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Moxa EtherDevice™ Switch EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual www.moxa.com/product Eighth Edition, July 2010 © 2010 Moxa Inc. All rights

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Getting Started 2-32. Select Open under Port Manager to open a new connection. 3. The Communication Parameter

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual EDS Configurator GUI 4-9Perform the following steps to unlock a locked EDS (i.e., a Moxa EtherDevice Switch with

AA Appendix A MIB Groups Moxa EtherDevice Switches come with built-in SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) agent software that supports cold/

BB Appendix B Modbus/TCP Map Modbus Information Read Only Registers (Support Function Code 4) 1 Word = 2Bytes Address Data Type Description

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Specifications B-20x0055 3 word Ethernet MAC Address Ex: MAC = 00-01-02-03-04-05 Word 0 Hi byte = 0x00 Word

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Specifications B-3Packet Information 0x2000 to 0x2023 2 word Port 1 to 5 Tx Packets Ex: port 1 Tx Packets = 0x4

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Specifications B-40x3302 1 word TR 2nd Port status 0x0000:Port Disabled 0x0001:Not Redundant 0x0002:Link Do

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Specifications B-50x3600 1 word TR2 Ring 1 status 0x0000:Healthy 0x0001:Break 0xFFFF:Turbo Ring V2 Not Enable

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Specifications B-60x3701 1 word Turbo Chain 1st Port status 0x0000: Link Down 0x0001: Blocking 0x0002: Bloc

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Specifications B-70x0053 2 word Firmware Release Date Firmware was released on 2007-05-06 at 09 o’clock Word 0

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Specifications B-80x1400 to 0x1413(Port 1)0x1414 to 0x1427(Port 2) 20 word Port 1 to 8 Description Port Descript

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Getting Started 2-45. Type 1 to select ansi/VT100 terminal type, and then press Enter. 6. The Console login sc

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Specifications B-90x3301 1 word TR 1st Port status 0x0000:Port Disabled 0x0001:Not Redundant 0x0002:Link

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Specifications B-100x3502 1 word TR2 Coupling Port Backup status (Only using in Dual Homing) 0x0000:Port Disabl

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Specifications B-110x3683 1 word TR2 Ring 2 2nd Port status 0x0000:Port Disabled 0x0001:Not Redundant 0x000

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Getting Started 2-58. After entering the Main Menu, use the following keys to move the cursor, and to select opt

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Getting Started 2-62. Type 1 to choose ansi/vt100, and then press Enter. 3. The Console login screen will be d

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Getting Started 2-74. The EDS’s Main Menu will be displayed. (NOTE: To modify the appearance of the PComm Termin

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Getting Started 2-8NOTE The EDS’s default IP is 192.168.127.253. Perform the following steps to access the EDS’s

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Getting Started 2-9Disabling Telnet and Browser Access If you are connecting the EDS to a public network, but do

33 Chapter 3 Featured Functions This chapter explains how to access a Moxa EtherDevice Switch’s various configuration, monitoring, and administrat

Configuring Basic Settings The Basic Settings group includes the most commonly used settings required by administrators to maintain and control the

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-2Web Configuration Setting Description Factory Default Disable / http or https / https onl

Moxa EtherDevice™ Switch EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual The software described in this manual is furnished under a license agreement and may be u

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-3Password Setting Description Factory Default Old Password (Max. 16 Characters) Type cur

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-4The following table shows additional configuration examples: Allowable Hosts Input format

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-5Name Setting Description Factory Default Max. 63 Characters Specify an alias for each por

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-6Network The Network configuration allows users to configure both IPv4 and IPv6 parameters f

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-7Switch Subnet Mask Setting Description Factory DefaultSubnet mask of the EDS-405A/408A Id

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-8identifier (Switch’s MAC address) Neighbor Cache Setting Description Factory DefaultNone

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-9Current Date Setting Description Factory Default User adjustable date. The date parameter

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-10Time Server Query Period Setting Description Factory Default Query Period This parameter

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-11Set DIP switch as Turbo Ring / Set DIP switch as Turbo Ring V2 Setting Description Facto

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-12“Turbo Ring” DIP Switch Settings DIP 1 DIP 2 DIP 3 DIP 4 ON: Enables this EDS as the

Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction ...1-1 Inside

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-13NOTE If you use the browser interface to enable the DIP switches (by un-checking the “Disa

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-14After setting up the desired path and file name, click Activate to save the setting, and t

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-15Auto load system configurations when system boots up Setting Description Factory Default

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-16Select the security mode and level that will be used to communicate between the SNMP agent

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-17SNMP Read/Write Settings SNMP Versions Setting Description Factory Default V1, V2c, V3 S

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-18User Auth. Type (for SNMP V1, V2c, V3 and V3 only) Setting Description Factory Default N

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-191st Trap Server IP/Name Setting Description Factory Default IP or Name Enter the IP addr

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-20Using Communication Redundancy Setting up Communication Redundancy on your network helps p

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-21NOTE Port trunking and Turbo Ring can be enabled simultaneously to form a backbone. Doing

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-22“Turbo Ring” rings with an even number of EDS units Master If there are 2N EDS units (an e

Sample Applications of VLANs using the EDS-405A/408A... 3-48 Configuring Virtual LAN...

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-23Ring Coupling Configuration For some systems, it may not be convenient to connect all devi

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-24Note that the ring coupling settings for a “Turbo Ring V2” ring are different from a “Turb

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-25Dual-Homing Configuration (applies only to “Turbo Ring V2”) The “dual-homing” option uses

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-26Explanation of “Current Status” Items Now Active Shows which communication protocol is in

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-27Coupling Port Setting Description Factory Default Coupling Port Select any port of the E

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-28Ring 1/2—Master/Slave Indicates whether or not this EDS is the Master of the Turbo Ring. (

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-29Set as Master Setting Description Factory Default Enabled Select this EDS as Master Dis

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-30NOTE The Turbo Ring DIP Switches located on the EDS-405A/408A’s outer casing can be used t

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-31Configuring “Turbo Chain” Head Switch Configuration Member Switch Configuration Tail Swi

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-32Explanation of “Current Status” Items Now Active Shows which communication protocol is in

11 Chapter 1 Introduction Welcome to the Moxa EtherDevice Switch EDS-405A/408A Series, the world’s first intelligent Ethernet Device Switch design

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-33EDS-408A: port 8 The STP/RSTP Concept Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) was designed to help re

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-34If STP is enabled, it will detect duplicate paths and prevent, or block, one of them from

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-35y Each bridge must have a Bridge Identifier that specifies which bridge acts as the centr

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-36Differences between RSTP and STP RSTP is similar to STP, but includes additional informati

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-37¾ The route through Bridges Y and B costs 300 (Y to B=200, B to A=100) y The Designated

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-38 At the top of this page, the user can check the Current Status of this function. For RSTP

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-39Forwarding Delay Setting Description Factory Default Numerical value input by user The a

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-40Port Status This indicates the current Spanning Tree status of this port. The status value

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-41y Assign priorities to different categories of traffic. For example, set higher prioritie

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-42y The tag is part of the IEEE 802.1Q header, so to implement QoS at layer 2, the entire n

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Introduction 1-2Inside the Future of Industrial Ethernet Technology The trend in industrial communications and au

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-43low-priority, but in the event that high-priority traffic exceeds the link capacity, lower

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-44Inspect TOS Setting Description Factory Default Enable/Disable Select this setting to en

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-45Setting Description Factory Default Low/Normal/Medium/High Set the mapping table of diff

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-46y Hierarchical groups—You could have one VLAN for directors, another for managers, and an

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-47Managing a VLAN A new or initialized EDS contains a single VLAN—the Default VLAN. This VLA

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-48Sample Applications of VLANs using the EDS-405A/408A Port 3 (Trunk Port, PVID 1)VLAN 5 Unt

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-49Packets from device H will travel through “Trunk Port 3” with PVID 3. Switch A will recogn

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-50Port Type Setting Description Factory DefaultAccess This port type is used to connect s

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-51VLAN Mode Setting Description Factory Default 802.1Q VLAN Set VLAN mode to 802.1Q VLAN

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-52the delivery path that reaches group members diverges. To make more efficient use of netwo

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Introduction 1-3Package Checklist Each Moxa EDS-405A/408A Series switch is shipped with the following items: y 1

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-53Network with multicast filtering IGMP Group2Group 1 Multicast Stream Group 2 Multicast Str

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-542. When an IP host receives a query packet, it sends a report packet back that identifies

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-55function globally. IGMP Snooping Enhanced Mode Setting Description Factory DefaultEnable

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-56IGMP Table The EDS displays the current active IGMP groups that were detected. The inform

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-57Configuring GMRP GMRP is a MAC-based multicast management protocol, whereas IGMP is IP-bas

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-58Using Rate Limiting A single device should not be allowed to occupy unlimited bandwidth, e

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-59Rate of Normal Priority Queue Setting Description Factory Default The same or double rat

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-60Test Email function to see if your e-mail addresses and mail server address have been prop

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-61that port (provided this setting is Enabled). Traffic-Threshold (%) Enter a nonzero number

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-62Password Setting Setting Description Factory Default Disable/Enable to change Password T

22 Chapter 2 Getting Started This chapter explains how to access your Moxa EtherDevice Switch for the first time. There are three ways to access t

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-63Relay Warning Events Settings NOTE: The user interface for the EDS-408A shows 8 ports. Ev

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-64Port Event Warning e-mail is sent when… Link-on The port is connected to another device.

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-65Enable Line-Swap-Fast-Recovery Setting Description Factory Default Enable/Disable Selec

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-66Configuring Set Device IP NOTE: The user interface for EDS-408A shows 8 ports. Desired IP

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-671. The IP address of the relay agent. 2. The MAC address of the relay agent. 3. A combi

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-68DHCP Option 82 Enable Option82 Setting Description Factory DefaultEnable or Disable Ena

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-69The Mirror port function can be used to monitor data being transmitted through a specific

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-70 LLDP Web Interface From the switch’s web interface, users have the option of either enab

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-71Neighbor Port: The port number of the neighbor device. Neighbor Port Description: A textua

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-72shows Uni-cast packets, the green colored bar shows Multi-cast packets, and the blue color

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Getting Started 2-2RS-232 Console Configuration (115200, None, 8, 1, VT100) NOTE Connection Caution! 1. You cann

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-73Using Event Log Bootup This field shows how many times the EDS has been rebooted or cold

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual Featured Functions 3-74 Syslog Server 1 Setting Description Factory Default IP Address Enter the IP address of

44 Chapter 4 EDS Configurator GUI EDS Configurator is a comprehensive Windows-based GUI that is used to configure and maintain multiple Moxa Ether

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual EDS Configurator GUI 4-2Starting EDS Configurator To start EDS Configurator, locate and then run the executable f

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual EDS Configurator GUI 4-3Once the search is complete, the Configurator window will display a list of all switches

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual EDS Configurator GUI 4-4Upgrade Firmware Keep your Moxa EtherDevice Switch up to date with the latest firmware fr

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual EDS Configurator GUI 4-5Modify IP Address You may use the Modify IP Address function to reconfigure the EDS’s net

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual EDS Configurator GUI 4-6Export Configuration The Export Configuration utility is used to save the entire configur

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual EDS Configurator GUI 4-7Import Configuration The Import Configuration function is used to import an entire config

EDS-405A/408A Series User’s Manual EDS Configurator GUI 4-84. Click Yes in response to the following warning message to accept the new settings. U