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Switches and IPs
Name: Dudsmack Date: July 22, 2002 at 12:52:46 Pacific
Comment:
I assume all switches typical take on an IP for themselves...is there any address that is normally used?
Secondly, do switches have to assign the pc an IP, or is it possible to give the pc (win2k/xp) a static ip and just point it at the switch.
Name: Brian Date: July 22, 2002 at 13:11:34 Pacific
Reply:
You can assign an IP address to the switch if you want to, the only reason you might want to is to be able to remote into it and make changes to the config.
Switch's don't assign IP address routers and servers do(linux , windows W2K server can be DHCP servers)
Yes you can give your computer static ip address then you would not need a DHCP server then.
Switch is just like any other network device on the wire, it's just does a diff job thats all.
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