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- Page 1 LAYER2 WEB SMART PLUS SWITCH...
- Page 2 SWP-0008F User’s Manual First Edition V1 October 2005 Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: • This device may not cause harmful interference, and •...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Conventions used in this document........9 1.2.1 Notations ..............9 1.2.2 Typography ..............9 1.2.3 Symbols..............9 Getting to know the SWP-0008F ..........10 Package contents ............10 Front Panel ..............11 Technical specifications..........12 Quick start guide ...............12 Part 1 — Installing the hardware ........13 3.1.1 Installing the switch on a flat surface .....13 Part 2 —... - Page 4 SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.3.5 Firmware Upgrade ..........26 Physical Interface ............28 Bridge ................30 4.5.1 Link Aggregation ............30 4.5.2 Mirroring ..............32 4.5.3 Traffic Control ............33 4.5.4 Dynamic Addresses ..........34 4.5.5 Static Addresses ............35 4.5.6 Tagged VLAN ............36 4.5.7 Default Port VLAN and CoS........38 4.5.8...
- Page 5 7.1.1 Ping ................59 7.1.2 nslookup ..............61 Simple fixes ..............62 Glossary..................63 List of Figures Figure 1. SWP-0008F Web smart plus switch package contents..10 Figure 2. Front panel..............11 Figure 3. Login Screen..............15 Figure 4. IP Setup ................16 Figure 5. Configuration manager login screen.......17 Figure 6.
- Page 6 SWP-0008F User’s Manual Figure 17. Traffic Control ..............33 Figure 18. Dynamic Address ............34 Figure 19. Static Address ..............36 Figure 20. Tagged VLAN..............37 Figure 21. Default Port VLAN and CoS ...........38 Figure 22. Cos Queue Mapping ............39 Figure 23. Community Table ............40 Figure 24.
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Page 7: List Of Tables
SWP-0008F User’s Manual List of Tables Table 1. Front panel labels and LEDs ..........11 Table 2. Technical specifications..........12 Table 3. LED Indicators ..............14 Table 4. Port color description............19 Table 5. Commonly used buttons and icons ........21 Table 6. IP address structure ............55 Table 7. -
Page 8: Introduction
You may now manage your LAN (local area network) through a friendly and powerful user interface. This user guide tells you how to set up the SWP-0008F managed smart plus switch, and how to customize its configuration to get the most out of this product. -
Page 9: Conventions Used In This Document
Acronyms are defined the first time they appear in text and in the glossary. • For brevity, the SWP-0008F switch is referred to as “the switch.” • The terms LAN and network are used interchangeably to refer to a group of Ethernet-connected computers at one site. -
Page 10: Getting To Know The Swp-0008F
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Getting to know the SWP-0008F Package contents The SWP-0008F switch package comes with the following items: • SWP-0008F (8-port) L2 web smart plus switch • AC Power cord • CD-ROM ( User’s Manual, Private-MIB file ) •... -
Page 11: Front Panel
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Front Panel The front panel includes LED indicators that show the system, and port status. The front panel includes a reset button to the switch configurations to the factory default. You can press the reset button about 3 ~ 5 seconds, then the switch will reboot and reset the configurations to the factory default. -
Page 12: Technical Specifications
This section provides the basic instructions to set up the SWP-0008F environment. Refer also to the Series Installation Guide. Part 1 shows you how to install the SWP-0008F on a flat surface. Part 2 provides instructions to set up the hardware. -
Page 13: Part 1 - Installing The Hardware
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Part 1 — Installing the hardware Connect the device to the power outlet, and your computer or network. 3.1.1 Installing the switch on a flat surface The switch should be installed on a level surface that can support the weight of the switches and their accessories. -
Page 14: Part 3 - Basic Switch Setting For Management
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Table 3. LED Indicators Description Power Solid green indicates that the device is turned on. If this light is off, check if the power adapter if attached to the switch and plugged into a power source. Switch ports... -
Page 15: Figure 3. Login Screen
SWP-0008F User’s Manual A login screen appears, as shown in Figure 3. Figure 3. Login Screen Enter your user name and password, and then click to enter the Configuration Manager. Use the following defaults the first time you log into... -
Page 16: Figure 4. Ip Setup
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Figure 4. IP Setup... -
Page 17: Management With The Web Interface
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Management with the Web Interface The switch provides Web pages that allow switch management through the Internet. The program is designed to work best with Microsoft Internet Explorer® 5.5, or later versions. NOTE: Netscape is not supported. -
Page 18: Figure 6. Home Page
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Use the following defaults the first time you log into the program. Default User Name: admin Default Password: <no password> The home page appears each time you log into the program. (See Figure 6). Figure 6. Home page... -
Page 19: Functional Layout
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Functional layout Typical web page consists of three separate frames. The top frame has a switch logo and front panel as shown in Figure 7. This frame remains on the top of the browser window all the times and updates the LED status periodically. -
Page 20: Figure 8. Expanded Menu List
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Figure 8. Expanded Menu List The right frame displays configuration pages or graphics for the statistics. See section 4.3 for details. -
Page 21: Menu Navigation Tips
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.2.1 Menu navigation tips • To expand a group of related menus, click on the corresponding group name. The sign will change to after expansion. • To contract a group of related menus: click on the corresponding group name. -
Page 22: System
SWP-0008F User’s Manual System Pages System pages include management, IP setup, administration, reboot, and firmware update function. 4.3.1 Management The Management page contains the following information: Model Name: product name MAC Address: switch MAC address System Name: user assigned name to identify the system (editable) -
Page 23: Ip Setup
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.3.2 IP Setup The switch supports IP assignment. The IP Setup page contains the following editable information: VLAN ID: Specify a VLAN ID to system management interface. It is necessary to be within the same VLAN for management usages. -
Page 24: Administration
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.3.3 Administration The Administration page allows you enable or disable the authentication for web user by password protection. The default setting for web access does not require any authentication. Password Protection is : Enable or Disable the authentication for web user by Password protection. -
Page 25: Figure 11. Administration
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Figure 11. Administration... -
Page 26: Reboot
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.3.4 Reboot The Reboot page contains a button. Clicking the button reboots the system. Rebooting the system stops the network traffic and terminates the Web interface connection. Figure 12. Reboot 4.3.5 Firmware Upgrade The Firmware page contains the following information: Hardware Version: shows the hardware revision number. -
Page 27: Figure 13. Firmware Upgrade
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Clicking the upload button loads the assigned firmware to the switch, then reboot system after a successful firmware update. You have to re-login to Web interface again Figure 13. Firmware Upgrade... -
Page 28: Physical Interface
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Physical Interface The Physical Interface displays the Ethernet port status in real time. You can configure the port in following fields: Port: select the port to configure Admin: disable/enable the port Mode: set the speed and duplex mode Flow Control: enable/disable 802.3x flow control mechanism... -
Page 29: Figure 14. Physical Interface
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Page 30: Bridge
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Bridge The Bridge page group contains most layer 2 configurations, like link aggregation, mirroring etc.. 4.5.1 Link Aggregation The page configures the link aggregation group (port trunking). The switch can have 15 link aggregation groups. Show Trunk: Select “Add a new Trunk” for a new created group. Or select an existed group to display on the following fields and port icons. -
Page 31: Figure 15. Link Aggregation
SWP-0008F User’s Manual • All the ports in the link aggregation group MUST operate in full-duplex mode at the same speed. • All the ports in the link aggregation group MUST be configured in auto-negotiation mode or full duplex mode. -
Page 32: Mirroring
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.5.2 Mirroring Mirroring, together with a network traffic analyzer, helps you monitor network traffics. You can monitor the selected ports for egress or ingress packets. Mirror Mode: Enables or disables the mirror function for the selected group. -
Page 33: Traffic Control
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.5.3 Traffic Control Traffic control prevents the switch bandwidth from flooding packets including broadcast packets, multicast packets. The limit number is a threshold to limit the total number of the checked type packets. For example, if broadcast / multicast is enabled, the traffic amount of each type will not exceed the limit value. -
Page 34: Dynamic Addresses
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.5.4 Dynamic Addresses This page displays the result of dynamic MAC address lookup by port, VLAN ID, or specified MAC address. The dynamic address is the MAC address learned by switch, it will age out from the address table if the address is not learned again during the age time. -
Page 35: Static Addresses
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.5.5 Static Addresses You can add a MAC address into the switch address table. The MAC address added by this way will not age out from the address table. We call it static address. MAC Address: enter the MAC address... -
Page 36: Tagged Vlan
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Figure 19. Static Address 4.5.6 Tagged VLAN You can set up to 256 VLAN groups and show VLAN group in this page. There is a default VLAN created by the switch. It cannot be removed at all. This feature prevents the switch from malfunctions. -
Page 37: Figure 20. Tagged Vlan
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Show VLAN: select the existed VLAN to display or select “Add a new VLAN” to create a new VLAN group Name: the VLAN name VLAN ID: this field requires user to enter the VLAN ID when a new VLAN is created Remove VLAN: Remove a existed VLAN. -
Page 38: Default Port Vlan And Cos
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.5.7 Default Port VLAN and CoS Some VLAN tag related field settings for each port are included in this page. It includes: Port: select the port to configure PVID: port-based VLAN ID. Every untagged packet received from this... -
Page 39: Figure 22. Cos Queue Mapping
SWP-0008F User’s Manual packets in the low-priority queue do not transmit until all the high-priority queues become empty. In Strict priority scheduling, weight settings always zero. • Weighted round-robin (WRR) scheduling: WRR scheduling requires you to specify a number the indicates the importance (weight) of the queue relative to other CoS queues. -
Page 40: Snmp
SWP-0008F User’s Manual SNMP This group offers the SNMP configuration including Community Table, Host Table, and Trap Setting. 4.6.1 Community Table You can type different community names and specify whether the community has the privilege to make a setting (write access) by checking the box. Click... -
Page 41: Host Table
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.6.2 Host Table This page links host IP address to the community name that is entered in Community Table page. Type an IP address and select the community name from the drop-down list. Click to save the configuration permanently or to refresh the page. -
Page 42: Trap Setting
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.6.3 Trap Setting By setting trap destination IP addresses and community names, you can enable SNMP trap function to send trap packets in different versions (v1 or v2c). Click to save the configuration permanently or refresh the page. -
Page 43: Security
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Security The switch has the 802.1X port-based security feature. Only authorized hosts are allowed to access the switch port. Traffic is blocked for hosts failed to authenticate themselves. The authentication service is provided by a RADIUS server or the local database in the switch. -
Page 44: Figure 26. Port Access Control
SWP-0008F User’s Manual • Multi-host: If enabled, all hosts connected to the selected port are allowed to use the port if one of the hosts passed the authentication. If disabled, only one host among other hosts passed the authentication is allowed to use the port. -
Page 45: Dial-In User
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.7.2 Dial-In User Dial-in User is used to define users in the local database of the switch. • User Name: New user name. • Password: Password for the new user. • Confirm Password: Enter the password again. -
Page 46: Radius
Authentication Server Port: The port number for the RADIUS server is listening to. • Authentication Server Key: The key is used for communications between SWP-0008F and the RADIUS server. • Confirm Authentication Key: Re-type the key entered above. The VLAN of the RADIUS server connected to the switch must be the same as the VLAN of the system management interface. -
Page 47: Cable Diagnosis
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Cable Diagnosis The major function of Cable Diagnosis is to detect cable fault (open or short) and report the estimated fault location. Moreover, Cable Diagnosis can also detect PHY type (100M, 1000M or 10000M) as well as estimated cable length of normal cable. -
Page 48: Statistics Chart
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Statistics Chart The Statistics Chart pages provide network flow in different charts. You can specify the period time to refresh the chart. You can monitor the network traffic amount in different graphic chart by these pages. Most MIB-II counters are displayed in these charts. -
Page 49: Error Group
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.9.2 Error Group Select the Port and display Color, then click the Draw, the statistics window shows you all the discards or error counts for the specified port. The data is updated periodically. Figure 31. Error group... -
Page 50: Historical Status
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.9.3 Historical Status You can display information for different ports and statistics items in this chart. Since this shows the history of the statistics information, the chart can keep the old data even it is refreshed. Figure 32. Historical Status... -
Page 51: Save Configuration
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 4.10 Save Configuration To save configuration permanently, you should click . The setting also takes effective after a successful save. Sometimes you may want to reset the switch configuration, you can click on to reset the configuration file to factory default. Of course, a system reboot will follow this restoration process. -
Page 52: The Configuration Backup And Restore
SWP-0008F User’s Manual The configuration backup and restore The configuration backup method Use MS-DOS prompt, 192.168.1.1 is SWP-0008F’s IP-address. C:\>ftp 192.168.1.1 Connected to 192.168.1.1. 220 PLANEX SWP-0008F FTP version 1.0 ready User (192.168.1.1:(none)): admin 331 Enter PASS command Password: 230 Logged in ftp>... -
Page 53: The Configuration Restore Method
The configuration restore method Use MS-DOS prompt,192.168.1.1 is SWP-0008F’s IP-address. If there is backup file in C:\ , C:\>ftp 192.168.1.1 Connected to 192.168.1.1. 220 PLANEX SWP-0008F FTP version 1.0 ready User (192.168.1.1:(none)): admin 331 Enter PASS command Password: 230 Logged in ftp>... -
Page 54: Ip Addresses, Network Masks, And Subnets
SWP-0008F User’s Manual IP Addresses, Network Masks, and Subnets IP Addresses This section pertains only to IP addresses for IPv4 (version 4 of the Internet Protocol). IPv6 addresses are not covered. This section assumes basic knowledge of binary numbers, bits, and bytes. -
Page 55: Table 6. Ip Address Structure
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Table 6. IP address structure Field1 Field2 Field3 Field4 Class A Network ID Host ID Class B Network ID Host ID Class C Network ID Host ID Following are examples of valid IP addresses: Class A: 10.30.6.125 (network = 10, host = 30.6.125) Class B: 129.88.16.49 (network = 129.88, host = 16.49) -
Page 56: Network Classes
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 6.1.2 Network classes The three commonly used network classes are A, B, and C. (There is also a class D but it has a special use beyond the scope of this discussion.) These classes have different uses and characteristics. -
Page 57: Subnet Masks
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Subnet masks A mask looks like a regular IP address, but contains a pattern of bits that tells what parts of an IP address are the network ID and what parts are the host ID: bits set to 1 mean "this bit is part of the network ID"... - Page 58 SWP-0008F User’s Manual The two extra bits in Field 4 can have four values (00, 01, 10, 11), so there are four subnets. Each subnet uses the remaining six bits in field4 for its host IDs, ranging from 0 to 63.
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Page 59: Troubleshooting
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Troubleshooting This section gives instructions for using several IP utilities to diagnose problems. A list of possible problems with suggestion actions is also provided. All the known bugs are listed in the release note. Read the release note before you set up the switch. -
Page 60: Figure 34. Using The Ping Utility
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Figure 34. Using the ping utility If the target computer cannot be located, you will receive the message “Request timed out.” Using the ping command, you can test whether the path to the switch is working (using the pre-configured default LAN IP address 192.168.1.1) or another address you assigned. -
Page 61: Nslookup
SWP-0008F User’s Manual 7.1.2 nslookup You can use the nslookup command to determine the IP address associated with an Internet site name. You specify the common name, and the nslookup command looks up the name on your DNS server (usually located with your ISP). -
Page 62: Simple Fixes
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Simple fixes The following table lists some common problems that you may encounter when installing or using the switch, and the suggested actions to solve the problems. Table 7. Troubleshooting Problem Suggested Action LEDs SYSTEM LED does... -
Page 63: Glossary
SWP-0008F User’s Manual Glossary 10BASE-T A designation for the type of wiring used by Ethernet networks with a data rate of 10 Mbps. Also known as Category 3 (CAT 3) wiring. See also data rate, Ethernet. 100BASE-T A designation for the type of wiring used by Ethernet networks with a data rate of 100 Mbps. - Page 64 SWP-0008F User’s Manual broadcast To send data to all computers on a network. Ethernet The most commonly installed computer network technology, usually using twisted pair wiring. Ethernet data rates are 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps. See also 10BASE-T, 100BASE-T, twisted pair.
- Page 65 SWP-0008F User’s Manual mask See network mask. Multicast To send data to a group of network devices. Mbps Abbreviation for Megabits per second, or one million bits per second. Network data rates are often expressed in Mbps. Monitor Also called “Roving Analysis”, allow you to attach a network analyzer to one port and use it to monitor the traffics of other ports on the switch.
- Page 66 SWP-0008F User’s Manual ping Packet Internet (or Inter-Network) Groper A program used to verify whether the host associated with an IP address is online. It can also be used to reveal the IP address for a given domain name. port A physical access point to a device such as a computer or router, through which data flows into and out of the device.
- Page 67 SWP-0008F User’s Manual SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol The TCP/IP protocol used for network management. Spanning Tree Protocol The bridge protocol to avoid packet looping in a complicate network. subnet A subnet is a portion of a network. The subnet is distinguished from the larger network by a subnet mask which selects some of the computers of the network and excludes all others.
- Page 68 SWP-0008F User’s Manual Telnet/SSH An interactive, character-based program used to access a remote computer. While HTTP (the web protocol) and FTP only allow you to download files from a remote computer, Telnet / SSH allows you to log into and use a computer from a remote location.
- Page 69 SWP-0008F User’s Manual upstream The direction of data transmission from the user to the Internet. VLAN Virtual Local Area Network Wide Area Network Any network spread over a large geographical area, such as a country or continent. With respect to the SL-1000, WAN refers to the Internet.
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