Make sure your ethernet adapters on your PCs are set to fixed 100mb/full
duplex. Then set the ports to the same. Your problem could be in the
auto-negotiation.

Also, make sure that you do a manual "no shutdown" on the ports you want.

When you plug in the cables, do you have green ports or amber?

; ) .randy

On 12/28/06, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. <plug@phxinternet.net> wrote:
>
> You want to use VLAN 1.
>
> The Ethernet Interface should look something like the following...
> interface FastEthernet0/1
> switchport mode dynamic desirable
>
> Program VLAN1...
> interface Vlan1
> description Management Interface
> ip address a.b.c.d x.x.x.x
> no ip redirects
> no ip unreachables
> no ip proxy-arp
> end
>
> VLAN 1 should be enabled by default but to check type the "show
> vlan".  This
> should tell you which ports are on what VLANs.
>
> Tell me if this helps,
> Gilbert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of JT
> Moree
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:04 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: configuring cisco catalyst 4500
>
> Has anyone ever configured a cisco catalyst 4500?  We have erased it to
> reset it
> to defaults (bc we didn't have the password) and can't seem to get it to
> do
> anything.  We have tried configuring dhcp on it by setting up a pool and
> turning the service on.  We have tried to assign ip addresses to ports
> manually.  We have tried setting up vlans.  nothing works.  The two test
> machines we plug in can NEVER see each other (static ip's or by requesting
> dhcp
> from the switch).  the dhcp stats on the switch never change so it's not
> even
> seeing the requests from the machines.
>
> How do we turn on the ports so that they can use dhcp?
>
> --
> JT Moree
> www.pcxperience.com
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