Linksys PC22604 manual

ProConnect ® II Series Layer 2 Management 4-Por t Gigabit Ethernet Switch Use this guide to install: PC22604 User Guide[...]

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Configuring the Switch 11 Overview 11 W eb-Based Conf iguration and Management 11 Logging On to the Switch 11 Basic Management Acti vities 12 General Management Conf iguration 13 Changing the System Name 13 Changing the Contact 14 Changing the Location 14 Changing the Administration Pass word 15 Changing the Guest Pass word 16 Statistic Collection [...]

DHCP Gatew a y Settings 55 Ping Settings 59 Bridging 61 Static Filtering 62 Spanning T ree Functions 63 Spanning T r ee P ort Conf igur ation 63 Spanning T r ee P ort States 65 Spanning T r ee P ath Costs 67 Spanning T r ee P ort Priorities 68 SNMP Functions 69 Stacking 72 Stacking Basic Settings 73 Other Protocols 76 P ort T runking 77 Setting Qua[...]

ProConnect II ® Series SNMP and RMON Management 106 Overview 106 SNMP Agent and MIB-2 (RFC 1213) 106 RMON MIB (RFC 1757) and Bridge MIB (RFC 1493) 107 RMON Groups Supported 107 Bridge Groups Supported 108 Appendix 109 About F ast Ethernet 109 About Gigabit Ethernet 110 Fiber Optic Cab ling 110 T wisted-Pair Cab ling 111 Crimping Y our Own Netw ork[...]

3 ProConnect II ® Series Getting to Know the Switch Act Green. Lights to indicate that the switch is successfull y connect- ing to the netw ork. Blinks to indicate the switch is acti vel y receiving or sending the data o ver the port. 10 Amber . Lights to indicate that the port is operating at 10 Mbps. 100 Green. Lights to indicate that the port i[...]

Installing the Switch Fast Ethernet Considerations If you will be using the Switch for F ast Ether net (100Mbps) applications, you must observe the follo wing guidelines: Full-Duplex Considerations As previousl y mentioned , the Switch pro vides full-duplex support for its RJ- 45 ports. Full-duplex operation allo ws data to be sent and received sim[...]

7 ProConnect II ® Series 1. Place the Switch on a desktop or shelf near an A C pow er source and fol- lo wing the guidelines of the preceding parag raph, P ositioning the Switch. 2. Connect one end of a standard netw ork cable to one of the 10/100/1000 RJ-45 ports on the front of the Switch. 3. Connect the other end of the cable to the netw ork de[...]

Switch Management The Switch offers an easy-to-use, menu-dri ven console interface. Using this interface, you can perform various s witch conf iguration and management activities, including: • Conf iguring system and port parameters • Assigning an IP address to the Switch • Conf iguring routing properties • Conf iguring ARP • Conf iguring[...]

Configuring the Switch The Switch features a menu-driv en console interface for switch conf igura- tion. The Switch can be conf igured locally through the console port using ter- minal emulation software, such as Hyperterminal, or remotely via a T elnet connection. This User Guide pro vides instr uctions on how to conf igure and manage the Switch u[...]

• General allo ws you to change the system name, contact, location, admin- istration and guest passw ords, statistics collection, reboot-on-er ror , remote T elnet login, and remote HTTP lo gin. • LAN P ort allo ws you to conf igure line speed and flow control, Admin Control, and view the ph ysical address of the Switch. • Console P ort allo [...]

Changing the Administration P assw ord 1. Use the Down Arr o w key to highlight admin P asswor d and press the Enter key . The Enter Old P asswor d screen will appear . 2. Enter the cur rent passw ord. Each character you type appears as an aster- isk (*). If you mak e a mistake, use the Backspace ke y to delete the er ror . 3. Press Enter . The Ent[...]

2. Enter a new guest pass w ord. If you make a mistake, use the Backspace key to delete the error . The passw ord is case-sensitiv e, can be no more than 16 characters (only alphanumeric characters and the underscore “_” character can be used). 3. Press Enter to return to the Gener al screen. Statistic Collection 1. From the Gener al screen, hi[...]

19 ProConnect II ® Series Reboot-on-Err or 1. From the Gener al screen, highlight Reboot-On-Error and press the Enter key . The following screen will appear . 2. Highlight one of the follo wing choices: Disab led (prev ents the Switch from automaticall y resetting when a fatal er ror is detected. This setting is useful when a persist- ent problem [...]

3. Proceed to the appropriate section: T o set the line speed , proceed to the Setting the Line Speed section T o set the flo w control, go to the section on Changing the Flow Contr ol. Setting the Line Speed 1. Press Enter with the Speed & Flow Contr ol value highlighted . The Speed & Flow Contr ol Options menu will appear . 2. Highlight t[...]

23 ProConnect II ® Series 22 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch Returning to the Basic Manag ement Screen After completing the general management activities, press the Esc key to e xit the Gener al screen and return to the Basic Manag ement screen. Y ou can then select another option from the Basic Manag ement screen or press Esc to[...]

Enab ling or Disab ling Modem Control Options 1. From the Console P ort Conf igurations screen, highlight Modem Contr ol and press the Enter key . A screen similar to the follo wing will sho w whether a console modem connection is enab led or disabled. 2. Highlight Enab led or Disab led in the Modem Contr ol Options f ield to either enable or disab[...]

27 ProConnect II ® Series 3. Press the Enter key . If you highlight Default Setup String , y ou will return to the Console P ort Conf igur ations screen and the default modem string will appear in the Modem Setup String f ield. If you highlight Custom Setup String , enter the custom string in the Enter Modem Setup String screen and press Enter aga[...]

• Other Pr otocols lets y ou vie w and change GVRP and IGMP settings. • P ort T runking allo ws you to assign a range of ports to tr unking g roups. • P ort Mirr oring lets you mirror one por t to another . • QoS Setup allo ws for the conf iguration of Quality of Ser vice. • F ile T ransf er allo ws you to upgrade your Switch softw are. S[...]

Cr eating a New VLAN 1. From the VLAN P erspective screen in, hold do wn the Shift key and press the “ + ” key . The New VLAN Settings screen will appear . . 2. W ith the VLAN ID f ield highlighted , press the Enter key . The Enter New VLAN ID screen will appear . 3. Enter a new VLAN ID as either a decimal or hexadecimal ID v alue from 1 to 409[...]

If you highlight T ag ged P orts , the screen window reads Select T agg ed P orts , as in the follo wing screen. 3. In the Select Untag ged P orts or Select T agg ed P orts screen, use the Up Arr o w and Do wn Arr o w ke ys to highlight an individual port. 4. Press Enter . An asterisk appears to the right of the selected port. Repeat this step for [...]

V iewing VLAN Activities The follo wing procedure describes how to use the VLAN P erspective screen to view acti vities for a particular VLAN . Using this procedure, you can vie w: • Activ e por ts. • Activ e MAC addresses associated with a VLAN. • A transient address, if any . • Filtering and port information. T o view VLAN activities: 1. [...]

Exiting the VLAN Screens When you f inish perfor ming VLAN activities, press the Esc ke y until you return to the desired screen. V iewing VLAN Settings Using the VLAN Conf igur ation screen, you can vie w VLAN settings. 1. From the VLAN P erspective screen, highlight an existing VLAN and press the Enter ke y . A screen similar to the follo wing wi[...]

T o select tagged por ts: • Highlight T agged P orts and press Enter . The Select T agged P orts screen will appear , along with a list of the tagged por ts. • T o select an individual port, highlight it and press Enter . An asterisk will appear next to each port you select (to deselect it, press Enter again to remo ve the asterisk). T o select[...]

IP MUL TICAST GR OUP PERSPECTIVE The IP multicast group perspective pro vides infor mation associated with an IP multicast group. Use the following procedure to obtain an IP multicast group perspective (prior to this process, set the IGMP in the Other Pr otocols section, step 2.): 1. From the L2 Switching DataBase screen, highlight IP Multicast Gro[...]

43 ProConnect II ® Series 42 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch POR T PERSPECTIVE The port perspective lets y ou view VLAN acti vities, P or t Statistics, and MA C Limit. T o obtain a por t perspectiv e: 1. From the L2 Switc hing DataBase screen, highlight P ort P erspective and press the Enter key . The P ort P erspective screen wi[...]

P er P ort Statistics If you select P er P ort Statistics from the P ort P erspective screen, a screen similar to the follo wing P er P ort VLAN Activities will appear . 1. T o reset counters for all por ts, press the “ R ” key . When the follo wing screen appears, highlight Ye s . Press Enter to reset the counters or high- light No and press E[...]

47 ProConnect II ® Series 46 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch 2. Highlight the desired option, and then press the Enter key . 3. If you selected Set Learning Limit, the Enter New Limit screen appears. 4. T ype the new limit, and press the Enter k ey . IP Networking If you select IP Networking from the Advanced Management screen, t[...]

ARP T ABLE SETTINGS If you select ARP T ab le from the IP Networ king screen, an ARP T ab le screen similar to the follo wing will appear with the ARP table entries that ha ve already been def ined or learned. From this screen, y ou are able to: • Add static entries to the ARP table. • Delete static entries to the ARP table. • Search for entr[...]

Deleting Static ARP T ab le Entries If you no longer need a static entry in the ARP table, use the follo wing procedure to delete it. Since there is no precautionary message that appears before you delete a static ARP table entry , be sure you w ant to delete the entry before you begin. 1. From the ARP T ab le screen, use the Up Arro w or Do wn Arr[...]

Pr otocol Indicates one of the follo wing: Local A manually conf igured routing entr y . NetMgmt A routing entry set via SNMP . ICMP A routing entry obtained via ICMP redirect. RIP A routing entry lear ned via the RIP protocol. Other A protocol other than one of the other four listed abo ve. From the Routing T ab le screen, you are able to: • Add[...]

Sear ching for Routing T able Entries Use the follo wing procedure to search for entries in the Routing T ab le: 1. From the Routing T ab le screen, press the “ S ” key . The Enter Networ k Addr ess screen will appear . 2. T ype the netw ork address you w ant to search for , then press Enter . DHCP GA TEW A Y SETTINGS If you highlight DHCP Gate[...]

57 ProConnect II ® Series Dela y sho ws the number of seconds that must elapse before a DHCP request broadcast is rela yed to the next IP subnetw ork. Serv ers sho ws any preferred ser vers that ha ve been def ined. Rela ys sho ws the outbound IP subnetwork for rela ying a DHCP request broadcast. The follo wing procedure describes how to change th[...]

PING SETTINGS If you select Ping from the IP Networking screen, a Ping screen similar to the follo wing will appear, with the Host f ield highlighted. Use the follo wing procedure to change the ping settings: 1. Press Enter . The Enter IP Addr ess screen will appear . 2. T ype the IP address of the computer you w ant to ping. 3. Press Enter . 4. Us[...]

BRIDGING If you select Bridging from the Advanced Manag ement screen, the follo wing Bridging P ar ameters screen will appear . 1. T o change the aging time, highlight Aging Time <seconds> and press Enter . The follo wing prompt will ask you to enter a bridge aging period , in seconds. Enter a new aging period and press the Enter ke y . 2. T [...]

From each of these screens, y ou are able to: • Hold do wn the Shift key and press the “ + ” ke y to add a specif ic MAC address to be f iltered. • Press the “ - ” (h yphen) key to delete a specif ic MA C address from being f iltered. Since there is no precautionary message that appears before you delete a specif ic MA C address, be sur[...]

65 ProConnect II ® Series Use the follo wing procedure to modify the selections shown: 1. W ith the Spanning T r ee Protocol f ield highlighted , press Enter . The fol- lo wing choices will appear (see next page). 2. Select either Disab led or Enab led and press Enter . Y our selection will appears next to Spanning T r ee Pr otocol . 3. Use the Do[...]

Spanning T ree P ath Costs Highlight Spanning T r ee P ath Costs in the Spanning T r ee Pr otocol screen and press the Enter key . A Spanning T r ee P ath Costs screen similar to the follow- ing will appear . Use the follo wing procedure to change the costs in the Spanning T r ee P ath Costs screen: 1. Use the Up Arr o w and Do wn Arr o w ke ys to [...]

SNMP FUNCTIONS If you select SNMP from the Advanced Manag ement screen, the follo wing SNMP Conf igur ations screen will appear , with the SNMP value highlighted. The SNMP Conf igur ations screen lets y ou vie w all SNMP-related informa- tion. As this screen sho ws, the factor y def ault SNMP value is Ena bled and the factor y default Community Nam[...]

11. T ype an IP address for trap host 1. The address consists of numbers sepa- rated by periods (e.g., 129.32.0.11). 12. Press Enter . The IP address you typed will appear next to T r ap Host 1 IP Addr ess . 13. T o specify up to two additional trap community names, repeat steps 10 through 12. 14. T o change the cold star t trap setting, press the [...]

Stacking Basic Setting enables y ou to set stack ID , stack size, and stack por t. Stack IP Settings lets you to set the IP address of the stack ed switches. Stack P or t Mapping sho ws infor mation about all por ts. Stacking Basic Setting Select Stack Basic Settings from the Stacking screen and press the Enter key . The follo wing screen will appe[...]

Press the ESC key . The selected por t will appear in the Stack P ort f ield. 6. Use Up or Do wn ar row k ey to highlight the Stacking f ield. Press the Enter key and the Stack Options will appear . Highlight Enabled and press the Enter key . 7. Repeat step 1~5 to conf igure other switches to be stack ed. Note that the Stack ID should be the same. [...]

77 ProConnect II ® Series O THER PRO TOCOLS Highlight Other Pr otocols from the Advanced Management screen and press the Enter ke y . The Other Pr otocol Settings screen will appear , with the GVRP value highlighted. 1. T o change the GVRP setting, press Enter with GVRP highlighted. When the follo wing screen appears, highlight the desired setting[...]

79 ProConnect II ® Series 3. Highlight the range of ports you want to associate with the trunk group, then press Enter . The por t range appears next to the selected trunk g roup, as in the follo wing screen. 4. F or each trunk por t you want to select, highlight it and press Enter . An asterisk will appear next to the selected port as in the foll[...]

5. Highlight whether y ou want to enab le or disable Dif fSer v Expedite F orwarding, and then press the Enter k ey . Y our selection appears next to DiffServ Expedite. 6. Press the Do wn Ar row k ey to highlight T os/VLAN T ag. 7. Press the Enter key . The T oS/VLAN Priority T ag menu appears. 8. Highlight the desired setting, then press the Enter[...]

13. Highlight the appropriate percentage and press the Enter key . 14. Press the Esc key to return to the WRED Drop Priority screen. 15. T o change the high-drop percentage, press the Down Ar row k ey to high- light High Drop P ercentage, then press the Enter key . The follo wing screen appears. 16. Lev el 3 remains f ix ed at 100%. T o change the [...]

1. Use the Do wn Ar row k ey to highlight the appropriate por t, and then press the Enter key . The User-Def ine menu appears for the port you selected. 2. W ith the highlight on Po rt Number, press the Enter k ey . The port Number screen appears under the User Def ined port 2 screen. 3. T ype a port number, in decimal notation, and press the Enter[...]

W ell-Kno wn P ort T o set w ell-kno wn por t settings: 1. From the Lo gical P or t menu, highlight W ell-Kno wn P or t and press the Enter key . The W ell-Kno wn Port Index menu appears. 2. The W ell-Kno wn P or t Index screen w orks the same wa y the User-Def ine P or t Index Screen w orks, except that the w ell-known port number is pre- conf igu[...]

5. T o change the transmit priority setting, press the Do wn Ar row k ey to highlight T ransmit Priority , then press the Enter ke y . When the Transmit Priority screen appears, highlight the desired priority and press the Enter key . Y our selection appears next to T ransmit Priority . 6. Press the Esc key until y ou retur n to the desired screen.[...]

6. Highlight the desired transmit priority , then press the Enter key . The trans- mit priority you selected appears ne xt to T ransmit Priority . 7. Press the Esc key to return to the VLAN Priority Index screen. 8. T o specify other VLAN priority settings, repeat steps 2 through 7. 9. When you f inish, press the Esc key until the appropriate scree[...]

2. P erfor m one of the follo wing steps: • T o specify a megabit prof ile that is used by a 10/100 Megabit port, refer to "Megabit Prof ile". • T o specify a gigabit prof ile that is used by a Gigabit port, refer to "Gigabit Prof iles". Megabit Pr of ile T o select a megabit prof ile: 1. W ith Megabit Prof ile highlighted i[...]

Note P or ts Using This Prof ile, Strict Priority , Delay Sensiti ve Application, and Prof ile Status are all read-only parameters that cannot be changed. 6. T o change the setting for QoS flo w control setting, press the Down Ar row key to select QoS with Flo w Control and press the Enter key . When the QoS Flo w Control screen appears, highlight [...]

Specifying the P ort Conf iguration T o specify por t conf iguration parameters: 1. From the QoS screen, use the Do wn Arrow ke y to highlight Port Conf iguration, and then press the Enter key . The Port Conf iguration screen appears. Note P or ts 1 through 24 are 10/100 Megabit ports, while ports 25 and 26 are Gigabit ports. 2. Use the Do wn Ar ro[...]

2. Use the Do wn Ar row k ey to highlight Rate Control and press the Enter key . The Rate Control Status screen appears. 3. Highlight the desired setting, then press the Enter key . Y our selection appears next to Rate Control in the Rate Control screen. 4. T o change the por t number setting, press the Do wn Ar row k ey to high- light P or t Numbe[...]

101 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series 6. T o change the a verage rate setting, press the Enter ke y . The A verage Rate screen appears. 7. Highlight the desired rate and press the Enter key . The rate you selected appears next to A verage Rate. 8. T o change the traff ic type, press the Down Ar row k ey to hi[...]

6. Highlight Y es and press the Enter key to transfer the f ile no w , or press the Esc key or highlight No and press the Enter k ey to not transfer the f ile at this time. Sending Files via TFTP The follo wing procedure describes how to send f iles using the TFTP protocol. Note The TFTP protocol is used to do wnload upg raded software to the s wit[...]

105 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series 3. Highlight the f ile type you w ant to send and press the Enter key . The f ile type you selected appears ne xt to File Name. 4. Use the Do wn Ar row k ey to highlight IP Address, then press the Enter key . When the Enter IP Address screen appears, type the IP address f[...]

• W ar m start • Cold start • Link up • Link do wn • Authentication f ailure • Rising alarm • F alling alarm • T opology change MIB-2 def ines a set of manageable objects in v arious lay ers of the TCP/IP protocol suites. MIB-2 co vers all manageable objects from la yer 1 to la yer 4 and , as a result, is the major SNMP MIB supporte[...]

Appendix As the demand for desktop video, multimedia dev elopment, imaging, and other speed-intensiv e applications continues to rise, the need for high per- formance, f ault tolerant LAN technology will become more critical. Standard Ethernet, which has been the most popular netw orking technology to date with a maximum data throughput of 10Mbps ([...]

111 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series Gigabit Ethernet r uns at speeds of 1Gbps (Gigabit per second), ten times faster than 100Mbps F ast Ethernet, but it still integ rates seamlessly with 100Mbps F ast Ethernet hardware. Users can connect Gigabit Ethernet hard- ware with either f iber optic cabling or copper[...]

113 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series 112 10BaseT - An Ethernet standard that uses twisted wire pairs. 100BaseTX - IEEE ph ysical lay er specif ication for 100 Mbps o ver tw o pairs of Category 5 UTP or STP wire. 1000B ASE-T - provides half-duple x (CSMA/CD) and full-duplex 1000Mb/s Ethernet ser vice o ver Ca[...]

Br oadband - A data-transmission scheme in which multiple signals share the bandwidth of a medium. This allo ws the transmission of voice, data and video signals o ver a single medium. Cable tele vision uses broadband techniques to deliv er dozens of channels o ver one cable. Br owser - A bro wser is an application program that pro vides a wa y to [...]

DHCP supports static addresses for computers containing W eb ser vers that need a permanent IP address. DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) - Allo ws one IP address (or computer) to be exposed to the Internet. Some applications require multiple TCP/IP por ts to be open. It is recommended that you set y our computer with a static IP address if you w ant to use[...]

Fir e wall - A f irew all is a set of related programs, located at a netw ork gate- wa y server , that protects the resources of a netw ork from users from other netw orks. (The ter m also implies the security policy that is used with the pro- grams.) An enter prise with an intranet that allows its w orkers access to the wider Internet installs a f[...]

IKE (Internet Key Exchange) - A negotiation and ke y exchange protocol specif ied by the Internet Engineering T ask F orce. An IKE security association (SA) automatically ne gotiates encr yption and authentication keys. W ith IKE, an initial exchange authenticates the VPN session and automatically negoti- ates keys that will be used to pass encrypt[...]

123 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series LAN (Local Area Network) - A g roup of computers and associated devices that share a common communications line and typically share the resources of a single processor or server within a small geographic area (for example, within an off ice building). Latency - The time d[...]

SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) - A f irew all technology that monitors the state of the transaction so that it can verify that the destination of an inbound packet matches the source of a pre vious outbound request. It examines not just the headers of the packet, but also the contents, to determine more about the packet than just its source and d[...]

Upgrade - T o replace existing softw are or f ir mware with a ne wer v ersion. Upload - T o transmit a f ile o ver a netw ork. In a communications session, upload means transmit, do wnload means receive. UTP - Unshielded twisted pair is the most common kind of copper telephone wiring. T wisted pair is the ordinary copper wire that connects home and[...]

129 Layer 2 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ProConnect II ® Series 128 Customer Support F or help with the installation or operation of your ProConnect II ® La yer 2 Management 4-P or t Gigabit Ether net Switch, contact Linksys Customer Support at one of the phone numbers or Inter net addresses below . Customer Support (800) 326-7114 In[...]

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