Document Outline

• User’s Guide
• Copyright
• Certifications
• Safety Warnings
• ZyXEL Limited Warranty
• Customer Support
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Getting to Know Your Switch
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Software Features
  • 1.3 Hardware Features
  • 1.4 Applications
    • 1.4.1 Backbone Application
    • 1.4.2 Bridging Example
    • 1.4.3 High Performance Switched Example
    • 1.4.4 IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Application Examples
      • 1.4.4.1 Tag-based VLAN Example
      • 1.4.4.2 VLAN Shared Server Example
• Hardware Installation and Connection
  • 2.1 Freestanding Installation
  • 2.2 Mounting the Switch on a Rack
    • 2.2.1 Rack-mounted Installation Requirements
      • 2.2.1.1 Precautions
    • 2.2.2 Attaching the Mounting Brackets to the Switch
    • 2.2.3 Mounting the Switch on a Rack
• Hardware Overview
  • 3.1 Panel Connections
    • 3.1.1 Console Port
    • 3.1.2 Ethernet Ports
      • 3.1.2.1 Default Ethernet Settings
    • 3.1.3 Mini-GBIC Slots
      • 3.1.3.1 Transceiver Installation
      • 3.1.3.2 Transceiver Removal
  • 3.2 Rear Panel
    • 3.2.1 Power Connector
    • 3.2.2 External Backup Power Supply Connector
  • 3.3 Front Panel LEDs
• The Web Configurator
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 System Login
  • 4.3 The Status Screen
  • 4.4 Menu Overview
    • 4.4.1 Change Your Password
  • 4.5 Saving Your Configuration
  • 4.6 Switch Lockout
  • 4.7 Resetting the Switch
    • 4.7.1 Reload the Configuration File
    • 4.7.2 Reset to the Factory Defaults
  • 4.8 Logging Out of the Web Configurator
  • 4.9 Help
• Initial Setup Example
  • 5.1 Overview
    • 5.1.1 Creating a VLAN
    • 5.1.2 Setting Port VID
  • 5.2 Configuring Switch Management IP Address
• System Status and Port Statistics
• Basic Setting
  • 7.1 Overview
  • 7.4 Introduction to VLANs
    • 7.6.1 Management IP Addresses
• VLAN
  • 8.1.1 Forwarding Tagged and Untagged Frames
  • 8.2 Automatic VLAN Registration
    • 8.2.1 GARP
      • 8.2.1.1 GARP Timers
    • 8.2.2 GVRP
  • 8.3 Port VLAN Trunking
  • 8.4 Select the VLAN Type
  • 8.5 Static VLAN
  • 8.7 Configuring Protocol Based VLAN
  • 8.8 Create an IP-based VLAN Example
    • 8.9.1 Configure a Port-based VLAN
• Static MAC Forwarding
• Filtering
• Spanning Tree Protocol
  • 11.1.1 STP Terminology
  • 11.1.2 How STP Works
  • 11.1.3 STP Port States
  • 11.1.4 Multiple RSTP
• Bandwidth Control
  • 12.1.1 CIR and PIR
  • 12.2 Bandwidth Control Setup
• Broadcast Storm Control
• Mirroring
• Link Aggregation
  • 15.2 Dynamic Link Aggregation
    • 15.2.1 Link Aggregation ID
• Port Authentication
  • 16.1.1 RADIUS
    • 16.1.1.1 Vendor Specific Attribute
    • 16.1.1.2 Tunnel Protocol Attribute
  • 16.2 Port Authentication Configuration
• Port Security
  • 17.2 Port Security Setup
• Classifier
  • 18.1 About the Classifier and QoS
  • 18.3 Viewing and Editing Classifier Configuration
  • 18.4 Classifier Example
• Policy Rule
  • 19.1.1 DiffServ
  • 19.1.2 DSCP and Per-Hop Behavior
  • 19.2 Configuring Policy Rules
  • 19.3 Viewing and Editing Policy Configuration
  • 19.4 Policy Example
• Queuing Method
  • 20.1.1 Strictly Priority
  • 20.1.2 Weighted Fair Scheduling
  • 20.1.3 Weighted Round Robin Scheduling (WRR)
  • 20.2 Configuring Queuing
• VLAN Stacking
  • 21.1.1 VLAN Stacking Example
  • 21.2 VLAN Stacking Port Roles
  • 21.3 VLAN Tag Format
    • 21.3.1 Frame Format
  • 21.4 Configuring VLAN Stacking
• Multicast
  • 22.1.1 IP Multicast Addresses
  • 22.1.2 IGMP Filtering
  • 22.1.3 IGMP Snooping
  • 22.5.1 Types of MVR Ports
  • 22.5.2 MVR Modes
  • 22.5.3 How MVR Works
  • 22.6 General MVR Configuration
    • 22.7.1 MVR Configuration Example
• DHCP Relay
  • 23.1.1 DHCP Relay Agent Information
  • 23.2 DHCP Relay Configuration
• Static Route
• DiffServ Code Point
  • 25.2 Enable DiffServ
• Maintenance
  • 26.2 Load Factory Defaults
  • 26.3 Save Configuration
  • 26.4 Reboot System
  • 26.8 FTP Command Line
    • 26.8.1 Filename Conventions
      • 26.8.1.1 Example FTP Commands
    • 26.8.2 FTP Command Line Procedure
    • 26.8.3 GUI-based FTP Clients
    • 26.8.4 FTP Restrictions
• Access Control
  • 27.2 The Access Control Main Screen
    • 27.3.1 Supported MIBs
    • 27.3.2 SNMP Traps
    • 27.3.3 Configuring SNMP
  • 27.4 SSH Overview
  • 27.5 How SSH works
  • 27.6 SSH Implementation on the Switch
    • 27.6.1 Requirements for Using SSH
  • 27.7 Introduction to HTTPS
  • 27.8 HTTPS Example
    • 27.8.1 Internet Explorer Warning Messages
    • 27.8.2 Netscape Navigator Warning Messages
    • 27.8.3 The Main Screen
• Diagnostic
• Syslog
  • 29.1 Syslog Overview
• Cluster Management
  • 30.2 Cluster Management Status
    • 30.2.1 Cluster Member Switch Management
      • 30.2.1.1 Uploading Firmware to a Cluster Member Switch
• MAC Table
  • 31.2 Viewing the MAC Table
• ARP Table
  • 32.1.1 How ARP Works
  • 32.2 Viewing the ARP Table
• Configure Clone
• Introducing Commands
  • 34.1 Overview
  • 34.2 Accessing the CLI
    • 34.2.1 The Console Port
      • 34.2.1.1 Initial Screen
  • 34.3 The Login Screen
  • 34.4 Command Syntax Conventions
  • 34.5 Changing the Password
  • 34.6 Privilege Levels
  • 34.7 Command Modes
  • 34.8 Getting Help
    • 34.8.1 List of Available Commands
  • 34.9 Using Command History
  • 34.10 Saving Your Configuration
    • 34.10.1 Switch Configuration File
    • 34.10.2 Logging Out
  • 34.11 Command Summary
    • 34.11.1 User Mode
    • 34.11.2 Enable Mode
    • 34.11.3 General Configuration Mode
    • 34.11.4 interface port-channel Commands
    • 34.11.5 config-vlan Commands
    • 34.11.6 mvr Commands
• User and Enable Mode Commands
  • 35.1 Overview
  • 35.2 show Commands
    • 35.2.1 show system-information
    • 35.2.2 show ip
    • 35.2.3 show logging
    • 35.2.4 show interface
    • 35.2.5 show mac address-table
  • 35.3 ping
  • 35.4 traceroute
  • 35.5 Copy Port Attributes
  • 35.6 Configuration File Maintenance
    • 35.6.1 Using a Different Configuration File
    • 35.6.2 Resetting to the Factory Default
• Configuration Mode Commands
  • 36.1 Enabling IGMP Snooping
  • 36.2 Configure IGMP Filter
  • 36.3 Enabling STP
  • 36.4 no Command Examples
    • 36.4.1 Disable Commands
    • 36.4.2 Resetting Commands
    • 36.4.3 Re-enable commands
    • 36.4.4 Other Examples of no Commands
      • 36.4.4.1 no trunk
      • 36.4.4.2 no port-access-authenticator
      • 36.4.4.3 no ssh
  • 36.5 Queuing Method Commands
  • 36.6 Static Route Commands
  • 36.7 Enabling MAC Filtering
  • 36.8 Enabling Trunking
  • 36.9 Enabling Port Authentication
    • 36.9.1 RADIUS Server Settings
    • 36.9.2 Port Authentication Settings
• Interface Commands
  • 37.1 Overview
  • 37.2 Interface Command Examples
    • 37.2.1 interface port-channel
    • 37.2.2 bpdu-control
    • 37.2.3 broadcast-limit
    • 37.2.4 bandwidth-limit
    • 37.2.5 mirror
    • 37.2.6 gvrp
    • 37.2.7 ingress-check
    • 37.2.8 frame-type
    • 37.2.9 weight
    • 37.2.10 egress set
    • 37.2.11 qos priority
    • 37.2.12 name
    • 37.2.13 speed-duplex
    • 37.2.14 test
  • 37.3 Interface no Command Examples
    • 37.3.1 no bandwidth-limit
• IEEE 802.1Q Tagged VLAN Commands
  • 38.1 Configuring Tagged VLAN
  • 38.2 Global VLAN1Q Tagged VLAN Configuration Commands
    • 38.2.1 GARP Status
    • 38.2.2 GARP Timer
    • 38.2.3 GVRP Timer
    • 38.2.4 Enable GVRP
    • 38.2.5 Disable GVRP
  • 38.3 Port VLAN Commands
    • 38.3.1 Set Port VID
    • 38.3.2 Set Acceptable Frame Type
    • 38.3.3 Enable or Disable Port GVRP
    • 38.3.4 Modify Static VLAN
      • 38.3.4.1 Modify a Static VLAN Table Example
      • 38.3.4.2 Forwarding Process Example
    • 38.3.5 Delete VLAN ID
  • 38.4 Enable VLAN
  • 38.5 Disable VLAN
  • 38.6 Show VLAN Setting
• Multicast VLAN Registration Commands
  • 39.1 Overview
  • 39.2 Create Multicast VLAN
• Troubleshooting
  • 40.1 Problems Starting Up the Switch
  • 40.2 Problems Accessing the Switch
    • 40.2.1 Pop-up Windows, JavaScripts and Java Permissions
      • 40.2.1.1 Internet Explorer Pop-up Blockers
      • 40.2.1.2 JavaScripts
      • 40.2.1.3 Java Permissions
  • 40.3 Problems with the Password
• Product Specifications
• IP Addresses and Subnetting
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