SMC Networks TigerSwitch Programming manual

TigerSwitch 10/100
24-Port 10/100Mbps
Stackable Managed Switch
Management Guide
◆24 auto-MDI/MDI-X 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX ports
◆2 Gigabit RJ-45 ports shared with 2 SFP transceiver slots
◆2 Gigabit stacking ports that act as Ethernet ports in
standalone mode
◆Stacks up to 8 units
◆12.8 Gbps of aggregate bandwidth
◆Non-blocking switching architecture
◆Spanning Tree Protocol and Rapid STP
◆Up to four LACP or static 4-port trunks
◆RADIUS and TACACS+ authentication
◆Rate limiting for bandwidth management
◆CoS support for four-level priority
◆Full support for VLANs with GVRP
◆IP Multicasting with IGMP Snooping
Management Guide
SMC6224M

38 Tesla
Irvine, CA 92618
Phone: [phone]
TigerSwitch 10/100
Management Guide
From SMC’s Tiger line of feature-rich workgroup LAN solutions
November 2004
Pub. # 149100005000H

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C ONTENTS
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-1
Key Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Description of Software Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
System Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
2 Initial Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Connecting to the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Required Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Remote Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Stack Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Selecting the Stack Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Recovering from Stack Failure or Topology Change . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Resilient IP Interface for Management Access . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Basic Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Console Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Setting Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Setting an IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Manual Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Dynamic Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Enabling SNMP Management Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Community Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Trap Receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
Saving Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
Managing System Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
3 Configuring the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Using the Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Navigating the Web Browser Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Panel Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Basic Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

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Displaying Switch Hardware/Software Versions . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
Displaying Bridge Extension Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Setting the Switch’s IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17
Manual Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
Using DHCP/BOOTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
Managing Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21
Downloading System Software from a Server . . . . . . . . . . 3-22
Saving or Restoring Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-24
Downloading Configuration Settings from a Server . . . . . 3-26
Console Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28
Telnet Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30
Configuring Event Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33
System Log Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33
Remote Log Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35
Displaying Log Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-38
Sending Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Alerts . . . . . . . . . 3-39
Resetting the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41
Setting the System Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-42
Configuring SNTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-42
Setting the Time Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44
Simple Network Management Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-45
Setting Community Access Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-45
Specifying Trap Managers and Trap Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-46
User Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-48
Configuring User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-48
Configuring Local/Remote Logon Authentication . . . . . . . . . 3-50
Configuring HTTPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-54
Replacing the Default Secure-site Certificate . . . . . . . . . . 3-56
Configuring the Secure Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-57
Generating the Host Key Pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-60
Configuring the SSH Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-62
Configuring Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-64
Configuring 802.1X Port Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-66
Displaying 802.1X Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-68
Configuring 802.1X Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-69
Configuring Port Settings for 802.1X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-70
Displaying 802.1X Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-73

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Filtering Addresses for Management Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-75
Access Control Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-77
Configuring Access Control Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-77
Setting the ACL Name and Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-78
Configuring a Standard IP ACL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-80
Configuring an Extended IP ACL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-81
Configuring a MAC ACL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-84
Binding a Port to an Access Control List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-86
Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-88
Displaying Connection Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-88
Configuring Interface Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-91
Creating Trunk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-93
Statically Configuring a Trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-95
Enabling LACP on Selected Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-97
Configuring LACP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-99
Displaying LACP Port Counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-103
Displaying LACP Settings and Status for the Local Side 3-104
Displaying LACP Settings and Status for the Remote Side . . .
3-107
Setting Broadcast Storm Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-109
Configuring Port Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-111
Configuring Rate Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-113
Rate Limit Granularity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-113
Rate Limit Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-114
Showing Port Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-115
Address Table Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-122
Setting Static Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-122
Displaying the Address Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-123
Changing the Aging Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-125
Spanning Tree Algorithm Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-125
Displaying Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-127
Configuring Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-131
Displaying Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-135
Configuring Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-139
VLAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-142
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-142
Enabling or Disabling GVRP (Global Setting) . . . . . . . 3-147

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Displaying Basic VLAN Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-147
Displaying Current VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-148
Creating VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-150
Adding Static Members to VLANs (VLAN Index) . . . . 3-152
Adding Static Members to VLANs (Port Index) . . . . . . 3-154
Configuring VLAN Behavior for Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . 3-156
Private VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-159
Displaying Current Private VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-160
Configuring Private VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-161
Associating VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-163
Displaying Private VLAN Interface Information . . . . . . 3-164
Configuring Private VLAN Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-165
Class of Service Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-168
Layer 2 Queue Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-168
Setting the Default Priority for Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-168
Mapping CoS Values to Egress Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-170
Selecting the Queue Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-172
Setting the Service Weight for Traffic Classes . . . . . . . . . 3-173
Layer 3/4 Priority Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-174
Mapping Layer 3/4 Priorities to CoS Values . . . . . . . . . . 3-174
Selecting IP Precedence/DSCP Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-175
Mapping IP Precedence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-175
Mapping DSCP Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-177
Mapping IP Port Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-179
Mapping CoS Values to ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-181
Multicast Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-183
Layer 2 IGMP (Snooping and Query) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-184
Configuring IGMP Snooping and Query Parameters . . . 3-184
Displaying Interfaces Attached to a Multicast Router . . 3-187
Specifying Static Interfaces for a Multicast Router . . . . . 3-188
Displaying Port Members of Multicast Services . . . . . . . 3-189
Assigning Ports to Multicast Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-191
4 Command Line Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Using the Command Line Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Accessing the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Console Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1