Allied Telesis AT-8600 Series Switch User Manual

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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.

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