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August 3rd, 2009 13:00
Configure PowerConnect 5324 from Scratch?
Howdy folks, new to the boards, but I could use a little help configuring some PowerConnect 5324's for a possible contract job I've been asked to look into.
Basically, we have a simple school network we would like to put these switches in place for, so we can lose the unmanaged switches. The address space is 10.10.30.xxx, with the default gateway being 10.10.30.254 I think.
We have two switches to put in, and want to give them the IPs 10.10.30.8 and 10.10.30.9
As of this last weekend, I managed to get at least this far --> the switches have the latest software and boot code, and they are set up with the default gateway above, and ip interface vlan 1 was configured up as 10.10.30.8 on one, and 10.10.30.9 on the other.
Where do I go from here? I noticed they're still not passing traffic, and unfortunately, I'm more or less a newb at this -- I've worked a bit with Cisco's IOS (and rapidly becoming familiar with Dell's IOS) but can't make heads or tails out of the user guides dry ramblings about all of the granular little things you can or can't configure, but talks nothing of a basic configuration.
IE...we just need each switch, to have an address, and a same (or different?) address for IOS/Remote administration, to use the schools default gateway, and pass traffic to its ports for DHCP/etc.
Hope that makes sense. Can anyone help?
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bh1633
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August 3rd, 2009 13:00
Please post your config file (the output of "show running-config").
How do you know they are still not passing traffic?
Is there vlan tagged traffic on the school network?
Orochium
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August 3rd, 2009 14:00
I will try to grab the running config next time I have a chance, this is sort of a 'side job', and I'm working at my primary site today.
Basically, after we returned the switch to factory default -->
set ip interface vlan 1 to ip address 10.10.30.8
then
set ip default-gateway to 10.10.30.254
also set the enable password and a few other things, but thats ALL we've done. I can tell so far its not passing traffic since (when it has an uplink) it doesn't give a laptop plugged into the switch a dhcp address (for instance) -- didn't get a chance to try a static ip.
My apologies, but ultra truth here: I'm a newb with these switches, but with some background, still better equipped to look into it than most people locally, hence why I'm looking for some input here. I'm assuming I'm missing a config step?