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SMC8506T

10/100/1000 Gigabit Copper Switch

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6 10/100/1000 RJ-45 Ports with 1 expansion bay

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2 port 1000Base-TX or 2 port 1000SX modules

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Auto MDI/MDIX on all ports

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Half- and full-duplex flow control

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"Smart Function" features:

24K MAC Address Table

Port-based VLAN and L2 Trunking

Password Authentification

Port Mirroring

Desktop and rack mountable

Installation Guide

SMC8506T

Summary of Contents for 8500GT

Page 1: ...y 2 port 1000Base TX or 2 port 1000SX modules Auto MDI MDIX on all ports Half and full duplex flow control Smart Function features 9 24K MAC Address Table 9 Port based VLAN and L2 Trunking 9 Password Authentification 9 Port Mirroring 9 Desktop and rack mountable Installation Guide SMC8506T ...

Page 2: ...EZ Switch 1000 User Guide From SMC s EZ line of low cost workgroup LAN solutions 6 Hughes Irvine CA 92618 Phone 949 707 2400 ...

Page 3: ...se No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of SMC SMC reserves the right to change specifications at any time without notice Copyright 2001 by SMC Networks Inc 6 Hughes Irvine CA All rights reserved Printed in Taiwan Trademarks SMC is a registered trademark and EZ Switch is a trademark of SMC Networks Inc Other product and company names are trademarks or...

Page 4: ...aired product carries either a 30 day limited warranty or the remainder of the initial warranty whichever is longer SMC is not responsible for any custom software or firmware configuration information or memory data of Customer contained in stored on or integrated with any products returned to SMC pursuant to any warranty Products returned to SMC should have any customer installed accessory or add...

Page 5: ...E POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS WHICH MAY VARY FROM STATE TO STATE NOTHING IN THIS WARRANTY SHALL BE TAKEN TO AFFECT YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS SMC will provide...

Page 6: ...be required to correct the interference at his own expense EC Conformance Declaration Class A SMC contact for these products in Europe is SMC Networks Europe Edificio Conata II Calle Fructuós Gelabert 6 8 2o 4a 08970 Sant Joan Despí Barcelona Spain This information technology equipment complies with the requirements of the Low Voltage Directive 73 23 EEC and the EMC Directive 89 336 EEC and carrie...

Page 7: ...die Anschlußwerte 9 Verlegen Sie die Netzanschlußleitung so daß niemand darüber fallen kann Es sollte auch nichts auf der Leitung abgestellt werden 10 Alle Hinweise und Warnungen die sich am Gerät befinden sind zu beachten 11 Wird das Gerät über einen längeren Zeitraum nicht benutzt sollten Sie es vom Stromnetz trennen Somit wird im Falle einer Überspannung eine Beschädigung vermieden 12 Durch die...

Page 8: ...ecklist Selecting a site Positioning the switch Sample Applications Switch Operation Chapter 3 Configuring the SMC8506T Main Menu Port Setting VLAN Trunking Aging Function Control Port Enable Disable Port Mirroring Port based Priority MAC Address Filtering Password Enable Disable Restoring Factory Default Chapter 4 Glossary ...

Page 9: ...seamless migration to higher speed networking while solving bandwidth issues It is designed to allow simultaneous transmission of multiple packets via an internal high speed data channel In addition the SMC8506T is also support one 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...

Page 10: ... IEEE802 3ab Gigabit Ethernet standard Provide a module slot for 2 port 10 100 1000Mbps TX or 1000Mbps SX options Features Store and Forward mode with wire speed filtering and forwarding rates Each port can be configured to 10 100Mbps half or full duplex or to 1000Mbps full duplex mode Automatic Source Address Learning and Aging to ensure superior delivery of data IEEE802 3x compliant full duplex ...

Page 11: ...nternal power supply Advanced functions include 1 RS 232 and Console port for changing port configurations 2 Port base VLAN not support port base VLAN overlap 3 Tagged base QOS not support port base QOS 4 Trunking 5 Port Mirroring 6 Per port Aging Function setting ...

Page 12: ...ization completed 10 100 L10 100 1000 TX Module Green Yellow Green Lit 100Mbps indicates the adapter is connected to hub and incoming Yellow Flash 10Mbps traffic entering the port 10 100 L10 100 1000 Green Lit indicate link status and traffic speed 10 L10 for 10M 100 L100 for 100M 1000 L1000 for 1000M TX RX Green Lit indicate data traffic status TX for transmitting RX for receiving FDX COL Green L...

Page 13: ...200 N 8 1 Rear panel of SMC8506T Optional Modules There are two optional modules a 2 port 1000BASE T and a 2 port 100BASE FX These are shown in that order in the figure below 2port Copper Giga SMC8500GT 2port Fiber Giga SMC8500SX Resetting your Gigabit Switch At the left side of front panel the reset switch is designed for reconfiguring the switch without having to turn the unit off and on ...

Page 14: ...egistration Card z This User Guide Selecting a Site Be sure to follow the site selection guidelines below when choosing a location Select a suitable location for the switch 1 It should be accessible for installing cabling and maintaining the switch 2 The temperature and humidity should be within the ranges listed in the specifications 3 The status LEDs should be clearly visible 4 There should be a...

Page 15: ... against shocks and vibrations and provide space between each switch for ventilation Applying Power Plug one end of the power cable into the power receptacle at the back of the switch and the other end into an appropriate electrical outlet Check the Power LED to be sure power is on Note It is not necessary to power off the switch before connecting or disconnecting any UTP cables as these actions w...

Page 16: ...switch Plug the other side of this cable to your PC Hyper Terminal Launch a HyperTerminal create a new connection and adjust settings as below Sample Applications This switch segments your network significantly increasing both bandwidth and throughput Any port on the switch can be attached to a hub a shared collision domain or provide a dedicated link to a ...

Page 17: ...ffic based on the destination address When traffic passes between devices attached to the same shared collision domain those packets are filtered from the switch But when traffic must be passed between unique segments i e different ports on the switch the high speed switching fabric forwards the packets at near zero latency Switching Functions Store and forward switching is used to forward traffic...

Page 18: ...torm Control and Trunking the SMC8506T the most cost effect method for brining speed and service to the desktop Shown in the application diagram on the next page the SMC8506T connects to a high speed backbone providing close remote locations with bandwidth and service options once reserved only for a fully managed switch Maintain your campus locations warehouse and fulfillment offices with the sam...

Page 19: ...on Corporate LAN connecting to a remote site Router Use copper to connect locations up to 100 meters away at gigabit speeds Shown with optional copper module Corporate LAN Small Remote LAN Connect users to Corporate LAN ...

Page 20: ...ecture combined with a large MAC Address SMC6924M Servers SMC8506T shown with optional 2 port copper Standalone application featuring high speed connection between segments 10 100 1000 Mbps Connection 10 100 1000 Mbps or 20 200 2000 Mbps full duplex connection High Performance workstation High Performance workstation Copper Gigabit connection to each Server ...

Page 21: ...e speeds Gigabit Ethernet is the perfect solution to bottlenecks at the core of the network that are the inevitable result of data intensive applications and the proliferation of new users SMC s EZ Switch 1000 provides a seamless migration to higher speed networking while solving bandwidth issues ...

Page 22: ...ides 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 ports will transmit this packet to the network it connected If found and the destination address is located at different port from this packet comes in the Ethernet Sw...

Page 23: ...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 respective domain reducing the overall load on the network The Gi...

Page 24: ...or Full Duplex mode 1000Base TX and 1000Base SX can only connected Full duplex mode ...

Page 25: ...you ll see the Main Menu which is shown below Bits per second 19200 Data bits 8 Parity None Stop bits 1 Flow control None Main Menu 8G Smart Switch 2G Copper Module Configuration menu ver 2 14 0 Port Setting 1 VLAN 2 Trunk Port 3 Aging Control 4 Port Enable Disable 5 Port Mirroring 6 Port base priority 7 Mac address filter 8 Change password 9 Restore to Factory Default Select ...

Page 26: ...the space bar to change it and S to save this configuration Port Setting 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Auto Neg O O O O O O O O Speed 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 Duplex F F F F F F F F Flow Control O O O O O O O O Tab Move to next item Space Bar Toggle item S Save Exit Q Quit U Up L Left D Down R Right ...

Page 27: ...o save this configuration Port base VLAN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Group 1 O O O O O O O O Group 2 x x x x x x x x Group 3 x x x x x x x x Group 4 x x x x x x x x Group 5 x x x x x x x x Group 6 x x x x x x x x Group 7 x x x x x x x x Group 8 x x x x x x x x member port of trunk group must belong to same VLAN Tab Move to next item Space Bar Toggle item S Save Exit Q Quit U Up L Left D Down R Right ...

Page 28: ...ove to the item needing to be changed press the space bar to change it and S to save this configuration TRUNK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 GROUP 1 x x x x x x x x GROUP 2 x x x x x x x x GROUP 3 x x x x x x x x GROUP 4 x x x x x x x x member port of trunk group must belong to same VLAN Tab Move to next item Space Bar Toggle item S Save Exit Q Quit U Up L Left D Down R Right ...

Page 29: ...ou select any packet cannot be transmitted to this port Use Tab or the L or R keys to move to the item needing to be changed press the space bar to change it and S to save this configuration Port aging aging time 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 minutes 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Tab Move to next item Space Bar Toggle item S Save Exit Q Quit Port Enable Disable 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Port Status O O O O O O O O Tab Move to ...

Page 30: ...Mirroring 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Monitoring Port X X X X X X X X Egress Port X X X X X X X X Ingress Port x x x x x x x x Egress Port the packets out going this port will be duplicate to Monitoring Port Ingress Port the packets in coming this port will be duplicate to Monitoring Port Tab Move to next item Space Bar Toggle item S Save Exit Q Quit U Up L Left D Down R Right ...

Page 31: ... to be changed press the space bar to change it and S to save this configuration Port base priority 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 level T T T T T T T T T the priority depend on 802 1p 1 lowest ingress priority 4 highest ingress priority Tab Move to next item Space Bar Toggle item S Save Exit Q Quit ...

Page 32: ...0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Packets with source Mac address not equal to 00 00 00 00 00 00 will be discarded...

Page 33: ...with auto negotiation 1000M full duplex flow control enables 2 All ports assigned to one VLAN 3 Disable trunk setting 4 Enable transmit and receive packets capability of all ports 5 Enable address aging capability to 10 minutes 6 Disable port mirroring capability 7 Priority of all port depend on 802 1p 8 Disable password check when system boots up 6 characters max Enter key to delete password new ...

Page 34: ...ing double shielded coaxial cable 10BASE5 cable is typically used as a network backbone This cable connects to the AUI port and can span of up to 500 meters hence the 5 in 10BASE5 10BASE FX IEEE 802 3 Physical Layer Specification for Ethernet using two strands of 50 125 or 62 5 125 micron core fiber These types of cables typically have ST and SC connectors and can span up to 2Km in length 10BASE T...

Page 35: ...3u The specification for Fast Ethernet using two pairs of Category 5 UTP or Type 1 STP cable 100BASE FX IEEE 802 3u Physical Layer Specification for Fast Ethernet using two strands of 50 125 or 62 5 125 micron core fiber These types of cables typically have ST and SC connectors and can span up to 2Km in length at full duplex or 412m at half duplex 1000BASE SX IEEE 802 3z Physical Layer Specificati...

Page 36: ...UTO NEGOTIATION A signalling method that allows each node to define its operational mode e g 10 100 Mbps and half full duplex and to detect the operational mode of the adjacent node BANDWIDTH Transmission capacity of a computer channel communications line or bus It is expressed in cycles per second Hertz the bandwidth being the difference between the lowest and highest frequencies transmitted It i...

Page 37: ...ignals to enable different physical media to be connected to the same collision domain which may have an MII interface Only one Class I repeater can be located in the same collision domain CLASS II REPEATER Fast Ethernet repeater that immediately transmits or repeats incoming signals to other devices on identical media Only two Class II repeaters can be located in the same collision domain CLASS O...

Page 38: ... gain access to the network it checks to see if the network is free If it is not it waits for a random amount of time before retrying If the network is free and two devices attempt access at exactly the same time they both back off to avoid a collision and each wait a random amount of time before retrying CUT THROUGH A type of forwarding method used in switches that allows data to be forwarded thr...

Page 39: ... is in compliance with the IEEE 802 3 standard This card functions at the media access control MAC layer using carrier sense multiple access with collision detection CSMA CD FAST ETHERNET NIC Network interface card that is in compliance with the IEEE 802 3u standard This card functions at the media access control MAC layer using carrier sense multiple access with collision detection CSMA CD FAST E...

Page 40: ...d by dividing the bandwidth of the line into two frequencies one for sending one for receiving GARP VLAN REGISTRAION PROTOCOL GVRP Defines a way for switches to exchange VLAN information in order to register necessary VLAN members on ports along the Spanning Tree so that VLANs defined in each switch can work automatically over a Spanning Tree network HUB Central connection device for shared media ...

Page 41: ...net IEEE 802 3u A revision of IEEE 802 3 for 100BASE TX Fast Ethernet IGMP SNOOPING Listening to IGMP Query and IGMP Report packets transferred between IIP Multicast Routers and IP Multicast host groups to learn IP Multicast group members IP MULTICAST FILTERING A protocol that allows a host to inform its local router or switch that it wants to receive transmissions addressed to a specific multicas...

Page 42: ... MS DOS computers The ISA bus was originally pioneered by IBM on its PC then its XT and AT ISA is also called classic bus It comes in an 8 bit and 16 bit version Most references to ISA mean the 16 bit version Many machines claiming ISA compatibility actually have both 8 and 16 bit connectors on the motherboard MICROPROCESSOR CPU on a single chip In order to function as a computer it requires a pow...

Page 43: ...omputer to connect to the cabling of a LAN NETWORK MANAGEMENT Procedures software equipment and operations designed to keep a network operating near maximum efficiency OPEN SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION OSI ISO standard for worldwide communications that defines a framework for implementing protocols in the seven layers application presentation session transport network data link and physical PARALLEL POR...

Page 44: ...PCMCIA NIC PC Card A credit card size I O package for computers laptops and palmtops The three standards of PCMCIA cards are Type I II and III The Type II standard applies to NICs is used for I O features and can operate on Ethernet or Token Ring hardware Networking Glossary PLUG AND PLAY A mechanism by which I O devices are configured automatically upon installation MII Media Independent Interfac...

Page 45: ...MON RMON provides comprehensive network monitoring capabilities It eliminates the polling required in standard SNMP and can set alarms on a variety of traffic conditions including specific errors types REPEATER In communications a device that amplifies or regenerates the data signal in order to extend the distance of the transmission Available for both analog and digital signals it is used extensi...

Page 46: ...ces with other network users The server may be dedicated which means that its sole purpose is to provide service for network users or it may be used as a client SHARED PORTS Ports that are on the same collision domain and share a fixed bandwidth SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL SNMP Format used for network management data Data is passed between SNMP agents processes that monitor activity in hubs...

Page 47: ... the performance and efficiency of the network ST Straight through cable commonly used for building networks STACKABLE REPEATER HUBS Hubs that can be stacked to support additional users without repeater hops whereby the entire stack counts as a single logical repeater STORE FORWARD A type of forwarding method used in switches that allows data to be forwarded through after it has been fully checked...

Page 48: ...e TWISTED PAIR CABLE SEGMENT The cable used to join a repeater and an adapter UTP Unshielded twisted pair cable VIRTUAL LAN VLAN A Virtual LAN is a collection of network nodes that share the same collision domain regardless of their physical location or connection point in the network A VLAN serves as a logical workgroup with no physical barriers allowing users to share information and resources a...

Page 49: ...red data WORKSTATION 1 High performance single user computer that has been specialized for graphics CAD CAE or scientific applications Typically comprised of high resolution screens local graphics processing keyboard pointing device and network connection 2 In a LAN a personal computer that serves a single user in contrast tp a file server that serves all the users in the network 3 Any terminal or...

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