Contents
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Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
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Accessing the softcopy library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Obtaining service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
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Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Product overview
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Switch functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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Virtual local area networks (VLANs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Self Learning IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Link aggregation (trunking) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Fast spanning tree mode
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Management and user interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Reliability and serviceability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Year 2000 (Y2K) Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Cabling requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Switch LED status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Single-digit display
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Base ports LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Feature module LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 2. Accessing the switch
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Out-of-band connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
In-band connection – Telnet, Web, SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 3. Configuring your switch
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Configuring IP information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Configuration Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Making configuration changes using the terminal interface . . . . . . . . 27
Making configuration changes using the Web interface . . . . . . . . . 29
Making configuration changes using SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Managing the configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 4. Using the Terminal Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Login panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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