TP-Link TL-SF2109P manual

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    COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS S pecifications are subject to change without notice. is a registered trademark of TP-LINK T echnologies Co., Lt d. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. No part of the specif icatio ns may be reprod uced in any fo rm or by any means or used to make any derivat[...]

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    Package Contents ............................................................................................................. 1 Chapter 1: Introduction of the Product .............................................................................. 2 1.1 Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) ...............................................................[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Package Content s The following contents should be found in your box:  One TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Smart Switch  One power cord  One serial cord  This User ’s Guide  One Resource CD  Rubber footpads for Desk-mount  Rack-mount kit for installing t he[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Chapter 1: Introduction of the Product This chapter simply describes the features of the model of the TL-SF2109/TL-SF21 17P /TL-SL2226P smart Switch and back-k nowledge of Fast Ethernet Switch. 1.1 V irtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Virtual Local Area Network breaks down the constr[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide  1/1/2 extension slots supporting 100M fi ber module card (TL-SM201 series) and TL-SL2226P support s 1000M fiber/UTP module (TL-SM301 series)  Supports IEEE802.3x flow control for Full Duplex mode and backpressure for half-duplex mode  Supports Port Enable/Disable  Supp[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Chapter 2: Inst allation 2.1 Mounting the Switch on a Desk Before place the Switch on a desk, attach four rubber footp ads to t he flutes on the Switch bottom, then lay the Switch on the desktop, where can be have as much as 5kg placed on top. Note : Make sure there is a grounded A[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 2-2 Fasten the Switch in the rack 2.3 Power on The Switch is powered by AC power supply . Po wering on the Switch, it will automatically initialize and its LED indicato rs should respond as follows: 1) All of the LED indicators will flash mo mentarily for one second, which r[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Chapter 3: Identifying External Component s This Chapter describes the front panel, r ear panel and LED indicators of the Switch. Cautions: All the pictures are based on the TL-SF2109P in the manual. The others are similar with the TL-SF2109P . 3.1 Front Panel The front panel of th[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide 3.3 LED indicators The LED indicators include Power , 100Mbps, Link/ACT and slot can display the working status of the switch, more details as follows: 10/1 00Mb ps F ast Eth ernet Sma rt Switc h Figure 3-3 TL- SF2109P Switch LEDs sketch  Power LED : After power on, the LED will[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Chapter 4: Inst allation and Usage of the Configuration Sof tware The switch is a smart switch, which can be configed the parameters by the supplied software. So it is not a dump switch. T he chapter tells you how to use the management software. 4.1 Inst allation of the SSC All the[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide 5. Input your new path, such as “D: SwitchTP-LINKSSC”, and then press Enter . 6. Click the “ Next ” button. - 9 -[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide 7. Click the “ Next ” button. 8. Click the “Finish” to finish the installation. - 10 -[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide 4.2 Usage of the SSC The interface of the c onfiguration software is friendly a nd easy to use, there are four steps as follows: 1. Connection 2. Open the configuration file or config directly 3. Write out the current configuration 4. Escape More details is following: 1. Af ter ins[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide 3. If the connection is failure , check the power or the serial cable. The program display the follow message. - 12 -[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide 4. Af ter connection, the software will read t he current configuratio n of the switch, and display the switch name (TL-SF2109P) aut omatically , and the connect status is “connected” Cautions: At the time, the “off line” icon will be light, or else it is g ray . There are [...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide 2. Every port has its own parameters to be configed. Y ou can only select the lighten choice, not the grey choice. - 14 -[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Here is a brief description about the parameters:  Speed/Duplex : ecided the port’ s speed (10Mbps or 100Mbps) and the duplex (the half duplex or a full duplex) mode. In half duplex mode, only translating or r eceiving data at the same time. In full duplex mode, translating an[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide switch use collision-based back pressure flow control. Y ou can turn off the function, thus there is no flow control.  Default Setting : Enable  Priority: Priority is a high feature of the sw itch, the switch with the function can support that the important app lication can t[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Cautions: When setting TRUNK, the system will set the ports in a TRUNK to 100M full duplex. 4.5 VLAN VLAN is composed of a group of workstations’ multicast domain, which can build up the logic group without change the current topology . - 17 -[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide TL-SF2109 supports two methods of VLAN : Port-based VLAN and T ag-based VLAN. TL-SF21 17P and TL-SL2226P support only port-based VLAN. Default Setting : All ports in VLAN 1. Port-based VLAN Setting : 1. Click the “VLAN” in menu, or the “VLAN setting” icon; 2. Select VLAN mo[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Cautions: Ports in VLAN can exist in other VLAN s, and VLAN can have one port, and the port will not communicate to the others. 4. The ports you clicked now are in the sa me VLAN, you also can delete some ports from the VLAN with click the ports again, such as P4. Caution :When the[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide 2. Setting parameter , pick the PVID and emigration rule in combo box. 4.6 Priority 1. Click the priority button in setting menu, or the “Priority over T oS and VLAN T ag” icon. 2. The Switch support only port-based priority , there are two level priority: Low and High, you can[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide means that high priority is first always. 4.7 MAC Address Age T ime The MAC Address will auto age out af ter 5 mi nutes if it is not updated in MAC address table, this time is aging time. TL-SF2109’ s aging time is 300s. TL-SF21 17P’s is 0s to 1,048,575s. TL-SL2226P’ s is 12s[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide 2. Y ou can select as follows. 4.8 Config effect 1. Write to Switch After finishing setting above, click “write to Sw itch”, the switch will rest art and reserve the results having been configed. 2. Restore factory setting Click the “Recover Factory Configuration” in menu, [...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide 4.9 “Save”, “Open” Configuration file 1. “Save” configuration is t hat save the result of current configuration to a file. 2. “Open” configuration is that open the last saved file. - 23 -[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide - 24 -[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Appendix A: TL-SF2109P T echnical S pecification General S tandards IEEE802.3 10BASE-T IEEE802.3u 100BASE-TX/FX T opology S tar Protocol CSMA/CD 8 10/100M Auto-Negotiation RJ 45 Ports (Auto MDI/MDIX) 1 Independent Expansion Slot Ports 1 Console (RS232 DB9 Male) Data Transfer Rate E[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Appendix B: TL-SF21 17P T echnical Specification General S tandards IEEE802.3 10BASE-T IEEE802.3u 100BASE-TX/FX T opology S tar Protocol CSMA/CD 16 10/100M Auto-Negotiation RJ 45 Ports (Auto MDI/MDIX) 1 Independent Expansion Slot Ports 1 Console (RS232 DB9 Male) Data Transfer Rate [...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Appendix C: TL-SL2226P T echnical Specification General S tandards IEEE802.3 10BASE-T IEEE802.3u 100BASE-TX/FX IEEE802.3ab 1000BASE-T IEEE802.3Z 1000BASE-SX/LX T opology S tar Protocol CSMA/CD 8 10/100M Auto-Negotiation RJ 45 Ports (Auto MDI/MDIX) 1 Independent Expansion Slot Ports[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide TL-SM301GB 1000Base-LX or 1000Base-SX GBIC module Environment al and Physical Dimensions(W × D × H) 17 × 7.1 × 1.7in. (440 × 180 × 44mm) Operating T emperature 0 ℃ ~40 ℃ (32 ℉ ~104 ℉ ) S torage T emperature -40~70 ℃ (-40 ℉ ~158 ℉ ) Operating Humidity 10%~90% non[...]

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    TL-SF2109P/TL-SF21 17P/TL-SL2226P Ethernet Smart Sw itch User Guide Appendix D: Cont act Information For help with the installation or operat ion of the TP-LINK TL-SF2109P/2117P or TL-SL2226P Smart Switch, please contact us. E-mail: support@tp-link.com Website: http://www.tp-link.com - 29 -[...]