2950 Switch - Basic Configuration

[emozley]

Hi,

I've got a couple of 2950 switches (24 ports) and a router. I want to set up telnet access to the switches and although I know how to do the whole en, conf t, line vty 0 4, etc..etc.. I am baffled as to how to what I am meant to assign the IP address to. Should I assign it to a particular port or VLAN1 (which was down but is now up).

Thanks (and I hope the question is not too elementary for this site!)

Ed

 

[emozley]

Further to my previous message... I have assigned an ip address with a subnet mask to VLAN1 although I still am unable to ping it or ping from it. Is it something to do with the gateway of last resort? I have set the default gateway (if this is the same thing, I'm not sure).

Any ideas?

 

[vallan]

Hi

I have just looked at the config on one of our 2924 and we have VLAN as the address to be telnet'ed to, but then we have a default gateway as the router through whichb we connect to the Switch. So we have

interface VLAN1
ip address 20.x.x.x 255.255.255.0
no ip directed-broadcast
no ip route-cache
!
ip default-gateway 20.x.x.x

Hope this helps