D-Link DES-3624 - Manual (Page 6)

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0 ABOUT THIS GUIDE ............................................................................................................................................. 10
C ONVENTIONS ................................................................................................................................................................ 10
O VERVIEW OF THIS U SER ’ S G UIDE ................................................................................................................................. 10
1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................... 11
F AST E THERNET T ECHNOLOGY ...................................................................................................................................... 11
G IGABIT E THERNET T ECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................................. 11
S WITCHING T ECHNOLOGY .............................................................................................................................................. 12
F EATURES ...................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Ports ........................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Performance features ................................................................................................................................................. 13
Management ............................................................................................................................................................... 13
2 UNPACKING AND SETUP .................................................................................................................................... 14
U NPACKING .................................................................................................................................................................... 14
S ETUP ............................................................................................................................................................................. 14
D ESKTOP OR S HELF I NSTALLATION ................................................................................................................................ 14
R ACK I NSTALLATION ...................................................................................................................................................... 15
P OWER O N ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Power Failure ............................................................................................................................................................ 16
3 IDENTIFYING EXTERNAL COMPONENTS..................................................................................................... 17
F RONT P ANEL ................................................................................................................................................................. 17
R EAR P ANEL .................................................................................................................................................................. 18
S IDE P ANELS .................................................................................................................................................................. 18
S TACK O PERATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 19
O PTIONAL P LUG - IN M ODULES ........................................................................................................................................ 20
100BASE-FX (MT-RJ) Module .................................................................................................................................. 21
100BASE-FX (SC) Module......................................................................................................................................... 21
100BASE-TX Module ................................................................................................................................................. 22
1000BASE-SX Gigabit Module .................................................................................................................................. 22
1000BASE-LX Gigabit Module .................................................................................................................................. 23
1000BASE-T Copper Gigabit Module........................................................................................................................ 23
LED I NDICATORS ........................................................................................................................................................... 24
4 CONNECTING THE SWITCH .............................................................................................................................. 26
S WITCH TO E ND N ODE ................................................................................................................................................... 26
S WITCH TO H UB OR S WITCH ........................................................................................................................................... 26
10BASE-T Device....................................................................................................................................................... 27
100BASE-TX Device .................................................................................................................................................. 27
5 SWITCH MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS .............................................................................................................. 28
L OCAL C ONSOLE M ANAGEMENT .................................................................................................................................... 28
Diagnostic (Console) Port (RS-232 DCE) ................................................................................................................. 28
IP A DDRESSES AND SNMP C OMMUNITY N AMES .......................................................................................................... 29
T RAPS ............................................................................................................................................................................ 29
MIB S .............................................................................................................................................................................. 30
P ACKET F ORWARDING .................................................................................................................................................... 30
Aging Time ................................................................................................................................................................. 30
Filtering Database ..................................................................................................................................................... 31
S PANNING T REE A LGORITHM ......................................................................................................................................... 31