L-Switch User Manual
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LOYTEC
Version 6.0
LOYTEC electronics GmbH
6 The L-Switch XP in a Network
The L-Switch XP is based on LOYTEC’s powerful L-Core
and L-Chip
technology. It is
designed to be very robust and reliable in high bandwidth applications.
6.1 L-Switch XP as Smart Switch
In this operation mode the L-Switch XP behaves completely transparent in a network. To
put it simple: It installs like a repeater, but works like a router.
Installing and operating the L-Switch XP is plug and play when using the factory default
settings, which have
Subnet/node learning enabled,
Group learning enabled,
Bit-rate auto detection enabled, and
Collision-less backbone mode for TP-1250 ports disabled.
After connecting the network cables, the L-Switch XP can be powered up and it will start its
switching application.
When using a standard binding tool (e.g. LonMaker) bindings between nodes connected to
different ports can be done without considering the L-Switch XP. Further, an L-Switch XP
can be added anywhere to an already configured network without reconfiguring the nodes in
the network.
Optionally the L-Switch XP can be configured as a repeater. If configured as repeater this
does not have any impact on the routing algorithm of the L-Switch XP in smart switch
mode.
In case the L-Switch XP has to be visible in an LNS base binding tool (e.g. LonMaker)
LOYTEC provides LonMaker shapes for the different L-Switch XP models (e.g. for
documentation purposes). Please refer to application note AN006E “L-Switch XP and
LNS” (see Section 9) for details.
The smart switch mode is the default operation mode for all L-Switch XP models.