The management functionallity isnt available if the management mode light isnt on. You need to press the management mode button. Be aware when you do this the switch will reboot and may take a couple minutes to come back online. Once the managed mode light is on you will have to put one of your machines in the same subnet as the switch ip 192.168.2.X so you can login to the switch. Then change the ip of the switch so its the same subnet as your network (assuming thats how you want to manage it).
And dont push the managed mode button anymore after this point or it will dump your configuration.
DRNO10
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July 2nd, 2008 13:00
The management functionallity isnt available if the management mode light isnt on. You need to press the management mode button. Be aware when you do this the switch will reboot and may take a couple minutes to come back online. Once the managed mode light is on you will have to put one of your machines in the same subnet as the switch ip 192.168.2.X so you can login to the switch. Then change the ip of the switch so its the same subnet as your network (assuming thats how you want to manage it).
And dont push the managed mode button anymore after this point or it will dump your configuration.
Ztrauq
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July 11th, 2008 15:00
Thanks,
I 'stole' a desktop, changed the IP address to static 192.168.2.2 and was able to configure the switch.
I assigned it a static IP address in our excluded from distribution range on our DHCP and added a reservation for the Mac Addr. All is well.
Of course now I should go back and enable DHCP on the switch.
Thanks again.