Ether-GSH2416W Pure Gigabit Web Managed Switch User’s Manual 1
TABLE OF CONTENT 1 2 Introduction................................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 Start to Manage This Switch...................................................................................... 6 1.2 Configuration Functions for the Switch ................................................................... 7 Configurations..................................................................................................
2.9.3 3 ARL Aging ......................................................................................................... 50 2.10 User Management ..................................................................................................... 51 2.11 2.12 2.13 Backup / Restore ....................................................................................................... 52 Reboot / Reset System.............................................................................................
1 Introduction The Ether-2416W web smart switch is a high performance web-smart Layer 2 switch that provides users with switched 16 mini-GBIC fiber ports and 8 10/100/1000Mbps copper ports for building up Ethernet network. This is specially designed for the use at the environment that needs high-density fiber ports and copper gigabit ports simultaneously, such as big enterprise, big ISP and telephone companies.
Main Features Broadcom® chipset inside Non-blocking, full-line speed, store-and-forward operation Support normal Ethernet frames and jumbo frames from 64 bytes to 9216 bytes Auto-negotiation and auto-MDIX on all 10/100/1000M copper ports 16 mini-GBIC ports with optional fiber transceivers and 8 10/100/1000 RJ-45 ports 512 K bytes packet buffer, 8K MAC entries Web-based interface for system management via the Ethernet connection Provide the command line interface (CLI) for simple sy
1.1 Start to Manage This Switch Plug-in the power source to power-up the switch. After the switch is powered-on and in ready state (both the LED indicators POWER and DIAG are lighting), you can use any in-band Ethernet port to remotely manage this system through the web browser, or use the RS-232 cable to plug-in the console port (on the rear panel) to locally do the simple system configurations by using the command line interface (CLI).
1.2 Configuration Functions for the Switch After the login is successfully validated, the switch’s home page – System page will show up. The left part on the page provides the function menus (shown as below) to activate to the individual configuration page. The function menus contain two parts: Switch for setting up the switch functions and System for maintaining the system parameters.
2 Configurations 2.1 Port Status This page provides the current link status for all ports. You can select the Port Status menu to activate this page and to refresh the current port status. This page provides the following information: Port – to specify a port on the switch Link Status – to show the port link status: Up / Down Speed / Duplex – to show the current link speed (1G / 100M / 10M bps) and duplex mode (Full / Half) while the port is linkup.
2.2 Port Configuration If you need to do the port configuration, just select one desired port by clicking the Port number in the Port Status page. Then the Port Configuration page (shown as below) for the selected port (e.g.
NOTE: Only full duplex mode is supported in 1Gbps link speed. For copper medium, this system doesn’t support 1Gbps link speed in force mode; for fiber medium, only the 1Gbps link speed is supported, but either auto or force mode can be set to build up the link.
2.3 Port Statistics Port Statistics function will let you to see the TX/RX packets through each port. Clear Counters button will clear all packet counters to 0. Refresh button will get port statistics again. You can check each port statistics more precisely. Just click the Port number to see the detailed information.
The table shown as below is description for each column. UnicastPkts Number of good unicast packets transmitted. MulticastPkts Number of good multicast packets transmitted. BroadcastPkts Number of good broadcast packets transmitted.
2.4 VLAN VLAN function provides the capability of creating virtual LAN groups for network group management, security and performance considerations. The main purpose of setting VLAN is to limit the traffic only flow within the port members which belong to the same VLAN group. The traffic including broadcast packets in a VLAN group will be isolated from different groups. This system supports both port-based VLAN and IEEE 802.1Q (tag-based) VLAN.
2.4.1 Port-based VLAN Configuration The port-based VLAN divides the ports into different Virtual LAN domain groups. After setting the port -based VLAN, the different VLAN groups can’t access each other. Like the different real LAN can’t access each other. Before starting this configuration, it is required to set the VLAN type to port-based VLAN first. Then click the Configure button after the port-based VLAN type is activated (shown as figure below).
2.4.1.1 Add Port-Based VLAN Groups To add a port-based VLAN group, select the “Create New VLAN” in VLAN NO dropdown of the Port-Based VLAN Configuration page shown as below: After selecting the Create New VLAN in the dropdown, the page will be changed like this: In the above page, VLAN NO will auto setup. Users just need to set VLAN Port Members. After setting complete, press the Create button will come back to the VLAN initial setting page.
Below is the example page when user sets Port1-12 to the VLAN Group2 after clicking the Create button. Now there is a VLAN group No.2 created with the member Port1-12. While the group No.2 is created, all the members in group No.1 are removed to availably operate the VLAN function.
2.4.1.2 Delete Port-Based VLAN Groups To delete a port-based VLAN group, just select a desired group (e.g. No.2) to be removed and click the Remove This VLAN button to do the deletion. After pressing the Remove This VLAN button and this action is confirmed, the result is in the following figure. Now all ports are set to the members in VLAN group No.1 to retain the system back to the normal operation.
2.4.1.3 Edit Port-Based VLAN Groups To edit the current port-based VLAN group, first select the existing group (e.g. group No.3 with members from Port9 to Port12) you want to edit (to add Port7 & Port8 as members) and click the Apply button to activate the setting. The following figure shows the latest configuration for the selected group (e.g. No.3).
2.4.2 802.1Q VLAN Configuration IEEE 802.1Q (tag-based) VLAN can add or strip 802.1Q tag depending on the requirements of the individual transmitting port. It is required to click the VLAN menu item to set the VLAN type to IEEE 802.1Q VLAN in VLAN Configuration page before doing the advanced configuration. Click the Configure button to open the configuration page after the IEEE 802.1Q VLAN type is activated (shown as figures below). The group with VLAN ID 1 stands for the default 802.1Q VLAN group.
2.4.2.1 802.1Q VLAN Port Configuration This page is to configure Port VID (PVID) for Untag port members and some ingress rules per port basis to manipulate the packets related to the tag-based VLAN. Click the Port number (e.g. Port10) to enter the 802.1Q VLAN Port Configuration page (shown as below). The following figure shows the 802.1Q VLAN Port Configuration page by port. (e.g. Port10) You can set the individual port for configuring the 802.
2.4.2.2 802.1Q VLAN Configuration The following figures are the pages to add/delete/edit the 802.1Q VLAN entry. Each VLAN entry has 2 parameters, VLAN ID (VID) and Port Member to be assigned. After selecting the Create New VLAN, the figure shown as below will show up: ¾ ¾ VID – a unique VLAN ID, range is from 2 to 4094 (ID No.1 is reserved for default group) Port Member – Click the images just below the port number which wants to be grouped.
Here is an example to configure the 802.1Q VLAN. Now there are 5 existing 802.1Q VLAN groups (including default group) shown as below. If the group with VID 200 wants to be removed, just use the VLAN ID dropdown to select the VID 200 then click the Remove This VLAN button to do the deletion. After the action mentioned above, the 802.1Q VLAN table will be changed like this: The group with VID 200 is successfully deleted.
If you would like to show or edit the port members of a specified 802.1Q VLAN group, use the VLAN ID dropdown to specify a VID (e.g. VID 300). Then the current settings for this group will be displayed. At this moment, edit the port members for the current group (e.g. VID 300): Port17 and Port18 are new joined to the group with Tag member option. Finally, click the Apply button to activate and save the modifications.
2.5 Trunk The Ether-2416W web smart switch supports MAC-based trunking, which allows more than one port to be grouped together as a single link connection between two switch devices. This is also useful for switch-to-server and switch-to-router applications. The Ether-2416W web smart switch allows four trunk groups that can accommodate up to eight trunk members. A port in one trunk group cannot be a member of another trunk simultaneously.
2.5.1 Trunking Rules The following rules will limit the configurations for port trunking: The attributes of all trunk member ports in Port Configuration, Mirror, Rate Control, 802.1Q VLAN and Port-Based VLAN functions must be the same. All trunk member ports can not be a capture port or monitored port in Mirror function. If any fiber port (from Port1 to Port16) and copper port (from Port17 to Port24) want to be grouped together, the auto negotiation option must be enabled for all member ports.
When the enabled trunk group is set to disabled, all trunk member ports will be released to ordinary ports and their functions can be configured individually. At that moment, their configuration attributes will be retained to the last settings while they were be member ports of trunk group. The following 3 figures show the port configurations (e.g. Port6) will be retained before and after the trunk (e.g. Trk1) is disabled.
2.5.2 Get/Refresh the Latest Trunk Settings Click the Trunk menu on the web page, the latest trunk settings on the switch will be displayed. This is also the page to configure the trunk function.
2.5.3 ¾ ¾ ¾ Enable Trunk Step 1: Choose the Distribution Criterion. Step 2: Choose the member port(s) up to 8 ports for each trunk group. Step 3: Click the Apply button to enable trunk settings.
2.5.4 ¾ ¾ ¾ Modify Trunk Settings Step 1: Choose the Distribution Criterion. Step 2: Choose the member port(s) up to 8 ports for each trunk group. Step 3: Click the Apply button to modify trunk settings.
2.5.5 ¾ ¾ Disable Trunk Step 1: Click the Not Trunking. Step 2: Click the Apply button to disable trunk.
2.6 Port Mirroring Port mirroring allows ingress and/or egress traffics to be monitored by a single port. The single port is mirror capture port. The Ether-2416W web smart switch can be configured to mirror the ingress and/or egress traffics of another port. Port monitoring is independent of L2 switching. Networking manager can monitor all traffics sent/received through the Ether-2416W web smart switch. Select the Mirror menu on the web page to activate the configuration page.
2.6.1 Get/Refresh the Latest Mirror Settings Click the Mirror menu on the web page, the latest mirror settings on the switch will be displayed. This is also the page to configure port mirroring function. The following parameters are required to be set: Mirroring Options – There are four options for each port: ¾ Disable Mirror – to disable mirror function. ¾ Mirror All Frames – to set the corresponsive port to be a monitored port to investigate bi-directional traffic.
2.6.2 ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ Enable Mirror Step 1: Choose Mirror option to be Mirror All Frames. Step 2: Choose the Monitored Port to be Port16. Step 3: Choose the Capture Port to be Port8. Step 4: Click the Apply button to enable mirroring settings.
2.6.3 ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ Modify Mirror Settings Step 1: Change Mirror option to be Mirror Outgoing Frames. Step 2: Change the Monitored Port to be Port3 Step 3: Change the Capture Port to be Port22. Step 4: Click the Apply button to modify mirroring settings.
2.6.4 ¾ ¾ Disable Mirror Step 1: Choose Mirror option to be Disable Mirror. Step 2: Click the Apply button to disable mirroring.
2.7 QOS (Quality of Service) The Ether-2416W web smart switch provides up to four internal transmit queues per port to support four different traffic priorities. The high-priority traffic experiences less delay in the switch than that of lower priority traffic under congested conditions. For sensitive traffic, to minimize latency of delay can be important. The Ether-2416W web smart switch provides three types of QOS. It can assign the packet to one of four transmit queues according to 802.1P QOS.
2.7.1 Get/Refresh the Latest QOS Settings Click the QOS menu on the web page, the latest QOS settings on the switch will be displayed. This is also the page to configure QOS. The following parameters are provided to be set: Scheduling Method ¾ Strict Priority – to set this switch to transmit packets with Strict Priority algorithm ¾ Weighted Round Robin – to set this switch to transmit packets with Weighted Round Robin algorithm Priority/Queue Map ¾ To set the Priority and Queue map.
2.7.2 ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ Enable QOS Step 1: Choose the Scheduling Method (ex: Weighted Round Robin). Step 2: Set Priority/Queue map (ex: Priority1, 2, 3 and 4 belong to Queue0, Priority4 and 5 belong to Queue1, Priority6 belong to Queue2, Priority7 belong to Queue4). Step 3: If Scheduling Method is Weighted Round Robin, assign a weight for every transmit queue (ex: Queue0 weight = 1, Queue1 weight = 3, Queue2 weight = 5, Queue3 weight = 7). Step 4: Click the Apply button to enable QOS settings.
2.7.3 Modify QOS Settings ¾ ¾ Step 1: Change the Scheduling Method to be Strict Priority. Step 2: Change the Priority/Queue map (ex: Prirotiy0 belong to Queue3, Priority1, 2 and 3 belong to Queue2, Priority4, 5 and 6 belong to Queue1, and Priority7 belongs to Queue0). ¾ Step 3: Click the Apply button to modify QOS settings.
2.8 Rate and Storm Control To fulfill more efficient system performance, Ether-2416W web smart switch provides rate and storm control to limit the per-port traffic rate and to globally suppress the storm from unknown or broadcast frames received to the system. 2.8.1 Rate Control This system supports per-port rate control. When the incoming frame rate of a particular port exceeds a selected rate, the excess frame traffic is subject to packet drops or flow control.
Select port number to setup the per-port rate control value. In the page of ingress rate limit shown as following figure (e.g. for Port2), select one (e.g. 8Mbps) of 14 different rates to limit the rate or select “No Limit” to un-limit the rate for this port. After clicking the Apply button to activate the setting, the previous page will be back and shown up with the latest setting.
2.8.2 Storm Control In the Rate Limit and Storm Control page, the hyperlink (e.g. Disabled) on the row with Storm Control field shows the current setting of this function. This function will globally affect to all ports in the system. Just click this hyperlink to configure the setting. In the Storm Control page, there are 2 fields to configure this function: Storm Control Type – 5 options to provide in this dropdown ¾ Disabled – to disable storm control.
Storm Control Rate – this field provides 13 different control rates from 1fps (frames per second) to 15,000fps. This dropdown will be disabled while the Storm Control Type is disabled. After selecting the storm control type and rate, click the Apply button to activate the settings for this function. The figure shown as below is an example of storm control configuration with type of broadcast only and limited rate of 15fps.
2.9 System Setup System Setup page provides the management information to the switch. This page shown as below can be activated by clicking the System Setup menu under the System section.
2.9.1 Firmware Update The Ether-2416W web smart switch provides the capability of firmware update for new features, customized requests and system fault recovery. This page shown as below can be activated by clicking the Update link in System Setup page. This system supports both BOOTP/TFTP and pure TFTP to update the firmware. The TFTP server IP address and firmware filename needs to be correctly provided to the switch to start the firmware updating if the pure TFTP, the traditional way, is selected.
2.9.1.1 Firmware Update Via TFTP Before to do the firmware update, it is required to correctly prepare TFTP server and the firmware file which will be uploaded to the switch by the TFTP server. (Please refer to the vendor’s instruction guide for setting up the TFTP server you would like to use. While the TFTP server and the firmware file are ready, please enter the TFTP server IP address and firmware filename. Click the Apply button to start the firmware update through the any front port on the switch.
2.9.1.2 Firmware Update Via BOOTP/TFTP Before to do the firmware update, it is required to correctly prepare BOOTP/TFTP server and the firmware file which will be uploaded to the switch by the TFTP server. (Please refer to the vendor’s instruction guide for setting up the TFTP server you would like to use. While the BOOTP/TFTP server and the firmware file are ready, click the Apply button to start the firmware update through the any front port on the switch.
2.9.2 DHCP Client The IP address of the Ether-2416W web smart switch could be statically assigned by manual entry or dynamically assigned by a DHCP server. 2.9.2.1 Assign a fixed IP address Change DHCP Client to be disabled. Enter a fixed IP address, Subnet mask and Gateway, and then click Apply button. 2.9.2.2 Assign a IP address by DHCP server Change DHCP Client to be Enable. This system’s IP address, subnet mask and gateway address and will be assigned and changed immediately by DHCP server.
2.9.3 ARL Aging The Ether-2416W web smart switch supports aging timer for MAC address entry in address table. If ARL aging is enabled and aging time is 300 seconds, every MAC address entry learned from every front port will keep in address table for 300 seconds. After 300 seconds, this switch will remove this MAC entry. Click ARL Aging to modify aging time settings. Check Enable ARL Aging checkbox to enable it. Uncheck Enable ARL Aging to disable it.
2.10 User Management User management is to maintain the username and password for login validation to access to the switch. Currently this switch provides only one login account for configuration management. Just click the User Management menu to activate the User Management page shown as below: New Username – to set the username string (max. 10 characters) New Password – to set the password string (max.
2.11 Backup / Restore♣ Except the username/password, all configurations including the optional IP/netmask/gateway can be backed up to or restored from the TFTP server if server IP and filename are assigned.
2.12 Reboot / Reset System This switch can be rebooted or reset to default configurations through the web page for your request. Go to the Reboot/Reset menu item to open the Reboot/Reset System page for this action. Click the Reboot button to reboot this system. The configurations will be retained to the same as before reboot procedure. If this system’s configurations need to be reset to default (factory) values, press the Reset to Default button to start the procedure.
2.13 Command Line Interface (CLI) In addition to the web management, the Ether-2416W web smart switch also provides a serial interface (RS-232) as a console port on the rear panel to manage switch for system setup, user management, reset system and firmware update through the command line interface (CLI). Windows Hyper Terminal is recommended to use. This section will show how to setup and use Hyper Terminal to manage this switch. 2.13.
Help Menu Press “H”, “h” or “?” to show all management commands in console. NOTE: Some models don’t support configuration backup/restore (CB/CR) function. Get System Information Press “IG” or “ig” to show model name and firmware version. Get Current Network Settings Press “NG” or “ng” to show DHCP client status, system IP address, network mask, gateway and MAC address.
Configure Network Press “NS” or “ns” to configure system network. If user wants to assign this system an IP address by DHCP server, please enter “Y” or “y” to start DHCP progress right now. If user wants to assign this system a fixed IP address manually, please enter “N” or “n” to abort DHCP progress. User Management Press “UM” or “um” to configure account and password which is used to login this system. Enter new username and password.
VLAN Type Press “VT” or “vt” to get current VLAN type or set to different type. If selected VLAN type is successfully changed from one to the other, the message “VLAN type is updated!” will be shown up. If selected VLAN type is the same as before or entry is invalid, this action won’t be executed. Set PVID Press “VV” or “vv” to set per-port PVID in 802.1Q VLAN function. The PVID of admin port (port 25) in 802.1Q VLAN function also can be modified.
Upgrade Firmware Via TFTP or BOOTP/TFTP Press “UF” or “uf” to start firmware upgrade progress via TFTP server. Choose “1” to update firmware via TFTP. Enter TFTP server IP address and firmware filename. Choose “2” to update firmware via BOOTP/TFTP. After the Ether-2416W web smart switch is starting reboot, the firmware upgrade progress is finished correctly. Press “IG” or “ig” to check firmware version after login.
Configuration Restore via TFTP Press “CR” or “cr” to restore configurations from TFTP server. The TFTP server IP address and configuration filename need to be assigned properly. IP/Netmask/Gateway is an option to be restored to the current system or not. After this process is successfully finished, system will be automatically rebooted to reactivate the functions for restored configurations. Reboot System Press “RB” or “rb” to restart this system.
3 Specifications Standards Compliance IEEE 802.3 10BaseT Ethernet IEEE 802.3u 100BaseTX Fast Ethernet IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base Gigabit Ethernet IEEE 802.3x flow control both on half and full duplex IEEE 802.
Power Input: 100-240VAC, 50/60Hz Power consumption: 40 Watts max. Dimensions 440mm (W) × 184mm (D) × 44mm (H) Weight 2.
