Archive for July, 2009

Dell PowerConnect 2724 default IP address

The default IP address for this switch is 192.168.2.1 with login admin no pass. This is only if you are running in web-managed mode, which you will see by a steady green light on the front left side. Now if is not lit, you will have to put it to that mode by pressing the [...]

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Linux enable promiscuous mode

I was using Debian to run NTOP and monitor my network. After setting up the port mirror, I realized no traffic was flowing to that ethernet adapter. To allow that adapter to listen to traffic, you need to put it in promiscuous mode. you can do this by putting in: ifconfig ethx promisc where X [...]

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Dell PowerConnect 6248 port monitor

I had to call Dell to find this out because it wasn’t in there CLI and WebGUI area. Basically I was trying to monitor 10 ports on my switch to one port. This switch only support 4 multidirectional mirrors or 8 unidirectional mirrors. So basically if you are limited to 4 rx/tx port mirrors or [...]

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