700 Series Managed Switch User’s Guide for Software v2.1
•Port Trunking
•Virtual Cable Tester
•Advanced Tools
•Traffic Management
•VLANS
•Spanning Tree
•MAC
•Multimedia Support
The Advanced page allows professional users to operate more complicated features of the device, which include VLAN, Spanning Tree, Port Trunking, Multimedia support (IGMP), traffic prioritization, SNMP, and port mirroring. These features are powerful and can degrade or disable a network if improperly used.
•Disable Advanced Alerting: When you select a feature in the Advanced menu, an alert will pop up to inform you that the changes you are about to make may have adverse effect on your network. Experienced users may use this option to disable these alerts.
•Advanced Security: You can configure the security settings of the switch by choosing either to use basic password or RADIUS server to authenticate the user attempting to configure the switch. In addition, the user can also set up IP filtering to allow only approved users on the network to configure the switch.
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•Port Mirroring: Users can designate a port for monitoring traffic from one or more other ports or of a single VLAN configured on the switch. The switch monitors the network activity by copying all traffic from the specified monitoring sources to the designated monitoring port, to which a network analyzer can be attached.
•Port Trunking: 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. A bank is a set of eight ports. Up to four trunks can be operating at the same time. Toggle the ports to the correct trunk number to set up a trunk. After clicking Apply, the trunk will be enabled. Spanning Tree will treat trunked ports as a single virtual port.
•Virtual Cable Tester: The user can use this feature to test the continuity of the cable circuit.
•Advanced Tools: The user can upgrade the software of the switch or save/load the switch configuration file to/from a TFTP server.
