48 C HAPTER 3: A CCESSING THE S WITCHTo manually configure the IP settings, perform the following steps:1 Connect a terminal or workstation running terminal-emulation softwareto the console port.2 At your terminal, press [Return] one or more times until you see the loginprompt.3 At the login prompt, enter your user name and password. Note that theyare both case-sensitive. Ensure that you have entered a user name andpassword with administrator privileges.n If you are logging in for the first time, use the default user nameadmin to log in with administrator privileges. For example:login: adminAdministrator capabilities enable you to access all switch functions.The default user names have no passwords assigned.n If you have been assigned a user name and password withadministrator privileges, enter them at the login prompt.4 At the password prompt, enter the password and press [Return].When you have successfully logged in to the switch, the command-lineprompt displays the name of the switch in its prompt.5 Assign an IP address and subnetwork mask for the default VLAN by usingthe following command:config vlan ipaddress {}For example:config vlan default ipaddress 123.45.67.8 255.255.255.0Your changes take effect immediately.As a general rule, when configuring any IP addresses for the switch, youcan express a subnet mask by using dotted decimal notation, or by usingclassless inter-domain routing notation (CIDR). CIDR uses a forward slashplus the number of bits in the subnet mask. Using CIDR notation, thecommand identical to the one above would be:config vlan default ipaddress 123.45.67.8 / 246 Configure the default route for the switch using the following command:config iproute add default {}
