66 CHAPTER 3: SETTING UP FOR MANAGEMENT
Using the Command Line Interface through Telnet
1 To start a Telnet session to the unit, from Microsoft Windows, click Start >
Run. In the Open field type Telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the switch’s IP address) and click OK.
2 Press Enter to open a login prompt.
If the login prompt does not begin immediately, press Return a few times
until it starts.
3 At the Username prompt, enter admin as your user name and press
Return. At the password prompt press Return again. If you have logged
on correctly, <5500G-EI> or <5500-xx> is displayed (where xx is either
SI or EI) as shown in the example in
Figure 29.
Figure 29 User View Login using Telnet
4 Enter the system-view command and press Enter.
5 Enter interface vlan 1 and press Enter.
6 Enter the IP address and subnet mask for the switch as follows:
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm
(where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address and mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm is
the subnet mask of the switch)
7 Enter the default gateway for the switch:
ip route-static 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
(where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the default gateway)
8 From the User View, enter the save command to save the configuration
to your switch because the configuration is not saved automatically when
you power down the switch.
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