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August 5th, 2010 01:00
Making the PowerConnect 5324 Unmanaged
Hello all ,
I am currently deployed with the US Army. I am working on a project to get soldiers in my batallion internet to contact their families , and we ran into a resource issue with switches. Someone donated 2 switches to us , but they are managed. Is there a way to default them and make them unmanaged to make it easier for us. We already have enough going on with load balancing routers , and WAN links....so i would like to take some complexity out of this equasion. I appreciate any help.
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August 5th, 2010 13:00
Thank you for your service!
You can delete the startup-config file and reboot.
console> enable
console# delete startup-config
console# reload
Note that this will make the switch unconfigured, not unmanageable. As long as someone has access to the serial port, they would always be able to configure it. You would have to physically restrict access to the switch to make it unmanageable.
Also, note that the switch will have all ports untagged in vlan 1 when there is no configuration. This means it will switch untagged traffic, but drop tagged traffic. A true unmanaged "dumb" switch would switch tagged and untagged traffic in any vlan (i.e. not drop tagged traffic). So, if your network has only untagged traffic, deleting the startup-config should work for you.