ZyXEL Communications ZyXEL Dimension ES-2108 User Manual

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Chapter 7 Basic Setting

Speed/Duplex

Select the speed and the duplex mode of the Ethernet connection on this port.
For Ethernet ports, select Auto, 10M/Half Duplex, 10M/Full Duplex, 100M/Half

Duplex or 100M/Full Duplex.
For the Gigabit Ethernet/mini-GBIC port, select Auto, 10M/Half Duplex, 10M/Full

Duplex, 100M/Half Duplex, 100M/Full Duplex or 1000M/Full Duplex.
For the mini-GBIC port on the ES-2108-LC, select Auto or 1000M/Full Duplex.
The port speed and the duplex mode are fixed (100M/Full Duplex) for the 100 Base-

FX fiber optic port on the ES-2108-LC and the Fast Ethernet SFP transceiver

connection on the ES-2108-F.
Selecting Auto (auto-negotiation) allows one port to negotiate with a peer port

automatically to obtain the connection speed and duplex mode that both ends support.

When auto-negotiation is turned on, a port on the switch negotiates with the peer

automatically to determine the connection speed and duplex mode. If the peer port

does not support auto-negotiation or turns off this feature, the switch determines the

connection speed by detecting the signal on the cable and using half duplex mode.

When the switch’s auto-negotiation is turned off, a port uses the pre-configured speed

and duplex mode when making a connection, thus requiring you to make sure that the

settings of the peer port are the same in order to connect.

Flow Control

A concentration of traffic on a port decreases port bandwidth and overflows buffer

memory causing packet discards and frame losses. Flow Control is used to regulate

transmission of signals to match the bandwidth of the receiving port.
The switch uses IEEE802.3x flow control in full duplex mode and back-pressure flow

control in half duplex mode.
IEEE802.3x flow control is used in full duplex mode to send a pause signal to the

sending port, causing it to temporarily stop sending signals when the receiving port

memory buffers fill.
Back Pressure flow control is typically used in half duplex mode to send a "collision"

signal to the sending port (mimicking a state of packet collision) causing the sending

port to temporarily stop sending signals and resend later. Select Flow Control to

enable it.

802.1P Priority This priority value is added to incoming frames without a (802.1p) priority queue tag.

See Priority Queue Assignment in

Table 11 on page 76

for more information.

PD
(ES-2108PWR

Only)

This field is only available on the ES-2108PWR but not available for the Gigabit or

mini-GBIC ports.
A powered device (PD) is a device such as an access point or a switch, that supports

PoE (Power over Ethernet) so that it can receive power from another device through a

10/100Mbps Ethernet port.
Select the check box to allow a powered device (connected to the port) to receive

power from the switch.

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes to the switch’s run-time memory. The switch loses

these changes if it is turned off or loses power, so use the Save link on the top

navigation panel to save your changes to the non-volatile memory when you are done

configuring.

Cancel

Click Cancel to reset the fields to your previous configuration.

Table 13 Port Setup (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

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