Specifications

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Managing the Switch

You can disable BOOTP or DHCP per VLAN by using the following commands:

disable bootp vlan [<vlan> | all]

disable dhcp vlan [<vlan_name> | all]

To view the current state of the BOOTP or DHCP client, use the following command:

show dhcp-client state

If you configure the switch to use BOOTP, the switch IP address is not retained through a power cycle,

even if the configuration has been saved. To retain the IP address through a power cycle, you must

configure the IP address of the VLAN using the CLI or Telnet.

All VLANs within a switch that are configured to use BOOTP to get their IP addresses use the same

MAC address. Therefore, if you are using BOOTP relay through a router, the BOOTP server relays

packets based on the gateway portion of the BOOTP packet.

NOTE

For more information on DHCP/BOOTP relay, see Chapter 15.

Manually Configuring the IP Settings

If you are using IP without a BOOTP server, you must enter the IP parameters for the switch in order

for the SNMP Network Manager or Telnet software to communicate with the device. To assign IP

parameters to the switch, you must perform the following tasks:

• Log in to the switch with administrator privileges using the console interface.

• Assign an IP address and subnet mask to a VLAN.

The switch comes configured with a default VLAN named default. To use Telnet or an SNMP

Network Manager, you must have at least one VLAN on the switch, and that VLAN must be

assigned an IP address and subnet mask. IP addresses are always assigned to each VLAN. The

switch can be assigned multiple IP addresses (one for each VLAN).

NOTE

For information on creating and configuring VLANs, see Chapter 5.

To manually configure the IP settings:

1 Connect a terminal or workstation running terminal emulation software to the console port, as

detailed in “Using the Console Interface” on page 41.

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:

Administrator capabilities enable you to access all switch functions. The default user names have

no passwords assigned.