Connecting The Switch To The Network - NETGEAR GS108T-200NAS Software Administration Manual

GS108T and GS110TP Smart Switch Software Administration Manual
NETGEAR provides the Smart Control Center utility with this product. This program runs under
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discovers the switches on your network segment (L2 broadcast domain). When you power up your
switch for the first time, use the Smart Control Center to discover the switch and view the network
information that has been automatically assigned to the switch by a DHCP server; or, if no DHCP
server is present on the network, use the Smart Control Center to discover the switch and assign
static network information.
In addition to enabling NETGEAR switch discovery, the Smart Control Center provides several
utilities to help you maintain the NETGEAR switches on your network, such as password
management, firmware upgrade, and configuration file backup. For more information, see
Control Center Utilities" on page

Connecting the Switch to the Network

To enable remote management of the switch through a Web browser or SNMP, you must connect
the switch to the network and configure it with network information (an IP address, subnet mask,
and default gateway). The switch has a default IP address of 192.168.0.239 and a default subnet
mask of 255.255.255.0.
Use one of the following three methods to change the default network information on the switch:
• Dynamic assignment through DHCP—DHCP is enabled by default on the switch. If you
connect the switch to a network with a DHCP server, the switch obtains its network
information automatically. You can use the Smart Control Center to discover the
automatically-assigned network information. For more information, see
a Network with a DHCP Server" on page 1-3
• Static assignment through the Smart Control Center—If you connect the switch to a network
that does not have a DHCP server, you can use the Smart Control Center to assign a static IP
address, subnet mask, and default gateway. For more information, see
Network without a DHCP Server" on page 1-5
• Static assignment by connecting from a local host—If you do not want to use the Smart
Control Center to assign a static address, you can connect to the switch from a host
(administrative system) in the 192.168.0.0/24 network and change the settings by using the
Web-based management interface on the switch. For information about how to set the IP
address on the administrative system so it is in the same subnet as the default IP address of the
switch, see "Configuring the Network Settings on the Administrative System" on page
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