Users Guide

Restrictions
BMP 2.0 is supported on the user ports and management ports of a switch.
Reconfiguring Jumpstart and Normal
Modes
On a new factory-loaded switch, the switch boots up in Jumpstart mode. You can reconfigure a switch to
reload between Normal and Jumpstart mode.
Jumpstart (BMP)
mode
The switch automatically configures all ports (management and user ports) as Layer 3
physical ports and acts as a DHCP client on the ports for a user-configured time (DHCP
timeout). This is the default startup mode. It is set with the reload-type jump-start
command.
Normal mode The switch loads the Dell Networking OS image and startup configuration file stored in
the local flash. New configurations require that the Management IP and Management
Interface be configured manually. This mode is set with the reload-type normal-
reload command.
If a switch enters a loop while reloading in Jumpstart mode because it continuously tries to contact a DHCP
server and a DHCP server is not found, enter the stop jump-start command to interrupt the repeated
discovery attempts. The startup configuration file stored in the local flash on the switch is loaded as part of
the stop jump-start command and Auto-Configuration mode is changed to Normal reload.
The reload settings that you configure with the reload-type command are stored in non-volatile memory
and retained for future reboots. Enter the reload command to reload the switch in the current configured
mode: Normal or Jumpstart mode.
• Reload a switch running BMP version 2.0 in either Normal or Jumpstart mode.
EXEC Privilege mode
reload-type {normal-reload | jump-start [config-download {enable | disable}]
[dhcp-timeout minutes]}
If you reload in Jumpstart mode, you can configure:
• config-download: Whether the switch boots up using the configuration file downloaded from the
DHCP/file servers (enable) OR if the downloaded file is discarded and the startup configuration file
stored in the local flash is used (disable).
• dhcp-timeout: The amount of time the switch waits for a DHCP server response before reverting
to Normal mode and loading the startup configuration from the flash. The default time is
infinity,
which makes the switch continue to wait forever unless you issue the stop jump-start
command.
The range is from 1 to 50 minutes.
The default is the switch tries to contact a DHCP server an infinite number of times.
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