RuggedSwitch™ User Guide
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Document Conventions This publication uses the following conventions:
Note: Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to materials not
contained in this guide.
The following description is included to aid those users experienced with switches
that may wish to attempt to configure the switch without fully reading the guide.
Commands strings have been provided with their full path from the root menu.
1. Locate/mount the chassis in its final resting place.
2. Attach a PC running terminal emulation software to the RS232 port and apply
power to the chassis (default baud rate, data bits, parity - “57600 8 n”, no
hardware/software flow control). Set the terminal type to VT100. Gain access to
the UI (Type <CR>, the default password string is set to “admin”, see Chapter 1).
3. Configure the switch’s IP address (Administration, Configure IP Services, IP
Address) and Subnet Mask (Administration, Configure IP Services, Subnet).
If instead you wish the switch to load the address via DHCP, set the address type
to dynamic (Administration, Configure IP Services, IP Address Type). See
Chapter 1 for more details.
4. You may wish to change the default guest, operator and administration passwords
(Administration, Configure IP Services, Configure Passwords). See Chapter 1
for more details.
5. The ports are already set up with sensible defaults and autoselects where possible.
You may want to hard configure specific settings such as speed, duplex, flow
control and far end fault detection. Broadcast filtering is activated. See Chapter 3
for more details.
6. RSTP is enabled for the bridge by default and can be disabled if desired
(Spanning Tree, Configure Bridge RSTP Parameters, State). RSTP may also
be forced to support only legacy STP (Spanning Tree, Configure Bridge RSTP
Parameters, Version Support). Note that the switch deals with legacy STP
pathcosts by default and can be set to deal with larger path costs (Spanning Tree,
Configure Bridge RSTP Parameters, Cost Style). RSTP may also be set
enabled/disabled on a per port basis (Spanning Tree, Configure Port RSTP
Parameters, Enable). You may also want to identify controllers and IEDs by
setting the Edge parameter to True for those ports (Spanning Tree, Configure
Port RSTP Parameters, Edge). See Chapter 6 for more details.
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