Cisco Device

How to connect your endpoint devices to a Cisco Switch or router

Introduction

Here, we will go over a basic configuration for connecting your endpoint devices, such as a laptop or desktop computer, to a Cisco networking device. For the sake of brevity, we will assume the networking device in question is a switch. Though the steps will be very similar for a Cisco router. For more information on networking, please refer to Basic Networking

Connecting endpoints to a switch

Below are the steps for connecting an endpoint device to a switch. Along with some optional commands for remote management depending on your situation.

First, plug in a console cable to the console connector port on the switch. This may be a RJ-45 rollover cable or a micro-usb to RJ45 cable.

For the below steps assume you want your endpoint devices on the 10.1.20.0 /24 network

1. On your switch, configure a VLAN with the appropriate IP scheme for your endpoint device

2. Assign the port on your switch, that you want to connect to your MaxVision device, to the VLAN

3. Plug in your endpoint device

4. If your endpoint device is on a different VLAN that the other networked devices, make sure routing is set up via IP routing or router-on-a-stick

// #1
switch(config)# int vlan 20
switch(config-if)# ip address 10.1.20.1 255.255.255.0
// #2
switch(config)# interface range gig 1/0/5-10
switch(config-if)# switchport mode access
switch(config_if)# switchport access vlan 20
// #4
switch(config)# ip routing