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Figure 3-14. Enabling an Individual Port
For more on setting up ports, see Configuring Interfaces on page 111.
Setting the Management IP Address
On first startup, you have management access only through the console port. If you want to manage the
switch through an IP-based access method (Telnet, SSH, SNMP, TFTP, etc.), you must configure a
management IP interface, using the following the procedure.
By default, the management address is reachable from all ports on the default VLAN, VLAN 1. One or
more ports in that VLAN must be enabled, as described in Enabling Ports, above. To change to another
VLAN, see Setting Up the Management VLAN on page 42.
After you enable and connect ports in the management VLAN and configure the management IP address,
as described above, you can manage the switch through a variety of means. The following procedures
describe enabling Telnet and SNMP, respectively.
Enabling Telnet to the Switch
Access to the switch through Telnet is disabled by default. If you want to access the switch through an SSH
client, you would leave Telnet disabled and set up the SSH connection, as described in Enabling Secure
Management with SSH on page 140.
To enable Telnet access, execute the
ip telnet server enable command.
Step Command Syntax Command Mode Purpose
1 show interface managementethernet User Exec or
Privileged Exec
Display current management IP
configuration.
2
management route default gateway Global Config Set the IP gateway of the management
interface.
3
interface managementethernet Global Config Invoke the (Config-if-ma)# prompt.
4 ip address ipaddr subnetmask
(Config-if-ma)#
prompt within the
Global Config mode
Set the IP address and subnet mask of the
management interface.
Note: Creating a management IP address is supported by both the Layer 2 (Switching) and
Layer 3 (Routing) licenses of SFTOS.
Force10 >enable
Force10 #config
Force10 (Config)#interface 1/0/22
Force10 (Interface 1/0/22)#no shutdown