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must be assigned an IP address and subnet mask. IP addresses are always assigned
to a VLAN. The switch can be assigned multiple IP addresses.
For information on creating and configuring VLANs, refer to Chapter 6.
To manually configure the IP settings, perform the following steps:
1 Connect a terminal or workstation running terminal-emulation software to the
console port.
2 At your terminal, press [Return] one or more times until you see the login prompt.
3 At the login prompt, enter your user name and password. Note that they are both
case-sensitive. Ensure that you have entered a user name and password with
administrator privileges.
— If you are logging in for the first time, use the default user name admin to log in
with administrator privileges. For example:
login: admin
Administrator capabilities enable you to access all switch functions. The default
user names have no passwords assigned.
— If you have been assigned a user name and password with administrator
privileges, enter them at the login prompt.
4 At the password prompt, enter the password and press [Return].
When you have successfully logged in to the switch, the command-line prompt
displays the name of the switch in its prompt.
5 Assign an IP address and subnetwork mask for the default VLAN by using the
following command:
config vlan <name> ipaddress <ipaddress> {<subnet_mask>}
For example:
config vlan default ipaddress 123.45.67.8 255.255.255.0
Your changes take effect immediately.
As a general rule, when configuring any IP addresses for the switch, you can
express a subnet mask by using dotted decimal notation, or by using classless
inter-domain routing notation (CIDR). CIDR uses a forward slash plus the number
of bits in the subnet mask. Using CIDR notation, the command identical to the
one above would be:
config vlan default ipaddress 123.45.67.8 / 24