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    K INGSTON T ECHNOLOGY F AST E THERX 16- P ORT , 24- P ORT & 32- P ORT 10/100TX R ACK- M OUNT ABLE F AST E THERNET S WITCH U SER’S G UIDE MODEL(S): KNS1650/R KNS2450/R KNS3250/R[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company i Kingston T echnology’ s Fast EtheRx 16-Port, 24-Port, & 32-Port 10/100BASE-TX Rack-Mountable Fast Ethernet Switch User ’ s Guide Part No. 4460186-001.A00 Kingston T echnology Company 17600 Newhope Fountain V alley , CA 92708 (714)435-2600 www .kingston.com[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 ii Important Safety Instructions 1. Read all these instructions. 2. Save these instructions for later use. 3. Follow all warnings and instructions marked on the product. 4. Do not use this product near water . 5. This product should be operated from the type of power source indicat[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company iii T ABLE O F C ONTENTS Introduction ......................................................................................................1 Special Features .................................................................................2 Package Contents ............................[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 iv[...]

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    KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Introduction 1 Introduction Intended Audience: This manual assumes that the user has a general working knowledge of networking principles and architecture and is familiar with network systems in general. Congratulations on the purchase of your new Kingston Fast EtheRx 10/100BASE-TX[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 2 Model T ypes Model T ypes KNS3250/R LINK / ACT LINK / ACT FDX / COL POWER FDX / COL Fast EtheRx 10/100TX 32-Port VLAN/Trunking Switch 2/FX2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 1/FX1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 100 Mbps 10 Mbps FDX COL FX Module 2/FX2 4 6 8 1/FX[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Package Contents 3 Package Contents Y our Fast EtheRx package should contain the following items: q One of the following model Fast EtheRx switches: • KNS1650/R • KNS2450/R • KNS3250/R q AC Power Cord q Kingston Switch Conguration Utility oppy diskette q Con guration Cabl[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 4 Design Features Design Features VLAN VLAN is short for V irtual Local Area Network, and is generally dened as a broadcast domain. It can be viewed as a group of end nodes which can communicate with each other even though they may be located on different physical network segmen[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Design Features 5 Full-Duplex Full-Duplex transmission means that dedicated inbound and outbound channels are established for bi-directional transmission of data. This allows the collision detection mechanism (CSMA/CD) to be by-passed, thus decreasing transmission delay normally caused [...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 6 Hardware Installation Hardware Installation Before you begin installing network cables, please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with Fast EtheRx Switch. The functions on the front and rear panels are illustrated in the following sections . Front Panel KNS3250/R LINK / A[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Hardware Installation 7 Full Duplex and Collision LED The FDX/COLL LED uses a single color LED to display two functions. A solid green light indicates that Full-Duplex operation has been detected. A ashing amber light indicates that a collision has occurred in half-duplex mode. Full-[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 8 Software Installation Software Installation The Fast EtheRx Switch has several advanced features which can be congured from a Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000 workstation using the provided conguration cable. The software utility allows for VLAN, link trunking, broadcast storm co[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 9 Use this option to open a previously saved conguration le. Save the current conguration to a switch conguration le. Save the current conguration with another le name. Device T ype Choose the type of device that is connected f[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 10 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility Use this button to save the current conguration data to the device. After a successful write operation, the device automatically resets and initializes the new conguration. If the write operation fails, check the following: • V erif[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 1 1 Device Conguration Properties System Parameters adjusted in this window will control overall system performance. SuperMAC • Enable : When a collision occurs, the port on which the collision occurs will perform a more aggressive back off al[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 12 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility Aging Time The address-aging timer is built in to the table aging process. The minimum time is 1 second and the maximum is 510 seconds. 255 is the default value, if the number exceeds 255 it must be an even number . Broadcast Storm Control [...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 13 Port Individual port parameters are congured from this window . Select the port from the window on the left hand side and then modify the parameters on the right. Use the Apply to Other Ports button to assign the same setting to other ports. [...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 14 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility Address Learning • Enable : This option is enabled by default, which will cause the MAC address of the source of a packet to be learned. • Disable : When disabled, the MAC address of the source of a packet from this port will not be lea[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 15 T runk Assignment The Kingston KNS1650R, KNS2450R, and KNS3250R switches support link aggregation/trunking. Trunking is a method of grouping multiple physical links as a single logical link. The benet is to be able to group multiple lower spe[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 16 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility Load Balancing Method In a multiple link trunk, the links within a trunk should have an equal amount of trafc in order to achieve maximum efciency . Thus, some sort of load balancing amongst the links of a trunk must be deployed. The [...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 17 Sample source MAC address Sample destination MAC address 00:C0:F0:1C:23:48 00:C0:F0:22:32:51 The byte is in hexadecimal format, the chart below shows the binary value and the bit numbers: Byte = Bit Data Bit Number: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Last byte of [...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 18 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility Load Balancing Mapping – Port Based The port-based load balancing method is an explicit port assignment scheme. It requires that all other ports are assigned to a specic link (trunk port) in the trunk. When the switch receives a packet[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 19 VLAN This window allows users to dene VLAN membership by groups of device ports. Any individual port or trunk can be a member of a VLAN group. A VLAN group is basically a broadcast domain, but any port/trunk is not limited to belonging to onl[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 20 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility Disable : This option is selected by default. Packets received with an unknown unicast destination address (DA) will be forwarded to all ports (except the receiving port) within the same VLAN groups that the received port (trunk) belongs to[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 21 The group count is not limited. Users can specify n VLAN groups or even more groups for any n (n=number of ports on your switch) port switch. But note that after writing to the device, only the information of the rst n/2 added VLAN groups can[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 22 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility Explicit Address T able Page The address table of the switch uses address learning (dynamic) or manual entry (static). Static entries are added to the address table of the device in this window . Static address entries are not aged or updat[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 23 In this window , input the MAC address of a workstation, and choose an individual port or a trunk to which the workstation is connected.[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 24 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility Using the Switch Conguration Utility Editing a Conguration File 1. Go to the Start menu, highlight Programs, Kingston Switch Conguration, and click on the Switch Conguration item. 2. In the main window , choose the switch model [...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 25 4. Click the button Open to open an existing conguration le, if necessary . 5. Click the button Properties to invoke the Properties Window to start or modify conguration settings. 6. Click OK to leave this window , if nished these se[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 26 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 4. In the main window , choose the switch model from the Device T ype pulldown menu. 5. Select the I/O address used by the printer port of the host computer attached to the switch from the Printer Port I/O Address pulldown menu. 6. Click th[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 27 Assigning T runks and Setting VLAN Groups Fast EtheRx 10/100TX 24-Port VLAN/Trunking Switch KNS2450/R LINK / ACT FDX / COL POWER LINK / ACT FDX / COL 2/FX2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 1/FX1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 2/FX2 4 6 8 9 11 13 15 1[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 28 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 2. Select the T runk Assignment tab to begin assigning trunks. 3. Click the checkboxes to select T runk 1 and T runk 6, and assign their trunk ports. Click the relative Port Based buttons 1 and 6 to begin port-based trunk port mapping.[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 29 4. Click the radio boxes to assign trunk port mappings for T runk 1. For Ports 5 to 24, map them to different trunk ports. 5. Click the radio boxes to assign trunk port mappings for Trunk 6. From Ports 1 to 22, map them to both trunk ports evenl[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 30 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 7. Press the Add button to add a VLAN group. 8. Give the name ‘Engineer ’ in the edit box and select T runk 1 and Ports 5 through 8 to be members of this group.[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 31 9. Press Add button to add another VLAN group. 10. T ype in ‘SalesMkt’ in the edit box and select Trunk 6, click Ports 9 through 1 1 to be members of this group.[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 32 Kingston Switch Conguration Utility 1 1. T wo VLAN groups have been created, click OK to leave the Properties W indow . 12. T o retain the settings after powering off the unit, click the Save button to save current conguration as a le, and press the Write button to save[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company T roubleshooting 33 T roubleshooting Data cannot be read from or written to the device. 1. Make sure the switch is powered on. 2. Make sure the Conguration Cable is well connected. It should be connected to the PC’ s printer port directly . If there is any device, such as key-pro o[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 34[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Appendices 35 Appendices[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 36 Appendix A - Pin Assignments Appendix A Pin Assignments UTP Port Pin Assignments UTP Ports use RJ-45 Unshielded T wisted Pair (UTP) cabling. RJ-45 modular plugs and their pin numbers and wiring assignments are listed below . T wisted- Pair cables can be wired with either Straigh[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Appendix B - Cabling Guidelines 37 Appendix B Cabling Guidelines UTP Cable T ype When installing network cables, the following table shows appropriate cabling guidelines for 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet architecture. T able B-1 Network Cable Guidelines (NOTE: All UTP cables come in both sol[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 38 Appendix B - Cabling Guidelines UTP Cable W iring Standards There are two governmental agencies: the Electronic Industry Association (EIA) and the T elecommunications Industry Association (TIA), which set the standard for all cable wiring requirements for commercial buildings. W[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Appendix B - Cabling Guidelines 39 UTP Cable Rating Codes UTP cables meet different UL-NEC requirements based on cable-jacket quality . Below is an explanation of the rating codes for each cable type. UL – The National Electrical Code (NEC), published by the National Fire Protection A[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 40 Appendix C - Specications Appendix C - Specications Compliance: IEEE 802.3i 10BASE-T Standard IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Standard IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD Ethernet Standard Media Interface: KNS1650/R 16 auto negotiating 10/100 Mbps UTP ports KNS2450/R 24 auto negotiating 10/100 Mbps[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Appendix C - Specications 41 KNS2450/R 100BASE-TX 100 Mbps to 100 Mbps ≤ 13.6 ms 10BASE-T 10 Mbps to 10 Mbps ≤ 76.6 ms KNS3250/R 100BASE-TX 100 Mbps to 100 Mbps ≤ 17.8 ms 10BASE-T 10 Mbps to 10 Mbps ≤ 76.9 ms Max. Segment Length: 100 meters (328 feet) Connector T ype: Female [...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 42 Appendix D - Fiber FX Modules & Installation Appendix D Fiber FX Modules & Installation There are three different optional ber modules available for use with your Fast EtheRx Switch. KNS150FX/MTRJ The KNS150FX/MTRJ module KNS150FX/SC The KNS150FX/SC module[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Appendix D - Fiber FX Modules & Installation 43 KNS150FX/ST The KNS150FX/ST module Installing the ber module 1. Remove the screws holding the metal plate cover located over the Fiber FX Module Port and remove the metal plate cover . 2. Carefully slide the KNS150FX module into the[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 44 Appendix E - Mounting T emplates Appendix E Mounting T emplates The Fast EtheRx dual-speed hubs can be stationed on a at surface using the four rubber feet provided, or mounted in a standard 19” rack by using the mounting brackets and thumb screws provided with the unit. Ru[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Appendix F - W arranties & Notices 45 Appendix F W arranties and Notices Limited W arranty Statement KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY COMP ANY (“Kingston”) warrants that this product is free from defects in material and workmanship. Subject to the conditions and limitations set forth below ,[...]

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    Kingston T echnology Company KNS3250/R User ’ s Guide - Rev . A00 46 Appendix F - W arranties & Notices W arranty Claim Requirements T o obtain warranty service, return the defective product, freight prepaid and insured, to your local authorized Kingston dealer or distributor , or to the Kingston factory service center located at 17600 Newhop[...]

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    KNS3250/R Users Guide - Rev . A00 Kingston T echnology Company Appendix F - W arranties & Notices 47 F .C.C. Certication This device has been tested and found to comply with limits for Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful inte[...]