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Cajun P880 Switch Installation Guide
Chapter 2 — Configuring the Cajun P880 Switch
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 1
50 Series Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 1
80 Series Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 2
Terminal Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 3
Configuring the Supervisor Module Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 3
Configuring the Switch Using the Web Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 7
Logging Into the Web Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 8
Setting Up User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 8
Configuring Port Parameters Using the Web Agent . . . . . . . . . 2 - 9
Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Gigabit Ports . . . . 2 - 10
Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Fast
Ethernet Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 12
Using the All Ports Configuration Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 16
Viewing Switch Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 17
Configuring Switch Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 18
Configuring Port VLAN Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 21
Configuring VTP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 23
Configuring Non-VLAN Switch Port Parameters . . . . . . . . 2 - 24
Examples of Switch Ports Settings for Various VLAN
Connection Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 25
Configuring Fast Start Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 26
Using the All Ports Configuration Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 27
Setting Up SNMP Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 28
Changing the Console Serial Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 30
Configuring the Serial Console Port as a TTY Console . . 2 - 30
Connecting a Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 31
Configuring the Serial Console Port as a PPP Console . . . 2 - 31
Regaining Configuration Access to the PPP Serial
Port Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 33
Configuring Dial-Up Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 33
Using Dial-Up Networking with a PPP Serial Port Console 2 - 35
Configuring the IP Interface for the PPP Console . . . . . . 2 - 35
Configuring a Static Route for the PPP Console . . . . . . . 2 - 36
Hardware Requirements for Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 36
Configuring IP Routing on the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 37
Minimum IP Routing Configuration Requirements . . . . 2 - 37
Routing Configuration Quickstart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 37
Configuring System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 38
Entering General System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 38
Enabling SNTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 39
Setting Summer Time Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 39
Setting Recurring Summer Time Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 40
Setting One-Time Summer Time Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 43
Setting the System Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 45
Setting the Temperature System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 46
Displaying the Power System Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 46
Displaying Cooling System Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 47