Olicom 8600, 8605 manual IP State, Send Ping

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IP State

Display the following choices by highlighting IP State and pressing ENTER:

•IP Disabled

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BootP When Needed

BootP Always

Then highlight one of these choices and press ENTER. The meaning of these values are as described below:

•IP Disabled—When a VLAN is IP-disabled, it will not process any IP or ARP packets it receives. This means that no IP-SNMP, Ping, Telnet, or ARP Packets will be responded to when received.

➽Note: Sending a Ping from an IP-disabled VLAN or a VLAN whose IP address is 0.0.0.0 is not possible.

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BootP When Needed—In this state, the switch will send out BootP requests in the VLAN until the IP address becomes different from 0.0.0.0 or 192.0.2.1.

BootP When Needed is the factory-set default. A switch for which NVRAM is not initialized (for instance, a new switch out of the box or on a bootup after NVRAM is cleared) or one whose NVRAM is corrupted and unreadable, will always attempt to use BootP the first time.

BootP Always—In this state, IP is enabled for the VLAN but will not function fully on boot until a BootP reply has been received. If a non-zero IP address is stored in NVRAM for a given VLAN in this state when booted, it is cleared to

0.0.0.0since it would never be used.

➽Note: For the default TrBRF the value is BootP when Needed. For all the other VLANs the default is IP Disabled

Send PING

Prompts you to enter an IP address (IP address must be entered and the IP subnet mask must be set). The system then sends a PING to that address. Note that if you have just set the IP address, you must press ENTER and select the menu again before a PING can be sent.

CrossFire 8600/8605 Token-Ring Switches v. 1.2, P/N: 710001641 Switch Configuration