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www .zyxel.com www .zyxel.com GS1910/XGS1910 Series GbE Smart Managed Switch IMPORT ANT! READ CAREFULL Y BEFORE USE. KEEP THIS GUIDE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. Copyright © 2012 ZyXEL Communications Corporation V ersion 1.00 Edition 1, 05/2012 Default Login Details IP Address http://192.
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Table of Contents GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 3 Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................. ..................................................... ........... ................ 3 Chapter 1 Getting to Know Y our Switch.
Table of Contents GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 4 4.5 Logging Out of the Web Config urator ................ ............. ................ ................ ............. ............ ....... . 32 4.6 Help ............. ... ... ............. ..
GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 5 C HAPTER 1 Getting to Know Your Switch This chapter introduces the main features and applications of the Switch. 1.1 Introduction Y o ur Switch is a Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch wi th 2 0, 44 or 48 10/100/1000 Mbp s Ethernet ports.
Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your Switch GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 6 the Switch. Y ou can provide a super-fast uplink connection by using the optional 10 Gigabit uplink module on the Switch.
Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your Switch GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 7 1.1.3 Gigabit Ethernet to the Desktop The Switch is an ideal solution for smal l networks which demand high bandwidth for a group of heavy tr affic users. Y ou can connect computers and servers directly to the Sw itch’ s port or connect other switches to the Switch.
Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your Switch GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 8 Shared resources such as a server can be used by all ports in the same VLAN as the server . In the following figure only ports that need access to th e server need to be part of VLAN 1.
Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your Switch GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 9 • Change the password . Use a pass w ord that’ s not easy to guess and that consists of different types of characters, such as numbers and letters. • Write down the password and put it in a safe place.
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GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 11 C HAPTER 2 Hardware Installation and Connection This chapter shows you how t o install and connect the S witch. 2.1 Freest anding Inst allation 1 Make sure the Switch is clean and dry . 2 Set the Swit ch on a smo oth, leve l surface strong enough to support the weight of the Switch and the c onnected cables.
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation and Connection GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 12 Note: Do NOT block the ventilation ho les. Leave space between devices when stackin g. Note: For proper ventilation, allow at le ast 4 inches (10 cm) of clearance at the front and 3.
Chapter 2 Har d war e In sta lla tion and Con n ec tion GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 13 2 Using a #2 Philips s crewdriver , install the M3 flat head screws throug h the mounting br acket holes into t he Switch. 3 Re peat steps 1 and 2 to install the second mounting br acket on the other side of the Switch.
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GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 15 C HAPTER 3 Hardware Overview This chapter describes the front panel and rear p anel of the S w itch and shows you how to make the hardware connections. 3.1 Front Panel Connections The figure below shows the front panel of the S witch.
Chapter 3 Har d war e Over vie w GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 16 Figure 1 1 Front Panel: GS1910-48HP Figure 12 Front Panel: XGS1910-24 Figure 13 Front Panel: XGS1910-48 The following table describes t he ports.
Chapter 3 Hardware Overview GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 17 3.1.1 Ethernet Port s The Switch has 1000Bas e- T auto-negotiating , auto-crossov er Ethernet ports. In 10/100/1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet, the speed can be 10Mbps, 100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps.
Chapter 3 Har d war e Over vie w GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 18 3.1.2 Dual Personality Interfaces There are four dual personality int erfac es, comprising four 1000Base- T/ SFP combo ports. F or each interface you can connect either to the 1000Base- T port or the SFP slot.
Chapter 3 Hardware Overview GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 19 1 Insert the transceiv er into the slot with the exposed section of PCB board facing down. Figure 14 T ran sceiver Installation Example 2 Press the tr ansceiver firmly until i t clicks into place.
Chapter 3 Har d war e Over vie w GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 20 2 Pull the transceiver out of the slot. Figure 17 T ran sceiver Removal Example 3.
Chapter 3 Hardware Overview GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 21 Figure 19 Rear Pa nel: GS1910-24HP Figure 20 Front Panel: GS1910-48 Figure 21 Front Panel: GS1 910-48HP Figure 22 Front Panel: XGS1910-24 Figure 23 Front Panel: XGS1910-48 3.
Chapter 3 Har d war e Over vie w GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 22 3.3 LEDs The following table describes t he LEDs. T able 2 LEDs LED COLOR ST A TUS DESCRIPTION Po E (GS1910- 48HP only) Green On Each Ethernet port’ s LED is changed to act as a PoE LED by using the LED MODE button on the front panel.
Chapter 3 Hardware Overview GS1910/XGS1910 Series User’s Guide 23 LNK/ACT Green Blinking The system is transmitting/receiving to/from a 1000 Mbps Ethernet network. On The link to a 1000 Mbps Ethernet network is up. Amber Blinking The system is transmitting/receiving to/from a 100 Mbps Ethernet network.
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GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 25 C HAPTER 4 The Web Configurator This section introduces the configur ation and functions of the web configur ator . 4.1 Introduction The web configurator is an HTML -based management interface that allows easy Switch setup and management via Internet browser .
Chapter 4 The Web Configu r ator GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 26 3 The login screen appears. The default username is admin and associated default password is 1234 . Figure 24 W eb Configurator: Login 4 Click OK to view the first web configurator screen.
Chapter 4 The Web Configurator GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 27 A - Click the menu items to open submenu links, an d then click on a submenu link to open the screen in the main window . B , C - These are quick links which allow you to pe rform certain tasks no matter which screen you are currently working in.
Chapter 4 The Web Configu r ator GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 28 Ports This link takes you to a screen where you can conf igu re speed, flow control, the maximum frame si ze and power control se ttings for individual Switch ports.
Chapter 4 The Web Configurator GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 29 PVLAN Membership This link takes you to a scre en where you can create private VLAN s on t he Switch.
Chapter 4 The Web Configu r ator GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 30 System Information This link takes you to a screen that displays general system informati on. CPU Load This link tak es you to a screen that disp lays what percentage of the Switch’s processing ability is currentl y used.
Chapter 4 The Web Configurator GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 31 MLD Snooping This link takes you to a screen where you can view MLD snooping status , M LD group informatio n and SFM (Sou rce-Filt ered Multicast) information.. LLDP Neighbours This link takes you to a screen wh ere you can view the LLDP neighboring device informat ion.
Chapter 4 The Web Configu r ator GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 32 4.3.1 Change Y our Password After you log in for the first time, it is recommended y ou change the default adm inistrator password. Click Config uration > Securi ty > Switch > Users to display the next screen.
GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 33 C HAPTER 5 Tutorials This chapter provides some examples of using th e W eb Configurator to set up and use the Sw itch.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 34 1 Connect your computer to the S witch’ s port whic h is in VLAN1 (the defau lt management VLAN). 2 Open your web browse r and enter 192.168.1.1 (the default management IP ad dress) in the address bar to access the web configurator .
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 35 In this example, you create a login account with the following information. 1 Log into the Switch’ s W eb Configurator with the adm in account. 2 Click Configuration > Security > Switch > User s in the na vigation panel.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 36 5 By default, you cannot use a login account with a pr ivilege level of 10 to do system maintenance, such as configuring login accounts, uploading firm ware or resetting to the factory defaults.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 37 3 Choose a location to save the file on your computer from the Save in drop-down list box and type a descriptive name for it in the File name list box. 4 Click Save to save the configuration file to your computer .
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 38 After the upload is successful, the following screen displays. "config" is the name of the configuration file on the S witch, so your backup configur ation file is automatically renamed when you restore using this screen.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 39 1 Access the Switch through http://192.168.1.1 . Log into the Switch with the admin account. 2 Click Configuration > VLANs > VLAN Membership in the navigation panel. Click Add New VLAN to create VLAN2.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 40 In the example netw ork, conf igure 2 as the port VID on port 1 so that an y untagged frames received on that port get sent to VLAN 2. Figure 29 Po r t V I D E x a m p l e 1 Click Configuration > VLANs > Ports in the na vigation panel.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 41 5.5 How to Set Up a Guest VLAN with IEEE 802.1x Authentication All ports on the Switch are in VLAN 1 by default. Say you enable IEEE 802.1x authentication on ports 1 to 8. Clients that connect to these ports should provide the correct user name and password in order to access the ports.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 42 5 Click Save to save the settings to the Switch. 6 Click Configuration > VLANs > Ports in the na vigation panel.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 43 2 Select the Reauthentication Enabled check box to have a subscriber periodically re-enter his or her username and password to stay connected to the port. 3 Select the Guest VL AN Enable d check box and enter the guest VLAN ID (200 in this exam ple) to enable the guest VLAN on the Switch.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 44 5.6 How to Use Private VLAN to Do Port Isolation in a VLAN This tutorial is not applicable to the XGS1910-24 or XGS1910-48.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 45 5 Click Save to save the settings to the Switch. 5.6.2 Enabling Port Isolation Follow the steps below to configure port isolation. 1 Click Configuration > Private VLAN s > Port Isolation .
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 46 If you w ant to use dynamic bindings to filter unauthorized ARP pack ets (typical implementation), you have to enable DHCP snooping before you enable ARP inspection. T rusted vs. Untrusted Ports Every port is either a trusted port or an untrusted port for DHCP snooping.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 47 3 Go to Configuration > Security > Network > DHCP > Snooping to activate DHCP snooping on the Switch. 4 Specify whether ports are trusted or untr usted ports for DHCP snooping. Select Trusted in the Mode field for port 5 because the DHCP server is co nnected to port 5.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 48 6 Click Configuration > Security > Network > IP Source Guard > Configuration and enable IP source guard on the Switch and on ports 6 and 7. Set the maximum numbe r of DHCP clients to learn dynamically on ports 6 and 7.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 49 ID, VLAN ID and port number in the DHCP request. Client A connects to the Switch’ s port 2 in VLAN 102. 5.8.1 Creating a VLAN 1 Access the web configurator through the Switch’ s port which is in VLAN 1.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 50 7 The DHCP server can then assign a specif ic IP address based on the DHCP request. 5.8.3 T roubleshoo ting Check the client A ’ s IP address. If it did not receive the IP address 172.16.1.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 51 2 Configure static trunking - Click Configuration > Aggregation > Static . In this screen select the traffic distribution type(s) used by this group and select the ports that should belong to this group as shown in the figure below .
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 52 1 Click Configuration > Ag gregation > LACP . Enable LACP on ports for which you want to create a trunk group using LACP . Leave the other fi elds to their default settings. Click Save .
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 53 5.10.1 Configuring Mirroring In this example, you are attached to port 2 but want to copy traffic receiv ed or tr ansmitted on port 7 for analysis. 1 Access the Switch through http://192.168.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 54 5.10.2 Configuring Re mote Port Mirroring In this example, there are three switches ( A , B and C ) in your network. Y ou are connected to port 10 of switch C but want to monitor traffic receiv ed or tr ansmitted on port 4 of switch A .
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 55 7 Click Save ..
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 56 8 Click Configuration > Spanni ng Tree > CIST Ports to disable (R)STP on the reflector port to prevent the port from entering blocking state.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 57 9 Go to Configuration > MAC Table to disable MAC address learning on the reflector and intermediate ports so that the Switch will NO T f.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 58 6 Click Save . 7 Go to Configuration > MAC Table to disable MAC address learning on the intermediate ports so that the Switch will NOT f.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 59 In Switch C: 1 Access the Switch through http://192.168.1.1 . Log into the Switch by entering the username (default: admin ) and password (default: 1234 ). 2 Go to Configuration > Port Mirroring .
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 60 8 Go to Configuration > MAC Table to disable MAC address learning on the intermediate and destination ports so that the Switch will NO T.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 61 Follow the steps below to enable IGMP snooping on the Sw itch and a specific VLAN. Y ou also have the Switch act as an IGMP pro xy to report group changes to a connected multicast router ( R ).
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 62 9 Click Save . 10 Configure both the router port and the ports to w hich the multicast clients connect as a member of VLAN 1234. See Section 5.4 on page 38 for how to create a VLAN and configure ports to join the VLAN.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 63 14 Click Save . 5.12 How to Configure Access Control List (ACL) for Packet s Filtering Access Control List (ACL) can be used as a simple pa ck et filtering firewall to filter incoming traffic and prevent certain traffic from entering your networ k.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 64 2 Go to Configurat ion > Security > Network > ACL > Access Control List . Click the Add icon to create a new ACL policy . 3 Select the port on which the matched traffic is received ( All ports in this example).
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 65 8 Click Save . The ordering of your rules is very importan t as rules are applied in the order that they are listed. This tutorial uses the XGS1910-24 screens as an example. The screens may vary slightly for different models.
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 66 10 Click Save . The ACL configurations in the Ports page (such as Action or Rate Limiter ID ) apply only to traffic that does NO T matched the specified ACL policy .
Chapter 5 Tutorials GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 67 5 After the Switch restarts, you can use the default user name and password to log in. >+M25PXX : Init device with JEDEC ID 0xC22018.
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GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 69 C HAPTER 6 Troubleshooting This chapter offers some suggestions to solve problems you might encounter . The potential problems are divided into the following categories. • Po wer , Hardware Connections, and LEDs • Switch Access and Login 6.
Chapter 6 Troubl eshooting GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 70 One of the L EDs does not behave as expected. 1 Make sure you understand the norm al behavior of the LED . See Sec tion 3.3 on pa ge 22 . 2 Check the hardware connections. See Section 3.
Chapter 6 Troubl eshooting GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 71 • If you changed the IP address and ha ve forgotten it, see the troubleshootin g suggestions for I forgot the IP address for the Switch. 2 Check the hardware connections, and make sure the LEDs are behaving as expected.
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GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 73 A PPENDIX A Legal Information Copyright Copyright © 2012 b y ZyXEL Communi cations Corpor ation. Th e co n te n ts o f t h is p ub l ic a t io n m a y n o t b.
Appendix A Legal Information GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 74 authorized Z yXEL loc al distributor for de tails about the W arr anty P eriod of this produ ct.
Index GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 75 Index A applications bridging 5 IEEE 802.1Q VLAN 7 switched workgroup 6 B basic setup tutorial 33 binding 45 binding table 45 building 45 C certification.
Index GS1910/XGS1910 Series U ser’s Guide 76 L LEDs 22 lockout 32 login 25 password 32 M managing the device good habits 8 using SNMP . See SNMP . using the web configurator .
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