User manual ASUS GIGAX 3124

[. . . ] Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. SPECIFICATIONS AND INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MANUAL ARE FURNISHED FOR INFORMATIONAL USE ONLY, AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY ASUS. ASUS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT. Copyright © 2004 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. [. . . ] The discovery result will display in the topology frame. There is a corresponding function icon in the tool bar. Update: detect if the communications between the CNM station and the discovered switches is good or not. The switch icon will show to indicate that the communication is broken. GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management 17 5. Add Switch: add a switch to the topology tree manually. A window will show for this purpose as shown below. Select the network adapter you want the switch to attach to, give the switch MAC and name, and an authentication key as the password if you don't use the default one (2379), then click OK to finish the action. However, a manually added switch does not mean it can be configured or discovered by CNM. The function provides a way to add a known switch to topology list once the CNM cannot discover the switch. There is a tool bar button for it. . Figure 4. 6 Add Switch (GigaX 1024P) Figure 4. 6. 1 Add Switch (GigaX 1024I) 18 GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management 6. Remove Switch: you can remove any switch in the topology list manually through this function. Switch: check the box if you want the new switch to be added under a specified switch in the topology tree. The manually added switch will be moved to a right place to show the relationships in the topology after a successful discovery. MAC: the most important information is the MAC address. If the MAC is wrong, the new added switch can not be accessed by CNM. Name: a good name may remind you something about the switch. However, the switch name is good only in the same CNM file. So the name may not be unique when you use different CNM files to do discover. GigaX Smart Switch Centralized Network Management 21 Once a switch is added to the topology tree, you can find it in the corresponding place. You have to left click the switch symbol to switch the current status/ configuration window from other switch to this switch. If the communication is good, you can see the linking status window on the right frame of the CNM window, and the topology tree will display the switch symbol in a correct place to show the relationship. If CNM cannot discover the manually added switch, then a will attach to the switch to show it is not reachable to the CNM. Figure 4. 12 shows the window to remove switches, just check the box before the switch to select those you want to remove, click the remove icon to start the action. [. . . ] ARP broadcast packet inter-VLAN leaky: to enable ARP frame to broadcast to all switch ports. IP multicast packet inter-VLAN leaky: to enable IP multicast packet to be flooded to all the multicast address group member set ignore the VLAN member set domain limitation. 802. 1Q VLAN tag aware: to enable tag-based VLAN function. Ingress rule for acceptable frame types: to admit all frames or to admin only VLAN-tagged frames. [. . . ]