Chapter 8 Basic Setting

Table 12

Basic Setting > Switch Setup (continued)

LABEL

 

DESCRIPTION

Level 4

 

Typically used for controlled load, latency-sensitive traffic such as SNA

 

 

(Systems Network Architecture) transactions.

 

 

 

Level 3

 

Typically used for “excellent effort” or better than best effort and would

 

 

include important business traffic that can tolerate some delay.

 

 

 

Level 2

 

This is for “spare bandwidth”.

 

 

 

Level 1

 

This is typically used for non-critical “background” traffic such as bulk

 

 

transfers that are allowed but that should not affect other applications

 

 

and users.

 

 

 

Level 0

 

Typically used for best-effort traffic.

 

 

 

Apply

 

Click Apply to save your changes to the Switch’s run-time memory. The

 

 

Switch loses these changes if it is turned off or loses power, so use the

 

 

Save link on the top navigation panel to save your changes to the non-

 

 

volatile memory when you are done configuring.

 

 

 

Cancel

 

Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

 

8.6 IP Setup

Use the IP Setup screen to configure the default gateway device, the default domain name server and add IP domains.

8.6.1 IP Interfaces

The Switch needs an IP address for it to be managed over the network. The factory default IP address is 192.168.1.1. The subnet mask specifies the network number portion of an IP address. The factory default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.

On the Switch, as a layer-3 device, an IP address is not bound to any physical ports. Since each IP address on the Switch must be in a separate subnet, the configured IP address is also known as IP interface (or routing domain). In addition, this allows routing between subnets based on the IP address without additional routers.

You can configure multiple routing domains on the same VLAN as long as the IP address ranges for the domains do not overlap. To change the IP address of the

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