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Configuring the Switch through the Console Interface

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Port PoE Configuration

The Power Port Configuration screen allows you to set the PoE settings for each port. Select the edit action and

use the left-right and up-down arrows to select the attribute you would like to set. You can set the Admin Status,

the Priority and the Power Allocation. Use the Save action to save the new settings.

Logout

Select Logout to log out of the console configuration utility.

Figure 4-28: Power Port Configuration

Figure 4-29: Logout

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Overview

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Chapter 5: Configuring the Switch through the Web Utility

Overview

Open your web browser and enter

192.168.1.254

into the address field. Press the

Enter

key and the Password

screen will appear. The first time you open the Web-Based Utility, use the default username

admin

, and leave the

password blank. Click the

OK

button. You can set a new password later from the

Security

tab’s

System Password

screen

.

The first screen that appears displays the System Description screen for the Sys.Info tab. There are 14 tabs that

run across the top of the screen: Sys.Info, IP Conf, Switch Conf., QoS, DiffServ, Security, SNTP, Statistics, PoE,

Spanning Tree, SNMP, IGMP, Maintenance and Help. Each tab contains further screens, described in this chapter,

to help you configure and manage the Switch.

NOTE:

Figure 5-1: Address Field

Figure 5-2: Password Screen

Figure 5-3: Sys. Info - System Description

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System Information

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System Information

The System Information tab includes links to the following screens.

•

System Description

•

System Mode

•

Forwarding Database

•

Time Synchronization

•

CPU Performance

•

Logout

System Description

The System Description screen displays the following information.

Model Name

. This displays the switch’s name.

System name

. Assign a name to the switch system, up to 255 characters long.

System Location

. Assign a name to the system location, up to 255 characters long.

System Contact

. Enter the name of the administrator responsible for the system, up to 255 characters long.

System up time

. Length of time the management agent has been up.

IP Address

. The IP Address assigned to the Switch is displayed. (The default IP address is 192.168.1.254.)

Base MAC Address

. The MAC Address of the switch is displayed.

Hardware version

. The current hardware version is displayed.

Software version

. The current software version is displayed.

Click the

Submit

button after you have verified that the information is correct.

Figure 5-4: Sys. Info - System Information

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System Information

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System Mode

The System Mode screen displays the following information.

Jumbo Frames

. Shows if jumbo frames are enabled.

This switch provides more efficient throughput for large sequential data transfers by supporting jumbo frames up

to 9216 bytes. Compared to standard Ethernet frames that run only up to 1.5 KB, using jumbo frames significantly

reduces the per-packet overhead required to process protocol encapsulation fields.

To use jumbo frames, both the source and destination end nodes (such as a computer or server) must support

this feature. Also, when the connection is operating at full duplex, all switches in the network between the two

end nodes must be able to accept the extended frame size. And for half-duplex connections, all devices in the

collision domain would need to support jumbo frames.

Enabling jumbo frames will limit the maximum threshold for broadcast storm control to 64 packets per second.

The current setting for jumbo frames can be displayed with the show system command.

Use the drop-down menu to

Enable

or

Disable

the transmitting and receiving of Jumbo Frames for this switch.

Figure 5-5: Sys. Info - System Mode

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Forwarding Database

The Forwarding Database screen displays the following information.

Aging Status. This feature, when enabled, discards dynamic MAC addresses after a set amount of time.

Aging Interval

. This is the amount of time after which dynamic address table entries are discarded.

Set the Aging Interval by entering the number of seconds into the text field provided.

Click

Submit

to save the changes.

To query a Dynamic IP address click on the Dynamic address icon.

To query a Static IP address click on the Static address icon.

Address Table Settings

Switches store the addresses for all known devices. This information is used to pass traffic directly between the

inbound and outbound ports. All the addresses learned by monitoring traffic are stored in the dynamic address

table. You can also manually configure static addresses that are bound to a specific port.

Figure 5-6: Sys. Info - Forwarding Database