Extreme Networks Summit1 - Manual (Page 60)

3-12 S UMMIT S WITCH I NSTALLATION AND U SER G UIDE
A CCESSING T HE S WITCH
U
SING
T
ELNET
Any workstation with a Telnet facility should be able to communicate with the switch
over a TCP/IP network.
Up to eight active Telnet sessions can access the switch concurrently. The Telnet
connection will time out after twenty minutes of inactivity. If a connection to a Telnet
session is lost inadvertently, the switch terminates the session within two hours.
Before you can start a Telnet session, you must set up the IP parameters described in
the section
“Configuring Switch IP Parameters ,” later in this chapter. Telnet is enabled
by default.
To open the Telnet session, you must specify the IP address of the device that you want
to manage. Check the user manual supplied with the Telnet facility if you are unsure of
how to do this.
Once the connection is established, you will see the system prompt and you may log in.
C ONNECTING TO A NOTHER H OST U SING T ELNET
You can Telnet from the current command-line interface session to another host using
the following command:
telnet {}
If the TCP port number is not specified, the Telnet session defaults to port 23. Only
VT100 emulation is supported.
C ONFIGURING S WITCH IP P ARAMETERS
In order to manage the switch by way of a Telnet connection or by using an SNMP
Network Manager, you must first configure the switch IP parameters.
U SING A BOOTP S ERVER
If you are using IP and you have a BOOTP server set up correctly on your network, you
must add the following information to the BOOTP server:
• Switch Media Access Control (MAC) address
• IP address
• Subnet address mask (optional)
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