IBM RackSwitch G8000 User Manual

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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
What You’ll Find in This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Additional References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Typographic Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
How to Get Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Part 1: Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 1. Switch Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Administration Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Command Line Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Browser-Based Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Establishing a Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Using Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using Secure Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using a Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using Simple Network Management Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
BOOTP/DHCP Client IP Address Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Global BOOTP Relay Agent Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Domain-Specific BOOTP Relay Agent Configuration . . . . . . . . . 32
Switch Login Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Setup vs. the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 2. Initial Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Information Needed for Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Default Setup Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Stopping and Restarting Setup Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Setup Part 1: Basic System Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Setup Part 2: Port Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Setup Part 3: VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Setup Part 4: IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
IP Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Loopback Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Default Gateways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
IP Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Setup Part 5: Final Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Optional Setup for Telnet Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chapter 3. Switch Software Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Loading New Software to Your Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Loading Software via the IBM N/OS CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Loading Software via the ISCLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Loading Software via BBI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
The Boot Management Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

IBM RackSwitch G8000 Specifications

General

Model	G8000
Category	Network Router
MAC Address Table Size	32, 000 entries
RAM	512 MB
Power Redundancy	Yes
VLAN Support	Yes
Layer 3 Routing	Yes
Layer	Layer 2/Layer 3
Power Supply	Dual AC or DC
Jumbo Frame Support	Yes
Routing Protocol	OSPF, RIP, BGP
Remote Management Protocol	SSH, SNMP
Features	VLAN, QoS
Compliant Standards	IEEE 802.1Q
Management	CLI, Web interface
Port Configuration	48 x 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports