User manual ASUS GIGAX 2124X

[. . . ] GigaX Series Layer 2 Managed Switch User Guide GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide E1367 First Edition V1 March 2005 Copyright © 2005 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Product warranty or service will not be extended if: (1) the product is repaired, modified or altered, unless such repair, modification of alteration is authorized in writing by ASUS; or (2) the serial number of the product is defaced or missing. ASUS provides this manual "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. [. . . ] Click Please click refresh the settings to current value. to Figure 36. RADIUS 61 GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User's Guide 4. 8 VCT VCT stands for "Virtual Cable Tester". The major function of VCT is to detect cable fault (open or short) and report the estimated fault location. Moreover, VCT can also detect PHY type (100M, 1000M or 10000M) as well as estimated cable length of normal cable. VCT 62 GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4. 9 Statistics Chart The Statistics Chart pages provide network flow in different charts. You can monitor the network traffic amount in different graphic chart by these pages. Click Refresh Rate to set the period for retrieving new data from the switch. Each new Draw will reset the statistics display. 4. 9. 1 Traffic Comparison This page shows the one statistics item for all the ports in one graphic chart. Specify the statistics item to display and click the Draw, the browser will show you the update data and refresh the graphic periodically. Figure 38. Traffic comparison 4. 9. 2 Error Group Select the Port and display Color, then click the Draw, the statistics window shows you all the discards or error counts for the specified port. Error group 4. 9. 3 Historical Status You can display information for different ports and statistics items in this chart. Since this shows the history of the statistics information, the chart can keep the old data even it is refreshed. Figure 40. Historical Status 64 GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User Guide 4. 10 Save Configuration . The setting To save configuration permanently, you should click also takes effective after a successful save. Sometimes you may want to reset the switch configuration, you can click on to reset the configuration file to factory default. Of course, a system reboot will follow this restoration process. You will lose all the configurations when you choose to restore the factory default configurations. Figure 41. Save Configuration 65 GigaX Series L2 Managed Switch User's Guide 5 Console Interface This chapter describes how to use console interface to configure the switch. Use a terminal emulator on your PC such as HyperTerminal and command line interpreter to configure the switch. You have to set up the terminal emulator with baud rate 9600, 8 bit data, no parity, and 1 stop bit, and no flow control. Once you enter CLI mode, type "?" will display all available command help messages. In order to make them easier to use, you can enter into different category by typing the full command, then this category becomes your working category. Thereafter, you don't have to type "sys" before any sub-commands. For example, "sys" is a command category including a lot of sub-commands. [. . . ] STP Spanning Tree Protocol The bridge protocol to avoid packet looping in a complicate network. The subnet is distinguished from the larger network by a subnet mask which selects some of the computers of the network and excludes all others. The subnet's computers remain physically connected to the rest of the parent network, but they are treated as though they were on a separate network. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol The basic protocols used on the Internet. [. . . ]