[GLLUG] The old Switcharoo

[Darrel Ray Clute, III]

I have worked on a few Cabletron devices when I worked at Albion
College.  If I remember correctly the DB-9 serial port that you connect
to your comm port is not the same pinout as the Cisco terminal adapter,
and you use a straight-through not rollover cable.  Aside from the
pinout difference consoling in is the same as if you were establishing a
console session with a Cisco device (9600,8,None,1,None).  The CLI on
the Cabletron devices is not nearly as intuitive like the Cisco IOS and
is a little more difficult to navigate.  Once you have the IP
information set you will be able to telnet to the device from anywhere
on your LAN or the LAN to which it is connected.


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Darrel Clute, CCNP/CCDP

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On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 12:10, Stuart C wrote:
> thanks for the quick reply, i had found that pdf while searching for information on this thing...  However i cant seem to find out what the ip is, ive tried using dhcp to give it an ip on boot up, i think it needs bootp to do that though and im not quite sure how.  Also when i do get it an ip what do i do? just telnet to that ip from any of the ethernet ports or the com port? I have no experience with enterprise switches but im interested in learning.
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> From: "Melson, Paul" <PMelson at sequoianet.com>
> To: tuxedobird at bust.com, gllug <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
> Subject: RE: [GLLUG] The old Switcharoo
> Date: 18 Aug 2003 07:31:26 -0400
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> Cabletron was purchased by Enterasys a while ago.  Perhaps this manual is what you're looking for:
>  
> http://www.enterasys.com/support/manuals/hardware/3650_03.pdf
>  
> I've not done much with Cabletron hardware, but I remember that it has its own SNMP/RMON management software.  I don't know if there are published MIBs for plugging into OpenView, Tivoli, MRTG, etc.
>  
> Good luck!
>  
> PaulM
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> 	From: Stuart C [mailto:tuxedobird at bust.com] 
> 	Sent: Mon 8/18/2003 1:15 AM 
> 	To: gllug 
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> 	Subject: [GLLUG] The old Switcharoo
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> 	So i recently went down to u of m salvage and picked up a rackmount piece of machinery that was rattling and assumed broken.  I purchased it for rather cheap and when i took it home all i needed to do was pop the memory back in and reseat the cpu (looked like it had been dropped possibly). Well to make a long story short, its a Cabletron Smartswitch 2200 24 port 10baseTX switch with 2 fiber ports on it.  It seems to be working completely now according to the LanView leds but i cant seem to get into its local management.  If anyone has any experience with these cabletrons this is an official cry for help.  Im not sure if it has an ip or how to even give it one, i tried dhcp somewhat.  But i am unable to get into the local management to get the switch working to its full potential. Anyone have any advice? the cabletron manual doesn't help much and its hard to find websites about it. thank you.
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