Discussion of Cisco Catalyst 2960 series switches and miscellaneous chatter about SFP modules (started with OT posts from EtherREGEN thread)

[stevebythebay]

3 hours ago, charlesphoto said:

 

Keep in mind they take a LONG time to boot compared to instant start consumer switches. 

Ordered one as well.  Just a question or two: does the switch from nfdtrading come with any manuals, and will resetting to factory default bring the switch to an unmanaged state?  I’d like to avoid any chance of it messing up my existing network environment.  If so, any gotcha’s in how to get to the switch so that it can be reset?  I’m assuming there’s some login userid/password and default IP or if using DHCP I”ll find it on my network easily enough.

[stevebythebay]

Hope someone can help:

 

Got  the switch on eBay, and reset to factory, based on documentation from Cisco site..  However, the factory reset does not reset the user/password to how it left the factory it seems.  I get no positive results using cisco/cisco or Cisco/cisco or Admin/cisco, no user/cisco, etc.  I suspect it has the last owner's user/password in place...

 

When I try to telnet into the Cisco I get "Password required, but none set".  Any idea on how to fix that?  And I've not found any Cisco documentation that suggests how to fix it either.

 

FYI: I've got a Mac (no Windows system).  Not really familiar with using telnet options that might pass to the Cisco to allow it to let me in.

[stevebythebay]

Well I’ve been listening to the Cisco WS-C2960-8TC-S in my system (replaced a combination D-Link DGS-105 powered by the UpTone LPS-1).  The switch is wired via WireWorld Cat 8 to a Roon Nucleus and dCS Upsampler as well as Eero mesh access point.  Quite a bit better than prior switch.  Much lower noise floor.  There’s more there there, if you get my drift.  So much so that I ordered another for my video system (supporting NAS video files and microRendu, among other things).  Since that one’s also dedicated that lack of gigabit Ethernet poses no problem, even for UHD/HDR source files into my Nvidia Shield TV player.

 

Of course once the EtherREGEN becomes available the current switch goes into my computer network which also includes an Audio Alchemy network-based system.  Must say that the Cisco is really a steal at this point.