User`s manual

Moxa Managed Ethernet Switch/Extender Featured Functions
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Restart
This function provides users with a quick way to restart the system.
Reset to Factory Default
This function provides users with a quick way of restoring the Moxa switch’s configuration to factory defaults.
The function is available in the serial, Telnet, and web consoles.
NOTE
After restoring the factory default configura
tion, you will need to use the default network settings to
re
-establish the web or Telnet console connection with the Moxa switch.
Using Port Trunking
Link aggregation involves grouping links into a link aggregation group. A MAC client can treat link aggregation
groups as if they were a single link.
The Moxa switch’s port trunking feature allows devices to communicate by aggregating up to 4 trunk groups,
with a maximum of 8 ports for each group. If one of the 8 ports fails, the other seven ports will automatically
provide backup and share the traffic.
Port trunking can be used to combine up to 8 ports between two Moxa switches. If all ports on both switches
are configured as 100BaseTX and they are operating in full duplex, the potential bandwidth of the connection
will be 1600 Mbps.
The Port Trunking Concept
Moxa has developed a port trunking protocol that provides the following benefits:
• Greater flexibility in setting up your network connections, since the bandwidth of a link can be doubled,
tripled, or quadrupled.
• Redundancy—if one link is broken, the remaining trunked ports share the traffic within this trunk group.
• Load sharing—MAC client traffic can be distributed across multiple links.