Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Smart Switch Software User Manual GS748T
- Contents
- About This Manual
- Chapter 1 Switch Management Overview
- Chapter 2 Using the Smartwizard Discovery Utility
- Chapter 3 Basic Web Management
- Chapter 4 Configuring the Switch
- Configuring Ports
- Configuring the Link Aggregation Group (LAG)
- Setting Up SNMP
- Configuring and Creating VLANs
- Enabling Spanning Tree Protocol
- Establishing Multicast Groups
- Enabling Jumbo Frames
- Setting Rate Limits
- Setting QoS Global Configuration
- Enabling Storm Control
- Configuring the IP Access List
- Controlling Switch Access by MAC Address and VLAN ID
- Setting up Mirroring or “Sniffer Ports”
- Viewing Packet Statistics
- Appendix A Specifications and Default Values
- Appendix B Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
- Appendix C Network Cabling
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Chapter 1
Switch Management Overview
Switch Management Interface
This section gives an overview of switch management, including the methods you can use to
manage your NETGEAR GS748T Smart Switch.
Your NETGEAR GS748T Smart Switch contains an embedded web server and management
software for managing and monitoring switch functions. This switch will function as a simple
switch without using the management software but its use enables you to configure more advanced
features and consequently improve switch efficiency and the overall performance of your network.
Web-Based Management enables you to monitor, configure, and control your switch remotely
using a common web browser, instead of having to use expensive and complicated SNMP
software products. Simply by using your web browser, you can monitor the performance of your
switch, and optimize its configuration for your network. Using your browser, for example, you can
set up VLANs, traffic priority, and configure port trunking.
In addition, NETGEAR provides the Smartwizard Discovery Utility program with this product.
This program runs under Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000 and provides a “front end”
which discovers the switches on your network segment. When you power up your switch for the
first time, Smartwizard Discovery enables you to configure its basic network parameters without
prior knowledge of IP address or subnet mask. Following such configuration, this program leads
you into the Web Management interface.
Table 1-1 shows some features of Smartwizard Discovery and Web Management.