Allied Telesis Comprehensive Guide for Setting Up Switches

12 AT-8600 Series Switch

2.Connect the PC to the switch.

Use an Ethernet cable to connect an Ethernet card on the PC to any one of the switch ports.

You can browse to the router through any VLAN, as long as you give that VLAN an IP address. These instructions assume you are using vlan1. All switch ports belong to vlan1 by default.

3.Access the switch’s command line interface.

Access the CLI from the PC, as described in the previous section, “Using the CLI to configure a switch” on page 10.

4.Enable IP.

enable ip

5.Assign the vlan1 interface an IP address in the same subnet as the PC. add ip interface=vlan1 ip=ipaddress mask=mask

6.Save the configuration and set the switch to use it on bootup. create config=your-name.cfg

set config=your-name.cfg

7.On the PC’s web browser, bypass the HTTP proxy server, if necessary.

8.Point your Web browser at IP address for vlan1.

9.At the login prompt, enter the user name and password.

User Name: manager <the default>

Password: friend

The System Status page is displayed. Select options from the sidebar menu to configure and manage the switch.

For context-sensitive online help, click the Help button at the top of the sidebar menu or on any pop-up page.