Allied Telesis 2.6.1 Option 1 Configuring the Switch before Installation, Use this procedure if

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Option 1: Configuring the Switch before Installation

Use this procedure if:

■You want to configure the switch before installing it in your LAN.

■You will be installing the switch at a remote office or a customer site and want to configure it first.

■You want a dedicated management PC permanently connected to the switch.

1.Select a PC to browse to the switch from

You can browse to the switch from any PC that is running a supported operating system with a supported browser installed. See “Browser and PC Setup” on page 22 for more information.

You need to know the PC’s subnet.

2.Connect the PC to the switch

Use a straight-through Ethernet cable to connect an Ethernet card on the PC to any one of the switch ports (see Figure 3).

Figure 3: Connecting a PC directly to the switch.

You can browse to the switch through any VLAN, as long as you give that VLAN an IP address (see below). These instructions assume you will use vlan1. The switch ports all belong to vlan1 by default.

3.Access the switch’s command line interface

Access the CLI from the PC, as described in “Connecting a Terminal or PC” on page 14.

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, bypass the HTTP proxy server, if necessary

See “HTTP Proxy Servers” on page 23 for more information.

8.Point your web browser at the LAN interface’s IP address

Software Release 2.6.1 C613-02039-00 REV A