IBM 8275, User Manual

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Contents
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
How This Manual is Organized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Accessing the Softcopy Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Online Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Obtaining Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
8275-416 Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Layer 2 Switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Management and User Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Reliability and Serviceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Year 2000 (Y2K) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Cabling Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8275-416 Status LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Ethernet Port LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7
Feature Module LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Physical Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 2. Accessing the 8275-416 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Connectivity Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Out-of-Band Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
In-Band Connectivity - Telnet, Web, SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 3. Configuring your 8275-416 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Configuring IP information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Concepts About Making Configuration Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Making Configuration Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Processing Configuration Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Saving Configuration Changes Across a Reset or Power Cycle . . . . . . 20
Making Configuration Changes via the Terminal Interface . . . . . . . . . 20
Making Configuration Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Applying (Processing) Configuration Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Saving Configuration Changes Across a Reset or Power Cycle . . . . . . 21
Making Configuration Changes via the Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . 22
Making Configuration Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Processing Configuration Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Saving Configuration Changes Across a Reset or Power Cycle . . . . . . 23
Making Configuration Changes via SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Making Configuration Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Processing Configuration Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Saving Configuration Changes Across a Reset or Power Cycle . . . . . . 23
Chapter 4. Using the Terminal Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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