Approved

Successfully Connected Serial Cable To Console Management Port

The S4810 can first be configured via the serial port. (This reconfiguration may involve enabling IP on the management port, methods that can then be addressed through that port). So I (LSL) installed the supplied 9-pin RS232 to RJ45 serial connector on the way to the RS232 S4810 serial console supervisor port, which is the top RJ45 port on the right side of the actual front panel of the device. I connected the other end to a suitable serial terminal or machine emulator with RS232 9600,8,1,N settings.

Similarities To Cisco IOS

To become familiar with the I-device, refer to the quick start guide. The first thing I noticed, as anyone who has had experience with Cisco, is that the command line interface of the Force10 operating system, FTOS, is awfully similar to Cisco IOS. This is reallyTerrible because it greatly reduces the learning curve for anyone with IOS setup experience. Some parallels include:

Port membership is configured across all VLAN interfaces. In Cisco they have trunk and access modes, but in Force10 ports are defined as tagged or untagged members of their own VLAN.

Configuring LAN Ports For Layer 2 Switching

This chapter describes how to use the command line interface (CLI) to configure the Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for Layer 2 switching in Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2SX. The configuration tasks described in this chapter apply only to the LAN-to-port switch modules and to all LAN ports, permanent supervisor, and Cisco ME 6500 Ethernet switches.

Jeffrey Moor

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