Allied Telesis AT-FS708-10 Centrecom Fs708 8port Switch 10/100btx Autosense

welcome in this web tutorial we will teach you how to connect to and manage an allied telesis switch using a serial console cable and the web interface for this tutorial I will be using a switch in the 80-100 series family but this tutorial shall work on most Allied Telesis menu switches with the console port this particular switch has 24 fast ethernet ports plus to give it up links to manage the switch will use the serial console port on the right-hand side of the switch our goal is to show you how easy it is to get a managed switch up and running with as minimal networking knowledge as possible we will do this in four steps first we will console into the switch using a serial connection from there we will have access to the switches command line and we can apply an IP address to the switch once the switch has an IP address we can connect our computer and create an IP network once our