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 [...]

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 [...]

The DELL PowerConnect 2724 is a decent web managed switch. What I was trying to accomplish was setting up VLANs on my main switch and passing the information to the 2724 through a TRUNK. A trunk is used so that instead of taking a network cable from one switch’s VLAN and running it to another [...]

This has been going on for months. January to be exact. A server running Windows Server Datacenter 2003 x64 edition, A Dell PowerEdge 2950. Dell has NO clue why this is happening. i’ve called them probably on an average of once a week and each time they say it’s been escalated. Anyone else having this [...]