ACCESSING THE SWITCH

USING TELNET

Any workstation with a Telnet facility should be able to communicate with the switch over a TCP/IP network.

Up to eight active Telnet sessions can access the switch concurrently. The Telnet connection will time out after twenty minutes of inactivity. If a connection to a Telnet session is lost inadvertently, the switch terminates the session within two hours.

Before you can start a Telnet session, you must set up the IP parameters described in the section “Configuring Switch IP Parameters,” later in this chapter. Telnet is enabled by default.

To open the Telnet session, you must specify the IP address of the device that you want to manage. Check the user manual supplied with the Telnet facility if you are unsure of how to do this.

Once the connection is established, you will see the system prompt and you may log in.

CONNECTING TO ANOTHER HOST USING TELNET

You can Telnet from the current command-line interface session to another host using the following command:

telnet <ipaddress> {<port_number>}

If the TCP port number is not specified, the Telnet session defaults to port 23. Only VT100 emulation is supported.

CONFIGURING SWITCH IP PARAMETERS

In order to manage the switch by way of a Telnet connection or by using an SNMP Network Manager, you must first configure the switch IP parameters.

USING A BOOTP SERVER

If you are using IP and you have a BOOTP server set up correctly on your network, you must add the following information to the BOOTP server:

Switch Media Access Control (MAC) address

IP address

Subnet address mask (optional)

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