Asante Technologies 5324 - Manual (Page 87)

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Table 6-1 General Information Menu Parameters
Setting Description
Switch Name The name of the IntraSwitch.
Switch Location The location of where the IntraSwitch is
physically located.
Switch Contact The name of the person responsible for the
IntraSwitch.
ID/MAC Address The IntraSwitch’s hardware address.
IP Address The IntraSwitch’s IP (Internet Protocol)
address.
Subnet Mask The address of the subnet to which the
IntraSwitch belongs.
Default Router The IP address of the IntraSwitch’s default
gateway router.
Boot Load Mode The origin of the device boot image file (a
software file residing on hardware required by
the switch to operate on the network).
Local — indicates the switch is set to load the
image file from its internal flash memory
(default setting).
Remote — indicates the switch is set to
download the image file from a remote boot
server on the network.
Boot Mode The boot mode used for downloading a new
version of software for the IntraSwitch.
BootP-TFTP — sets the switch to request an IP
address from a BootP server and download
the image file through TFTP.
TFTP — sets the switch to only download the
image file through TFTP (does not request an
IP address; the switch must already be
configured with an IP address to use this
option).
Boot Server The remote boot server’s IP address.
Boot File Name The image file name and network path.