User manual ASUS GIGAX 3024X

[. . . ] GigaX Series Layer 3 Managed Switch User Guide 1 Exxxx 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. [. . . ] · Max Reauthentication Attempts: Retry count if the port user failed to respond to authentication requests from the switch. when you're 70 GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide · Multi-host: If enabled, ALL hosts connected to the selected port are allowed to use the port if ONE of the hosts passed the authentication. If disabled, only ONE host among other hosts passed the authentication is allowed to use the port. · Authentication Control: If 'force_authorized' is selected, the selected port is forced authorized. Otherwise, if 'force_unauthorized' is selected, the selected port is blocked and no traffic can go through. If 'Auto' is selected, the behavior of the selected port is controlled by 802. 1x protocol. · Guest VLAN: Specify a guest VLAN to clients that are not 802. 1x-capable. Port Access Control 71 4. 9. 2 Dial-In User Dial-in User is used to define users in the local database of the switch. · Dynamic VLAN: Specify the VLAN ID assigned to the 802. 1x-authenticated clients. Dial-In user 72 GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 4. 9. 3 RADIUS In order to use external RADIUS server, the following parameters are required to be setup: · Authentication Server IP: The IP address of the RADIUS server. · Authentication Server Port: The port number for the RADIUS server is listening to. · Authentication Server Key: The key is used for communications between GigaX and the RADIUS server. · Confirm Authentication Key: Re-type the key entered above. The VLAN of the RADIUS server connected to the switch must be the same as the VLAN of the system management interface. to make the settings permanent. Click Click refresh the settings to current value. to Figure 44. RADIUS 73 4. 10 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. 10. 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 Draw, the browser will show you the update data and refresh the graphic periodically. 74 GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide Figure 45. Traffic comparison 4. 10. 2 Error Group Selecting the Port and display Color, then clicking Draw, the statistics window shows you all the discards or error counts for the specified port. Error group 4. 10. 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 line chart keeps the old data even it is refreshed. 75 Figure 47. [. . . ] A device that performs routing is called a router. SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol The TCP/IP protocol used for network management. 130 GigaX Series L3 Managed Switch User Guide 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. [. . . ]