LevelOne GSW-1601TX, User Manual

Page 1: ...LevelOne GSW 1601TX GSW 2401TX 16 24Port 10 100Mbps Switch with Gigabit option User s Manual Vision 1 0 ...

Page 2: ... equipment does cause interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Re orient the receiving antenna l Relocate the computing device with respect to the receiver l Move the computer away from the deceiver l Plug the computer into a different ...

Page 3: ...D Indicators 5 Connecting The Switch 5 Connecting End node or Hub or Switch 5 Connecting to Network Backbone or Server 6 Configuration 8 Main Menu 9 Speed Mode 10 Address Learn 12 VLAN 13 Queues Priority 16 Trunk 17 Uplink Port 20 Monitor Port 25 View Configuration 27 Restore To Factory Default 27 Switch Operation 28 ...

Page 4: ...ii Troubleshooting 30 Technical Specifications 31 RJ 45 Pin Specification 32 ...

Page 5: ...s manual l Power cord l 19 rack mount brackets l RS232 cable If any of these pieces are missing or damaged please contact your dealer immediately if possible retain the carton including the original packing material and use them against to repack the product in case there is a need to return it to us for repair ...

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Page 7: ...module slot for 2 Ethernet Gigabit ports to uplink to a server or network backbone These Gigabit Switches are designed for Plug and Play installation allows the network administrator to simply connect the network and power cables and the Switching bridging functions begin automatically The front panel of these Gigabit Switches provide LEDs for easy recognition of the switch operation status and fo...

Page 8: ...l half duplex flow control l Broadcast storm control runt and CRC Filtering eliminates erroneous packets to optimize the network bandwidth l Support to handle up to 1536 bytes packet l Internal power supply l LED indicators for simple diagnostics and management l Auto MDI MDI X on all 10 100 1000Base TX ports l Support one console port for switch configuration change l Support per port Port based ...

Page 9: ...orts Front panel illustrations in this chapter display the unit LED indicators Before connecting any network device to the hub read this chapter carefully There are two different module for expansion l 2 Port 10 100 1000T Gigabit Module l 2 Port 1000SX Gigabit Fiber Module Front Panel The unit front panel provides a simple interface monitoring the switching hub It includes a power indicator for ea...

Page 10: ...ons or hubs to the switch These ports are MDI X ports which means you can use ordinary straight through twisted pair cable to connect the switch to PCs workstations or servers through these ports If you need to connect to another device with MDI X ports such as another switch or hub you should use a crossover cable or connect using the Uplink port described below Rear Panel 16 24 Port 10 100 1000M...

Page 11: ... indicate data traffic status TX for transmitting RX for receiving FDX COL Green Lit Full Duplex Flash Half Duplex Collision Off Half duplex or not connected Reset Switch At the left side of front panel the reset switch is designed for reconfiguring the switch hub without turn off and on the power CONNECTING THE SWITCH Connecting End node or Hub or Switch 1 Place the Switch on a smooth surface or ...

Page 12: ...Unshielded Twisted Pair UTP Category 5 cable or better Data Grade cabling While a Category 3 or 4 cable may initially seem to work it will soon cause data loss Connecting to Network Backbone or Server Connect to the Gigabit Ethernet ports with Category 5 copper cable or fiber optic cable for uplinking to a network backbone or network server These ports operate at 1000Mbps in full duplex mode A val...

Page 13: ... 1G Full Half Duplex and Collision LED Color Green Label FDX COL Function The indicator LED flash up whenever there is a collision between a directly attached end node and any other node and light up steadily for Full duplex mode TX Activity Color Green Label LINK ACT Function Each RJ45 station port on the hub is assigned one LED for Transmitting the data RX Activity Color Green Label LINK ACT Fun...

Page 14: ... Prepare a RS 232 serial cable Attach the 9 pin female connector to the male connector on the switch Plug the other side of this cable to your PC Hyper Terminal In Windows 95 98 launch HyperTerminal create a new connection and adjust settings as below ...

Page 15: ... successful connection To enter any of the submenus simply type the number on the command line 24 P 10 100M 2 P 1G COPER MODULE switch Configuration menu ver 3 12 0 Port Setting 1 Address Learn 2 VLAN 3 Queues Priority 4 Trunk 5 Uplink Port 6 Monitor Port 7 View Configuration 8 Restore To Factory Default Select ...

Page 16: ...n Menu than press ENTER For example input port 1 2 Type 1 5 to select speed mode 3 Type Y y or N n to enable or disable flow control After finish flow control selection you can configure another port or type E or e press ENTER back to main menu which port 1 26 25 G1 26 G2 E Exit A Select all ports 1 Port Setting 1 Auto negotiation 2 10 Half Duplex 3 10 Full Duplex 4 100 Half Duplex 5 100 Full Dupl...

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Page 18: ...lly learned SA will be leared if it is not refreshed in less than the aging time Default Enable with aging time 5 minutes Example Enable aging control with aging time 2 minutes 1 type E or e to enable aging control 2 input 2 for aging time and back to main menu Select 1 Aging Control E Enable D Disable Select e Max address aging timer Max aging time 1 10 minute ...

Page 19: ...he same VLAN as the source port If the destination port belongs to the another VLAN the frame will be discarded Each port should be assigned with a dedicated uplink port Unicast frames with unknown destination addresses will be forwarded to the uplink port of the source port An uplink port can either be a single port or a trunk Default All ports assigned to one VLAN Examples Suppose the switch wit...

Page 20: ... port 1 2 completed Select s Which Port To be Selected 1 26 25 G1 26 G2 1 VLAN VLAN Group 1 assigned ports 1 S Port Select D Port Delete A Select All Ports C Save E Exit Select Select s Which Port To be Selected 1 26 25 G1 26 G2 2 VLAN VLAN Group 1 assigned ports 1 2 S Port Select D Port Delete A Select All Ports C Save E Exit ...

Page 21: ...and back to main menu 6 assigned with a dedicated uplink port for each VLANs please refer to section of Uplink Port Select c Please Wait VLAN Group 1 1 2 VLAN Group 2 assigned ports S Port Select D Port Delete A Select All Ports C Save E Exit Select VLAN Group 1 1 2 Group 2 5 6 VLAN Group 3 assigned ports S Port Select D Port Delete A Select All Ports C Save E Exit Select ...

Page 22: ...or the lowest priority level 7 as highest priority Flow control will be disable if priority level 7 was selected Default All ports are cleared to priority zero on power up or hardware reset Example Set port 1 to priority level 7 1 input 1 for select port 2 input 7 priority level 3 type E or e back to main menu Select 3 which port 1 24 E Exit 1 Priority level 0 7 E Exit 7 which port 1 24 E Exit ...

Page 23: ...istical methods and provides link resiliency link fail over function when one or more of the link in a trunk group fails Default All trunks disable Examples Suppose the switch with 24 port assigned Trunk 0 with 3 ports member Trunk 2 with 8 ports member follow below steps 1 type 0 to start trunk 0 setting Select 4 Trunk Which Trunk 0 Trunk 0 Disable 1 Trunk 1 Disable 2 Trunk 2 Disable 3 Trunk 3 Di...

Page 24: ...trunk 2 and type A or a 8 times Select 0 Trunk 0 member A Add D Delete C Setting E Exit Trunk 0 member port 1 2 3 A Add D Delete C Setting E Exit Select Select c Please Wait Which Trunk 0 Trunk 0 1 2 3 1 Trunk 1 Disable 2 Trunk 2 Disable 3 Trunk 3 Disable 4 Trunk 4 Disable 5 Trunk 5 Disable 6 Trunk 6 Disable Giga E Exit ...

Page 25: ...mber port 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A Add D Delete C Setting E Exit Select c Please Wait Which Trunk 0 Trunk 0 1 2 3 1 Trunk 1 Disable 2 Trunk 2 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 3 Trunk 3 Disable 4 Trunk 4 Disable 5 Trunk 5 Disable 6 Trunk 6 Disable Giga E Exit ...

Page 26: ...hould be configured to be within the same VLAN as the source port If the uplink port is not a member of the VLAN the broadcast or multicast frames will not be forwarded to its designated uplink port Multiple VLANs can share the same uplink port Default Disable Example assume already configure two VLANs VLAN A have port 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 others belong to VLANs B assign uplink port 9 for VLANs A por...

Page 27: ...orts 1 S Port Select D Port Delete A Select All Ports C Continue E Exit Select UpLink Group 1 assigned ports 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 S Port Select D Port Delete A Select All Ports C Continue E Exit Select Select c Please Wait Uplink Port Select A port 1 B port 2 C port 3 D port 4 E port 5 F port 6 G port 7 H port 8 I port 9 J port 10 K port 11 L port 12 M port 13 N port 14 O port 15 P port 16 Q port 17 ...

Page 28: ...plink to port 9 UpLink Group 2 assigned ports S Port Select D Port Delete A Select All Ports C Continue E Exit Select Select j Uplink Port Group 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 uplink to port 9 Group 2 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 uplink to port 10 UpLink Group 3 assigned ports S Port Select D Port Delete A Select All Ports C Continue E Exit Select ...

Page 29: ...16 2G cross link via G1 port refer to the steps under 16 P 10 100M 2 P 1G COOPER MODULE ver 3 12 0 Port Setting 1 Address Learn 2 VLAN 3 Queues Priority 4 Trunk 5 Uplink Port 6 Monitor Port 7 View Configuration 8 Restore To Factory Default Select 5 Uplink Port UpLink Group 1 assigned ports S Port Select D Port Delete A Select All Ports C Continue E Exit Select a Please Wait ...

Page 30: ...24 UpLink Group 2 assigned ports S Port Select D Port Delete A Select All Ports C Continue E Exit Select e ...

Page 31: ...oping ports Default Disable Example Monitored Port 1 Monitoring for incoming packets port 2 Monitoring for outgoing packets port 3 1 type M or m to select Monitored Port 2 input 1 and press ENTER 3 repeat step1 2 for monitoring port incoming packets and outgoing packets Select 6 Monitor Port M Monitored Port I Monitoring Port for Incoming Packets O Monitoring Port for Outgoing Packets D Disable Po...

Page 32: ...26 4 type E or e back to main menu ...

Page 33: ...rol disable 1 Auto Y 2 Auto Y 3 Auto Y 4 Auto Y 5 Auto Y 6 Auto Y 7 Auto Y 8 Auto Y 9 Auto Y 10 Auto Y 11 Auto Y 12 Auto Y 13 Auto Y 14 Auto Y 15 Auto Y 16 Auto Y 17 Auto Y 18 Auto Y 19 Auto Y 20 Auto Y 21 Auto Y 22 Auto Y 23 Auto Y 24 Auto Y G1 Auto Y G2 Auto Y Address Learn aging times 5 minutes press any key to continue Current VLAN Group 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...

Page 34: ...3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 8 0 9 0 10 0 11 0 12 0 13 0 14 0 15 0 16 0 17 0 18 0 19 0 20 0 21 0 22 0 23 0 24 0 G1 0 G2 0 Current TRUNK Disable press any key to continue Current UpLink Group 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 uplink to port 9 Group 2 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 uplink to port 10 Monitor Port Disable press any key to continue ...

Page 35: ... or filtering for future packets Forwarding Filtering When one packet comes from some port of the Ethernet Switching it will also check the destination address besides the source address learning The Ethernet Switching will lookup the address table for the destination address If not found this packet will be forwarded to all the other ports except the port which this packet comes in And these port...

Page 36: ...y boost bandwidth using conventional cabling and adapters Due to the learning function of the Ethernet switching the source address and corresponding port number of each incoming and outgoing packet are stored in a routing table This information is subsequently used to filter packets whose destination address is on the same segment as the source address This confines network traffic to its respect...

Page 37: ...p according to instructions in this manual l The Link LED is not lit Solution Check the cable connection and remove duplex mode of LevelOne GSW 1601 2401TX 16 24 Port 10 100 1000Mbps Switch with Gigabit option l Some stations can not talk to other stations located on the other port Solution The address table may contain older information than of the address table of that node Please power down to ...

Page 38: ...rt TX SC connector for 1Gbps FX l LED indicators System Power OK LED Individual port 10 100Mbps TX ports link activity speed duplex and collision LEDs Gigabit copper port Link1000 Link 100 Link 10 FDX Col TX RX activity LEDs Gigabit port Link Activity LEDs l Dimension 440mm x 245mm x 45mm l Temperature Operating 0 to 50 Storage 20 to 70 l Humidity Operating 10 to 90 RH Storage 5 to 90 RH l Input P...

Page 39: ...llowing diagram and tables show the standard RJ 45 receptacle connector and their pin assignments for the switch to network adapter card connection and the straight crossover cable for the Switch to switch hub bridge connection RJ 45 Connector pin assignment Contact Media Direct Interface Signal 1 TX transmit 2 TX transmit 3 Rx receive 4 Not used 5 Not used 6 Rx receive 7 Not used 8 Not used The s...

Page 40: ...aight cable and crossover cable connection Straight cable for Switch uplink MDI II port to switch Hub or other devices connection Crossover cable for Switch MDI X port to switch hub or other network devices MDI X port connection ...