3Com 10014298 manual Telnet, Connecting the PC to the Switch

16CHAPTER 1: SYSTEM ACCESS

Setting the Terminal Parameters is described in the following sections:

■Configuring Through Telnet

■Configuring Through a Dial-up Modem

■Configuring the User Interface

Configuring Through Before you can telnet to a Switch 7750 and configure it, you must:

Telnet

1Configure the IP address of a VLAN interface for the Switch 7750 through the console port (using the ip address command in VLAN interface view)

2Add the port (that connects to a terminal) to this VLAN (using the port command in VLAN view)

3Log in to the Switch 7750

Tasks for Configuring through Telnet are described in the following sections:

■Connecting the PC to the Switch 7750

■Connecting Two Switch 7750 Systems

Connecting the PC to the Switch 7750

To connect the PC and Switch 7750 through Telnet:

1Authenticate the Telnet user through the console port before the user logs in by Telnet.

By default, a password is required for authenticating the Telnet user to log in the Switch 7750. If a user logs in by Telnet without a password, the user sees the message: Login password has not been set!

2Enter system view, return to user view by pressing Ctrl+Z.

<SW7750>system-view

[SW7750]user-interface vty 0 4

[SW7750-ui-vty0]set authentication password simple/cipher xxxx

(xxxx is the preset login password of Telnet user)

3To set up the configuration environment, connect the Ethernet port of the PC to that of the Switch 7750 through the LAN. See Figure 7.

Figure 7 Setting Up the Configuration Environment Through Telnet

Workstation

Ethernet port

Ethernet

Server Workstation	PC (for configuring
	the switch through Telnet)