martes, 13 de mayo de 2008

Assign IP to CISCO 2960

Product : CISCO 2960
Part Involved : Switching equipment.
Summary: Procedure of Ip configuration of switching equipment.
Scenario : Previous tasks to consider before to install switching equipment in tele room
Company : National Cancer Institute of Peru (INEN).
Reference Date : April 2008.

It is not possible to exploit the overall options of the switching equipment if this one previously is not defined and assigned the ip configuration, with this little step ensures the remote management of the equipment as the other hand you dispose : Open the conecction with the equipment to connect it by using internet explorer browser and telnet with cli commands.

As we can check, the video is based over the reviewing of the next concepts :
(1) The factory ip assigned of the switching equipment is 10.0.0.1
(2) The Pc is configured using the ip 10.0.0.200 in order to establish a connection with switching equipment.
(3) The Ip of the switching equipment is saved with the value 192.168.88.31
(4) the pc is reconfigured using the ip 192.168.88.200 with the purpose to establish connection with switching equipment and check its update of ip configuration.
(5) Check the video to confirm these steps.

! Remember, if you you do not proceed with the change of ip address of every new switching equipment you can crash your LAN connections because there are ip conflicts !

Later in another articles, I will take some ways to show you How to catch up some troubleshooting issues linked with this issue.