User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1. Hardware
- 2. Install and Access the Switch in Your Network
- 3. Optimize the Switch Performance
- 4. Use VLANS for Traffic Segmentation
- 5. Manage the Switch in Your Network
- 6. Maintain and Monitor the Switch
- Manually check for new switch firmware and update the switch
- Manage the configuration file
- Return the switch to its factory default settings
- Control access to the device UI
- Change or lift access restrictions to the switch
- Manage the DoS prevention mode
- Manage the power saving mode
- Control the port LEDs
- Change the switch device name
- View system information
- View switch connections
- View the status of a port
- PoE considerations for switches that support PoE
- Manage the PoE ports
- Display PoE port status
- Power cycle the PoE ports
- 7. Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
- A. Factory Default Settings and Technical Specifications
- B. Additional Switch Discovery and Access Information
The Quality of Service (QoS) page displays.
5.
If the selection from the QoS Mode menu is not the QoS mode that you want to
configure, do the following to change the QoS mode:
a.
From the QoS Mode menu, select Port-Based or 802.1P/DSCP.
A pop-up warning window opens.
b. Click the CONTINUE button.
The pop-up window closes and the QoS mode is changed.
6. Click the Broadcast Filtering button.
When broadcast filtering is enabled, the button bar displays green.
7. Click the APPLY button.
Broadcast filtering is enabled. The STORM CONTROL RATE tab displays next to
the RATE LIMITS tab.
8.
To set storm control rate limits, do the following:
a. Click the STORM CONTROL RATE tab.
b. Click the purple pencil icon.
The EDIT STORM CONTROL RATE options display.
c.
For each port for which you want to set storm control rate limits, select the rate
in Kbps or Mbps from the individual menu for the port.
The default selection is No Limit.
d. Click the APPLY button.
Your settings are saved and the EDIT STORM CONTROL RATE tab displays your
new settings.
Manage individual port settings
For each individual port, you can set the port priority, set rate limits for incoming and
outgoing traffic, set the port speed (by default, the speed is set automatically), enable
flow control, and change the port name label.
Set rate limits for a port
You can limit the rate of incoming (ingress) traffic, outgoing (egress) traffic, or both on
a port to prevent the port (and the device that is attached to it) from taking up too much
bandwidth on the switch. Rate limiting simply means that the switch slows down all
traffic on a port so that traffic does not exceed the limit that you set for that port. If you
User Manual26Optimize the Switch
Performance
Gigabit Ethernet Plus Switches