Asante Technologies 6200 - Manual (Page 34)

Configuring for Management
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address when it is connected to the network and is powered
on, if your network contains a BootP server configured with
available, valid IP addresses.
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Important! BootP configuration only works if
the IntraSwitch does not have an IP address
assigned to it.
1 Make sure your network has a BootP server con-
figured with a valid IP address entry for the
IntraSwitch.
2 When the IntraSwitch is connected to the net-
work and is powered on, it automatically trans-
mits a BootP request across the network (up to
10 times) until it receives a valid IP address from
the BootP server.
3 After an IP address is received, the IntraSwitch
can be managed via in-band access. See Chapter
4 for more information.
To verify that a valid IP address was received, use a tool such as
Ping
1
to try and access the IntraSwitch; if you can access the
IntraSwitch, it is properly configured with an IP address.
See “Bootstrap Configuration” in Chapter 5 for more
information on using BootP.
Console
Configuration
To manually configure the IntraSwitch with an IP address via its
Console port, use a VT100 terminal or emulator (such as Hyper
Terminal, ProComm, or ZTerm) running on a workstation or
personal computer to connect to the switch’s Local Manage-
ment Interface.
1. Ping is an application that can be used to test whether a remote device is
properly connected to a network.
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