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Setting up a Foundry Switch

Thu, 08/19/2010 - 15:30 — vsaadmin

Setting up a Foundry GbE switch (eg: EIF48G)

The focus here is not a "normal" setup of the switch , but strictly for HPC cluster usage. Note that randomly turning off options such as STP could cause havoc on a campus network! (but is safe in a single level HPC cluster private network)

Setup the serial port and turnoff STP.

Note that STP can be safely turned off only if the switch is exclusively for cluster usage. If the switch is connected to existing networks, please contact the site Network Engineer and check, get his approval first!

  • Connect serial port cable to your laptop serial port and switch serial port. See Serial I/O page if you have a USB-serial device.
  • Startup minicom as root
    minicom -s
  • Configure the port parameters to: /dev/ttyS0, 9600 8 N 1
  • Hitting return should connect you to the switch enter the loginname=admin, password=admin
  • At the command prompt, type 
    configure
no spanning-tree
exit


Console#copy running-config startup-config
Startup configuration file name []: startup
Write to FLASH Programming.
Write to FLASH finish.
Success.
  • Power down and powerup switch
  • Verify that your setting have taken effect.

Setting up web interface

From the config menu:

ip http server
ip http port 8000

Assigning an IP Address

console# configure
console(config)# interface vlan 1
console(config-if)#ip address 10.10.1.254 255.255.255.0
exit
ip default-gateway 10.10.1.1
copy running-config startup-config

Enabling secure shell

Viewing MAC address of system connected to the switch

(typically you need to know the switchport# connection to server#)

Console#show mac-address-table interface ethernet 1/2
 Interface Mac Address       Vlan Type
 --------- ----------------- ---- -----------------
  Eth 1/ 2 00-14-5E-32-9A-46    1 Learned


Console#show mac-address-table
 Interface Mac Address       Vlan Type
 --------- ----------------- ---- -----------------
  Eth 1/ 2 00-14-5E-32-9A-46    1 Learned
  Eth 1/22 00-14-5E-32-99-56    1 Learned
  Eth 1/47 00-14-5E-2B-9E-7F    1 Learned