UNICOM Electric SmartGST-2402M manual

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 1 Introduction Unicom’s new 24 Port SmartGST-2402M is a high-speed, professional-grade managed Fast Ethernet switch that provides wire-speed, a Fast Ethernet switching technology that allows high-performance, low-cost connections up to Full-Duplex, 100Mbps Fast Ethernet networks. The SmartGST-2402M switch is a store-and- for[...]

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    908 Canada Court City of Industry , C A 91748 U.S.A. Phone: 626.964.7873 or 800.346.6668 F ax: 626.964.7880 www .unicomlink.com e-mail: info@unicomlink.com ©UNICOM 2004. UNICOM and “A Network Systems Solution” ar e trademarks of UNICOM Electric, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications subject to change without notice. Rev: 1 1.04 24 Port 10/1[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 2 ■ Full wire speed forwarding rate ■ 6K-entry MAC address table ■ 3Mbits for shared packet buffer ■ LED-indicators: Per unit: Power Per UTP Port: 100M, LK/ACT, Full/Collision Per Gigabit Module: UTP, LK/ACT, 100, 1000, Full Fiber, LK/ACT ■ 19” Standard Rack-mounted size Software Features Management Telnet mana[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 3 IGMP IGMP Snooping for Multi-Media application, IGMP group supports 256 groups Port Security MAC address filter for ingress an egress packet Static MAC address Lock for Source address. Port Mirror Global System support 3 mirroring type RX, TX and both packet. The maximum of mirror entries up to 25. Bandwidth Control Per port[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 4 Ethernet Switching Technology Ethernet Switching Technology dramatically boosted the total bandwidth of a network, eliminated congestion problems inherent with Carrier Sense multiple access with Collision Detection ( CSMA/CD ) protocol, and greatly reduced unnecessary transmissions. This revolutionized networking. First,[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 5 2 4 6 8 1 3 5 7 10 12 14 16 9 11 13 15 18 19 22 24 17 19 21 23 Console Port LED Indicators 10/100Base-TX RJ-45 ports Module slot Figure 2-1. The Front panel of SmartGST-2402M RJ-45 Ports ( Auto MDI/MDIX ): Twenty-four 10/100 N-way auto-sensing connections for 10Base- T or 100Base- TX. Module Slot: There are three types of 2-[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 6 Off No device attached or in half-duplex mode. Table 2-1. The Description of LED Indicators Rear Panel The 3-pronged power plug and ventilation fan are located at the rear Panel of the SmartGST-2402M as shown in Figure 2-2. The Switch will work with AC in the range 100-240V AC, 50-60Hz. Figure 2-3. The Rear Panel of Smar[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 7 Rack-mounted Installation The SmartGST-2402M comes with a rack-mounting kit and can be mounted in an EIA standard sized, 19-inch Rack. The Switch can be placed in a wiring closet with other equipment. Perform the following steps to rack mount the switch: A. Align one bracket with the holes on one side of the switch and secur[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 8 Power On Connect the power cord to the power socket on the rear panel of the Switch. The other side of power cord connects to the power outlet. The internal power supply in the Switch works with AC in the voltage range 100-240V AC, frequency 50~60Hz. Check the power indicator on the front panel to see if power is properl[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 9 Figure 3-1. Small Workg roup Application Segment Bridge In enterprise networks where large data broadcasts are constantly processed, this switch is perfect for department users connecting to the corporate backbone. In the illustration below, two Ethernet switches with PCs, a print server, and a local server attached, are bot[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 10 Connecting to the Switch The Console port is a male DB-9 connector that enables connection of a PC or terminal for monitoring and configuring the Switch. Use the supplied RS-232 cable to connect a terminal or PC to the Console port. The Console configuration (out of band) allows you to set your Switch to enable a user a[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 11 Main Menu Login 1. When the Login screen appears, press Enter 2. You can type user name and password to login. The default user name is “root” and the default password is “root ”. 4-1 Main Menu There are five options available: Status and Counters: Shows the status of the switch. Switch Static Configuration: Configu[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 12 You can press the Tab or Backspace key to choose an item and then the Enter key to select an item. 4-2-1. Port Status This page displays the status of every port Actions-> You can press the Tab or Backspace key to choose an item and the Enter key to select an item. <Quit>: Exit the port status page and return t[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 13 Actions-> You can press the Tab or Backspace key to choose an item and then the Enter key to select an item. <Quit>: Exit the page of port status and return to previous menu. <Refresh>: Set all counts to 0. <Previous Page>: Display previous page. <Next page>: Display next page. 4-2-3. System Infor[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 14 4-3. Switch Static Configuration You can press the Tab or Backspace key to choose an item and then the Enter key to select an item. 4-3-1. Administration Configuration[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 15 4-3-1-1. Device Information This page provides configuration of the device information. Actions-> <Edit>: Configure all items. When finished with configuration press Backspace to go back to action menu line. <Save>: Save all configured values. <Quit>: Exit the device information page and return to previ[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 16 4-3-1-2. IP Configuration Configuration of the IP setting. Actions-> <Edit>: Configure all items. When finished with configuration press ESC to go back to action menu line. <Save>: Save all configured values. <Quit>: Exit the IP configuration page and return to previous menu. Note: Always restart th[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 17 4-3-1-4. Change Password Use this page to change Web Management user password. 4-3-2. Port Configuration This page can change all port statuses and configure the trunk group. Press the TA B key to select an item to configure and press SPACE to make a change. 1. State: Current port status. The port can be set to disable or e[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 18 Actions-> <Quit>: Exit the port configuration page and return to previous menu. <Edit>: Configure all items. When finished with configuration press ESC to go back to action menu line. <Save>: Save all configured values. Before you leave this session, please execute this command or you will lose all [...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 19 <Edit>: Configure all items. When finished with configuration press ESC to go back to action menu line. <Save>: Save all configured values. Before you leave this session, please execute this command or you will lose all changes. 4-3-4. Port Mirroring Configuration Port Mirroring is a method of monitoring traf fi[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 20 4-3-5. V LAN Configuration This is where you can configure the VLAN mode as port-based VLAN, 802.1Q VLAN, or disabled VLAN. NOTE: After changing the VLAN mode, you must reset the switch before changes will take effect. 4-3-5-1. VLAN Configure V LAN Mode: There are three options available: Port based V LAN, IEEE802.1Q Ta[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 21 4-3-4-2. Create a V LAN Group _Create Port-Based V LAN Create a port-based V LAN and add member/nonmember ports to it. Select <Edit>. V LAN Name: Type a name for the new V LAN. Group ID: Type the V LAN group ID. The group ID range is 1 ~ 4096. Member: Press Space key to choose V LAN member. There are two choices: Memb[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 22 _ Create 802.1Q V LAN Create an 802.1Q V LAN and add tagged /untagged member ports to it. 1. Select <Edit> . 2. V LAN Name: Type a name for the new V LAN. 3. V LAN ID: Type a VID (between 1~4096). The default is 1. There are 256 V LAN groups available. 4. Protocol V LAN: Press the Space key to choose protocol type[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 23 NOTE: If a trunk group exists, you can see it (ex: T RK1, T RK.) after port 26 and configure it whether it is a member of the V LAN or not. Actions-> <Quit>: Exit this page and return to previous menu. <Edit>: Configure all items. When finished with configuration press ESC to go back to the action menu line. [...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 24 4-3-4-4. Groups Sorted Mode In this page, users can select the V LAN groups sorting mode: (1) sorted by name or (2) sorted by VID. In the Edit/Delete a V LAN group , this page will be displayed. In the Edit/Delete a V LAN Group page, the result of sorted by VID.[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 25 4-3-5. Priority Configuration There are 0~7 priority levels that can be set to high or low priority. 1. Select <Edit> . 2. Press the Space key to select the priority level mapping to high or low queue. 3. High/Low Queue Service Ration: User can select the ratio of high and low priority packets. 4. Press “ESC” to g[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 26 4-3-6-1. Static MAC Address When you add a static MAC address, it remains in the switch's address table, regardless of whether the device is physically connected to the switch or not. This saves the switch from having to re-learn a device's MAC address when the disconnected or powered-off device is active on t[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 27 4-3-6-2. Filtering MAC Address Edit Filtering MAC address 1. Press <Edit> to modify a static Filtering address. 2. Choose the MAC address that you want to modify and then press Enter . 3. Press <Edit> key to modify all the items. 4. Press ESC to go back to the action menu line and then select <Save> to sav[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 28 4-3-7-1. MAC Address Aging Time Type the number of seconds that an inactive MAC address remains in the switch’s address table. The valid range is 0 or 300~765 seconds. Default is 300 seconds. Actions-> <Edit>: Configure all items. When finished with configuration, press ESC to go back to action menu line. <[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 29 4-3-7-4. Collision Retry Forever Collisions Retry Forever: Disable – In half duplex, collision will retry 48 times and then drop frame. Enable – In half duplex, collision will retry indefinitely. 4-3-7-5. Hash Algorithm This Hash Algorithm is for hardware maintenance with MAC table calculations. 4-3-7-6. IFG Compensatio[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 30 4-4-1-1. STP Enable This page enables or disables the Spanning Tree function. Press the Space key to select enable or disable. 4-4-1-2. System Configuration 1. You can view spanning tree information about the Root Bridge on the left. 2. On the right, new values for the STP parameter can be set.[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 31 4-4-1-3. Perport Configuration 1. State: Display spanning tree status for the switch: whether each port is forwarding or blocking. 2. Select <Edit> . 3. PathCost: Specifies the path cost of the port that the switch uses to determine which ports are the forwarding ports. 4. Priority: This means port priority. You can m[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 32 4-4-2. SNMP Use this page to define management stations as trap managers and to enter SNMP community strings. User can also define a name, location, and contact person for the switch. 4-4-2-1. SNMP System Options 1. Press <Edit> . 2. System Name: Type a name to be used for the switch. 3. System Contact: Type the n[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 33 4-4-2-2.Community Strings Use this page to enter SNMP community strings. 1. Community Name: Type the name of the current strings. 2. Write Access: Enable privileges as read only or read/write. a. Read only : Enables requests accompanied by this string to display MIB-object information. b. Read/write : Enables requests accom[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 34 _Delete Community Name 1. Press <Delete> key. 2. Choose the community name that you want to delete and then press Enter . 3. Pressing <Enter> once will complete deletion operation. 4-4-2-3.Trap Managers A trap manager is a management station that receives traps, the system sends alerts generated by the switc[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 35 Actions-> <Add>: Create a trap manager. <Edit>: Modify all items. Press ESC when finished with configuration to go back to the action menu line. <Delete>: Delete a trap manager. After deleting an item, press <Save> to complete the operation. <Save>: Save all configured values. <Quit>: [...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 36 4-4-3. LACP This page can configure and view the LACP status. 4-4-3-1.Working Ports Setting 1. Group ID: There are seven configurable Trunking groups. Choose the “Group ID” and click “Get”. 2. LACP: Press Space key to enable or disable LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) support. If enabled, the group is a [...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 37 Actions-> <Edit>: Configure all items. When finished with configuration, press ESC to go back to action menu line. <Save>: Save all configured values. <Quit>: Exit this page and return to previous menu. 4-4-3-2. LACP State Activity Active: The port automatically sends LACP protocol packets. Passive: The[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 38 Actions-> <Edit>: Configure all items. Finished configure press “ESC” to go back action menu line. <Save>: Save all configure value. <Quit>: Exit this page and return to previous menu. 4-4-3-3.LACP Status When you setting up a trunking group, you can see relationship information here. Actions-&g[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 39 4-4-5-1. 802.1X Enable Press “ Space ” to Enable/Disable Actions-> <Quit>: Exit this page and return to previous menu. <Previous Page>: Return to previous page to view. <Next page>: Go to next page to view. <Edit>: Configure all items. Press the Space key to choose Enable or Disabled mode. Whe[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 40 4-4-5-1. System Configuration When enabling the IEEE 802.1X function, all parameters can be configured. 1. Radius Server IP: Set the Radius Server IP address. 2. Shared Key: Set an encryption key to use during authentication sessions with the specified radius server. This key must match the encryption key used on the Ra[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 41 4-4-5-2. Per Port Configuration State provides Disable, Accept, Reject and Authorize options. Press the Space key to change state. 4-4-5-3. Misc ellaneous Configuration 1. Quiet period: Set the period during which the port doesn’t try to acquire a supplicant. 2. Tx period: Set the period the port waits to retransmit next [...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 42 authentication request. 5. Reauthorize Maximum: Sets the number of authentication attempts that must time- out before authentication fails and the authentication session ends. 6. Reauthorize period: Sets the period of time after which clients connected must be re-authenticated. 4-5. Reboot Switch 4-5-1. Factory Default [...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 43 4-5-3. TFTP Update Firmware This page provides the updating of firmware, restoration of the EEPROM value, or the uploading of the current EEPROM value. 4-5-3-1. TFTP Update Firmware How to update TFTP firmware. 1. Start the TFTP server and copy firmware update version image file to TFTP server. 2. Press <Edit> on this[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 44 8. Restart switch. 4-5-3-2. Restore TFTP Configuration This page shows how to restore the EEPROM value and save an image file from a TFTP server. 1. Start the TFTP server. 2. Press <Edit> on this page. 3. TFTP Server IP: Type the IP of TFTP server. 4. Restore File Name: Type the image file name. 5. Press “ESC”[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 45 4-5-3-3. TFTP Backup Configuration Here you can save the current EEPROM value to an image file. Then go to the update configuration page to restore the EEPROM value. 1. Start the TFTP server. 2. Press <Edit> on this page. 3. TFTP Server IP: Type the IP of TFTP server. 4. Backup File Name: Type the image file name. 5. [...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 46 3. Select “ send file " under the " tran sfer " menu from the menu bar. 4. Press the " browse " button to select the path. 5. Select " 1K Xmodem " for protocol and press the " Send " button. 6. After successfully upgrading the new firmware, re-modify the baud rate to 9600bp[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 47 The Web-Based Management supports Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows. It is based on Java Applets with an aim to reduce network bandwidth consumption, enhance access speed, and presents easy navigation. Note: By default, IE5.0 or later version does not allow Java Applets to open sockets. The user has to explicitly modify the[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 48 5-1. Web Management Overview 5-2. Port status This page displays all port status. 1. State: Displays port status, disable or enable. Unlink will be treated as disabled. 2. Link Status: Down is “No Link”, UP is “Link”. 3. Auto Negotiation: Displays the auto negotiation mode: Auto-Force or Nway-force. 4. Speed sta[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 49 10. Config: Displays the state of the user setting. 11. Actual: Displays the negotiation result. User can see a single port counter as follows[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 50 5-3. Port Statistics The following information provides a view of the current status of the unit. Press “ Reset ” button to clear all counts. 5-4. Administrator There are many management functions available such as: IP address Switch settings Console port information Port controls Trunking Filter database V LAN conf[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 51 5-4-2. Switch Setting 5-4-2-1.Basic Description: Displays the name of device type. MAC Address: The unique hardware address assigned by the manufacturer (default) Firmware Version: Displays the switch’s firmware version. ASIC Version: Displays the switch’s Hardware version. PCBA version: Displays the board number. Seria[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 52 Default is 300 seconds. Max bridge transmit delay bound control: Limits the packet queuing time in the switch. If enabled, any packets exceeding queue will be dropped. The valid values are 1sec, 2 sec, 4 sec, and off. Enable Low Queue Delay Bound: Limits the low priority packet queuing time in the switch. If the low pri[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 53 high-priority queue. These options represent the number of high priority packets sent before one low priority packet is sent. For example, 5 High: 2 Low means that the switch sends 5 high priority packets before sending 2 low priority packets. QoS Policy: High Priority Levels: 0~7 priority level can be assigned to the high [...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 54 IGMP should be enabled when the router’s IP address is not smaller than other switches in the subnet. This switch supports IGMP protocol but IGMP must be enabled and the Router must be the Querier. The following topology must be set when the IP address of the switch is not the smallest in the subnet. The network will [...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 55 Note: It is suggested that the VOD server switch have the smallest IP address. 5-4-3. Console Port Information 1. Console is a standard UART interface to communicate with the Serial Port. User can use the Windows Hyper Terminal program to link to the switch. Connect To->Configure Bits per seconds: 9600 Data bits: 8 Parit[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 56 6. Flow Control: User can set flow control function to ON or OFF in Full Duplex mode. 7. Back Pressure: User can set backpressure to ON or OFF in Half Duplex mode. 8. Band Width: Ports 1 ~ 24 support per-port ingress and egress rate control. For example, assume port 1 is 10Mbps, users can set its effective egress rate a[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 57 5-4-5-1. Aggregator setting System Priority: A value used to identify the active LACP. The switch with the lowest value has the highest priority and is selected as the active LACP. 1. Group ID: There are seven configurable trunk groups. Choose the " group id " and click " Get ". 2. LACP: If enabled, the [...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 58 5-4-5-3. State Activity Active (selection) : The port automatically sends LACP protocol packets. Passive (no selection) : The port does not automatically send LACP protocol packets and responds only if it receives LACP protocol packets from the opposite device. 1. A link having either two active LACP ports or one active[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 59 5-4-6-1. IGMP Snooping The SmartGST-2401 supports IP multicast. Users can enable IGMP protocol on the Web Management’s Advanced page. It displays the IGMP snooping information where you can view the difference between the multicast group VID and the member port. The IP multicast addresses range from 224.0.0.0 through 239.[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 60 1. From the main menu, click administrator  Filter Database  Static MAC Address. 2. In the MAC address box, enter the MAC address to and from which the port should permanently forward traffic, regardless of the device’s network activity. 3. In the Port Number box, enter a port number. 4. If tag-based (IEEE 802.1[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 61 5-4-6-3. MAC filtering MAC address filtering allows the switch to drop unwanted traffic. Traffic is filtered based on the destination addresses. 1. In the MAC Address box, enter the MAC address that you want to filter. 2. If tag-based (802.1Q) VLANs are set up on the switch, in the VLAN ID box, type the VID associate with t[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 62 In the default configuration, V LAN support is disabled. NOTE: Restart the Switch after making changes to the V LAN mode. Support Port-based V LAN Packets are only passed among members of the same V LAN group. Note : All unselected ports are treated as belonging to another single V LAN. If the port-based V LAN is enable[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 63 5-4-7-1. Port Based V LAN 1. Click Add to create a new V LAN group. 2. Enter the V LAN name, group ID and select the members for the new V LAN. 3. Click Apply . 4. If there are many groups that exceed the limit of a single page, you can click the “ NextPage ” to view other V LAN groups. NOTE: If the trunk groups exist, [...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 64 5-4-7-2. 802.1Q (802.1Q V LAN) In this page, users can create Tag-based V LAN and enable or disable GV RP protocol. There are 256 V LAN groups to available. If 802.1Q V LAN is enabled, all ports on the switch belong to the default V LAN, called VID # 1. The default V LAN can’t be deleted. GV RP (GARP [Generic Attribut[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 65 _ Basic Create a V LAN and add tagged member ports to it. 1. . From the main menu, click administrator  V LAN configuration, click Add as below. 2. Type a name for the new V LAN. 3. Type a V LAN ID (between 2-4094). The default is 1. 4. Choose the protocol type. Default is NONE. 5. From the Available ports box, select po[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 66 7. Use this page to set the outgoing frames as V LAN- Tagged frames. Click Apply . Tag: outgoing frames are V LAN- Tagged. Untag: outgoing frames are not V LAN- Tagged. _ Port VID Configure port VID settings From the main 802.1Q V LAN page, click Port VLAN ID for Settings.[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 67 V LAN ID Set the port V LAN ID that will be assigned to untagged traffic on a given port. This feature is useful for accommodating devices that you want to include in the V LAN but don’t support tagging. The switch allows users to set one V LAN ID for each port. The range is 1~255; default V LAN ID is 1. The V LAN ID must[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 68 1. You can view spanning tree information about the Root Bridge. 2. You can view spanning tree status about the switch. 3. You can set the new value for the STP parameter. Click Apply to modify. 4. The following parameter can be configured on each port. Click Apply to modify . 5-4-9. Port Mirroring Port mirroring is a m[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 69 5-4-10. SNMP Any Network Management Program running the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) can manage this switch, provided the Management Information Base (MIB) is installed correctly on the management station. The SNMP is a Protocol that governs the transfer of information between management and agent. The switch s[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 70 2. Community strings serve as passwords and can be entered as one of the following: RO: Read only. Enables requests accompanied by this string to display MIB-object information. RW: Read write. Enables requests accompanied by this string to display MIB-object information and to set MIB objects. 3. TRAP MANAGER A trap ma[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 71 5-4-12. 802.1X When enabling the IEEE 802.1X function, you can configure the parameters of this function. 5-4-12-1. System Configuration 1. Radius Server IP: Sets the Radius Server IP address. 2. Server Port: Sets the UDP destination port for authentication requests to the specified Radius Server. 3. Accounting Port: Sets t[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 72 5-4-12-2. Per port Configuration There are four configuration states for each port: Reject: The specified port is required to be held in the Unauthorized state. Accept: The specified port is required to be held in the Authorized state. Authorized: The specified port is set to the Authorized or Unauthorized state in acco[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 73 5-4-12-3. Miscellaneous Configuration ■ Quiet period: Sets the period during which the port doesn’t try to acquire a supplicant. ■ Tx period: Sets the period the port waits to retransmit next EAPOL PDU during an authentication session. ■ Supplicant timeout: Sets the period of time the switch waits for a supplicant r[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 74 5-4-13-2. TFTP Backup Configuration Use this page to set TFTP server IP address. You can save the current EEPROM value here and then go to the TFTP restore configuration page to restore the EEPROM value. 5-4-14. Factory Default Reset Switch to default configuration. Default IP address: 192.168.16.1 Default Gateway: 192.[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 75 Console -- 1K Xmodem Firmware Update We provide the ability to update the 1k Xmodem firmware through the console. 1K Xmodem only works in 57,600bps mode so in order to download the firmware update, you must change the baud rate to 57,600bps. There are two scenarios in which you would use the 1k Xmodem firmware update. a. Us[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 76 2. Once connected, you will see “CCCC…”displayed on the console. Select Transfer  Send File. 3. Select 1K Xmodem in the Protocol item and denote a destination for the image file folder. Press Send button.[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 77 4. Start download image file. 5. Once download is complete, the switch system will update the firmware automatically. 6. Once updated, the switch will reboot automatically. Remember to reset the baud rate back to 9600bps.[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 78 Troubleshooting This section is intended to help you solve the most common problems on the SmartGST-2402M. Incorrect connections ■ Courtesy of Auto MDI/MDIX, The SmartGST-2402M can automatically detect straight or crossover cables when you link to another Ethernet device. Use a Category 5e greater UTP RJ-45 patch cord[...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 79 STP ) cable for RJ-45 connections: Category 5e cable for 10/100Mbps connections. Also be sure that the length of any twisted-pair connection does not exceed 100 meters ( 328 feet ). Gigabit ports should use Category 5e or 6 cable for 1000Mbps connections. The length should not exceed 100 meters.[...]

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    www.unicomlink.com UNICOM 80 Technical Specification This section below provides the specifications of the SmartGST-2402M. Specifications Standard IEEE802.3 10BASE- T IEEE802.3u 100BASE- TX/100BASE-FX IEEE802.3z Gigabit SX/LX IEE802.3ab Gigabit 1000T IEEE802.3x Flow Control and Back pressure IEEE802.3ad Port Trunk IEEE802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol [...]

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    UNICOM SmartGST-2402M 81 Power Supply 100-240V AC, 50-60Hz EMI FCC Class A, CE Mark Safety UL, cUL[...]