Instant Gigabit®Series
•VLAN Configuration allows you to group individual ports into a small “virtual” network of their own, independent of the other ports.
•Priority Configuration allows you assign varying degrees of priority to each port, making it possible for the information being transmitted on spe- cific ports to always take precedence over other ports.
•Restart allows you to restart the Switch, causing it to reboot.
•Exit takes you out of the Configuration.
The System Configuration Menu
The System Configuration Menu screen (shown here), allows you to view or change the following values:
•Password - This is where the administrative password for the Switch is set. With the password value highlighted, press the Enter key. Type in the new desired password and press the Enter key. You will receive a message in the white status bar near the bottom of the screen that indicates whether or not the change was accepted. Passwords may be made up of any charac- ters on the keyboard.
Note: When changing your Password, record the new Password in a safe place. If this new Password is lost, there is no method of recovering it.. Without the Password, it will be impossible to change any other settings on the Switch.
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•Aging time - This value indicates how long the Switch will keep an MAC address which has had no activity in its buffer memory. Keeping the MAC address in memory is valuable because the Switch does not have to search the network in order to deliver data to that MAC address, signifi- cantly preserving network bandwidth. After the specified amount of time passes, the Switch will “dump” the inactive MAC address, meaning that when new data comes through for that MAC address, the Switch will have to relocate it before transmitting. The higher the value, the longer the Switch will remember the MAC address before dumping it. To change the value, highlight it and press the Enter key. Enter the new value, which is measured in seconds, and press the Enter key again. You will receive a message in the white status bar near the bottom of the screen that indicates whether or not the change was accepted.
•Logout time - This value, measured in minutes, is how long the Switch will wait before logging an inactive user off the network. Once the speci- fied number of minutes have passed, any inactive user will be automatical- ly logged out. In order to change this value, highlight the Logout time value and press the Enter key. Type in the new desired value and press the Enter key. You will receive a message in the white status bar near the bottom of the screen that indicates whether or not the change was accept- ed.
•Auto refresh time - This value, measured in seconds, is how often the Switch will refresh the values on any screens in the menu. In order to change this value, highlight the Auto refresh time value and press the Enter key. Type in the new desired value and press the Enter key. You will receive a message in the white status bar near the bottom of the screen that indicates whether or not the change was accepted.
Once you have made all the changes you wish to make, highlight Return and hit the Enter key to return to the Main Menu.
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