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Accton Technology ES3616 Management Manual

Manual is about: CheetahSwitch Workgroup-3616

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    Cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 management guide.

  • Page 2: Cheetahswitch Workgroup-3616

    Management guide cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 layer 3 fast ethernet switch with 16 10base-t / 100base-tx ports, and 2 slots for optional 100base-fx fiber modules.

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    Copyright © 1999 by accton technology corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be copied or reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of accton technology corporation. Accton makes no warranties with respect to this documentation and disclaims any...

  • Page 5: Contents

    I contents chapter 1: managing the switch 1-1 configuration options 1-1 making connections for system configuration 1-2 onsite connection 1-2 modem connection 1-2 in-band connections 1-3 telnet connection 1-3 in-band network connection 1-3 chapter 2: using the system configuration program 2-1 login ...

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    Ii chapter 3: using the web agent 3-1 web-based configuration and monitoring 3-1 navigating the web browser interface 3-2 home page 3-2 browsing the mibs 3-3 chapter 4: advanced topics 4-1 basic functions of layer-2 switching 4-1 unicast switching 4-1 vlan classification 4-1 learning 4-1 filtering 4...

  • Page 7: Configuration Options

    1 1-1 chapter 1: managing the switch configuration options for advanced management capability, the es3616 provides a menu-driven system configuration program. This program can be accessed by a direct or modem connection to the serial port on the front panel (out-of-band), or by a telnet connection o...

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    1-2 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 making connections for system configuration the switch includes a menu-driven configuration program. The ascii interface to this program can be accessed by making a direct connection to the serial port on the front panel, or by a telnet connection to the switch over ...

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    Management guide 1-3 in-band connections prior to accessing the switch’s embedded agent via a network connection, you must first configure it with a valid ip address, subnet mask, and default gateway using an out-of-band connection or the bootp protocol. Note : the switch will automatically issue bo...

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  • Page 11: Login Screen

    1 2-1 chapter 2: using the system configuration program login screen once a direct connection to the serial port or a telnet connection is established, the login screen for the on-board configuration program appears as shown below. Es3616 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 system name: switch_a console lo...

  • Page 12: Main Menu

    2-2 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 main menu with the system configuration program you can define system parameters, manage and control the switch and its ports, or monitor network conditions. The figure below of the main menu and the following table briefly describe the selections available from this...

  • Page 13: Performing Basic Management

    Management guide 2-3 performing basic management use the basic management menu to display or configure system parameters (such as system description and passwords), configure the communication mode for the ports, or configure the console port. +-------------------------------------------------------...

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    2-4 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 general management use the general menu to display hardware/firmware version numbers for the main board, as well as contact information, or to set passwords, configure statistics collection, reboot-on-error, or telnet access. +----------------------------------------...

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    Management guide 2-9 console port configuration you can access the on-board configuration program by attaching a vt100 compatible device to the switch's serial port. You can also use slip protocol to connect to this port from a remote location via modems. Using a slip connection, the system function...

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    2-10 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 performing advanced management advanced management activities consist of configuring the layer 2 switching database, layer 3 ip networking, bridging, static filtering, spanning tree, snmp, gvrp/igmp, and software upgrade options. Each of the setup screens provided b...

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    Management guide 2-11 managing the layer 2 switching database the layer 2 switching database allows you to configure vlans or ip multicast groups, view the vlans and ports associated with a mac address, as well as vlan activities and port statistics.. +-----------------------------------------------...

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    2-12 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 vlan perspective use the vlan configuration menu to assign any port on the switch to any of up to 64 lan groups. In conventional networks with routers, broadcast traffic is split up into separate domains. Switches do not inherently support broadcast domains. This ca...

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    2-16 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 parameter description mac addresses mac addresses that have been sending frames from this vlan to the switch within the last aging period. Vlan domain switch ports in this vlan from which active mac addresses have been learned within the last aging period. 1: use th...

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    Management guide 2-17 parameter description member of local vlan(s) this address belongs one or more vlan groups defined on this switch. Member of remote vlan(s) this address belongs one or more vlan groups learned via gvrp. Member of ip multicast group(s) shows if this address belongs to any ip mul...

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    Management guide 2-19 parameter description number of ports the number of ports on this switch which support the selected host group. In multicast group number of hosts the number of hosts attached to this switch which belong to the selected in multicast group host group. Hosts mac address of host g...

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    2-22 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 to search for a mac address, press s. When the search prompt appears, enter a mac address and press enter. If the address is found, it will be highlighted in the port mac addresses screen. To obtain additional information about a particular mac address, scroll to th...

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    2-24 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 parameter description 65 to 127-byte the total number of frames (including bad packets) received and packets received transmitted that were between 65 and 127 octets in length inclusive (excluding framing bits but including fcs octets). .. . 1.0 to 1.5-kbyte the tot...

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    Management guide 2-25 ip & rip settings this menu allows you assign an ip address, subnet mask, ethernet frame type, proxy arp server, and rip settings for each vlan configured on this switch. (note that you must create a vlan before configuring the corresponding ip or rip settings.) the following m...

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    Management guide 2-27 parameter description accept default allow the default route to be updated via the console or a router running route updates bgp (border gateway protocol). Use split horizon 1 never propagates routes back to an interface port from which they have been acquired. Use poisoned rev...

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    Management guide 2-29 notes : 1. You can search for a specific entry by typing “s” and entering an network address. If the address is found, it will be highlighted in the table. 2. To add an entry press the “+” key and select: “default gateway” to specify the gateway device this router will refer to...

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    2-30 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 parameter description vlan id the ids of the vlans that have been defined. Ip address the corresponding ip addresses of the vlans. Dhcp gateway used to enable or disable dhcp relay. Max hops the maximum number of hops that a dhcp request broadcast can be relayed alo...

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    2-34 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 spanning tree protocol the spanning tree protocol can be used to detect and disable network loops, and to provide backup links between switches, bridges or routers. This allows the switch to interact with other bridging devices (that is, an stp-compliant switch, bri...

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    Management guide 2-35 spanning tree configurations this menu is used to configure stp parameters that apply to the overall switch. The top half of this screen displays read-only values. The bottom half, starting with spanning tree protocol, is user configurable. To edit an entry, highlight it with t...

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    2-36 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 parameter description spanning tree protocol enable this parameter to participate in an stp-compliant network. Bridge priority device priority is used in selecting the root device, root port, and designated port. The device with the highest priority becomes the stp ...

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    Management guide 2-37 spanning tree states this menu displays the current spanning tree state for each port on the switch. You can also change the administrative status of any port by first highlighting a port, pressing enter, and selecting up or down to enable or disable the port for troubleshootin...

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    2-38 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 spanning tree path costs use this menu to display or configure the path cost for each port. This value is used to determine the shortest path between any two nodes in the spanning tree. To configure the path cost for any port, first highlight a port with the cursor,...

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    Management guide 2-39 spanning tree port priorities use this menu to display or configure the priorities for each port. This value is used to determine the shortest path between any two nodes in the spanning tree when the path cost is the same for competing ports. To configure the priority for any p...

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    2-40 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 configuring snmp functions use the snmp configuration screen to display and modify parameters for the simple network management protocol (snmp). The switch includes an on-board snmp agent which monitors the status of its hardware, as well as the traffic passing thro...

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    Management guide 2-41 parameter description topology change trap a port has changed state from learning to forwarding, or from forwarding to blocking. (note that if a port goes from forwarding to disabled, this is not technically a topology change.) configuring other protocols (gvrp, igmp) use the f...

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    2-42 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 software upgrade use this menu to load software updates into the switch. The download file should be an es3616 file from accton; otherwise the agent will not accept it. The success of the download operation depends on the accessibility of the tftp server and the qua...

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    1 3-1 chapter 3: using the web agent web-based configuration and monitoring as well as the menu-driven system configuration program, the switch provides an embedded http web agent. This agent can be accessed by any computer on the network using a standard web browser (internet explorer 4.0 or above,...

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    3-2 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 navigating the web browser interface the web-browser privides direct access to all mib variables used by the switch. To view the current settings for variables, you must enter the get community name (read-only access). To set any variables, you must enter the set com...

  • Page 55: Browsing The Mibs

    Management guide 3-3 browsing the mibs the web agent allows you to define system parameters, manage and control the switch, and all its ports, or to monitor network conditions. It provides access to: mib ii (including rmon), ethernet-like mib, bridge mib, rip2 mib, vlan mib, and accton’s private mib...

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  • Page 57: Chapter 4: Advanced Topics

    1 4-1 chapter 4: advanced topics this es3616 supports both layer 2 and layer 3 switching. These functions, along with other advanced features are described in this chapter. Basic functions of layer-2 switching if the of a received frame is found in the switch’s distributed flow cache, the incoming f...

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    4-2 cheetaswitch workgroup-3616 filtering after learning the address, the switch checks: u whether the source port or destination port is in the forwarding state. U the source mac address or destination mac address to be filtered. U that the source port id is the same as the destination port id. If ...

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    Management guide 4-3 spanning tree protocol the spanning tree protocol (that is, the stp configuration algorithm as outlined in ieee 802.1d) can be used to detect and disable network loops, and to provide link backup. This allows the switch to interact with other bridging devices (including stp-comp...

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    4-4 cheetaswitch workgroup-3616 basic functions of layer-3 switching the two major functions of a layer-3 switch are: u routing path management u packet forwarding routing path management involves the determination and updating of all the routing information required for packet forwarding, including...

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    Management guide 4-5 u poison reverse—propagate routes back to an interface port from which they have been acquired, but set distance vector metrics to infinity. U triggered updates—whenever a route gets changed, broadcast an update message after waiting for a short random delay, but without waiting...

  • Page 62: Virtual Lans

    4-6 cheetaswitch workgroup-3616 the switch uses two copies of the routing table information to determine the necessary forwarding information: a master copy of the whole routing table that is stored and maintained by the switch and a subset of the routing table that is saved in its local layer-3 swi...

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    Management guide 4-7 an ieee 802.1q vlan is a group of ports that can be located anywhere in the network, but communicate as though they belong to the same physical segment. Vlans help to simplify network management by allowing you to move devices to a new vlan without having to change any physical ...

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    4-8 cheetaswitch workgroup-3616 receiving port in the specified vlans, and pass the message on to all other ports. Vlan requirements are propagated in this way throughout the network. This allows gvrp-compliant devices to be automatically configured for vlan groups based solely on endstation request...

  • Page 65: Bootp/dhcp Relay

    Management guide 4-9 port overlapping ports can be assigned to multiple tagged vlans. However, ports can only be assigned to a single untagged vlan. This is the only way that traffic coming from a vlan-unaware device can be assigned to specific vlan group (i.E., the port’s default vid). Port overlap...

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    4-10 cheetaswitch workgroup-3616 since dhcp uses broadcast mechanism, a dhcp server and its client must physically reside on the same subnet. However, it's not practical to have one dhcp server on every subnet; in fact in many cases, dhcp/bootp clients and their associated dhcp/bootp server(s) do no...

  • Page 67: Snmp Management Software

    Management guide 4-11 u actively sending igmp query messages to solicit ip multicast group members. The purpose of ip multicast filtering is to optimize a switched network's performance, so multicast packets will only be forwarded to those ports containing multicast group hosts and routers instead o...

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    4-12 cheetaswitch workgroup-3616 this switch provides support for mini-rmon which contains the four key groups required for basic remote monitoring. These groups include: statistics : includes all the tools needed to monitor your network for common errors and overall traffic rates. Information is pr...

  • Page 69: Appendix A: Troubleshooting

    1 a-1 appendix a: troubleshooting refer to the installation guide for a more detailed listing of troubleshooting procedures. However, if you have trouble making a connection to the agent module, then please refer to the following section. Console connection if you cannot access the on-board configur...

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  • Page 71: Appendix B: Pin Assignments

    1 b-1 appendix b: pin assignments db9 serial port pin description the db9 serial port on the snmp module panel is used to connect the switch to a management device. The on-board menu-driven configuration program can be accessed from a terminal, a pc running a terminal emulation program, or from a re...

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    B-2 cheetahswitch workgroup-3616 connection from switch's serial port to modem's 25-pin dce port n i p - 9 s ' h c ti w s t r o p l a ir e s l a n g i s t t i c c - 5 2 s ' m e d o m t r o p m o c n i p 1 -- -- -- - d c d -- -- -- 8 2 -- -- -- - d x r -- -- -- 3 3 > -- -- -- d x t -- -- -- -- 2 4 > ...

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    Es3616 e0998-r01 150100-102.