User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Title
- Notice
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- About This Guide
- Introduction
- Local Management Requirements
- Accessing Local Management
- 3.1 Navigating Local Management Screens
- 3.2 Password Screen
- 3.3 Main Menu Screen
- 3.4 Module Selection Screen
- 3.5 Module Menu Screen
- 3.6 Overview of Security Methods
- 3.7 Security Menu Screen
- 3.8 Passwords Screen
- 3.9 Radius Configuration Screen
- 3.10 Name Services Configuration Screen
- 3.11 System Authentication Configuration Screen
- 3.12 EAP (Port) Configuration Screen
- 3.13 EAP Statistics Menu Screen
- 3.14 MAC Port Configuration Screen
- 3.15 MAC Supplicant Configuration Screen
- Chassis Menu Screens
- 4.1 Chassis Menu Screen
- 4.2 Chassis Configuration Screen
- 4.3 SNMP Configuration Menu Screen
- 4.4 SNMP Community Names Configuration Screen
- 4.5 SNMP Traps Configuration Screen
- 4.6 Chassis Environmental Information Screen
- 4.7 Redirect Configuration Menu Screen (Chassis)
- 4.8 Port Redirect Configuration Screen
- 4.9 VLAN Redirect Configuration Screen
- Module Configuration Menu Screens
- 5.1 Module Configuration Menu Screen
- 5.2 General Configuration Screen
- 5.2.1 Setting the IP Address
- 5.2.2 Setting the Subnet Mask
- 5.2.3 Setting the Default Gateway
- 5.2.4 Setting the TFTP Gateway IP Address
- 5.2.5 Setting the Module Name
- 5.2.6 Setting the Module Date
- 5.2.7 Setting the Module Time
- 5.2.8 Entering a New Screen Refresh Time
- 5.2.9 Setting the Screen Lockout Time
- 5.2.10 Configuring the COM Port
- 5.2.11 Clearing NVRAM
- 5.2.12 Enabling/Disabling IP Fragmentation
- 5.3 SNMP Configuration Menu Screen
- 5.4 SNMP Community Names Configuration Screen
- 5.5 SNMP Traps Configuration Screen
- 5.6 Access Control List Screen
- 5.7 System Resources Information Screen
- 5.8 FLASH Download Configuration Screen
- Port Configuration Menu Screens
- 6.1 Port Configuration Menu Screen
- 6.2 Ethernet Interface Configuration Screen
- 6.3 Ethernet Port Configuration Screen
- 6.4 HSIM/VHSIM Configuration Screen
- 6.5 Redirect Configuration Menu Screen
- 6.6 Port Redirect Configuration Screen
- 6.7 VLAN Redirect Configuration Screen
- 6.8 Link Aggregation Screen (802.3ad Main Menu Screen)
- 6.9 Broadcast Suppression Configuration Screen
- 802.1 Configuration Menu Screens
- 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screens
- 8.1 Summary of VLAN Local Management
- 8.2 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screen
- 8.3 Static VLAN Configuration Screen
- 8.4 Static VLAN Egress Configuration Screen
- 8.5 Current VLAN Configuration Screen
- 8.6 Current VLAN Egress Configuration Screen
- 8.7 VLAN Port Configuration Screen
- 8.8 VLAN Classification Configuration Screen
- 8.9 Protocol Port Configuration Screen
- 802.1p Configuration Menu Screens
- 9.1 802.1p Configuration Menu Screen
- 9.2 Port Priority Configuration Screen
- 9.3 Traffic Class Information Screen
- 9.4 Traffic Class Configuration Screen
- 9.5 Transmit Queues Configuration Screen
- 9.6 Priority Classification Configuration Screen
- 9.7 Protocol Port Configuration Screen
- 9.8 Rate Limiting Configuration Screen
- Layer 3 Extensions Menu Screens
- Module Statistics Menu Screens
- Network Tools Screens
- VLAN Operation and Network Applications
- 13.1 Defining VLANs
- 13.2 Types of VLANs
- 13.3 Benefits and Restrictions
- 13.4 VLAN Terms
- 13.5 VLAN Operation
- 13.6 Configuration Process
- 13.7 VLAN Switch Operation
- 13.8 VLAN Configuration
- 13.9 Summary of VLAN Local Management
- 13.10 Quick VLAN Walkthrough
- 13.11 Examples
- 13.12 Example 1, Single Switch Operation
- 13.13 Example 2, VLANs Across Multiple Switches
- 13.14 Example 3, Filtering Traffic According to a Layer 4 Classification Rule
- 13.15 Example 4, Securing Sensitive Information According to Subnet
- 13.16 Example 5, Using Dynamic Egress to Control Traffic
- 13.17 Example 6, Locking a MAC Address to a Port Using Classification Rules
- Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP)
- About IGMP
- Index

Structure of This Guide
About This Guide xvi
Chapter 7, 802.1 Configuration Menu Screens, describes how to access the Spanning Tree
Configuration Menu, 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu, and 802.1p Configuration Menu,
screens. This chapter also introduces and describes how to use the Spanning Tree screens to create
a separate Spanning Tree topology for each VLAN configured in the module.
Chapter 8, 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screens, describes how to use the screens to
create static VLANs, select the mode of operation for each port, filter frames according to VLAN,
establish VLAN forwarding (Egress) lists, route frames according to VLAN ID, display the
current ports and port types associated with a VLAN and protocol, and configure ports on the
switch as GVRP-aware ports. VLAN classification and classification rules are also discussed.
Chapter 9, 802.1p Configuration Menu Screens, describes how to use the screens to set the
transmit priority of each port, display the current traffic class mapping-to-priority of each port, set
ports to either transmit frames according to selected priority transmit queues or percentage of port
transmission capacity for each queue, assign transmit priorities according to protocol types, and
configure a rate limit for a given port and list of priorities.
Chapter 10, Layer 3 Extensions Menu Screens, introduces and describes how to enable or
disable IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol, RFC 2236) on selected VLANs, or globally
on all VLANs that are available.
Chapter 11, Module Statistics Menu Screens, introduces and describes how to use the statistics
screens to gather statistics about the switch, interfaces, RMON, and HSIM/VHSIM and, if the
device is a repeater, repeater statistics.
Chapter 12, Network Tools Screens, describes how to access and use the Network Tool screens.
This chapter also includes examples for each command.
Chapter 13, VLAN Operation and Network Applications, introduces VLANs, describes how
they operate, and how to configure them using the Local Management screens described in
Chapter 8. Examples are also provided to show how VLANs are configured to solve a problem and
how the VLAN frames travel through the network.
Appendix A, Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP), describes the switch operation
when its ports are configured to operate under the Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP)
application – GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP).
Appendix B, About IGMP, introduces the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), its
features and functions, and describes how it detects multicast routers.
NOTE: There is a global setting for GVRP that is enabled by default. However, this
setting is only accessible through a Management Information Base (MIB).