Configuring the Cajun P880 Switch

Chapter 2 — Configuring the Cajun P880 Switch

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 1 50 Series Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 1 80 Series Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 2 Terminal Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 3 Configuring the Supervisor Module Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 3 Configuring the Switch Using the Web Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 7 Logging Into the Web Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 8 Setting Up User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 8 Configuring Port Parameters Using the Web Agent . . . . . . . . . 2 - 9 Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Gigabit Ports . . . . 2 - 10

Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Fast

Ethernet Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 12 Using the All Ports Configuration Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 16 Viewing Switch Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 17 Configuring Switch Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 18 Configuring Port VLAN Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 21 Configuring VTP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 23 Configuring Non-VLAN Switch Port Parameters . . . . . . . . 2 - 24

Examples of Switch Ports Settings for Various VLAN Connection Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 25 Configuring Fast Start Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 26

Using the All Ports Configuration Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 27 Setting Up SNMP Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 28 Changing the Console Serial Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 30 Configuring the Serial Console Port as a TTY Console . . 2 - 30 Connecting a Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 31 Configuring the Serial Console Port as a PPP Console . . . 2 - 31

Regaining Configuration Access to the PPP Serial

Port Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 33 Configuring Dial-Up Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 33 Using Dial-Up Networking with a PPP Serial Port Console 2 - 35 Configuring the IP Interface for the PPP Console . . . . . . 2 - 35 Configuring a Static Route for the PPP Console . . . . . . . 2 - 36

Hardware Requirements for Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 36 Configuring IP Routing on the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 37 Minimum IP Routing Configuration Requirements . . . . 2 - 37 Routing Configuration Quickstart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 37 Configuring System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 38 Entering General System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 38 Enabling SNTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 39 Setting Summer Time Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 39 Setting Recurring Summer Time Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 40 Setting One-Time Summer Time Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 43 Setting the System Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 45 Setting the Temperature System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 46 Displaying the Power System Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 46 Displaying Cooling System Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 47

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