User manual NETGEAR FS526T

[. . . ] Page 1 of 58 © 2003 by NETGEAR, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks @2003 NETGEAR, Inc. NETGEAR, the Netgear logo, The Gear Guy and Everybody's connecting are trademarks of Netgear, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. [. . . ] o ID: The port number on the switch o Speed: Indicates the communication mode set for the port. The default setting for all ports is Auto-negotiation (Auto). The possible entries are Auto-negotiation (Auto), 10 Mbps half duplex (10M Half), 10 Mbps full duplex (10M Full), 100 Mbps half duplex (100M Half), 100 Mbps full duplex (100M Full), or Disable. o Flow Control: Indicates whether Flow Control support is set for on (Enabled) or off (Disabled). The default setting for all ports is enabled. o QOS: Indicate the priority for the port. The default setting for all ports is Normal. Quality of Service (QoS) is a way of managing traffic in a network, by treating different types of traffic with different levels of service priority. Higher priority traffic gets faster treatment during times of switch congestion. o Link Status: Indicates the current speed and duplex for the port. System> Switch Status: Port Status Page 24 of 58 The next part of the Switch Status page shows the Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) status. A VLAN is a way to electronically separate specified ports on the same switch into separate broadcast domains. By using VLAN, users can group by logical function instead of physical location. This page displays the port-based VLAN settings. The default VLAN setting is all ports belong to VLAN 1 as shown in Figure 2-4. To configure user-defined VLAN groups, go to the Switch> VLAN page. Figure 5-4. System> Switch Status: Port-based VLAN & TRUNK Port Trunking is a feature that allows multiple links between switches to work as one virtual link (aggregate link). Trunks can be defined for similar port types only. For example, a 10/100 port cannot form a Port Trunk with a gigabit port. For 10/100 ports, trunks can only be formed within the same bank. Up to four trunks can be operating at the same time. This page displays the Trunk status as shown in Figure 2-4. [. . . ] The packet will have access to Port 5 and Port 6. The outgoing packet will be stripped away its tag becoming an untagged packet as it leaves Port 6. For Port 5, the outgoing packet will leave as a tagged packet with a VLAN tag value 20. Page 56 of 58 APPENDIX C: Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN): Port-based VLAN Port-based VLANs will help efficiently confine the broadcast traffic to the switch ports with the specific VLAN. This switch allows up to 26 port-based VLAN groups, so each port can be in its own VLAN. [. . . ]