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C H A P T E R 3 Accessing the Switch
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You can enable BOOTP on a per-VLAN basis by using the
following command:
enable bootp vlan [<name> | all]
By default, BOOTP is enabled on the default VLAN.
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 command-line
interface, Telnet, or Web interface.
All VLANs within a switch that are configured to use BOOTP to get
their IP address use the same MAC address. Therefore, if you are
using BOOTP relay through a router, the BOOTP server must be
capable of differentiating its relay based on the gateway portion of
the BOOTP packet. For more information on DHCP/BOOTP relay,
refer to Chapter 10, IP Unicast Routing.
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,
Telnet software, or Web interface to communicate with the device.
To assign IP parameters to the switch, you must do the following:
• Log in to the switch with administrator privileges.
• 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 it 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.
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.