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October

2002

LB1350A
LB1351A

Unmanaged ( LB1350A ) and Managed

(LB1351A ) MultiLink Media Converter

User and Installation Guide

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Page 1: ... Order toll free in the U S 24 hours 7 A M Monday to midnight Friday 877 877 BBOX FREE technical support 24 hours a day 7 days a week Call 724 746 5500 or fax 724 746 0746 Mail order Black Box Corporation 1000 Park Drive Lawrence PA 15055 1018 Web site www blackbox com E mail info blackbox com CUSTOMER SUPPORT INFORMATION ...

Page 2: ...mmercial environment Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference in which case the user at his own expense will be required to take whatever measures may be necessary to correct the interference Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment This digital apparatus...

Page 3: ... aire por los orificios de ventilación 10 El equipo eléctrico deber ser situado fuera del alcance de fuentes de calor como radiadores registros de calor estufas u otros aparatos incluyendo amplificadores que producen calor 11 El aparato eléctrico deberá ser connectado a una fuente de poder sólo del tipo descrito en el instructivo de operación o como se indique en el aparato 12 Precaución debe ser ...

Page 4: ... you for purchasing this Black Box LB1350A LB1351A quality converter We hope that this guide will help you to obtain the best results from the device while minimizing installation time If you still need help installing or troubleshooting the Black Box LB1350A LB1351A converter after reading the detailed information in this guide please call Black Box Technical Support at 724 746 5500 Note unless w...

Page 5: ...s a Buffered Media Domain BMD over the F O link thereby eliminating all the above mentioned limitations The BMD created by two Black Box LB1350A LB1351A devices always operates at maximum performance 100Mbps Full Duplex while interconnected devices may operate at different rates and modes This provides full flexibility when planning a network The Black Box LB1350A LB1351A provides 4 3 TP ports sha...

Page 6: ... section 5 As each of the Black Box LB1350A LB1351A RJ 45 port 4 3 supports full auto negotiation auto polarity and auto cross you can simply connect any device to any port by using a standard straight or crossed cable In particular you can connect 10Mbps or 100Mbps devices as well as HDX FDX devices ...

Page 7: ...ce the corresponding remote device to HDX as well to avoid buffer overflow Same applies to devices with 10Mbps capability only Disregarding the interconnected device F O link will always operate at 100Mpbs and FDX you may force it to HDX as well if needed 3 CONTENTS OF THE SHIPPING CONTAINER The contents of the Black Box LB1350A LB1351A shipping container are as follows One converter Black Box LB1...

Page 8: ...ffic Aggregator with 3 RJ 45 switched VLAN ports and duplex SC connectors Multi mode 2km internal PS SNMP Managed LB1351A SM15Multiple 100Base TX to single 100Base FX Local Traffic Aggregator with 3 RJ 45 switched VLAN ports and duplex SC connectors SINGLE mode 15km internal PS SNMP Managed LB1351A SM40Multiple 100Base TX to single 100Base FX Local Traffic Aggregator with 3 RJ 45 switched VLAN por...

Page 9: ... Box LB1350A LB1351A is packaged in a rugged half rack enclosure allowing elegant and safe deployment in a variety of environments desktop 2 units on a 19 rack shelf or within a standard half 19 rack optional brackets required Its internal high power auto range switching power supply ensures easy safe and error free deployment and enhanced MTBF The managed version Black Box LB1351A provides full i...

Page 10: ...oing path and the remote device is FEF compliant see below then the F O LINK LED will go OFF on both the local and remote devices In this way we avoid the possibility of having a FX Link ON indication at one end while in reality one of the data path is disrupted ...

Page 11: ...up DIP switches See section 12 for details page 16 7 N A Mini DIN RS 232 connector 8 N A Receive LED Management activity 9 N A Ready LED Management module OK 10 RJ 45 ports 1 to 4 N A 11 N A RJ 45 ports 1 to 3 12 Link Activity ports 1 4 LED Link Activity ports 1 3 LED Lit steady LINK ON blinking receive 13 Full Duplex ports 1 4 LED Full Duplex ports 1 3 LED Lit when FDX detected or forced 14 100Mb...

Page 12: ...d putting such devices on the Black Box LB1350A LB1351A 19 Rack installation Use a standard flat shelf install it in the rack and place one or two Black Box LB1350A LB1351A side by side on the shelf Make sure to leave a gap of at least 2 3cm above the unit 9 POWER CONNECTION CAUTION When connecting a device to an AC power outlet always first connect the cord to the device and ensure that it is sec...

Page 13: ... rules must be strictly observed All single mode SM models are CLASS I LASER PRODUCTS And must be handled with special care When not in use keep the fiber optic connector closed using its protective cover Never stare directly into the fiber optic connector of a powered device or into the end of a fiber connected to it 11 TWISTED PAIR CABLE CONNECTION As each of the Black Box LB1350A LB1351A RJ 45 ...

Page 14: ...egotiation mode by default 5 TP port 4 Speed 10Mbps 100Mbps 6 TP port 4 Duplex mode Half Full 7 F O port Duplex mode Half Full 8 Far End Fault Disabled Test Enabled Normal See section 6 9 Reset Normal operation mode Reset Reset momentarily move down then up following any setup change 10 VLAN ports default setting Disable Enable By default each TP port with the F O port forms a separate security VL...

Page 15: ... Tag Header consists of a Tag protocol identifier TPID and Tag control information TCI Ethernet frame DA SA TAG PT DATA CRC 6B 6B 4B 2B 4B Tag Header TPID TCI TPID is the tag protocol identifier which indicated that a tag header is following and the TCI contains the User priority canonical format indicator CFI and the VLAN ID TPID User priority CFI VLAN ID 16 b 3b 1b 12b User priority is a 3 bit f...

Page 16: ...TP link not working Link LED not lit On the mode setup switch move S9 to the DOWN position and move it back to the UP position after one second Check that the connected device is working properly at 100Mbps or 10Mbps Check that the connection cable is well connected at both ends TP link not working at 100M when Black Box LB1350A LB1351A connected to 100Mbps or 10 100Mps device Both Link LED and 10...

Page 17: ...ector at the Black Box LB1350A LB1351A end Check that remote device s receive port is properly connected to the transmit fiber optic port of the Black Box LB1350A LB1351A Verify FDX mode of the F O port S7 Down reset device by S9 No Link Up after failure F O LED OFF Disable FEF Dip switch 8 in Up position section 12 page 14 Improper network traffic Runt and late collision Reset the device using S9...

Page 18: ...0 km in s m Output power 18dBm multi mode single mode 16 11 dBm respectively Input sensitivity multi mode 32dbm single mode 30 33 dBm respectively Far End Fault Signaling Full half duplex dip switch selection Diagnostics F O port Link Activity FDX Each TP port Link Activity FDX 100Mbps Power Test LED lit FEF disabled off FEF enabled Controls F O port HDX FDX TP ports 1 3 2 a n 10M TP port 4 3 a n ...

Page 19: ... available DB9 male connector on the PC Configure the terminal emulation program as follows baud rate 9600 parity none start bits 1 stop bits 1 flow control none Start the terminal emulation then reset the device Startup screen After a few seconds you will get the start up screen figure 2 1 Note the parameters appearing in the figures are just examples Set them to the values you need At this point...

Page 20: ...m For each of the following questions you can press Return to select the value shown in braces or you can enter a new value NETWORK PARAMETERS Do you want a LAN interface Y This board s LAN IP address 0 0 0 0 RARP 192 168 1 99 Use a subnet mask for the LAN interface N y Subnet mask for LAN 0 for none 0 0 0 0 Should there be a default gateway for packet routing N y What is its IP address 0 0 0 0 CO...

Page 21: ... will receive the traps sent by the Black Box LB1351A Trap community specify the trap community string for the device System name specify a name that identifies the device System location specify the physical location of the device Setting this parameter properly helps to monitor the network and maintain order within it Contact name specify the person most likely system or network administrator th...

Page 22: ...ion directly to one of the device s RJ 45 ports you MUST disable per port VLAN first switch 10 to UP position 4 Configuring the Management Station Before you can begin to fully manage the Black Box LB1351A from a management station using SNMP you need to load and compile the MIB file s included with the management module onto the management station In order to accomplish this you need to perform t...

Page 23: ...ng branch of the tree enterprises fibrolan fibrolanSNMP fibrolanAggregator flAggrLta31m Through the various parameters given within the Black Box LB1351A s MIB you can view the complete device status and the ports status and you can configure most of these parameters The Black Box LB1351A is a fully featured traffic aggregator that provides advanced capabilities such as VLAN tag insertion and stri...

Page 24: ...device s main menu The main menu This menu contains a header with the software version the model of the device LB1351A and the vendor Black Box Following is a two option menu See figure 6 1 Selecting option 1 will invoke the device s status menu while option 2 will bring up the device control menu Software version v1 0 Version date 16 10 02 Vendor Black Box Model LB1351A 1 Device status 2 Device c...

Page 25: ... FO Link status On Off Duplex mode FDX HDX Auto Negotiation mode enabled disabled Data rate 10 100M Connection mode connected disconnected The basic device status includes VLAN mode enabled disabled Device s temperature in centigrade Advanced ports status Type Tag Insert Strip VID Priority Port 802 1p TOS User 1 TP No No 0 No No No 0 2 TP No No 0 No No No 0 3 TP No No 0 No No No 0 4 FO No No 0 No ...

Page 26: ...y schemes port based 802 1p based and Type Of Service TOS based dealing with DSCP Diff Serve Code Points field values When more than one scheme is enabled priority conflicts are resolved by the following order 802 1p based priority overrides port based priority and TOS based priority overrides 802 1p based priority Default values are all No Please note that the advanced port settings apply to mana...

Page 27: ...gly Default values are low priority for codes 0 3 and high priority for codes 4 7 The device control menu The device control menu shown in figure 6 5 enables the user to change the different settings and configuration of the Black Box LB1351A Device control 1 TP port 1 control 2 TP port 2 control 3 TP port 3 control 4 FO port 4 control 5 Device reset 6 Basic device control 7 Advanced device contro...

Page 28: ...t the same as in FO port 4 the only difference being the exclusion of the data rate and auto negotiation mode changes not available for this port TP port 1 control 1 Basic control 2 Advanced Control 0 Back to control menu Select 0 2 figure 6 6 port control menu Basic port control The basic port control menu shown in figure 6 7 is composed of the following options Auto Negotiation mode change Data ...

Page 29: ...enable disable Set the port s VLAN ID 0 4095 Set port based priority mode enable disable Set 802 1p based priority mode enable disable Set TOS based priority mode enable disable Set the port s user priority 0 7 TP port 1 advanced control 1 Enable Disable tag insertion 2 Enable Disable tag stripping 3 Set VLAN ID 4 Enable Disable port priority 5 Enable Disable 802 1p priority 6 Enable Disable TOS p...

Page 30: ...Set DSCP codes 7 Set priority classification 8 Restore device defaults 0 Back to control menu Select 0 8 figure 6 10 advanced device control menu Changing the device s Test mode will enable or disable its FEF function Test off Test on respectively Please note that during normal operation this should be set to Test off FEF enabled When you choose to bind split ports options 2 and 3 you will be prom...

Page 31: ...ced device control menu will cause the device to return to its default settings and restart This may require a few seconds to complete The default values are given in the status section It is recommended to reset the device after this operation Management control menu The management control menu figure 6 15 provides the same options as other advanced port priority menus These settings apply to in ...

Page 32: ...regarding these parameters in the previous terminal section Note that viewing a parameter and setting its value is done in the same place in the table the method for setting might differ from one management application to another System info Figure 7 1 shows the basic MIB standard system info table It is accessible through the standard s MIB system info table figure 7 1 system info Basic device co...

Page 33: ...ed device configuration please note that the management configuration i e tagging and priority options is found in this table as well In addition to the above table there are two more tables under this MIB branch the DSCP settings table figure 7 4 and the user priority settings table figure 7 5 figure 7 4 DSCP configuration each entry in the DSCP table corresponds to a DSCP code 0 63 and its value...

Page 34: ...le corresponds to 802 1p priority classification code 0 7 and its value is either high or low priority Basic port configuration Basic port configuration table is located under flLta31mPorts flLta31mPortBasic in the device s MIB sub tree The table is shown in figure 7 6 figure 7 6 basic port configuration ...

Page 35: ...ps sent by the device figure 7 8 Traps are sent by the Black Box LB1351A after every configuration change In addition traps will be sent to alert of the following events System up cold start Temperature when exceeds 650 C for more than 1 minute TP link down FO link down TP link up after at least 10 seconds down FO link up after at least 10 seconds down Device reset management initiated traps for c...

Page 36: ...Black Box LB1350A LB1351A 36 Figure 7 8 traps listed in bottom of screen ...

Page 37: ...he manager Wrong IP address settings Check the IP address on the configuration menu Try to use the ping command If there is no ping answer try to check the Ethernet cable you can check the Link LED No traps Trap destination IP address not configured properly Check for the manager s IP address in the trap destination on the configuration menu Device doesn t appear in the MIB browser MIB file not in...

Page 38: ...ted herein and may not be disclosed to third parties without the written permission from the manufacturer The manufacturer reserves the right to make changes to any technical specifications in order to improve reliability function and design EUROPEAN UNION DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY This equipment complies with the requirements of the European EMC Directive 89 336 EEC Copyright 2002 Black Box Corpo...

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