Asus GigaX2024X User Manual

GigaX Series Layer 2 Managed Switch User Guide

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 10 List of Tables Table 1. Front panel labels and LEDs...15 Table 2.

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 100 5.4 Miscellaneous Commands sys time uptime: shows the time since the system boot up. sys time date: sh

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 6 IP Addresses, Network Masks, and Subnets 6.1 IP Addresses This section pertains only to IP addresses for

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 102 Table 7. IP address structure Field1 Field2 Field3 Field4 Class A Network ID Host ID Class B Netw

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 103 6.1.2 Network classes The three commonly used network classes are A, B, and C. (There is also a class D

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 6.2 Subnet masks A mask looks like a regular IP address, but contains a pattern of bits that tells what p

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide The two extra bits in Field 4 can have four values (00, 01, 10, 11), so there are four subnets. Each subnet

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 7 Troubleshooting This section gives instructions for using several IP utilities to diagnose problems. A l

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 45. Using the ping utility If the target computer cannot be located, you will receive the message “

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 7.1.2 nslookup You can use the nslookup command to determine the IP address associated with an Internet si

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 7.2 Replacing defective fans Turn off the power of the switch when you remove the fan module on the rear s

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 11 1 Introduction Congratulations on becoming the owner of the ASUS GigaX L2 managed switch! You may now man

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 3. Carefully pull the two power cables from the fan connectors. 4. Loosens the screws that secure the

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 111 7.3 Simple fixes The following table lists some common problems that you may encounter when installing o

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Problem Suggested Action Web Configuration Interface You forgot/lost your WEB Configuration Interface use

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 113 8 Glossary 10BASE-T A designation for the type of wiring used by Ethernet networks with a data rate of

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 114 broadcast To send data to all computers on a network. Ethernet The most commonly installed computer

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 115 mask See network mask. Multicast To send data to a group of network devices. Mbps Abbreviation for Me

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 116 ping Packet Internet (or Inter-Network) Groper A program used to verify whether the host associated w

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 117 SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol The TCP/IP protocol used for network management. STP Spanning

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 118 Telnet/SSH An interactive, character-based program used to access a remote computer. While HTTP (the

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 119 upstream The direction of data transmission from the user to the Internet. VLAN Virtual Local Area Net

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide • LEDs for port link status • LEDs system, redundant power supply (RPS), and fan status 1.2 Conventions u

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 2 Getting to know the GigaX 2024X 2.1 Package contents The GigaX 2024X switch package comes with the foll

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 2.2 Front Panel The front panel includes LED indicators that show the system, RPS, fan, and port status. F

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 15 Table 1. Front panel labels and LEDs Label Color Status Description On Unit is powered on Green Flashi

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 2.3 Rear Panel The switch rear panel contains the ports for the data and power connections. Figure 3. Rear

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 17 3 Quick start guide This section provides the basic instructions to set up the GigaX environment. Refer

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 3.2 Part 2 — Setting up the switch Connect the device to the power outlet, and your computer or network.

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Console Management RS-232 RPS USB Cat 5 Ethernet cables Expansion hub/switch LAN computers Figure 4. Over

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 2 E2211 First Edition V1 July 2005 Copyright © 2005 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved. No part of th

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 20 Table 3. LED Indicators No. LED Description 1 System Solid green indicates that the device is turn

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 3. Make sure the settings of your terminal emulation software as follows: a) Choose the appropriate serial

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 3.3.2 Setting up through the Web interface To successfully connect your PC to the switch, your PC must a

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Default User Name: admin Default Password: (no password) You can change the password at any time (see

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 7. IP Setup 24

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4 Management with the Web Interface The switch provides Web pages that allow switch management through the

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Use the following defaults the first time you log into the program. You can change the password at any tim

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.2 Functional layout Typical web page consists of three separate frames. The top frame has a switch logo an

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 11. Expanded Menu List The right frame displays configuration pages or graphics for the stat

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.2.1 Menu navigation tips • To expand a group of related menus, click on the corresponding group name. Th

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 3 Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operatio

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 4.3 System Pages System pages include management, IP setup, administration, reboot, and firmware update fu

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 12. Management 31

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 4.3.2 IP Setup The switch supports dynamic IP and static IP assignment. The dynamic IP is get from a DHCP

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 13. IP Setup 33

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 4.3.3 Administration The Administration page allows you enable or disable the authentication for web user

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.3.4 Reboot The Reboot page contains a button. Clicking the button reboots the system. Rebooting the sy

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Enter the firmware location into the firmware space directly, or click to choose the file name of the fir

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.4 Physical Interface The Physical Interface displays the Ethernet port status in real time. You can confi

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 17. Physical Interface 38

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.5 Bridge The Bridge page group contains most layer 2 configurations, like link aggregation, STP etc.. 4.5.

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4 ASUS contact information ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Asia-Pacific) Address: 150 Li-Te Road, Peitou, Taipei, Ta

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Edge Port: All ports are set to be edge ports by default. Edge port becomes STP port when BPDU is received

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Name: the group name. Trunk ID: a number to identify the trunk group besides the group name. LACP: Enable/D

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide group consists of port 1 and 2. If the VLAN of port 1 changes, the VLAN of port 2 also changes with port 1

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Monitor Port: Receives the copies of all the traffics in the selected mirrored ports. The monitor port can

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Static Multicast This page can add multicast addresses into the multicast table. The switch can hold up to

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.5.4 IGMP Snooping IGMP snooping helps to reduce the multicast traffics on the network by allowing the IGMP

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 23. Traffic Control 4.5.6 Dynamic Addresses This page displays the result of dynamic MAC address

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 24. Dynamic Address 47

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 4.5.7 Static Addresses You can add a MAC address into the switch address table. The MAC address added by t

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 25. Static Address 4.5.8 Tagged VLAN You can set up to 256 VLAN groups and show VLAN group in this

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 5 Table of Contents 1 Introduction...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide If one untagged port belongs to two or more VLAN groups at the same time, it will confuse the switch and c

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 26. Tagged VLAN 51

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 4.5.9 Default Port VLAN and CoS Some VLAN tag related field settings for each port are included in this p

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.5.10 CoS Queue Mapping The switch supports 4 egress queues for each port. For each queue, you can specif

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 28. Cos Queue Mapping 54

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.6 SNMP This group offers the SNMP configuration including Community Table, Host Table, and Trap Setting. T

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 4.6.2 Host Table This page links host IP address to the community name that is entered in Community Table

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.6.3 Trap Setting By setting trap destination IP addresses and community names, you can enable SNMP trap fu

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Write View Name: enter the Write View Name that the Group belongs. The related SNMP message is Set. Notify

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 32. VACM Group 4.6.5 VACM View VACM (View-based Access Control Model) View is used to view the info

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.3 System Pages ...30 4.3.1 Management...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Click on the when you create a new VACM View entry by the above information. Then you will see the new add

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Name: enter Name combined with Engine ID that should match the Name and Engine ID in the Manager. Auth Pro

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 34. USM User 62

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.7 Security The switch has the 802.1x port-based security feature. Only authorized hosts are allowed to acc

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide • Multi-host: If enabled, all hosts connected to the selected port are allowed to use the port if one of

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.7.2 Dial-In User Dial-in User is used to define users in the local database of the switch. • User Name:

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 4.7.3 RADIUS In order to use external RADIUS server, the following parameters are required to be setup: •

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 67 4.8 Statistics Chart The Statistics Chart pages provide network flow in different charts. You can specif

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 38. Traffic comparison 4.8.2 Error Group Select the Port and display Color, then click the Draw

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 39. Error group 4.8.3 Historical Status You can display information for different ports and statist

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 7 4.8.2 Error Group...68 4.8.3 Historical Status...

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 40. Historical Status 70

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.9 Save Configuration To save configuration permanently, you should click . The setting also takes effec

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 72 5 Console Interface This chapter describes how to use console interface to configure the switch. The sw

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 5.1 Power On Self Test POST is executing during the system booting time. It tests system memory, LED and ha

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 5.1.1 Boot ROM Command Mode During the POST process, you can enter a “Boot ROM Command” mode by pressing

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 75 5.1.2 Boot ROM Commands Type “?” in the boot mode to display the valid commands list. Table 6. Boot ROM

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 5.2 Login and Logout By typing “login” to enter the CLI mode, you have to give a valid user name and pass

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 77 If you put a name in the name description field, the switch system name will be changed into the new one.

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide Figure 44. SYS commands [VLAN ID] Display the VLAN ID for the switch. It is necessary to be within the s

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 79 [Network Mask] Displays the subnet mask for the switch. CLI command: net interface ip sw0 < IP address

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 8 List of Figures Figure 1. GigaX L2 managed switch package contents...13 Figure 2. Front pan

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 80 5.3.2 Physical Interface Commands [Admin] [Enable/Disable] Displays the port admin status and allows u

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 81 [Hello Time] [Forward Delay] [Max Age] [Bridge Priority] Displays the current STP/RSTP bridge parameters

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 82 CLI command : l2 stp port retrieve [Show Trunk] Displays a specific trunk group settings. User can cre

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 83 CLI command : l2 port lacppri <priority> <port list / * for all ports> [Reload] Restores the

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 84 vlan id [1 by default]: <vlan id> port list [format: 1 2 3 4- 26/* for all ports]: <port lis

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 85 CLI command : l2 rate set <enable/disable> [<mode (1:broadcast only, 2:broadcast and multicast,

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 86 [MAC Address] [VLAN ID] [Port Selection] User can add or modify a static ARL entry by specifying a MAC

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 87 CLI command : l2 vlan create <vlan id> <vlan name> <port list> CLI command : l2 vlan ad

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 88 CLI command : l2 port retrieve [CoS] [Map] Allows user to map the CoS priority (with range of 0-7) for

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 89 This action will modify all hosts with community string from 'old community' to 'new commu

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 9 Figure 26. Tagged VLAN...51 Figure 27. Def

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 90 Host IP/Subnet (old IP address): <new IP address> Netmask (old netmask): <new netmask> Comm

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 91 Community (old community string): <new community string> Allows user to delete a trap entry from tr

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 92 Notify View Name: <notify view name string> User can modify a VACM entry in the Group by reassig

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 93 [View Name] [View Type] [View Subtree] [View Mask] VACM (View-based Access Control Model) View is used to

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 94 [Engine Id] [Name] [Auth Protocol] [Auth Password] [Priv Protocol] [Priv Password] USM(User-based Se

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 95 AuthPassword: (old auth password string) < new auth password string> Priv Protocol [oid]: (old priv

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 96 CLI command : security dot1x bridge quietperiod <quiet period (1-65535 sec)> [Retransmission Time

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 97 [User Name] [Password] [Confirm Password] [Dynamic VLAN] Create users in the local database of the switch

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 98 [Authentication Server Port] [Authentication Server Key] [Confirm Authentication Key] Allows user to co

GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 99 [Show Generating Status] Show the SSH key generating status. It will display “success” or “SSH keys gener