Switch woes

[panyan]

I have been asked to help set up a managed switch as a simple router (is that the right word?)

Basically he wants everything to see everything else on the network.

I have tried:
1) enabling DHCP and setting a manual IP address (192.168.0.1) for the switch, but the PC isnt getting access to the network.
2) using an old sky router to try to give the switch an ip address, but that didnt work either
3) various other half-relevant guides online mentioning vlan... tagged... trunks... etc

Im getting horrendously confused

Can someone provide some clear instructions to get it set up as a simple router please?

e.g.
1) reset to factory defaults
2) connect via serial to CLI
3) enable ip routing
4) assign a manual IP
5) etc

 

[panyan]

Can you explain what you want to do in full, but don't try and take shortcuts by saying "like a simple router" as this is introducing confusion.

The idea is that there is a computer which has some software to manage CCTV IP cameras for home security.

To connect all the devices together, we have a switch as the nodal networking device (HP Procurve)

There is no internet access to be concerned with - all of this is meant to be a single offline network.

Are there any other fundamental details you need?

 

[panyan]

Without anything acting as a dhcp server all the cameras, and the pc will need static IP addresses.

It doesn't sound like you need to do anything to the switch in that case. Just reset it to defaults and plug everything in. You will need to use static IP addresses as there won't be a DHCP server on the network.

So, do i need the sky router at all? im hoping not

Id rather set all the ips statically anyway.

But do I set them on the switch, or on the devices (or both) ?

and is the switch meant to have its own IP address?

 

[panyan]

Thanks for your help guys - you really helped me understand what was going on with it.

Go team OcUK!!!