CTC Union FSW3208M User manual

FSW3208M
8+2 Gigabit Ethernet
WebSmart Switch

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FSW3208
8+2 Gigabit Smart Switch
Stand-alone / Rack Type
User Manual
Version 3.4 April 2008 Release
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FSW3208M
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.0 I NTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................7
1.1 M AIN F EATURES ..................................................................................................................................................7
1.2 S TART TO M ANAGE T HIS S WITCH ..........................................................................................................................8
2.0 W EB MANAGEMENT .............................................................................................................................................9
2.1 C ONFIGURATIONS ..............................................................................................................................................10
2.1.1.1 S YSTEM INFORMATION .................................................................................................................................10
2.1.1.2 DHCP ......................................................................................................................................................... 11
2.1.1.3 RELOCATE HTTP PORT NUMBER .................................................................................................................... 11
2.1.1.4 T AG VLAN MANAGEMENT GROUP ( CPU PORT )............................................................................................ 11
2.1.2 P ORTS .............................................................................................................................................................12
2.1.3 P ORT - BASED VLAN........................................................................................................................................13
2.1.4 T AG - BASED VLAN..........................................................................................................................................13
2.1.4 T AG - BASED VLAN..........................................................................................................................................14
2.1.5 P ORT T RUNKING .............................................................................................................................................17
2.1.6 P ORT M IRRORING ............................................................................................................................................18
2.1.7 Q UALITY OF S ERVICE ......................................................................................................................................19
2.1.8 S TORM C ONTROL ............................................................................................................................................21
2.1.9 LACP.............................................................................................................................................................21
2.1.9 LACP.............................................................................................................................................................22
2.1.10 RSTP ...........................................................................................................................................................23
2.1.11 IGMP...........................................................................................................................................................25
2.1.12 802.1 X ..........................................................................................................................................................26
2.2 M ONITORING .....................................................................................................................................................26
2.2 M ONITORING .....................................................................................................................................................27
2.2.1. P ORT S TATISTICS ............................................................................................................................................27
2.2.2 LACP S TATUS .................................................................................................................................................28
2.2.3 RSTP S TATUS .................................................................................................................................................29
2.2.4 IGMP S TATUS .................................................................................................................................................29
2.2.5 P ING ...............................................................................................................................................................29
2.2.5 P ING ...............................................................................................................................................................30
2.3 M AINTENANCE ..................................................................................................................................................31
2.3.1 W ARM R EBOOT ...............................................................................................................................................31
2.3.2 F ACTORY D EFAULT ..........................................................................................................................................31
2.3.3 F IRMWARE U PDATE .........................................................................................................................................31
2.3.4 C ONFIG F ILE ...................................................................................................................................................32
3.0 T ERMINAL M ODE M ANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................................32

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1.0 Introduction
This web smart switch is a high speed switch that provides up to 8 10/100/1000Mbps copper
Ethernet ports, besides, it provides many advanced function for nowadays variety of network
application but at lower cost. User doesn’t have to learn many sophisticated management
function which are usually shown in SNMP switch but just to learn some simple or common
control or setting function through either out-of-band RS232 port or Ethernet port, however,
some new, advanced and important function such as Tag-VLAN, Trunking, RSTP and IGMP
are also supported same as SNMP switch, this means, user doesn’t have to pay high cost as
tradition layer 2 SNMP switch while he still can get advanced or common function to meet
requirement of advanced network application. This makes it very suitable for small or medium
size company to build up simple network at beginning phase with lower cost. An optional
long-ear accessory also makes it possible to operate in the rack mount environment.
Non-blocking and maximum wire speed performance are designed on all switched ports, it not
only supports auto-negotiation but also AUTO-MDIX function on all switched 8 10/100/1000M
RJ-45 Gigabit copper ports no matter running with half or full duplex mode, these function
make user easy to use and reduce the matching effort between straight and cross-over line
issues.
8G web smart switch supports both port-based and 802.1Q (tag-based) VLAN to catch-up the
application needed for coming VLAN age. To increase bandwidth application, it supports up to
4 trunk groups with maximum 8 ports on one Trunk, moreover, these trunk ports are with
fair-over function to provide redundant back-up when one or some of trunk ports malfunction.
Moreover, to reduced convergent time of STP protocol, Rapid STP (RSTP) is supported, to
support multicast application IGMP is also supported. ,
Fully LED status display ease user’s installation and inspection, a reset button is also provided
to make user easy to go back to default setting.
1.1 Main Features
This switch provides the following main features:
Non-blocking, full-line speed, store-and-forward
Support jumbo frame, Max. packet length 9600 bytes
Auto-Negotiation and Auto-MDIX on all 10/100/1000M copper ports
Up to 8 10/100/1000 RJ-45 copper ports
144K byte packet buffer, 8K MAC entries
Support port-based VLAN and tag-based (802.1Q) VLAN
Support RSTP, IGMP, DHCP
Support "relocate port number" to " http operation "
Port trunk with fail-over capability
Support flow control for both full/half duplex operations
Support Multicast storm, Broadcast Storm control as well as Flooding Control
Support port mirroring
Support Telnet
LED display for each port to show link and activity status
Desktop and optional Rack mountable kit
Reset to default
Field-code-upgrade through web browser

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1.2 Start to Manage This Switch
Either way user may start to manage this switch, web mode through Ethernet port or
terminal mode through RS232 port.
1,2,1 Web mode default setting are:
Default IPAddress: 192.168.223.100
Default IP mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 192.168.223.254
Default Password: " admin "
1.2.2 Terminal mode default setting are: baud rate: 115,200, attribute: 8, None, 1, None
Terminal mode operation: Default Password: " admin "
Once terminal is connected, the basic operation rule are shown below
Press " ? " to find root operation page, then choose command by typing little alphabets
After enter command page, Press " ? " to find command parameters and format,
further more, type " command ? " to get explanation.
Type " up " or " / " to go back to previous page

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2.0 Web management
After login is successfully validated, the switch’s home page will show up. The left part on the
page provides the function menus, while the right part provides the individual configuration
value or system parameters value. Function manuals are divided into three categories, they are
Configuration, Monitoring and Maintenance, all functions are shown briefly below

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2.1 Configurations
2.1.1.1 System information
The system diagram shows general common system information, they are H/W, F/W version,
MAC address, IP address, subnet mask, IP gateway, default VLAN value of management port,
name, password, timeout value, and SNMP communities…etc. Once user finish the setting, he
must press the " Apply " button to execute all his setting, and whenever he needs, he may press
the " Refresh " button to get updated status of system information.

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2.1.1.2 DHCP
The default DHCP is off, so Default IP or user defined IP is used when this machine is turning-ON,
but if this switch needs an IP assigned from DHCP server, user may click the square field and then
press " Apply " to get an IP which will be assigned by DCHP server ". User must be aware that if
he enable DHCP from web page, and if the DHCP server is working, then after enable DHCP, he
will lose contact of web page, because the IP address has been changed. At this moment, go
through terminal mode and check configuration of IP, then get Dynamic IP to return web
page.
2.1.1.3 relocate HTTPport number
The default port number of HTTP command is 80, but unauthorized user may intrude this
switch if he knows the IP of this switch, network manager may relocate this port number to
other value, from 1024 to 65535, the same idea as above, once network manager change the
value of HTTP’s port number, he will lost contact and he must regain web page by command
modified as below:
http://192.168.223.100:port_value
2.1.1.4 Tag VLAN management group ( CPU port )
At first time you turn on this device, all ports belong to default VLAN ID group (VID=1), so
they can communicate to each other, and hence any port can be used as web
management port to talk with CPU port inside, but, for example, assume user uses port 1
as web management port, then user create VLAN ID=10 on port 7,8 and create another
VLAN ID = 20 on port 5,6, now 3 VLAN groups will be shown on VALN group table after he
press " Apply " button. If VLAN 10 and VLAN ID 20 must be isolated, then user must delete
member port 5,6,7,8 in default VLAN group( VID = 1 ). Be aware that CPU port is still
remain on VID=1 group now, user can only perform web management through one of 4
ports, that is port 1,2,3,4, but if user want to perform web management from other port
in existing different VLAN group, for example port 8 in VID =10, then after creating
new VLAN groups, he must go to system configuration page, and select Tag VLAN
Management Group to 10 by pressing " Apply " command, then move RJ-45 ( web
management port ) from port 1 to port 8, then user can perform web management from
new RJ-45 port again. But if user forget what group that CPU belongs to, there are two
ways to solve this condition below.
(1) Through console port, check configuration of IP if he gets password, or
(2) Press "Reset" button few seconds, let system return to default settings, that is,
---- >> IP address=192.168.223.100; … VID=1, all settings return to factory default

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2.1.2 Ports
Port status page always shows current port status of all 8 ports. User can set link mode, enable
or disable flow control and jumbo frame, however, be noticed that the jumbo frame is global
setting, it can’t be set on individual port but on all ports at a time. A default diagram is shown
below,
Choose and click the ports you want to set, for example, choose port 1, and set port 1
Flow Control enable, then press "Apply", after execution, diagram will shown below

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2.1.3 Port-based VLAN
Port-based VLAN is a kind of VLAN which is a group of ports marked as a kind by group ID,
different VLAN (different ID) can’t communicate to each other. Before the setting, user must
be aware of that there is a default Port-based VLAN, his group ID is 1, so, if user wants to set
another new port-based VLAN, better set another group ID rather than 1. After press "
Apply " button, the screen will show a updated VLAN Group table no matter user add a new
group or delete a VALN group. The important thing is that port-based VLAN is valid only
within same device, it will never be valid cross the devices. A default diagram is shown
below.
Choose and click the ports you want to group, for example, choose port 1, port 2 and set their
group ID 2, then press "Apply", after execution, diagram will shown below

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2.1.4 Tag-based VLAN
Tag-based VLAN is another kind of VLAN which is a group of ports marked as same kind by
assigning a tag-value on each port, same as port-based VLAN, different VLAN (different ID)
can’t communicate to each other, and before the setting, there is a default tag-based VLAN,
which ID is 1 (VLAN ID=1), so, if user wants to create another new tag-based VLAN, better
set another VLAN ID rather than 1 (tag-based VALN ID ranged from 1 ~ 4094). After press "
Apply " button, the screen will show a new tag-based VLAN Group table, on the contrary, a
tag-VLAN will be vanished if user delete a VLAN group. Two important things must be
emphasized here, one is that tag-based VLAN members are valid not only within same device,
but also cross the devices as long as they are with same VLAN ID; the other important thing is
user must keep in mind that the VLAN ID of CPU port must be one of the VLAN group if
user wants to manage through one of the ports of that VLAN group, otherwise, if there is
no port with same VLAN ID as CPU port, the web management, in-band control, will be failed
because different VLAN (different ID) can’t communicate to each other.
Adefault diagram is shown below.
The first time you turn on this device, all ports belong to default VLAN ID group (VID=1), so
they can communicate with each other, and hence any port can be used as web management
port to talk with CPU port inside, but, for example, assume user uses port 1 as web
management port, then user create VLAN ID=10 on port 7,8 and create another VLAN ID =
20 on port 5,6, now 3 VLAN groups will be shown on VLAN group table after he press "
Apply " button.

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If VLAN 10 and VLAN ID 20 must be isolated, then user must delete member port 5,6,7,8 in
default VLAN group(VID = 1). See below
Be aware that CPU port is still remaining on VID=1 group now, user can only perform web
management through one of 4 ports, that is port 1,2,3,4, but if user want to perform web
management from other port existing in different VLAN group, for example port 8 in
VID =10, then after creating new VLAN groups, he must go to System Configuration
page, and select Tag VLAN Management Group to 10 by pressing " Apply " command,
then move RJ-45 (web management port) from port 1 to port 8, then user can perform web
management from new RJ-45 port again. But if user forget what group that CPU belongs to,
there are two ways to solve this condition below.
(1) Through console port, check Configuration of IP if he gets password, or
(2) Press "Reset" button few seconds, let system return to default settings, that is,
---- >> IP address=192.168.223.100; … VID=1, all settings return to factory default
After assign a tag VLAN, there are some attributes parameters must be assigned for some
tag-VLAN application, here below are explanation when entering the " Port Config ", they are:

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1. VLAN Aware mode:
Enable – When Tag-VALN function is applied on this port, user may enable VLAN Aware
associated with this port, then ingress frames and egress frames will be handled
according to the following parameters’ setting.
Disable – default state, this means, switch doesn’t do VLAN tag stripping and insertion.
2. Ingress filtering:
Enable - Check ingress frame VLAN ID. Ingress frame will be dropped if this frame's VID
is not the same as the VID of the ingress port which belongs to a member of a
VLAN group
Disable – the Ingress frame will be flood if VID is not the same
3. Accept Packet Type:
ALL - Accept all ingress frames
Tagged only - Only accept ingress frames with VLAN tag
4. Port VID:
Set Port VID = value (1 ~ 4096), then an untagged ingress frames will bear this value a its
VID, usually this port is connected to un-tag device ( legacy device ), then this frame become
a tagged frame, hence, it can be handled inside the switch as a member of same VID group.
Set "None" for those tagged frames, usually this port is now connected to a tag-device
5. Egress Tag enable
When Egress Tag is enabled, then, the tag will be added into egress frames and then sent out
to the device that support tagged-VLAN, when this is disabled, tag will not be added into
egress frame and then sent to device that does not support tagged-VALN.

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2.1.5 Port Trunking
Adefault diagram is shown below, and up to 4 groups are provided
Choose and click the trunk ports you want to group, for example, choose port 1, port 2
into group 1, then press "Apply", after execution, diagram will shown below

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2.1.6 Port Mirroring
Adefault diagram is shown below,
Choose and click the ports you want to monitor, for example, choose port 2 is mirror port
And the mirror source is port 5. then press "Apply", after execution, diagram will shown
below

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2.1.7 Quality of Service
There are 4 class priority can be set for each port: Low, Normal, Medium and High, because there
are 8 priority levels ( 0 ~ 7 ) for each port, so 8 priorities map into 4 class must be done in this QoS
control.
There are 3 QoS Mode can be chosen: Port-based, 802.1P and DSCP. The frames sending not only
per priority setting but also per Queue Mode setting. Strict Mode means highest priority setting
gets first service to send frames, the lower priority frames must wait until all other higher priority
frames are sent (serviced), then it gets service. WRR Mode means different priority are with
different weighting to get service, that is, within a time period, the service times ( chance ) are a
ratio among these 4 classes, user may choose one of preset setting from the manual. A default
diagram with Strict Queue Mode is shown below
Choose the port-based priority level for each port you want to set, then ports will get priority
service as setting, for example, Under Strict Mode, Port 5,6,7,8 are set " low ", port 1,2,3,4
are set as high, medium, normal and low. Then, after " Apply ", usually port 1 will get service at
most of time and even all of the time.

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When user choose the 802.1P priority, this means frames are with VLAN Tag inside the
switch, the priority in the Tagged frame (2 bytes Tag in total) must be set by application
program. But 8 priority levels map into 4 class also must be done same as explained in
previous paragraph.