Vswitch IP address basic configuration and instance demonstration

The basic configuration of the vswitch IP address and its instance demonstration have encountered many problems during access to the basic configuration of the vswitch IP address. The basic configuration of the vswitch IP Address has always been a hot topic, therefore, we hope the following articles can help you solve this problem.

After entering the configuration page, if this is the first configuration, you must first configure the basic IP address of the switch. This is mainly for remote configuration later. The basic configuration of the vswitch IP address is as follows: Enter Selection: in the preceding configuration page, Enter the "I" letter, and click Enter. The following configuration information is displayed:
The IP Configuration Menu appears.
Catalyst 1900-IP Configuration
Ethernet Address: 00-E0-1E-7E-B4-40
------------- Settings ------------------
[I] IP address
[S] Subnet mask
[G] Default gateway
[B] Management Bridge Group
[M] IP address of DNS server 1
[N] IP address of DNS server 2
[D] Domain name
[R] Use Routing Information Protocol
------------- Actions -------------------
[P] Ping
[C] Clear cached DNS entries
[X] Exit to previous menu
Enter Selection:

Enter "Enter Selection:" at the end of the configuration interface and Enter the "I" letter again. Select the "IP address" option in the configuration menu to configure the IP address of the switch, after you click the Enter key, the following configuration page is displayed:
Enter administrative IP address in dotted quad format nnn. Nnn. Nnn. Nnn): // press "nnn. Nnn. Nnn. Nnn "format input IP Address
Current setting ==> 0.0.0.0 // The basic configuration of the switch IP address before the switch is not configured is "0.0.0.0", representing any IP Address
New setting ==> // enter the basic configuration of the New vswitch IP address here

If you want to configure the subnet mask and default gateway of the vswitch, select "S" and "G" on the IP configuration page. Now let's take a look at the password configuration: In the above IP configuration menu, select "X" to return to the switch configuration interface described above.

Enter the "P" letter and press the Enter key. Then, at the prompt that appears, enter a 4-to 8-bit password. The password is displayed as "*" on the screen ), after entering the information, press enter to confirm and return to the logon page.

After the basic configuration and password of your vswitch IP address, the vswitch can work properly according to the default configuration. To change the vswitch configuration and monitor the network conditions, you can use the control command menu, or use WEB-based Catalyst 1900 Switch Manager anywhere.

If the switch is running Cisco Catalyst 1900/2820 Enterprise Edition Software. You can change the configuration through command-line interface CLI. After entering the configuration main interface, the item "Command Line" is added to the display menu, while the item "Console Password" is missing, which is carried out in the lower menu.
1 users) now active on Management Console.
User Interface Menu
[M] Menus
[K] Command Line
[I] IP Configuration
Enter Selection:

The configuration method in this version is basically the same as the configuration method described earlier. The difference is that in this version, you can select the "[K] Command Line" item by using the Command method) perform some advanced configurations. The following is a brief introduction. In the next section, we will introduce a common advanced configuration, that is, VLAN configuration.