Moxa IKS-6728-4GTXSFP-24-T User Manual

Communication Redundancy User’s Manual Fourth Edition, March 2015 www.moxa.com/product © 2015 Moxa Inc. All rights reserved.

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-5 NOTE You do not need to use the same switch for both Ring Coupling and Ring Master. Dynamic Ring Coupling

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-6 (4) Ring Coupler – Scenario 2: By linking all members of DRC group 2 to the member of the another ring DR

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-7 Dual-Homing Configuration (applies only to “Turbo Ring V2”) The dual-homing option uses a single Ethernet sw

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-8 Explanation of “Current Status” Items Now Active It shows which communication protocol is in use: Turbo Ring

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-9 IKS-G6524/G6824 Series ICS-G7526/G7528/ G7826/G7828 Series The second from the last port The last

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-10 Configuring “Turbo Ring V2” NOTE When using the Dual-Ring architecture, users must configure settings for

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-11 Explanation of “Settings” Items Redundancy Protocol Setting Description Factory Default Turbo Ring Select t

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-12 NOTE For EDS-600 Series switches, there are certain restrictions on which ports can be used as ring ports.

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-13 NOTE The Turbo Ring DIP Switches located on the outer casing of EDS series switches can be used to configur

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-14 Configuring “Turbo Ring V2” with Dynamic Ring Coupling (DRC) Explanation of “Ring Status” Items Now Active

Communication Redundancy User’s Manual The software described in this manual is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-15 Explanation of “DRC Status” Items Coupling Group The “Coupling Group” indicators show Active for taking the

3 3. Turbo Chain The following topics are covered in this chapter:  The Turbo Chain Concept  Setting Up Turbo Chain  Configuring “Turbo Chain”

Communication Redundancy Turbo Chain 3-2 The Turbo Chain Concept Moxa’s Turbo Chain is an advanced software-technology that gives network administra

Communication Redundancy Turbo Chain 3-3 Configuring “Turbo Chain” Head Switch Configuration Member Switch Configuration Tail Switch Configuration

Communication Redundancy Turbo Chain 3-4 Explanation of “Settings” Items Redundancy Protocol Setting Description Factory Default Turbo Ring Select t

Communication Redundancy Turbo Chain 3-5 Member Role Default 1st Member Port Default 2nd Member Port EDS-400A Series EDS-505A/508A Series The second

4 4. STP/RSTP/MSTP The following topics are covered in this chapter:  The STP/RSTP/MSTP Concept  What is STP?  How STP Works  Differences bet

Communication Redundancy STP/RSTP/MSTP 4-2 The STP/RSTP/MSTP Concept Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) was designed to help reduce link failures on a net

Communication Redundancy STP/RSTP/MSTP 4-3 What happens if a link failure is detected? As shown in next figure, the STP process reconfigures the ne

Communication Redundancy STP/RSTP/MSTP 4-4 STP Calculation The first step of the STP process is to perform calculations. During this stage, each bri

Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Communication Redundancy ... 1-

Communication Redundancy STP/RSTP/MSTP 4-5 STP Example The LAN shown in the following figure has three segments, with adjacent segments connected us

Communication Redundancy STP/RSTP/MSTP 4-6 Using STP on a Network with Multiple VLANs IEEE Std 802.1D, 1998 Edition, does not take into account VLAN

Communication Redundancy STP/RSTP/MSTP 4-7 At the top of this page, the user can check the Current Status of this function. For RSTP, you will see:

Communication Redundancy STP/RSTP/MSTP 4-8 Setting Description Factory Default Auto 1. If the port does not receive a BPDU within 3 seconds, the po

Communication Redundancy STP/RSTP/MSTP 4-9 Redundancy Protocol Setting Description Factory Default RSTP (IEEE 802.1W/1D) Select the RSTP configurati

Communication Redundancy STP/RSTP/MSTP 4-10 Instance ID Setting Description Factory Default Numerical value selected by user Within each MST region,

Communication Redundancy STP/RSTP/MSTP 4-11 Port Role Indicates the current port role status. Setting Port Role Status Factory Default Port Role

1 1. Introduction to Communication Redundancy Setting up Communication Redundancy on your network helps protect critical links against failure, prote

Communication Redundancy Introduction to Communication Redundancy 1-2 Gigabit Ethernet Redundant Ring Capability (< 50 ms) Ethernet has become th

2 2. Turbo Ring The following topics are covered in this chapter:  The Turbo Ring Concept  Setting up “Turbo Ring” or “Turbo Ring V2”  Determin

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-2 The Turbo Ring Concept Moxa developed the proprietary Turbo Ring protocol to optimize communication redundan

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-3 When the Number of Switches in the Turbo Ring is Odd If there are 2N+1 switches (an odd number) in the “Tur

Communication Redundancy Turbo Ring 2-4 Ring Coupling for a “Turbo Ring” Ring To configure the Ring Coupling function for a “Turbo Ring” ring, sele