You'll have to verify that it is not used at the moment (ie. no DHCP lease active), and it is outside of the DHCP pool
Reviving page 124 from November. I'm a newbie+ on networking and CLI. If anyone has problems figuring out the config part of, "Now we need to assign that virtual interface an address. Choose an IP that is unused in your subnet, and out of your DHCP server range (ping it first to be sure it's unused)"
I use 192.168.0.1 for my main network. I used an old asus router that uses 192.168.1.1 in order to config my switch. Fohdeesha's doc made sense because he uses 192.168.1.1.
Once I put the switch on my network, I assigned it a static 192.168.0.xxx on my router, and then had to redo the command on the CLI to change the ip to the xxx I chose. (the interface ve 1 | ip address 192.168.0.xxx/24 commands)
My only other question is that the uplink ports "don't support half-duplex". Why does this matter, why would I want half-duplex? If I connect sfp+ connections (either directly to a nic or to a stack), the rj45 uplinks still function full speed, right? Some prosumer switches allow the sfp+ or the sister rj45's to be used, but not both at the same time.
My OCD may end up cleaning this thread up..., or creating a wiki like I did with the
HP N40L (multi-hundred pages on an Australian forum, STH and homeservershow, and then Hardforum got confusing). So much good information/discussion here scattered amongst 180+ pages.
Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread, and to Fohdeesha