I agree with George, telnet to the IP address is the way to go. If you're familiar with Cisco, Dell or HP switches it'll look similar. They did call a few things different stuff, the syntax was different as well,? Is your friend. If you have a specific question on how to do something I could take a shot at dusting the cobwebs off those memories. Feel free to ask. The GUI never worked out that great for me.

I would suggest attempting to explain MTBF to management. Compusoft Winner Kitchen Design Software. Journal Bearing Design Software on this page. Also, you can score some used Cisco switches relatively cheap. That or grab an extra of the 3Com devices if they're available and make text file backups of your configs to paste in when one fails.

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Mr.Reagan wrote: I agree with George, telnet to the IP address is the way to go. If you're familiar with Cisco, Dell or HP switches it'll look similar. They did call a few things different stuff, the syntax was different as well,? Is your friend. If you have a specific question on how to do something I could take a shot at dusting the cobwebs off those memories. Ihavethepassword V 38. Feel free to ask.

The GUI never worked out that great for me. I would suggest attempting to explain MTBF to management. Also, you can score some used Cisco switches relatively cheap. That or grab an extra of the 3Com devices if they're available and make text file backups of your configs to paste in when one fails.

Thanks for the reply! I'm new to switches in general, that's why I was hoping for a GUI. I may be able to get some new switches through techsoup, I'll just have to skimp on my new server. If you're not trying to do anything super sophisticated you can maybe get away with the GUI.

It wasn't as reliable for me. Say for example you'd change a port from one vlan to another, it wouldn't actually change the membership or it'd end up with the wrong tagging. If the GUI isn't turned on you can enable it via the command line. Once it's on just go to your web browser and type in (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of the switch you want to manage). Took a quick look, HP bought 3Com, they still have the command reference up.

That looks overwhelming to me and I used to manage a hundred or so 3Com switches including the 3300's and 1100's. Kinda curious, how many of these have you got and what are you trying to do? If you don't have at least cat5 what have you got? Mr.Reagan wrote: If you're not trying to do anything super sophisticated you can maybe get away with the GUI. It wasn't as reliable for me.

Say for example you'd change a port from one vlan to another, it wouldn't actually change the membership or it'd end up with the wrong tagging. If the GUI isn't turned on you can enable it via the command line. Once it's on just go to your web browser and type in (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of the switch you want to manage). Took a quick look, HP bought 3Com, they still have the command reference up.