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CHAPTER 4: Software Upgrade Procedure 

The application software for the Smart Switch is upgradeable, enabling your switch to take advantage of 
improvements and additional features as they become available. The upgrade procedure and the required 
equipment are described in the following section.   
The upgrade procedure is as follows: 

1.  Save the new firmware to your computer.  
2.  Start the Smartwizard Discovery utility program. 

3.  Select your switch by clicking on it.   

4.  Then click on Firmware Upgrade, as highlighted in Figure 3-1. 

 

Figure 3-1. Select the switch you want to upgrade and click Firmware Upgrade.  

 

Figure 3-2. Locate New Firmware. 

5.  Enter the location of the new firmware in the Firmware path below Firmware setting. Alternatively, 

you can click Browse to locate the file. See Figure 3-2. 

6.  Click Start to download the new firmware file in non-volatile memory. 

Summary of Contents for FS726T - ProSafe Smart Switch

Page 1: ... trademarks of their respective holders Information is subject to change without notice All rights reserved Statement of Conditions In the interest of improving internal design operational function and or reliability NETGEAR reserves the right to make changes to the products described in this document without notice NETGEAR does not assume any liability that may occur due to the use or application...

Page 2: ... PASSWORD PAGE 10 SWITCH MENU 10 SWITCH PORT CONFIGURATION PAGE 10 Switch Port Configuration Set speed 11 Switch Port Configuration Set flow control 11 Switch Port Configuration Set QOS 11 SWITCH STATISTICS PAGE 12 Switch Statistics Refresh 12 Switch Statistics Clear Counter 12 SWITCH VLAN PAGE 12 Switch VLAN Port based VLAN 13 Switch VLAN IEEE802 1Q Tag VLAN 13 SWITCH TRUNKING PAGE 15 FIRMWARE ME...

Page 3: ...er you power up the switch for the first time you can configure it using a utility program called Smartwizard Discovery or a Web browser Please refer to the screenshots in following pages for Smartwizard Discovery Utility and Web Management GUI Each of these management methods has advantages Table 1 1 compares the two management methods Table 1 1 Comparing Switch Management Methods Management Meth...

Page 4: ...n the Smart Switch by plugging in power cord Install the Smartwizard Discovery program on your computer Start the Smartwizard Discovery utility Chapter 4 has detailed instructions on the Smartwizard Discovery utility Click Discover of the Smartwizard Discovery utility to find your switch You should see a something similar to Figure 2 1 Select your switch by clicking on it Then click on Web Access ...

Page 5: ...very Web Access Figure 2 2 Web Access 7 Start managing your switch via your web browser The default password is password Web Management Figure 2 3 Web Management Front page after clicking Web Access on Smartwizard Discovery utility ...

Page 6: ...e 2 1 7 Click on Configuration Setting See figure 2 4 8 Choose Disable on DHCP 9 Enter your IP address Gateway and Subnet and then type your password and click Set Please make sure your PC and your switch are in the same subnet Note You can always assign a Static IP address to your switch no matter if your network has a DHCP server or not 10 Select your switch by clicking on it Then click on Web A...

Page 7: ...Page 7 of 7 Web Management Figure 2 7 Web Management Front page after clicking Web Access on the Smartwizard Discovery utility ...

Page 8: ...tor 6 0 or later Note Only one user can be logged in at any time Figure 5 1 Web Management Login page There are 3 menu options available System Switch Firmware There is a Help Menu in the top of right side of screen Click the help to read the full Help Menu On some pages there is a Help button If you click that button you will go to the part of the Help Menu that discusses that page Within the var...

Page 9: ...a Network VLAN status A VLAN is a way to electronically separate specified ports on the same switch into separate broadcast domains By using VLAN users can group by logical function instead of physical location This switch supports 26 VLANs This page displays the port based VLAN settings The default VLAN setting is all ports belong to VLAN 1 To configure user defined VLAN groups go to the Switch V...

Page 10: ...sks The default password is password and can be changed here Type the old password in the Old Password field Type the new password in the New Password field Re type the new password in the Re type New Password field Click Apply to activate the new password Note The password is case sensitive and with a maximum length of 20 Switch Menu There are 4 options available Port Configuration Statistics VLA...

Page 11: ...ch congestion Link Status Indicates the current speed and duplex for the port DOWN means no link Switch Port Configuration Set speed Click a port ID Click to select a speed from the pull down menu under Speed Click Apply to activate the new speed Note Please be aware that speed must set as same as link partner Otherwise packet loss or link error might occur Figure 5 2 Switch Port Configuration Por...

Page 12: ...ere less than 64 bytes or greater than 1522 bytes Had a bad FCS Were dropped due to lack of resources Switch Statistics Refresh Click Refresh to obtain current statistics data Switch Statistics Clear Counter Click Clear Counter to start new statistics over time Switch VLAN Page A Virtual Local Area Network VLAN is a means to electronically separate ports on the same switch from a single broadcast ...

Page 13: ... activate the new setting Delete VLAN Click Delete VLAN Click to select a VLAN ID Click Apply to confirm delete this VLAN Switch VLAN IEEE802 1Q Tag VLAN Depending on your model switch there are up to 64 static Tag VLAN groups supported on your switch The VLAN tagging option is a standard set by the IEEE to facilitate the spanning of VLANs across multiple switches Reference Appendix A and IEEE Std...

Page 14: ...click the box below the port number so that a T tagged or U untagged appears Click Apply Note To allow untagged packets to participate in VLAN 2 make sure to change the Port VLAN Ids PVID for the relevant ports Access the PVID Settings by using the VLAN ID drop down menu Delete a VLAN Group Under the VLAN ID drop down menu select the VLAN you want to remove Click to select Remove VLAN Click Apply ...

Page 15: ...ows all four trunking groups are set disabled by default For each trunk group trunk members are pre set for selection Click to select Trunk members from a pull down menu for a Trunk group Click Apply to activate the new setting Note The selected trunk port setting must set to the same VLAN group Figure 5 4 Switch Trunk Setting For Trunk Group 01 there are four types of member selection Disable Tru...

Page 16: ...uplicate configuration Click Restore to recover the Backup file from your PC to the current switch If you do not want to type in the path name click Browse to find the Backup file Click OK in the File Download dialog box When download process is finished click OK to confirm disconnection of current browser connection Note Please be aware that the switch will reboot after a successful restore Note ...

Page 17: ... follows 1 Save the new firmware to your computer 2 Start the Smartwizard Discovery utility program 3 Select your switch by clicking on it 4 Then click on Firmware Upgrade as highlighted in Figure 3 1 Figure 3 1 Select the switch you want to upgrade and click Firmware Upgrade Figure 3 2 Locate New Firmware 5 Enter the location of the new firmware in the Firmware path below Firmware setting Alterna...

Page 18: ...assword and click Start Note Once the system finishes firmware upgrade process the switch will automatically reboot The Smartwizard Discovery utility will determine success of upgrade process based on the success of the system reboot ...

Page 19: ...Reset function from a Web browser Table A 1 Default Settings FEATURE DEFAULT SETTING Port Speed Auto negotiation Port Duplex Auto negotiation Flow Control half duplex Enabled Flow Control full duplex Enabled IP Configuration DHCP enabled Password password VLAN Port Based VLAN Link Aggregation Trunk Disabled Traffic Prioritization QoS Optimized for flow control all ports set normal priority ...

Page 20: ...uped into common VLANs regardless of physical location Each group s traffic is largely contained within the VLAN reducing extraneous traffic and improving the efficiency of the whole network Easy to manage The addition of nodes as well as moves and other changes can be dealt with quickly and conveniently from a management interface rather than the wiring closet Increased performance VLANs free up ...

Page 21: ...fy Default VLAN group VLAN ID 1 to apply two new VLAN groups The specific ports above have the following Port VLAN ID settings Default VLAN Port 7 Port 26 all U VID 1 VLAN 1 Port 1 U Port 2 U Port 3 T VID 10 VLAN 2 Port 4 U Port 5 T Port 6 U VID 20 4 The following scenarios will produce results as described below 1 If an untagged packet enters Port 1 the switch will tag it with a VLAN tag value 10...

Page 22: ...group Marketing VLAN ID 03 with membership of ports 7 14 25 Setting up fourth VLAN group Accounting VLAN ID 04 with membership of ports 19 20 25 Setting up first VLAN group IT VLAN ID 01 with membership of all ports Since VLAN ID 01 has been setup by default you will have to remove the ports that belong to all other VLAN group except port 25 Ports 7 and 8 are kept for the usage of connecting file ...

Page 23: ...essage the Sales and Accounting departments will not be affected by the message as it will not go out on their ports Only the Marketing department and the IT group will get the broadcast message If an IT user sends out a broadcast message everyone will get it ...

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