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Q1.

What is GVRP? Apr 24, 2009

Q2.

What is MLD Snooping? Apr 24, 2009

Q3.

What is Port Mirroring? Mar 03, 2009

Q4.

What is CPU Interface Filtering? Mar 03, 2009

Q5.

What is RAID Feb 13, 2009

Q6.

What will happen if the trial version of the Advance IPS Service of D-Link UTM Firewall, is expired? Feb 06, 2009

Q7.

What will happen if the trial version of the Advance IPS Service of D-Link IPS Firewall, is expired? Feb 06, 2009

Q8.

How to recover the password on DWR-500? Jan 22, 2009

Q9.

How to recover the password on DLM-3500? Jan 22, 2009

Q10.

What is SmartConsole Utility provided in Web Smart Switch series? Oct 16, 2008

Q11.

What is the difference between Port-based 802.1x authentication and MAC-based 802.1x authentication? Sep 16, 2008

Q12.

How many percents can D-Link Web Smart Switch series save the power consumption using its Green Ethernet technology? Aug 15, 2008

Q13.

What are the differences between D-Link Web Smart Switch and the D-Link Managed Switch? Aug 15, 2008

Q14.

How does NAS differ from SAN? Jul 21, 2008

Q15.

Why do I enounter an error when trying to install the Traffic Report? Jul 01, 2008

Q1.

What is GVRP? Apr 24, 2009

Answer:

GVRP or GARP VLAN Registration Protocol is a standard Layer 2 network protocol which enables automatic configuration of VLAN on switches. GVRP allows dynamic configuration and distribution of VLAN membership information.

Q2.

What is MLD Snooping? Apr 24, 2009

Answer:

MLD (Multicast Listener Discovery) is an IPv6 protocol used for multicast management. MLD is comparable to IPv4 IGMP protocol. MLD Snooping enables the switch to learn IPv6 multicast group membership. With this feature, the switch forwards multicast traffic only to the ports that requested it.

Q3.

What is Port Mirroring? Mar 03, 2009

Answer:

Port Mirroring is a function that enables a switch to send a copy of all packets received, on one port to another switch port. This function is usually used for network traffic monitoring.

Q4.

What is CPU Interface Filtering? Mar 03, 2009

Answer:

CPU Interface Filtering is a function that filters out malicious packets before it reaches the CPU, and prevents the CPU from unnecessary workload.

Q5.

What is RAID Feb 13, 2009

Answer:

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a storage technology that uses two or more hard disk drives to achieve higher lever of performance, reliability, or larger data volume sizes.

Q6.

What will happen if the trial version of the Advance IPS Service of D-Link UTM Firewall, is expired? Feb 06, 2009

Answer:

IPS feature will continue to work, but the Advance IPS signature database cannot be update d.

Q7.

What will happen if the trial version of the Advance IPS Service of D-Link IPS Firewall, is expired? Feb 06, 2009

Answer:

IPS feature will continue to work, but it will switch back to the built-in IPS Engine with compact signature database.

Q8.

How to recover the password on DWR-500? Jan 22, 2009

Answer:

Password Recovery Procedure:

Power off and power on the DWR-500 six times continously,and the interval time is about 40s at every power on.

Q9.

How to recover the password on DLM-3500? Jan 22, 2009

Answer:

Password Recovery Process:
If you forget your administrator password, use a Terminal (VT-100 compatible) to establish the connection between PC RS-232 series port and DLM-3500 Console interface, execute system reset to default.
Before you log into serial console, please complete following setting: Bits per second: 9600, Data bits: 8, Parity: None, Stop bits: 8, Flow control: None. The serial console and Web-based UI use the same username and password pairs. By default, the password of admin is admin, and the password of monitor is monitor. If the password is changed via the Web-based UI, it will also be changed in the serial console. In case you lose your password, you can use the username reset and password DLM-3500_dlink to log into serial console and reset the system to default.

Q10.

What is SmartConsole Utility provided in Web Smart Switch series? Oct 16, 2008

Answer:

The SmartConsole Utility is a configuration wizard that easily allows customers to discover multiple D-Link web smart switches within the same L2 network segment connected to user’s local PC.
Specialized for D-Link Web Smart Switch series, it provides easy initial setting of smart switches. Using this wizard, the administrator can do the following task:
- View events log and traps
- Do some configurations for any D-Link Switch discovered by SmartConsole Utility
- Change the device password for any D-Link Switch discovered by SmartConsole Utility
- Firmware Upgrade

Q11.

What is the difference between Port-based 802.1x authentication and MAC-based 802.1x authentication? Sep 16, 2008

Answer:

In Port-based 802.1x authentication, once a port is authorized by a client, then the other users connecting to the same port (using Hub/ switch) can pass through the switch and access network resources without the need to be authenticated.

In MAC-based 802.1x authentication, all users trying to access the network will be authenticated (username and password), and the switch will check in its database whether the maximum MAC address allowed has been reached. If the maximum has been reached, the users will not be able to access the network.

Q12.

How many percents can D-Link Web Smart Switch series save the power consumption using its Green Ethernet technology? Aug 15, 2008

Answer:

Green Ethernet for D-Link Web Smart Switch Series

Model

Available Port

Number of Active Port

Power Saving Percentage

DGS-1216T

16

16

28%

0

32%

DGS-1224T

24

24

25%

0

23%

DGS-1248T

48

48

22%

0

21%

:. Green Ethernet is only supported in Gigabit Web Smart Switch.

Q13.

What are the differences between D-Link Web Smart Switch and the D-Link Managed Switch? Aug 15, 2008

Answer:

The D-Link Web Smart Switches provide many of the same advanced features as fully managed switches, but at a price that is closer to an unmanaged switch. The Web Smart Switches are also easier to configure and operate than managed switches, making it more suitable to be deployed for SMB that have limited human resources but comes with increasing bandwidth requirements.
As the smart switches can be managed, configured and monitored using the user friendly web-based interface (GUI), administrator can easily configure the device without any difficulties, thus reducing the times spent and the cost of deployment and training staff are also dramatically reduced.

Q14.

How does NAS differ from SAN? Jul 21, 2008

Answer:

Storage Area Network (SAN) uses an architecture where remote computer storage devices such as disk arrays, tape libraries, etc. are attached to servers in a way the operating system sees the devices as locally attached.

In contrast to SAN, Network Attached Storage (NAS) uses file-based protocols such as NFS or SMB/CIFS, and recognizes the storage as remote, where connected computers request only a portion of an abstract file rather than a disk block.

Q15.

Why do I enounter an error when trying to install the Traffic Report? Jul 01, 2008

Answer:

This is probably because Apache is not installed on your computer. As Apache is an open source program which is not included in the Traffic Report installation CD.

To download the software needed for the installation of Traffic Report, click here.

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Green Ethernet for D-Link Web Smart Switch Series

Model	Available Port	Number of Active Port	Power Saving Percentage
DGS-1216T	16	16	28%
DGS-1216T	16	0	32%
DGS-1224T	24	24	25%
DGS-1224T	24	0	23%
DGS-1248T	48	48	22%
DGS-1248T	48	0	21%