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Hubs / Switches / Smart Switches

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 11:29 am
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
3 Part Series on What a Smart Switch Is
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/l ... ll-network

How to Set Up Link Aggregation
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/l ... ggregation

Stress Test Your LAN
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/l ... work-speed

Good talk on the TP-Link Easy Smart & Smart switches (makes clear how to setup VLAN's)
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=76022.0

How to run the Easy Smart Windows Only App in Linux/BSD (see above link for additional code)
http://pastebin.com/DwB4uaPR

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How to run TP-Link Easy Smart Configuration Utility in any OS with Java
 
Pre-requisites:
 
* Windows machine to "extract" the java JAR file
* Easy Smart Configuration Utility v1.0.2.16.exe (or up)
* Java JRE 7 with a graphical UI
* One (or more) TP-Link Easy Smart Switches:
        - TL-SG108E
        - TL-SG1016DE
        - TL-SG1024DE
 
 
Instructions:
 
1) Extracting the JAR file: Execute the install in a Windows machine. After the installation the JAR file is on directory "\TP-LINK\Easy Smart Configuration Utility\" with the name "Easy Smart Configuration Utility.exe" (forget EXE extension, is a mixed file with binary header and a JAR container). Copy JAR file to your destination machine. You can uninstall the tool in the windows machine if you like.
 
2) Execute the tool using this command: java -Xmx300m -jar "./Easy Smart Configuration Utility.exe". If you like to use the 64bit java runtime add "-d64"; and if you have sufficient RAM increase heap memory using "-Xmx500m"
 
Tested by me!
Note for the above:
Hi,
I have checked your howto, It works, but ...
On linux, the utility doesn't discover any switch.
I've done some network captures and strace and I found out why.
On linux, to receive broadcast udp packet, the application must bind INADDR_ANY, the TP utility bind the nic IP addr.
To allow discovery works, you must use a nat rule :
iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -p udp -d 255.255.255.255 --dport 29809 -j DNAT --to <@IP your host>:29809
It would be nice if you add this information in your howto ...

Re: Hubs / Switches / Smart Switches

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:07 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)