GSS Series User Manual User Manual GSS Series 48 Port Gigabit Web Managed Switch (GSS-48T4SFP) Version 1.0 Sep.
GSS Series User Manual Table of Contents CAUTION ..............................................................................................................................................3 ELECTRONIC EMISSION NOTICES ..................................................ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. ABOUT THIS USER MANUAL .................................................................................................................5 OVERVIEW OF THE USER MANUAL .............................................
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.5 Police-Flow..........................................................................................................................46 3.7.6 Mark.....................................................................................................................................47 3.7.7 Mark-enable.........................................................................................................................48 3.8 ACL ....................................................
GSS Series User Manual Caution Electronic Circuit devices are sensitive to static electricity. Dry weather conditions or walking across a carpeted floor may cause you to acquire a static electric charge. To protect your switch, always: • Touch the metal chassis of your computer to ground the static electrical charge before you handle the switch. • Pick up the switch by holding it on the left and right edges only.
GSS Series User Manual About this User Manual This User Manual will guide you on procedures to install, configure and monitor the Alloy 48 port Gigabit Web Managed Switch utilising the built-in web and console management interfaces.
GSS Series User Manual 1. Introduction 1.1 Overview The Alloy 48 Port Gigabit Switch meets all IEEE 802.3/u/x/z standards. It features 48x 10/100/1000Mbps copper RJ-45 ports and 4x Paired Gigabit Ethernet SFP Ports. The SFP ports can be used to install a range of optional mini-GBIC Gigabit Ethernet Port Modules (which provide the ability to connect multimode and/or single mode fibre optic cable links – see below); the SFP ports are each paired with one of the 10/100/1000Mbps copper RJ-45 ports.
GSS Series User Manual 1.2 Key Features • • • • • • • 48 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet Ports all compliant with IEEE802.3, 802.3u, 802.3z and 802.3ab 4 Paired TP/SFP fibre ports Web Based Management Port Based VLAN and Tag-based (IEEE802.1q) VLAN 802.1p Class of Service with 8 level priority queuing Port Trunking with flexible load distribution and failover function Port mirroring function 1.
GSS Series User Manual 1.4.1 User interfaces on the front panel The front panel of the GSS-16T4SFP and GSS-24T4SFP consists of 16x or 24x 10/100/1000Mbps Copper Gigabit Ethernet ports, 4x SFP fibre ports and 1x reset button to restore factory configuration. TP LED Display Panel System LED Display Panel Factory Default Button Gigabit Ethernet Ports SFP Fibre Ports SFP LED Display Panel Fig. 1.
GSS Series User Manual 1.5. Overview of the Optional SFP Modules With the GSS-48T4SFP switch, the SFP ports are paired with RJ-45 copper ports 45, 46, 47 and 48. Only one of any given paired port can be used. In this manner, these paired ports can be seen as ‘Dual Media’ ports that support 10/100/1000Mbps or 1000Mbps fibre via the SFP interfaces. Optional 1000Mbps mini-GBIC fibre transceiver modules can be used for high-speed uplink connections to fibre backbones or servers, when installed in the SFP ports.
GSS Series User Manual 2. Installation 2.1. Starting the GSS-48T4SFP This section provides a quick start guide for: • Hardware and Cable Installation • Management Station Installation • Software booting and configuration 2.1.1. Hardware and Cable Installation Please Note: ⇒ Wear a grounding strap to avoid damaging the switch with electrostatic discharge ⇒ Be sure that the power switch is in the ‘OFF’ position before you insert the power cord • Installing Optional SFP Mini-GBIC Modules SFP port Fig. 2.
GSS Series User Manual • Copper Ports - Cable Installation Please Note: ⇒ The RJ-45 ports on the GSS-48T4SFP support MDI/MDI-X auto-crossover functionality. This enables use of either straight-through or crossover UTP cable types; the RJ-45 ports will automatically be configured to suit the characteristics of the device at the remote end of the link.
GSS Series User Manual 2.1.2. Cabling Requirements To help ensure a successful installation and keep network performance at optimum levels, take care to use Cat.5E grade or higher cabling. Ensure that stranded core UTP cable, if used, runs for no more than 10 metres, and that solid core runs for a maximum of 100metres. Poor cabling is the most common cause for network dropouts or poor performance. 2.1.2.1.
GSS Series User Manual Cont. Please Note: ⇒ Further information can be found in section 1.5 on page 7 ⇒ All figures denoting the range a given cable type can achieve must be treated as maximum values.
GSS Series User Manual 3. Operation of the Web Based Management The following chapter allows the administrator to monitor and manage the GSS-48T4SFP through the web management interface. Management functionality such as Port Based and 802.1q VLAN, Port Aggregation (Trunking), QoS, Port configuration and much more can all be configured quickly and easily via any Ethernet port of the GSS-48T4SFP.
GSS Series User Manual 3.1 Web Management Home Overview Once you have entered a valid username and password and logged into the switch the System Configuration page will be displayed, this is the default page, it will be displayed every time that you log into the switch. On the left hand side of the screen you will see a menu structure used to Configure, Monitor and manage your switch.
GSS Series User Manual ACL QoS Load – Used to load the ACL QoS settings. User Defined – Used to configure user defined ACL controls. SNMP – Used to configure SNMP settings. Link Aggregation – Used to configure link aggregation settings. Alarm • Events – Used to enable particular alarm events. • Email/SMS – Used to configure Email and SMS settings. Configuration • Save / Restore – Used to save and restore the configuration of the switch.
GSS Series User Manual 3.2 System 3.2.1 System Information The System Information configuration page is used to display basic switch information including the Model Name, MAC Address, Firmware Version, Hardware Version, and IP information. Fig. 3.2 Model Name: Displays the model name of the switch. (Read Only) System Desc: Displays a brief description of the switch. (Read Only) Location: Enter a descriptive location in the space provided. Contact: Enter a contact name in the space provided.
GSS Series User Manual 3.2.2 IP The IP configuration page is used to configure the IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway and DNS server settings. Fig. 3.3 IP Address: Enter the IP Address of the switch into the space the provided. Subnet Mask: Select the appropriate Subnet Mask from the drop down box. Default Gateway: Enter the Default Gateway for the switch into the space provided. DNS Server: Enter the DNS server into the space provided.
GSS Series User Manual 3.2.3 Time The GSS-48T4SFP provides two methods to keep the switch’s time settings correct, they are via manual input and via a Time Server on the internet. If you are manually entering your time settings enter the “Year”, “Month”, “Day, “Hour”, “Minute” and “Seconds” into the space provided. If you enter a number that is invalid, for instance you enter 61 in the seconds field it will be rounded down to the nearest valid number, in this case 59.
GSS Series User Manual date of the daylight savings settings the switch’s time will be adjusted by the amount of hours entered in the drop down box. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.2.4 Account The account configuration is used to create or modify guest and administrator accounts. The GSS-48T4SFP allows the administrator to create up to 5 guest accounts. Accounts can only be created by the administrator. When a Guest user logs into the switch they will not be able to modify any parameters, they will only have read only rights to the switch. A Guest user can log into the switch and change there own password, but will not be able to modify any other accounts.
GSS Series User Manual 3.3 Port 3.3.1 Status The Port Status section allows the administrator to view the current status of each port. The port status screen tells us the type of media being used, whether the link is active or not, whether the port is active or not, if it is using auto negotiation, what speed the port is running at and whether flow control is enabled. Fig 3.6 Port: Is the physical port of the switch.
GSS Series User Manual 3.3.2 Configuration The Port Configuration section allows the administrator to Enable or Disable a port, turn auto negotiation on or off for a particular port and also force the speed and duplex settings of each port. The administrator can also Enable or Disable the flow control settings for each port. Fig 3.7 Port: Click on the port number you wish to configure. Port Name: Enter a descriptive name for the port.
GSS Series User Manual 3.3.3 Simple Counter The Simple Counter section allows the administrator to view information regarding the amount of data that is being passed through a particular port whether the packets are good or bad. Fig. 3-8 shows you a screen shot of the simple counter screen. As you can see from the image all ports on the switch are displayed at one time. If the amount of data being displayed on the screen is more that 12 digits long, the counter will be reset back to zero and continue on.
GSS Series User Manual 3.3.4 Detail Counter The Detail Counter section allows the administrator to view information regarding the amount of data that is being passed through a particular port whether the packets are good or bad. Fig. 3-9 shows you a screen shot of the detail counter screen. Unlike the simple counter screen the detail counter screen will only display the statistics of one port at a time. If you wish to view a particular ports statistics select the port from the drop down box provided.
GSS Series User Manual RX Runt Packets: Displays the total number of runt packets received. RX Oversize Packets: Displays the total number of oversize packets received. RX CRC: Displays the total number of CRC error packets received. RX Code: Displays the total number of Code packets received. RX Fragment: Displays the total number of fragmented packets received. TX Unicast: Displays the total number of unicast packets transmitted.
GSS Series User Manual 3.4 Storm The GSS-48T4SFP allows suppression of broadcast and multicast packets. Broadcast and multicast packets can cause the switch and your network to run poorly. By suppressing broadcast and or multicast packets from entering the switch, it allows the switch to process normal packets as required. Fig. 3.10 Storm: Used to enable and configure what storm control is used. The administrator can select from Broadcast or Broadcast and Multicast.
GSS Series User Manual 3.5 Mirror The Mirror function of the GSS-48T4SFP is used to capture data from a particular port on the switch. Any port on the switch can be selected as the monitoring port; this port will be used to capture data from another port on the switch using third party data capturing software. Data can be captured from more than one port on the switch simultaneously therefore you can have one monitoring port and several other ports being monitored by the one port. Fig. 3.
GSS Series User Manual 3.6 Filter The GSS-48T4SFP allows the administrator to filter unwanted packets from entering the switch. If packets are of the wrong size, wrong encapsulation type, unknown ether-type, unknown IP Protocol, wrong IPv4 options or the packets contain an unknown source address these can all be discarded by the switch. 3.6.1 Bad Length Fig. 3.12 Ports: Tick the check box next to the corresponding port to enable Bad Length Filtering on that port.
GSS Series User Manual 3.6.2 Bad Length Fig. 3.13 Ports: Tick the check box next to the corresponding port to enable Unknown Encapsulation Filtering on that port. If a packet is received which has an unknown encapsulation type the packet will be discarded. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.6.3 Unknown Ether-Type Fig. 3.14 Ports: Tick the check box next to the corresponding port to enable Unknown Ether-Type Filtering on that port. If a packet is received which has an unknown ether-type the packet will be discarded. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.6.4 Unknown IP Protocol Fig. 3.15 Ports: Tick the check box next to the corresponding port to enable Unknown IP Protocol Filtering on that port. If a packet is received which has an unknown IP Protocol the packet will be discarded. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.6.5 IPv4 Options Fig. 3.16 Ports: Tick the check box next to the corresponding port to enable Unknown IPv4 Options Filtering on that port. If a packet is received which has an unknown IPv4 Option the packet will be discarded. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.6.6 Unknown Source Fig. 3.17 Ports: Tick the check box next to the corresponding port to enable Unknown Source Filtering on that port. If a packet is received which has an unknown source address the packet will be discarded. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7 QoS The GSS-48T4SFP offers three different QoS methods; they are DSCP (Differentiated Service Code Point), Port based and 802.1p. 3.7.1 Priority Fig. 3.18 3.7.1.1 IP Layer Priority State Setting The IP Layer Priority State setting is used to disable DSCP. If you apply multiple QoS rules to a single port DSCP will always override port based and 802.1p. Therefore if you want to use port based or 802.1p QoS you will need to enable the IP-Ignored function. Fig. 3.
GSS Series User Manual will be disabled for the selected port. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.1.2 Differentiated Service Code Point (DSCP) The DSCP configuration page is used to set a priority level on each of the DSCP values. Fig. 3.20 DSCP: The DSCP value. Priority: Used to set a priority level of the DSCP value. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.1.3 Port Priority Setting The Port Priority configuration page is used to set a priority level on each port. Fig. 3.21 Port: Physical port of the switch. Priority: Used to set a priority level of the port. Priority levels range form 0 -7. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.1.4 Shaper Queue This page is used to assign a priority level to each of the 4 queues, 8 priority levels are available. Fig. 3.22 Priority: Priority level to assign to Queue. Queue: Select the desired Queue to be bound to the particular priority level. Queue values range from 0 to 3. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.1.5 ACL Priority Override The ACL Priority override function allows any ACL (Access Control List) rule to override the QoS settings applied to that port. Fig. 3.23 Port: Physical port of the switch. ACL Override: Used to enable or disable the ACL Override function. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.2 Policer The Policer function is used to determine what happens to ingress packets that match the configured Flow ID. The Flow ID is based on particular Queue levels 0 - 3. Fig. 3.24 Port: Is the physical port number of the switch. Policer: Is the Queue value. Rate (%): This is the percentage rate of the port. If the port is receiving data at the configured percentage rate of the set limit, then the appropriate action will be applied.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.3 Shaper The Shaper function allows egress packets to be limited depending on the amount of packets being transmitted from the switch. Fig. 3.25 State: Used to enable or disable the shaper function. Burst Limit: Is the pre-configured value that determines whether packets will be dropped or forwarded. Value ranges from 1 – 61440 bytes. Port: Is the physical port number of the switch. Queue: Is the Queue value. Rate (%): This is the percentage rate of the port.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.4 Flow 3.7.4.1 IP Flow ID Ignore Setting This is used to override the IP Flow function and use the MAC flow function instead. When enabled only the MAC flow rules will take effect. Fig. 3.26 Port: Is the physical port number of the switch. IP-Ignored: Used to enable or disable the IP Ignored function. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.4.2 IP Flow ID Configuration Packets will be applied a particular Queue level determined by the IP address inside the Ethernet packet. The packets will then be given a high or low priority based on the queue they have been assigned to. Fig. 3.27 IP: Enter a valid IP Address in to the space provided. Prefix: Enter a prefix value between 1 and 32. This prefix value is the value of the IP address in bits.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.4.3 MAC Flow ID Configuration Packets will be applied a particular Queue level determined by the MAC address inside the Ethernet packet. The packets will then be given a high or low priority based on the queue they have been assigned to. Fig. 3.28 MAC: Enter a valid MAC Address in to the space provided. Port No: Enter the port number of the switch. Source Flow ID: Enter the source flow ID. This ID will be applied to the source address found inside the packet.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.5 Police-Flow The Police-Flow configuration page is used to apply different priority levels to the 4 queues used by the IP and MAC ID Flow. Fig. 3.29 Source Flow ID: Select the Source Flow ID from the drop down box. Destination Flow ID: Select the Destination Flow ID from the drop down box. Priority: Priority level for each Flow ID. Policer: Select the appropriate Queue level for each priority setting.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.6 Mark The Mark section is used to determine what priority level will be applied once a packet has been demoted. This priority level can be changed on both the COS and DSCP fields. Fig. 3.30 Priority: The QoS priority level. Not Demoted: Is the COS priority level based on packets that haven’t been demoted. Demoted: Is the COS priority level based on packets that have been demoted. Not Demoted: Is the DSCP priority level based on packets that haven’t been demoted.
GSS Series User Manual 3.7.7 Mark-enable The Mark-enable section is used to enable or disable the mark function for CoS and DSCP on each port. Fig. 3.31 Port: Physical port of the switch. CoS: Used to enable or disable the mark function for CoS. DSCP: Used to enable or disable the mark function for DSCP. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.8 ACL 3.8.1 ACL Mode ACL (Access Control List) is designed to protect the switch from unnecessary IP traffic or Layer-4 packets and allows the users to filter denial of service (DoS) floods against the switch, thereby preventing the flood from degrading the performance of the switch. Two modes of ACL are supported VLAN and Port based and a total of 64 ACL rules can be created. Fig. 3.32 Mode: Select the appropriate ACL mode that you would like to use, port mode or vlan mode.
GSS Series User Manual 3.8.2 ACL/VLAN Mapping This section is used to MAP a VLAN ID to a particular ACL rule. Fig. 3.33 Index: Automatically generated number. VLAN ID: Displays the VLAN ID. ACL Number: Select the required ACL number from the drop down box. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.8.3 ACL Rule This section is used to create your ACL rules. Fig. 3.34 ACL Number: Select the required ACL number from the drop down box. Create: Used to create an ACL rule. Delete: Used to delete an existing ACL rule.
GSS Series User Manual Fig. 3.35 ACL: Automatically generated value, determined by the ACL number. Rule: Automatically generated number. EtherType: Select the Ethernet Type from the drop down box provided. Selected values can be IPv4, Arp, RARP, User Defined 1, User Defined 2, User Defined 3, None and Any. Source IP: Enter the Source IP Address for which the rule will be applied to. Destination IP: Enter the Destination IP Address for which the rule will be applied to.
GSS Series User Manual 3.9 ACL QoS Load The ACL QoS Load function is used to apply any of your ACL and QoS settings immediately. Fig. 3.36 Load: Used to activate any of your QoS and ACL configuration settings.
GSS Series User Manual 3.10 User Defined The User Defined section is where you create your user defined functions when creating your ACL rules. User Defined functions can be created for the Ethernet type and also the protocol type. Fig. 3.37 EtherType State: Used to enable the user defined functions. Value: Enter the Ethertype Value in the space provided. IP Protocol State: Used to enable the user defined functions. Value: Enter the IP Protocol Value in the space provided. Eg. Port 25 for SMTP.
GSS Series User Manual 3.11 SNMP Any Network Management System (NMS) running the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) can manage any Managed device equipped with an SNMP agent, provided that the Management Information Base (MIB) is installed correctly on the managed devices. SNMP is a protocol that is used to govern the transfer of information between SNMP managers and agents and traverses the Object Identity (OID) of the Management Information Base (MIB), described in the form of SMI syntax.
GSS Series User Manual 3.12 Link Aggregation Link Aggregation is used to Aggregate Ports into a logical trunk. Link Aggregation can bundle more than one port with the same speed, full duplex and the same MAC address to be a single logical port, thus the logical port aggregates the bandwidth of these ports. This allows the switch to aggregate multiple ports together to form a high bandwidth backbone link. Fig. 3.39 Port: Physical port of the switch.
GSS Series User Manual 3.13 Alarm The GSS-48T4SFP supports a number of trap messages that can be sent to an administrator if certain events occur on the switch. The switch offers 5 different trap events that can be sent to the administrator in 3 different ways; email, mobile phone SMS or trap. 3.13.1 Events Fig. 3.40 Email: Tick the corresponding events under the Email check box for these events to be emailed if they occur.
GSS Series User Manual 3.13.2 Email/SMS Fig. 3.41 Mail Server: Enter the address of a mail server that can send your email events. Username: Enter a username to allow the email server to send the email events. Password: Enter a password to allow the email server to send the email events. Email Address 1: Enter a valid email address in the space provided. Email Address 2: Enter a valid email address in the space provided. Email Address 3: Enter a valid email address in the space provided.
GSS Series User Manual 3.14 Configuration 3.14.1 Save / Restore The GSS-48T4SFP supports multiple configuration files to be used by the administrator including the default configuration, start configuration and user configuration. In this section the administrator can save the switch’s configuration, restore the switch to factory default and also save the current configuration as the startup configuration when the switch is re-booted. Fig. 3.
GSS Series User Manual 3.14.2 Config File Used by the administrator to Export and Import the start and user configuration files. Fig. 3.43 TFTP Server IP: Displays the currently configured TFTP Server for the switch. Export File Path: Enter the file path of where you would like to export the configuration file. Export Start: After configuring the export path click on the export start button to export the startup configuration file.
GSS Series User Manual 3.15 Diagnostics Three Diagnostic tools are supported in the GSM Series Switches including Diagnostics, Loopback test and Ping test. 3.15.1 Diag Fig. 3.44 UART Test: Performs a UART test on the switch. DRAM Test: Test the RAM of the switch. Flash Test: Tests the Flash RAM in the switch. Run: Performs the Diagnostic tests on the switch.
GSS Series User Manual 3.15.2 Loopback Fig. 3.45 Run Again: Performs a loopback test on all ports of the switch.
GSS Series User Manual 3.15.3 Ping Test Fig. 3.45 IP Address: Enter the IP Address of the device you are trying to communicate with. Default Gateway: Displays the default gateway of the switch. Ping Result: Displays the result of the ping test. Ping: Performs the ping test.
GSS Series User Manual 3.16 Loop Detection The loop detection function allows the switch to detect if a loop has been formed on your network. Fig. 3.46 Loop Detection: Tick the check box next to the corresponding port to enable loop detection. Action Enable: Used to enable the Loop detection function for the ports that have been selected. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.17 TFTP Server The TFTP Server is used to upgrade the firmware in the switch. It is also used when backing up and uploading your configuration. Fig. 3.47 Server: Enter the IP Address of the TFTP Server. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.18 Log Fig. 3.47 No: Displays the order number of all entries in the log. Time: Displays the Time that the trap occurred. Events: Displays the name of the trap event that has occurred. Auto Upload Enable: Switch the Auto Upload status from enabled to disabled. Upload Log: Upload the contents of the log via a TFTP Server. Clear Log: Clear all data contained in the log.
GSS Series User Manual 3.19 Firmware Upgrade Fig. 3.48 TFTP Server: Displays the currently configured TFTP Server address. Path and Filename: Enter the path and filename of the firmware file. Upgrade: Press to upgrade the firmware in the switch.
GSS Series User Manual 3.20 Max. Packet Length Fig. 3.49 Maximum Packet Length (bytes): Select the maximum packet length allowed by the switch. Values are 1522 and 16383. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.21 MAC Table The MAC Table configuration can be used by the administrator to statically add MAC entries to the switches MAC table, display MAC address information from connecting devices, allow you to flush the switches MAC table and also allow you to configure the MAC age out time of the switch. 3.21.1 Information Fig. 3.50 Port: Select the port you would like to query. Select/Unselect All: Used to select or unselect all ports.
GSS Series User Manual 3.21.2 Aging Time Allows the administrator to set the MAC age time out value and allows you to flush the Mac table of the switch. Fig. 3.51 Aging Time: Enter the MAC aging time in seconds. When the switch learns a MAC address this is the amount of time it will stay in the switches MAC table. Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen.
GSS Series User Manual 3.21.3 Static Forward The Static Forward function is used to associate a MAC address to a particular port of the switch. When a MAC address is assigned to a specific port all of the switches traffic sent to that MAC address will be forwarded to this port. To add a Static Forward entry to the table enter the MAC address, port number, VID and Alias. If you wish to delete an existing entry highlight the required MAC address and click the delete button. Fig. 3.
GSS Series User Manual 3.21.4 Static Filter The Static Filter function allows the administrator to block MAC addresses from being forwarded by the switch. If a MAC address belongs to the Static Filtering table the switch will discard all traffic from that MAC address. The administrator can easily add MAC addresses to the Static Filter table by entering the MAC Address, VID and Alias fields. If you wish to delete an entry from the table highlight the MAC address and click Delete. Fig. 3.
GSS Series User Manual 3.22 VLAN The GSS-48T4SFP supports both 802.1q Tagged based VLAN’s and Port-based VLAN’s. VLAN’s are used to logically separate your network into smaller more defined networks. VLAN’s help to reduce broadcast traffic across your network as all broadcast traffic will be limited to the VLAN group in which it belongs. A typical example of where a VLAN could be used is in a school environment where the teacher and student networks must be kept separate.
GSS Series User Manual Apply Button: The Apply button must be pressed after making any changes to any of the values on this screen. 3.22.2 VLAN Group Shows information of the existing tag-based VLAN groups, the administrator can also Add, Delete and Edit VLAN’s using the function buttons provided. Fig. 3.55 VID: Displays the VID on the configured VLAN group. VLAN Name: Displays the name of the VLAN. Member Port: Displays the member ports of the VLAN. Create: Press create to add a new VLAN.
GSS Series User Manual Create VLAN Group Fig. 3.56 VLAN ID: Enter the VLAN ID that you would like to use. If using Port Based VLAN’s this will be an automatically generated number. VLAN Name: Enter a descriptive name for your VLAN. Member Port: Tick the check box next to the corresponding ports that you would like to exist in this VLAN. All Port Unchecked: Automatically un-ticks all ports. All Port Checked: Automatically ticks all ports.
GSS Series User Manual 3.22.3 Port Protocol Protocol based VLAN tagging allows packets that do not have a tag to be tagged with a configured PVID based on IPv4, IPv6, ARP, RARP, User Defined 0, User Defined 1, User Defined 2 and other protocols. Fig. 3.57 Protocol: Select the protocol that you want your tagging rules to apply to. Port: Physical port of the switch. PVID: Enter the PVID that you want untagged packets to be tagged with based on the protocol of choice.
GSS Series User Manual 3.22.4 Port VID The Port VID page is used to configure what PVID will be applied to untagged packets entering the switch. Four different modes are supported in the way the tagged packets and untagged packets are handled; they are Access, Private, Hybrid and Trunk. If using Access mode the port will only receive untagged packets, if a tagged packet is found it will be discarded. Ports running Access mode can only send untagged packets they can’t send tagged packets.
GSS Series User Manual 3.23 Reboot The GSS-48T4SFP allows the Administrator to reboot the switch from the web management you can also reboot the switch using the reset button on the front panel of the switch. Fig. 3.59 Save and Reboot: Press this button to save all configuration changes and reboot. Reboot: Press this button to Reboot the switch without saving changes. 3.24 Logout Used to Logout of the web management. Fig. 3.
GSS Series User Manual 4. Operation of CLI Management 4.1 CLI Management The CLI based management of the GSS-48T4SFP is a cut down version of the web management if a particular feature is not found in the CLI management it will need to be configured via the web management. When configuring the GSS-48T4SFP via the RS-232 console please connect the switch with the provided serial cable to a DCE device such as a PC. Once you have connection run a terminal emulation program such as Hyper Terminal.
GSS Series User Manual 4.2 Commands of the CLI To display the list of commands that are supported on the GSS-48T4SFP CLI type “?” and press enter. All commands on the switch are divided into 2 groups Global commands and Local commands. The Global commands include “exit”, “end”, “help”, “history”, “logout”, “restore default”, “restore user”, “save user” and “save start”. For more details, please refer to Section 4-2-1. All Local commands will be run through in Section 4-2-2. Fig. 4.
GSS Series User Manual 4.2.1 Global Commands of the CLI End Type in end and press enter to return to the root menu. Exit Type in exit and press enter to return to the previous menu.
GSS Series User Manual Help Type in help to display a list of commands. History Type in history to display a list of previously used commands.
GSS Series User Manual Logout Type in Logout to exit the CLI management. Restore Default Type in restore default to reset the switch back to its factory default settings, you will also be prompted to reset the IP address back to default.
GSS Series User Manual Restore User Type in restore user to reset the switch back to its previously saved user settings. Save Start Type in save start to save the settings of the switch as the startup settings.
GSS Series User Manual Save User Type in save user to save the settings of the switch as your user settings.
GSS Series User Manual 4.2.2 Local Commands of the CLI Autologout Type in autologout to change the autologout time of the switch. Hostname Type in hostname to change the hostname of the switch.
GSS Series User Manual IP Type in IP to move to the IP menu. Set Type in Set IP to set the IP address, subnet mask and gateway settings.
GSS Series User Manual Show Type in Show to display the current IP settings. Reboot Type in Reboot to reboot the switch.
GSS Series User Manual System Type system to enter system mode. Set Contact Type in set contact to change the contact name for the switch.
GSS Series User Manual Set device-name Type in set device-name to change the device-name of the switch. Set Location Type in set location to change the location description of the switch.
GSS Series User Manual Show Type in show to display the currently configured system information.
GSS Series User Manual Appendix A Technical Specifications Hardware Specifications Standard Compliance: IEEE802.3/802.3ab / 802.3z / 802.3u / 802.
GSS Series User Manual Diagnostic LED: System LED : Per Port LED: 10/100/1000M TP Port 1 to 44 1000M SFP Fibre Port 44-48 Power Requirement : Power, CPU : LINK/ACT, 10/100/1000Mbps : SFP(LINK/ACT) AC Line Voltage : 100∼240 V Frequency : 50∼60 Hz Consumption : 85W Ambient Temperature : 0° to 40°C Humidity : 5% to 90% Dimensions : 44(H) × 442(W) × 248.
