Cat 1900's and command lines????
totts
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Can anyone throw some light on this for me please...
I bought two 2500 routers and a Cat 1900 switch from ebay recently. Everything's fine apart from the switch... I was expecting command lines similar to the routers but the switchs IOS is menu driven which doesn't appear to feature in any of the CCNA labs or training.
The confusing thing is, that when I'm reading about Cat 1900s, they often refer to their command lines, such as the command to set a management IP address.
Can the menu driven IOS be changed to a command line IOS? If not, is there anything else I can do as I don't think this switch is of any use for a learning aid, or am I wrong about that?
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I bought two 2500 routers and a Cat 1900 switch from ebay recently. Everything's fine apart from the switch... I was expecting command lines similar to the routers but the switchs IOS is menu driven which doesn't appear to feature in any of the CCNA labs or training.
The confusing thing is, that when I'm reading about Cat 1900s, they often refer to their command lines, such as the command to set a management IP address.
Can the menu driven IOS be changed to a command line IOS? If not, is there anything else I can do as I don't think this switch is of any use for a learning aid, or am I wrong about that?
Flash: 1024 kbps
V9.00.04 Standard Edition
totts from essex
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Especially the standard edition, but it goes for Enterprise too, of the 1900 series is no longer suitable for Cisco certification studies. There are a couple of things you can still do with it, but as you already found out, it's confusing. -
Netstudent
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Thats like trying to get your MCP with Windows NT4...Obsolete as far a CCNA is concerned.There is no place like 127.0.0.1 BUT 209.62.5.3 is my 127.0.0.1 away from 127.0.0.1!
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totts
Member Posts: 117
Thanks for the info. I'll probably pick up a copy of Bosons netsim on the strength of that and build my hardware empire when more funds are available another day.Netstudent wrote:Thats like trying to get your MCP with Windows NT4...Obsolete as far a CCNA is concerned.totts from essex -
Darthn3ss
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what? man, i just picked up a NT4 book at a yard sale last week too! :PNetstudent wrote:Thats like trying to get your MCP with Windows NT4...Obsolete as far a CCNA is concerned.
but seriously, look into 2900 switches, or 2950 if you can get one for a decent price.Fantastic. The project manager is inspired.
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Netstudent
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HAHA!
That would be the only place you would find an NT4 book..There is no place like 127.0.0.1 BUT 209.62.5.3 is my 127.0.0.1 away from 127.0.0.1! -
tech-airman
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Netstudent wrote:Thats like trying to get your MCP with Windows NT4...Obsolete as far a CCNA is concerned.
Netstudent,
I earned my MCP with Windows NT4 and my MCP is still valid to this day. -
Netstudent
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But thats not the same as what I was saying. That was then and this is now.There is no place like 127.0.0.1 BUT 209.62.5.3 is my 127.0.0.1 away from 127.0.0.1!
