Asus GIGAX2048 User Manual

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide GigaX Series Layer 2 Managed Switch User Guide ...

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E2064 Second Edition V2.2 April 2005 Copyright © 2005 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved. No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval sys...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: • This device may not cause harmful interference, a...

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ASUS contact information ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Asia-Pacific) Address: 150 Li-Te Road, Peitou, Taipei, Taiwan 112 General Tel: +886-2-2894-3447 General Fax: +886-2-2894-7798 Web Site: www.asus.com.tw Technical Support MB/Others (Tel): +88...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Table of Contents 1 Introduction...............................................................................13 1.1 L2 managed features .....................................................13 1.2 Con...

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4.3.1 Management .....................................................35 4.3.2 IP Setup.............................................................37 4.3.3 Administration....................................................39 4.3.4 ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.9.2 Mapping ............................................................88 4.9.3 Class Set...........................................................89 4.9.4 Policy Set .........................

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7.1.2 nslookup ..........................................................151 7.2 Replacing defective fans ..............................................153 7.3 Simple fixes ..................................................................155...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide List of Figures Figure 1. GigaX L2 managed switch package contents................16 Figure 2. Front panel (GigaX 2048)...............................................17 Figure 3. Front panel (GigaX 202...

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Figure 28. Static Multicast (GigaX 2024).........................................52 Figure 29. IGMP Snooping..............................................................53 Figure 30. Traffic Control.................................................

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 58. Policy Set .......................................................................91 Figure 59. Policy Edit ......................................................................93 Figure 60. ...

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List of Tables Table 1. Front panel labels and LEDs..........................................18 Table 2. Rear panel labels ...........................................................19 Table 3. Technical specifications ............................

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 1 Introduction Congratulations on becoming the owner of the ASUS GigaX L2 managed switch! You may now manage your LAN (local area network) through a friendly and powerful user interface. This user guide...

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14 • Enterprise MIB for PSU, fan, and system temperature, voltage • Telnet or SSH2 remote login • FTP for firmware update and configuration backup • IEEE 802.1x authentication (with dynamic VLAN assignment) • DHCP snooping �...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 1.2.3 Symbols This document uses the following icons to call your attention to specific instructions or explanations. Note Provides clarification or additional information on the current topic. ...

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16 2 Getting to know the GigaX 2.1 Package contents The GigaX switch package comes with the following items: • GigaX 2048 (48-port) or GigaX 2024 (24-port) L2 managed switch • AC Power cord • Null modem cable for console interface (...

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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. Figure 2. Front panel (GigaX 2048) Figure 3. Front panel (GigaX 2024) ...

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18 Table 1. Front panel labels and LEDs Label Color Status Description SYSTEM Green On Unit is powered on Flashing Self-test, INIT, or downloading Amber On Abnormal temperature or voltage Off No power RPS G...

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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 4. Rear panel Table 2. Rear panel labels No. Label Description 1 Power Connector Connects to...

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20 2.4 Technical specifications Table 3. Technical specifications Physical Dimensions 43.5mm(H) X 444 mm (W) X 265mm(D) Power Input Consumption 100-240V AC/2.5A 50-60Hz < 90 watts Redundant Power Input Output ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 3 Quick start guide This section provides the basic instructions to set up the GigaX environment. Refer also to the GigaX Series Installation Guide. Part 1 shows you how to install the GigaX on a flat su...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 22 3.2 Part 2 — Setting up the switch Connect the device to the power outlet, and your computer or network. See Figure 5. 3.2.1 Connect the console port For console management, use an RS232 (...

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

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 24 Table 4. LED Indicators No. LED Description 1 System Solid green indicates that the device is turned on. If this light is off, check if the power adapter if attached to the switch and p...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 3. Make sure the settings of your terminal emulation software as follows: a) Choose the appropriate serial port number b) Set the data baud rate to 115200 (or 9600 on some models) c) Set the data for...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 26 3.3.2 Setting up through the Web interface To successfully connect your PC to the switch, your PC must a valid IP in your network. Contact your network administrator to obtain a valid IP for th...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Default User Name: admin Default Password: (no password) You can change the password at any time (see section 5.3.1 System Commands). 3. To setup a new IP address, click “System”, then “IP ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 28 Figure 8. IP Setup (GigaX 2048) Figure 9. IP Setup (GigaX 2024) ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4 Management with the Web Interface The switch provides Web pages that allow switch management through the Internet. The program is designed to work best with Microsoft Internet Explorer® 5.5, or later ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 30 The home page appears each time you log into the program. (See the following figures.) Figure 11. Home page (GigaX 2048) ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 12. Home page (GigaX 2024) ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 32 4.2 Functional layout Typical web page consists of three separate frames. The top frame has a switch logo and front panel as shown in Figure 13 and Figure 14. This frame remains on the top of the ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 15. Expanded Menu List The above frame displays configuration pages or graphics for the statistics. See section 4.3 for details. ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 34 4.2.1 Menu navigation tips • To expand a group of related menus, click on the corresponding group name. The sign will change to after expansion. • To contract a group of related menu...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.3 System Pages System pages include management, IP setup, administration, reboot, and firmware update function. 4.3.1 Management The Management page contains the following information: Model Name...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 36 Figure 16. Management ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.3.2 IP Setup The switch supports dynamic IP and static IP assignment. The dynamic IP can be got from a DHCP server within the same VLAN. The IP Setup page contains the following editable information...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 38 Figure 17. IP Setup ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.3.3 Administration The Administration page allows you to enable or disable the authentication for web user by password protection. The default setting for web access does not require any authentica...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 40 4.3.4 Reboot The Reboot page contains a button. Clicking the button to reboot the system. Figure 19. Reboot Rebooting the system stops the network traffic and terminates the Web in...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Firmware Version: shows the current running firmware version. This number will be updated after the firmware update. Enter the firmware location into the firmware space directly, or click to choose the f...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 42 4.4 Physical Interface The Physical Interface displays the Ethernet port status in real time. You can configure the port in following fields: Port: select the port to configure Admin: disable/en...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 21. Physical Interface 4.5 Bridge The Bridge page group contains most layer 2 configurations, like link aggregation, STP....etc.. Spanning Tree The configuration page for Spanning Tree Prot...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 44 Max Age: a timeout value to be used by all Bridges in the LAN Forward Delay: a timeout value to be used by all bridges in the LAN Bridge Priority: the switch priority in the LAN The third part is ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 22. Spanning Tree 4.5.1 Link Aggregation The page configures the link aggregation group (port trunking). The switch can have 6 link aggregation groups. Show Trunk: Select “Add a new ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 46 Trunk ID: a number to identify the trunk group besides the group name. LACP: Enable/Disable LCAP on selected trunk. LACP mode is fixed to be Active. Remove Trunk: Remove the selected trunk. Port...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide attribute, the others will change too. For example, a trunk group consists of port 1 and 2. If the VLAN of port 1 changes, the VLAN of port 2 also changes with port 1. Figure 23. Link aggregation (Giga...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 48 Figure 24. Link aggregation (GigaX 2024) 4.5.2 Mirroring Mirroring, together with a network traffic analyzer, helps you monitor network traffics. You can monitor the selected ports for eg...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide The monitor port can not belong to any link aggregation group. The monitor port can not operate as a normal switch port. It does not switch packets or do address learning. Click to make the setting ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 50 Figure 26. Mirroring page (GigaX 2024) ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.5.3 Static Multicast This page can add multicast addresses into the multicast table. The switch can hold up to 256 multicast entries. All the ports in the group will forward the specified multicast ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 52 Figure 28. Static Multicast (GigaX 2024) 4.5.4 IGMP Snooping IGMP snooping helps reduce the multicast traffics on the network by allowing the IGMP snooping function to be turned on or off...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 29. IGMP Snooping 4.5.5 Traffic Control Traffic control prevents the switch bandwidth from flooding packets including broadcast packets, multicast packets and the unicast packets because ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 54 Figure 30. Traffic Control 4.5.6 Dynamic Addresses This page displays the result of dynamic MAC address lookup by port, VLAN ID, or specified MAC address. The dynamic address is the MAC ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 31. Dynamic Address ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 56 4.5.7 Static Addresses You can add a MAC address into the switch address table. The MAC address added by this way will not age out from the address table. We call it static address. MAC Addre...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Click on the when you create a new static MAC address by the above information. Then you will see the new added entry shows in the address window. You can remove the existed address by selecting the entr...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 58 “T” type: All packets transmitted from this port will be tagged. “blank” type: This port is not a member of the VLAN group. If one untagged port belongs to two or more VLAN groups at the sa...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 33. Tagged VLAN (GigaX 2048) Figure 34. Tagged VLAN (GigaX 2024) ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 60 4.5.9 Default Port VLAN and CoS Some VLAN tag related field settings for each port are included in this page. It includes: Port: select the port to configure PVID: port-based VLAN ID. Every un...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.5.10 DHCP Snooping DHCP snooping is a DHCP security feature that provides security by filtering untrusted DHCP messages and by building and maintaining a DHCP binding table. You can assign some port...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 62 Figure 37. DHCP Snooping (GigaX 2024) 4.6 SNMP This group offers the SNMP configuration including Community Table, Host Table, and Trap Setting. To provide more secure management and access...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 38. Community Table ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 64 4.6.2 Host Table This page links host IP address to the community name that is entered in Community Table page. Type an IP address and select the community name from the drop-down list. Click ...

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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 function to send trap packets in different versions (v1 or v2c). Click to save the configur...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 66 Notify View Name: enter the Notify View Name that the Group belongs. The related SNMP messages are Trap, Report. Security Model: enter the Security Model Name that the Group belongs. Any is suitab...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.6.5 VACM View VACM (View-based Access Control Model) View is used to view the information of SNMPV3 VACM Group. View Name: enter the security group name. View Type: Select the View Type that th...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 68 Figure 42. VACM View 4.6.6 USM User USM (User-based Security Model) User is used to configure the information of SNMPV3 USM User. Engine Id: enter the Engine Id that should match the ID...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Priv Protocol: enter the Priv Protocol that Engine ID and Name belong. Only NoPriv, DES can be chosen. If the NoPriv is chosen, there is no need to enter password. Priv Password: enter the password that t...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 70 4.7 Filters The switch can filter certain traffic types according to packet header information from Layer 2 to Layer 4. Each filter set includes a couple of rules. You have to attach the filter...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 44. Filter Set The Filter Rule page provides options for rule modes, one is MAC rule (Figure 45) and the other is IP rule (Figure 46). If you did not enter the MAC address in the blank box, it...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 72 Figure 45. Filter Rule in MAC mode Figure 46. Filter Rule in IP mode ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.7.2 Filter Attach A filter set is idle if you did not attach it to any ingress or egress port. Use the Filter Attach page to attach a filter set to ingress and egress ports. Click to save the con...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 74 Figure 47. Filter Attach (GigaX 2048) Figure 48. Filter Attach (GigaX 2024) ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.8 Security The switch has the 802.1x port-based security feature. Only authorized hosts are allowed to access the switch port. Traffic is blocked for hosts failed to authenticate themselves. The authent...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 76 • Max Reauthentication Attempts: Retry count if the port user failed to respond to authentication requests from the switch. The second part is the port settings. Please click when you're ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 49. Port Access Control ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 78 4.8.2 Dial-In User Dial-in User is used to define users in the local database of the switch. • User Name: New user name. • Password: Password for the new user. • Confirm Passwor...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.8.3 RADIUS In order to use external RADIUS server, the following parameters are required to be setup: • Authentication Server IP: The IP address of the RADIUS server. • Authentication Serv...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 80 Figure 51. RADIUS ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.8.4 Port Security Port security pages include port configuration, port status, and secure MAC addresses function. 4.8.4.1 Port Configuration This page is used to configure various Port Securit...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 82 a) Absolute: the secure addresses on the port are deleted after the specified aging time. b) Inactivity: the secure addresses on the port are deleted only if there is no data traffic from the s...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide • Port: port number. • Status: a) NoOper: this indicates port security of the port that is configured to be disabled. b) SecureUp: this indicates the port security is operational. c) SecureDow...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 84 Figure 53. Port Status 4.8.4.3 Secure MAC Addresses Users can add a MAC address into the secure MAC address table of one port. The MAC address added in this way will not age out from the ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Click on after you create a new static MAC address in the above way. Then you will see the newly added entry shown in the address window. Users can select one port from Port Selection, then click on . ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 86 4.9 QoS When you configure the QoS feature, you can select specific network traffic to prioritize it according to its importance. It makes the network performance more predictable and the bandwidt...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide • CosOverride: disable/enable CoS Override on the port. Cos Override only can be enabled when Trust State is 'No' trust. CoS Override will override the previously configured trust state and a...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 88 4.9.2 Mapping This page is used to configure CoS (Classification of Service) and DSCP (Differentiated Services Code Point) mapping. • Map CoS to DSCP: each CoS value can map into one of t...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.9.3 Class Set This configuration page is used to create QoS classes. A class set is a mechanism that you use to isolate a specific traffic flow (or class) from all other traffic. The class set defin...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 90 Figure 57. Class Set ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4.9.4 Policy Set A policy set specifies which class set is acted. Policy actions can include setting a specific DSCP value in the traffic class or specifying traffic rate limitation and the action t...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 92 The Policy Edit page is used to create policy actions. The classes that are added to a policy must have the same match type. A policy can only have maximum 6 classes. The following fields are avail...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Click on after you create a new policy action by the above information. Then you will see the new added entry shown in the policy action list. Click on to select the policy action that you want to modi...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 94 4.9.4 Policy Attach A policy does nothing if you don't attach it to any ingress port. You can use this page to attach a policy to ingress ports. A port only can attach one policy. Cli...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 60. Policy Attach ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 96 4.9.5 CoS The switch supports four CoS queues for each egress port. For each queue, you can specify the scheduling types as follows: • Strict priority scheduling: each CoS value can map...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 61. CoS 4.10 Statistics Chart The Statistics Chart pages provide network flow in different charts. You can specify the period time to refresh the chart. You can monitor the network traffic amou...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 98 4.10.1 Traffic Comparison This page shows the one statistics item for all the ports in one graphic chart. Specify the statistics item to display and click Draw, the browser will show you the u...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 63. Traffic comparison (GigaX 2024) ...

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GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User’s Guide 100 4.10.2 Error Group Selecting the Port and display Color, then clicking Draw, the statistics window shows you all the discards or error counts for the specified port. The data is updated per...