> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Morse, Richard E.MGH > > What should I be looking at? I tried to Google various things, but I'm not > convinced I even know where to start -- at least, nothing I've found seems to > address my question, or at least make sense to me.
First, figure out the IP addresses of your switches. It looks like both the 5324 and 5224 have management interfaces. It will probably be easiest if you browse to them via http://ipaddress If you just want one big flat network, try doing a factory reset, if you can. On both switches. If you can't find any such thing, make sure all the ports have no VLAN specified (or by default, VLAN 1). Even the link that goes between the two switches - other people here have said use trunking etc, but don't. The simplest setup for you will be to make it as brainless as possible. By just having normal-configured, default ports, connected together, they should pass all traffic. The comments about portfast are worth paying attention to. If the ports don't come up fast enough, you might not have an active link by the time the system tries PXE boot. You might want to look in BIOS and see if they give you the option for a boot delay. If you don't have portfast, then the network will take an extra 30 seconds. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
