display the current setup of Aggregation Trunking. Parameter description: Normal: Display the ports that do not join any aggregation trunking group. Group 1~8: Display the members of the Group.

  • Page 95: Vlan

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4-1-4. VLAN Function name: VLAN Status Function description: Display the status of VLAN mode and VLAN group setting. Parameter description: VLAN Mode: Display Port-based, Tag-based and metro mode, which depends on the setting in VLAN mode configuration function.
  • Page 96 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Fig. 4-29 Metro mode VLAN...

  • Page 97: Mirror

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4-1-5. Mirror Function name: Mirror Status Function description: Mirror Status is to display the setting result of mirror configuration. Parameter description: Sniffer Mode: Display the status the activation or de-activation of Port Mirror function.

  • Page 98: Trap Event

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4-1-6. Trap Event Function name: Trap Event Status Function description: The Trap Events status function is used to display the switch’s trap information sent out while pre-defined trap events occurred. Parameter description: These trap functions are as they describe.

  • Page 99: Maximum Packet Length

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4-1-7. Maximum Packet Length Function name: Max. Packet Length Status Function description: Display the settings of the maximum packet length that each port can accept in this switch. Parameter description: Max. Frame Size for Jumbo Frame(bytes): Display the settings about the maximum length of the packet that each port of the switch can accept.

  • Page 100: Warm Restart

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4-2. Warm Restart We offer you many ways to reboot the switch, including power up, hardware reset and software reset. You can press the RESET button in the front panel to reset the switch and to retrieve default setting. After upgrading software, then you must reboot to have the new configuration taken effect.

  • Page 101: Factory Default

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4-3. Factory Default Function name: Factory Default Function description: Factory Default Configuration function can retrieve default setting to replace the working configuration. Except the IP address setting, all configurations will be restored the value to the factory default when you run the “Factory Default”...

  • Page 102: Logout

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 4-4-4. Logout Besides the auto logout function as we mentioned above in the section of system configuration, the switch also allows the user to logout manually by performing the Logout function. Function name:...

  • Page 103: Chapter 5. Maintenance

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch 5. Maintenance 5-1. Resolving No Link Condition The possible causes for a no link LED status are as follows: The attached device is not powered on The cable may not be the correct type or is faulty...

  • Page 104: Appendix A Technical Specifications

    ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Appendix A Technical Specifications Features • 14 (10/100/1000Mbps) Gigabit Ethernet (TP) switching ports are compliant with IEEE802.3, 802.3u, 802.3z and 802.3ab. • 2 Gigabit TP/SFP fiber are dual media ports with auto detected function.
  • Page 105 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Hardware Specifications Standard Compliance: IEEE802.3/802.3ab / 802.3z / 802.3u / 802.3x Network Interface: Configuration Mode Connector Port 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit TP NWay TP (RJ-45) 1 - 16 1000Base-SX Gigabit Fiber 15,16(Option) 1000 FDX...
  • Page 106 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Diagnostic LED: System LED : Power Per Port LED: 10/100/1000M TP Port 1 to 16 : LINK/ACT, 10/100/1000Mbps 1000M SFP Fiber Port 15,16 : SFP(LINK/ACT) AC Line Power Requirement Voltage 100∼240 V Frequency 50∼60 Hz...
  • Page 107 ™ Signamax 065-7931 16-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Web Smart Switch Management Software Specifications Auto-negotiation support on 10/100/1000Base- TX ports, Web browser or console interface can set transmission speed (10/100/1000Mbps) and System Configuration operation mode (Full/Half duplex) on each port, enable/disable any port, set VLAN group, set Trunk Connection.

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