TP-Link 24+2/24+2G manual

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    COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS S pecifications are subject to change without notice. is a registered trademark of TP-LINK T echnologies Co., Lt d. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. No part of the specif icatio ns may be reprod uced in any fo rm or by any means or used to make any derivat[...]

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    COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS ......................................................................... 0 Package Contents ............................................................................................................. 1 Chapter 1: About this User's Guide ..............................................................................[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Package Contents The following contents should be found in your box:  One Switch  One AC power cable  One Serial cable  One User's Guide  One Resource CD  T wo mounting brackets and screws Note: If any of the listed content s are damaged or missing, please contact the re[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Chapter 1: About this User's Guide Thank you for purchasing TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2 226P+ Remote Smart Switch! The TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ provides powe rful management functions. With the feature of high-performance, easy to use and economical, the TL-SF2226P+/TL-S L2226P+ is one of the best [...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction This part simply describes the featur es of TL-SF2226P+/TL-S L2226P+ Remote Smart Switch. For more details, please refer to Chapter 4. 2.1 Features  Supports remote management  Supports Out-of-Band management  Supports T elnet management  Provides 10/100M sw[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Chapter 3: Installation 3.1 Inst allation Follow these steps to inst all the switch:  The surface must support at least 5kg  The power source must be within 1.5m  Check the cable to make sure the connection to AC power  Leave enough space for the ventilation 3.2 Rack Inst allation [...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 3-2 The view of mounti ng the TL-SF2226P+ in the rack 3.3 Power On The TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ c an be used with the power source in the range of 10 0 to 240 V AC, 50 to 60Hz. The internal power system of the TL-S F2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ can automatically adjust the operating power accordin[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Chapter 4: Explanation of Switch Appearance and the Method of Connecting Switch This chapter covers more details about fr ont panel, rear p anel, LED and extension module of the switch. 4.1 Front Panel There are 24 10/100Mbps ports and LED i ndicators on the front p anel of the TL-SF2226P+. 17[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide 4.3 LED LEDs, including Power LED, 100Mbps LED, Li nk/Act LED, Slo t1, Slot2 and CPU LED, can detect and indicate the state of the switch. More details are as follows. 17 19 21 23 18 20 22 24 91 1 1 3 1 5 10 12 14 16 1357 2 4 6 8 Figure 4-3 LED Indicators view of TL-SF2226P+ Switch  Pow er [...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Chapter 5: Installation and the Usage of the Remote Management Software The TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ is a smart switch, you can configure it with the remote Management software shipped with the switch, It ’s very convenient for you to manage the switch. After inst all the software under windo[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide are four steps on configuring the switch. 1) Add 2) Connection 3) Configuration 4) Exit Caution: When you use the switch for the first time, you must reset the IP address and gateway of the switch. The witch default IP address is 192.168.0.100(for more details, please refer to Chapter 5). Here[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 5-3 Click Add Group , you can see the dialog. As figure 5-4 Figure 5-4 b) Click the right button at Please Add Group on initialized interface and then pop up a menu, click Add Group . As figure 5-5 - 10 -[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 5-5 c) Click the add group icon on t he tool bar . As figure 5-6. Figure 5-6 2) Add device and node in device group. In device group, you can ad d device and node, which are just like file and folder . The hiberarchy of node and devic e of a group are not more than five. If there is t h[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Open the group you added just now and clic k the right button on the device name, then there will pop up a menu. As figure 5-7. Figure 5-7 Click Add Dev/ Node , you will see a dialog. As figure 5-8. Figure 5-8 After adding device and node, you can s ee the interface as figure 5-9. - 12 -[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 5-9 Look at the device icon carefully , if the colo r of the icon is red, it means that the device can't communicate with the PC. Pl ease check whether the power is on, the twisted pair is well connected and the ping is ok. If all is ok, you can click the save icon to save informat[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide The color of the port on the panel is yellow , wh ich means that the port is in connection. If it is red, it means that the por t is forbidden to use. If the color of the port frame is red, it’ s said that the port is management port. 5.2.3 Configuration If the device is well connected, y ou[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 5-1 1 Current VLAN mode is shown in the combo box, select one mod e you want in the combo box and click OK . If you change the VLAN mode, the in formation of previous VLAN will be lost and the switch will give new default information about VLAN. If the VLAN mode is port VLAN, all ports [...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 5-13 Now go back to the main menu-> Config -> VLAN Config -> Config Effect , Only execute this step, the Configuration will be valid. If the VLAN mode is not changed, this menu can't be seen. 2. TRUNK Config TRUNK can transmit net data through a group of ports. The switch [...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide help file. Now go back to main menu- >Config->TRUNK Config->Config Effect . Figure 5-15 Only execute this step, the Configuration will be valid. If t he TRUNK is not changed, this menu can't be seen. 3. Port Config Click main menu- >Config->Port Config or double click a por[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide  10HD: 10Mbps, Half-Duplex.  10FD: 10Mbps, Full-Duplex.  100HD: 100Mbps, Half-Duplex.  100FD: 100Mbps, Full-Duplex 2) Flow Control:  Disable: The port won't produce Flow C ontrol packet s and will discard the Flow Control packet s received.  Enable: The Switch will negot[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 5-17 Now a dialog will be pop up. In the dialog, you should Enable QOS, set high priority and low priority and select a priority class in t he list box. For more details, please refer to help file. Figure 5-18 5. Broadcast Storm Control When the Broadcast S torm Control is enabled, it w[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide you can see the interface as follows. For more details, please refer to help file. Figure 5-19 7 . M A C A g i n g T i m e Dynamic forwarding table entries, which ar e made up of the so urce and destination MAC address and their associated port numbers, are deleted from the table if they are n[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Caution: After change, if you can't connect with the switch, you can use RS232 to connect the switch and get the switch IP . 9 . S w i t c h V L A N M o d e The TL-SF2226P+ can support three VLAN modes, no VLAN, port VLAN and tag VLAN. Y ou can only choose one mode of the three as the cur[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Chapter6 TELNET/Out-of-Band Management 6.1 Introduction Through TELNET you can realize Remote Log in to manage the Switch. Out-of-Band Management manages the switch locally through the console port, wi thout occupying th e bandwidth. Though TELNET and Out-of-Band have different presentation, t[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 6-1 The speed of the console port is 19200bps. The data bit is 8 bit. There is not Parity T est and flow control. The S top bit is 1.Now you will see the interface as follows. Figure 6-2 Input user name and password, the default user name and password are admin, you can change it after [...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 6-3 6.3 How to connect TELNET Connect the management workstation to t he management port on the switch. Y ou can directly use TELNET command on t he command DOS prompt in th e Windows Attachment. The parameter following the TELNET command is the IP address of the switch which can be rev[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Input user name and password and you can manage the switch. If you can not log in, check whether the network is working, check whether there is other user who has already logged on. (Only one user can access the switch at one time through TELNET .) 6.4 The interface and operating way of TELNET[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide it means that the port is connecting with remote management. Y ou can not shut down the port in order that the remote connection can't be interrupted. Y ou can edit properties of the ports with the sp ace key . If the VLAN type is T ag based VLAN, the PVID can't be visible and can&ap[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 6-8 Port Based VLAN is as follows. Figure 6-9 Only if current VLAN Mode is Port Based VLAN , you can see this interface, or you will see an error message. If you want to edi t VLAN, you can look a trunk as a big port. 802.1Q VLAN is as follows. - 27 -[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 6-10 Only if the VLAN Mode is 802.1Q VLAN, you can see this interface, or you will see an error massage. The configuration met hod is similar to Port Based VLAN. If the VLAN state is DE , it means the VLAN is invalid. U means unt ag, T means tag.  TRUNK Management TRUNK Management in[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide rule when they are in the same VLAN. When you enable or disable a TRUNK, the switch will lose the info of static binding address whic h is relate to the TRUNK or the 4 ports.  MAC T able Aging Time MAC T able Aging T ime interface is as follows: Figure 6-12  Priority Management Priority [...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 6-14 Press Enter , you will see the interface as follows. Figure 6-15 There are three operations in Static MAC Tabl e, add, delete and edit. The switch can bind 128 MAC at most, includi ng Enable and Disable. Caution: If you configure the Static MAC Table, it will take effect immediatel[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Figure 6-16 2 ) N e t w o r k C o n f i g Network Config interface is as follows, y ou can change the switch's IP, gateway, you can not change the switch's MAC address. Figure 6-17 Press w or s key to move cursor, press space to edit the switch's IP address, Default gateway. Inp[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide 3) Factory Reset This operation will lead to factory set of the sw itch. All config configured by the user will be valid except network config and user passw ord. The operation will make the switch restart. 4) Change Passw ord The password which can be changed is user pas sword, not administra[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Appendix A Technical Specifications TL-SF2226P+ S tandards IEEE802.3 10BASE-T IEEE802.3u 100BASE-TX/FX Protocol CSMA/CD Ethernet Data Transfer Ethernet: 10Mbps(half duplex), 20Mbp s(full duplex) Fast Ethernet: 100Mbps(half duplex), 200Mpbs(full duplex) T opology S tar Network Media (Cable) 10B[...]

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    TL-SF2226P+/TL-SL2226P+ Remote Smart Sw itch User Guide Module Slot T wo independent module slots T ransmits Method S tore-and-Forward Power Supply 100-240V ~ 50-60Hz 0.6A (i nternal universal power supply) Power Consumption Lower than 15 watts Environment Operating temperature : 0 ℃ ~ 40 ℃ (32 ℉ ~104 ℉ ) S torage temperature : -40 ℃ [...]