Configuring The Ethernet Management Port; Tftp And The Ethernet Management Port - Cisco Catalyst 3560-X Software Configuration Manual

Chapter 1 Configuring Interface Characteristics
Before enabling a feature on the Ethernet management port, make sure that the feature is supported. If
Caution
you try to configure an unsupported feature on the Ethernet Management port, the feature might not work
properly, and the switch might fail.

Configuring the Ethernet Management Port

To specify the Ethernet management port in the CLI, enter fastethernet0.
To disable the port, use the shutdown interface configuration command. To enable the port, use the no
shutdown interface configuration command.
To find out the link status to the PC, you can monitor the LED for the Ethernet management port. The
LED is green (on) when the link is active, and the LED is off when the link is down. The LED is amber
when there is a POST failure.
To display the link status, use the show interfaces fastethernet 0 privileged EXEC command.

TFTP and the Ethernet Management Port

Use the commands in
loader.
Table 1-2
Command
arp [ip_address]
mgmt_clr
mgmt_init
mgmt_show
ping host_ip_address
boot tftp:/file-url ...
copy tftp:/source-file-url
filesystem:/destination-file-
url
1. ARP = Address Resolution Protocol.
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Table 1-2 when using TFTP to download or upload a configuration file to the boot
Boot Loader Commands
Description
Displays the currently cached ARP
without the ip_address parameter.
Enables ARP to associate a MAC address with the specified IP address
when this command is entered with the ip_address parameter.
Clears the statistics for the Ethernet management port.
Starts the Ethernet management port.
Displays the statistics for the Ethernet management port.
Sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to the specified network host.
Loads and boots an executable image from the TFTP server and enters
the command-line interface.
For more details, see the command reference for this release.
Copies a Cisco IOS image from the TFTP server to the specified
location.
For more details, see the command reference for this release.
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