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Figure 14   Initial Switch Setup and Management Flow Diagram

CAUTION: To protect your Switch from unauthorized access, you must change all 
three default passwords as soon as possible, even if you do not intend to actively 
manage your Switch. For more information on default users and changing default 
passwords, see “Default Users and Passwords” on page 47.

You can use one of the following methods to allocate IP information to your 
switch (essential if you wish to manage your Switch across the network).

When you configure the IP information, the switch remembers the information 
that you enter until you change it again. You should use the Manual IP 
configuration method if:

■

you do not have a DHCP or BootP server on your network, or

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you want to remove the risk of the IP address ever changing, or

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your DHCP server does not allow you to allocate static IP addresses. (Static IP 
addresses are necessary to ensure that the Switch is always allocated the same 
IP information.)

IP Information is automatically configured via 

DHCP

See page 37

Do you want to manually 

configure the IP information?

How do you want to manage your Switch? See page 34

Command Line Interface

Web Interface

How do you want to view the automatically

configured IP information?

How do you want to connect to the Switch?

Yes

No