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  • Page 1 SWE-0224G2...

  • Page 2: About This Guide

    ABOUT THIS GUIDE This guide provides information about how to operate and use the management functions of the Web Smart Switch. The switch features multiple functions as shown below: Features Overview Supports real-time status (link, speed, duplex) of each port Supports port setting for enable or disable operation (the 1st port can’t be disabled) Supports port setting for N-Way or force mode operation Supports Broadcast Storm Protection...
  • Page 3 Organization of the User Guide The Web Management Switch Manual consists of the following chapters and each chapter contains some sections or subsections: CHAPTER 1 The Introduction ■ Web browser—Introduce the web interface home page. ■ Logging In—Gives information about how to log into the switch. CHAPTER 2 System ■...

  • Page 4: Web Browser

    CHAPTER 1 The Introduction Web Browser You can log into the Web Management Switch through a Web browser and manage and maintain the switch intuitively by interacting with the built-in Web server. The home page is displayed as shown below. It displays the Main Menu on the left side of the screen and an image of the front panel on the right side.
  • Page 5 Logging In Please follow the steps to configure this Web Smart switch. The configure procedure is as follows: Step 1: Use Ethernet Category 5 cable to connect this switch to your PC. Step 2: Check that your PC has an IP address on the same subnet as the switch. For example, the PC and the switch are on the same subnet if they both have addresses that start 192.168.1.x.
  • Page 6 Figure 3: Web-Based Management Interface 6   ...

  • Page 7: Chapter 2 System

    CHAPTER 2 System System Information To lookup System Information in the Web browser, click “System”, then “Information”. Web Smart switch interface Figure 4: System Information IP Address Setting To set up static IP address of the switch. Web Smart switch interface Click “System”, then “IP Setting”.

  • Page 8: Ipv6 Address Setting

    IPv6 Address Setting IPv6 is an Internet Layer protocol for packet-switched internetworking and provides end-to-end datagram transmission across multiple IP networks. IPv6 includes two distinct address types; link-local unicast and global unicast. Web Smart switch interface Figure 6: IPv6 Address Setting Hint§...

  • Page 9: User Account

    User Account To set up the System Password in the Web browser: Web Smart switch interface Click “System”, then “User Account”. Enter the new user name. Enter the new password. Enter the new password again to confirm your input. Click [Apply]. Figure 7: User Account Setting 9 ...

  • Page 10: Port Setting

    Port Setting To specify options for enabling auto-negotiation or manually setting the speed and duplex mode, or enabling flow control. To set up port configuration in the Web browser: Click “System”, “Port Setting”. Select one or more ports to configure. Make any required changes to the connection settings.
  • Page 11 Hint§ The following parameters are displayed on the Port Setting configuration: ■ Port—Setting up one or more ports. Hold down the CTRL key and click port numbers to select multiple ports. Hold down the SHIFT key to select a range of ports. ■...

  • Page 12: Trunk Group Setting

    CHAPTER 3 Configuration Trunk Group Setting To configure a trunk group. Web Smart switch interface Click “Configuration”, “Link Aggregation”, “Trunk Group Setting”. Select the trunk group ID to be created or modified. Select the trunk type; Static or LACP. Assign up to four port members to the trunk. Click [Add/Modify].

  • Page 13: Trunk Distribution Algorithm Setting

    Trunk Distribution Algorithm Setting To configure a trunk’s load-balancing settings. Web Smart switch interface Click “Configuration”, “Link Aggregation”, “Trunk Setting”. Select the trunk group ID to be configured or modified. Select the trunk Distribution Algorithm Parameters as required. Click [Apply]. Figure 10: Trunk Distribution Algorithm Setting 13 ...
  • Page 14 Hint§ The switch provides five load-balancing methods to distribute a balanced load across all links in a trunk. The following parameters are displayed on the Trunk Distribution Algorithm Setting: ■ Distribution Algorithm Parameters—To ensure the switch traffic load is distributed evenly across all links in a trunk, the hash methods used in the load-balance calculation can be selected to provide the best result for trunk connections.

  • Page 15: Lacp Setting

    LACP Setting The LACP (link aggregation control protocol) dynamically aggregates ports and removes aggregations. LACP interacts with its peer by sending LACPDUs (link aggregation control protocol data units). Web Smart switch interface To arrange LACP settings, Click “Configuration”, “Link Aggregation”, “LACP Setting”. Enable LACP on the switch.

  • Page 16: Static Vlan Table Setting

    Static VLAN Table Setting The VLAN (virtual local area network) technology is developed for switches to control broadcast operations in LANs. By creating VLANs in a physical LAN, you can divide the LAN into multiple logical LANs, each of which has a broadcast domain of its own. Hosts in the same VLAN communicate with each other as if they are in a LAN.

  • Page 17: Vlan Port Setting

    VLAN Port Setting Arranging VLAN attributes for specific interfaces, including the default Port VLAN identifier (PVID). Web Smart switch interface To specify attributes for VLAN port members, Click “Configuration”, “VLAN”, “VLAN Setting”. Select one or more ports or trunks to configure. Configure the required PVID setting.

  • Page 18: Vlan-Stacking Table Setting

    VLAN-Stacking Table Setting Sets the stacking VLAN membership for selected interfaces to be part of the Service Provider VLAN (S-VLAN), that is uplink ports for a 802.1Q Tunnel. This stacking VLAN is used to segregate and preserve customer VLAN IDs for traffic crossing the service provider network. The switch supports up to 64 S-VLAN IDs.

  • Page 19: Vlan Stacking Settings

    Vlan Stacking Settings After configuring port members for stacking VLANs on the switch, the ports connected to a service provider network need to be enabled as doubled tagged ports. Also the Tag Protocol Identifier (TPID) value must be set for the doubled-tagged ports to identify 802.1Q tagged frames. Web Smart switch interface To manage stacking VLAN port settings, Click “Configuration”, “VLAN Stacking”, “S-VLAN Setting”.

  • Page 20: Igmp Multicast Group Information

    IGMP Multicast Group Information To display multicast group and router port information, click “Configuration”, “IGMP Snooping”, “Multicast Entry Table”. The IGMP Multicast Router Information table displays the current multicast groups learned through IGMP Snooping. Multicast routers that are attached to ports on the switch use information obtained from IGMP, along with a multicast routing protocol such as DVMRP or PIM, to support IP multicasting across the Internet.

  • Page 21: Igmp Snooping

    IGMP Snooping IGMP Snooping (Internet Group Management Protocol Snooping) is a multicast constraining mechanism that runs on Layer 2 switch to manage and control multicast groups. Figure 17: IGMP Snooping 21   ...

  • Page 22: Igmp Global Setting

    IGMP Global Setting Web Smart switch interface To manage IGMP Snooping global settings, Click “Configuration”, “IGMP Snooping”, “IGMP Snooping Setting”. Enable IGMP Snooping on the switch. Modify other IGMP global settings as required. Click [Update]. Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the IGMP Snooping global settings page: ■...

  • Page 23: Igmp Vlan Setting

    ■ Querier Election Time - The time the switch waits to receive IGMP queries from other routers. If no queries are received, the switch itself will become the querier (when enabled). IGMP VLAN Setting Web Smart switch interface To manage IGMP Snooping settings, Click “Configuration”, “IGMP Snooping”, “IGMP Snooping Setting”.

  • Page 24: Spanning Tree Setting

    Spanning Tree Setting Meaning of Spanning Tree The spanning tree protocol is used to eliminate loops in a local area network. A switch running this protocol detects any loop in the network by exchanging information with one another and eliminates the possible loop by blocking certain ports until the loop network is pruned into a loop-free tree, thereby avoiding infinite recycling of packets in a loop network.
  • Page 25 Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the Spanning Tree settings page: ■ Spanning Tree Status - Enable Spanning Tree on the switch. (Default: Disabled) ■ Force Version - Select the type of spanning tree used on this switch. Options: RSTP or STP. (Default: RSTP) ■...
  • Page 26 ■ Root Maximum Age - The maximum time (in seconds) this switch can wait without receiving a configuration message before attempting to reconfigure. All switch ports (except for designated ports) should receive configuration messages at regular intervals. If the root port ages out STA information (provided in the last configuration message), a new root port is selected from among the switch ports attached to the network.

  • Page 27: Spanning Tree Port Setting

    Spanning Tree Port Setting Use the STP Port Setting page to configure Spanning Tree attributes for specific interfaces, including path cost, port priority, edge port (for fast forwarding), automatic detection of an edge port, and point-to-point link type. Web Smart switch interface To configure port settings for Spanning Tree, Click “Configuration”, “Spanning Tree”, “STP Port Setting”.
  • Page 28 point-to-point links than for shared media. These options are described below: Auto - The switch automatically determines if the interface is attached to a point-to-point link or ■ to shared medium. (This is the default setting.) True - A point-to-point connection to exactly one other bridge. ■...

  • Page 29: Quality Of Service (Qos)

    Quality of Service (QoS) QoS is the evaluation on the service ability of network delivery or on the capacity of dealing with situations such as delay, delay jitter and packet loss rate in packet delivery. Port-based Priority Setting Management of the default port priority for each port on the switch. Web Smart switch interface To configure global settings for Spanning Tree: 1.

  • Page 30: Dscp-Based Priority Setting

    DSCP-based Priority Setting The Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) is a six-bit field in the IP header, allowing coding for up to 64 different forwarding behaviors. The DSCP replaces the ToS bits, but it retains backward compatibility with the three precedence bits so that non-DSCP compliant, ToS-enabled devices, will not conflict with the DSCP mapping.

  • Page 31: Priority To Queue Mapping Setting

    Priority to Queue Mapping Setting The QoS technique known as class of service (CoS), is a 3-bit field within an Ethernet frame header when using tagged frames on an 802.1 network. So up to eight separate traffic priorities are defined in IEEE 802.1p.

  • Page 32: Packet Scheduling Setting

    Packet Scheduling Setting You can set the switch to service the queues based on a strict rule that requires all traffic in a higher priority queue to be processed before lower priority queues are serviced, Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), or Weighted Round-Robin (WRR) queuing that specifies a relative weight of each queue. The traffic classes are mapped to one of the eight egress queues provided for each port.
  • Page 33 Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the DSCP-based Priority Setting page: ■ Scheduling Algorithm - Selects the service method used for port egress queues. Weight-fair-queue - Services the egress queues containing data based on the weight of the ■ queue compared to the sum of the weights of all queues.

  • Page 34: Lldp Configurations

    LLDP Configurations   LLDP is a Layer 2 protocol that uses periodic broadcasts to advertise information about the sending device. Web Smart switch interface To configure global and port settings for LLDP: 1. Click “Configuration”, “LLDP”, “LLDP Setting”. 2. Enable LLDP for the switch. 3.
  • Page 35 Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the LLDP Settings. ■ LLDP Status - Enables LLDP on the switch. (Default: Disable) ■ Transmission Interval - Configures the periodic transmit interval for LLDP advertisements. (Range: 5-32768 seconds; Default: 30 seconds) This attribute must comply with the following rule: (Transmission Interval * Transmission Hold Time) ≤...

  • Page 36: Lldp Neighbors

    LLDP Neighbors To display information about devices connected directly to the switch’s ports which are advertising information through LLDP. Web Smart switch interface To display LLDP neighbors, click “Configuration”, “LLDP”, “LLDP Neighbors”. Click [Refresh] to update the LLDP information. Figure 25: LLDP Neighbors Hint§...

  • Page 37: Snmp Setting

    SNMP Setting SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) monitor network switches through TCP/IP protocol suite. It offers automatic network management and avoids the physical differences between various switches, and thus provides automatic management of products from different manufacturers. Web Smart switch interface To specify SNMP system settings: 1.
  • Page 38 Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the SNMP Setting, Community Strings Setting. ■ SNMP Status - Enables or disables SNMP service. (Default: Disabled) ■ System Name - A name assigned to the switch system. ■ System Location - Specifies the system location. ■...

  • Page 39: Trap Receivers Setting

    Trap Receivers Setting Traps indicating status changes are issued by the switch to specified trap managers. You must specify trap managers so that key events are reported by this switch to your management station (using network management software). Web Smart switch interface To configure SNMP system settings: Click “Configuration”, “SNMP Setting”.

  • Page 40: Port Mirroring Setting

    Port Mirroring Setting Port mirroring includes local mirroring groups, remote source mirroring groups and remote destination mirroring groups. Web Smart switch interface To configure port mirroring: Click “Configuration”, “Port Mirroring”. Select the Mirror Set Index. Select the Mirror Direction. Select the Mirroring (target) port. Select the one or more mirrored (source) ports.

  • Page 41: Port Security Setting

    Port Security Setting Port security is a feature that allows you to configure a switch port with a maximum number of MAC addresses that are authorized to access the network through that port. When port security is enabled on a port, the switch stops learning new MAC addresses on the specified port when it has reached a configured maximum number.
  • Page 42 Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the Port security page. ■Port - Port number. ■Security — Enables or disables port security for the selected ports. (Default: Disable) ■Maximum L2 Entry — The maximum number of MAC addresses that can be learned on a port. (Range: 0 - 16447, where 0 means disabled) ■Action —...

  • Page 43: Bandwidth Control Setting

    Bandwidth Control Setting This function allows the network manager to control the maximum rate for traffic received on a port or transmitted from a port. Rate limiting is configured on ports at the edge of a network to limit traffic into or out of the switch.

  • Page 44: Jumbo Frame Setting

    Jumbo Frame Setting The switch provides more efficient throughput for large sequential data transfers by supporting jumbo frames up to 9216 bytes. Web Smart switch interface To configure Jumbo Frames: Click “Configuration”, “Jumbo Frame”. Select the frame size to configure. Click [Apply].

  • Page 45: Management Access Filter

    Management Access Filter To create up to eight IP addresses or IP address groups that are allowed access to the switch through the Web browser. Web Smart switch interface 1. Click “Configuration”, “Management Access Filter”. 2. Enter an IP address 3.
  • Page 46 Power Over Ethernet Setting Power over Ethernet (PoE) means that power sourcing equipment (PSE) supplies power to powered devices (PD) such as IP telephone, wireless LAN access point, and web camera from Ethernet interfaces through twisted pair cables. Web Smart switch interface 1.

  • Page 47: Chapter 4 Security

    CHAPTER 4 Security MAC Address Information To display the MAC address forwarding table. Web Smart switch interface 1. Click “Security”. 2. Then click “MAC Address”, “MAC Forwarding Table”. Figure 33: MAC Address Information Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the MAC Address Information page. ■No.

  • Page 48: Static Mac Setting

    Static MAC Setting A static address can be assigned to a specific interface on the switch. Static addresses are bound to the assigned interface and will not be moved. Web Smart switch interface To configure static MAC addresses: 1. Click “Security”, “MAC Address”, “Static MAC”. 2.

  • Page 49: Mac Filtering Setting

    MAC Filtering Setting The MAC Filtering pages are used to filter service to clients attempting to access the Internet based on protocol type, destination/source MAC address, and the direction of traffic for each packet. Web Smart switch interface To configure MAC Address Filtering: Click “Security”, “MAC Address”, “MAC Filtering”.
  • Page 50 802.1x Setting The 802.1X protocol provides port authentication. The 802.1X protocol must be enabled globally for the switch system before port settings are active. Web Smart switch interface To configure 802.1X global settings: 1. Click “Security”, “802.1X”, “802.1X Setting”. 2. Set 802.1X to Enabled. 3.
  • Page 51 Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the LLDP Neighbors page. ■802.1X — Sets the global setting for 802.1X. (Default: Disabled) ■RADIUS Server IP — Address of the authentication server. ■Server Port — Network (UDP) port of RADIUS server used for authentication messages. (Range: 1024-65535;...

  • Page 52: 802.1X Port Setting

    802.1x Port Setting When 802.1X is enabled, you need to configure the parameters for the authentication process that runs between the client and the switch (that is, authenticator), as well as the client identity lookup process that runs between the switch and authentication server. Web Smart switch interface Click “Security”, “802.1X”, “802.1X Port Setting”.

  • Page 53: Ip Filter Configurations

    IP Filter Configurations IP Filter Security is a feature that filters IP traffic on port interfaces based on manually configured entries in the IP Filter table, or allowed IP address assignment through DHCP. IP Filter Security can be used to prevent traffic attacks caused when a host tries to use the IP address of a neighbor to access the network.
  • Page 54 Hint§ The following parameters are shown on the IP Filter Configurations page. ■Mode – Configures the switch to filter traffic based on IP addresses. (Default: IP Filter Disable) IP Filter Disable – Disables IP filtering on the port. ■ Static – Enables traffic filtering based on IP addresses configured in the table. ■...

  • Page 55: Storm Control Settings

    Storm Control settings Broadcast storms may occur when a device on your network is malfunctioning, or if application programs are not well designed or properly configured. If there is too much broadcast traffic on your network, performance can be severely degraded or everything can come to complete halt. You can protect your network from broadcast storms by setting a threshold for broadcast traffic.
  • Page 56 Port Isolation Setting The feature provides port-based security and isolation of local ports. The switch isolates port traffic by specifying those ports to which it can forward or receive traffic. Web Smart switch interface To configure Port Isolation settings: Click “Security”, “Port Isolation”. Select one or more ports to configure.

  • Page 57: Defence Engine

    Defence Engine Defence Engine is a advanced feature that can prevent switch’s CPU from being overwhelmed by flooded packets, such as unknown unicast, unknown multicast, or broadcast packets. This function can be used to prevent malicious viruses or worm attacks. Web Smart switch interface To configure Defence Engine settings: Click “Security”, “Defence Engine”.

  • Page 58: Port Statistics Information

    CHAPTER 5 Monitoring Port Statistics Information You can display standard statistics on network traffic passing through each port. This information can be used to identify potential problems with the switch, such as a faulty port or unusually heavy loading. All values displayed have been accumulated since the last system reboot. Web Smart switch interface To click “Monitoring”, “Port Statistics”...

  • Page 59: Chapter 6 Tools

    CHAPTER 6 Tools Http Upgrade Use the HTTP Upgrade page to upgrade the switch’s system firmware by specifying a new software file. You can also use the HTTP Upgrade page to save the current configuration to a file on your computer, or to restore previously saved configuration settings to the switch.

  • Page 60: Reset Factory Defaults

    Reset Factory Defaults To restore factory defaults. Web Smart switch interface To click “Tools”, “Reset”, then click [Reset]. The reset will be complete when the Web browser displays the login page. Figure 44: Reset 60   ...
  • Page 61 Reboot To restart the switch. Web Smart switch interface To click “Tools”, “Reboot”, then click [Reboot]. The reboot will be complete when the web interface displays the login page. Figure 45: Reboot 61   ...

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